It does look great! I didn't see him hang a lampshade on the camera, though.

@possumsquat93 http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LampshadeHanging

Also, don't click the blue links, you'll lose hours.

Oh, it's code! I'm learning a whole new language for this discord. So when "lampshading," he's just being upfront about the camera to ward off any naysayers?

And thanks, I'll cross those blue-link bridges when I get to 'em. 😁

I slightly misused the trope, but yeah, kind of.

He made a point of pointing out the new camera (And I still want to know! I'm in the market for a new camera, and I like the quality of that one!)

And that's what I was referring to when I said he hung a lampshade on it.

Okay, gotcha. Wish I could help you out with the camera info. Hopefully you'll find an answer soon!

I hope Phil succeeds. YouTube needs to know that there will be consequences for their shitty behavior

Anyone been keeping up with the Baked Alaska drama?

Did he really...?

I heard he and Andy went at it, but I doubt Baked put the effort to actually dox Andy and his family

Wouldn't put it past some autist from /pol/ though

Baked and Andy have done shit IRL.

And I've always suspected Andy was a psudeonym

I've been vaguely following it.

He actually did it live on the Kumite how I hear it.
There are mixed accounts, but the general consensus is that he either did during a break, or tried to, or something along those lines? Like contacting hackers and stuff saying he'd pay money?

looks like that portion didn't render yet

From the looks of it, he's trying to set up a doxing discord, trying some kraut level bullshittery

at least that's what Metokur's pulled

He's going full Kraut.

Never go full Kraut.

Well, this was after a stream in which he started getting embarassed about his chat with a woman friend nearby, who got progressively more drunk and more annoying.

His stream was basically completely derailed by him removing wrenches and shit

Andy and the Kumite guys were talking about how it started looking like he's just running a charade, and calling him out on stuff.

If he turned around and actually doxed Andy because he criticized him....

The funny thing is, out of all of them, Andy was the one trying to help him out the most.

Which is why this is so weird and doesn't make any sense to me.

I have no idea how the fuck to explain the BA situation to people

I tried telling an IRL friend about it today and I didn't know where to start

it's such a shitshow and it's moving so quickly

I know lol.

and I don't want to sit through a billion hours of streams to figure this shit out

From what I could gather:
BA moved to LA.
His agent suggested doing every day streams, so naturally the quality of his content goes down and gets diluted.
After awhile he starts banning people for saying 'kill n****' and 'kill k****' and stuff like that.
Metikur comes onto his show and starts criticizing him for his behavior.
BA spergs out.

Then they talk about it on Andy's show, some arguing, some more sperging out on BA's part, the whole time Tonka and Andy are genuinely trying to help him and give him advice.

But you can tell by the end of the stream he's just not getting it and they're not getting through to him.

Having lived around drug addicts and former drug addicts, BA is showing quite a few signs of being on something.

This is just the bare bones version, though, leaving out some other side stuff such as this new 'Erin' person appearing on his streams and some more people from LA that have been showing up.

One of the bigger 'side issues' is Metikur revealing that one of the LA people's father released a book about autism? There was something else about defending pedophilia, but I'm not sure if that was LA dude himself or the guy's father.

Of which BA accused Metikur of 'doxxing' LA and his father, btw.

Even though criminal records are public, as is *the guy's book that he himself is selling on Amazon.*

yeah, and I guess some shit happened on kumite today too

a bunch of allegations came out,

Yeah, that's where BA came back and doxxed Andy and his family.

baked wants to fight Tonka, etc

BA's sub numbers have been tanking hard, on both of his channels.

I'll put up social blades in SP.

I've been following the shitshow since saturday when he broke down

its too early for youtube drama, i keep reading "BA" and thinking of Mr.T in the A-team

I'm nowhere near awake or clever enough to think of a subtle way of saying 'I remember that show!'

His shit was a catastrophe

I pity those fools

if they are the a team, does that mean we are the Beany team?

https://twitter.com/austin_walker/status/986250379464708097

@Timcast

tesla factory dangerous cause elon doesnt like yellow

i mean i dont like yellow eighter, but safety first man

double you tee eff

I'd have to read that full article because I'm interested to see if the things that are normally yellow are just not there at all, or are a different color.

there are apparently safety signs missing

Not there at all is a little unexcusable. A different color is a little more forgiving.

because too many signs does not look good or something

Well, you know, keep in mind chainsaws need a reminder to not use your junk to stop the blade. So, let's see what signs. Also common, he works in tech, has he looked in a computer? Everything is labelled. Fucking label your shit.

