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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
Loser Araysar
Chief Russia Reporter. Stock Pals CEO. Head of AI.
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i dont watch streamers
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Aazrael
Avatar of War Slayer
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Yea I "stumbled" upon this person when doing "research" on the HUB. At least she does it properly and not with dildos pretending it's real like that Amouranth dude. But I did spot the tell tale slashing scars on legs and arms...
TBT-TheBigToe
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Oldbased
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16 seconds in. Dude with cash out in hand takes more. Always beware of someone with cash in hand visible.
Should explain a bit more. Not only can they add to their pile. They can also dump a odd amount onto you then claim you stole it and how else would they know exactly the amount you stole that you had no idea was slipped into your possession?
There is no reason and nor is it common to walk about with cash in hand exposed unless nefarious reasons is my theory.
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There's money on the counter and when the dude in the black jacket with the girl comes in, after a while he takes some money from the stack after she points it out.
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LiquidDeath
Magnus Deadlift the Fucktiger
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Twitch just tried to serve me 9 fucking ads in a row, starting with a 30 second ad. That is at least 2:30 of ads in a row, and only if that was the only 30 second ad. The people in charge are literally running it into the ground.
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Palum
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My computer watches twitch all the time for free shit, lol at mute tab bypassing their volume protection. Does everyone know if you turn the volume down below a threshold viewing time stops accruing on drops because they assume you're not actually watching?
I've never really watched anything except maybe an event or two I think, but I do leave it on most of the time behind other tabs to waste their bandwidth for drops.
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Palum
what Suineg set it to
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I have no idea what you are asking or saying, but you can mute the stream either by muting the tab or just muting in the stream itself and you still get progress for drops. I just confirmed it
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pretty much this, either way it’s some gay shit to get drops. Twitch the modern day GameStop only faker and gayer.
Xevy
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It used to be, maybe still, if you mute the stream you don't count as a viewer. This meant that their viewer count went down, they didn't get ad revenue, etc. I'm not sure if drops always worked like this or not, but I think you could still get drops because those are just based on a timer upon entering the URL or something. But yeah, if you mute a tab it bypasses all that shit so the streamer still gets credit for a viewer.
Hekotat
FoH nuclear response team
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I haven't watched twitch in years because of that shit. Fuck em.
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Cybsled
Naxxramas 1.0 Raider
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Based on my understanding, streamers have to play a specific number of ads every hour or Twitch goes bonkers with back to back ads.
Some streamers hit the ad button more than they should though, because they get greedy for ad view dollars (although that can backfire for obvious reasons)
Some streamers hit the ad button more than they should though, because they get greedy for ad view dollars (although that can backfire for obvious reasons)
Xevy
Log Wizard
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Streamers are supposed to play 8 minutes of ads an hour. You can turn off pre-roll which means people coming in don't get immediate ads, if you run the pre-roll ads yourself. Every 1 minute of preroll add buys you 21 minutes of non-preroll ads. The other ads will just roll as they want as far as I know, but you can manually throw out a 3 minute ad block to counter those.
So some people with games with long queues or a lot of downtime can manually roll ads and the viewers don't miss much, but some games with nonstop action and little downtime there's not really a good time to do it so you can get a huge ad block during the action which really pisses people off.
So some people with games with long queues or a lot of downtime can manually roll ads and the viewers don't miss much, but some games with nonstop action and little downtime there's not really a good time to do it so you can get a huge ad block during the action which really pisses people off.
LiquidDeath
Magnus Deadlift the Fucktiger
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We've said this for the last 5 years or so on here, but running full screen ads and forcing them randomly, even on streamers with double digit viewers, just shows such a fundamental lack of understanding of their product and their consumer base it is staggering. The fact that they still to this day haven't had a single creative idea, not a single fucking one, about how to deliver ads in a less intrusive way is a damning indictment of their organization from top to bottom.
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Hekotat
FoH nuclear response team
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TBT-TheBigToe
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