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JasonPlaysGames @jasonplaysgames.bsky.social · 7h

Dear #Discord, I've been Do Not Disturb for more than a day because I DO NOT WANT TO BE DISTURBED.

I AM busy.

Thank you for DISTURBING me when I am DO NOT DISTURB.

JasonPlaysGames @jasonplaysgames.bsky.social · 2d

It's been requested for ages-- and now I'm fulfilling the request.

Come watch me race horsegirls. It's Umamusume: Pretty Derby tonight on my stream!

www.twitch.tv/jasonplaysga...

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JasonPlaysGames @jasonplaysgames.bsky.social · 2d

If you wanna come make that gauge look a little less sad and help a nervous streamer out, head on over to ko-fi.com/jasonplaysga... and throw some money at my face and I'll gush about how awesome you are on my stream.

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JasonPlaysGames @jasonplaysgames.bsky.social · 2d

Man. I know money should not be my ultimate gauge for success as a streamer, but I just need to vent-- things this month are NOT going smoothly.

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JasonPlaysGames @jasonplaysgames.bsky.social · 2d

Friends: Hey Jason, we see you're practicing Minesweeper Plus. How's that going?

Me: the radioactive mine boss has melted my smiley-face man into a puddle of sludge

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Kenny Goblins @kennylogins.bsky.social · Oct 15

Ethan L.
@24 TrueTonelenor
I tried editing a meme about executive dysfunction on my phone to have different words and my phone corrupted the image somehow and honestly it makes the meme far better:
[glitched screenshot of a greek illustration of sisyphus pushing a boulder uphill where the boulder is labelled “ The fucking Laundry” and the bottom caption is “AAAAAAAAAAAAA”]
12:25 AM • 2022-09-28

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JasonPlaysGames @jasonplaysgames.bsky.social · 2d

I suppose today's #positivity post is just being grateful to feel like I'm on the mend.

I'm rising back above the brainfog and I think I'll be able to focus, at least the tiniest bit, on work today.

And the Umamusume stream later today. Horsegirls.

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Shrum on Twitch 🔜 TwitchCon SD @therealshrum.bsky.social · 4d

Straight from the Twitch Partner Discord, posted on 10/10/25

If you lurk more than a couple of streams, you won't be counted as a viewer in any of them.

We’ve gotten a lot of questions about viewership and the impact of our viewbot mitigations. And, we’ve heard from some creators that they’ve observed unusual drops in their viewcounts. When we made updates to our viewbot detection tools earlier this year, our goal was to make sure that viewcounts represent actual viewership, and aren’t artificially inflated in any way. Having accurate viewcounts is important for streamers who are trying to build their audiences, and for the livestream industry more broadly.

We recognize that for a lot of our creators, Twitch is a livelihood, and we don’t take that lightly. Addressing viewbots is a balancing act — we want to identify artificial views without affecting real viewers, and that’s a constant tension. We continue to evolve our systems to get better at spotting and removing viewbots, while making sure we’re counting real views accurately. We really appreciate the feedback and questions, as they help us keep improving how we do this.

We’ve seen a lot of different theories about why some viewcounts may have shifted and want to address some of the most prominent directly.

There’s been a lot of conversation about how lurkers are counted. A lot of factors can impact viewership over time, including ad blockers, seasonality, and whether you recently hosted an event on your channel. After some investigation by our teams, we’ve identified one factor that may be impacting several streamers:
Some viewers use third party browser extensions to view streams.,
For example, with one plug in, you feed in your Twitch follower list, and when a streamer from that list goes live, the plug in opens a tab for that stream.
For years, we’ve counted a limited number of sessions per IP address towards viewcount. If you have a lot of streams (more than a normal viewer could reasonably watch) open in many different tabs, our systems may determine you are not actively watching, and you will not be counted in any of those streams as a viewer.

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JasonPlaysGames @jasonplaysgames.bsky.social · 2d

Fantastic. Exquisite. Delightful.

I have loved OC ReMix for literal decades and the whole lot of you keep giving me reasons to love you.

Thank you for your dedication to the arts.

OverClocked ReMix (We ♥ video game music!) 🎮🎵 @ocremix.org · 4d

25 years in, we are NOT allowing genAI music onto OC ReMix, full stop.

We're 100% against genAI music and are a community geared toward authentic creativity and artistic development. You don't get that by doing text prompts.

ocremix.org/remix/OCR04918
youtube.com/watch?v=fUsg...

Recent comment: "This A.I. music is as fake as 🏈 🦇."

In this case, this is human-made. (3 of our judges panel are also involved as collaborators on it: jnWake, pixelseph, and paradiddlesjosh.)

