Podcasts and Streamers

They're talking about it on Dantes' stream right now. Dantes, Yamato, Detention, Alois, Sinerias, and maybe more.

https://twitter.com/doaenel/status/1688509911138021376

Apparently Detention was in a game with a KR pro, and the pro said to him "I will make sure all NA players get banned". Might be unrelated though, since EU streamers are getting hit too?

Edit: it looks like it could be an IP ban on their hotel as a result of some high-profile manual reports from the TFBlade drama. 🤔

Eevee put together an ordered timeline: https://twitter.com/LCS_Eevee/status/1688536852368666625

Axel and Smitty already got unfollowed, possibly more I'm not aware of...

Weak look from BSG on this one.

https://twitter.com/TtvSmittyStone/status/1627639009261281280?s=20 https://twitter.com/axel__tv/status/1627692007559766019?s=20

Wolf and Owl (comedy), The Back Page (video games chat), Football Cliches (football), Career We Go (football trivia)

Those are my recommendations above with genre!

Can be British or international podcasts and I don't mind the genre. I am looking for some new ones to check out.

Hey guys, I've found some of my fave podcasts started as indie ones but since they've gotten a bit bigger or trended on TikTok, they're not the same. Not as researched or just playing up. Others just didn't have the content to be weekly. What pods did you used to love but now you've stopped listening all together and why?

Not sure why GGG stopped appearing in streams. I think that was the best-possible way of open communication a community can wish for, and it's also a great way to get insight into how the designers think, problems that occur and the occasional "rant" where Chris talks in-depth about game designing. Past podcasts are/were a fantastic listen to while playing and make it easier to understand the designer's point of view.

I wish Chris would return.

Hey everyone, just letting you know I've been unbanned! I'm not sure what the best way to prove this is so I'll just attach a couple different screenshots.

https://imgur.com/a/Bro9EOa

(Just so you know, that KD includes scavs. I've only killed 39 PMC's in 67 raids-oof)

https://imgur.com/a/8eO0zns

(I wasn't even able to sign into the launcher before)

https://imgur.com/a/iqY8xR5

(it used to say BANNED in big red letters next to my name)

I was absolutely blown away by all the support I received through this. Thank you all so much for sticking with me. Say what you will about this game, but the community stands together. I seriously had 5+ people offer to buy me a new game.

Special thanks to u/trentbraidner for reaching out to BSG and keeping me updated, u/OnepegMG for spreading the word/straight up buying me a new game, and u/Jinx0028 who bought me a new game too. I did not ask them to haha, but I think it's awesome they were so willing nonetheless. The amount of supportive DM's I've received has been awesome as well.

I received quite a few DM's from people who have also been falsely banned. It's clear to me that this is a far more common issue than it seems and hopefully changes can be made at BSG to counteract this. The truth is, had my post not blown up, I would most likely still be banned for months to come.

Shoot me a friend request if you ever need someone to raid with, thanks again everyone.

Original Post

Hey, folks. I like watching people play league, I feel like I learn a lot from people in a higher ELO than myself.

I have a LOT of people followed, but over the last 3 or 4 months, everyone has just gotten bitter and sour. Even the people who were always upbeat and positive, even if they're not typing out flame to their team, they spend the back half of most games talking about how bad their teammates are and so on and so forth. And it's just a drag.

If you know of any streamers (junglers preferred) who can get through a game without trash talking their teammates and instead focus on what they're trying to accomplish to win, that'd be great.

Every streamer was hyping Brig ult change up as broken or hard meta, then it comes out and proves to be actually worse than the old ult according to Brig mains.

All the werido parasocial streamer fans that think these guys know everything about the game need to get some perspective.

First off this is not meant to attack Rengawr in any way, I don't blame him for the way he reacted

Two days ago I killed a chad on woods. I could tell he was geared so I decided to unload into his legs with my EKO. He made it to cover before I could kill him but I pushed up and finished him off with 2 shots to the ankle. As I was looting the body I was shocked to find that he was already lvl 53 and a sherpa. Because of this, I decided to check if he was a streamer.

The very first twitch streamer I clicked on, Rengawr, was running the exact same kit as the dude I had killed, so I assumed it was him. I went back over the vod and sure enough there was the clip of me killing him.

https://clips.twitch.tv/FuriousOutstandingRaisinFUNgineer-cEqN9TeA2NLhvmV7?tt_medium=redt

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1704182268?t=2h40m23s

(Start of fight)

About 20 seconds after the clip ends he says "He'll be banned within 10 minutes." He also claims he is going to get me "manually banned". He personally dm's a dev a clip in order to do this.

I can totally see where he's coming from. I definitely would've reported that too, but the truth is I pushed up, RIGHT WHERE HE WAS LOOKING, and shot him in the legs 2 more times. This is clearly desync. We have all died countless times when we should have been in cover, but we were not on the other player's screen. I got a little freaked out hearing a big streamer/sherpa say they were going to manual ban me, but I knew I had nothing to fear since I don't cheat. The next morning:

https://imgur.com/a/zTXKKK8

1700 hours, 35% survival rating, and a shit K.D.

I understand if you don't believe me, but I've never cheated or broken any rules in my 5 years of playing this game. It sucks I don't have my POV to prove it, but I'm not a streamer and I don't record my games. It seems crazy to me that a streamer can personally get someone banned based on nothing more than a suspicious death. I went into his chat the next day to ask him about it and he ended up re-watching the clip and seems to no longer think I cheated.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1705161929?t=7h33m43s

(start of him reviewing clip)

Side Note: Rengawr ended up asking me what ban code I got and I totally gave him the wrong code, 206. I saw 206 because I typo'd my password. Once I fixed the typo I got the real code, 229, which by his own words is a manual ban.

