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3 hours agoI think you meant to post this in a thread about MGS
AernaLingus [any]
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2·3 hours agoYes, sorry, wasn’t clear with the way I worded that! I guess it’s a little strange to say he vindicated himself–regardless it must feel good to finally be able to say it with his chest after holding his tongue for all this time.
“Stupid fucking mistakes, man.”
“Nothing illegal happened, no pictures were shared, no crimes were committed, I never even met the individual,” Beahm claimed. “I went through a lengthy arbitration regarding a civil dispute with Twitch and that case was resolved by a settlement…But trust me when I say this…to all my haters that live and breath [sic] social media with zero real life experience, I don’t give a fuck about you. They want me to disappear… yeah fucking right.”
The words of someone who is definitely contrite.
Also,
Meanwhile, the cause for the ban remained a mystery, prompting years of innuendo, conspiracy theories and questions about why neither Twitch nor gaming journalists had been able to reveal the nature of Beahm’s violation. (Full disclosure: the primary author of this article, Rod Breslau, first learned the reason for Beahm’s ban from credible sources in June 2020, but chose not to report on it then due to the extreme sensitivity of the topic.)
holy shit, Slasher finally vindicated after all these years. That tweet became a major meme on Twitch, with some people assuming that Dr. Disrespect did something truly horrible (ding ding ding!) but plenty of others assuming he was full of shit and just grandstanding.
101·16 hours ago1. RE: ASMR, what most people think of as ASMR is only a small subset of what’s out there. I also find those intentional trigger videos (where people are just tapping on or brushing various objects) uninteresting to actively offputting. My favorite types are unintentional ASMR (particularly people talking about technical things) as well as personal attention roleplay (not the relationship roleplay stuff, which squicks me out, but things like medical exams or customer service). Whether unintentional or not, verisimilitude is the key-- that’s part of why disconnected triggers don’t do it for me, but also I tend to be triggered by voices more than anything else
Here’s a classic video which ticks all the boxes for me (unintentional, accented English, tasteful amount of tapping and rustling, and amusingly technical given the subject): table tennis racket inspection. Another unintentional classic which launched a million roleplay ASMRs is this cranial nerve examination; a big part of it is the soft speaking and high gain on the mic as well as the personal attention. Actually, I probably should have lead with this, but the modern ASMR phenomenon was born out of people discussing these various unintentional videos and then people deciding to have a go at making intentional videos that have similar effects.
Not everyone experiences the pleasant tingles, which is something to keep in mind. Personally, I experience misophonia to the point of feeling pain in my ear when people blow onto the microphone, so any videos involving that are right out, and other people will have similar non-negotioables. It’s totally fine not to enjoy ASMR regardless of the reason, but I just wanted to share that there’s more variety out there than you might think!
With the rest, I’m basically right there with you.
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Never made an Instagram because I have absolutely no interest in posting or looking at people’s photos, although 15 year old me would have been into it so I can’t blame the kids for that.
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What are the kids watching, out of curiosity? If it’s the latest battle shonen stuff (e.g. Jujutsu Kaisen, Demon Slayer) then yeah, I have no interest because I don’t enjoy that genre in general, but I wonder if there’s any other series where we might have some overlap.
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YouTube pushing vertical streams has been driving me nuts. I don’t mind watching a YouTube short here and there, but it’s just not a good format for 99% of what I want to watch even if I’m watching on my phone.
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71·1 day agoWalmart has fallen
2·1 day agoIncredibly, this is real. Boggles the mind.
At one point as a child I had so many stuffed animals that they kept falling out of bed while I was asleep, but rather than leave someone out I solved this by putting them in a comically large mesh bag (thing was bigger than my body).
4·5 days agoVTuber posting
Don’t really have detailed thoughts about the final two Hololive Justice debuts (Raora and Cecilia), but this is the first time I’ve been blindsided by hearing a VTuber I recognized from a previous life! I know internet detectives will often figure out stuff before they debut (I don’t really follow those rumors), and the ex-corpos are usually known well in advance when they return to indie, but I was surprised to hear the voice of a certain pesto-loving dog during Raora’s debut. Always nice to see some non-Anglo representation!
2·5 days agoI think the only time I ever set foot in a Burger King was to get one of these. Sadly I think mine is long gone along with some other Pokémon ephemera (including my beloved Pokédex), but at least I still have all my cards!
VTuber posting
Looks like Hololive EN finally has a Bri’ish chuuba! She’s got a lovely voice, although she didn’t do herself any favors by picking a song (Daddy Daddy Do) that’s clearly not well-suited for her tessitura so she had to resort to both shouty high notes and unsupported low notes–the song she sang in her lore video showcased her voice much better (was really excited to hear some scatting!) as did Sekai no Yakusoku. I also can’t quite place it, not having a lot of formal vocal training myself, but I think she’s forcing things a bit in general–you hear it particularly in her vibrato, and I wonder if she’s doing that thing where you imitate a voice you like rather than using your natural voice (common untrained singer error which leads to a superficially better sound in the short run but can hamstring you in the long run). She’s clearly got a great instrument though, so I look forward to hearing her forthcoming music and seeing how she improves! Hope Nerissa will take Liz under her wing.
