Greetings, I’m Steff! Today we’ll be looking at the recent contributions to the gaming world from Shadiversity (Shad M. Brooks), Australian HEMA (Historical European Martial-Arts) YouTuber, media critic and author of the Shadow of the Conqueror series… Speaking of authors, show some love to ‘Not to be Mistaken For Sorbet‘, a poetry anthology by a good friend who co-hosts on The Hmm Collective podcast, also very fun.

Spill The Ale, Brethren: Shadiversity recently released this video with the aim of providing game developers with reference material for combat animations. Shad’s a vocal advocate for more realism in media, especially film and gaming that depicts medieval and old historical settings. Even in fantasy and sci-fi media, some true-to-life elements can really help elevate the text and I wholeheartedly agree with him on that.

Shad’s got the hashtag #medievalcombatreference started and invited other content creators to get join him in getting the ball rolling with providing material for realistic combat moveset animations.

How I got into Papa-Shad:

The first video of his I saw was from his Fantasy Rearmed series, where he applies his knowledge to come up with entertaining and unique ideas about what kind of weapons would be realistically most  effective against (and for) different fantasy races. That video on giants was especially horrifying in big-brained kinda way! Let’s just say David wouldn’t have stood a chance against Goliath if they swapped weapons.

Then I got to his fight scene analysis pieces on Star Wars and other media analysis. Then I fell in love with the way he says “stick” for reasons even unknown to myself! Smash cut to now and I’m getting paid to write about the lad.

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Now’s my first time dipping my webbed flippers into the pool of Twitch drama, so wish me luck! Alternatively, feel free to check my last piece on Pokimane if you’re looking for something a little less dense. I’ll try my best to keep things unbiased, while also calling out the worst of the worst things coming up.

Details man! They are important: Reports have come through that Tyler ‘Ninja‘ Belvins (God, I love that name, on a phonetic level at least) and his wife are getting their legal team involved shortly after Pokimane (Imane Anys) claimed Ninja texted a Twitch representative to help JiDion (Demarcus Cousins the 3rd… CRIKEY that’s a name) with a hate raid on her channel. JiDion was then perma-banned from Twitch shortly after.

JiDion’s fans have admitted to ‘hate-raiding’ Pokimane on a Ninja stream according to Pokimane, which I’m inclined to believe, but I recommend cross-referencing this with other channels on the minuscule off-chance that I’m wrong here.

Pokimane also implied without outright stating (to my knowledge) that Ninja referred to her as a “bitch” (in a stream between JiDion and Ninja) before backpedaling and saying “I meant bitches in general” for plausible deniability. In my opinion, that Ninja-JiDion conversation was moreso a case of JiDion jokingly performing shock at Ninja just using the word ‘bitch’ alone. And as far as this clip goes (seemingly the one Pokimane was referencing based on the ‘bitches in general’ specificity), Ninja also appeared to be condemning JiDion for the hate raids. Could Ninja be dogwhistling? I dunno, maybe… But there’s thousands of hours worth of Twitch stuff to drudge through and ain’t nobody got time for that!

That brings us to right now! Today on January 18th, Pokimane shared what seems to be a screenshot of a private message from Jessica Belvins (Ninja’s wife) that read ‘We are considering everything defamation of character at this point and are getting our legal team involved’.  The message also had a section claiming that Tyler never reached out to any Twitch reps, but he ‘just said that to stop the harassment in his chat from JiDion’s viewers’.

Pokimane said she’s ‘willing to accept and cannot disprove’ that possibility.

The moral of the story? I wish it had one! Although I’m quite certain by this point this whole situation was a misunderstanding between Imane and Tyler that could’ve been avoided if they just had a chinwag on the topic over a morning cuppa, drama of this variety specifically really does make my head spin. With the internet, it’s simultaneously harder AND easier to just lie about… Anything, really!  But hey, hopefully this was a fun read for anyone more clued-up on these drama-llamas than me.

Product Poems:

Halo Infinite, a must-have for Mabel. Why? GRAPPLING HOOK!

Resident Evil Collection. No Dimi-T? No erection.

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Hello everyone. I’ve been working at Go2Games for around 3 months. As today’s a bit slow news-wise, thought I’d take a page out of Aslan’s book and write a little on my time with the company.

How does my work… Work? I’m so glad I asked! Barring extenuating circumstances, most of my Go2Games work varies between two types of tasks. One is the comedy news blogs where I showcase my terminal addiction to “Bobbert Kotique”, anti-corporate mockery and highly suggestive poems about Lottie from Animal Crossing! The other kind of task is ‘descrips’, wherein I essentially write slightly re-worded descriptions and information about a list of products on a shared document that (I’m assuming) will be coming to the Go2Games store. For some ungodly reason, I find the descrips harder to burn through, but have been improving with them.

