2020 is almost over! Lets get our chat on. | Table of Content S2 Finale

TABLE OF CONTENT TALKING POINTS S2 E22

12/20/2020

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Zazz - Welcome to Table of Content. The round table show where we discuss all the happenings around streaming, gaming and entertainment. I am joined by the co host w the most Eminent_Stump How are you? 

Zazz - Stump will you reach over and grab my bag…. of male and read the latest hatemail.  (tell about hate mail and tell them to send their own bold) [email protected]

you realize that the only clean shaven one was 1jacqie1. Yeah, you got to think if that bill does pass it's an infringement of freedom of speech. Twitch is actually protecting people that is just scary. 

@stump can I call you Stump or does that bug you?

@zazz first don't shot me second is that your actual lip color. 

IVY

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Dear TOC peeps, 

Hi, this is SillyTatsuBear reporting for duty !!! I heard that y'all were complaining about not receiving HATE Mail !!! , cmon peeps its 2020. It's a tough year for us all, we do not have time to write down about how much we hate your show. Our time is so precious to us !!!!!  Oh snap ! No, my precious time is now wasted !! *waves her bear paw fist to the sky as the precious times leaves her*

Yet again , I know it's a podcast !! But please, Please, PLEASE !!!!! for all our sakes can y'all juss smile !!!!! I cannot take anymore of your resting faces !!! 

i figure most of you are tired and what not. But that's no excuse !!! it's better to smile like you are up to no good than look like a stone face killer !!! 

Oh, and Zazz cmon my dude get your act together ! The whole Picture issues - smh .... I cannot even !!! Is it juss one button ?!!! 

haha even that last TOC you blamed me for not telling you didn't change the pic ?!! oh my goodness i know you are like the host !! all of that TOC power is running through your veins, yet YOU forgot to change the pic !!!! mwhahahahaha !!! 

Y'all making this bear lose her brain cells ! i exactly have like 3 left !!! Three !!!! 

Good riddance 2020, Hopefully TOC will be in tip top shape for 2021 !!! (hopefully)

Anywho, thank you so very much for letting me vent. I feel so much better ! To many more ! 

__Sincerely,                   

             SillyTatsuBear

"The most amazing, crazy, candy eating, very talkative, soap patrol bear" 

Intro guests - Returning to the show and it is great to have them @OfficiallyRogue and Deviantlostmind

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Streaming News.

From the verge-

Twitch will no longer allow streamers and commenters to go around calling one another “simps.” The term — a recent favorite in the Twitch community that nominally refers to men who seem desperate for a woman’s attention — will be banned when used as an insult under Twitch’s upcoming revamp of its harassment policy. “Incel” and “virgin” will be banned as insults, too, Twitch COO Sara Clemens said during a live-streamed town hall this afternoon.

The new policy, first spotted by esports consultant Rod Breslau, will go into effect on January 22nd. It also includes stricter rules around sexual harassment and seems to give Twitch more leeway to ban streamers and commenters who make offensive comments.

Rogue - Twitch has since sort of walked this back. Do you think this was a good or bad move?

Streamers everywhere are looking for solutions to the looming DMCA issue. This next fix is definitely a step in the right direction but is only one piece of the puzzle.

From the verge

The biggest change in this version of OBS is support for the feature that Twitch debuted in Twitch Soundtrack — the ability to play music in a second track while you’re streaming to Twitch, so that it can be stripped out of your recorded broadcast, or VOD (video on demand).

OBS pointed out that Twitch helped with the development of the feature, which is interesting because the company already has Soundtrack. I can only imagine it means that this is the latest front in Twitch’s fight with the music industry — because if streamers get used to stripping music from their VODs as a general practice, the problem of people broadcasting copyrighted music on Twitch might eventually solve itself.

Depending on how this integrates with twitch the music would technically still be there in the vods unless you are uploading the vod yourself. This also leaves the problem of live streaming the music in the first place which is a violation. 

Deviant- Do you think this will help with the DMCA issue?

