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That's competition for you. Also, plenty of them are in different languages (TronPaul's is flask/python, I'm using php/python, dunno what TF2center is). Different work ethics/schedules (I'm not personally prioritizing the site ever since I started school, only dedicating weekends where I'm at my dorm to work on it), different goals (I'm working on queues before a lobby system). I personally wouldn't want to work with someone who took that long just to get a UI out with nothing else to show. Plus the dealing with all the different components and what not, aesthetic conflicts, blah blah blah.

That's only assuming it's open source or someone's willing to recode the feature.

UI looks nice (aside from awful colors IMO. Though maybe I shouldn't be one to say that). Wonder how much of the site is actually complete though, as that's what really counts.

I wonder if I should work on a lobby system for my own site after midterm weeks.

http://static1.fjcdn.com/comments/That+s+a+pretty+fucking+relevant+roll+_afc9887644d1b7de813a1acb60ebd982.jpeg

Diatomaceous earth everywhere.

Try playing without bloom. You should be getting amazing FPS though, unless some random setting like multicore is off.

I hope they show thunderbolt GPUs. Pretty amazing stuff, though only stupid expensive macs would support it. Hopefully they start getting them out for PC systems.

Oh you'd be surprised about some of the people who don't. Plenty of streamers live in their parents houses and stream exclusively, but didn't per say "do" something to make time. A few fringe cases do fully depend on streaming.

Also, I wouldn't say serving as a waiter is fully personalized and customizable (same with street performers, they just do their thing). That person is serving multiple people at once, and often giving the same generic service to people. Streaming usually doesn't have the personalization, but if they're catering to the general audience (doing things based off what the viewer wants), it's a fine response to donate. I mean a streamer can entertain a few thousand people for a couple of hours, yet a street performer or waiter is only going to serve tens to maybe a few hundred people in a short amount of time. I don't think it's illogical to believe that it's worth it for people to donate. It's mainly thanks to the number of people viewing that they can get a decent amount of money.

And meh, you said pointless, which is close enough to worthless. I agree it's not worth the price tag for me or you, but for other people it is.

A few people actually have donation links on their twitch page. Going through the subscription process though gives you "twitch flair" and is pretty easy to do. Some people do both.

Popular streams interact with people in chat though (and often have "subscriber only" things). And yes, it's not profitable except for the "celebrities". But they became celebrities from streaming. And the money actually makes a significant difference for these people since they aren't making the thousands to millions of dollars celebrities are making. And I still don't get what you're trying to argue, for some people paying money to not see ads and still help streamers a little is worth it for them. Low cost "conspicuous consumption" to help twitch and people who stream. It's not a worthless feature.

I understand that you won't be using the feature, but at least understand it's not "useless". It helps twitch make money, it barely helps streamers, and it gives you extra subscription features that are purely cosmetic, but people enjoy virtual cosmetics (see TF2). Overpriced, maybe, but not useless in the least.

EDIT: Also, everyone should know this but as of now the subscription doesn't actually significantly help streamers unless twitch explicitly states that they'll increase ad revenue from subscribed viewers. This is to support twitch.tv mainly.

I personally do keep money to myself. If you want, think of it as a tip. Or are you one of those people who would never tip someone? I just think it's a nice gesture. Also, some people do stream for a living, because they know they can depend on their generous userbase. Kudos to them, because they found a way to make it work for them. I never said viewers SHOULD. They're suppose to be paid by ads except adblock screws up the model a bit.

Which is why it's optional and people can still use adblock. It's supporting twitch more than streamers, who has to pay for it's network bills and make a profit. If they increased ad revenue for people who bought the pass, it'd be nicer (ie $3 of the subscription goes to increase ad revenue, where for every time a person plays an ad they get 1 cent instead of .02 cents from that person. Or maybe divide by $3 and give it based off how much that person watches X Y and Z streams).

Also, I don't think anybody said anything about streamers being charity cases. It's literally a donation to support the person doing something that a viewer finds entertaining. I mean think of street performers, I'm pretty sure they love their art, whether it's music or drawing, but might need a few dollars. If a person feels compelled by the performance, they can donate. Otherwise they can just walk away or listen to the free show. Nothing wrong with it. Heck, I'm sure even paid comedians love what they do, but also need a paycheck.

undernet #bookz the best

Just a warning with that program, you still need some calendar application like sunbird in their example, but you can use iCal and other programs I'm sure so long as it's standardized. It just parses RSS feeds for you so that calendar programs can use the data. Still pretty useful.

http://gcaldaemon.sourceforge.net/usage3.html

But it might not be a bad idea to add a calendar to the site.