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Well, I'm trying to do this video thing seriously, and I couldn't photoshop to save my life. (Well, that's not true, I seem to be able to do thumbnails okay, so they might let me live, for a little while anyway.)

Basically all I need is an end card that tells people to subscribe to the channel and various other social media or whatever I have, and a blank spot where I can put a previous video.

I can't pay anything, but if you have a channel or something you want promoted, I could stick it in the description as channel art, or something.

I'd ask Cobalt, who did my banners for me, but I think she's still mad at me for reminding her about Jedward.

@insomniac7809 I guess my experiences with people who claim to be SWJ's come from things like gamergate, and while I know there are people out there who genuinely want to do good, I do, but I don't know why they would want to willingly be associated with the people who genuinely want to do bad.

Like, for example, if suddenly there was a flag that was associated with a thing let's call it WoD players, and then the people that represented WoD players were people like Spider, Rex, Elsa, Jeurg, Custodius, etc who all loudly did their thing under the umbrella of being a WoD player... Would you want to call yourself a WoD Player, or say you were an RPer and look how I'm helping all these newbies, or whatever.

I mean, I'm not saying I think people should stop trying to do good, I guess I'm just not a fan of labels?

Or like personally I don't like to call myself a feminist because of that extreme, and instead if I have to label myself anything, it's a humanist because I don't care what parts, colours, beliefs you have or where you come from, or any combination of the above, as long as you are a decent human being. I think everyone should be treated equally, and like a human. So yeah I'm female, and there's a hella lot of things not equal for us, but there's a hella lot of things not equal for everyone too, so feminist doesn't cut it for me. And that's aside from all the gross (for me) connotations about it.

TL;DR I'm weird, I guess? They do them, and I'll do me, and we won't do each other, probably.

@auspice Thanks! Like I needed any more help falling down that hole!

THAT IS FUCKING BRILLIANT!

I actually shriek a lot easier than I used to because I was always holding it in before. But my viewers like hearing me shriek, so now I don't hold anything back. I mean they bought me Alien Isolation to hear me shrieking. You sure you want to make that offer (Though to be fair, it might still not be balanced. :P)

Edit: So you know how I mentioned people who follow me giving me things? Yeah. Probably better to send me a PM and check to see if I'm streaming before you break into a game of mine.... I was just gifted Dying Light for my Bloody Horror marathon tomorrow.

I mean if you're shy, or something.

@friendlybee said in MSB, SJW, and other acronyms:

Like you said, it's kind of hard to avoid 'dogpiling' if your definition of dogpiling is 'multiple people disagree with me'. I don't feel that to be a useful definition.

That would appear to be your definition of it, as you have brought it up multiple times now, however it is not what I am saying, or I would have said as much.

Don't tell @ShelBeast butt suddenly I'm not as big a fan of chocolate for some reason.

Not sure if this needs to be tagged Not Safe For Work, Not Safe For Sanity, or both.

On the other hand, some people like eating ass, seems a bit expensive though.

I would have to re-install it, but I'm game if I'm not actually streaming when you decide to play.

Yeah, but people also had a tendency to blow up every little thing into toe ring of doom proportions too, sometimes the paranoia was absolutely justified.

@auspice Oh shit, I secretly said one of my kinks out loud! >.>

I can on Saturday, work Sundays though.

Also have a mumble we can use if we want to chat and not give out skype numbers, though cursing and swearing won't be as spontaneous. Our eardrums will probably thank us though. *eyes @Cobaltasaurus *

@fatefan I'm well aware, but it was something that needed to be posted on April 1st.

@derp Thanks, I'm glad someone noticed.

People are dicks.

Sadly this isn't anything new online. Happens all the time in video gaming; posting personal information and death threats when moderated, or they don't get something they want. Some of the bigger people on Youtube habitually call out people they think are "bad" (or just simply don't like, when you have hundreds of thousands of followers it's easy to get that information out there.) Hell SWATTing is a thing (people call the police while someone is livestreaming and say something like "This guy has a knife and is hurting people!" when in reality are playing a rogue in WoW.)

I'm just surprised given some of the people in this hobby that it's not really happened before now.

@il-volpe You can probably get your number changed if it gets bad because of harassment, and they likely won't charge you, if it gets that bad. Sorry to hear that it happened at all.

I've always wanted to have an influence system where there was a giant phone book of contacts. So you didn't have a contact in the Mayor's office, you might have his secretary. But so could other people. So one day the secretary might just say "You know what? Fuck off. I've been doing so much for you that I could loose my job if I keep it up. You want this, Bob wants that. I'm done for a while!"

I think it would be awesome, but very staff intensive.

I think my oWoD Vampire roots are showing.

@surreality I think I could handle it! I once did a drinking game where you took a drink every time they said mitochondria in Parasite Eve.

@surreality Cops in general don't know how to deal with online stuff. There are people online with millions of followers who have basically gotten those followers from bullying people online. or communities like have been mentioned in the fanbase entitlement thread, driving people to suicide over fan art.

Some people have been prosecuted for SWATTing, but the internet is basically the Wild West - except there are hardly any sheriffs around and the ones who are don't even take a loaded gun to the standoff with the bad guys.

I can't imagine going to school today where everyone has a cell phone. All the people who think it's cute to mention what sized dump their kids took today, or people who check in everywhere they go. Leaving any sort of presence online really isn't safe. Because people are dicks.

Sometimes things don't get run because they aren't allowed to staff in the sphere they enjoy most so they never want to be staff, which can lead to nothing happening because you might have someone who is in a staff position as a stop gap. So that can be staff limiting players in that way.

And I say again, if you can't trust a person to not cheat as staff, you can't trust them to be staff in the first place.

Psychonauts is free for the next 48 hours at the humble Store (give or take a couple of hours).

@auspice Less random then!

When I play a PC cop, I want to deal with stuff like I linked in the Pokemon thread; NPC's brushing their teeth too loud and talking about God, not what PC #34 has done.