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RE: [BREAKING] News Thread - Moonface - Aug 30th, 2025
Given it would be international news for that bridge to fail, since it being the tallest in the world makes it more of an attraction than a majority of bridges, I'd hope and assume that they ran every test they could more than once. For this particular test though, they had those trucks on the bridge for five days and there's no chance general public use would see more weight put onto that bridge than 96 trucks, so if anything was going to show up as a problem for that bridge I'd expect that test would be the one to have exposed it.
I also didn't know the area that new bridge is in has over half of the 100 tallest bridges in the world. So I guess they definitely have experience with making beefy bridges that have to really defy gravity.
RE: [BREAKING] News Thread - Dragon Lord - Aug 30th, 2025
I really hope for the sake of the people who will be using that bridge that it will be sturdy. China is known for being able to build things extremely fast, but on the flip side of that, they are also known for building things that easily crumble. I know I would probably never risk driving over a bridge that tall regardless of what country made it. I'll, uh, find another way around, thanks.
RE: [BREAKING] News Thread - Moonface - Sep 2nd, 2025
I'm trying to remember if it's China or somewhere else because I forget what country it is, but I know there's one where there are basically no building regulations and everything comes down to getting it done the fastest and cheapest, safety be damned. I get the feeling it isn't China though because if their buildings were utter shit I wouldn't expect their bridges to be much better, yet there's no news stories of their bridges failing which could be a notable story given how many of their bridges are in the top 100 tallest.
RE: [BREAKING] News Thread - Moonface - Oct 19th, 2025
In a moment that isn't really that shocking to me because it's TwitchCon (seriously I'd be more shocked if nothing happened), but I saw that Emiru (who I had never heard of before today despite her being one of the biggest female streamers on Twitch) was assaulted by a guy during a meet and greet session.
Twitch naturally gave a dismal response to the whole ordeal until Emi popped off on stream today about what actually went down and how bad Twitch's actual response was.
Why the hell any woman would dare go near TwitchCon still is beyond me. I've never heard anything good about that event and it just seems like every year it's a ticking time bomb for something to go wrong.
RE: [BREAKING] News Thread - Mr EliteL - Oct 19th, 2025
Yeah I've been following that a bit, atrocious both the incident and Twitch response. Apparently they only go to Twitch Con because of being contractually obliged to, which you may have come across perhaps if anywhere mentioned it when you were looking at the news of it. Plus her original security personnel was permanently banned for doing his job previously which made absolutely no sense, the assailant walked to her meet-and-greet from a different queue, just WTF. I know Twitch has been her income, but a contract to force you to go to a convention, I wouldn't have it personally, even more so if I were female as they're unfortunately more likely to get despicable people trying to do things. Deplorable. Or go one step further, and he may have done because apparently he did have some sort of weapon on him, so if his first intention was causing worse harm instead, well he would've been successful.
I'm slightly aware how poor Twitch has handled things and seem to be favourable in terms of punishment when some streamers break..."rules" or and get non-harsh bans for a like 24 hours when others get weeks for much less. Emiru is acquainted with some other big streamers so hopefully there's something better done or change coming from the amount of attention this will have and if Emiru acts further, but there's also a chance nothing will. Pfft.
I haven't been using Twitch as much this year, may just jump into a stream I follow but don't watch for long or I may watch on YouTube instead if they're streaming there as well, or a video made later. I've only seen what's been happening on Twitch outside, hasn't been looking good, this is just another bad thing on the pile.
RE: [BREAKING] News Thread - Dragon Lord - Oct 19th, 2025
Yeah, the whole situation is just an absolute joke on Twitch's part, which isn't too surprising since Dan Clancy is more concerned with watching the OnlyFans women on Twitch rather than actually doing his job as CEO. The fact that she used to have her own security with her and they banned him from the event because he dared to do his job and grabbed and held a man trying to get close to Emiru, but then offer their streamers the biggest joke of security you'll ever see. Dude wasn't even paying attention to what was going on until after the guy had already grabbed her. Thankfully this situation is blowing up and is putting even more negative light on Twitch than there already has been lately. These streamers are the source of your company's money, and you can't even be bothered enough to give them appropriate protection at a public event?
Sad thing is, if this was Hasan at Twitchcon, Dan Clancy would go to the ends of the earth to give him Secret Service levels of protection because he'd have to ensure the safety of his personal favorite. Anyone who would get within 20 feet of Hasan would probably be hit with a taser as if they were Kaya getting off her bed. But any other streamer? Nah, you get some random, probably un-trained/un-certified "security guard" (who is probably just one of Twitch's staff members) who can't even be bothered enough to pay attention to some random dude walking right up to a female streamer.
Hopefully Emiru presses charges against the guy so he can learn his lesson fully. Unfortunately I don't know if there's anything she can actually do against Twitch, but I'm hoping that this might just be another nail in the coffin of Dan Clancy's career at Twitch. Eventually Amazon has to give a shit and do something about him and what he's turned Twitch into. I'm surprised they haven't done anything yet, because from everything I've gathered, Twitch has never turned a profit since being acquired by Amazon. Obviously Amazon earns enough money on its own that it can make up for all of the losses from Twitch, but even then most of the times you'd see a company absolutely gut and re-build a subsidiary that has done nothing but lose money for over 10 years by now. Amazon seems intent on just turning a blind eye though, but hopefully with Twitch being under the eye of the Federal Government recently, we might see some changes happen. Not only with dealing with people like Hasan, but also taking care of all of the extremely inappropriate OnlyFans streamers as well (unfortunately Dan won't do anything about that because that's the streams he watches 99.99% of the time).
RE: [BREAKING] News Thread - Maniakkid25 - Oct 20th, 2025
Now, I haven't really read anything about this story, and given the fact that Ubisoft, you know, still exists, I'm willing to bet that nothing is going to happen to the company or the perpetrators because we live in a world of scumbags. But I did see something I wanted to make a comment on, so quote please?
(Oct 19th, 2025, 10:57 PM)Dragon Lord Wrote:
Given that Youtube is notoriously a money sink for Google that only turned a profit after at least 15 years of ownership, it does not surprise me one bit that Twitch isn't turning a profit for Amazon. Profit is not the reason why Amazon owns Twitch. Why they own Twitch is probably a closely guarded secret, but if I had to guess, its so that Amazon can hold the technology Twitch facilitates behind their paywall, and that's how Twitch is indirectly turning a profit for Amazon. That's just a complete guess from knowing there are sites that directly uses Amazon's servers for their own streaming services, so I don't know how much weight that holds.