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MrMallard posted...

The streamers as a whole are at a disadvantage. By introducing a pay gate to everything, they're disincentivised from streaming altogether because they're being forced to pay a superfluous additional fee that makes their hobby more expensive.

Like I'm not even talking about people who consider streaming their job - people stream for fun, too. That fee would kill off streaming as a hobby, which it always fundamentally has been - no-one in their right mind is going to start from scratch, paying for streaming licenses to enter a highly competitive entertainment market for fun. It would effectively act as a barrier of entry, which imo would ultimately cause streaming as a source of entertainment to stagnate.

To clarify something I didnt explain well, I think to pay to play model as whatshisface suggests it is dumb - it should be a royalties/percentage of profits thing.

MrMallard posted...

Like damn, imagine simping for a hundred billion dollar industry like that. Imagine taking the word of a AAA developer, who's working on one of the most superfluous and anti-consumer gaming devices in gaming history, at face value against a practice that has helped drive sales for far smaller titles for years.

Millions of people around the world are still buying Borderlands and Grand Theft Auto despite the legions of people who stream those games. They're still making enough profit to make the gaming industry bigger than the movie and music industry combined. People are still buying Fallout and Assassin's Creed games to the point that they're massively successful.

Do you know who benefits the most from streaming? Indie developers. People like Jeff Bitner, who created A Robot Named Fight. Developers like Defiant Development, an Australian devteam who made Hand of Fate. Among Us has been around since 2018, and only now through streaming has their game blown the fuck up.

This take, to me, reads like a greedy game exec who's pissed off because they can't monetize something they have no right to. Even though people will buy these blockbuster games regardless of streamers and play it themselves, despite the fact that enough streamers having enough fun with their game will encourage their watchers to buy it themselves, and despite the positive effects streaming has on indie games - the narrative is now "you should pay for a game all over again and get a streaming license if you want to enjoy our game in front of a crowd". How is that different from EA's online passes, where you had to pay $10 to access their online services if you bought a game secondhand? It's greed, plain and simple.

And I think that's evidenced by the person pushing this idea being a Google stooge who graduated from Ubisoft's biggest AAA game franchise. Fuck him.

This is totally a fair point.

But wont people stream and watch that content regardless?

If a streamer has to pay royalties to all companies equally what difference in incentive is there to play a AAA title or an indie game? Its like how Nintendo cracked down hard on streaming a while ago with more ad sense/content ID stuff so fewer people played their games on streams and videos. If that had applied to everyone equally then no one is necessarily at a disadvantage? If Im wrong here I wont cry myself to sleep but is that not accurate?

darkphoenix181 posted...

Let'd look at it another way.

Irl streamers like yuggie go to a store or amusement park and use that as content.

Should they have to pay for the privilege at say a McDonalds because people are obviously watching her stream to see her in a McDonalds?

I think youre supposed to get permission before filming in businesses. So technically yes? If they want to ask for money.

sktgamer_13dude posted...

Spoiling a game is different than watching a streamer. If youre actively watching the streamer and get mad because you got spoiled, thats on you. Thats different than if someone walking down the street spoils the game out of nowhere. Again, thats a shitty comparison.

Movies and music you consume by just listening and watching. Youre not playing the game when you watch a streamer. Get this though your skull.

Thats true but I dont think it really changes much. The issue isnt so much that youre getting the experience of the game, its just that youre using someone elses intellectual property to make money.

Kind of agree with him tbh.

Bump.

This is part of a series of topics I'm making that shares my love of longform journalism. I've been posting a lot of crime stories lately, so I'm mixing it up a little.

The Adults in the Room

On leaving Deadspin and digital media in 2019.

https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/the-adults-in-the-room-1837487584

Previous Articles:

The Innocent Man

On August 13, 1986, Michael Morton came home from work to discover that his wife had been brutally murdered in their bed. His nightmare had only begun.

