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Agreed. Bitwit's satire analysis was priceless.

IMO Stefan is a total fucking idiot. Stupidity is not a respecter of race. Here is a (partial) list of all the lies in the video for your enjoyment!

Lie #1: Need a table. Fact: Any flat surface, including a floor, is OK. Carpet / wooden surface doesn't really matter.
Lie #2: Need thermal paste applicator. Fact: No, you don't need one.
Lie #3: Need Allen key / Allen wrench. Fact: Unless you have specific parts that require them, no, you don't need one.
Lie #4 Calls zip ties tweezers. Fact: Tweezers are not zip ties, and zip ties are not tweezers.
Lie #5: Need tweezers. Fact: Cable ties, Zip ties, or Velcro stripes will be handy for cable management.
Lie #6: Says to use zip ties: Fact: Never used them.
Lie #7: Need Swiss army knife. Fact: Use a Phillips screwdriver
Lie #8: Need Anti-static wrist bracelet. Fact: No, just touch the PSU as you work to ground yourself
Lie #9: Anti-static bracelets don't need to be grounded. Fact: Anti-static bracelets only work if they are actually grounded. "Wireless" Anti Static don't actually work, go figure.
Lie #10: Calls it a "brace." Fact: It's called an I/O Shield
Lie #11: Hammer in the brace. Fact: *Gently* install the I/O Shield
Lie #12: Calls it a Lane. Fact: They are called PCI Express slots.
Lie #13: PCI "Lane" doesn't matter. Fact: Generally the PCI express slot closest to the PSU has the most bandwidth -- but double check your motherboard manual to verify _where_ the x16 slot(s) are located.
Lie #14: Calls the power supply a "Brick." Fact: It's called a PSU or Power Supply Unit.
Lie #15: Calls it "insulation pads." Fact: They are anti-vibration pads.
Lie #16: Align with "insulation pads" ... Fact: The PSU rests on top of anti-vibration pads
Lie #17: ... so power supply doesn't short circuit. Fact: The PSU is *meant* to touch the case at all times.
Lie #18: *Block the PSU fan*. Fact: Do NOT block the PSU's fan. Double check your case's airflow see which direction the PSU's fan should be pointing.
Lie #19. Install CPU after GPU. Fact: Installing the CPU _first_ will make it EASIER rather then later.
Lie #20: Says to install all 4 screws for the CPU cooler but only installs 3!! They are missing the bottom left one!! Fact: Make sure you install ALL FOUR screws of CPU cooler to keep EVEN pressure.

This fucking moron is FULL of excuses:

a) Twitter, and

liked I've said before, wasn't allowed a reshoot. the paste was cleaned up, RAM in correct slot, PSU facing correct direction. *Obviously* this PC works.

b) Twitch

It's not my first computer

It was SO bad that even Linus offered to help!

"I'd actually love to come help out if you want to do a pt2 or follow up to this."

And to top it off The Verge made this excuse:

"on another note. tech youtubers are not journalists"

Gee, yet actual YouTubers know HOW to properly put together a build. This dumb journalist can't even pretend to!

If they had just

1. Admitted they fucked up, an

Good stream https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2...

I'm streaming multiplayer live on twitch right now.

No I'm human.

I never said only. So I'd say no to that. However I take it for granted that cute looking streamers of equal level as ugly ones get more viewers. And that's not because of the game play. And I'm likely correct. Which make me nothing except correct.

You seem to have a very strong opinion and claim a lot for something you haven't proven whatsoever.
Feel free to show me the evidence these young girls aren't getting more viewers and interaction because of sexual interaction. Though that would seem like a complete waste to even try.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2...
Go watch for the PUBG content.

Usually some pretty stupid shit.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1...

I wanted to say exactly that.
Twitch Creative it's called.

https://www.twitch.tv/director...

Ever consider streaming on Twitch? They have an IRL category, where political debate and discourse would be appropriate. Imagine being the candidate funded entirely by Twitch subscriptions and donations.

