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Posted February 04, 2016
You can now get subscriber emoticons, chat icons and more - all for charity!

We’ve had a blast on Twitch.tv/GOGcom, showing off games and engaging in streaming marathons, multiplayer tournaments and - as of late - a podcast. It has brought quite the community together with over 27 thousand followers and 1.7 million views, so the time has come for the next step.

Many of our regular viewers have asked why we’re not a Twitch Partner yet. Starting today, we are proud members of the Twitch Partner Program, a selection of the network’s quality streaming channels! This will allow us to grow even further, reach new viewers, and help a good cause. Should you choose to subscribe, your monthly $5 can get you access to subscriber-only features:

-- Access to subscriber-only emoticons,
-- A subscriber-only icon next to your name on chat,
-- Supporting a good cause.

If we could provide this all to you free of charge, we would - but since we can’t, we’re doing the next best thing. We are using this opportunity to help a gamer-focused charity - 100% of our share of the proceeds (sans tax) will go to <span class="bold">The AbleGamers Foundation</span>.

“We are thrilled to begin our new partnership with GOG,” said Steve Spohn, Chief Operations Officer of AbleGamers Charity. “Our mission to improve the quality of life for people with disabilities through the power of video games aligns perfectly with GOG’s desire to bring the community together through awesome games.”









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-- 9 pm GMT / 4 pm EST: GOGcast #5: No Better Ship Than a PARTNERship!
-- 11 pm GMT / 6 pm EST: Unreal Tournament 2004 Championship with Mat, Memories in 8bit, Outstar, Piranjade, Flaose, Senteria, ScreamingJoypad, RetrogradeTom, and ImmersedCimp
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Posted February 08, 2016
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David9855: Evidently there are screen shots around of some of the Portuguese racism cases and it also went into being against Spanish/ Italian people as well but I don't have them and only know what people have told me, I'm not going to name specific people as that would be bullying and I am sure they can get in touch with gog themselves and evidently have and the streamer has been removed.

Next time I see a mod behaving like that if I am in chat I will screen shot it myself and send it to gog, It was a while ago so I don't remember the mods. name accurately and it is something a person needs to be accurate about it certainly happened though and wasn't playful another member told the mod to calm down and was told to fu** off as well.

I remember the Australian case because I was emailed it a little while after it happened along with a few other Australian people and it had the right time points in the stream video were it specifically happened, I can't access it now though because the gog archive on twitch only goes so far back but I recall the streamed game and who streamed it if gog can access old streams and there is a point to dealing with it now.
Hmm you could send a screenshot to GOG but it would land on outstarwalker's plate afterwards anyway. Personally I think it's best to resolve issues internally. Also was it a mod or streamer? Then again all streamers are mods, but not all mods are streamers. If something comes up, feel free to send a message to anyone of us. I can make it anonymously too and just send the message across. What I'm trying to say is that we're here for you and if there is something wrong or gone wrong, it's best to speak out. so it can be addressed and prevented. I can't think of any current streamer or mod who'd tell a chat member to 'f*** off'.

I see outstar's on the case so I rest my case. Still my offer remains the same. If you got feedback you want to send to the team through me, feel free to do so.
Post edited February 08, 2016 by Senteria
Posted February 08, 2016
We investigated and found this so-called "moderator told someone on chat to f* off".

Sharien Radaik, moderator, said, quote, "***, cats are way cooler" (he was using dots, he never even said an f-word). This is his whole message about cats. In response to that, watcher (not a moderator/streamer) said "Get f** mate, dogs win". Sharien left it with no reply.

Our streamer actually wasted time to look through the VOD and rechat to find this. Let me leave it with no further comment.
Posted February 08, 2016
People who complain about stuff on channel and chat are divided in several groups as follows:

- these who come in middle of the stream and see someone being passionate or roleplaying game theme and putting words out of context so if you playing against some faction they mistake that with real life countries and ethnicities.

- these who feel special on other channel and are not treated as celebrity from elitist crowd here and are butthurt because of that and trying make up stuff and provoke unpleasant situations to streamer and chat folks.

