I'm a South African variety streamer and I aim to share my experience and joy of story rich worlds through a variety of games with my audience.
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Hope restored in our future generation. Been watching a group of teens teaching each other how to ride a bike in the park. No judgment, pure kindness.
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We never needed governments to step in and de-anonymize the internet in order to protect children.
What we needed was education - 26 years ago - about responsible technology use and internet behavior. We needed parents to learn and understand what their children were doing with their tech and teach, monitor, and discipline. Not one class about "being nice on the internet". Year after year education about responsible use of technology.
We can build a better internet for tomorrow by starting today - by putting internet behavior and responsible technology use classes in every school, at every level. To understand how to behave, how to respect others, how to use digital devices responsibly, how to identify threats, scams and dangers. To spot misinformation and think for themselves. To stop spending hours and hours on infinite scroll applications that devour and degrade their attention spans and ability to process and create memories.
But that guidance needs to teach the why, not just tell us "this is bad!" Children should understand the costs of spending their lives in front of a screen just as they learn the dangers of smoking or why it's important to try to eat healthy foods. Teenagers should be guided and taught to make decisions about their activities for themselves and understand why social media is terrible for mental health, and why, as they become adults and learn to parent, they should monitor their own children's activities and share what they've learned with their own children. To learn to be there when their kids have questions, to understand before judging.
New parents need to understand how crucial it is not to just slap their kids in front of their phones to occupy them when they're busy. They need to understand when it's appropriate to set children up with different accounts of their own, and how to monitor their usage and ensure healthy limits. We need to rebuild the spaces in the Internet that are meant to be safe for children, giving them a place to safely express themselves and learn.
And we need to do this as a society, so we can improve the coming generations together.
When the internet was born, our governments failed to build the systems to help society learn it's responsible use. We let companies take over and social media run rampant and build worse and worse things that manipulated our base instincts, and now we're seeing the consequences of two decades of that.
We have to do better. We CAN do better.
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Reading numbers is essential in Japan.
With Wagotabi, you learn through interactive stories and real-life dialogues, not boring textbooks.
Our SRS system brings tricky points back so you remember them naturally.
Available on Steam, App Store & Google Play.
My community voted and we will be starting Horizon Forbidden West on Monday @ 18h00 UTC!
I've been smitted with Horizon Zero Dawn so I am beyond excited to experience the next game in the franchise.
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First charity event of the year !!
Streaming for Hope starting this friday 💕
COME JOIN US
WE LOVE CHARITY IN THIS HOUSEHOLD EEEE
#HFTD #Streamingforhope
Playing Atomic Heart tonight for the first time. I hope to enjoy it.
Stream starts at 18h00 UTC.
Twitch.tv/NovusNecrontyr
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Happy release day! And merry Xmas to you all surl.li/sqkwja #fantasybooks #fantasy #legendoftheoraclerunes
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A real man is one who nurtures, protects, and uplifts those around him. Happy International Men's Day 💜
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The rise of large collab games (Lethal Company esp) made me withdraw significantly from a lot of collabs because some people just do NOT get that griefing for content is fun for like 5 min but constantly dealing with someone griefing is just annoying.
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This is what it means to me to be a streamer. Making a space for those who choose to be there. A good example of kindness if you ask me
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This OnlyFangs stuff actually sucks. Lots of weird attack posts and people taking it too far. Putting everything in one place and washing my hands of it after this.
To start, here is the response about the Dire Maul run. From my perspective I didn't feel I could save anyone else with the resources I had left even with mana gem and robe cooldowns. Since the call to run was made I followed the call and got out as quickly as possible. In every other instance where shit has hit the fan the shot-caller has called specific targets we locked in and nobody died. If you call RUN RUN RUN then everything after that is a shitshow. Yamato pinned the entire thing on me despite everyone making mistakes and this rapidly spiraled into attacks both on and offline.
xitter.cf/PirateSoftware/status/…
The next few days was just tens of thousands of messages berating me, sending death threats, doxxing, and all kinds of shit. This happened on Twitch, Twitter, YouTube, Steam, Reddit, Discord, and over VOIP initiated Phone Calls all at the same time. Here are a few examples from just inside of WoW to give you some understanding.
xitter.cf/PirateSoftware/status/…
So what do you do in this situation? You start reporting it and banning people. We took the 10,000+ attack accounts and reported them up for the organized hate raid that this is. It disrupted our broadcast on all platforms for the last 3 days and prevented our community from doing anything. That's a hate raid no matter how you slice it and it needs to be reported. We also setup automation to shut down the First Message Last Message shit stirring posts which worked to mostly positive effect.
Despite all of this I kept running with the guild and kept doing dungeons with people. Got my UBRS key, had runs that were fun, and had some clutch moments as well. Then during an UBRS run another creator in the group shit talked me the entire run and spoke many times about wanting to start a fight with me over voice "For Content". I was pissed about this and said bluntly to the community that I would be reporting anyone that does things like this. Not just anyone covering the situation, anyone specifically targeting me to make "Content" out of it by directly disrupting our broadcast.
The idea that you shouldn't fight back or do anything to defend yourself is absurd. Absolutely do something about shit like this. Defend yourself and report that kind of behavior. It doesn't matter what size of creator you are that doesn't belong on any of these platforms.
This was posed as a "Content Guild" which to me meant we were crafting stories and narratives around our characters and achievements. Not content at any cost which this clearly has become.
For those in the guild that reached out to me after all of this, thank you. Was fun running together and maybe we will again one day in a different game.
