Posted on: August 15, 2024, 9:23 pm

My last post got me thinking 🤔 about streamers and transactional relationships with viewers.

Since COVID, I rediscovered Twitch and Kick came along too. I’ve been keeping streams open in the background while working and I can’t help but notice both chatters and streamers entering into these types of relationships based on money. It’s all rather fake and shallow, like paying a stripper for a lap dance.

I’m all for supporting your favorite streamer in a reasonable way, but understand it’s transactional. I know a guy who gave his whole COVID stimulus payment to a streamer and then watched that streamer ignore him months later when the money ran out.

It's rather sad when you really think about it on both ends.

Posted on: August 14, 2024, 11:02 pm

The Ice Poseidon Hunger Games start tomorrow. Been waiting on it since his scavenger hunt. It's a neat concept to watch all the streamers and their perspectives as they compete. The Hunger Games has been hyped up, so I hope it's entertaining.

Here are some of the links in case you want to watch and follow along:

https://hungergames.iceposeidon.com/
https://kick.com/iceposeidon
https://kick.com/categories/games/hunger-games
https://x.com/REALIcePoseidon

Posted on: August 14, 2024, 3:34 pm

The no tax on tips plan is great 👍 but it should not be at the forefront of discussion. I haven’t heard much about more pressing issues like healthcare costs, or expanding social services like Medicaid and food stamps to help those in need more than ever.

Last time I checked the lowest priced health insurance plan I could find for myself would cost $1400/month with a $14,000 deductible.

Enough with novelty. Tackle the issues at the heart ♥️ and everything else will fall in line.

Posted on: August 14, 2024, 2:23 am

As I’m developing the code for this site I’m conflicted 😐 about a comment section.

One reason being I doubt it would be used very much and two because of abuse by spam bots. Working in the hosting industry means I already spend a large portion of time dealing with abuse issues and I don’t to want to bring all that over here. So at least for now I don’t plan to implement comments.

However, if you want to interact I prefer X (Twitter) so feel free to share the post links there and tag me (@papibdubs).

Posted on: August 14, 2024, 12:20 am

So many cheaters in Warzone. It reminds me of playing Unreal Tournament in the early 2000s and moving on to other games because the cheating got so bad. Bootcamp is the only mode that keeps me playing COD right now. It's chill and reminds me of Warzone after a mass ban of cheaters.