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mesamunefire, do games w 'Keeping Retro Alive' - a chat with the developer of Batocera (my article!)
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Nice always look forward to your articles!

PerfectDark,
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That’s very kind of you!

I haven’t been sharing so much of these articles or interviews I’ve been doing here lately, mostly I think because it makes me look like I’m inundating the place.

But that’s so kind of you to say, glad you enjoyed it!

TheGreenWizard, do games w Alternatives to Twitch and YouTube for livestreaming gaming?

owncast.directory not much but there are plenty of nice people on owncast.

SweetCitrusBuzz, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of August 31st
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ech, (edited ) do games w (Rant) Don't buy Rockstar games.

Lol, YDI. When asked to provide the identifiable information, you just say “Stop and do the thing I want.” You seriously expect them to just hand over an account to someone who can’t provide basic information about it? You owned yourself, pal.

I misread the order of the interaction, which painted a much more antagonistic view of OP. Sorry about that. That said, the actual interaction plus their further reaction here is still not good. “Brainstorming how to automate the requests” is not an appropriate response to any of this.

Luffy879,

Just wait until that guy learns about Crypto

I’m just imagining their pure rage when reaching out to a Bitcoin Dev/maintainer whatever with something like „I don’t know what my Wallets name was, idk my 10 phrase password, but give me back my 10$ in Btc right now”

And then pasting this again with the Title DONT BUY BTC THEY SCAM YOU

Dude, treat every service like your wallet.

You have an Email, you have a password. If you forget these, consider everything the Support does as an extra service and not the bare minimum.

maxwells_daemon,

Social Club is the kind of account you use a throwaway email for, and just use whatever random nickname isn’t taken yet. I, personally, have no idea what the email or nickname to my Social Club account are. I also have bought GTA V through Steam back in 2015 and haven’t lived into Social Club since. I think it’s perfectly fair to expect that your Steam account shouldn’t be hijacked by Rockstar upon linking it to one Social Club account once.

At the very least, if they’re gonna have a Rockstar launcher, it should allow you to unlink your Steam account through it, using your Steam credentials, and free it up to link to a new Social Club account.

jj4211,

Look at the timestamps, the conversation is from top to bottom. So technically I guess he tried to answer, but he probably missed the answer and instead had a tone that happened to match exactly how a scammy email would sound.

If legitimate, it’s probably better that they didn’t get to successfully automating spamming the support system. Nothing screams legitimate requests like bot spamming… Don’t know the tone of his follow ups, but best to take a breath and reset their tone and try again, asking what other details aside from nickname can be used, given their steam access.

Odo,

I think you meant “bottom to top”. But yes, that does change the tone a bit.

ech,

Ah, yeah, I totally misread those screenshots. My mistake. Still not good, though. I take back that YDI, but yeah, not surprised they’re getting ghosted after all that.

WeebLife, do games w (Rant) Don't buy Rockstar games.

Time to sail the high seas.

Wildmimic, do games w (Rant) Don't buy Rockstar games.

Don't give them money because you aren't able to keep your email address updated? Don't give them money because you are not able to provide the information they need to verify you are who you say you are?

I've worked costumer support for many years, and me and my supervisors would have rejected your request too. Since you can't provide what they want (not even a definite nickname wtf), you probably can't prove the purchase either.

Don't flame some poor support guy or a company, kick yourself in the ass for letting it slide for so long that you cant even remember the original nickname anymore and chalk it up as a learning experience - we've all been there.

FigMcLargeHuge,

Well then can we flame them (rockstar) for turning off Linux support on GTA V Online? I know the exact same anticheat works on linux, because I am playing Dune online and it’s working just fine. So yeah, back to that, fuck rockstar!

Wildmimic,

yeah, that's a flameable offense, i agree.

FigMcLargeHuge,

Thanks. I was pretty bummed when they flipped that switch.

crx, do games w (Rant) Don't buy Rockstar games.

Exact same for me but an Ubisoft game linking my Steam account to a long gone email address of a long gone Ubisoft account.

Absolutely hopeless customer support saying there is no possible way for them to help me.

Good thing I wasn’t planning on buying any Ubisoft game ever again, problem pretty much sorted itself out.

artyom, (edited ) do games w (Rant) Don't buy Rockstar games.

Yeah this is the cancer that is email 2FA.

Unfortunately email is the only way they have to verify your identity. No email, no account. But this is very much not exclusive to Rockstar.

I changed my email a couple of years ago and it's absolutely astonishing how many companies are completely unequipped to deal with someone changing or deleting their email account.

chicken,

Unfortunately email is the only way they have to verify your identity. No email, no account.

