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OL catgirl vtuber, deal w/ it. Catch me at https://www.twitch.tv/sherevt PFP & Banner art by @megateru116.bsky.social (skeb) Customizable Chibi Model by @0x4682b4.com With modifications, based on design by @pf10ri (skeb)

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Zach Bussey 🍁@zachbussey.tos.gg · 3d ago

Twitch's Former Chief Product Officer says the Discovery and Ads teams were once at war over Feed impressions (solved), and that Twitch streams with fewer than 1000 viewers are dead weight (since entertainment economics runs on ad rates). Very interesting historical insight!

The comparison to his Twitch years is the sharpest part. At Twitch, a stream under a thousand viewers was dead weight, because entertainment economics run on CPMs — ad rates per thousand viewers. On Whatnot, a seller with 50 people in a stream is like a shoe-store owner with 50 people in the shop: "you'd literally never shut down the store." He felt the cultural difference in his second week, when a seller complained on camera that the seven-second "sudden death" auction timer was too slow and wanted three seconds. Two engineers in the office heard it, changed a config in real time, and told the seller to refresh the app. "I'm with my people," he remembers thinking.His favorite example comes from Twitch: the discovery team and the ads team were perpetually at war over feed impressions. The fix was structural. He put the same PM accountable for both organic and paid impressions, with a single metric — GMV (gross merchandise value) generated from the feed — and months of politics disappeared.
Shere@shere.officecat.online · 2d ago

This obviously includes Cyberpunk 2077 and it's a scant $17 or so on its own. It's not a game that really needs me to sell it at this point, but if you haven't played it yet you really should. I'm glad I had that game this past month, it's yet another time a game has helped me process something.

Steam@steampowered.com · 2d ago

Are you a fan of rain-drenched neon nights, cybernetic body parts, and dystopian mega-cities? If yes, Steam Cyberpunk Fest might be for you! Solve murders, build futuristic cities, go on co-op spy adventures and more - now until August 10. store.steampowered.com/category/cyb...

Zach Bussey 🍁@zachbussey.tos.gg · 5d ago

Twitch and Amazon are apparently planning to use streams to train Generative AI. Multiple sources tell me it will be announced in the coming months, despite some internal friction against it. Creators may be able to opt out of some training data.

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Shere@shere.officecat.online · 4w ago

what you’re losing in physical games isn’t the disc, it’s the leverage we are extremely lucky steam is what it is, or at least has been thus far. every major console maker has already wiped out access to whole digital libraries, with basically zero appreciable pushback.

Shere@shere.officecat.online · last mo.

when I have problems getting a game to run for the first time I take the troubleshooting as sunk cost like if I'm invested in 30 minutes of bullshit with drivers or verifying files then yeah I'm for sure playing this shit now, it better be worth it

Shere@shere.officecat.online · last mo.

Soon they won't sell you the actual console either, just a low power streaming device that graciously lets you "borrow" the computer power these companies have begun hoarding. It's all just a matter of gradual progression - any value left in you *will* be extracted. Ownership is a nuisance to them.

Shere@shere.officecat.online · last mo.

watching Coqui's stream and they're talking about Douglas Adams & Hitchhiker's Guide, sent me down some memories. I forgot Musk sent up a copy of the book in his stupid space car, truly one of the tragedies of linear time is that we'll never get to read what Adams would write about that moron.

Shere@shere.officecat.online · last mo.

I have a lot of thoughts about what greed does to exploit and use up creatives and their innate desire to create. Companies are never your friend but the C-suite is definitely only out for themselves. The sale of Bungie was for the benefit of a handful, it was not in service to making fun games.

VGC@videogameschronicle.com · last mo.

The true scope of PlayStation’s Bungie layoffs has been revealed, after official records indicated nearly 300 jobs have been cut. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/bungie-...

Triple-Q@triple-q.bsky.social · last mo.

If you pay $80 USD for a game that doesn't even have a disc in the box with inaccessible DLC-locked shops and missions and generic un-emergent gameplay that hasn't evolved in any meaningful way since 2008 made by a union-busting super employee crunchin' company then you deserve to be swindled tbh

Wario64@wario64.bsky.social · last mo.

Grand Theft Auto VI is priced at $79.99 / Ultimate Edition $99.99. -Physical version includes a download code inside the box. Preloads begin Nov 12 -Preorders begin at midnight local time PR: www.businesswire.com/news/home/20... Ultimate and preorder bonus info: www.rockstargames.com/VI