Random Thoughts.....What Are You Thinking?

Almost every server that exists has the people running it abusing the power they have to either make money, to help friends or just make people subservient to them and their ego.

On simple survival games it's fine, on an mmorpg it would be a disaster. People are a55holes.

Some people don't like being treated like a dog so they will keep barking until SE gives up the rules.

But a Shantoto VA could be totally awesome if done even close to the character.

Talking of degenerate furries. It's funny to see people burning pirate software, he blew up out of nowhere and is going down in flames just as fast.

Is he doing down in flames? do people watch him for WoW content? I have seen videos from him and only watch them purely for the programming content, but i dont really do twitch so no idea what people watch him for over there.

meh, the fanbase seems pretty split. Yes, his team made a horrible pull (which they really aren't fessing up to) before he was ready and he cut and run. I don't think he could have saved anyone, but he could have made more of an effort and still gotten away if it didn't work. The scapegoating and fingerpointing afterwards just reflects how toxic mmo communities are.

yeah I just dont see why I would even care about whatever he did in WoW when I watch him for programming and I think WoW is trash anyway.

I feel like such a boomer when it comes to these streamers, I can't keep track of them anymore. It seems like there is always some flavor of the month that comes and goes, then there is all kinds of drama circulating around them over something.

Must be what it felt like for my grandparents to see Justin Bieber in the news back when he was a common headline.

What he did on WoW recently is less the problem, it's how obnoxious he was after it happened and that lead to him being booted from a streaming guild. This kind of thing is incredibly rare, cause it's just work for these people.

Then people started digging into his public past and he is actually a degenerate furry from second life that made lots of disturbing porn avatars for money there. He took voice acting coaching to change his nerdy voice in his 30s (he says he just had a 2nd puberty in his 30's), to create the current fabricated deep one he uses now and the youtube short that made him go viral was completely made up and has been debunked by other blizzard staff.

He has a history of making crappy 2d rpg furry porn games under the alias maldavius figtree, even though he pretends to be this bigwig super hacker at blizzard. The thing that is cringe is he fabricated or heavily embellished most of his work history and what he is now. He is a created streamer personality, and people bought and he blew up over it.

His dad worked at blizzard though and he did work there to some degree, but not to the level he implies he did.

Basically, he's a big fat phony! and it worked and is a millionaire off doing it.

I mean if programmers are rectangles then degenerate furries would be squares.

Like square is a derivation of retangle so furries are a derivation of… programmers?

I dont know if i can agree

I'm not sure I'd extend it to programmers necessarily, but people who are in the cybersecurity community and involved in events like Defcon tend to be more inclined towards fringe social movements than others. It was particularly true around 10-15 years ago, slightly less so now, but you'd encounter/interact with some folks who may be involved in social activities that you wouldn't see elsewhere.

fair maybe a vendiagram is a better picture with a large overlap of the small circle that is all furries to all tech focused positions

and honestly the correlation might be due more to means to fund the activity more so then the "type" of people.

Possibly. I don't know a lot of furries, I've worked with some and met some over the years who openly identified with it, but they all worked in various tech roles (not necessarily development).

The cybersecurity community is an interesting social situation and the conference circuit is segmented into some interesting crowds. Black Hat in the earlier days was more technically driven, but over time became more CISO/managerial focused - vendors would come to sell their shitty products and services there with booths and all the drama around that, but you wouldn't see someone walking around with a mohawk or in half a fursuit after a certain point in the events history. There are a handful of events tailored to that and there's basically 0 overlap with groups like furries.

Then you have events like Defcon (which takes place immediately after Black Hat finishes), which used to take place in this super shitty hotel in Vegas (I had blood and hair on the walls of my room the first year I went). It tends to draw a more mixed crowd, but you get presenters and participants that will be what most would consider more fringe. Things some wouldn't bat an eye at, but wouldn't be seen in some environments (heavily tattooed, different hairstyles, etc) up to people wearing partial fursuits and giving talks. You'd have a number of presenters identifying openly as part of social groups that wouldn't have been as accepted in the former category. There are a few others like this but IMO most of this has steadily phased out aside from Defcon.

It's an interesting social situation with what sometimes feels like two different worlds that are so close together yet really far apart, but someone having spoken at Defcon and doing some of the things he's supposedly done for the furry community doesn't surprise me at all and there is some significant overlap there, maybe partly financial, but I also just think people are more likely to identify with fringe movements like Defcon out of interest and do the same with other social movements.

I had no idea and this is all hilarious.

I'm not sure about the phony part, whether he actually lived through all the stuff he tells he's definitely knowledgeable about security testing and stuff, including some stuff that is less known even by people inside the field.


That seems the way to go to become famous in the USA, in general.

I don't watch streamers unless it's an informational video. Never was interested in watching someone else play a game unless its for like fighting games or skill based inputs

Watching a MMO Steamer is so *** cringe

The reason is simple, streamers without drama won't even get people's attention. Then they'll fade away and you won't even know them.

When they have drama, they get people to talk about them and brought traffic. That's when more people would heard about them.

Idk who pirate software is until Radial mentioned it and spread their videos. He'll have to thank Radial as part of traffic generator and make money for him.

Runescape just updated their subscription model for their game.

This is a game that looks like it came out 50 years ago and has a subscription, and a cash shop similar to XIV. They are now wanting to add actual ads to the launcher and game so they can get adrevenue (worked for netflix I guess!). If you don't want ads, you gotta pay a higher sub. If you want customer support that jumps ahead of plebs you gotta pay a higher sub. If you want account security you gotta pay more.

I even read something about removing treasure hunter unless you pay a higher tier sub (dunno if that's like XI TH but lol)

Yoshi P avert your eyes you money hungry b******!

UK offensive language police are going to knock your door very soon. :)

As it turns out, this is completely fake. RA is once again lying by omission. Shocking, I know. None of these "updates" are actually real. It was a survey asking for feedback. That's it. A simple google search was all it took.

How can you say it's completely fake and then you confirmed it was real from a survey? You just debunked yourself in 2 lines.

Its fake in the sense you said "they updated their subscription model" when all they did was put out a survey.

Now having said that, a survey where the results cant be seen usually becomes "support for this was overwhelmingly positive, trust us bro" and all the bad things get implemented.

It's all over reddit, they are outraged about it. That it's a survey is bad enough because it shows they are testing the water and want to do it and those are the things they suggested. I don't play it so I didn't know whether it's implemented or asked, I just saw the outrage and thought it was funny. Regardless it's not completely fake, completely fake means fabricated.

Yes thats great, and I agreed with what the survey will likely mean in the future. However, what may happen in the future is irrelevant because you said
implying the changes have been made and are live when they are not.

Next time, instead of just reading reddit shitposts and immediately believing them, do a simple google search and provide a source for your information. Instead of posting a completely fake update.

Surveys happen with every MMO. Didn't we just fill out a Square Enix survey a month ago? It got it's own thread. Is anyone expecting anything to come of that survey? If so, I have some land to sell you.

redundant

You got me.

It's a post on a forum 10 people will see, calm your titties.

Totally random question: If IT people remote in to your pc, I know they can see the files and stuff, but is the desktop just black or can they actually see the wallpaper?

Or maybe it depends how they're remoting in too