Batman plays Fortnite on Elon Musk Internet | Table of Content Episode 36

TABLE OF CONTENT TALKING POINTS Episode 36

2-28-2021

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Zazz - Welcome to Table of Content. A show by streamers for streamers and the wonderful people who support them. I am Zazzaboo your host and the Editor in Chief of TableOC.com. We have two great streamers here tonight ready to drop their opinions on us about the latest but first

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Intro guests -For the first time ever on the show fatLincoln Jeff. Welcome.

We are also joined again fresh out of the gym, sporting massive gains The TigheCon of Twitch TighefighterX1

Streaming News

Shares Scary Encounter That Forced Her to End Her Stream Abruptly

First, Any time a streamer goes live anything can happen. IRL streams tend to have the craziest things happen but not generally when you are in your own home.

From essentially sports dot com

Tricia “Triciaisabirdy” Wang is one of top cooking streamers on the platform. The 27-year-old chef who trained at the famous Le Cordon Bleu in Paris has one of the best streams for Japanese cuisines. But the full-time professional chef had to endure a nightmare on her stream live because of troubling nuisance.

In her latest stream, Triciaisabirdy was streaming like most days. While cooking seared scallops with balsamic caviar, lemon curd and parsley oil, the stream had a very unusual moment when an unknown voice could be heard. Tricia was unsure on what was happening, but something felt definitely wrong.

An intruder had entered her home.

Tricia at first couldn’t comprehend what was happening, which led her to ask her roommates. She asks the intruder to leave her house, who, in turn, asks her to come with him. After realizing that someone had broken into her house, she asked her roommate to call the police. Before the incident moves on further, Tricia ends her stream, leaving everyone worried about her.

Tricia continued to update her viewers on the incident through her Twitter handle. She posted a tweet after the intruder was arrested by the police and believed that the person was mentally unstable. She told her fans that the intruder’s intention was to save her and called her a princess in need of help.

Just a note out there to weird stalkers. No streamer gives a crap about you or needs you to come meet them in real life. Please get help for your delusions from a professional.

Tighe - What can we as streamers do to make these trolls and freakazoids realize this shit is not ok.

https://pitchfork.com/news/distrokid-announces-new-twitch-affiliate-partnership-program/

In our first piece of news, yet another company has teamed up with twitch to allow their partners to circumvent the requirements for affiliate status.

From pitchfork.com

DistroKid has announced a new partnership with Twitch to offer artists a path to join the Twitch Affiliate Program, which enables streamers to earn money via the platform. In order to qualify, artists must first have a release live on DistroKid for at least 30 days and have a minimum of three streams on Spotify. Artists who meet those criteria and apply will be accepted into the Twitch Affiliate Program. “DistroKid member artists do not need to meet any additional requirements or criteria,” according to a representative.

Jeff- How do you feel about artists being able to bypass the metrics you and I had to work for?

Twitch (Hilariously) Replaces Metallica BlizzCon Performance With Elevator Music

Twitch once again makes a PR misstep. This time in their Blizzcon coverage which is bringing the DMCA controversy back to the forefront and ironically this gaff includes Killjoy OG’s Metallica.

From THR

Twitch users were in stitches Friday night when the gaming channel of the live streaming service placed lame music over Metallica rocking out at BlizzCon.

The iconic band was part of the opening ceremony of the annual gaming convention held by Blizzard Entertainment.

And as soon as James Hetfield and gang began to rock their classic, "For Whom the Bell Tolls," Twitch piped in generic, boring (free) music to avoid a Digital Millennium Copyright Act takedown order. It appears only the Twitch gaming channel replaced the music.

Between the laughs, fans pointed out the band was one the most outspoken acts when it came to creating musical streaming laws, suing Napster in 2000.

Last year, guitarist Kirk Hammett said the band's battle against streaming was, in hindsight, a lost cause

Stump -  Once again twitch steps in it. What do you see as a solution to their seemingly never ending series of gaffs?

Tech/Gaming News

Epic will pay off class-action loot-box settlement with in-game currency

Epic is set to fork over some cash as the result of a lawsuit which included those dastardly loot boxes.

Here's what arstechnica had to say

Epic is set to settle a class-action lawsuit over its use of randomized loot boxes in Fortnite's "Save the World" mode by paying affected players with in-game currency. Rocket League players who previously purchased loot boxes in that game will also receive an in-game payment.

