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PassiveAce
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States18076 Posts
Last Edited: 2020-06-24 21:40:38
June 24 2020 21:37 GMT
#206341
On June 25 2020 06:20 Sn0_Man wrote:
Wish I was good at bball

The kid was going for finger-rolls and fadeaways and I just won with layups and close range shots. it wasn't fancy

Thanks y'all!
Call me Marge Simpson cuz I love you homie
CorsairHero
Profile Joined December 2008
Canada9491 Posts
Last Edited: 2020-06-24 22:23:02
June 24 2020 22:13 GMT
#206342
On June 25 2020 06:08 PassiveAce wrote:
I beat a 19 year old in 1v1 basketball even tho I haven't played since highschool! Feels good but I forgot how completely exhausting basketball actually is lol

keeping 6 ft social distance while playing basketball must be exhausting
© Current year.
PassiveAce
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States18076 Posts
Last Edited: 2020-06-24 22:45:34
June 24 2020 22:45 GMT
#206343
On June 25 2020 07:13 CorsairHero wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 25 2020 06:08 PassiveAce wrote:
I beat a 19 year old in 1v1 basketball even tho I haven't played since highschool! Feels good but I forgot how completely exhausting basketball actually is lol

keeping 6 ft social distance while playing basketball must be exhausting

Ofc, I only play with swim goggles, mask, plus whatever this is
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Call me Marge Simpson cuz I love you homie
Faruko
Profile Joined April 2013
Chile34171 Posts
June 24 2020 23:54 GMT
#206344
i'm about to hit 100 days in quarantine, our govt did it like ass
Ross was right // "Jesus Christ nahaz is doing shots before my eyes" (Sn0_Man, 2018)
tehh4ck3r
Profile Joined August 2013
Magrathea7056 Posts
June 25 2020 00:34 GMT
#206345
Today is day 106 for me
AdministratorIn those days, spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women, and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.
CorsairHero
Profile Joined December 2008
Canada9491 Posts
June 25 2020 02:04 GMT
#206346
British Columbia is going into phase 3 of 4 this week hell yea. We have a solid provincial health officer which helped us become one of the best performing regions in the world.
Phase 4 is international travel / concerts / sport events so this is as good as it gets for a long time.
© Current year.
tehh4ck3r
Profile Joined August 2013
Magrathea7056 Posts
June 25 2020 03:52 GMT
#206347
On June 25 2020 11:04 CorsairHero wrote:
British Columbia is going into phase 3 of 4 this week hell yea. We have a solid provincial health officer which helped us become one of the best performing regions in the world.
Phase 4 is international travel / concerts / sport events so this is as good as it gets for a long time.

what does it feel like having competent leadership
it's been so long i've forgotten
AdministratorIn those days, spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women, and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.
TheEmulator
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
28093 Posts
June 25 2020 03:58 GMT
#206348
Saskatchewan has been having some small outbreaks lately, although an outbreak in our case is like a couple of days with 5-10 new cases instead of 1 so it sounds worse than it is. Either way it's slightly disturbing.
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PassiveAce
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States18076 Posts
Last Edited: 2020-06-25 04:01:48
June 25 2020 04:01 GMT
#206349
We've only had a 2-3 cases a day thankfully. From what iv heard things are getting bad in some southern states.
Call me Marge Simpson cuz I love you homie
tehh4ck3r
Profile Joined August 2013
Magrathea7056 Posts
June 25 2020 04:07 GMT
#206350
CA is not doing super hot either, though it's worse in socal compared to norcal
AdministratorIn those days, spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women, and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.
Sn0_Man
Profile Blog Joined October 2012
Tebellong44238 Posts
June 25 2020 06:00 GMT
#206351
On June 25 2020 11:04 CorsairHero wrote:
British Columbia is going into phase 3 of 4 this week hell yea. We have a solid provincial health officer which helped us become one of the best performing regions in the world.
Phase 4 is international travel / concerts / sport events so this is as good as it gets for a long time.

Yeah my fam is travelling to Vancouver tomorrow so we are pleased that ur government considers that acceptable (not that it was particularly going to stop us but you know)
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CorsairHero
Profile Joined December 2008
Canada9491 Posts
June 25 2020 06:12 GMT
#206352
On June 25 2020 12:52 tehh4ck3r wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 25 2020 11:04 CorsairHero wrote:
British Columbia is going into phase 3 of 4 this week hell yea. We have a solid provincial health officer which helped us become one of the best performing regions in the world.
Phase 4 is international travel / concerts / sport events so this is as good as it gets for a long time.

what does it feel like having competent leadership
it's been so long i've forgotten

What if i told you we didn't even have a lockdown. Republicans were so focused on Sweden lmao.

Bonnie Henry (who worked 5 months straight 7 days a week) is already been nominated for the Order of Canada


The Top Doctor Who Aced the Coronavirus Test
Dr. Bonnie Henry kept the disease in check in British Columbia without harsh enforcement methods. Now, she is leading the way out of lockdown.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/05/world/canada/bonnie-henry-british-columbia-coronavirus.html
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CorsairHero
Profile Joined December 2008
Canada9491 Posts
Last Edited: 2020-06-25 06:22:38
June 25 2020 06:21 GMT
#206353
On June 25 2020 15:00 Sn0_Man wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 25 2020 11:04 CorsairHero wrote:
British Columbia is going into phase 3 of 4 this week hell yea. We have a solid provincial health officer which helped us become one of the best performing regions in the world.
Phase 4 is international travel / concerts / sport events so this is as good as it gets for a long time.

