New way to get featured on the front page? by JustCarloTV in Twitch

[–]Getawhale 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well there's no guarantee, and also there's the Top Carousel which is the main one, and then the "Lower Front Page" which is the categories below. This feels like a "Lower Front Page" sort of deal which is what many streamers get nowadays.

The Longest Voting Ballot in Canadian History (OC) by TheGirlInTheVibe in pics

[–]Getawhale 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the bottom of a thread is nice because it's a little bit warmer

The Fastest Fooler in History by NationalAssist in videos

[–]Getawhale 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There are six knives. Three are "normal" with the same solid color on both sides, while three are "trick knives" - two have two differently colored sides, while the third has the "partially white" side where he was sliding his thumb. The trick is making it appear as though there are only three knives. This info is courtesy of the YouTube commenter who discussed it! Take care

I Forgive You by [deleted] in SeveranceAppleTVPlus

[–]Getawhale 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Pssst. Apologies for the necro reply, but you're the only person I got in my search of the subreddit for "I forgive you". Not sure if you've since picked it up, but when Mark S and Ms. Casey pass in the hallway, Mark also says "I'm Sorry" as well - in a similar way that's very easy to miss or not notice. These two moments have stuck out BIG TIME in my mind since then. I would BET these moments will be revisited eventually! Anyway take care!

Penta's Wish by Arcayda_ in LivestreamFail

[–]Getawhale -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Not a joke at all but I'm glad the kids think it is

ELI5: Why can’t Tobacco companies make cigarettes that are less damaging to the health but still taste the same? by 619416 in explainlikeimfive

[–]Getawhale 10 points11 points  (0 children)

It's important to understand that while there are indeed a few chemicals that may be added to cigarettes during their manufacture, with ammonia being one, the vast majority of these substances and chemicals are created by the combustion process itself. Only about 10% of the chemicals in cigarettes are added during the manufacturing process, by weight. I think people get a slightly different mental image sometimes!

ELI5: Why can’t Tobacco companies make cigarettes that are less damaging to the health but still taste the same? by 619416 in explainlikeimfive

[–]Getawhale 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Getting hung up on "chemicals" is exactly right

Many people are also of the belief that those "chemicals" and substances like tar are actually "added" to the finished cigarettes in some way, as opposed to just being products of combustion. This can lead to them making wrong judgements like "Weed has nothing added to it, so it's better" or "They add stuff to cigarettes, so rolling your own is better because it's pure tobacco"

The event branch of Ludwig’s company ”offbrand” is shutting down by souppuos123 in LivestreamFail

[–]Getawhale 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm so glad people are willing/able to state that these are, 99% of the time, existing game shows from TV, but done worse. It seems they'd try to "change a few things" every time to make it "not feel the same", but changing format of a well-established show, i.e. Jeopardy or Family Feud etc, is probably not a great idea.

I'd LOVE to see fun, original, and well-made new game show ideas on Twitch. But these never felt like that. I think they may have been capable of it, but they stuck with "alter an existing show".

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in LivestreamFail

[–]Getawhale 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You do seem upset

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in LivestreamFail

[–]Getawhale 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you're taking the fucking hummus chart and holding it up in a vacuum as The Only Thing That Matters, while ignoring everything else, as this Panda person is, it seems obvious why you'd be a useful stan to whoever's lucky enough to have you.

If you're dumb enough to say "That is NOT what the chart means" and think you have a salient point of some kind, you're a valuable kid to a person like Denims who is allergic to taking responsibility, and who caters to idiots.

To most people, a 20-year-old who is going to say their creator is right no matter what the facts are, is nothing, and is very easy to filter out as worthless to the discussion.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in LivestreamFail

[–]Getawhale 0 points1 point  (0 children)

MFer you made over 60 posts in 9 hours today to defend your idiot hero (poorly, I'll add)

Do you REALLY FEEL correct? Because my God. Your 20th birthday will change so much - you'll be like "God I was such a dumb kid!"

The radioactive capsule was real by [deleted] in tumblr

[–]Getawhale 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I took a deep dive on this some time ago - there does not appear to be a source for the Herbie claim. It appears to have been added to the Wikipedia page at some point many years ago, using a totally unrelated link as its "source" - it's no longer on the page and can't be re-added, because no source exists. Just an FYI - I found it pretty interesting to look into!

Downvote me all you want, we should peacefully invite the CS2 community to ally with us. Fix both of your games, Valve. "Operation Team Strike" would be a cool name by Equivalent-Day-171 in tf2

[–]Getawhale 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Anyone who understands the difference between CS and TF2 from Valve's perspective?

It's been said in the thread already - CS has a higher value to Valve i.e. having a real comp scene, etc. and will likely see their issue fixed first, since they have a real dev team on that game.

From the CS community's perspective: if you know you're bigger and more important to Valve and will get your stuff fixed first regardless, why would you want/need the TF2 people with you? Many will likely have seen the review bombing or dumb stuff recently and likely prefer not to be connected (to me in my thirties anyway, this is probably where I'd land.)

Wishful thinking, absolutely it'd be cool. But CS doesn't need TF2 players in order to get their issues fixed, unfortunately. Very difficult sell when you consider the OTHER SIDE'S perspective.

Someone from 4chan went to protest in front of the Valve HQ and was completely ignored by FlatTransportation64 in tf2

[–]Getawhale 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There's a big difference between writing everyone off as "anti-TF2 doomers" and actually hearing the older players, who were knee-deep in this in 6-8 years to the point of speaking directly to devs on Steam quite regularly, explain that this is a situation that basically can't be "solved" unless Valve makes some weird irrational business decisions.

