I’ll just be over here replaying Harvest Moon 64 for the million billionth time.

The FIRST ending of ARR is kinda a letdown...the second ending tho...hoboy you’re in for a treat. Just gotta slog thru some kinda boring patch content to get there.

It’s depressing because I have a girl student in my game design class and she loves LoL and said she wants to work for Riot. I gently let her know about their history as a boy’s club and she’s basically hoping that gets taken care of before she graduates college in 4 years. 

“By which we mean either publicly trashing the people who are making these claims, or by quietly paying them to go away. In any case, what’s important is that our bro CEO can get through this without substantially changing anything or even really evaluating his values and morals as a human being”.

This is obviously newsworthy, but this may be the least surprising news story that I’ve ever seen.

Most of what I read where people made actual arguments is that the Mass Effect series spent three games worth of narratives carrying the effects from your decisions and making it feel like what you did had a real bearing in what was happening, and railroaded you into really narrow sets of circumstances that…

So, are you Team Save the Animals or Team Kill The Animals?

I mean, I’m up for anything that gets that much money raised, but I do suppose your ability to watch games played fast IS more important than ending cancer.

“see the overwhelmingly negative response from the press to Xenoblade 2's character designs, for instance).”

i would have far more good will for him and what he’s trying to do if he just said less...

And funny enough, no longet plays music 🤣

Healthcare and other benefits extended to family members.

Odds of the rapper having paid royalties for the fairy fountain theme? lol

Yeah, sure, he’s “pissy” because Twitch Turbo, Prime and taking a cut of subs (on top of ad revenue and the rest) isn’t enough monetisation and people that do any one of the aforementioned (and even all three) are STILL seeing ads DESPITE no ads being the selling point of each.

YouTube does have this problem, along with related problems like false copyright claims.

First off, I’d like to say thanks for the conversation. I appreciate the arguments without just devolving to “No you’re wrong and you’re stupid to boot!”

Hard disagree. The streamer’s brand is helped by associating with a known piece of pop culture, the clip. The clip is from another property that isn’t owned or licensed by the streamer. I’m not a lawyer, but going through the four factors of fair use, there’s not a hugely strong argument here.

One of my friends is a Zelda speedrunner and got multiple claims because a rapper used the fairy fountain theme in one of his songs. he had to for a bit mute his stream when he would get to certain bits of a SNES game.

This doesn’t even touch on the open warfare between Twitch and adblock users in recent weeks, running mid-run “ads” blaming the adblocks for poor performance when its twitch themselves throttling resolutions for adblock users. The absolute contempt they’ve been showing for their userbase has been mindboggling.