IdontlikeJello retweeted
Project Zomboid can finally be played in first person
- The creator's goal is to make all game mechanics work in first person
- Modders can use his framework to create new models and publish extensions
- The current version is single player only, but multiplayer support is planned
- PZ3D is available on the Steam Workshop
IdontlikeJello retweeted
23 YEARS AGO TODAY, @TheWeebl posted BADGERS to @Newgrounds.
IdontlikeJello retweeted
Hey @google I’d like to report an error.
The lake that borders New York and Ontario is an international body of water, and it is widely agreed by the entire world, except one rogue leader, that the name of this lake is “Lake Ontario”
Grow a spine and fix it.
IdontlikeJello retweeted
ALGUIEN ESTÁ CONVIRTIENDO SSDs VIEJOS EN CARTUCHOS FÍSICOS DE STEAM
Insertas el SSD en el PC y el juego se lanza solo.
• Un juego por SSD
• Carátulas impresas en 3D
• Script de autoarranque
• Libera espacio en tu disco principal
• Sensación de cambiar cartuchos como en los 90/2000
Compró SSDs usados de 128GB por unos 7€ y les puso carcasas personalizadas de Cyberpunk, Forza, Armored Core, etc.
Es la forma más genial de recuperar la magia de los juegos físicos en la era digital.
¿Quién más echa de menos cambiar cartuchos?
IdontlikeJello retweeted
Just a thought... but AI is not cheap to operate...
So if Twitch has AI money, they should have 70% sub split money, no?
IdontlikeJello retweeted
Tapping in on the Twitch viewbotting discussion as an actual agency brand advertising executive.
This Twitch post is unlikely to convince any advertisers or streamers that the issue is improving.
Here's how to actually address this problem -
Viewbotting is an engineering and incentives problem disguised as a cultural one. There is no solution to this problem that can ever be achieved via culture change or moderation. People are debating the efficacy of the solution in Twitch’s post when the entire implementation isn’t even relevant.
Given Twitch’s track record, no one should believe Twitch will enforce this “viewer cap” change appropriately even if they did have the proper backend data (and I think they don’t.) They won’t even enforce against popular streamers who have viewbotting programs visible on their screen, streamers who roleplay bringing slaves on their broadcasts and feed them treats, or broadcasters who advocate blatent political violence, and so on.
Many streamers are on their 8th or 9th temporary bans for various TOS-breaking content. No one believes Twitch's intervention via moderation will change anything.
So again it’s a matter of engineering and incentives. I’ll break down each one. But first a productive question to ask. Why does Youtube Live - which now eclipses Twitch’s live viewership by 40% - have nearly no problems with bots and viewbotting?
Well first the engineering problem. Viewbotting gets solved by better detection, pattern recognition, IVT analysis, device fingerprinting, IP patterns, watch-time anomalies, removing off-platform embedding, and other boring backend stuff. As Dan correctly noted, these are things you can’t be public about because they’ll quickly see counterplay from the viewbot services. You just have to lock in and fix it. Google has spent billions of dollars solving this because advertisers don’t like invalid traffic. Their IVT rate now sits at a healthy 11% or so, easily beating competing live services like Tiktok (24%) and Twitch (35%+.)
Twitch hasn’t taken this problem seriously. I’ve spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on Twitch, and no team member has ever communicated to me or any of the agencies I work with about their IVT rates accurately. On the contrary it often feels like they throw raw viewership numbers around in pitch decks and presentations as the REASON to go advertise there. That used to work, but money is getting smarter in digital. Brands correctly care about return on spend and engagement with real people rather than just the perception that there are viewers around.
You need both bravery and expertise in engineering to make massive changes. Twitch actually has phenomenal engineers, many who were brought on by the former CEO to develop the world’s most advanced CDN (content delivery network) from 2015-2022 before Youtube Live recently surpassed it. But I’m not sure the company has the bravery to make real, necessary changes that many commentators on this post have noted must happen. Successfully “fixing” this would represent a 30-35% global drop in viewership for a website already perceived as ailing against its competitors.
To solve the engineering side you just have to apply more of the above technical solutions and spend money and time. Communicate with advertisers, refund us in high IVT events, keep improving your CDN, etc. It’s not a moderation issue, it’s not a viewer cap issue, that’s crowd pandering and will fix nothing. Both advertisers and the community begged for years for attention on this topic, while viewbotters bled us all and collected millions of dollars. Twitch has eroded trust and should just stop making these posts to the public. Users have lost tolerance for the platform and just need to see the actual changes.
