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Galaga Galaxian posted:As far as I can tell its just intensifying areas of "X% Chance to trigger a mine every ???" the deeper into the minefield you go. Probably a reasonable way to have it set up, yeah, thanks.
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Thanks dad, gently caress off.
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hakimashou posted:STREAMERS!!!!!!! 
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Apr 29, 2021 14:56
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a new york times article, lmao i don't like twitch either but cmon dude, you're not winning hearts and minds by letting the ghouls speak for you quote:Twitch “monetizes the propaganda, which is unique,” said Megan Squire, a computer science professor at Elon University who tracks extremists online.
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I honestly can't tell if this is a gimmick or not. So... bravo.
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Apr 29, 2021 17:44
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Streamers control the world because they're part of the deep state change my mind.
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xanif posted:Streamers control the world because they're part of the deep state change my mind. 
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I don't know about y'all but I personally believe every single thing that I hear streamers say on twitch. I take it personally, immediately integrating their exact words into the fundamental morality that I use to approach my life. I thank this man for his warning about the various demons and witches that stream on twitch.
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The only thing I get mad at streamers about is when they let chat know about their luxury vehicles that are on the way. "Haha chat, thanks for watching. I'm currently driving a Lamborghini but my Aston Martin is on the way! Don't forget to use those Twitch Primes and make sure to follow me on YouTube!" gently caress off.
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ShowTime posted:The only thing I get mad at streamers about is when they let chat know about their luxury vehicles that are on the way. "Haha chat, thanks for watching. I'm currently driving a Lamborghini but my Aston Martin is on the way! Don't forget to use those Twitch Primes and make sure to follow me on YouTube!" ah, I see we have another couragejd fan
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No idea who that it is and it wasn't a Tarkov streamer, but someone I randomly watched today because he was playing a new game. CohhCarnage, who by all accounts is a decent guy, but he had a chat command that was basically "CohhCarnage is currently driving this *insanely expensive luxury bike* but will be driving this *other insanely expensive luxury bike* when it arrives!". I was like, cool, this guy is into bicycles and getting outdoors, that's neat. Then I looked them up and they were like 75k each.
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ShowTime posted:The only thing I get mad at streamers about is when they let chat know about their luxury vehicles that are on the way. "Haha chat, thanks for watching. I'm currently driving a Lamborghini but my Aston Martin is on the way! Don't forget to use those Twitch Primes and make sure to follow me on YouTube!" it's definitely not something that makes me personally inclined to give them money, but I think it goes with the territory of being demographically biased towards being 20-something idiots from at least modestly affluent backgrounds who have a job that (among the small minority who succeed) rapidly balloons their income to six figure+ territory while simultaneously encouraging them to live like shut-ins with their parents or in group housing situations - they suddenly have more money than they necessarily know what to do with, a career path that hasn't necessarily taught them the value of money, not much to spend it on, and a fancy car is like the archetypal sign of material success showing someone has "made it" idk, maybe I'm wrong but it seems somewhat like the tendency of newly enlisted guys to make poor decisions regarding trucks and low end sports cars (except presumably paid for in cash and not financed by potentially ruinous debt from predatory lenders) (that impression is reinforced by the fact that most of the luxury cars I see streamers acquire generally aren't actually lambos or astons, but higher end Subarus or Teslas) not saying it's not bad form on their part to highlight it, but it hardly seems worth getting worked up over any more than a professional athlete - I guess it's just that the dynamic feels different because it's a weird hybrid of busking and parasocial intimacy? and/or because of the disconnect between how successful streamers present themselves/actually are and their incomes? CohhCarnage is actually a decent case-in-point, he's currently got ~13,500 subs (which appears to be about average for him since 2018 on), which means he's clearing close to a half million a year before taking donations + paid promotions (or higher tier subs + more favorable contract terms) into account - obviously he'll have business expenses too, but absent the context of Twitch that's an income level where you wouldn't think twice about someone buying a $75k bike (but conversely such people also don't usually ask you directly for $5 or whatever)
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That's way more than I'd pay for any bike on earth but I feel like that's a fairly innocuous hobby to nerd out about and connect with viewers on, which I assume is what's happening there rather than gross flaunting but I suppose 50/50.
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Some of you guys seem to have your finger right on the pulse of this stuff wonder if you'd share your experiences: What do you think made this game, which I believe has been the number 1 game on "twitch" "TTV" so attractive to the extremist/gamer "twitch" community, the vital financial lifeline for those people? The un-PC russian developers with their unwavering commitment against representing women and people of color? The no-holds-barred obsessive fetishized enthusiasm for gun minutia? Pandering to the community with 'memes' like "kek"? Widespread use of "incel" jargon like "chad"? The big role for "crypto" in the game? The developers even feature links to "twitch" "TTV" stuff on the launcher for the game, they are clearly cultivating this poo poo! quote:Twitch “monetizes the propaganda, which is unique,” said Megan Squire, a computer science professor at Elon University who tracks extremists online.