Why the YouTube Fetish? I have a tendency to link to and source YouTubers in alot of my blogs because inserting links from different places helps improve analytics… Somehow. Besides that, I also understand some people can be skeptical of “oh, you heard someone say that in an internet video? That doesn’t sound dodgy in the slightest”. That’s fair enough in a lot of cases, but most of the content creators I reference or enjoy also heavily cite their sources for different claims, which can SOMETIMES be a good way of separating the Weetabix from the chaff grenades. I say sometimes because blokes like Steven Chowder or Carlgon of Schmitt are also big creators who make a song and dance about having citations, but those guys have gotten their intellectual spanking from every lefty YouTuber and their grandma, so won’t dwell on them too much here. Speaking of YouTube, have a look at my channel Top-Not Analysis.

Product Poems? Really? Really, really. This blog branch of Go2Games has to make money somehow and part of that is through linking products on the Go2Games store into blogs. Some things are easier to integrate than others, so I came up with Product Poems as a fun way to circumvent that by tacking them on at the end.

In summary: Working at Go2Games has been a very fruitful and enjoyable experience. My colleagues and higher-ups have been very friendly, I’m glad to say I’ve had the opportunity to work with them.

My Top Product Poems: My only rule is I’m excluding the Lottie ones for this blog, otherwise things would get really samey really fast! If you want to hunt for them, go to the search bar, type ‘Lottie’ in the blog section and thank me later. Or click here if you want to buy your own Lottie… For the meme!

Doom Eternal. Cute inferno. Shooty-bang-bang on hell spawn, yo.

No straight roads? That’s what he said! I’ll get it! “Not at 3am hun”.

There was once a young woman named Barbie, one day she got bit by a zombie! But she didn’t turn, for soon she would learn, she had no brains- “oh, harder Harvey”!

There is no Street Fighter Five in Ba Sing Se. Shirt? What shirt? God, no!

Chronos before ashes, a God. A God before ashes? A thought.

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One True King is a Texas-based media and production company founded by popular Twitch streamers Asmongold, Mizkif and Esfand. One True King was named The Biggest Streaming Organisation in August after hitting 25 million hours of combined watch time. October 2021 saw the addition of Cyr to One True King during an anniversary stream alongside a new logo. Most recently, Tectone has joined the company!

Meet Tectone. Tectone is a Canadian twitch streamer and YouTuber who mainly specialises in anime and anime-inspired games like Genshin Impact and Arknights. As of writing, Tectone has nearly 600K followers on Twitch and over 10 million total views. Tectone’s YouTube channel currently sits at 740K subscribers.

While somewhat lesser-known than some of his contemporaries, there’s been some small rumblings of Reddit discourse that they were anticipating another prominent female streamer to join the group. In a SHOCKING turn of events, most of the Twitter reactions (as far as I can tell) seem much more positive, mostly consisting of assorted reaction gifs and phrases communicating excitement like ‘woohoo’, ‘let’s GOOOO’ and ‘pog’.

Welcome @TectEGG to OTK 👑 pic.twitter.com/fDm0ptkYo5

— OTK (@OTKnetwork) November 22, 2021

The Redditeers: Yeah, me saying “things were chill on Twitter” isn’t as view-catching as “what fresh hell is this”, so let’s look at the Reddit comments under the One True King announcement.

On the Positive Side:

• ‘He gets good views on his YouTube channel, he’s [a] little bit bigger then (sic) Mizkif on YouTube, and he doesn’t need girls in his thumbnails. It is a smart business decision on OTK part to sign him’
• ‘A great fit in for OTK’.

On the Roasting Side:

• ‘He looks like the combined version of all the other OTK members’.
• ‘He is their final form’.
• ‘He’s like a white Lacari’ (I’m sure I’d find that hilarious if I knew who that was).
• ‘Everyone is so loud in OTK, they don’t need another mega phone andy’ (I’m sure I’d find that hilarious if I knew who that was).

For absolutely no reason at all, please find a particularly grumpy-looking image of Tectone mean-mugging the camera down below.

One Fun Coincidence: I myself have forgotten the name of the track Tectone uses in this video, but surprise surprise, I also used that music in my own YouTube video One Villainous Scene: Lil Zhe’s Jealous Rage. Small world.

Side tangent, lad knows how to rock those floral patterns, so plus +1 points for style.

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Catherine, Katherine… CKatherine? Oh my. Fullbody wine Miss?

Mario’s Jump is a tour-de-Force. A dead-beaten horse, of course.

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