Yeah my fam is travelling to Vancouver tomorrow so we are pleased that ur government considers that acceptable (not that it was particularly going to stop us but you know)

bruh, you oil burning lifted truck drivers who are too macho for masks have triple our infection rate

BC says avoid travel to Alberta while Alberta recommends not to travel to BC lol so you're good
© Current year.
PassiveAce
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States18076 Posts
Last Edited: 2020-06-25 14:51:08
June 25 2020 14:47 GMT
#206354
Iv started listening to a podcast called Rabbit Hole to better understand online radicalization and it's really good, strongly recommend.
https://www.nytimes.com/column/rabbit-hole

Its mostly about how YouTube algorithms shape viewers beliefs and features a lot of "political YouTube" figures including Destiny as a sort of de-radicalizing force.
They have some really interesting interviews with people who became fascists/qanon believers through YouTube videos and also interviews with a Google engineer who helped build the algorithm.
Call me Marge Simpson cuz I love you homie
teddyoojo
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
Germany22369 Posts
June 25 2020 15:52 GMT
#206355
gorgc is getting lessons from botez and she looked at his history where he kept playing vs s4 and s4 is legit 300 rating lmao i didnt know it went that low
Esports historian since 2000. Creator of 'The Universe' and 'The best scrambled Eggs 2013'. Host of 'Star Wars Marathon 2015'. Thinker of 'teddyoojo's Thoughts'. Earths and Moons leading CS:GO expert. Lord of the Rings.
Oukka
Profile Blog Joined September 2012
Finland1683 Posts
June 25 2020 16:28 GMT
#206356
On June 24 2020 16:54 Slomo wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 24 2020 16:41 rabidch wrote:
On June 24 2020 16:19 Slomo wrote:
In the mids of this very important sexual harassment drama, Microsoft kills Mixer. Which is pretty funny to me due to the financial commitment they put into it with Ninja and Shroud.

probably a drop in the bucket to what it cost to engineer

True. But I see the engineering part as an R&D investment that may find application in other products while paying millions for two dudes to stream for 100 people a literal waste of resources.

Honestly, I wish Mixer took off. Twitch needs a competitor. But after the initial signings nothing happened there. Felt a little halfhearted as a marketing strategy.
On the other hand these may be the only contracts which ever worked out, because everybody else is already getting paid by twitch for exclusivity. Gaming communities managed to pigeon hole themselves into the biggest thing and nothing else. Getting exclusivity while taking content from the top dog is a controversial thing (EPIC store and streamer signings) while the top dog may be doing the same to squash up and coming competition and nobody bats an eye.


Wanted to comment on this. I've been studying competition and mergers in the digital markets recently and something that makes competition for type of platforms quite different from more traditional goods and services is that they have agents on multiple sides of the market and indirect network effects due the multi-sidedness. They need to serve at least viewers, content creators and advertisers at the same time. Viewers don't like advertisement, but advertisers like viewers. Content creators like more viewers, and both advertisers and viewers prefer more advertisers. Then to add to that all of these parties have the capability to be present on several platforms at once. The cost of developing infrastructure and running it the barriers to entry are significant just from the technology aspect alone. The incumbent's advantage becomes huge.

Facebook, Microsoft and Google have the money and infrastructure to overcome the technological barriers, but we've seen how slowly the alternatives gain traction. I haven't seen ninja's numbers from mixer but I'm gonna guess they were significantly lower than on twitch. What else can a platform realistically do than offer an exclusive deal to one, if not the, largest individual streamer? It'll be really really difficult for any competitor to seriously challenge twitch for a long time. Twitch doesn't even need to be better than the other platforms, it will by default benefit from the fact that it already has the most viewers and content creators, who will all likely be individually worse off if they move away from twitch.

If the market is to become more competitive it will probably have to come through content creators being present on multiple platforms simultaneously. If viewers can choose which platform they want to watch their favourite streamers on that would give the streaming sites an incentive to improve the product (streaming site) they offer. Right now if you want to watch tournament A or streamer B you often can only do it on a single platform and that means platforms are incentivized to lure and lock the content creators to their site (like the Mixer deal Ninja had) and hope that pulls the viewers with them. Money goes to sign exclusivity deals, not to develop the streaming sites and features of those.

It may genuinely be that only one or two streaming sites can even be viable in the market, unless you have everyone on board you have nobody on board. Similar to how facebook and its offspring (IG) are the only social media platforms of that type, despite Google's attempts to establish the Google+ or w/e it was called back then.

Thank you for coming to my TEDx talk.
I play children's card games and watch a lot of dota, CS and HS
CorsairHero
Profile Joined December 2008
Canada9491 Posts
June 25 2020 18:30 GMT
#206357
lol @ dota 2 scene
synd tobi is dead
© Current year.
Faruko
Profile Joined April 2013
Chile34171 Posts
June 25 2020 18:38 GMT
#206358
good riddance, get synd + suns back
Ross was right // "Jesus Christ nahaz is doing shots before my eyes" (Sn0_Man, 2018)
Sn0_Man
Profile Blog Joined October 2012
Tebellong44238 Posts
June 25 2020 18:44 GMT
#206359
When I read meruna's first twitlonger I was like "that sounds like Tobi but must not be cuz he and synd were so close".

Fuck me
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TheEmulator
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
28093 Posts
June 25 2020 19:07 GMT
#206360
A couple of weeks ago when the BLM protests started I brought Toby up in a discord channel, wondering how he hasn't been cancelled yet for his "n word baby" comments 10+ years ago.

Well.... here we are lol. Just got cancelled for something else instead
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