Stocks, Crypto and Mortal Kombat | Table of Content Episode 35

TABLE OF CONTENT TALKING POINTS Episode 35

2-21-2021

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Intro guests - Gracing us with his presence once again the Pun Prince of Twitch Mr Symphonic313.

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

Streaming News

Twitch can be a great way to make a bit of extra money and some streamers are coming up with new ways to bring in donations.

From techgeeked

Twitch streamer Asian Andy made $16,000 in one night while filming himself sleeping.He set up text-to-speech for his comments and let the audience have their fun.Andy also had an Alexa available for the audience to use in their comments.The commenters messed with him by pretending someone was looking in his window, faking alarm noises, and making Alexa play annoying songs.Although he didn’t get much sleep that night, I’m sure he wasn’t upset considering how much money he made.

Andy has a following of about 40,000 people on Twitch, which he uses to film other hilarious antics.

He thanked his audience for their generosity, stating that he used to drive for Uber and now he doesn’t have to any more thanks to their support.  Despite this idea being hilarious, it isn’t new. Other streamers have been doing this trend since 2017 and making money, although not as much as Andy. Apparently, allowing people to interrupt your sleep in comedic ways is very popular streaming content.

Symph: If this sort of stream can take off what other antics do you think we can monetize?

The internet is forever kids. Every dumb thing you say and do online will follow you. One streamer is going to be learning that the hard way.

From insider

Twitch streamer KillaMfCam has been banned from the platform after a clip of him appearing to scream at his dog and child on stream went viral. The small streamer, whose Twitter banner reads "Aspiring gamer, single father of a beatiful [sic] 3yr old" had his account taken down hours after the clip circulated online.

On Monday, YouTuber Frizzable tuned into KillaMfCam's stream after just killing the streamer in Escape from Tarkov, a survival shooter.  The 21-year-old posted a two-minute edited clip of what he saw on stream as well as linking the full recording, so viewers could make up their minds for themselves.

After being defeated, KillaMfCam got up out of his chair and started yelling at something off-camera. After a string of expletives at a screaming child The clip ends with the streamer saying "I'm going to break your f--- neck dude."

As the original tweet started to become more popular, calls for KillaMfCam to get banned from Twitch started to gain traction. On Tuesday, his account was suspended on the platform, though it's unclear if it is permanent. A representative for Twitch told Insider, "We do not tolerate threats of violence on Twitch, and consider these zero-tolerance violations. We take swift action to indefinitely suspend accounts associated with these activities when they are reported to us."

Stump: Do you think Twitch has a responsibility to report something like this to authorities?

In our first story, Just exactly how big can the streaming industry grow? Will the growth keep reaching new heights? It did last month.

From gameindustry.biz

Live streaming continues to grow, as the latest report from StreamElements and analytics partner Rainmaker.gg (formerly Arsenal.gg) says Twitch and Facebook Gaming both more than doubled the numbers of hours watched in January 2021 compared to January of 2020.

StreamElements says Twitch and Facebook Gaming saw a 117% increase year-over-year in January 2021, with Twitch's all-time high reached at over 2 billion hours and Facebook Gaming exceeding 439 million hours.

On Twitch, the Just Chatting category led with 242 million hours watched, followed by survival game Rust at 189 million and League of Legends at third place with 163 million.

These numbers top those from a record-setting month in December, when Twitch accumulated 1.7 billion hours watched and Facebook Gaming picked up 388 million hours.

Tighe: How high can we go from here? At what point does traditional media take a back seat to new media like streaming?

Tech/Gaming News

Looking for a new Nvidia 3060 video card? Well this one might not be exactly what you are looking for.

Nvidia is purposefully making its new RTX 3060 graphics cards less efficient to mine Ethereum cryptocurrency. New drivers that will accompany the release of the GPUs later this month will reduce the hash rate of Ethereum mining by around 50 percent, using software detection for cryptocurrency mining.

It’s clear Nvidia is making the changes to try to help with the availability of its GeForce products. Nvidia is offering a new Cryptocurrency Mining Processor (CMP) for Ethereum miners instead. These will include the best performance for mining and efficiency, but they won’t handle graphics at all. Nvidia says these CMP products, crucially, “don’t impact the availability of GeForce GPUs to gamers.”

The CMP products won’t have display inputs so they can be more densely packed into systems designed for mining. Nvidia is also ensuring CMPs have lower peak core voltage and frequency to improve the big power requirements associated with Ethereum mining. “With CMP, we can help miners build the most efficient data centers while preserving GeForce RTX GPUs for gamers,” says Wuebbling.

Symph: Is this just a pr stunt by nvidia to show they are making an effort to help with the availability of gpus?

Secondly, The mania over the Wallstreetbets stock frenzy over gamestop doesn't seem to want to come to an end. One of the leaders of the movement RoaringKitty is not the target of a lawsuit.

More from business insider,

Keith Gill, who goes by RoaringKitty on Twitter and YouTube, was hit with a securities-fraud lawsuit over his role in the rise of GameStop stock, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday.