- these with political correctness or other bullcrap agenda trying spread it into our place including historical revisionism - that is frequent on streams about war or other games tending to involve philosophy stuff like which system, religion, morality system and political factions were best and similar.

- these who are personally offended of anyone having different opinion than them and trying to enforce their point of view, if not they scream about discrimination and racism.

-these who are unpleasant to others that are reminded to behave and don't take stuff serious by mods, streamers and chat users but they treat these whispers hysterically "omg, someone is being nazi/commie to me, report that filth".

- these who are not accustomed to our open and non-formal, friendly approach and treat any friendly scolding and our own signals, key words and behaviour patterns as abusive and offensive against each others.
Post edited February 08, 2016 by HenitoKisou
Posted February 08, 2016
At the end of the day, can't we all just agree that we should have invested in Eastern Poland?
Posted February 08, 2016
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outstarwalker: We investigated and found this so-called "moderator told someone on chat to f* off".

Sharien Radaik, moderator, said, quote, "***, cats are way cooler" (he was using dots, he never even said an f-word). This is his whole message about cats. In response to that, watcher (not a moderator/streamer) said "Get f** mate, dogs win". Sharien left it with no reply.

Our streamer actually wasted time to look through the VOD and rechat to find this. Let me leave it with no further comment.
You 'allege' that that is the case.... besides if the archives only go back so far no one has any proof to really say because it has been deleted or not recorded in the first place so it's all here say I highly doubt that was the specific case I was referring to.

I remain cynical and am entitled to my opinion and if I do decide to check out the stream and see some abuse I'll post it in the forums so it can't be swept under the rug......like other incidence have allegedly been.

I'm sure there are plenty of shills out there that will just blindly follow what ever you have to say.
Posted February 08, 2016
Uh oh. StreamTeam, you better watch out! ;)
Posted February 08, 2016
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David9855: You 'allege' that that is the case.... besides if the archives only go back so far no one has any proof to really say because it has been deleted or not recorded in the first place so it's all here say I highly doubt that was the specific case I was referring to.

I remain cynical and am entitled to my opinion and if I do decide to check out the stream and see some abuse I'll post it in the forums so it can't be swept under the rug......like other incidence have allegedly been.

I'm sure there are plenty of shills out there that will just blindly follow what ever you have to say.
The dogs vs. cats thing happened during one of my streams (Punch Club), I looked through my Chatty chatlog and found it. So I have the original quote now.

Here, with the names edited out except for the moderator:
[21:46:27] <User1> Eat the cat?
[21:46:43] <User2> get a dog
[21:46:47] <User2> they're better than cats
[21:46:54] <User3> Carpet seems ineffective, not focusing on one stat
[21:46:58] <@Sharien_Radaik> User2 ***
[21:47:04] <@Sharien_Radaik> cats are way cooler
[21:47:16] <User2> Sharien_Radaik, get fucked, mate, dogs win
[21:47:23] <User4> @Sharien_Radaik, turtles are way cooler
[21:47:24] <User5> The cat ate all the fish
[21:47:30] <User1> please don't abuse people over their opinions @Sharien_radaik
[21:47:31] <User4> cats and dogs are for casuals. Kappa

Nobody is trying to sweep anything under any rugs. We're trying to find out what happened. Despite of people not giving us details.
Posted February 08, 2016
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outstarwalker: We investigated and found this so-called "moderator told someone on chat to f* off".

Sharien Radaik, moderator, said, quote, "***, cats are way cooler" (he was using dots, he never even said an f-word). This is his whole message about cats. In response to that, watcher (not a moderator/streamer) said "Get f** mate, dogs win". Sharien left it with no reply.

Our streamer actually wasted time to look through the VOD and rechat to find this. Let me leave it with no further comment.
OMFG, just kidding. But sometimes the tone can get rough.
I am really a mimosa in those things and hate it if people get personal.

The worst thing I had in the chat so far (that I remember)...