The second problem is the incentive problem. Every system to succeed on Twitch is set up based on the number of viewers you have. The entire Partnership/Affiliate pipeline is viewership based. The entire discovery funnel is viewership based. Sponsorships are calculated on CCV per $. And the entire culture of the website is “more viewers = better.” So of course everyone will do anything possible to get more viewers. This not only encourages viewerbotting but also toxic streamer culture (IRL nuisance streamers, etc) because, again, it’s all about the views.
On Youtube Live monetization rewards sustained engagement and overall channel performance. Ads, super chats, channel memberships, etc. Discovery is pushed by an interest-based recommendation algorithm. Viewers will find you because of interest alignment - not because you have the most viewers. Barely anyone viewbots there because there’s no point. Adding viewers won’t help your channel, and Google’s AI/ML will instantly and automatically suppress your channel and shut off your ads.
It is frustrating that the C-Level over at Twitch keep posting about viewbotting as if it’s going to get solved by human moderation. As if Twitch is going to magically have an amazing enforcement team with “the data” that goes after the serial offenders and returns everything to normalcy. This is all solvable, even from where Twitch is now. But you have to make the investments on the engineering/CDN side and just get to work. Everyone is waiting and hoping for these changes.
Twitch’s viewbotting epidemic is a downstream effect of what every major streamer and industry professional told them would happen for years. They didn’t implement discovery engines, they didn’t change the incentive systems, they didn’t invest aggressively against obvious botting cases, and they didn’t communicate. Now they have an existential advertising and creator crisis. You reap what you sow.
A note on our work to combat viewbotting, from CEO Dan Clancy:
There’s been a lot of discussion recently about viewbotting on Twitch, and I wanted to share an update on our enforcement efforts.
Viewbotting is bad for our business. We don't benefit from it, and we believe it harms the creator ecosystem overall. However, effectively combatting viewbotting is challenging. As we deploy updates to our real-time detection algorithms, viewbotting companies quickly respond with updates to avoid detection. Also, our detection systems must be precise to ensure that legitimate viewers are appropriately counted.
Today, we’re introducing a new enforcement type that we plan to roll out over the next few weeks. For channels identified as persistently viewbotting, we will apply a cap to the streamer’s CCV for a fixed period of time, on all of the Twitch surfaces. The cap will be based upon historical data regarding that creator’s non-viewbotted traffic. Repeated violations will result in longer penalties. Streamers will be notified when an enforcement is applied, along with the duration of the penalty, and can appeal through the appeals portal.
While streamers will be notified, we will not make a follow-on announcement when we begin issuing these enforcements, and will not publicly share details about when and where these enforcements are applied. Unfortunately, providing details simply makes it easier for companies to work around our interventions.
We believe this approach will help us make meaningful progress against viewbotting. We will continue refining our systems and expand when we apply these enforcements over time.
- Dan Clancy
IdontlikeJello retweeted
@MarkJCarney. Is it possible to ban this kind of pricing across the board by the federal government? Our Premier @fordnation kowtows to his buddy Galen Weston who at one point had Doug Ford cancel a minimum wage hike. This is clear corporate gouging and should be illegal.
IdontlikeJello retweeted
I disagreed with Dan Clancy when he said that “lurkers” is a negative term (I said it’s not, he said it is) and my follow up question was automodded for no reason. I honestly don’t understand how Twitch works anymore smh.
IdontlikeJello retweeted
@AltimaTel @rogershelps after a week finally get a rogers tech in to fix my internet and what do you know. Nothing has changed after 12hrs. 800ms latency on load
Like I've been saying is a line issue at the node not my modem or cable thoes are the same before issue.
IdontlikeJello retweeted
Dear Prime Minister Mark Carney (@markjcarney),
I was on the Toronto Ferry last year staring at our majestic waterfront.
I saw paddlers, kayakers, dragon boaters, sailors, windsurfers, fishers, paddleboarders, water taxis, and cruisers all sharing the space in harmony.
When we docked at Hanlan’s Point on the Toronto Islands I was surrounded by hikers, joggers, cyclists, birders, picnickers, swimmers, photographers, beachgoers, frisbee golfers, naturalists, and thousands of tourists and locals enjoying this lush ecological paradise surrounded by our sparkling freshwater lake.
Please don’t destroy this by paving Lake Ontario.