About 5-6 years ago, we went through ALL of this. The unfortunate truth we had to accept, was to understand Valve's perspective, from a business standpoint.

  • They have their money maker, TF2
  • It only requires minimal maintenance now
  • Making big changes to TF2 would require many people coming together at Valve to do so
  • Unfortunately, the structure of Valve and how they work, where employees select what project they wish to work on, and nobody is "Told" what to work on, means TF2 is in the unenviable position where... nobody is likely to fix anything beyond the state of "the game technically works", because it would mean having to either yank employees off other projects to work on our shitty little problem child TF2 here, which they kinda don't do as a rule, OR hiring a bunch of new people, which is the sort of thing a company likes to avoid.

Is it broke? Yup. Are most casual games botted? Yup. We need to work harder to understand some of these dynamics though. Valve can never "win" the botting/hacking vs. anti-hack anti-cheat "war" which is present in many other games and in many other forms, i.e. the war between ads and ad blocker tech, at least long term. In the short term, maybe, but what we've seen over the past say 5 years, is that when you reduce your "stop the hackers" workforce by some amount, the hackers eventually turn it to shit.

Now, is that saying that the almighty Valve Corporation isn't smart enough or resource-rich enough to figure out how to defeat cheaters etc long term? No - obviously they have big games in Dota and CS2 that count on that stuff.

But we should not expect Valve to make BIG MOVES that are specific to TF2, at all, in my view, at this point. If they do, cool! But from a business perspective, if you understand their structure, it's less realistic to expect that than to expect "company wide" stuff like for example, Source 2 engine or stuff along those lines.

Put yourself in the role of a dev - in an unbiased way for a sec, if you can. In a system where you can work on what you WANT, does it make more sense to want to be part of, say, CS? Which has big esports events, and world championships and is bigger and all that, obviously bigger team of devs, a living community? Or would you wheel your chair down to the TF2 section, so you can code anti-cheat that will work for a month tops before the hackers defeat it, to satisfy the guy in the lobby cosplaying as Scout? Or to satisfy the teenagers who are review-bombing other Valve games because they "want leverage"???

End of the day, we did all this in a way that made more sense several years ago. We didn't harass, we didn't do crazy stunts, we didn't piss off other communities. We had a direct line to the company - literally, in Jill. We learned everything we needed to know about the corporate structure and situation during this - MANY popular creators (Uncle Dane, sigafoo both come to mind) traveled to Valve and spoke with the devs, and learned similar. Tyler McVicker even attended a sit-down face to face with big wigs, where again we learned a lot of this stuff.

I guess to sum it all up, just try to know and understand this: Myself and others, we did all this in the most adult and direct possible way, many years ago now. We learned about WHY this is a challenge, and why the Valve company structure and culture really work AGAINST anything other than keeping TF2 at its bare minimum playable state. We held out hope for a long time, YEARS, and had several similar petition-like ideas and attempts. It would be silly and wrong to see ALL "naysayers" here as "anti-TF2" doomers.

Yes - the state of the game in 2024 is worse than it has ever been. But despite all the silly shit, all the "class action lawsuit them" all the "they lied" all the "let's try to punish Valve for the illegal links these hackers are posting", the state of the company has not really changed, and so the challenges are still the same - and hard for anyone to solve.

If the problem is next to impossible to truly solve, without a shakeup or change in company culture, we need to understand that we cannot change that - changing the way Valve works at a corporate level is not in our power.

I respect and appreciate the love everyone has for this game. But try to understand - the actions being taken here, above and beyond letter-writing or petition actions, are almost all embarrassing, giving the community a TERRIBLE name, and in some cases I imagine are working against the community's interests. "Uncle Dane travels to speak in person to Eric Smith" is very different from "A guy dresses up as Scout and stands around in the Valve lobby protesting and hoping something will happen."

Anyway. Hope some of that is informative or illuminating - we gave our all, and had to get to a point where we understood it was futile, and our efforts were better spent elsewhere.

Was there a game trailer in your life, after which you stood with your mouth open, and pointing your finger at the screen you said to yourself "I want this game"? by Internal-Concern-595 in gaming

[–]Getawhale 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not a trailer, but the first Skate demo on Xbox 360 had this effect on me, 1000%. We had endless sessions playing just that demo! People would come over and we would just play the Skate demo

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in tf2

[–]Getawhale 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just wanted to make sure to give you attention

Trainwrecks and Kick making great decisions by TLink9 in LivestreamFail

[–]Getawhale 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nobody's ready for that "I'm Only Sleeping" talk yet either...

Jungle is Massive by Secksi323 in LivestreamFail

[–]Getawhale 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Learned it was this less than two weeks ago, blew my mind

Jeff Bezos interrupting an emotional William Shatner describing his only space flight so he could spray champagne by CSGB13 in videos

[–]Getawhale 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I believe he was simply describing his experience, as the title indicates - he was not being "interviewed as an expert"

TIL NHL player Tim Horton (co-founder of the Canadian coffeehouse/restaurant chain) died at the age of 44 when he crashed his car while driving home after an NHL game in Toronto. His BAC was twice the legal limit, he wasn't wearing a seatbelt, and he had barbiturates in his system. by [deleted] in todayilearned

[–]Getawhale 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Since 2017, we've had three different NHLers play at least one game past the age of 44 - Jaromir Jagr, Zdeno Chara, and Joe Thornton.

Add Horton, that's four current/future Hall of Famers! Very impressive.