SECURITY RESEARCH AND DATA PRIVACY
Always Rambling on about Games and Security
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.
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.
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.
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?
For no specific reason, I’m taking a gaming vacation.
Well, actually, I’m still watching my regularly streamers especially as Star Wars Battlefront 2. Most gamers are just streaming the multiplayer, I hear that the single player is just 8 hours.
The classic dilemma for patch management is when to do it and what will it break. Especially, when dealing with Operating systems you run the risk of the application you’ve been using for decades suddenly not working (not supported).
This issue is bad enough when doing the upgrade for yourself but when you do it on behalf of a client you run the risk of being the root cause of the problem.
The latest MacOs upgrade is not compatible the Outlook for Mac 2013 (version 15.3), which was released October 2014….WTF. So now you have to spend time and money on an upgrade.
The best practice is to run a compatibility test on all applications especially business-critical ones. But why haven’t two of the biggest software vendors in the world built that into the OS upgrade process to at least notify the user?
Money talks louder, so shut up and buy the Office365 upgrade
Meanwhile, I try to keep my head straight and get totally distracted by just looking out the window. Austria is a great place to avoid mass marketing but dammit this has just pushed me back into my one-track mind.
What was the approval process for a company to register and pay for this domain and then actively market it?
So much for Global Thinking