Nym101

Veni, Vidi, Grakata - Clem, 2017

[Zack @Asmongold]

Long post--sorry.

The fixation around physical media is a red herring.

People who obtained physical copies of Crimson Desert early weren't able to play it because the PS5 locked them out of playing it. You can look this up, multiple articles about the topic. Clearly physical media didn't save you then, and it won't save you when a licensing agreement expires and a game will no longer run on your software until you download an update that might remove features/content.

A good example of this is ironically Mixtape. Because the game has a large amount of licensed music, it's plausible that one of those contracts will expire and a patch will be pushed that removes a song from the game. If you don't download that patch, you will no longer be able to access or play the game.

Physical media isn't the holy grail, consumer rights and protections is. Why aren't we using Apple lighting cables and we are using USB-C instead? It's not because of Apple, it's because of the EU.

While PC players have more work-arounds for this issue, console players are at the mercy of updates they have no choice but to accept. Physical media won't save you from that.

The convenience of digital downloads should not be viewed as a forfeiture of consumer protections.

The reason why record labels still sell vinyls is because people still buy vinyls. While there are I'm sure some people who still purchase video games physically, I would guess that number is decreasing every year. If physical copies were popular, Gamestop would still have video games in it instead of Funko pops and tshirts.

I know this is the unpopular take to have. but you can't expect companies to keep making physical editions of games if not enough people are buying them.

My point with all of this is that a lot of peoples' concern and frustration comes from the lack of control they have over the media they "own". Physical media does not solve this problem when it's at the mercy of the software running the consoles/game launchers.

If you want to solve the problem, you should be supporting initiatives like Stop Killing Games @StopKilingGames.

[Kareem Rifai 🌐 @KareemRifai]

"What do you call Crimea? I call it a part of Russian territory, bitch. That's what I call Crimea. I call it cry me a river. A Russian river."

[Julian Röpcke 🇩🇪🤝🇺🇦 @JulianRoepcke]

Kein Anstand, keine Moral, keine Kultur.

Russischer Angriff auf einen Krankenwagen in Cherson heute …

[Hunterbrook @hntrbrkmedia]

BREAKING: Grizzly Affair — American tech company’s networking gear is powering Russian battlefield communications in Ukraine. The company is Ubiquiti, $UI, a $34 billion Wi-Fi giant whose founder became the youngest owner of an NBA Team in 2012.

[Dana Weinstein @justdanaw]

Deshalb wurde am 8. Januar das Internet im Iran lahmgelegt:

Das Regime will auf keinen Fall, dass die Welt – insbesondere USA und vor allem Trump – sieht, wie Revolutionsgarden und andere Sicherheitskräfte Demonstranten auf offener Straße erschießen, oft unter dem Deckmantel der regulären Armee.

[Kurdistan ⁦☀️ كوردستان @Kurdistan_AR]

The new Syrian government is ISIS.

We Kurds fought ISIS for 15 years, and we know very well how they think. The Syrian government is extremist and terrorist.

They only pretend in the media that they have changed, but in reality their actions are exactly the same as ISIS. Remember what they did to the Druze, Alawites, and Christians, and recently to the Kurds through massacres.

They always tell their supporters that they are weak now and forced to deceive the United States and the world. They say that when they become stronger and build their army, they will declare Sharia and jihad, attack Israel, and “liberate” Jerusalem and even Andalusia.
Every day they also remind us that they will take revenge on us, the Kurds, because we defeated ISIS in Raqqa and Baghouz. They say they will free ISIS families from al-Hol camp.

Do not trust them. They are like cancer.

[Ukraine News 🇺🇦 @Ukrainene]

The throwing of a Kurdish girl from a building by Jolani’s terrorist forces in Aleppo’s Kurdish districts highlights the true nature of this new Syrian army. Led by the terrorist Jolani, they are repeating the same atrocities committed by ISIS and Al-Qaeda against innocent Kurds.

[Nym101 @SvenBTW]

@hasanthehun Stop comparing yourself to others. Get some self esteem.

