You do realize the irony of you posting this with an account from 2009 with 13k posts on a niche college football message forum or are you actually that fucking stupid?
I'm not missing it at all. All of us are actually participating in the conversation. We're not paying to watch other people post on TMB.
You know we have a lot of lurkers right? And watching streamers is free. You only pay if you want to skip a few commercials per hour. You pay to watch TV with commercials.
i watch twitch every day and i've never donated anything beyond a twitch prime sub bc it's free w/ amazon prime. i also don't ever have sex so maybe there's an overlap
My kids watched Dan TDM free of charge for about 5 solid years. I can think of much worse shit on the internet for two pre-teen boys to be watching than some goof ball gamer.
Can’t believe fuzzy is so entrenched in this stupid stance. Saying streamers should die because they’re either good at a game or entertaining. That’s essentially the equivalent of saying athletes should die to put it in this boards terms. We can all play sports too, just like we could stream. We’re just not good enough at it to make a living
It's fun to go to a small streamer's channel and make them put a shoe on their head or something for my prime sub
I don’t watch gamers and probably never will. I didn’t get it until someone explained it to me with this example. I watch sports (so I’m watching someone else engage in an activity I enjoy) that’s the way people who watch gamers feel. They are merely watching someone who is extremely good at an activity they enjoy.
A stream is also something you can just have on as background noise while you're working, eating, pretty much doing w/e.
I'd pay money for the stream of a guy in his 20s. Think I'm already getting some bph and I'm not even 40
I feel as though some of you are watching ads and it's my duty to educate you on how to avoid such fuckery because Twitch ads are a fat load of bullshit. Phones: PurpleTV. adblock built in, 7TV and BTTV built-in. I don't watch a ton on my phone but this basically makes it like a desktop experience if I do. https://purpletv.aeong.one/PurpleTV_2.4.apk is the latest stable build. also idk what Apple users use or if they have an option, that's not my problem. TV: S0undTV. never used but I hear great things. ymmv, find it yourself with google I guess. Desktop: get uBlock, which is the only adblock you should ever, and I mean ever, use. it's on Chrome and FF stores. ok, there are some extensions out there but they're a bit shaky at times because Twitch is a fucker and there's a lot of back-and-forth between them and adblock devs so the extensions can break occasionally until devs fix it so we're gonna go a slightly different route and use a direct filter (which still needs to be updated but this just works quicker and better). - open uBlock (it's the little red shield next to your address bar) - you'll see a little set of gears in the bottom-right, click on that - under the Settings tab, you'll see a section that says Advanced. click on the little box that says "I'm an advanced user" then click on the little cogs beside it - you'll be whisked to another set of settings in a new tab and at the bottom on the left you'll see a line that says "userResourcesLocation" - copy and paste the following next to that line https://raw.githubusercontent.com/p...ideo-swap-new/video-swap-new-ublock-origin.js (if anything else exists there for some reason just make a space after that and paste this thing in) - hit apply changes and close that tab - go back to the original tab now and go under My Filters and on a new line at the bottom copy and paste this twitch.tv##+js(twitch-videoad) - turn uBlock on and off (open uBlock again, hit the big blue button twice) or just close and reopen your browser for clarity's sake, doing the above with that script will skip ads by inserting a new stream over the ads but at the cost of lowered resolution (480p). when the ads are done, you should flip up to whatever you have your default set to (or whatever the streamer can output, 720p or 1080p). it's not particularly jarring but if your streamer is an ad whore (Twitch has a base minimum of ads per hour they must run but streamers can set the rate MUCH higher) then this will happen a lot so... use this script https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pixeltris/TwitchAdSolutions/master/vaft/vaft-ublock-origin.js instead and it will seek to maintain max resolution while blocking ads. the risk with this script is streams may freeze depending on whether the script or Twitch wins the battle but you can just F5 and try again, it usually doesn't take long for the script to win out. I use this script FWIW and typically if you can make it past the initial ads (almost all streams have ads at the beginning when you open these days) then you're golden. but see which one works for you. that's a lot to read and probably seems a bit scary to some but it's genuinely dead simple and like I said, you shouldn't be getting pounded in the face by blocks of ads over and over. if you watch a small streamer and want to give them the ad money, just whitelist their stream on uBlock.
PS - uBlock also is essential for Youtube watching on desktop/laptop. also, there is a killer app, maybe the single best app on the planet, called ReVanced and it is adblock (and a shitload of other features) for Youtube including playback while minimized or turning off your screen. however, I will not be guiding you through that install as it gets complicated so go follow the reddit guide. I will promise you, however, that it is 100% worth it if you use Youtube on your phones at all.
Also team its great background material, started when I had to spend a couple hours every day charting from my couch
3 day weekend, yo. but no. I do enjoy helping people set stuff like this up. QoL is greatly improved for anyone who watches any decent amount of Twitch or Youtube. Twitch especially, fuck them ads. you'll be watching someone about to clutch a match or break a speedrun record and nope, seven ads in a row.
It’s more the ability to put something on my phone and close my screen and listen. There’s podcasts, audiobooks and tons more I can just listen to and given the fact I listen to something just about all day it’s easily my most valuable media app by leagues.
Biggest reason I got YouTube premium was that it came with YouTube music, so more expensive than Spotify but I can easily download videos to watch offline (basically listen to podcasts uploaded to YouTube in my car). If I didn't want either of those things then it's a little expensive. I get some discount because I use the Google Rewards app, to get small amounts of money answering surveys, and it draws from my Google Play balance first.