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Buddy I “think” “you” “are” “insane”.
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i mean yeah you seem to be answering your own question, or at least gesturing towards an answer without stating it it might be disingenuous to call the lack of something "unwavering commitment". to be fair i noticed it right away and it set off some alarm bells, especially alongside poo poo like "kektape". if these devs aren't outright channers they're at least adjacent and aware of the poo poo they're gesturing toward i dont necessarily know what this has to do with twitch though. twitch is the biggest loving thing in the world for games right now, whether theyre nazis or not. i'm not surprised twitch doesnt do anything about it because that's par for the course on big websites, especially social network-y ones. path of exile points directly to twitch streams on their website, does this mean they're supporting the alt right or whatever? can you actually post what you believe and are trying to convince us of? you're not really saying anything of substance
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God drat do I love my some slim diaries. Single best item for turning roubles into dollars. I've probably turned 6-7 million roubles into dollars via just slim diaries, and at a profit. For some strange reason, people love to sell them as low as 20k, which turns into 278 dollars. I just buy every single slim diary under 27k, but I could go as high as like 34k and still make a slight amount. It's not even rare either. At any given moment I can check the stock and find some for cheap, but if not, I just wait a few minutes and more get listed. Also, I rediscovered my love of the PP-19-01 Zenit and may have gone a little overboard with buying them. I have 10 in my inventory just waiting to get lost in a raid. I love a gun that costs 70k, but still lets me put up a fight against PMCs. Granted, I gotta be smart with it, because a 30rd magazine doesn't go very far, but as long as you are careful that poo poo will take care of you. Edit: damnit, I should have kept my mouth shut about the slim diaries. Since I made this post, every diary has been way more than they used to be. I’m sure it’s just a coincidence because the Tarkov heroes of SomethingAwful have known about them since before Nikita, but gently caress me if I didn’t go from making tons of USD off them to nothing. ShowTime fucked around with this message at 08:59 on May 1, 2021 |
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hakimashou posted:Some of you guys seem to have your finger right on the pulse of this stuff wonder if you'd share your experiences: i'm with this guy. preach it.
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I don't know what "it" is, but he sure is preaching it.
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I'm not sure if he's trying to say twitch is bad or tarkov is bad, or both? I thought it was drunk posting at first but now it's just sad.
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Hooplah posted:i mean yeah you seem to be answering your own question, or at least gesturing towards an answer without stating it apparently we're supposed to be freaking out that EFT is somehow funding right wing terrorism or justifying its existence because of incredibly vague allusions/guilt by association or something? or concluding Twitch is a hotbed of white nationalism because EFT exists?(?!?) because the demographics of a high(ish) end PC-only milsim shooter best known for completely over-the-top levels of gun porn naturally skewing a bit to the right of the general Twitch audience is clearly a sign of deliberate social malfeasance with cryptically sinister origins and certainly not a head-smackingly obvious outcome for anyone with two brain cells to rub together just really loving bad/low effort trolling (and it's not like there aren't interesting discussions to be had when it comes to Tarkov's popularity streaming centered around its development model, degree to which its gameplay design makes it enjoyable to watch, why it blew up with the original drops campaign, etc., though most of them have already been touched upon in this thread) LGD fucked around with this message at 06:00 on May 1, 2021 |
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hakimashou posted:Oh I got a public service announcement for tarkov actually: Twitch should be for charismaless fucks mumbling about the games they are playing or attractive people failing at playing a game. Also for creeping. That's all. This is a public service announcement.
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You can just not watch Twitch, or find streamers who are not chuds fwiw
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Tarkov is popular on twitch right now because it's a game that's more fun to watch people play than to play yourself most times lmao
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Perennial garbage poster shits up thread for thousandth time, people are surprised. Unrelated, turns out the paid bridge extract on the woods expansion has a sniper sign I didn't notice, woops. Was trying to pay and took a shot in the chest, thought I was taking fire from someone camping, didn't make the connection between crossing the marked line and died like an idiot. Orv fucked around with this message at 15:09 on May 1, 2021 |
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Orv posted:Perennial garbage poster shits up thread for thousandth time, people are surprised. I did this too. Ran behind the extract car and got two shot because I am a dunce. This was of course after paying. So, insult to injury, as it were.