Come on"

Damn phone

Would not surprise me

Musk is still pushing the hyperloop

Delusional tier shit

you're surprised that a man who sells 500 dollar flamethrowers has safety issues?

@Ghostler let me guess, you watched BS from Thunderfoot?

Starbucks announced that they're going to be shutting down stores for 'Bias Training'.

lol

sure whatever

why not

Only reason is thundervoot

thundermoot

https://www.reddit.com/r/POLITIC/comments/8d0r7w/piece_of_youtube_algorithm_leaked/

That should be on <#398973785426100234>

@Ghostler many of thundermoot's claims about the 'stupidity' of hyperloop have been debunked but he's too arrogant to even acknowledge it or debate the person who debunked him, the only thing I'll give him is that he doesn't think it can be made financially viable but probably plenty people thought all complicated forms of transport were not financially viable

There's plenty of quotes from history by very well learned people that turned out to be utterly absurd.

1876: "This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication." — William Orton, President of Western Union.

1889: “Fooling around with alternating current (AC) is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it, ever.” — Thomas Edison

1903: “The horse is here to stay but the automobile is only a novelty – a fad.” — President of the Michigan Savings Bank advising Henry Ford’s lawyer, Horace Rackham, not to invest in the Ford Motor Company.

1946: "Television won't be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night." — Darryl Zanuck, 20th Century Fox.

1959: "Before man reaches the moon, your mail will be delivered within hours from New York to Australia by guided missiles. We stand on the threshold of rocket mail." — Arthur Summerfield, U.S. Postmaster General.

1961: "There is practically no chance communications space satellites will be used to provide better telephone, telegraph, television or radio service inside the United States." — T.A.M. Craven, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) commissioner.

1966: "Remote shopping, while entirely feasible, will flop.” — Time Magazine.

1981: “Cellular phones will absolutely not replace local wire systems.” — Marty Cooper, inventor.

1995: "I predict the Internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse." — Robert Metcalfe, founder of 3Com.

2005: "There's just not that many videos I want to watch." — Steve Chen, CTO and co-founder of YouTube expressing concerns about his company’s long term viability.

2006: "Everyone's always asking me when Apple will come out with a cell phone. My answer is, 'Probably never.'" — David Pogue, The New York Times.

There's plenty more.

that 1959 one.... Syria has been getting plenty of rocket mail recently

Thunderfoot is too arrogant to debate literally anyone. His channel is a pulpit, not a soap box.

I have a really hard time following AiU during debates too.

His debate with, I think Nick Fuentes, about gun control was just cringe to try to watch.

@RyeNorth so starbacks is throwing money out of the window to virtue signal now? Cool another readon not to buy coffee there. 😁

And yes i have been asked to leave or buy something before...

I wouldn't put this in the same tier as, say, a car company making a superbowl ad about the pay gap

This was a response to an outcry

The only thing is, the outcry is dumb

And the response is dumb

They were within their rights to kick them out. They refused requests to leave from the manager, they refused orders to leave from the officers.

They were not 'customers'

I mean, I used to be a bike courier in Washington DC.

In the winter, I'd generally try to find heated places to wait between deliveries, if I had 30 minutes to wait or so

And I never got asked to leave

Specifically because I had a petty cash fund on hand for buying a soda at a restaurant, and just sipping on that while enjoying the heat.

It's not hard, at all.

And I had black friends who did the very same. Zero issues.

Companies don’t understand that the worst thing you can do is publicly address the situation. Just be quiet about it and people will forget really quickly.

hey guys is the podcast available through any podcast app? I can't find it on Pocket Casts

I think its on itunes.. but i have no idea how that works

weird I checked again on pocket casts and found it

thanks anyway ❤

https://torrentfreak.com/telegram-founder-pledges-millions-in-bitcoin-for-vpns-and-digital-resistance-180418/

Why don't we stop Israel using chemical weapons?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/mar/25/israel-white-phosphorus-gaza
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/greg-mitchell/evidence-grows-that-israe_b_158176.html

money

Afaik it’s not used anymore.

And it’s legal depending on the use.

Unlike more potent chemical agents.

i wouldn't classify white phosphorus as a chemical weapon. IF you do then every explosive is a chemical weapon.

@AussieAryan#2292 although if we want to answer it like an SJW, its because its white and that's part of the white oppression machine.