Okay, now that you've stopped laughing, I'm being half serious -- it's a platform, completely free, where you can interact with voters and spread word of what you'll do for us if elected. I certainly wouldn't use it as my only venue, but you can capture a lot of the younger vote (which includes the 30-something manchildren who watch this guy 8 hours a day, 5 days a week) and actually engage your potential constituents. It would give you a great way to answer peoples' questions about your positions on various topics and immediately gauge community response and possibly adjust your own views to better align with what the people want; that's something that many of us feel is sorely lacking in the current government. It would also make it much easier for your supporters to spread the word, as they could just pass around https://www.twitch.tv/bluefoxl... and give people access to all of your past debates (broadcast on Twitch) and links to whatever resources you choose to place on your profile page.

And yes, I'm being at least semi-serious here. I've seen you campaigning on Slashdot for quite some time and, honestly, Twitch is just a better platform for it IMO.

Ever consider streaming on Twitch? They have an IRL category, where political debate and discourse would be appropriate. Imagine being the candidate funded entirely by Twitch subscriptions and donations.

Okay, now that you've stopped laughing, I'm being half serious -- it's a platform, completely free, where you can interact with voters and spread word of what you'll do for us if elected. I certainly wouldn't use it as my only venue, but you can capture a lot of the younger vote (which includes the 30-something manchildren who watch this guy 8 hours a day, 5 days a week) and actually engage your potential constituents. It would give you a great way to answer peoples' questions about your positions on various topics and immediately gauge community response and possibly adjust your own views to better align with what the people want; that's something that many of us feel is sorely lacking in the current government. It would also make it much easier for your supporters to spread the word, as they could just pass around https://www.twitch.tv/bluefoxl... and give people access to all of your past debates (broadcast on Twitch) and links to whatever resources you choose to place on your profile page.

And yes, I'm being at least semi-serious here. I've seen you campaigning on Slashdot for quite some time and, honestly, Twitch is just a better platform for it IMO.

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There's a Stream for that too!

https://www.twitch.tv/electrik...

https://www.twitch.tv/director...

There's a Stream for that too!

https://www.twitch.tv/electrik...

https://www.twitch.tv/director...

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2...

https://tox.chat/
Seem like a good option.

https://wiki.mumble.info/wiki/...
Likely safe from "we know better than you" trash-people.

https://wire.com/en/
Maybe?

https://about.riot.im/
Maybe?

http://www.teamspeak.com/en/te...
Guess running your own server removes the issues.

https://ring.cx/
Seem like it could work.

https://www.evolvehq.com/welco...
That's the stuff which came with AMD drivers before? Likely not safe for your freedoms.

https://app.twitch.tv/
Curse was direct competitor to Discord before. But Twitch .. Anything owned by a company like that I guess want to act like the anti-white globalists and their followers in idiocy want so .. likely not a good option? Unless one already use it and they haven't fucked around yet.

I bet twitch is one? lol

https://www.twitch.tv/depravo

https://www.twitch.tv/libratus...

It's in the damn article if you read it.

Sure there are some kids like that, but the channels with many views have views for a reason. They're pros that play the game(s) or organized tournaments. My favorite streamer Vibe has made over $32k in tournaments before becoming a full-time streamer.

Concurrency (plus parallelism to boot) requires either the use of GC (you just don't know in advance when things aren't used by anyone anymore), or the use of atomic reference counting in too many places (slow!), or very complicated custom schemes (some kind of ownership?) that avoid the use of either but then permeate your code with something that you'd like to avoid. And it's not even clear that GC, when well implemented and combined with something that prunes the object graph (mostly structs-as-values and escape analysis at this point in time), has such performance repercussions that you'd have to reject it anyway. If anything, it's at least largely coherent in time and space, which is good for memory hierarchies and multi-core architectures. Refcounting everywhere isn't. We have yet to see how far Go implementers can take the performance, but the progress in the recent minor versions of Go has been very promising for the server domain at least. They're not trying to cater for everyone's needs anyway, so if you're not writing servers, maybe C++ is the right tool for you? Take note of your own footnote here.