Ngl was kinda zoning out midway through Gigi’s debut (I’m just a bit tired), but her lore video was sick and I loved the choose your own adventure part which culminated in a Twitch Plays Pokemon style interactive Frogger game–never seen anything like that in a debut! Her cover also had some really impressive animation–again, nice to see something different from the usual VTuber cover video direction.
Many of us spend hours researching scouring the internet to learn to dig deeper and ultimately enjoy more of what the game has to offer. This is where Project G-Assist comes in. It uses AI to make sure information is readily available whenever we need it.
How is this possibly going to supplant hours of research? It’s basically the equivalent of hitting the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button on Google that takes you to the first result and never looking at anything else, except now since it’s AI-generated you can’t even judge the accuracy based on the source. Oftentimes there aren’t objectively true answers to questions, so it’s necessary to read different perspectives to make a decision. And also, I actually LIKE interacting with fellow human beings to find out about games–it’s not a bug, it’s a feature!
16·8 days agoI thought it was just God proclaiming that he’s not into voyeurism
15·9 days agoBro is stuck in 2008
7·9 days agoYeah, not white myself but a white buddy of mine said some random customer was complaining to him about the new Spider-Man game having an N-word protagonist…wild what people feel comfortable saying to strangers.
Here ya go (the second letter is the one previously mentioned):
Relevant excerpt from Howard Zinn's 'A People's History of the United States'
The instances where poor whites helped slaves were not frequent, but sufficient to show the need for setting one group against the other. Genovese says:
The slaveholders . . . suspected that non-slaveholders would encourage slave disobedience and even rebellion, not so much out of sympathy for the blacks as out of hatred for the rich planters and resentment of their own poverty. White men sometimes were linked to slave insurrectionary plots, and each such incident rekindled fears.
This helps explain the stern police measures against whites who fraternized with blacks. Herbert Aptheker quotes a report to the governor of Virginia on a slave conspiracy in 1802: “I have just received information that three white persons are concerned in the plot; and they have arms and ammunition concealed under their houses, and were to give aid when the negroes should begin.” One of the conspiring slaves said that it was “the common run of poor white people” who were involved.
In return, blacks helped whites in need. One black runaway told of a slave woman who had received fifty lashes of the whip for giving food to a white neighbor who was poor and sick.
When the Brunswick canal was built in Georgia, the black slaves and white Irish workers were segregated, the excuse being that they would do violence against one another. That may well have been true, but Fanny Kemble, the famous actress and wife of a planter, wrote in her journal:
But the Irish are not only quarrelers, and rioters, and fighters, and drinkers, and despisers of [N-words]—they are a passionate, impulsive, warm-hearted, generous people, much given to powerful indignations, which break out suddenly when not compelled to smoulder sullenly—pestilent sympathizers too, and with a sufficient dose of American atmospheric air in their lungs, properly mixed with a right proportion of ardent spirits, there is no saying but what they might actually take to sympathy with the slaves, and I leave you to judge of the possible consequences. You perceive, I am sure, that they can by no means be allowed to work together on the Brunswick Canal.
The need for slave control led to an ingenious device, paying poor whites—themselves so troublesome for two hundred years of southern history—to be overseers of black labor and therefore buffers for black hatred.
edit: in case it’s helpful, this quote occurs a few pages into Chapter 9: “Slavery Without Submission, Emancipation Without Freedom” (can’t give a page number or anything because I’ve got an EPUB)
2·10 days agomfw I go under the bridge to avoid the dragon in DS1 and try to go through the sewers
As the resident RE6 apologist, I firmly believe that it is easily worth $5 for a somewhat janky and extremely campy action co-op experience if you have a buddy to play it with. And yeah, there’s no “survival” aspect–this is definitely the game where they turned the dial too far to the “action” side, after which they swung towards “survival” back past RE4 for RE7 (excellent if that’s to your taste–incredible atmosphere), and finally landed back in the crowd-pleasing sweet spot for RE8 (which I absolutely adore and beat like half a dozen times).
RE2R and OG RE4 I could easily recommend to anyone; perhaps not the latter if you’re completely allergic to tank controls, but the game is tuned for that playstyle and it makes the encounters very intense. I also enjoyed RE3R, although it’s not quite as good as RE2R and a bit on the short side. And I hear RE4R is great, but I haven’t yet played it myself–would definitely recommend giving the OG a shot first, since the new REngine games have a different tempo and feel to them and the original holds up completely. I’d also recommend installing the RE4 HD texture mod if anyone goes for OG RE4–truly an incredible labor of love by a pair of dedicated fans.