Maybe they don’t stop Israel because the US does it too? https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2017/06/09/u-s-led-forces-appear-to-be-using-white-phosphorous-in-populated-areas-in-iraq-and-syria/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.4187ab2c7c88 🤔

Its like the Germans complaining about shotguns when they themselves were using Flamers and Chlorine gas

Also.. The US does use it as well, just not as well, documented.

Also, honestly, It would be hypocritical of me to say I oppose weapons like that if they are effective. Chemical weapons kill without damaging infrastructure. Usually...

Now the suffering imposed on them....

Actually just wondering, which part of chemical weapons do people oppose? The pain and suffering, the indescriminate effect of them, or the potential long term effects?

Orr theres the "Its not fair" mentality most military deficient nations hold...

how the fuck...
https://www.yelp.com/biz/moon-cricket-grille-winter-garden
Do you guys know what "moon cricket" means?

Whoa, I didn't until just a minute ago.

wow

i'm more amazed it still has a 3.5 rating and not a 1

Bahahahahahahha

Please tell me the restaurant owner knows the historical context

i guess it could be possible they are trying to reclaim the word.. it could romantesize black culture in a way

if the owner of the restaurant is anything besides black though.. i could see this becoming something the US news crawls all over if it happens to be a slow news day

https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2018/04/18/aalst-man-mes/

someone got shot at a train station for carrying a knife

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he is hospitalized but no danger for his life

he appearently had threatened people with the knife prior to the police arriving

there is no additional information, so we dont know if he was a knife threatener of peace

@>Cytos, de lieve goede synth reclaiming a word is against the SJW way. So even if it was, they would be white supremacists, even if they are black. They will have their minority card revoked

hmm i think there are examples of reclaimed words

used to be a mean thing but then became a good thing

like nigger amoungst some black people

i think dyke used to be a bad thing too, but now it is not.. i think?

pretty sure its still bad

and its nigga, not nigger

@here https://youtu.be/Su5KvGm-KwU

^ ^ ^ - Link posted without context. Link is self-promo and unrelated to conversation.

https://www.fightbacknews.org/2018/4/15/utah-protesters-demand-justice-elijah-smith-teamster-killed-fleeing-fear-police

disgusting

more police brutality in the US

I see that name, 'Baitcast'.

https://nos.nl/artikel/2228041-populaire-games-overtreden-gokregels.html (article in Dutch)

Dutch gambling authorities declare certain forms of game lootboxes to be gambling and as such, illegal. They have to change their format within eight weeks or face fines up to ~840k euros, or even being banned from sale in the Netherlands. Other forms are given a 'stern warming' and are -requested- to change.

Hmm nice

I was kinda hoping they would do this in belgium too

At least for minors

Well, there's movements like this all over europe

I doubt its gona happen anytime soom here thb, notbthe way the elections look

Where is here

belgium my lass

the part of me angry about shitty business practices is happy about that, but my dislike of government regulation is pissed about that.

I entirely agree, but my 'they brought it on themselves, the filthy greedy fucks' wins.

I never get why government regulation is supposed to be a bad thing... but then again, i don‘t live in a socialist country 😁

@I AM ERROR come to Europe

here, you can only make a company if you get paid from the government or from the EU

I am

where exactly then? 🤔

I'm in Portugal

Between denmark and austria 😁

Or between france and poland? No matter... the country with the idiot chancellor 😁

it doesn't surprise me that someone from Europe doesn't see it as a problem, as there's nothing else around here

Falko is a german

regulation is everywhere

I usually say "come to Europe" for americans that don't see regulation as a problem, and they understand it when they see it

explaining it to an European is more difficult though

regulation is only good when it doesn't punish people,

Regulating companies that then have to compensate by cutting people off is not such a thing

Regulation as a form of Communism is another problem too

the Carbon Tax for example

yes, because that punishes the people

it punishes everyone, it's an easy way for global taxation as an excuse

yes, and in order to justify the excuse, they'll say its to "coerce" people to switch to better alternatives

gonna be fun though when they overregulate

fyi, Amsterdam is about to be bent over

screw Europe, I'm leaving 😂

I don't see how this will get any better in the near future

and my hopes on UK with brexit went down the drain too

Good idea.

Europe is a lost cause.

@Falko#1083 because it adds cost to entry for most markets (which makes creating new competing businesses harder), doesn't always do anything, is slow to react to changes in industries, and turns the government into a weapon larger corporations can use to stifle competition. Also the government is usually generally poor at doing much of anything and often regulations have a bad habit of having unintended collateral damage. In this example, for instance, why is it illegal? If a kid is playing these games and the parents let them, then its the parents fault for letting the kid gamble. If its an adult who is playing it, you have just declared that adults are apparently incapable of making wise decisions on their own not to buy these things and not to get addicted to gambling, which is basically saying "you are still just a kid, and the government is your parent".