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Dr_0ctag0n posted:Tarkov is popular on twitch right now because it's a game that's more fun to watch people play than to play yourself most times lmao It's popular because lots of people are playing, it's fun to watch, and watching others helps your game too.
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Duderclese posted:I did this too. Ran behind the extract car and got two shot because I am a dunce. This was of course after paying. So, insult to injury, as it were. Same! It was found money so I thought hey why not try that extract instead of hoofing it half way around the map to Outskirts. That'll learn me.
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I find it's fun to watch when people are good at it. Lupo or Landmark do some amazing things that make the game look really fun. Then you realize those are the guys who zap you 30 seconds into a raid before you even know where you've spawned in at. Pestily is good too but he can be such a whiny bitch when his chat points out things wrong with the game because he's sucking Nikita's sack. On the gunporn front, I have a whole case of guns in game that I own in real life. It's a hell of a lot cheaper to shoot them virtually right now.
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This beef stew must be loving delicious cause everybody ate all of it.
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Orv posted:This beef stew must be loving delicious cause everybody ate all of it. Beef stew made right... 
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ChesterJT posted:On the gunporn front, I have a whole case of guns in game that I own in real life. It's a hell of a lot cheaper to shoot them virtually right now. which ones
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 Cheated on a couple. I have a Ruger 5.7 not the FN which saved me about $600. Rock Island 1911 instead of a Colt. Obviously no full-autos. The space gun is my favorite. Those hera parts with the magpul drum make it as much fun to shoot as it looks.
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Please post a picture of your real life space trooper m4a1
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 It's about as close as I could get it. SIG Romeo4 in game, I have a Romeo5. Surefire light on the side, just used a generic in game light. That's a 10" Troy rail on a 10.5" barrel and the game had a 10.25" barrel and a 9.5" DD rail. I thought about using an adar receiver for semi-auto super IRL accuracy but meh. ChesterJT fucked around with this message at 06:06 on May 2, 2021 |
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It's beautiful I have an MDR 5.56 and an RFB
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I was fooled for a minute then I realized that Haki was the one making these weird posts and now I just want him to source his quotes.
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Been having a ton of fun lately running the t-5000. I didn't realize how good this was. It seems like a super intimidating rifle but it's honestly a very cheap rifle that fires M61 for 100k. Just stick a suppressor on it and fill a couple mags with M61. Keep some extras in your secure and go at it. I was comparing rifle stats and it had better stats than a few sniper rifles with mods. It also has maybe the most satisfying THWACK sound of any gun i've fired. It can't be modded, really, other than a suppressor. It's a stock rifle that has great stats. Worth trying if you are at the stage of Tarkvo where you are just trying poo poo out. Edit: Also, it qualifies as a sniper rifle for skill levels. This was one of the main reasons I tried it. I was looking at leveling the sniper rifle skill level and it was one of the listed rifles. Many people use other than sniper rifles, such as marksman rifles or even assault rifles to snipe and the t-5000 is one of the few weapons that actually qualify as a sniper rifle. In addition, it has a small magazine for refilling. Great gun to level skills off of. ShowTime fucked around with this message at 18:17 on May 2, 2021 |
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ShowTime posted:Edit: Also, it qualifies as a sniper rifle for skill levels. This was one of the main reasons I tried it. I was looking at leveling the sniper rifle skill level and it was one of the listed rifles. Many people use other than sniper rifles, such as marksman rifles or even assault rifles to snipe and the t-5000 is one of the few weapons that actually qualify as a sniper rifle. In addition, it has a small magazine for refilling. Great gun to level skills off of. Just to note, after they implemented skill fatigue a while back, you'll probably level sniper faster by just shooting scavs with it, as opposed to the old just-reload-all-the-time method. Also, snipers with magazines can be just standard reloaded (switching mags) for the skill exp, you dont have to topload for the skill ups.
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Yea, it's kind of just a personal use thing. I love how accurate it is. Anyway, my last few scav runs have been so lucky I completely filled up my inventory with incidental loot. I go into the catacombs and find bodies with slicks, meta M4's, etc. So I went from a completely clear inventory to full up of stuff to use. We've reached that point in the wipe where people just run the best gear and almost don't care about looting more of it. Edit: 4/4 of successful Reserve night runs. Last one resulted in my shooting a dude through the face and walking away with an RSASS with REAP-IR. Go do Reserve night runs as a scav, if you aren't already. You are guaranteed to walk away with amazing loot. 5/5: Something is wrong or karma in Tarkov exists. My Reserve scav runs are insane right now. ShowTime fucked around with this message at 20:20 on May 2, 2021 |
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