Pokemon pack opening streams have become one of the hotter trends in the streaming realm in the past few months. Fans getting to get that little bit of excitement and endorphin rush of finding a rare card without spending the money themselves has proved to be a great attention getter. However, one of our favorite trolls is here to cash in on the trend in quite a different way.

From polygon,

On Thursday, Chance “sodapoppin” Morris streamed the unthinkable live on Twitch: He dunked rare Pokémon cards in lube. And that’s not all — Morris also set plenty of cards on fire using a flamethrower, rolled cards in dirt, and blended cards in an effort to all-out destroy them.

Nearly 100,000 concurrent viewers tuned in to watch the destruction at certain points; the archived stream has more than 1.2 million views.

Where did Morris get all these cards, you ask? He bought them as part of a rare pack, worth thousands of dollars. There were plenty of duds within that pack, but they all faced the same fate: destruction.

It’s a practice that Morris himself has been critical of. “I got a lot of shit when when I played blackjack on stream because I was ‘promoting gambling to children,’” Morris said on stream in November. “And now Pokémon is big and everyone loves it. And now it’s gambling but with, like, a kid-friendly label slapped on. Gambling, rated PG, for everyone. That’s kinda how it feels.”

Morris’ Pokémon card destruction rally feels like a commentary on that — a cruel, cruel commentary for card collectors everywhere.

Stump - How long until stuff like this gets marked as bullying by twitch?

Tech News

In our first story, US public schools are now buying law enforcement grade spying devices to break into students phones.  Cellebrite, which is used by the FBI, has been purchased by administrations across the country to spy into students' personal devices if there is suspicion they may have done something wrong.

From Gizmodo

While companies like Cellebrite have partnered with federal and local police for years, that the controversial equipment is also available for school district employees to search students’ personal devices has gone relatively unnoticed—and serves as a frightening reminder of how technology originally developed for use by the military or intelligence services, ranging from blast-armored trucks designed for use in war zones to invasive surveillance tools, keeps trickling down to domestic police and even the institutions where our kids go to learn.

Gizmodo analyzed a random sample of 5,000 public school or school district websites across the United States and found that eight district websites mention Cellebrite or another MDFT technology. Because our sample is a relatively small portion of the total number of high schools in the United States—and the ones that stood out did so because they published the purchases as line items in public budget reports—many other school districts may have access to this technology.

The Fourth Amendment protects people in the United States from unreasonable government searches and seizures, including their cell phones. While a search without a warrant is generally considered unreasonable, the situation in schools is a little different.

Cell phones are deeply personal items, and it’s easy to imagine how embarrassing and potentially catastrophic it would be if an administrator or school resource officer used a Cellebrite to download students’ private text messages, photos, social media posts, location history, and more.

Rogue - How do you feel about admins doing this to kids phones?

Live streaming on Periscope is coming to an end. Twitter has announced they will be shutting down the video streaming service for good.

From the verge - 

Twitter will, however, continue to offer live video streaming through its integrated Twitter Live feature within the main Twitter app.

“The Periscope app is in an unsustainable maintenance-mode state, and has been for a while,” the company explained in a blog post. “Over the past couple of years, we’ve seen declining usage and know that the cost to support the app will only continue to go up over time.”

While Periscope won’t be fully shut down until March, the company is already blocking any new account signups starting in the latest update to the apps, which is rolling out today. Users will have the chance to download an archive of both their Periscope videos and their data before the app is shuttered next year. Additionally, the Periscope website will remain active to serve as a “read-only archive of public broadcasts.”

Dev - Do you see something else showing up to take periscopes place ?

Currently, Cyberpunk 2077 is still in a rough state, which goes to show that the console versions are, effectively, still not ready to be released. In a statement released by CD Projekt Red, the studio admitted that it "ignored the signal about the need for additional time to refine the game in the base last-gen consoles." On the bright side of things, while Cyberpunk 2077 is riddled with bugs and glitches, most of them are fixable through a content update.