In this instance... why is gambling not universally legal?

In general: i do not trust companies to not do shitty stuff if no one tells them not to do it.

ethics, some countries consider it a form of addiction, and legalising it would be letting them basically become crackheads

Well... yeah... its addicting... thats the point and that is the exact same thing that gets used to sell lootboxes

Bit i dont think its ethics... it just that people that have gambled away all their money do not pay taxes 😁

nah thats a reverse fact,

due to progressive taxes, low income people pay less tax money,

If they gamble all their money away, the big gambling emporiums with their larger taxes, would be paying way more

@I AM ERROR gambling legality is closely related to prostitution's legality. Its manly just for "moral" reasons.

also upper class people with a "not in my back yard" mentality

Normally I'm against giving the government more powr to control or regulate anything, but given the addictive nature of lootboxes and crates, I'm fine with this one concession.

Then again, I'm also against drugs being illegal, so I hate this 'middle ground' stuff we have going on where some substances are legal, but others are not.

It's like, either ban all drugs, or make them all legal.

Either ban gambling or don't.

keep in mind i am not in favor of more rules

im in favor of recognizing lootboxes as they are

gambling

and applying the rules of gambling to lootboxes too

aka no minors

Yeah, I get that argument, but then with that same logic you have to do the same thing to card packs, like in Magic the Gathering.

The argument *for* lootboxes up until this point has been "but you always get *something* for what you pay for, so it's not *really* gambling guys.
Even though it feeds off of the same risk-taking part of the brain *as* gambling... but it's totally **NOT** the same thing, guys!

hmmm

maybe kids should not be allowed to buy random card packs too

though i have to admit, it seems ok for card packs

i bought plenty of pokemon card packs myself

well not plenty, but enough

In an online game like Hearthstone, I would argue not, because of how easy and convenient they've made it to buy them. It's much easier to get 'hooked' onto opening card packs in an online game than in a brick-and-mortar store.

im just wondering if i can justify the difference between card packs and lootboxes..

even if they are digital card packs...

if i recall correctly the overall value of a card pack from pokemon is always the same, if you count cathegories

like

1 shiny, couple of energies and a couple of basic pokemon

oh and tech cards

Still really similar to lootboxes, only lootboxes typically have a variety of items, not just cards, but then that's really hair-splitting at that point.

its also possible im just biased in favour of collectable cards cause i didnt feel like it effected me so much

never had any experience with lootboxes as a kid

Before I knew what I was doing, I let myself spend $500 on Hearthstone...

Years ago.

And I don't even play that game anymore today.

500 is like my gaming budget for over a year lel

including components fyi

I don't have a particular budget, but yeah I definitely don't spent that much on a single game unless I've been playing it for years.

Like last year I spent quite a bit on gaming, but only because the Nintendo Switch came out.

too give you an idea, i consider a game worth it, if it provided an hour of enjoyable gameplay for every euro spent

most games dont make that treshold tho

so i wait for sales

i never play shit on release anymore

I rarely buy games on release or preorder anymore, with Nintendo being the exception.

For the most part Nintendo has almost never let me down.

I think I remember someone, sometime, trying to make the argument that the rewards you get in different games from 'amiibos' were gambling. lol

I distinctly remember getting into that argument with someone, and I'm just sitting there going 'wut.'

issnt the reward set in stone?

Depends on the game. Some have very specific rewards, but other games kind of randomize the loot like in Zelda Breath of the Wild.

But you're not charged money to use an amiibo every time you use it; in fact, the only limitation on amiibo is that *you can only use it once a day.*

So even in bizarro world where amiibo *may* functionally be considered gambling, the amiibo *themselves* artificially prevent gambling by limiting you to only one 'charge' per day.

but you pay for it only once..

Exactly, you buy the figurine, and that's it.

Nothing like gambling.

Oh man, I wish I could remember who that argument was with now...

But yeah, there are a couple of ways you can argue the 'regulating lootboxes like gambling is incorrect' stance, but trying to say that "but then you have to regulate/ban amiibo too, then!" is not one of them. lol

well i guess lootboxes arent like gambling in that not all lootboxes give you shit you can trade with other people (liek you can win money at casinos)