That isn’t really true, I’ve restored access to multiple game accounts before in situations where I lost access to my email, it mostly involved providing information about the account that only the person using it would know, like the names of characters on it and some other stuff. If a company can’t handle this it’s because they don’t want to pay for competent customer support workers and just rely entirely on lazily coded automated systems.

artyom,

Yes, it is the lazy way to secure accounts. No defense there.

Nibodhika,

Yes, things like original email and Nickname are some of those questions because after they change the public might have no way of figuring it out. Notice the support tech asked for those informations and when provided with it he said that he couldn’t verify ownership, this means OP reported wrong information for the identifying questions.

I’m not saying the service is great, asking him to access an email he claims to have lost access is dumb, but everything after that the tech support person did his best, and I don’t think he should have disabled 2FA, since it could be a social engineering attack.

chicken,

Oh, I see, didn’t read the second image at first

NuXCOM_90Percent, do games w Alternatives to Twitch and YouTube for livestreaming gaming?

What is your intent?

Do you just want to saturate your upload bandwidth for poops and giggles? Then consider just being That Guy who is constantly in one of the live channels on a community discord streaming everything to like 0.1 people per day.

Do you want to make a hustle out of this? Then your only real options are youtube or twitch and… discoverability is near zero for both of those. Even if you are one of the biggest streamers on the planet, convincing people to try a new platform is nigh impossible. Let alone for someone just starting out.

Death_Equity,

As a hustle, you should stream on Kick(10x the payout of Twitch) and then edit the vods into algorithm clips for YouTube and tiktok that would funnel to the Kick. You could multistream everywhere for maximum exposure, but that can get troublesome depending on how active chat is because you need to keep up and Twitch doesn’t allow you to display other chats on screen.

These days it is really hard to get going in streaming and youtube, so you really just need to cast a wide net and really work on refining your content. It takes years to get a decent second income, unless a big streamer reacts to you and then you have to try and keep the new subs without turning away the OGs.

KIKILOVE,

Kick just got bad rep though with the dead streamer thing

NuXCOM_90Percent,

Also it is fronted by hate groups that scam children and backed by a crypto casino.

Kick is evil, through and through.

LiveLM,

Twitch doesn’t allow you to display other chats on screen

I’ve always wondered, couldn’t you work around this by having a feed with only the twitch chat for Twitch, and a feed with all the chats for every other platform?
I think you can comfortably encode 2 streams on basically any modern-ish card no?

Death_Equity,

I’m no expert on the higher capabilities of multistream plugins and whatnot. I don’t think you could include twitch chat with the others if you are doing that sort of thing unless filtering chats to a given platform is an option with one instance. All the same, if you are handling the multistream locally you would want to do a dual PC setup if you are a game streamer. A lot of multistreamers use a relay service to reduce processing power while gaming.

You can multistream everything to everywhere with combined chat, but you have to sanitize the chat so it isn’t apparent that other platforms are combined or which chat is which if they are displayed separately.

_spiffy, do games w Alternatives to Twitch and YouTube for livestreaming gaming?
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If you wanted to you could host your own server with Owncast.

Owncast

I set one up on an old laptop and it worked well enough the few times a mucked around with it.

nutbutter, (edited )

I would rather host PeerTube. But I want to be a bit discoverable. With self-hosted solutions, I will have to promote myself by myself.

Edit - I just discovered owncast.directory. This changes everything.

Ulrich,
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PeerTube is unfortunately not terribly well configured for Livestreaming. There is a tremendous lag.

Nico_198X,
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livestream with Owncast, host your VODs on Peertube. that’s what i do.

Pumasuedeblue, do games w (Rant) Don't buy Rockstar games.

Why don’t you request a refund from Steam? If the game doesn’t work because they changed it then I want my money back.

ANTIFA_JAWORZNO, (edited ) do news w Indonezja - protesty 2025, post zbiorczy

@dj1936

Mała aktualizacja sytuacji, ponieważ ostatni miesiąc przyniósł duże zmiany.

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ShaneIsGames, do games w Alternatives to Twitch and YouTube for livestreaming gaming?
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Moonbeam ( www.moonbeam.stream ) is currently in beta, but shows a lot of promise. Obviously, it’d be a smaller community though.

harcesz, do wolnyinternet w Serwis typu news-agregator
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maxwells_daemon, (edited ) do games w (Rant) Don't buy Rockstar games.

Everyone in the comments making such a huge deal of account security when literally all Rockstar had to do was allow people to unlink their Steam accounts from Social Club. It could even be done in their own launcher, with the credentials of the Steam account that actually owns the game. Then people could just make a new Social Club account, it’s not worth shit anyways.

They’re locking people out of playing a local, offline game, over some decade old account that I used my spam email for, and now I’m supposed to remember it? Get a fucking grip bro.

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