Three weeks ago Ontario Premier Doug Ford (@fordnation) announced he will "seize" Toronto’s Billy Bishop Airport (YTZ) in order to expand runways into Lake Ontario (1), bring in jets against the legal contracts governing the airport (2), and nix 14,000 mixed-use homes slated to go up on the shore (which taxpayers have already spent $1.4B developing). (3,4)
Although this decision is not his to make — Billy Bishop is governed by the City of Toronto and the federal government (5) — Premier Ford says he will overrule the City to "bring in jets one way or another." (6,7)
Premier Ford says he has the "full support" of your federal government to do this. (8)
Prime Minister Carney:
It is not too late.
Please say no to expanding Billy Bishop airport into the lake.
We don’t need this, we don’t want this, and we can’t afford this.
We don’t need this.
We can already go anywhere we want to go.
I live right in downtown Toronto.
I can be anywhere I want in the world, tomorrow.
I can walk to bus, subway, streetcar, and UP express stations from my house and I fly 40x per year.
In the past year I have been to over 35 airports on 3 continents and YYZ is one of the absolute best. In fact, in the past month it has won "Best Airport Staff in North America" (9), been ranked 4th in all of the Americas in efficiency (out of 50 airports) (10), and won Best Large Airport on the entire continent (an award it's won eight times in nine years.) (11)
Right this second, checking Uber, I can get from my house by car to Toronto’s Pearson International Airport (YYZ) in 21 mins and to Toronto’s Billy Bishop Island Airport (YTZ) in 14 mins.
Right this second, if someone at Union Station wanted to get to YYZ on public transit it would take 28 minutes (UP Express) and to YTZ would take 22 minutes (TTC streetcar).
We are talking about a 6 minute time savings here.
If we want to serve southwestern Ontario’s population with expanded jet service we simply need to use the 7000m of existing, high-capacity, under-utilized jet runways within 2 hours of Toronto at Hamilton (@flyYHM ), Waterloo (@flyYKF), and London (@flyYXU) versus entertaining a "special economic zone" to force a jet-strip into the most environmentally sensitive and densely populated waterfront in the country.
We don’t want this.
This tiny speck of ecological paradise provides critical respite from our dense and urban concrete jungle and is vital for mental health, community, and happiness.
Over 400 peer-reviewed studies show urban forests and parks mitigate depression and anxiety and enhance overall mental well-being. (12)
I know you agree because four days ago on March 31, 2026 you announced your "Force of Nature" strategy with the vision of "protecting, restoring, and valuing nature." This wonderful program declares a federal investment of $3.8 billion dollars into "protecting critical habitats and aligning industrial strategies with biodiversity conservation." (13, 14, 15)
Also, I looked into the runway expansion into the lake that Premier Ford has promised.
Right now the shortest jet runway in Canada is 1832m (YHM Hamilton, ON) and the shortest jet runway in the world is 1508m (LCY London City Airport, UK). There are also new Canadian Aviation Regulations (RESA) stating all runways need to add 150m on each end for safety. (16, 17, 18)
Today the Billy Bishop runway is 1216m. (19)
Even the most conservative assumption — building the shortest jet runway in the entire world! — still requires a minimum of 600m more runway to land jets.
Here is a current aerial view of Billy Bishop Airport. (Photo 1 / attached)
Here is an aerial view of Billy Bishop Airport with the smallest possible runway extension of 600m added. (Photo 2 / attached)
(Of course this photo doesn’t include additional parking, hangers, gates, aprons, tarmacs, fueling stations, de-icing stations, blast fences, control towers, baggage carousels, taxi pickups … )
We can’t afford this.
Premier Ford was first elected in 2018 as the right wing candidate (PC) with 40.5% of the vote (left wing side of NDP and Liberal was 53.2%) and campaigned as a fiscal conservative. (FN) He attacked the Liberals for their $6.7B deficit and vowed a "return to balanced budgets" that would "begin in 2019." (20, 21)
Since then Premier Ford has won two more elections — with a nearly identical right / left vote split and record lows in voter turnout — and has now presided over 8 budgets. (22, 23)
In order from 2019 to 2026 those eight budgets have been for *deficits* of $8.7B, $16.4B, $13.5B, $5.9B, $5.6, $1.1B, $12.3B, and, most recently, just announced last week on March 26, 2026, coming in at a 77% increase on his own 2025 forecasts, $13.8B. (24, 25)
Since Premier Ford was elected he has *increased* Ontario’s debt from $338B to $485B. Ontario now pays $17.2B a year … just in interest payments. (26, 27, 28)
Notably, Premier Ford’s most recent $13.8B deficit budget does not include any money for the projected $1-2B cost of expanding Billy Bishop airport.