Although CD Projekt Red recently released a hotfix targeting quest bugs and crashing, it will probably take a while before the game is polished to a near-perfect state, or even a playable one at that. Having said that, players whose only concern is the bugs present in Cyberpunk 2077 should probably hold on to the game, given that CD Projekt Red is working on improving the game's overall experience.

Stump - Refunds are now basically being offered across all platforms. Should gamers all get refunds and wait for patches?

Entertainment News

Chris Pine to Star in a DUNGEONS & DRAGONS Movie 

Super Nerds everywhere are giddy right now. Why? There is talk about a new Dungeons and Dragons Movie and it will allegedly star none other than Captain Kirk himself. No not Shattner. Chris Pine.

From the Nerdist - 

John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein (both directed Game Night and wrote Spider-Man: Homecoming) are directing this Dungeons & Dragons movie. They’re writing the script too; it’s based on a Michael Gilio-penned draft. The film will be an ensemble that, according to Deadline, will take a “subversive approach to the game.” The ensemble part makes total sense. D&D games center on a group of players going on an adventure together. Any movie trying to capture the feeling of the game needs to be a group effort. 

They’re planning to start filming in the first quarter of 2021. That means we should find out about additional cast members soon. We have our eyes open. Don’t worry, we have a solid bonus for our perception rolls.

Rogue - What do you want from a D&D movie?

8. https://nerdist.com/article/the-last-blockbuster-docmentary-trailer/ 

Some of us may remember those great friday nights going to the local video store. Grabbing our favorite candy and the last copy of TMNT 2 the secret of the ooze on VHS. Sadly those days are gone but you can capture a final glimpse in a new documentary.

“The Last Blockbuster follows Sandi Harding, the manager of the world’s last remaining Blockbuster—located in Bend, OR—as she reflects on the store’s vibrant past and navigates the difficult task of keeping a video rental store open in the era of streaming. Taking us through the history and subsequent rise and fall of the franchise, the documentary reveals the real reason why Blockbuster went out of business (hint – it wasn’t Netflix), while celebrating the unique and defining culture it created in the ’80s and ‘90s.”

This documentary, which explores an era of the moviegoing experience that will once feel as outdated as leeching, featuring interviews with comedians and celebrities. That includes Adam Brody, Ione Skye, Doug Benson, Paul Scheer, Ron Funches, and Kevin Smith.

Deviant - What is your top video store memory?

9. Original Boba Fett Actor Jeremy Bulloch Dies at 75 

Star Wars fans can't seem to catch a break with several original cast members passing on the last few years. Now we have lost another.

The man who originally wore the Boba Fett armor, Jeremy Bulloch, has passed away at the age of 75. A post on the actor’s Facebook page says he passed peacefully after health complications. Born in 1945 in Leicestershire in the United Kingdom, Bulloch began his acting career in 1958. Back then he starred in television commercials. He soon transitioned to film and other TV acting roles. Aside from playing Boba Fett in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, he also portrayed Hamlet, appeared in Doctor Who, and Robin of Sherwood. Bulloch had parts in the James Bond franchise too in The Spy Who Loved Me, For Your Eyes Only, and Octopussy. 

Boba Fett became the cult icon of the original trilogy. This led to a long and successful career for Bulloch on the Star Wars convention circuit for many decades. The 501st Legion even inducted Bulloch as an Honorary Member in 2002. He often cosplayed in his Boba Fett costume and made public appearances with them. He was also a frequent guest at Star Wars Weekends at Disney World in Orlando, Florida.  In 2005, he returned to the on-screen Star Wars galaxy for a brief role as the Alderaanian pilot Captain Colton in Revenge of the Sith.

Stump - It seems almost fitting that Disney will be dedicating a new series to the Bounty Hunter after this news.

BOLD PREDICTIONS 

We have not seen the end of grogu in Mandalorian. I predict he will return a full jedi during a war on mandilor. 

Lando Calrissian/ Donald Glover will return for a star wars story featuring Lando as the main character.

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