Did Loki suck?! "I don’t have good things to say about that show"-Eminent Stump Table of Content World Episode 48

TABLE OF CONTENT TALKING POINTS Episode (48)

7-18-21

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Zazz - Welcome to Episode 2 of Table of Content World. 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. ~Welcome to our regularly scheduled guest host Eminent Stump.

Stump do you want to tell us about your up coming excursion?

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Streaming News

Despite Twitch ban, Amouranth beats Pokimane & Valkyrae to become the most-watched streamer 

The entire Twitch community has long been trying to get Amouranth off the platform for a multitude of reasons - most notably, her "suggestive content".

However, it seems like her plans to gain popularity through 'pseudo-ASMR' content have been paying off well so far. She recently became the most-watched female streamer across every platform out there, with a watch time of 13 million hours on Twitch.

With this record, she has beaten Valkyrae and Pokimane - two of the most influential and popular female streamers at the moment. 

Well her plans have worked and many of those who criticized her may have added to the 13 million hours watched on Twitch. This is not the first time the hypocrisy of a community has been exposed like this. The world has seen people secretly follow the content of those who they have condemned many a time.

On a different note, Amouranth's achievement might be alarming to some in the community. While the Twitch community condemns her content as being provocative, suggestive and harmful, this achievement goes to show that her content has a rather massive target audience.

BATS - As someone who was banned for something inconsequential how does this stuff hit you?

Ludwig warns Twitch will "die" if streamers just keep reacting to each other 

Ludwig Ahgren has spoken out against Twitch streamers reacting to each other’s clips every broadcast, warning the ever-popular streaming platform may “slowly die” if stars continue to simply rely on others’ content rather than creating their own.

“There are just too many ‘React Andys’ now,” he said.

“They’ve gone too far. I feel like people go live and all they do is watch other people’s content. I mean, it’s fine, I do it, but it’s really becoming too much.”

The Twitch star warned, if left unchecked, the meta of streamers “feeding” off each other’s content could have major repercussions for the platform: “That content is fun, yeah, I like it. But if everyone does it, all the time, then the whole Twitch ecosystem dies. Someone has to be creating content for people to keep stealing.

“What we need is fresh content, instead of all the reactions.⁠

Rogue  -  If this is the case do you think it could open the door for more smaller streamers to step into higher profile roles and fill the void left by react andys??

YouTube takes a page out of the Twitch playbook with subscriber-only chat 

Over the past couple of years, YouTube has worked on establishing itself as a streaming platform where gamers can stream their gameplay live to their followers, much like Twitch. Borrowing a few plays from the Twitch playbook, YouTube just added a few features that will make live streaming more enjoyable for both the streamer and their viewers.

According to a new YouTube Help post, the company is looking to make its platform more streamer-friendly. The first major update that YouTube has recently pushed out is the ability for a streamer to select subscriber-only chat.

The platform also added polls to YouTube stream chats. Polls are a great way for a streamer to interact with their audience, and it allows the audience to have some input on a streamer’s content.

The last new feature is the ability for a streamer’s audience to share clips on the stream. This feature has been incredibly popular on Twitch and is a great way for people to discover new content creators on the platform. For now, YouTube’s clip feature is only for users with more than 1,000 subscribers, but the platform said it would eventually roll the feature out to everyone.

Stump -  We have speculated for a long time about when youtube would make a push at Twitch. Do you think this is a good step?

Tech/Gaming News - 

Twitter is killing Fleets

Twitter is killing Fleets less than a year after launching the Stories-like feature to all its users. All Fleets will disappear for the final time on August 3rd.

The short lived feature was at times controversial. Soon after it rolled out to all Twitter users last November, many raised questions about how the feature could be used to target others for harassment. Others questioned whether Twitter really needed a “Stories” feature of its own.

In a blog post, Twitter VP of Product Ilya Brown said the company hadn’t “seen an increase in the number of new people joining the conversation with Fleets like we hoped.” Brown added that Spaces will continue to get placement at the top of users’ timelines and that the company is still analyzing the full-screen ads it started testing in Fleets last month (Twitter hinted at the time that the new ad format could eventually make its way to other places in the service, too).

Bats - On this show we've often laughed at the fact that every service now has stories. Are you surprised that Twitter is the first one to give up on them?

Valve Announces the Steam Deck, a $400 Handheld Gaming PC 

The Steam Deck has a form factor similar to that of a slightly larger Nintendo Switch but with the capabilities of a full gaming PC. It runs a modified version of Valve’s SteamOS, complete with a new console-like interface for easy navigation of both the Steam store and your Steam library, but it also provides access to an unrestricted computer desktop where any third-party applications can be installed (including non-Steam games or launchers).

In terms of hardware, the Steam Deck has a 7-inch, 1280x800 resolution, 60hz LCD screen, a custom AMD APU featuring a 4-core, 8-thread CPU paired with 8 RDNA 2 compute units for the GPU, and 16 GBs of LPDDR5 RAM. Practically speaking, that makes it a substantial amount stronger than the Switch, allowing it to run modern games impressively well.

Jedi Fallen Order on an in-development Steam Deck at “High” graphical settings with little-to-no issue. It can even suspend running games like a console, and Valve says the intent is really to give players access to their entire Steam library on the go.

The Steam Deck doesn’t have a hard release date yet but it’s currently set for a holiday 2021 launch, and Valve President Gabe Newell told IGN that hitting these price points was 'painful' but 'critical'. 

Rogue- Valve has a history of under supporting or abandoning support for its hardware should users be wary of that here? (then give your thoughts on the console.)