We explicitly do NOT accept any music made with generative A.I. There are tools out there that help identify genAI music. If music involving genAI is ever unknowingly let on, it will be removed if it's discovered.

We're 100% against genAI music and are a community geared toward authentic creativity and artistic development. You don't get that by doing text prompts.

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JasonPlaysGames @jasonplaysgames.bsky.social · 3d

I might be taking today off from streaming, but I don't think I'll be entirely idle. I think I came up with an elegant solution to a long, ongoing problem I've had in my board game.

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JasonPlaysGames @jasonplaysgames.bsky.social · 5d

Ugh, I just can't concentrate on anything at all today.

I'm so frustrated.

JasonPlaysGames @jasonplaysgames.bsky.social · 5d

It feels good to take a game off the bucket list.

We did it.

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JasonPlaysGames @jasonplaysgames.bsky.social · 6d

Today's #positivity post:

I'm going to stop beating myself up for not feeling okay all the time. It's okay to not feel a hundred percent, and I don't need to punish myself for it.

Self-care is never wasted. I'm going to take care of myself. I'm going to be kinder to myself. I deserve it.

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JasonPlaysGames @jasonplaysgames.bsky.social · 7d

Today's #positivity post:

I have survived every day that I thought was my "worst day ever". I am capable of surviving. I am capable of thriving.

Today is already a good day because I have decided it is.

Now I'm going to make today great. I'll put the work in.

Watch me fly.

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JasonPlaysGames @jasonplaysgames.bsky.social · 8d

Today's #positivity post:

I am going to choose to find the evidence of a good day today. I am going to focus on the positive today, because I deserve to have a good day. We all deserve a good day.

I'm gonna go get mine.

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JasonPlaysGames @jasonplaysgames.bsky.social · 8d

Nevermind the fact that this #WeeklySyllabus is a couple days late; we're going back to streaming tomorrow. Today I'm resting after stitching together my bookends on over a dozen videos and rendering them and getting my YouTube back up and running.

It's time to get back to work. (tomorrow.)

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JasonPlaysGames @jasonplaysgames.bsky.social · 9d

I hate just simply recording openings to videos, but I know it's a necessary evil. Alas.

JasonPlaysGames @jasonplaysgames.bsky.social · 9d

I'm here. I'm alive. I've been struggling a lot with mental health and money issues-- as usual-- but I did just take a week's vacation to try and realign myself to get back into doing things on the regular. I'll be working on YouTube uploads again. I'll post here regularly again.

Let's get it.

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JasonPlaysGames @jasonplaysgames.bsky.social · 21d

So, hey, fam. Tomorrow there's a huge discount at the grocery store my housemate works at-- 25% off of everything in the store. It'd be a great chance for us to stock up, so if you could help out at ko-fi.com/jasonplaysga... or with a share or two, that'd be really appreciated. Thank you.

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JasonPlaysGames @jasonplaysgames.bsky.social · 22d

I am in Spain without the S

#umamusume / #prettyderby

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JasonPlaysGames @jasonplaysgames.bsky.social · Aug 27

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Y'all wanna see me play a Wizardry clone?

It's Labyrinth of Zangetsu night.

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JasonPlaysGames @jasonplaysgames.bsky.social · Aug 26

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I'm finally back! We're playing Clair Obscur. Come hang out!

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Hi. My name is Jason. I play games. I'm a Streamloots Partner, a general nerd, a fledgling amateur game developer, and my goal here is to create a feelgood nerdy space for us to enjoy some content. Ga...

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JasonPlaysGames @jasonplaysgames.bsky.social · Aug 16

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Party Member Game Night: Taskmaster Edition!

I make seven lovely people play games in weird ways because I can. Come join the fun.

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Hi. My name is Jason. I play games. I'm a Streamloots Partner, a general nerd, a fledgling amateur game developer, and my goal here is to create a feelgood nerdy space for us to enjoy some content. Ga...

www.twitch.tv

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JasonPlaysGames @jasonplaysgames.bsky.social · Aug 10

Presented without context.

A cat face saying:

DANGER LEVEL:
'OH GOD THERES BULLETS EVERYWHERE'

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JasonPlaysGames @jasonplaysgames.bsky.social · Aug 9

www.twitch.tv/jasonplaysga...

I'm going back to an old favorite tonight, and it's going to be a good time. Come join me as we play some Star of Providence: Into Oblivion.

...It's nice to be able to make less depressing posts again.

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Hi. My name is Jason. I play games. I'm a Streamloots Partner, a general nerd, a fledgling amateur game developer, and my goal here is to create a feelgood nerdy space for us to enjoy some content. Ga...

www.twitch.tv

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