Part 1:

https://www.texasmonthly.com/politics/the-innocent-man-part-one/

Part 2:

https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/the-innocent-man-part-two/

A Thousand Pounds of Dynamite

In August, 1980, an enigmatic box covered in a bewildering array of switches appeared in an upstairs office of Harvey's Wagon Wheel Casino, near Lake Tahoe.

https://magazine.atavist.com/a-thousand-pounds-of-dynamite

The Day Treva Thorneberry Disappeared

In the mid-eighties the cheerful high school student vanished. After more than a decade had passed, her friends and family in her tiny North Texas hometown of Electra had no idea where she wasor if she was dead or alive. They certainly didnt know that almost two thousand miles away her fate was kept secret by a teenage girl named Brianna Stewart.

https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/the-day-treva-throneberry-disappeared/

Dear Leader Dreams of Sushi

North Korea is a mythically strange land, an Absurdistan, where almost nothing is known about the people or, more important, their missile-launching leaders. There is, however, one man, a humble sushi chef from Japan, who infiltrated the inner sanctum, becoming the Dear Leader's cook, confidant, and court jester. What is life like serving Kim Jong-il and his heir? A strange and dangerous gig where the food and drink never stop, the girls are all virgins, and you're never really safe. We sent Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Adam Johnson to meet the man who survived all the craziness.

https://www.gq.com/story/kim-jong-il-sushi-chef-kenji-fujimoto-adam-johnson

A Theory of Relativity (Japans Rent-a-Family Industry)

People who are short on relatives can hire a husband, a mother, a grandson. The resulting relationships can be more real than youd expect.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/30/japans-rent-a-family-industry

The Strange and Curious Tale of the Last True Hermit

For nearly thirty years, a phantom haunted the woods of Central Maine. Unseen and unknown, he lived in secret, creeping into homes in the dead of night and surviving on what he could steal. To the spooked locals, he became a legendor maybe a myth. They wondered how he could possibly be real. Until one day last year, the hermit came out of the forest.

https://www.gq.com/story/the-last-true-hermit

The Last Ride of Cowboy Bob

He wore a Western hat, never spoke a word, and robbed bank after bank. When the feds finally arrested him, they discovered that their suspect was actually a soft-spoken woman. They thought theyd never hear from her again but she had other plans.

https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/the-last-ride-of-cowboy-bob/

A Home at the End of Google Earth

Separated from his older brother at a train station, five-year-old Saroo Munshi Khan found himself lost in the slums of Calcutta. Nearly 20 years later, living in Australia, he began a painstaking search for his birth home, using ingenuity, hazy memories, and Google Earth.

https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/2012/11/a-home-at-the-end-of-google-earth

DarthAragorn posted...

Sony brought this on themselves

Don't try to buy exclusivity if you don't want a competitor with more money to start doing the same

as if they wouldnt have done this anyway.

gamer167 posted...

Twitter has over 300,000,000 active users with different opinions man. They're not all the same people.

I'm stating a possible reason why his co-stars might come to his aid as opposed to Larson. Which is that for all the criticism she got from certain Twitter morons, for her relatively tame comments as far as Hollywood goes, she also received support from other Twitter morons.

Chris Pratt doesn't seem to be getting the same support from Twitter morons, mostly just criticism. His co-stars are his friends, and they seemingly think he's a really good guy, so it seems they think he needs the support.

Fair enough - its an interesting point to think about.

gamer167 posted...

From Twitter morons, which is coincidentally where the majority of the people criticizing Chris Pratt are coming from.

Im confused.

Youre saying that everything is fine because people defended her, but also that those people are morons whose opinions arent worth taking seriously?

creativerealms posted...

Or they know the hate for Brie is nonsense and there is no need to defend her.

That doesnt really make any sense.

gamer167 posted...

Larson and Zandaya received an outpouring of support for what they said. More than they where criticized.

Where? From who?

Smackems posted...

Do you wear a mask for long periods of time? Any new medications?

I've had this happen to me a few times for a bit during my life. Wearing a mask for a prolonged period of time does it to me

I see what youre doing here. Dont.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/10/can-masks-make-you-sicker/616641/

I think theres probably an adopt a story subreddit somewhere.

Wargroove is a great successor though.

This is part of a series of topics I've been making that shares my love of longform journalism. Mostly with a focus on storytelling, but soon I think I might branch them out into other areas sometimes.

The Innocent Man

On August 13, 1986, Michael Morton came home from work to discover that his wife had been brutally murdered in their bed. His nightmare had only begun.

