Thank you for your *continued* interest in the authorblues brand and authorblues-branded content. For my birthday this year,
@DerekMK
has updated the style guide to better explain acceptable use of the authorblues brand. Your observance of these simple rules are appreciated.
The sort of bots this kills: cute puppies every femtosecond, Benedictine quote of the day, notify me when citizen kane 2 releases
The sorts of bots this does not kill (they use Puppeteer, Playwright, Selenium, etc, not the API): bitcoin spam, fake camgirl sites, phishing DMs
This isn't a meme, it's real and I want this. The games industry these days is toxic. Many of the students I see have similar stories about "I learned how to code so I could grow up to make games, but I don't want to work in that industry now" and that's heartbreaking.
@KingsCountyGOP
@NYCMayor
With the pandemic going on, I'm sure it's hard out there for stage actors right now in NYC. Glad at least some of them can find work.
@jasoncitron
@packyM
@mariogabriele
@discord
Can you please just Ctrl+Z the whole goddamn platform *please*? I swear to god, I'm just trying to chat with people. I'm gonna be mad if I have to go back to IRC just to escape this nonsense.
They're not sorry for the fact that the theme of the game is fighting against BLM. They are sorry that their iconography was close enough that people caught on. They promise to change the iconography, not the theme. The devil is in the details here.
@BadMedicalTakes
I had a teacher in high school that we were told died suddenly because of a brain aneurysm, but maybe she got the COVID vaccine. This was 20 years ago. A lot of conflicting evidence. I only trust email forwards.
"This is the lockpickinglawyer, and what I have for you today is a 0 Star speedrun of Super Mario 64. Inside of this lock is a zinc core with five pins, which..."
r/speedrun rules during GDQ. Imagine a bunch of people who couldn't name a single piece of streaming software explain how GDQ could lower setup times by simply having 3x as many volunteers do 5x as much work, only for coolmatty to have to politely tell them to shut the fuck up
I guess while I'm out here losing y'all: I never bring it up because it's frankly never felt like anybody's business, but if talking about it makes other people feel empowered to accept who they are, then it's worth it.
I'm bi. ❤️💜💙
#BiVisibilityDay
Finally somebody is willing to say it. Going fast in a video game is disgusting and totally misses the point. People like this deserve jail, or worse. It's like sprinting full speed through the Louvre and saying "I just speed runned this museum trip"
Maybe instead of being worried about getting games into GDQ, you should be worried about how you're getting into the gates of heaven. Next time you're thinking about saving frames, maybe think about saving your soul.
Wil Wheaton being banned from Mastodon and deleting his Twitter because "people got the wrong idea about me" seems like karmic retribution for creating a blocklist of 10s of thousands of random accounts and then asking everyone to subscribe to it to attempt to divide the internet
@Soulspazm
@Oatsngoats
@NintendoAmerica
Imagine just admitting to fraudulently claiming audio. Like in a public tweet. And then tone policing people frustrated with you disputing fraudulent claims?
Lucky for you
@TeamYouTube
doesn't care about what you're doing.
Early SDA speedrunning: "Hide strats from other speedrunners so they can't steal your world records"
Modern speedrunning: "Hide strats from game developers and hope they don't patch the glitches to invalidate your world records"
Oops, I accidentally lost double digits of followers on Twitter because I retweeted something about the abhorrent injustice that was committed today regarding Breonna Taylor's murderers.
Let me put a finer point on it:
BLACK LIVES MATTER
The gaming community needs more people who are clearly skilled at video games to advocate for accessibility and difficulty settings, because Gamers think the only reason somebody would want these features is because bad at game, and their opinions therefore should be disregarded.
Great question, and one that I think is really interesting to break down. I don't believe speedrunners are inherently any more "cringe" than anybody else, based on having spent time around them at events, but GDQ does seem to bring some of those types of moments out. But why?
There is no comedy here. No jokes punching-down at the expense of people who were wrong. Just wear your masks. Stay home if you can. Other countries have been able to return to something closer to normal because they took this seriously from the start.
“I think I made a mistake. I thought this was a hoax, but it's not."
Those were the final words of a 30-year-old patient who died at Methodist Hospital in San Antonio, TX, this week after attending a "COVID party," according to the chief medical officer.
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The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
- 35 characters, lame
- a little judgy tbh, leave the dog alone
- overused boring pangram
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
- 29 characters, wow!
- holy shit, that's metal as fuck
- summons god, not to praise him but to kill him
You know they say that DOOM can run on anything, but you look at DOS and you look at SNES and you can see that statement is not true. See, normally if you play DOOM, you get 35 frames per second. But the SNES is a genetic freak and not normal! So you got a 11.988 fps AT BEST duri
Ignorance is not an excuse for hate. There's more to biology than you learned in your 9th grade biology class, just like there's more to history and math and every other field, but y'all seem to understand those just fine.
Trans rights are human rights. Be good to other people.
There is so much you can learn about a person based solely on their IQ. Like, if I ask you about your IQ, and you tell me a number, you instantly learn "holy shit, this person believes that IQ is a real thing," which can put a lot of things into perspective.
People talk about ways to support streamers, (following, RTs, etc) but one that never seems to come up is chatting with other chatters. Nothing takes the pressure off, especially in a smaller stream, quite like a chat that takes care of itself. Chatting with other viewers rules!
We played a round of Mario Party where the winner was whoever gets 3rd place (Bronze Battle) and lemme tell you, you're not ready for how hard this is. This is not normal. This is for a different category of gamers. Some of y'all still have your milk teeth, and you will die.