As someone who ran a free web/shell hosting organisation (several co-located servers, switches, serial console multiplexers, PDUs, etc.) for nearly 18 years, I'm not surprised. What I did was no where near the size or capacity of TPB, nor did I do what they do (read: I made no money, had a very strict no-ad/no-porn/no-anything-that-makes-money TOS, and ran a generally tight ship) -- point being, our stuff was fairly "niche" and as such had a very passionate and dedicated set of users and community members -- yet received maybe US$250 total spanning those ~18 years. Out-of-pocket costs when I shut things down was ~$750/month (not a typo). I did it because it was an enjoyable hobby and I loved the happiness it brought others.

What surprises me is the cash flow I see happening online these days: all the donations to Kickstarters, Twitch, streamers etc.. These make a person think people have tons of money to give away. And I suppose in some respects that's true (can't deny the evidence), but the difference might be (I'm speculating) that TPB runs a "service" that is VERY grey-market, and have the exact concern you do (re: "afraid to get caught donating"); Kickstarters tend to make promises to those who donate ("you'll get a copy of our game!" etc.), and Twitch tends to cater to "instant gratification syndrome" (you'll see your name pop up on their stream, a message read, or something "personalised" to you said/done by the streamer). I have no explanation for people who donate thousands of dollars; I've no clue where they get that kind of money.

Maybe another part of it is that people consider TPB replaceable -- I often hear people saying things like "if ThingX shuts down, surely someone will build ReplacementY to take its place, so just how important is ThingX?". Folks saying this never have any intricate knowledge of what ThingX involves/how it's designed/built/how it works. It's not until ThingX is gone that they realise how useful it was.

But the general Internet as a whole doesn't tend to have money to give away. Most people I know right now (in the United States) struggle just to make ends meet.

I hope you know about Twitch TV's Bob Ross channel. They've been streaming a marathon of his shows the past few days.

http://www.twitch.tv/bobross

They've been getting 50-60,000 viewers almost round the clock. The comments have been pretty funny, too.

You know, Twitch has IRC interface to the chat.

I really don't think hardcore PvE and hardcore PvP can coexist because the fundamental gameplay mechanics that make PvE interesting do not exist in PvP,

Guild Wars 1 had some skills that split to PvE and PvP versions for balancing reasons. The PvP stuff takes in effect in PvP matches.

Too bad Arenanet/NCSoft has mostly abandoned Guild Wars 1 and only a few play it nowadays.

It was a great game from the game mechanics perspective. Many like to praise Guild Wars 2 for doing away with the Holy Trinity, but the fact was Guild Wars 1 wasn't really based on the Holy Trinity from the start. In both PvE and PvP there were far more possible roles than Tank, Healer, DPS. There are shutdown builds, PvE minion masters, PvE runner, PvP split, PvP flag runner, frontline, linebacking, later on there was stuff like PvE spirit spammers, shadowform assasins and so on.

For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
This is a Guild vs Guild game where two split elementalists split off from their main team to go against a monk (healer) who is supposed to help defend the base (and who should have called for reinforcements on seeing more than one split ele).

Then there are spike team builds where you need a bit more timing and coordination: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Then here's a guy playing a shutdown mesmer: http://www.twitch.tv/koodikoir...

And not least for PvE you can have Heroes - which are a bit like semi-autonomous player controlled NPCs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
(there used to be PvP where you had heroes, but Anet removed that PvP format, shame really).

Problem was/is Guild Wars 1 was not so great from the community and social perspective (you can't send messages to people who are offline, no auction). And you can't queue up for PvP matches while doing PvE or other stuff.