While Epic never offered loot boxes in Fortnite's mega-popular battle royale mode, it let "Save the World" players purchase "loot llamas" full of random items until early 2019 (amid international outcry about the randomized loot-box business and its similarity to gambling). Shortly after ending the practice, Epic was faced with a class-action lawsuit alleging, among other things, that it had "psychologically manipulate[d] its young players into thinking they will 'get lucky.'"

Under a proposed settlement for that suit, which Epic says has achieved preliminary approval, all players who purchased a loot llama at any time will be rewarded with 1,000 V-Bucks (worth roughly $8). Even though it's settling a US lawsuit, Epic says this same deal will apply to all Fortnite players globally.

Epic estimates roughly 6.5 million Fortnite players and 2.9 million Rocket League players will receive the automatic virtual currency payments, according to The Verge. That suggests a rough valuation of over $78.3 million in digital reward payouts as part of the settlement. [Update: An Epic spokesperson has clarified to Ars Technica that these numbers only cover the US players who will be receiving the digital currency payout. An undisclosed number of non-US Fortnite players will also be receiving the 1,000 V-Bucks.]

Jeff - Is it reasonable for this to be settled with in game loot and currency?

Twitter announces paid Super Follows to let you charge for tweets

Twitter announced a pair of big upcoming features today: the ability for users to charge their followers for access to additional content, and the ability to create and join groups based around specific interests. They’re two of the more substantial changes to Twitter in a while, but they also fit snugly into models that have been popular and successful on other social platforms.

The payment feature, called Super Follows, will allow Twitter users to charge followers and give them access to extra content. That could be bonus tweets, access to a community group, subscription to a newsletter, or a badge indicating your support. In a mockup screenshot, Twitter showed an example where a user charges $4.99 per month to receive a series of perks. Twitter sees it as a way to let creators and publishers get paid directly by their fans.

Twitter also announced a new feature called Communities, which appear to be its take on something like Facebook Groups. People can create and join groups around specific interests — like cats or plants, Twitter suggests — allowing them to see more tweets focused on those topics. Groups have been a huge success for Facebook (and a huge moderation problem, too), and they could be a particularly helpful tool on Twitter, since the service’s open-ended nature can make it difficult for new users to get started on the platform.

Tighe - Some people were trending #riptwitter when this news came out. Do you think a monetization option is a bad idea here?

https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/22/22296209/elon-musk-starlink-speeds-double-2021

From the verge

Starlink, SpaceX’s satellite-based internet provider, will double in speed “later this year”, according to a tweet by Elon Musk, posted as a reply to someone who had just received their Starlink beta kit (via CNET). The company currently promises speeds between 50 to 150Mbps, and Musk specifically calls out a 300Mbps goal in his tweet.

While 300Mbps isn’t unheard-of speed, it’s faster than many people currently have access to, especially in the low-to-medium population density areas that Musk talks about targeting in a second tweet.

In the reply, Elon also tells the person that their latency should improve to around 20ms as well. In the speed test screenshots, their latency was at 34 and 44ms respectively, while Starlink’s website says to expect between 20 and 40ms during the beta.

The speed increase and latency improvements should come as a nice surprise to anyone who put down a $100 Starlink pre-order. However, it’s well known that Elon’s promises about the future should be taken with a grain of salt, especially if they’re about timelines. Still, this shows that SpaceX is looking to speed up Starlink, and it might be able to keep pace with what’s available from a copper wire running to your house.

Stump - In an area like ours where we only have 1 choice for internet do you think this service will make a good competitor?

Entertainment News

Spider-Man 3 Title Officially Revealed: No Way Home - Screen Rant

Lastly from screenrant

Spider-Man 3 is officially titled Spider-Man: No Way Home. Marvel Studios and Sony Pictures Entertainment's collaboration on the web-slinging hero has come a long way since it first started in 2015. It was followed by Tom Holland's Peter Parker debuting in Captain America: Civil War and since then, he's appeared in a Marvel Cinematic Universe film every year. That includes two solo movies, as well as two Avengers projects. Now, the character will embark on another standalone adventure.

Not much is known about the plot details for Spider-Man 3 as of now, but it sounds like it's shaping to be one of the most interesting projects in MCU Phase 4. While Holland and other filmmakers have been mum about narrative specifics, they've been hyping the project as they're currently in the middle of production. Several set images have also made their way online, giving an idea about what to expect from the blockbuster. More recently, Marvel Studios and Sony Pictures Entertainment have started marketing the film with the release of the first look on the movie, as well as some fake titles just to troll the public.

