John Carpenter, Professional Gigachad Director Lad behind The Thing, Halloween and They Live recently ‘twet’ (tweeting in the past-tense, you see) his enjoyment of Halo Infinite, praising the ‘immense beautiful production design’. Even calling it the best of the Halo series. And with fixes for the game already confirmed, seems the main issues with the game’s multiplayer will be getting ironed out, hell yeah!

“This is now a dream! Phew. Time to rewatch Prince of Darkness” – Frank O’Connor (Halo Franchise Director).

Elon Musk also commented, praising the Halo Infinite campaign, but as is mandated by the CEO of Antifa, I am legally obligated to direct your attentions to Abigail Thorn’s philosophical analysis of Elongated Musket and ‘tech-daddy‘ concepts in general… BUT! As someone with a couple mates who also like the guy, you may also have this cheeky partially-praising meme in his honor:

The Halo Infinite devs at 343 say the Big Team Battle mode should be getting fixed up this week, plus a ‘Halo Infinite Cyber Showdown’ event is dropping tomorrow!

The devs also announced a reduction in prices for the in-game micro-transaction store, which is all well and good… Though in mentioning this, I’m also divinely moved by the RNJesus Chr1st to remind y’all that while these things in moderation are fine, a lot of companies and games (cough, cough, loot box controversies) use predatory gambling techniques that tie the part of your brain that loves Overwatch skins to the part of your brain that responds to randomized Pavlovian conditioning!

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Broke: Loot Box. Woke: Loot Crate! Woker: Themed backpack for your own loot!

Hashtag Style, Hashtag Chic. Hashtag Sword? Hashtag Neat. Buy it now!

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Considering I was having a fun conversation last night with some friends about which YouTubers we’d most want to wife up (which just so happened to lead to Pokimane coming up), I would like to dedicate this blog to my good friend, Melon Brandeux… Not his real name, but roll with it!

Pokimane (real name Imane Anys) is a Moroccan-Canadian YouTuber and Twitch streamer. Pokimane recently announced her new role as co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of the company RTS.

Parasocial relationships and obsessive fan culture has gone from bad to worse thanks in part to the wider accessibility of online spaces. I mean, y’all should watch Misery, it basically predicted the landscape of toxic fandom culture years before Bing existed, let alone Google! For a breakdown on parasocial relationships, I highly recommend the videos on the topic by Philosophy Tube.

Pokimane and Toxic Fans: A fan of Pokimane has been repeatedly making new accounts to continuously ask her invasive personal questions despite being banned multiple times. Well, I say “a fan”, this type of practice is unfortunately more common than you’d think, considering how many people are resorting to progressively more extreme acts to gain the attention of popular figures on online platforms. Literally last month, another Twitch streamer Meowko discussed her experience with a stalker.

Pokimane went over screenshots from the main obsessive fan in question during a ‘Just Chatting’ stream while using the time to discuss obsessive fan culture and the issues of others trying to impose their expectations onto her, though she doesn’t owe them anything.

“You’ve made so many accounts just to ask me the most weird and random questions about my friends, it’s weird, and it’s obnoxious. Like, I love all of my friends dearly, but please stop trying to psychoanalyze or mico-manage my friendships or relationships with others. Or asking so many weird, repetitive, obsessive questions. I live my private life off-stream, okay”.

Pokimane’s Twitch streams total to nearly two billion hours of watch time at time of writing. Unfortunately, moderating and putting a stop to the more hardcore obsessives is very difficult and put solely on the backs of content creators themselves, which is a crying shame. I mean, I’m not any kind of celebrity by any stretch of the word, but I get constantly added up by the same random bots on Instagram and Snapchat, but no matter how many times I report it, BOOM, pops right up a couple days later! At the end of the day, most online platforms don’t take moderation seriously, though I will admit, part of why companies don’t pay much attention to that side of things is because hiring a bloke to manually read through every harassing message and cacophony of dick pics would be seizure-inducing in the best case scenario and cause spontaneous combustion in the worst! For more on that, this short video on ‘If Dating Apps Were Honest‘ should break it down well.

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My bright cute pet. Golden Love. Electrifying. Pikachu Lamp.

Pokemon Snap, without chat. I showed you my Blastoise, please respond.

“I choose you”, Poke-playlist. “Pika, Pika”! Pokeball speaker!

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