It's 2021. You can choose to watch Twitch streamers who share your values. You no longer have to choose between quality of stream and quality of opinions. We can leave toxic people behind.
Next time you think about tweeting something mean about JK Rowling, stop and consider: she already gets so much hate. You need to come up with something especially scathing or poignant to set yourself apart. We should be doing so much more.
Watching the whole internet come together to tell speedrunners that they don't remember what it's like to play retro games on original hardware has been some of the best entertainment I can remember since that whole bean dad episode.
HEY
@NINTENDOAMERICA
FZERO 99 IS VERY FUN I JUST HAD THIS IDEA ABOUT DOING THE SAME THING BUT WITH MARIO AND YOU COULD PLAY AGAINST OTHER PEOPLE AND THE SLOWEST PEOPLE GET KNOCKED OUT UNTIL THERE'S ONLY ONE LEFT THAT WOULD BE A LOT OF FUN GIMME A CALL WE CAN TALK ABOUT IT SOMETIM
I can't believe this discussion is circulating again, but I am a fervent advocate for speedrunning history and I will be the first person to tell you to get bad actors off of your leaderboard. Wipe them from existence. Deplatform and fully unperson them. 1/
@tessa_marki
Good thing you mentioned which shooting this is related to, because it would otherwise be hard to figure out which of the several most recent ones you're referring to.
Talking shit about ppl who don't have pronouns on twitter or at events or whatever is absolutely not the take. It doesn't make you an ally to attack people who are not out publicly, or for whom posting that information might bring unwanted attention, or who are still questioning.
I've avoided commenting on this all day because I was certain they would delete this. Since they haven't:
Trans women are women. You don't need to invent a word for trans women + women. We have a word for it already; the word is "women"
A lot of you need to hear this and know this:
You deserve the same kindness and compassion you show to other people. You will have failures along the way, as everybody does. It doesn't mean you are a failure. Just keep doing your best.
Speedrunners to indie devs: "I loved what you made so much that I decided to play it non-stop and bring more attention to your cool game!"
Indie devs to speedrunners: "I loved watching your free QA streams so much that I patched everything useful out."
Rewatching a bit of the AGDQ 2021 Mario 35 run, and it's such an exciting game. How did they take that game from us?
I genuinely cannot believe how hard Nintendo dropped the ball by discontinuing that game.
@Kotaku
The replies to this don't pass the vibe check.
Conservatives are so soft. "Oh no, don't bring up that stuff. It doesn't matter that we're trying to take away women's rights. Look at our new video game instead." lol, comma, lmao
In Super Mario 64, when Mario says "so long gay Bowser", he is affirming and supporting his friend on his journey.
In Luigi's Mansion, when Luigi says "trans rights", he means trans rights are human rights.
I finally added chat rules to my stream. Rule
#1
is don't get banned. This makes it impossible to be unfairly banned. If you get banned, you broke the rules.
The people who make RTA speedrunning possible (glitch hunters, strat hunters, TASers, practice tool developers, routers) should be as well-known as the grindmonkey WR holders, if not more so.
I've been posting in replies, but here's something public: the situation with Dode is reprehensible. His defenders point out that he has never expressed explicitly transphobic or homophobic views, and that's perhaps true (publicly), but his inaction instigated his fanbase (1/)
I don't want these ads on my content because I'm pro-union. I just wish, as a streamer, we had some sort of like idk collective bargaining power to leverage control over Twitch. Is there a name for this idea?
Amazon is now running several anti-union ads on Twitch to combat the organizing efforts by their workers in Alabama. pretty shameful stuff from both Amazon and Twitch!
Uhh, whoever is running the White House's social media is going through their anime arc right now and it fucking rules.
I have no criticisms. Get them.
A lot of great commentators in the speedrunning community, but
@spikevegeta
is in a league of his own. He effortlessly switches between goofin around w friends, to explaining obscure mechanics, and today he's running play-by-play *and* color commentary for a card game. Unmatched!
@WallStreetSilv
You air drop a billionaire into a 3rd world country with $5 in his pocket and within a few years he will be a millionaire. There are traits, skills, and characteristics financially super successful people have to maximize what they have. They know how to play any hand dealt
CW: suicide
Something didn't sit right with me yesterday, and I'd like to address it.
Sometimes people you don't like will have suicidal ideations, and sometimes they will speak about them. In these moments, attempting to "call their bluff" is the wrong answer 100% of the time.
Some guy came into my chat tonight, offered me $40 to reset my run, I said no, he donated $40, got mad that I didn't reset, and opened a dispute on PayPal. Hope you had a good one! See ya tomorrow.
This is, forever, the most tedious non-sequitur that society is somehow at its best when tolerance and intolerance sit together at the table. If you think my friends shouldn't exist, I don't want to hang, and I don't want to hang with people who are cool with that.
You cannot debate whether what is happening today is an act of TERRORISM by a sitting president and his followers. The only detail open to debate is whether or not this is TERRORISM that supports your personal ideology. That's the part you will have to reckon with long-term.
Not spicy in my circles, but broadly:
Bad games are good games. Boring games are bad games. YouTubers trying to make comedy purporting to create reviews have consistently done neither and have turned a generation of gamers off of interesting-yet-unusual games.
The new coolguy Gamer take is that GDQ banning HL/JKR is hypocritical because a Saudi wealth fund owns 8.26% stock in Nintendo and Mario games are allowed. Check the comments under almost any tweet GDQ has made in the past few weeks for an immediate migraine.
If you take issue with any of these points, you'll be happier unfollowing me. People have pointed out to me that my twitter and twitch presence has become increasingly "political".
I know. That's not an accident. (7/end)