It's also exciting to finally know the movie's title, especially after the many fake outs. Audiences have been speculating about the sequel's name since it was first announced, with No Way Home even trending on Twitter just ahead of the reveal. Considering most assume the movie will focus on the multiverse, the title makes a lot of sense. It's entirely possible Holland's Spider-Man will find himself on a different world or in a different timeline, perhaps aided by Tobey Maguire or Andrew Garfield's Spider-Men. With so many rumors and reports already swirling about Spider-Man: No Way Home, the newly revealed title should only increase the speculation. Hopefully, more information will be revealed as the movie nears its release date later this year.

Jeff - What are you looking forward to with this possible multi spidey crossover?

Batman’s next comic series is a Fortnite crossover

DC Comics and Fortnite developer Epic Games are joining forces on a new Batman and Fortnite-themed crossover comic book. The six-issue miniseries, titled Batman / Fortnite: Zero Point, will debut on April 20th. Two issues will then launch in both May and June before the series concludes with a final issue on July 6th.

Longtime Fortnite fans might have perked up at the mention of the Zero Point, a reality-warping ball of energy that is hovering over the middle of the Fortnite island and is the catalyst for this season’s many brand crossovers. (Just yesterday, Ellen Ripley and the Xenomorph from the Alien series were added to the game.) It seems the Zero Point will play a key role in this comic miniseries, according to this plot summary:

“A crack splits the sky above Gotham City... a tear in reality itself. This rift pulls the Dark Knight into a bizarre and unfamiliar world, with no memory of who he is or where he came from...Batman has been drawn into Fortnite!

As he fights to recall his past and escape an endless loop of chaos and struggle, he’ll come face-to-face with the likes of Renegade Raider, Fishstick, Bandolier, and more. While the world’s greatest detective strives to make sense of this strange new world, he’ll uncover the shocking truth about the Island, what lies beyond the Loop, and how everything is connected to the mysterious Zero Point.”

Print issues will have codes for DC-themed in-game Fortnite items inspired by the comic, and US subscribers to the DC Universe Infinite app will get the full series and codes for the in-game items for free.

Tighe - As someone who is not a fan of Fortnite how does this make you feel?

https://www.cinemablend.com/news/2563302/dcs-blue-beetle-movie-just-took-a-major-step-forward?pv=related_list 

Lastly, He may be a lesser known character but he is definitely an interesting one and one that this host looks forward to seeing on the big screen.

From cinemablend

It’s still a mystery as to how the DC Comics universe will move forward with an overall plan of action. With both the Aquaman and Wonder Woman franchises acting as holdovers from the originally planned DC Extended Universe, there’s room for new heroes like Blue Beetle to join in on the fun. And now, the long-planned film adaptation of Jaime Reyes’s antics has just taken a major step forward, landing Angel Manuel Soto as its director.

This information was reported by The Wrap, as movement on the Blue Beetle solo film has made that momentous leap into action. Soto’s work as a director could recently be seen with the HBO Max original Charm City Kings, and now that film has helped catapult him into a prime directing gig on this Warner Bros / DC Comics project. Rounding out the team of talent crafting this new story is writer Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer, whose previous projects include the still developing remake of Scarface.

Here’s the part where the usual caveats come in, so grab some snacks and a drink, because it’s time to temper those expectations. Blue Beetle currently has no plot details, no casting information, and no intended release date in mind for its finished product to debut. However, we do have a new clue as to when we can expect everything to fall into place, as this report states that Blue Beetle is supposed to go into production at some point this fall.

And, of course, DC Comics fans are probably wondering if Booster Gold will somehow play a part of the proceedings. It’s a fair consideration, as he’s typically associated with the Blue Beetle series, and the two have teamed up in the past.

Which brings us to another question when it comes to Blue Beetle’s ultimate endgame: what side of the DC Comics Tone Spectrum will the movie land? Is Blue Beetle better suited as a super serious origin story that brings Jaime’s origins into dramatic life? Or, with his association with Booster Gold, does that mean that Mr. Reyes would be better fit to make a funnier, lighthearted adventure?

Stump - I am a little sad we wont get Ted Kord as blue beetle. How do you feel about this being a movie more than an ongoing series?

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