Gill gained a following as he documented his "YOLO" trade in GameStop on Reddit's Wall Street Bets forum for more than a year. He invested $53,000 in GameStop stock and call options in June 2019. The value of those securities peaked at about $48 million during GameStop's epic short squeeze last month.

Gill was named in a proposed class-action lawsuit filed in Massachusetts on Tuesday alleging that he misrepresented himself as an amateur investor when in reality he was a licensed securities professional, Bloomberg reported. The suit also alleged that Gill profited from GameStop's rise by artificially inflating the price of the stock.

"Gill's deceitful and manipulative conduct not only violated numerous industry regulations and rules, but also various securities laws by undermining the integrity of the market for GameStop shares," the lawsuit said, according to Bloomberg.

Gill and the CEOs of Robinhood, Reddit, Melvin Capital, and Citadel are set to testify before Congress on Thursday about the GameStop saga.

Tighe: Even though he is a finance professional Gill is one man. How do you feel about lawsuits going after the “little guy” for finding an opening in the system?

Next up more woes for video game developers in 2021 as Amazons new MMO New world gets another delay.

Gamesradar has this to say

Amazon Game Studios has delayed its upcoming MMORPG New World once again, this time pushing it to August 31, 2021.

New World was previously delayed from May to August 2020, and it was more recently pushed to spring 2021. Compared to its second delay, this move to August 31 is comparatively small. Amazon is also speaking in more specific terms with regards to dates and time frames, so while this isn't necessarily the game's final delay, it seems that New World is coming into some form.

"We've been hard at work on compelling end-game features we believe are important to include at launch," a development update explains. "These features won't be ready for the spring timeframe that we had communicated."

Many of these newly added features will be available in the New World closed beta test, which is now scheduled to launch on July 20.

Stump: Should studios  just stop making promises they clearly cant keep?

Entertainment News

FINISH HIM! The new mortal Kombat trailer is out. Here is what the thrillist had to say.

One moment in the new Mortal Kombat trailer perhaps tells you all you need to know about what kind of violent, over-the-top movie this is going to be. The warrior known as Sub-Zero (Joe Taslim) stabs someone with his ice knife, and then, using his freezing powers, makes a second knife from the blood that spurts from that first wound. Yes, it's pretty gnarly.

The latest attempt to bring the iconic video game to the big screen is directed by first time feature director Simon McQuoid, best known previously for his work on commercials. (The first adaptation, directed by Paul W. S. Anderson in 1995, remains a ridiculous, difficult to top cult classic.) The plot, as far as we can tell, centers around an MMA fighter named Cole (Lewis Tan), who assembles a team of superhumans to enter into a fighting tournament to stop an impending apocalypse. But really you're in it to see the brutal fatalities, right? Well, they are there. As is that key catchphrase, "Finish him!"

Mortal Kombat, being a Warner Bros. release, is hitting theaters and HBO Max April 16.

Symphonic: Was this a title you played as a kid or is this only exciting for us boomers?

Constantine is hardly DC's highest-profile character, but he's apparently one of the most adaptable; HBO Max is prepping a new series for the character in partnership with J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot production company, according to a report from Deadline.

The series will focus on a slightly younger version of John Constantine, the lead character from the Hellblazer comics. The creators are apparently looking for a non-white actor for the role. According to the report, the show will focus on the comic's horror roots more than the religious focus that previous incarnations have generally focused on. Newcomer Guy Bolton is writing the pilot script, and the series will reportedly connect to HBO Max's planned Justice League Dark, which Abrams is also producing.

DC previously preferred to keep its live-action incarnations to one actor playing one character, but the success of the CW's The Flash weakened that resolve, and the on-screen appearances of three different Barry Allen Flashes and three Supermen for the CW's Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover all but shattered it.

The show is in the early stages of planning, so we don't know when it'll premiere, but when it does it will join HBO Max's growing list of dark DC Comics shows alongside the likes of James Gunn's Peacemaker, Justice League Dark, and DC Universe shows Doom Patrol and Titans, along with more traditional superhero fare like the announced Green Lantern show..

Stump: With now 2 constantines on the horizon which do you think will be the bigger hit?

Robert Pattinson’s stunt double on The Batman recently tested positive for COVID-19, according to The Sun. As a result, the stuntman and his team were forced to isolate for ten days. This marks the third time The Batman has had to contend with a positive COVID case on set. Last year, Robert Pattinson himself reportedly tested positive as did another member of the movie’s stunt team. Pattinson’s diagnosis came shortly after the film restarted production in the UK following the initial pandemic lockdown.

As you can imagine, this latest case of COVID can’t be easy for Matt Reeves and Warner Bros. to deal with. A source tells The Sun that although the studio’s testing methods are proving to be effective, having the lead stuntman and his team away from set is a reportedly “a headache” for Warner Bros.

Despite this, it actually seems the film’s production timeline won’t be too heavily affected by this new development. The source did go on to say that filming is still set to wrap on time: The Batman is currently scheduled to hit theaters on March 4, 2022.

Tighe: As with video games should movies alter their release schedules or just stop hyping things so early?

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