Anyways, it just doesn't seem right that a streamer/sherpa should have that kind of power. I'm no different than any of you, I don't cheat and I just play to hang out with my buddies. After 5 years, a streamer decided I was cheating, the next day my account was gone.

UPDATE AGAIN: I've been unbanned!

UPDATE: https://imgur.com/a/E60bG6X :/ (he deleted this original clip and vod)

EDIT: Thanks for all the support everybody. An awesome streamer and BSG emissary u/trentbraidner has reached out to me and is contacting BSG in order to get me unbanned. There are good streamers and employees out there.

TL;DR: I killed a streamer, servers made the kill look sus, streamer thought I was a cheater, streamer claims to manually ban me and I get banned. The streamer then went back and decided I wasn't cheating, but its too late and I'm banned. Time to get good at Dark and Darker.

Just wondering if there is any tea on any podcast, really.

I'm bored at work and want to know if Roman Mars (99%) is really the good guy we are led to believe he is...

I feel like most comics you hear about these days is either way more hilarious onstage (normally older comics) or really come alive in their cozy podcast setting. However I swear I haven't come across anyone who is known for being just as funny in both settings.

Hotake incoming, so lets see how civil we can be in the discuss. Maybe you can change my mind who knows.

It was almost honor being killed by the top leaderboard Mat. Went to checkout his stream so I could see his recording of him killing my friend and I. To my disappointment the reality of streamers hit me in Dark & Darker. They play a different game. When matt did a "naked run" he was subject to the same things we all are. And he died. However after that match (just before our match) he entered trade, and his multiple of his stream followers gifted him 1k gold, crafted gear, epics/uniques, and then he proceeded to 1v3 groups of people. With only a pocket cleric only using heals on him. Watched his stream for an hour and this continued. Rogue with hand crossbow 1 shotting people, all from gear his followers gave him. You see streamers in D&D dont need to fear death. They have a button they can hit that generates epic gear, possibly even better than what they just had on. So they dont play an extraction shooter. Matt now had time to memorize the spawn points, and upon spawning would immediately rush them and only focus on killing players. Crushing teams of 3 in a really unfair manner. I know this is inevitable for the most part. As ive seen this with other games. But due to D&D gametype, it especially undermines the game, and I personally think should be a bannable offense. Afterall, if I modded the game to give me high-end gear after I died, I would surly be banned myself. My friend and I both work from home and have absorbent amounts of time compared to the average person to play. However we don't have dozens of players farming just to feed our account. When compared to botting in other games, this is really no different.

I can see this becoming tiresome overtime when the game is fully released. This is also why the Highroller leader boards are not an accurate reflection of what classes might be top dog. You dont see the many working hands funneling items to the big fish so they can stay on top of those columns.

Does anyone feel like comedy podcasts have devolved into the most insufferable shit that you can listen to? I’ve been following this subreddit for a little while now, and it seems like the issues everyone has with Schaub is a microcosm for most peoples feeling towards the entire comedy podcasting scene.

I got out of podcasts for a couple years but I’m now getting back into them because my job now is pretty computer oriented so I can listen to stuff more frequently. I used to listen to YMH years ago but now that I’ve gone back to it I’m shocked at how unfunny and boring it’s become, like they’re still playing the same clips I saw then find almost 5 years ago. I tried to listen to Joe Rogan, and even before the pandemic he was pretty unrelatable but holy shit, all he talks about now is cancel culture and fucking ice-baths? All the people that he had on years ago that would talk interesting and crazy shit just spend the entire time sucking off Joe for how courageous he has been against “cancel culture”. Like I just want to hear about bigfoot, or ancient civilisations.

And it’s not just Joe, it seems every podcast in the LA circuit is just money grabbers complaining now. I tried to listen to a new Tim Dillon episode and was shocked that half the episode was fucking commercials (the old ad reads were the best part).

Even the stuff that’s not in the LA circuit is turning completely unlistenable. I feel like MSSP has just turned into just Shane talking about him trying to be friends with Drake, or his experiences partying with athletes and celebrities. I don’t even know what the fuck cumtown turned into, I can either listen to Stav sit on a high horse and talk down to everyone who calls in or how he likes to eat pussy, or Adam completely barred out of his mind try to interview celebrities no one cares about on a $500,000 set while Nick fails to be a TV show writer.

I know this is completely stupid to complain about, but honestly I just want something funny to listen to without being brow beat about “wokeism” or how their maid didn’t get them the right type of coffee. Like, yeah, I don’t think you should pump kids full of hormones or that there’s 199 genders but jesus christ, you don’t need to wave your political flags every 20 minutes. Who gives a fuck? I’m listening to this stuff so I can get a laugh at work over a stupid youtube video someone saw or a weird thing that happened to someone (that doesn’t include a mention about their bugatti or some shit).

Is there just too much money in podcasting? It seems like it went from just regular guys sitting down and bullshitting telling jokes, to guys who are just trying to become famous by any means necessary and everything being so contrived/over the top that it seems like a Kardashian wrote it.

EDIT: Thanks for all the suggestions,cats. Definitely have a lot of stuff to check out.

I think a lot of us started out really not getting the whole podcast thing, until one finally clicked. What was it for you?

Pls provide some detail about the content of the podcast, and why you like it if you can!