For those wondering why I think it's time for some of the glass-ego devs at ZOS to resign and bring in new leadership for ESO, we only need to look at the rise and fall of the game to see that actual effort and devs giving a darn actually grew the game. 🤔

🧵 From Sullygnome's long-term stats for ESO. The game started growing in hours watched on Twitch around the launch of ESO Summerset. Why Summerset? It was the first serious expansion with evidence of taking effort to produce. 🤔

sullygnome.com/game/The_Elder…

Re: Amouranth trending. This is just hard evidence that you really DON'T know content creators other than what they show on camera.

The secret husband thing slipped years ago, but this abusive stuff makes me think I really have no idea about Amouranth at all. 🙁 Amouranth reminded me of the sharky corporate hotshots I went to college with back in the day and I'm familiar with the times she abused DMCA to silence criticism. Was that her, or was the husband pulling the strings? I really don't know anymore. 🙁

It is most unfortunate that my local McDonalds doesn't have the Adult Happy Meal in the DoorDash menu lol. 🙂 Darn. That was totally a bucket list thing for me lol. 😊 Wow. McDonalds can make the Adult Happy Meal into a regular menu item and I'm still not going back. That franchiser needs to be given the boot for running that place into the ground. 🙄

Brigading is one of those content creator lines you NEVER cross.

Once you show the world you can brigade anyone, you show the world you can brigade them.

Why should anybody watch someone who shows that they can turn on them like that? If you run into someone who even so much as JOKES about brigading someone, get out of there. That person's not worth your attention.

It's a big world with plenty of people who are trying to be noticed. You don't need to associate with people like that.

The main vibe I get from Sony with PS5 is that they're trying to hide consumer unfriendliness behind the razzle dazzle of new hardware, plastic taco issues aside. 🤔

Console companies need to realize that PC, Steam, and GoG have been right there all along... and successful. 🤔 Yeah sure, the PS5 looks like a plastic taco, but the DualSense controller is pretty cool... until it's mandatory for certain titles and takes more work to use as a controller elsewhere, unlike XBox controllers with Bluetooth support. 🧐

My curiosities got the better of me and I picked up an Xbox Series controller to see how the new design compares to the XBone controllers of the last decade. 🤔

I like it. 🙂 However the D-Pad is useless for retro games, especially if you grew up playing them. 🙄 Part of the muscle memory of the cross key is you can feel which part of the button you're pressing so you know which direction your character is going. The Xbox Series controller has a thing for your thumb to slide around in. That's not how it works. 🤔

What #YouTubeGaming is doing to #ForzaHorizon5 right now represents many opportunities for improvement for YouTube as a streaming platform. 🤔

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@nealmohan @YouTube @YouTubeGaming @Chen @nealmohan Earlier in the week Forza Horizon 5 became unselectable as a game, but the DLC and other addons did. Videos previously in the Forza Horizon 5 category only showed up as "Gaming" and no longer listed the game name in the descriptions.

You also can't type just "Forza Horizon 5."