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Penny Arcade - Comic - Then Again
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Penny Arcade - Comic - Then Again
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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At least that’s a reassuring sign that I’m not their evil twin.
This seems like maybe a little premature to be throwing in the towel? Unless it was just such an utter failure that they had like a 0% viewer rate or something.
I never once visited Mixer or watched any streams on there. Maybe I'm the problem.
From what I understand (as a person who never used Mixer and doesn't have an XBox One), Mixer was integrated into the XBox One at an OS level. So it was really easy and convenient to stream with just a button press (or two). It maybe did other things. Mixer was always orders of magnitude less popular than Twitch, but it is a real shame to see the a monopoly on streaming just being handed to Twitch.
I also heard the dire speculation that the migration to Facebook Streaming might telegraph that Facebook could be deeply integrated into the new XBox. Which seems, sub-optimal.
Well, you know you are in trouble when in a pandemic forcing people to stay inside a lot more often, that you were practically flat in growth while everyone else had double digit growth at the very least. Also, I didn't watch any streamers on Mixer either, but then again I don't watch streamers on Twitch or anywhere else really. I just don't find watching people stream stuff to be entertaining really.
And then never used it for any of their official in-office streams.
(Or maybe they did a few and I forgot, but it was certainly minimal.)
Not that they were required to or anything. I'm saying it's indicative of the inertia of Twitch as a platform. Even people who thought it was really cool and superior in features were like, nah, that's probably not the way to go.
Don't know if you're including this, but if you pay for Club PA, you get access to Streamlined. It's their weekly highlights from all the PA streams.
According to one of the Mixer partners I watch on Twitch now and then, Mixer introduced a bunch of cool things, then Twitch took the ideas, improved them, and got them out the door first. For example, Mixer had things like super low latency first, which made for better viewer interaction. But this Mixer partner said they would end up spending months to develop a feature on Mixer that no one had asked for, whilst letting issues with core things fall by the wayside - stuff like twitch's gift a sub to a random person were impossible, or gifting a multipack of subs. Apparently he and some other Mixer partners were actually planning a boycott of Mixer since it turned out one of their higher ups had driven a man to quit due to racism (https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2020-06-22-former-microsoft-employee-accuses-mixer-manager-of-racist-comments), but of course that's all been overshadowed now.
Well, given that Star Trek is the source of the goatee thing....you recognize a Mirror Universe woman because she acts like a thirsty fanfic version of herself.
Can they reverse into a parking space?
Boo.
You test her hinge. If it squeeks then you're in the right slide universe.
Aha. Sliders reference.
To be honest, I'd be fine with it if Mike got back to drawing the comics as though Covid wasn't a thing again. I already get reminded of it every time I leave the house. Let me escape in my webcomics.
(Of course, I still enjoy the comics either way. I'm just saying is all.)
-Tycho Brahe
Squeaky hinge test was after checking the local news, and that episode was a while into the show. If you'd only been sliding since May and got back today, you'd still be likely to assume you're not home yet