[Ukraine News 🇺🇦 @Ukrainene]

Jolani and his terrorists are attacking Kurdish neighborhoods in #Aleppo, #Syria targeting civilians yet #World still remains silent.

Terrorists and their allies 🇹🇷🇸🇦🏴☪🇶🇦 are moving toward another genocide against the #Kurds in the besieged Kurdish districts of Aleppo. #ISIS

[Zack @Asmongold]

This might be a bit longer post, sorry

To expand on this statement, the reason I said this actually had nothing to do with Charlie Kirk or any other civil unrest this year. While of course, it's an agitating variable, it wasn't the reason

Last year, at Twitchcon, Nmplol and Wakewilder were sexually assaulted live and on camera, twitch made no statement and pretended like this didn't happen.

That type of behavior is disgusting, wrong, and has no place in civilized society. Anyone with a brain knew that if this had happened to a female creator at the time, Twitch's response would have been completely different. Anyone without a brain had that proven last night.

To me, this proved an undeniable cynical reality: Twitch doesn't care about sexual assault, they care about the optics of sexual assault. If they had cared, they would have approached it with men in the same way. This proves their motives are driven by optics rather than principle.

Under that reasoning, it could be assumed that Twitch would allow the same thing to occur again this year. Why wouldn't they? They got away with it last year.

This is what my true reasoning was behind what I said.

Even now, Twitch refuses to apologize to Emiru or even name her. Innocuous to the uninitiated but obvious to the informed.

They are refusing to apologize because it could be used against them in a lawsuit. They are refusing to name her to avoid boosting SEO (search engine optimization) connecting the company to this event and to not further spread her name in the hopes that it will minimize the controversy.

In front of everyone, they put optics over principle and insult your intelligence by assuming you're too stupid to see it.

Actions speak louder than words and what people avoid saying often reveals their true intent.

I apologize that sometimes when I speak on issues that I do so in such a brash and offensive tone that it polarizes people against me. When things like this happens it makes me think about that a lot. Could I have made a bigger difference if I was less of an asshole? Maybe.

Stay safe, trust your instincts, and believe what you see and not what you hear.

[Nym101 @SvenBTW]

@Pirat_Nation Getroffene Hunde bellen

Methinks thou dost protest too much

[Nym101 @SvenBTW]

@PabloMakes I will be so fucked... I like it

[Ukraine News 🇺🇦 @Ukrainene]

Ukraine only bombards Russian military targets, but the Russian terrorist state only targets civilians in response

#RussiaIsATerroristState

[Nym101 @SvenBTW]

@cipp Happy birthday!!!

[TECTONE 🇺🇸 @Tectone]

I am genuinely considering full swapping to youtube if this terrorist propaganda isn't punished harshly and immediately on twitch.

My father, my brothers and our soldiers did not bleed, sacrifice and die for this bullshit to be allowed AND PROMOTED on twitch.

This needs to change immediately.

[Ukraine News 🇺🇦 @Ukrainene]

Zelenskyy, in an interview with NBC News, said that since the start of the full-scale invasion, 46,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed and 380,000 wounded.

He also noted that tens of thousands are missing or in captivity.

#GloryToHeroHeroesUkraine 🫡🇺🇦

[OSINTtechnical @Osinttechnical]

For those worried about asteroid YR4, NASA is already ahead of the curve here; in 2022, it started training its first oil driller to be an astronaut.

Turns out Michael Bay was right.

[Ukraine News 🇺🇦 @Ukrainene]

Same ideology, same hatred, same barbarity.

Kurdish woman abused and enslaved by 🇹🇷 jihadists.
December 1, 2024.

Jewish woman abused and enslaved by jihadists.
October 7, 2023.

#Erdogan #Turkey #ISIS #AlQaeda #Syria #SNA #HTS #Afrin

#StandWithKurds #StopErdogan #StopTurkey

[Zack @Asmongold]

The Twitch adpocalypse situation is the result of years of preferential treatment and selective moderation reaching a boiling point in the community

Twitch are the ones who set the tone and rules for the website and in turn are the ones responsible for this happening