Category: Gaming

Observations,mistrust chronicles and exploits

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Bring Your Own Diversion (BYOD)

InfoSec Acronyms and hype come and go but for me, the most notable of 2017 is the absence of Bring Your Own Device.  Are people still using their own gear with company data? Yes.  Is the risk any less this year? No.

So why the sudden lack of focus on BYOD? Well, it’s been brutally replaced with acronym monsters GDPR and BREXIT where you feel like an idiot if you don’t what they mean.  Don’t worry sooner or later some know-all will share his or her expert unsolicited opinion on the subject.

What the hell is GDPR?

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is poised to change the strategies for all Information security folk (Hobbyist, Pros, Good guys and Bad).  But is this another hype like the Y2K Bug? And if so, what’s the big one for 2018-2019?

Without PR and marketing, we wouldn’t know what to be scared of and what to spend money on.  In the meantime, I’ll sit up on the moral high ground in my sniper nest for a few months and watch the panic.

Always grinding in Sniper Medic mode

40 days without exercise

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Installation in progress

As the dust and hype settles on the Star Wars Battlefront 2 launch fiasco which saw the powerful corporates bend the knee to an outraged player community. I sit here with have my PS4 disk in hand and ready to install.

On Twitch.tv the game has 143,139 followers and consistently runs about 11,400 viewers.  Compare this to its predecessor which is now pretty much a player graveyard currently with 205,238 followers and 9 Viewers.

I was 10 when I first saw Star Wars so all this stuff just resonates in my DNA.

Fallout 4 landscape is massive

Of course, now the dilemma is how to spend my time between the wastelands of FallOut4 and Star Wars Battlefront 2.

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Day 5 of 5 | Double Life

More sleep, a bit more exercise and a break in my routine have been excellent benefits to my PS4 being offline.  My overall happiness index has not increased though so I’ll heading back into the FallOut 4 wasteland.

I definitely need to enjoy my music collection more and just work out the sweet spot of work, life, family, gaming and sleep.

Balancing gaming and physical worlds – Beyond: Two Souls™
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Day 4 of 5 | Radio Head

Despite the massive wave of complaints about Star Wars Battlefront 2 Hero costs, 60% of the steamers I follow are actually having fun with the game and not being too Salty ( a slang term meaning “upset” or “bitter).

As a viewer, I just keep Twitch running in the background with occasional interaction with the broadcaster.  I’m not a subscriber right now but will probably commit to my favourite channels in 2018.

Listen while you work

 

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Day 3 of 5 | PS4 Offline…Talent management

A top-down look at Game Streaming is fascinating.

Why watch streamers anyway?  Well, as a veteran gamer it’s always good to watch gamers do things I don’t have the time or talent to do.  Right now, my PS4 is off-line and boxed up so naturally, I’ll just watch my favourite streamers.

Gamers voice and talent

The layer of talent management is a brilliant niche offering streamers services like event management, sponsorship negations, channel staffing, PR, career management, legal and finance.

This is a true recognition of the massive variety of streamers representing an actual legitimate career path and free channel of expression.  An interesting detailed article appeared in The New Yorker this week featuring Online Performers Group…….Read the full article here

According to Twitch.TV FAQs there are 17,000 Partners globally, so this is still very much something the Marketing people have not figured out how to truly monetise.

I’m guessing Streamer fall into 
these broad categories

Skill-based
Variety
Casual
Full-time
Sponsored
Fan-based
Broadcaster
Journalist 
...the list goes on

Seems to me the market is still trying to figure out the ‘Path of a Streamer’ but when a free-flowing arena gets formalised the community just morphs into something else.

Remember when you could say anything on mainstream social media channels?