(Prime Minister, you and Premier Ford are both 61 and have a seemingly warm relationship despite wildly different education and business paths. (29, 30, 31, 32) Might you have time for some evening finance tutorials?)
Prime Minister Carney:
We don’t need this, we don’t want this, we can’t afford this.
Please say no to this expansion plan.
Please allow the legal agreements governing the airport to remain in the hands of those who legally own it — the City of Toronto and the federal government — and not with Premier Ford’s provincial government who is attempting to autocratically rule something in which it has no stake.
At the Junos six days ago on March 29, 2026 you praised 82-year-old @jonimitchell and justifiably called her "one of the greatest artists of all time." (33)
Joni warned us about "paving paradise to put up a parking lot" and now that’s exactly what Premier Ford is proposing we do.
The Toronto Harbour, Toronto Harbourfront, and Toronto Islands are a crown jewel for the functioning of our great city, our great province, and our great country.
Would New York City pave over Central Park?
Would Paris put runways on the Seine?
We absolutely should not pave the paradise of Lake Ontario to put up runways and parking lots we don’t need, don’t want, and can’t afford.
It's not too late.
Please say no.
Thank you,
Neil Pasricha
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(1) theglobeandmail.com/gift/084…
theglobeandmail.com/politics…
(2) portstoronto.com/wp-content/…
(3) environmentaldefence.ca/2026…
(4) thestar.com/news/gta/tens-of…
(5) billybishopairport.com/wp-co…
(6) theglobeandmail.com/canada/a…
(7) cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/f…
theglobeandmail.com/canada/a…
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(8) theglobeandmail.com/canada/a…
(9) torontopearson.com/en/corpor…
(10) britishaviationgroup.co.uk/k…
(11) nowtoronto.com/news/pearson-…
(12) nature.com/articles/s44284-0…
(13) pm.gc.ca/en/news/news-releas…
(14) canada.ca/en/services/enviro…
(15) audubon.org/news/audubon-app…
(16) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C…
(17) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London…
tsb.gc.ca/eng/surveillance-w…
(18) toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2024…
(19) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_…
(20) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_O…
(21) occ.ca/rapidpolicy/ontario-p…
(22) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_O…
(23) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_O…
(24) globalnews.ca/news/11746458/…
(25) budget.ontario.ca/2026/brief…
(26) ofina.on.ca/borrowing_debt/d…
(27) budget.ontario.ca/2026/chapt…
(28) ontario.ca/page/public-accou…
(29) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_C…
(30) proquest.com/docview/3014644…
(31) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_F…
(32) theglobeandmail.com/news/tor…
(33) youtube.com/watch?v=6pbVWyjl…
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IdontlikeJello retweeted
Hi, I know I'm at Altima. I pay the bills, but when their techs call your company to fix your lines, your employees deny repair. You need to work with @AltimaTel when they contact you! That's why I'm asking here!!
Hi, I know I'm at Altima. I pay the bills, but when their techs call your company to fix your lines, your employees deny repair. You need to work with @AltimaTel when they contact you! That's why I'm asking here!!
IdontlikeJello retweeted
@RogersHelps @Rogers @AltimaTel @cityoftoronto
Maybe fix the issue rather then forcing a user of your lines jump through hoops just so my ISP can get my internet fixed. Stopped rejecting repair requests!!
@Rogers @RogersHelps can you please stop reject request for repairs on the line when @AltimaTel calls you!!
As I've told them it's not a speed issue it's latency, it goes as high as 800.. your lines need your repair techs, nothing I can do if you keep rejecting repairs!!!
IdontlikeJello retweeted
@Rogers @RogersHelps can you please stop reject request for repairs on the line when @AltimaTel calls you!!
As I've told them it's not a speed issue it's latency, it goes as high as 800.. your lines need your repair techs, nothing I can do if you keep rejecting repairs!!!
IdontlikeJello retweeted
@RogersHelps @Rogers can you please send a tech to fix the damn lines you rent to @AltimaTel they have requested 3 repairs from your guys and it's been rejected each time. My latency is 400-700, it takes 5 mins for Google to load. Please work with them when they call for a tech!!
IdontlikeJello retweeted
@AmazonHelp @amazon @twitch @TwitchSupport @JeffBezos @djclancy999
Here is the highlight of dealing with live chat support and the whole nothing they did to help
Check out this video "Twitch chat support not giving a shit" twitch.tv/idontlikejello/v/2…