The streamer (E__A) said, "this is the tutorial, we change the voice language after that". I chatted "this is already the game" and someone said something like "thanks for lettings us know disi!", it sounded like sarcasm.
I then kept quiet and only commented to the stream from time to time.
Post edited February 08, 2016 by disi
Posted February 08, 2016
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outstarwalker: We investigated and found this so-called "moderator told someone on chat to f* off".

Sharien Radaik, moderator, said, quote, "***, cats are way cooler" (he was using dots, he never even said an f-word). This is his whole message about cats. In response to that, watcher (not a moderator/streamer) said "Get f** mate, dogs win". Sharien left it with no reply.

Our streamer actually wasted time to look through the VOD and rechat to find this. Let me leave it with no further comment.
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David9855: You 'allege' that that is the case.... besides if the archives only go back so far no one has any proof to really say because it has been deleted or not recorded in the first place so it's all here say I highly doubt that was the specific case I was referring to.

I remain cynical and am entitled to my opinion and if I do decide to check out the stream and see some abuse I'll post it in the forums so it can't be swept under the rug......like other incidence have allegedly been.

I'm sure there are plenty of shills out there that will just blindly follow what ever you have to say.
We have Chatty archives. I don't think I should share them publicly here as nicknames of our watchers (including the one who told Sharien to get f***) are there, but I can totally send them to you as a proof.

Edit: Ok, Piranjade already posted it above. Here you go.

The rest of your reply is deeply offensive towards me and I don't think anything I would say could help this.
Post edited February 08, 2016 by outstarwalker
Posted February 08, 2016
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disi: The worst thing I had in the chat so far (that I remember)...

The streamer (E__A) said, "this is the tutorial, we change the voice language after that". I chatted "this is already the game" and someone said something like "thanks for lettings us know disi!", it sounded like sarcasm.
I then kept quiet and only commented to the stream from time to time.
Memoriesin8bit (probably the most likeable creature in the universe) was called "an assh**" by one of our regulars for nothing,

This is not the first situation when people defending me publicly are thought of as/called "ass-lickers".

Cynicism towards streamers is so up the roof sometimes they want to cancel their shows.

I heard numerous times that I was a "better streamer" when I had long hair and was too timid to express myself online. Apparently, my real personality and short hair are not as worthy.

The only difference is, we don't have anyone to complain to who would do anything about it. We rarely ban regulars (the line has to be crossed WAY too much), we don't timeout for cynical remarks or critique. We have to listen to it all and try to dig through mountain of negative messages to find critique that is on point, that has a real reason and can help us be better people.

Would be awesome if you guys can help, for example - by showing us facts, timemarks, screenshots on what we do wrong. Just send them to me. I never left a message like that with no reply - and believe me, I got some.
Post edited February 08, 2016 by outstarwalker
Posted February 08, 2016
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outstarwalker: We investigated and found this so-called "moderator told someone on chat to f* off".

Sharien Radaik, moderator, said, quote, "***, cats are way cooler" (he was using dots, he never even said an f-word). This is his whole message about cats. In response to that, watcher (not a moderator/streamer) said "Get f** mate, dogs win". Sharien left it with no reply.

Our streamer actually wasted time to look through the VOD and rechat to find this. Let me leave it with no further comment.
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disi: OMFG, just kidding. But sometimes the tone can get rough.
I am really a mimosa in those things and hate it if people get personal.

The worst thing I had in the chat so far (that I remember)...

The streamer (E__A) said, "this is the tutorial, we change the voice language after that". I chatted "this is already the game" and someone said something like "thanks for lettings us know disi!", it sounded like sarcasm.
I then kept quiet and only commented to the stream from time to time.
Sarcasm doesn't translate via text very well which is why "Kappa" is a thing, it was probably genuine. Even if it wasn't though, you really shouldn't let it bother you and keep you from chatting. This is the internet and twitch chat we're talking about, jokingly giving people a hard time and messing around is just part of the culture. If it moves towards personal insults it's gone too far but the GOG twitch chat is already insanely nice, welcoming and friendly. I wouldn't want jokes and friendly teasing among a community that for the most part gets along to be frowned upon or moderated.