Part 1:

https://www.texasmonthly.com/politics/the-innocent-man-part-one/

Part 2:

https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/the-innocent-man-part-two/

Previous Articles:

A Thousand Pounds of Dynamite

In August, 1980, an enigmatic box covered in a bewildering array of switches appeared in an upstairs office of Harvey's Wagon Wheel Casino, near Lake Tahoe.

https://magazine.atavist.com/a-thousand-pounds-of-dynamite

The Day Treva Thorneberry Disappeared

In the mid-eighties the cheerful high school student vanished. After more than a decade had passed, her friends and family in her tiny North Texas hometown of Electra had no idea where she wasor if she was dead or alive. They certainly didnt know that almost two thousand miles away her fate was kept secret by a teenage girl named Brianna Stewart.

https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/the-day-treva-throneberry-disappeared/

Dear Leader Dreams of Sushi

North Korea is a mythically strange land, an Absurdistan, where almost nothing is known about the people or, more important, their missile-launching leaders. There is, however, one man, a humble sushi chef from Japan, who infiltrated the inner sanctum, becoming the Dear Leader's cook, confidant, and court jester. What is life like serving Kim Jong-il and his heir? A strange and dangerous gig where the food and drink never stop, the girls are all virgins, and you're never really safe. We sent Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Adam Johnson to meet the man who survived all the craziness.

https://www.gq.com/story/kim-jong-il-sushi-chef-kenji-fujimoto-adam-johnson

A Theory of Relativity (Japans Rent-a-Family Industry)

People who are short on relatives can hire a husband, a mother, a grandson. The resulting relationships can be more real than youd expect.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/30/japans-rent-a-family-industry

The Strange and Curious Tale of the Last True Hermit

For nearly thirty years, a phantom haunted the woods of Central Maine. Unseen and unknown, he lived in secret, creeping into homes in the dead of night and surviving on what he could steal. To the spooked locals, he became a legendor maybe a myth. They wondered how he could possibly be real. Until one day last year, the hermit came out of the forest.

https://www.gq.com/story/the-last-true-hermit

The Last Ride of Cowboy Bob

He wore a Western hat, never spoke a word, and robbed bank after bank. When the feds finally arrested him, they discovered that their suspect was actually a soft-spoken woman. They thought theyd never hear from her again but she had other plans.

https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/the-last-ride-of-cowboy-bob/

A Home at the End of Google Earth

Separated from his older brother at a train station, five-year-old Saroo Munshi Khan found himself lost in the slums of Calcutta. Nearly 20 years later, living in Australia, he began a painstaking search for his birth home, using ingenuity, hazy memories, and Google Earth.

https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/2012/11/a-home-at-the-end-of-google-earth

Phynaster posted...

Sandman is one of the best pieces of literature ever written

agreed. Definitely recommend Sandman.

Theyre fine. I feel the same people who get so upset about them are the same kinds of people that act like The Big Bang Theory came to life and pissed in their cereal.

Theyre fine. Its really not a big deal.

Hes less than a year old and hes a bit of a dumb baby. A lot of birds come by and Im worried hell want to chase them or something. I know its a bit irrational but it just makes me nervous when hes out there.

I just wondered if anyone on CE had something similar? I live in a highrise and don't trust my kitty to go on the balcony but I need the fresh air. So I was looking at nets or other kinds of barriers. Recommendations pls?

Damn, nice.

I havent been modded since I was a teenager probably but I did dispute a lot and say some really dumb things.

In the words of some guy - when you court the racist, gun toting crowd eventually you need to put your money where your mouth is.

daGamexx posted...

After a mod made the claim he didn't condemn white supremacy, I decided to fact check this claim, he has. President Trump has condemn white supremacy many times. So my question is, why is it that the media keep on asking him this question when he has answered it in the past?

renowned fact checker daGamexx on the case.

My goal is to eventually work a 4 day work week. Where I am now itll be possible - just need to wait for the opportunity.

I make fun of Americans all the time for the weird things they say, but this one actually makes sense.

tri sapphire posted...

Saw the movie based on this story a few years back. Was decent.

Ooh I didnt know there was a movie. But Im sure it was good since its a great story.

Last bump.

PaunchyTurtle53 posted...

Yeah, twice in a week, but I listened to some RHCP and got better

Aww hell yeah.

Bump

Bad_Mojo posted...

I dont read or listen to the game, but I do wish I had

You... wha?

A Thousand Pounds of Dynamite

https://magazine.atavist.com/a-thousand-pounds-of-dynamite

In August, 1980, an enigmatic box covered in a bewildering array of switches appeared in an upstairs office of Harvey's Wagon Wheel Casino, near Lake Tahoe.