Late-2012 Mac Mini
2.5GHz dual-core Intel Core i5
OWC 500Mb SSD drive
16 Gb memory (upgrade from OWC)
Intel HD Graphics 4000
Toshiba 32" TV as the monitor
El Gato HD game capture for streaming XBOX360 on Twitch.TV ( Johnny4848 )

No problems to date. Of course, use Magic Trackpad and Apple wireless keyboard with it.

I live stream 100% of my commercial/indie game development (coding), and yes I'm a professional/commercial developer. Source code is rarely precious once it's out in the world.

Executing on your ideas faster and more efficient then your competition is where the money is.

http://www.twitch.tv/whilke | http://www.livecoding.tv/whilk... (dual stream, pick your favorite service) if you are curious.

As someone who live streams development 6+ hours a day, 7 days a week, you get more benefit then just talking out loud to something that can not respond. Rubberducking is great, but when the duck can talk back it enhances the process. Sure, the responses might not be correct or on point but it will force you to rethink how you are describing your problem. As to watching live streaming. Why do you assume you can do just one at a time, watch or do? I stream to about 100 people nightly, and many of those people are actually working on their own project(s) with me on in the background as a support/comfort/buddy layer. It's tremendous motivation to keep working away, and not just turn on netflix. It probably doesn't hurt that I'm constantly talking on my stream about what is going on, or how I'm helping a viewer with a development issue. Check it out sometime, if you think you have enough time on your hands, http://www.twitch.tv/whilke | http://www.livecoding.tv/whilk... ( I dual stream, pick your favorite service).

http://www.twitch.tv/directory/game/Programming

Roy Eltham, who used to work at Valve and is now fixing up H1Z1, sometimes streams when he's working on shaders. I've never coded shaders, so I found it educational, if a bit dry.

http://www.twitch.tv/royeltham

From the summary: "the world's largest video game livestreaming website".

There's also a website with more information about twitch.tv: http://twitch.tv/

Actually, Twitch a few months ago added a new channel called: Game Programming. It's also had a General Programming channel for longer than that. As long as you are streaming your programming to one of those channels you are completely within the rules of twitch. In fact, several streams have gotten partnered from streaming game development.

I stream all of my indie studio game development live to twitch in front of 100-200 people 8 hours a day, and there are many other game development streams.

If you want to see how streaming development is properly and entertainingly done: http://www.twitch.tv/whilke

Interesting enough, I develop indie games for my studio 100% live on the internet. 8 hours a day in front of 100-200 people on average. I also make sure my encoding settings are able to work a screen full of text at 1080p.

Your question as to why watch instead of do? I ask, why not both? I have a lot of people who come hang out on my stream while they are developing their own projects. Hearing me constantly talking on my stream about my development or helping others fix their bugs keeps them motivated and on task. Also, my stream community is very active in chat with all levels of game/general/web developers. We are constantly helping people solve problems, or bounce ideas off of.

If you want to see how it's properly done sometime: http://www.twitch.tv/whilke

You're 100% correct about hackathons etc. However, they are not completely useless. You should consider them a fast prototyping session. If any good ideas come from it, you can take it and run with it properly.

However, I actually do develop indie games live on the internet in front of 100-200 people 8 hours a day and they are very entertained. It takes more then being able to code to do this; you must also be very entertaining.

I don't know about how one guy got the internet to watch people code, considering several of us have been doing this via twitch for some time now. If you want to see how it's correctly done, and possible join a great interactive development community:

http://www.twitch.tv/whilke

As for lag, there's no 'lag' between gamer and chat. The streamer can and will put on stream delays to prevent cheaters from attempting to use up to date information against them in-game (Stream cheating does happen alas). There is always a little bit of lag, but generally speaking it doesn't happen notably most of the time.

I just checked this by trying to stream something. You're wrong, there's an enforced 30-60 second delay between when you do something and when your viewers see it happen, and it's impossible to reduce this without becoming a Twitch partner. It's more than enough to make meaningful chat with viewers impossible.