Edit: Quoting is hard.
Post edited February 08, 2016 by Pyrofox
Posted February 08, 2016
Just occasionally I get the impression that unmarked messages in Twitch chat should be assumed to be joking in nature and serious comments should be the ones with special indicators. It would save time, for a start. :P
Posted February 08, 2016
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disi: OMFG, just kidding. But sometimes the tone can get rough.
I am really a mimosa in those things and hate it if people get personal.

The worst thing I had in the chat so far (that I remember)...

The streamer (E__A) said, "this is the tutorial, we change the voice language after that". I chatted "this is already the game" and someone said something like "thanks for lettings us know disi!", it sounded like sarcasm.
I then kept quiet and only commented to the stream from time to time.
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Pyrofox: Sarcasm doesn't translate via text very well which is why "Kappa" is a thing, it was probably genuine. Even if it wasn't though, you really shouldn't let it bother you and keep you from chatting. This is the internet and twitch chat we're talking about, jokingly giving people a hard time and messing around is just part of the culture. If it moves towards personal insults it's gone too far but the GOG twitch chat is already insanely nice, welcoming and friendly. I wouldn't want jokes and friendly teasing among a community that for the most part gets along to be frowned upon or moderated.

Edit: Quoting is hard.
And there is so much other information missing in the conversation, like E__A thought he is in some kind of introduction tutorial and I just wanted to note it is not, as I already played the game to some degree.

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outstarwalker: I heard numerous times that I was a "better streamer" when I had long hair and was too timid to express myself online. Apparently, my real personality and short hair are not as worthy.
You are a good streamer with a Quadcannon or something in the hand, showing the others how it is done ;)
Post edited February 08, 2016 by disi
Posted February 08, 2016
congrats on the partnership, as someone who has spent an extraordinary amount of time slacking off and watching streams there its great that the program is being recognized. Not sure what partnering actually means but if proceeds go to charity then its a good thing, even if it works out to be 'only' 30%percent after taxes and twitch cut.

i agree all the name tags and emotes can be distracting, wish that twitch would allow users to toggle on/off if they want to see them but that is a twitch thing and not a gog thing.

I like the large number of streamers, who seem to showcase different genres of games according to their tastes. I actually would like to see even more streamers added to the list. This would keep the streaming to being more about the games and less about the streamers. I dont mind the tip !waffle but it can be spammed by excited viewers, who probably missed that someone had just activated it. perhaps a timer can be added to the moobot to prevent spamming.

Having so many streamers allow me to pick and choose what streams I want to watch, and at different times. While I do have favorite streamers, if they are doing a game Im not into I skip the stream for ex. In the end its about the games, I want to see the game in action. Many times just watching a stream decided if I purchased the game or not.

after all gog is a business, I come here to do business and twitch stream is all about letting me know if a game is good or not. the entertainment factor is just extra.
Posted February 08, 2016
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outstarwalker: We investigated and found this so-called "moderator told someone on chat to f* off".

Sharien Radaik, moderator, said, quote, "***, cats are way cooler" (he was using dots, he never even said an f-word). This is his whole message about cats. In response to that, watcher (not a moderator/streamer) said "Get f** mate, dogs win". Sharien left it with no reply.

Our streamer actually wasted time to look through the VOD and rechat to find this. Let me leave it with no further comment.
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David9855: You 'allege' that that is the case.... besides if the archives only go back so far no one has any proof to really say because it has been deleted or not recorded in the first place so it's all here say I highly doubt that was the specific case I was referring to.

I remain cynical and am entitled to my opinion and if I do decide to check out the stream and see some abuse I'll post it in the forums so it can't be swept under the rug......like other incidence have allegedly been.

I'm sure there are plenty of shills out there that will just blindly follow what ever you have to say.
I don't mean to continue this conversation longer than it needs to be BUT if you see something happening, such as abuse, please do report it. We can't act on or fix problems we don't know about. Saying things allegedly happened doesn't help the situation much but thank you for your concern.
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