This topic is part of a series of topics I'm making that shares my love of longform journalism, with a particular focus on storytelling. This one is a wild ride. If they haven't made a movie about it, someone should.

Previous Articles:

The Day Treva Thorneberry Disappeared

In the mid-eighties the cheerful high school student vanished. After more than a decade had passed, her friends and family in her tiny North Texas hometown of Electra had no idea where she wasor if she was dead or alive. They certainly didnt know that almost two thousand miles away her fate was kept secret by a teenage girl named Brianna Stewart.

https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/the-day-treva-throneberry-disappeared/

Dear Leader Dreams of Sushi

North Korea is a mythically strange land, an Absurdistan, where almost nothing is known about the people or, more important, their missile-launching leaders. There is, however, one man, a humble sushi chef from Japan, who infiltrated the inner sanctum, becoming the Dear Leader's cook, confidant, and court jester. What is life like serving Kim Jong-il and his heir? A strange and dangerous gig where the food and drink never stop, the girls are all virgins, and you're never really safe. We sent Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Adam Johnson to meet the man who survived all the craziness.

https://www.gq.com/story/kim-jong-il-sushi-chef-kenji-fujimoto-adam-johnson

A Theory of Relativity (Japans Rent-a-Family Industry)

People who are short on relatives can hire a husband, a mother, a grandson. The resulting relationships can be more real than youd expect.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/30/japans-rent-a-family-industry

The Strange and Curious Tale of the Last True Hermit

For nearly thirty years, a phantom haunted the woods of Central Maine. Unseen and unknown, he lived in secret, creeping into homes in the dead of night and surviving on what he could steal. To the spooked locals, he became a legendor maybe a myth. They wondered how he could possibly be real. Until one day last year, the hermit came out of the forest.

https://www.gq.com/story/the-last-true-hermit

The Last Ride of Cowboy Bob

He wore a Western hat, never spoke a word, and robbed bank after bank. When the feds finally arrested him, they discovered that their suspect was actually a soft-spoken woman. They thought theyd never hear from her again but she had other plans.

https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/the-last-ride-of-cowboy-bob/

A Home at the End of Google Earth

Separated from his older brother at a train station, five-year-old Saroo Munshi Khan found himself lost in the slums of Calcutta. Nearly 20 years later, living in Australia, he began a painstaking search for his birth home, using ingenuity, hazy memories, and Google Earth.

https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/2012/11/a-home-at-the-end-of-google-earth

Got my second win! With the lightning shield, and got a legendary Zeus boon.

Now I'm gonna start doing heat/challenge thingies or whatever.

DavidZ2844 posted...

Whats this Yondu build everyone keeps talking about? I mustve missed it from the last thread

I can't remember which one exactly but one of the hammer upgrades for the spear weapon makes the spear hit multiple enemies, so it zips around the room like Yondu's arrow thing from Guardians of the Galaxy. I just happened to find the right upgrade early on and dumped a butt-load into special damage.

Got my first victory! With the Yondu build. Took about 35+ tries in total, but I'm bad at the game lol, and I was focusing a lot on meta-progression. Keen to do another run through soon but I might take a break for a few days.

Bump.

This topic is part of a series I'm making that shares my love of longform journalism, with a particular focus on storytelling.

The Day Treva Thorneberry Disappeared

https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/the-day-treva-throneberry-disappeared/

In the mid-eighties the cheerful high school student vanished. After more than a decade had passed, her friends and family in her tiny North Texas hometown of Electra had no idea where she wasor if she was dead or alive. They certainly didnt know that almost two thousand miles away her fate was kept secret by a teenage girl named Brianna Stewart.