I do want IRC integration with twitch chat, but oh well...

This already exists? Granted I haven't tried it recently.

As anyone who's watched the most famous recent use of Twitch will realize, this should result in epic loltrolling and griefing of the development process.

That or else the development process will be sufficiently insulated from the rabble that this announcement boils down to just marketing.

Even better, have the rover controlled by twitch and watch it spaz out in random directions. To see how this might work, see: Twitch plays pokemon.

Who are the one keep electing those assholes into Washington D.C. ?

We, the people.

You're right, of course, but on the other hand any process that involves collective decision-making by 130 million people is bound to act more like a one-move-per-year version of Twitch Plays Pokemon than any kind of particularly rational decision-making.

Add to that the amount of money and effort that is regularly channeled towards manipulating the voting public towards the ends desired by those with resources to do so, and it's impressive that the system works even as well as it does.

But I wouldn't blame the system's deficiencies on individual voters -- the fact is that any individual or like-minded community of voters could in fact do a better job for their particular needs, but at the national level, at least, coherent communities of voters tend to largely cancel each other out, leading to unpredictable results. Which I suppose leads us to the argument that more power should be delegated to lower levels of government rather than the Federal level...

I felt the same way until my son showed me a new world.

Have a look at Twitch TV for a start. There they have live streaming of gaming "events", with commentators, advertisers, sponsors, recaps, replays... It is truly no different than professional sports or these televised poker competitions.

I find it a sad little world, watching other people playing a video game(especially such lame ones), but it does exist and is increasingly popular. Truth be told though, I don't feel very much different about professional sports. Sitting and watching other people play a game is of no interest to me, unless I have some attachment to the game like my own son playing. I'd rather read obfuscated javascript than watch NFL football.

But millions of people love watching NFL football and a rapidly growing number like watching "professional" video gaming.

Um...what's the "unlikely place"?

The Internet.

Pinball was killed by video arcade games. Video arcade games were killed by home consoles and home computers (which included things like video pinball). Home consoles and computers moved to Internet-based distribution or multi-player systems. Now TV is becaming Internet-based, too, and livestreaming games is taking off like a rocket. Now people have begun livestreaming pinball, and it's popularity increases as new people are exposed to the games and they see how people really play them.

Pinball died because of the computer made it obsolete. Now it lives because the computer lets people see why it's not obsolete.

http://www.twitch.tv/inxile_entertainment

Torment closing party

I began playing this game about a week ago.

I am a huge hater of games like APB that give real money advantages to other players.

This game does have weapon upgrades and xp boosts for real money.
You do NOT have to buy these to be competitive.

Every race has different specialties, Terran Republic for instance has a stock pistol that is one of the best in the game. Everyone gets one of these from day one who chooses this race.

Vanu has one of the better submachine guns and definitely the best plane,(scythe) stock, no money spent.

New Conglomerate has one of the best noob sniper rifles. Sure, it's range and damage is not as good as the purchasable one, however it's rate of fire is better and it can one shot unsuspecting light infantry.

With all that said, I DID spend 50 bucks on station cash (yesterday during the special 3x station cash bonus) and it was nice to get some new guns. I still find myself swapping to non purchasable guns for many situations, however, so their utility should not be dogged because they are not purchased weapons.

All weapons in the game are sidegrades, not upgrades.

I would highly recommend you try it out. It's free. What have you got to lose?

Also, get into an organized outfit. It's really important to have an organized outfit or you will be kind of floating in limbo and not really know what to do.

I am currently running with the Devil Dogs, http://www.planetside-devildogs.com/ which is one of the largest operations in the game, and I love it.

There are other large operations as well for each faction, Vanu and TR, and the beautiful thing is, that at the end of the day, the large ops all still have respect for eachother and still work together to have huge battles over the continents.