Xbox Boss Phil Spencer Voices Concerns Over Preservation of Video Game History 

 Xbox boss Phil Spencer has aired his concerns regarding the preservation of video game history, with Microsoft's backwards compatibility programme contributing to ensuring that a library of games is always available on an Xbox console. This isn't the always the case, however, with backwards compatibility a relatively rare thing on other platforms.

However, other companies place far less stock in preserving a back catalogue, as recently evidenced in Sony's decision to close its old browser-based PlayStation Store, making certain digital titles unobtainable. While Sony eventually U-turned on plans to shut down the PS Store on PS Vita and PS3 consoles, questions surrounding how much value there is in games preservation have been raised.

“I do worry a little bit about losing our artform and the history of it,” Spencer told the Kinda Funny Gamescast (via GameSpot). “When I think about old ROMs and MAME and these things of where these old games are going to go as the hardware that's capable of running those games. I really wish as an industry we'd come together to help preserve the history of what gaming is about, so we don't lose the ability to go back.” 

On preservation, one of the things that the cloud does offer us is the ability to throw more hardware at some of the emulation scenarios, to make it possible to really emulate,” Spencer continued. “When we’re in the cloud, we don’t have to worry about the local compute capability to emulate those old systems. It's one of the reasons why we look at the cloud and we continue on some of our backward compatibility work, which we are still working on, because I want those games to still be playable.”

Stump - We've talked a lot about backwards compatibility but approaching it from a historical preservation perspective may be what the industry needs to make it finally make it a priority.

FootNotes-  Other Notable News

Dwayne Johnson has confirmed that Black Adam has finished filming with video from the set. The movie started filming back in april and has given out many teases during production but we will have to wait until next summer for the finished product.

Don Cheadle has revealed that Armor Wars wont begin filming until next year. Marvel Studios announced at the end of 2020 that Cheadle will return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe and star in a solo project as James Rhodes aka The War Machine. We wont likely see this spin off until sometime in 2023.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, THE CONTINENTAL a John Wick Spinoff series has a director. Albert Hughes will direct two episodes of what is now a three-episode event series for Showtime. Each episode is said to be 90 minutes and will carry a budget of around $20 million each.

Loki director and executive producer Kate Herron says she won’t be returning for season 2. Loki ended in a game-changing event earlier this week that will forever send shockwaves throughout the Marvel Cinematic Universe. We hope the series still fairs well with a new director.

Entertainment News - 

James Gunn Reveals Why Jared Leto's Joker Isn't In 'The Suicide Squad' 

The Suicide Squad writer and director James Gunn has revealed why Jared Leto’s Joker doesn’t show up in his film.

Whether you liked it or not, Jared Leto’s Joker was a core part of David Ayer’s Suicide Squad. Looming over the entire Squad, Leto’s Joker received mixed responses from critics and audiences. Some found his character to be juvenile and annoying, while others praised the updated gangster take on the iconic Batman villain. After the film received middling reception, Leto’s Joker was sidelined in favor of Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn, who received unanimous praise. And so, Joker and Harley Quinn’s relationship was severed in Birds of Prey, and the Clown Prince of Crime isn’t set to appear in James Gunn’s upcoming Suicide Squad sequel.

Gunn had this to say

“I just don’t know why Joker would be in the Suicide Squad. He wouldn’t be helpful in that type of war situation. I wanted to create what I thought of as the Suicide Squad. For me to react to David’s movie would make it the shadow of David’s movie. I wanted it to be its own thing completely.”

“When Warner Bros. said they wanted me to do this, I watched the first movie for the first time, and I called them back and said, what do I have to keep from this movie? And they said, nothing. They said, listen, we would love it if Margot’s in the movie but she doesn’t have to be. You could come up with all new characters or you could keep all the same characters.”

Bats - We here on TOC aren't exactly big Jared Leto fans so lets get some fresh perspective. Does this help or hurt expectations for this movie?

BLACK WIDOW's Writer Was in the Dark About Post-Credits Scene

 We like to think that Marvel Studios maps out everything years in advance. But, some scenes start filming before anyone really knows what’s happening next. Black Widow is a perfect example of that. Writer Eric Pearson wrote Black Widow and several other Marvel projects including Thor: Ragnarok, Ant-Man, Avengers: Infinity War, and more. And even he was in the dark when it came to a Black Widow plot point.

IPearson wrote the scene featuring Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ Valentina Allegra de Fontaine. When she hands Yelena (Florence Pugh) the photo for her next assignment, no one, not even Pearson, knew who the heck it was even going to be.

Rogue - Interesting that they are keeping secrets even from writers. Why do you think that might be?

https://screenrant.com/guardians-galaxy-3-william-shatner-role-interest/ 

When asked if he would join the Guardians for the third installment, Star Trek actor William Shatner exclaimed, "I've guarded the galaxy many times."

Guardians 3 still hasn't begun filming, at the moment aiming for a late fall start, though director James Gunn has claimed to have at least completed the soundtrack. After rumors that Luke Skywalker actor Mark Hamill would be in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, the Kirk actor now putting his name in the race showcases just how much fans want their sci-fi galaxies to collide.

In an interview with Express, Shatner revealed he is more than willing to play a role in the third Guardians of the Galaxy film. While discussing Senior Moment, Shatner teased the possibility of rejoining the Starship Enterprise again as long as it was "it was something worthy," before going on to say he'd love for Quentin Tarantino to direct Star Trek. When asked about any interest in joining Star-Lord and Gamora in the stars, Shatner exclaimed, "Yeah! I’ve guarded the galaxy many times."

Stump - Who wouldn't want Shatner in their movie?

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