Previous Articles:

Dear Leader Dreams of Sushi

North Korea is a mythically strange land, an Absurdistan, where almost nothing is known about the people or, more important, their missile-launching leaders. There is, however, one man, a humble sushi chef from Japan, who infiltrated the inner sanctum, becoming the Dear Leader's cook, confidant, and court jester. What is life like serving Kim Jong-il and his heir? A strange and dangerous gig where the food and drink never stop, the girls are all virgins, and you're never really safe. We sent Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Adam Johnson to meet the man who survived all the craziness.

https://www.gq.com/story/kim-jong-il-sushi-chef-kenji-fujimoto-adam-johnson

A Theory of Relativity (Japans Rent-a-Family Industry)

People who are short on relatives can hire a husband, a mother, a grandson. The resulting relationships can be more real than youd expect.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/30/japans-rent-a-family-industry

The Strange and Curious Tale of the Last True Hermit

For nearly thirty years, a phantom haunted the woods of Central Maine. Unseen and unknown, he lived in secret, creeping into homes in the dead of night and surviving on what he could steal. To the spooked locals, he became a legendor maybe a myth. They wondered how he could possibly be real. Until one day last year, the hermit came out of the forest.

https://www.gq.com/story/the-last-true-hermit

The Last Ride of Cowboy Bob

He wore a Western hat, never spoke a word, and robbed bank after bank. When the feds finally arrested him, they discovered that their suspect was actually a soft-spoken woman. They thought theyd never hear from her again but she had other plans.

https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/the-last-ride-of-cowboy-bob/

A Home at the End of Google Earth

Separated from his older brother at a train station, five-year-old Saroo Munshi Khan found himself lost in the slums of Calcutta. Nearly 20 years later, living in Australia, he began a painstaking search for his birth home, using ingenuity, hazy memories, and Google Earth.

https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/2012/11/a-home-at-the-end-of-google-earth

IShall_Run_Amok posted...

Incredible.

When you can choose between a Pom and a random boon from someone you havent seen yet on that run whats the better choice? I never know how to pick.

Tag. Picked this up the other day. Its awesome - not very far in though. Just missed out on my first win.

CoolMaskGuy posted...

Pretty interesting article. I read it when I was up in the middle of the night preparing for my colonoscopy.

Neat.

RedJackson posted...

Mmmmm.. I woke up to pee and now Im gonna dream about some sushi

Very good.

One more.

Up you go my son.

Does Cat Daddy (or whatever his name is) have any videos on this maybe?

This topic is part of a new series of topics I'm making (about two or three a week) that shares my love of long-form journalism, especially the storytelling kind. I keep a list of all the articles I read, and all the ones I post here are from my favourites, but this one (and the previous one about the rent-a-family industry) is definitely in the hall of fame. I highly recommend it.

Dear Leader Dreams of Sushi

North Korea is a mythically strange land, an Absurdistan, where almost nothing is known about the people or, more important, their missile-launching leaders. There is, however, one man, a humble sushi chef from Japan, who infiltrated the inner sanctum, becoming the Dear Leader's cook, confidant, and court jester. What is life like serving Kim Jong-il and his heir? A strange and dangerous gig where the food and drink never stop, the girls are all virgins, and you're never really safe. We sent Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Adam Johnson to meet the man who survived all the craziness.

https://www.gq.com/story/kim-jong-il-sushi-chef-kenji-fujimoto-adam-johnson

Previous Articles:

A Theory of Relativity (Japans Rent-a-Family Industry)

People who are short on relatives can hire a husband, a mother, a grandson. The resulting relationships can be more real than youd expect.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/30/japans-rent-a-family-industry

The Strange and Curious Tale of the Last True Hermit

For nearly thirty years, a phantom haunted the woods of Central Maine. Unseen and unknown, he lived in secret, creeping into homes in the dead of night and surviving on what he could steal. To the spooked locals, he became a legendor maybe a myth. They wondered how he could possibly be real. Until one day last year, the hermit came out of the forest.

https://www.gq.com/story/the-last-true-hermit

The Last Ride of Cowboy Bob

He wore a Western hat, never spoke a word, and robbed bank after bank. When the feds finally arrested him, they discovered that their suspect was actually a soft-spoken woman. They thought theyd never hear from her again but she had other plans.

https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/the-last-ride-of-cowboy-bob/

A Home at the End of Google Earth

Separated from his older brother at a train station, five-year-old Saroo Munshi Khan found himself lost in the slums of Calcutta. Nearly 20 years later, living in Australia, he began a painstaking search for his birth home, using ingenuity, hazy memories, and Google Earth.

https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/2012/11/a-home-at-the-end-of-google-earth

Ive always heard it doesnt matter as long as you leave enough time between them. Wheres PPP these days?

There isnt. Science cant explain why.

If you havent seen it, O.J: Made in America is one of the best documentaries Ive ever seen.