If you are interested in a live stream, check out the twitch live streams and you can see for yourself how the game plays from the friday night ops:

http://www.twitch.tv/planetside2/

Honestly, those that feel this game is currently milking people like LoL by being pay to win are certainly mistaken.

If you simply put 20 bucks in you can get your class outfitted with every weapon you'd want for multiple play styles, or you could just farm the certs (basically xp) for a week or so and have them as well. It is really free, I just CHOSE to put money in, not because I was impatient, but because it's really a good game and I felt 50 bucks was better money spent than if I bought another CoD clone.

As for the folks talking about aimbotters etc, they are horribly mistaken.

I can pop a guy in the head from 130 yards currently as they are running with my sniper rifle. It takes practice, but it can be done. There are some speed hackers out there and some other folks doing whacky things, however it is such a low rate it has no bearing on the game. If you are in an organized outfit, you just send 40 guys at the hackers spawn and he's dead. He cannot get back and his little cheese game is ruined in a few minutes.

So yes, this game is the real deal. I am not affiliated in any way with Sony, and you can also tell by my post history and my SD number that I'm not some new guy just making shit up. So yeah, download it and try it, if you like it come on and hang out. IF you roll NC on Connery give a shout out to the devil dogs, and if you roll TR or Vanu, feel free to die by my hand you evil emperial or alien scum! :-)

TV is, strangely, one of those things that's begging to be reinvented in a way that integrates all of the great potential of internet + TV + consoles + disc players + multi-channel / caching devices, etc. Typically we'd look to Apple to show everyone how a problem like this really should be solved, but I think we all know how well that's gone. Speaking for myself, I will continue to simply plug in my laptop to my flatscreen's HDMI port and not bother with silly things like cable or satellite subscriptions. Until you can give me a way, for example, to watch HBO (and not Lifetime, or MSNBC, or any of the other 500 channels I'd never touch with a 31.5-foot pole) without paying hundreds of dollars a month for the Super Platinum Ultra cable package, the value just isn't there. A handful of networked (and some cable) shows are already doing this on Hulu, but the push for Hulu Plus subscriptions (and accompanying limitations on free Hulu) is really starting to get annoying.

In the long run, I think Google's approach is the one that time will show to be the winner. They're constantly looking for ways to extend search for better monetization (and after all the hammer thinks everything is a nail), but I think that's going to be the sustainable market path that can eventually take us to a day when I can--for example--pay a $10 subscription fee to watch real-time releases of Game of Thrones in the same way I can pay a modest fee for privileged access to my favorite Twitch channels. When the monetization comes full circle, and starts feeding back into investment and production of shows, it will produce a much tighter feedback loop and much better programming, much the same way cable did when it originally had its heyday so many years ago.

You wouldn't be the first, this guy already games with no hands:

http://www.twitch.tv/aieron/videos

Brief summary: muscular dystrophy, no useful movement apart from neck and face, so he controls the mouse with his cheek and earlobe, and the keyboard with a pen in his mouth. He plays stuff like guildwars 2, LoL, etc, and he's way better at them than I am.

Notes on the Video:

Featured:
- Gears of War footage
- Ouya Menu Screen contains (I guess it's just filler but to stick it in consumer promotional material is misleading):
* Samurai Vengeance II
* Shadowgun
* Dead Trigger
* Madden NFL 2012
* Minecraft (They were busted lying about this, in reference to their statement "Minecraft is going to be on it")
* TripleTown
* Racing Live
* Canabalt

Other Features:
- Julie Uhrman, OUYA Founder
- Testimonial: Brian Fargo, Founder inXile
- Statement: Alex Schwartz, Chief Scientist, Owlchemy Labs
* AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! (Force = Mass x Acceleration) footage
- Statement: Yves Behar, Product Designer (fuseproject)
- Canabalt (Made by Kittehface Software)
- http://www.twitch.tv/ ouya.tv domain created at Jun 20 2012 and uses dreamhost.com who-is protection.