Wargraven

I'm a 46yr old gamer geek. Full time Electrical-Mechanical technician and aspiring game dev.

[Wargraven @Wargraven78]

@RealJamesWoods A man

[Starkium @LifeArtStudios]

Agreed, please help our industry. It's way more important than buying out a dying legacy media. Historically, twitter and #gamedev have been intertwined. You rescued twitter, but we need a lot of help in the game industry.

[Wargraven @Wargraven78]

#memtest86 confirms it is a memory issue. Now, is this with #windows11 or did my ram just shit the bed by itself?

[Wargraven @Wargraven78]

Well, this is new. My computer decided to shit it's ram on Sunday. My games kept crashing and then got the blue screen of death just from being on YouTube. So far, everything is still intact.

[Wargraven @Wargraven78]

@PirateSoftware Do not question this, the man knows his stuff when his ENTIRE BUSINESS IS RUN ON AD REVINUE! Stop being idiots.

[Pirate Software @PirateSoftware]

There is no Twitch Adpocalypse.

The reason people are seeing no ad revenue for the "last two days" is because none of us ever have. Twitch calculates ad revenue for a stream 3-4 days later which has always been the case. It shows as no ad revenue until that calculation is done. Only Twitch Turbo revenue is shown immediately in terms of adrev displayed.

The reason some streamers were seeing reduced ad-fill rates was because of their content and tags. If you had a tag with sexual or political themes of any kind you stopped getting ad-fill. This is also normal on any other platform but now enforced by Twitch haphazardly through the tagging system. Tags are shit at this and led to a lot of splash damage because they don't take into account context. This used to be done by content category so the tag change is absolutely new. We've seen this tested by streamers removing their tags and immediately getting adrev back again.

An adpocalypse would denote that this is happening to everyone on the platform. It's not. Our income is exactly the same for this time of year as it ever has been. Don't have political or sexual content on your stream, category, or tags and nothing changes.

There are a lot of people blowing this up to be something massive when legit nothing is going on. In all of the cases provided it's either normal behavior or misused or mistargeted tags. It's also a lot of people suddenly discovering how ad revenue works on the platform.

This is all stuff I've worked with and understood for years. It's literally how we fund the ferret rescue which is run entirely on ads. If I didn't know how this worked none of our business would function.

No amount of bitching will make this untrue.

[SlavicWarrior®️ @q_slavic]

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[Pirate Software @PirateSoftware]

Finally finished off one of the side stories in Animus that was blocking a lot of things. Looking forward to the next few months. #Heartbound

[Wargraven @Wargraven78]

@corememunlocked Nuu-nee nuu-nee nuuu.

[Wargraven @Wargraven78]

@TaraBull808 23yr Air Force Veteran and aspiring game dev. Working on making games fun again. #gamedev #IndieGameDev #disabledveteran

[Wargraven @Wargraven78]

@DevLand95213410 I have been working on this since August. I should be a lot further, but working full time on a night shift, I'm down to maybe a few hours after work and a full Sunday. #gamedev #IndieGameDev #slowprogress

[Wargraven @Wargraven78]

@Rothmus Chicago.

[Wargraven @Wargraven78]

@VinceWedde That's the ticket!

[Wargraven @Wargraven78]

@TheIndieManiac Learning the basics. No title yet, started 2 months ago, on hold for a better engine. #blaziumengine #indiegamedev #gamedev #gamedevs

[Wargraven @Wargraven78]

Who remembers the Game Roadblaster for Sega CD? Who wants to see a remake? Hold on to your steering wheel! #thisguy #gamedev #gamedevs #IndieGameDev #Datsun #fairladyz

[Pirate Software @PirateSoftware]

In the wake of his ban @Asmongold put out an apology video talking about his conduct. Sometimes apology videos come across as meaningless and hollow.

This one does not.

Been watching him for years and saw his content slowly change into angry takes and lashing out. Glad to see the self reflection and a plan to move back to better times. Just need action to fit the words now.

https://t.co/0tCeE2DS38

[Pirate Software @PirateSoftware]

For those upset in the comments this change doesn't enable stalkers. They could already make alternate accounts and view posts from people that blocked them.

When you're banned from a Twitch channel it works the same way as Twitter in that the banned person can still see the stream. The only difference is that on Twitch the streamer can choose if the banned person can watch or not. Like Twitter, the banned person can make a new account and watch again anyway.

Moderation is not now nor will ever be a silver bullet.
It's maintenance and upkeep.

[Wargraven @Wargraven78]

This is dope. Mad Max meets Wreckfest.

[Jussi Kemppainen | Drivers of the Apocalypse @JussiKemppainen]

How it started vs how it's going.

[Curiosity @MAstronomers]

If you understand this reference, you are one of us.