had to look up "furry"

oh wow

pretty much the oddest sexual fetish in existence.

Someone never watched Entourage

I think its gotta be one of the most common

there are cultures in the world where you are expected to practice on animals before you get married (places that have no/little premarital sex)

common and odd don't have to be exclusive.

So NightLight got removed, hopefully Horror is next.

This.

I didn't know what furry was until this debacle either. I don't really judge people on what they do with their penis, but this is weird even for internet standards.

Haha it's always funny when an internet-based company decides to fight with its own userbase.

That always works out great.

Closing their own revenue streams obv is the second brightest idea.

Bascially they're lucky the LoL guys aren't getting in on Remove Horror.

pro pr move

I've seen a couple of Remove Horrors in lol twitch chat

Well, I mean the top streamers themselves.

Twitch isn't going to notice a few minor speedrunners like Dugongue going away.

It's honestly a lot like what drives us to be good at poker. The amount of practice (studying) that you have to do in order to get better is very under-appreciated or misunderstood within the viewing public. There's also a science behind it much like poker. Whereas you experiment or try to find different ways of playing poker optimally, strat finding in speed runs is just like that.

I can't really describe the feeling of beating the best run you've ever had or beating the best known public run in existence without doing real justice to it, but I can tell you that it's a feeling that drives the overwhelming majority of us to continue our speed running pursuits.

Honestly what surprises me is you find entertainment in watching a speed run but can't see how we speed runners justify the entertainment in running it. You are watching a run where you don't know what's going to happen, is everything going to be alright, is the runner going to screw up, is the runner going to land that trick perfectly? The same thing goes through our minds. We feel amazing when we land that frame perfect trick, and feel like crap when we make a huge mistake. The highs and lows make for an emotional roller-coaster that hopefully ends us up on top, just like in poker.

Twitch's CEO Emmett Shear has made a formal apology and response to this whole chaos, and it's pretty reasonable and decent.

http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comme...o_controversy/

It's posted to reddit instead of their own website, which is odd, but whatever.

Remove Horror

It's not that odd - for casuals who visit Twitch, they'll never know any of this happened, and Twitch is happier that way. Posting it on Reddit means that only the parts of the gaming community that already care about it will see.

I like this part:

lol, served

Chris seemed like a nice guy though so sorry to see him go. The decision he made was bad, but he definitely didn't mean harm from it.

It's kinda weird that they have volunteer admins imo

On the bright side it allows them to say "lol volunteer admins don't represent twitch" when they **** up.

Maybe twitch will be slightly less ****ty after this.

Took a long time to set things straight. Seems a little disingenuous like maybe this was a last resort if it didn't blow over/they couldn't contain it. And it doesn't help that it's posted on reddit only...

It's also bs that they try to hide behind harassment claims. Dude was abusing his power, no one cares that he's gay.

It's the internet, and while his actions as a public community moderator were pretty ****ty, there's also def more people that piled on because he added an emote for his boyfriend and not for his girlfriend.

The vast majority of people banned only typed "Remove Horror"

lol Horror

although thats what they get for letting an immature furry with obvious power and self-esteem issues moderate a big operation like twitch

I assume those people would be included in the people being unbanned that the dude talked about in the statement.

wtf is this loading page for streams?

That's really gonna go over well. I will never turn off ******* for this site lol.

I see a ton of "I'm sorry, that page is in another castle!" I guess I'm often looking for archives of games that seem to have a low level of activity on twitch, so maybe stuff gets culled over time? But why is their search engine ignorant of whether some archive no longer exists?