Going to be editing this with info as I come across it. Please DM me if you have anything to add. Many of you have reached out and I've complied a lot of evidence. I realize now that these pumps originated in Discord groups, but this is something I am still actively looking into and won't be including here.
Users of wallstreetbets (and also places like Stockwits, amcstock, and Youtube chats) attempted a coordinated pump on AMC (& GME) today, Feb. 3rd. These comments are still avaible. The fact they are still up and that I found them very easily means that the mods are not able to moderate their community well enough to stop coordinated pumps. There is not evidence that shows the mods were in on coordinated pump, but the fact that they were unable to stop it taking place shows that the subreddit has grown far too big to be managed by a team of 35 mods.
There is evidence that some mods owned both AMC and GME, and it is possible they held these shares while the coordinated pump was happening in threads they were supposed to be moderating (proof of GME ownership at the bottom).
Coldcutcombo69 was mod on WSB during the AMC coordinated pump. Here is them claiming that they were a mod on WSB. This image of mods before and after the day of the pump confirms they were a mod during the AMC pump-and-dump.
Coldcutcombo69 posted a picture of them having a sell order on their AMC stock that never hit, making it possible they owned AMC shares during the coordinated pump.
Coldcutcombo69 also posted some kind of DD thread about AMC two days ago, promoting the stock here. The content of this post has been removed. This post promoting AMC was made while Coldcutcombo69 was a moderator.
Coldbutcombo69 was a moderator during the AMC coordinated pump. They are no longer a moderator as of the time of this post, only a few hours later. They confirmed this here. A WSB mod was posting comments and threads promoting AMC while possibly still holding AMC shares, and a pump-and-dump occurred in the daily threads that they (along with others) were supposed to be moderating.
turdled is currently a WSB mod. They said, "We don't comment or promote trades. That's up to the subscribers and their upvotes/downvotes to decide." View it here.
turdled's claim was false. Coldcutcombo69 had been a moderator for 25 days. During that time they posted comments and threads promoting AMC, while providing evidence that they actually owned AMC shares. A moderator (who may command more respect in a community of 8.5 million people) promoting a stock is wrong, and the mods clearly believe that is the case since they said they don't do it. But at least one of them did. It could be that Coldcutcombo69 was removed because they were promoting AMC, but they had been doing this for days and were only removed a few hours ago.
ZJZ (a well known moderator) posted this today and was removed as a mod. The head mods also removed more mods, cutting the number of mods from from 62 mods to 37. Coldbutcombo69 was cut from the mod team at this time. It seems very suspicious to me that the head mods removed a bunch of mods from their positions after the events of today, especially because one of those ex-mods had been promoting AMC so much while being a mod.
Note: there is some kind of extended purge happening within the mod team right now. The mod team started at 62, then was cut with ZJZ to 37, then 36, now it's down to 35. EDIT: Two new mods have been added, bringing the count back up to 37. One of them tried posting something in a WSB thread, but their comment was deleted by the auto-mod because they have never posted in WSB before. Here is some proof of what's going on there.
ZJZ has exposed that there are bad actors on the mod team, using their power on the sub to try and make cash off movie deals and crypto scams. This at least adds weight to the points im raising in this thread.
EDIT: There was a thread on WSB by a moderator trying to explain what happened with the mod team. You can see that thread here. There is a lot of push back in the thread. The mod's claim is that the profit from the movie deal would have been given to charity. This may not be true, as Discord logs show another mod asking what their profit will be from the movie deal, asking "What's our cut.". Infighting with the mods seems to be a continued issue with a mod changing the subreddit description from the classic "like 4chan found a bloomberg terminal" to this. This change was instantly reverted.
MOD UPDATE 2/4: It seems that the moderator team has changed again. 23 mods now remain. OPINION_IS_UNPOPULAR is now listed as the most senior mod, and they have allowed this thread to stay up. The mod reports that the Reddit admins have stepped in.
Statement from Reddit admins, according to OPINION_IS_UNPOPULAR: "After reviewing this situation based on input from both current and past moderators, we have decided to remove several moderators at the top of the list that were creating instability in the community." Source.
NEW INFO: I've also been sent a good amount of evidence from multiple people indicating these types or coordinating buying and selling schemes were happening on places like Youtube, Twitch, and Discord. All of these groups seem to be composed of WSB/WSB spinoffs users. These users would spam hash tags, spam and raid Twitch channels, and coordinate these social media pushes with timed buying and selling of GME/AMC/BB/NOK. It is possible (and looks likely to me) that the timed pumps you see below were organized by a Discord group. I have collected a lot of evidence on this front, but this evidence of the real organizers of the pump is something I might have to pass along to someone who is more experienced at dealing with this stuff.
The AMC Pump
Here is evidence of the coordinated pump by users on WSB. The coordinated pump effort occurred in the daily thread, but also spilled out into some posts. Note: I have yet to see any comments/posts that moderators made showing them participating in the coordinated pump effort. It is not known if they knew about these comments or not.
"AMC 1 pm LET FUCKING GO" - WildPhoenix55 58 upvotes. Posted around 12:00 PM CST. Not removed as of 8:40 PM CST.
"AMC 2 DA MOON @ 1PM EST" - OutlandishnessOk4137 Posted around 12:00 PM CST. Not removed as of 8:40 PM CST.
"watching that 1pm movie"
At 1 PM, we’re going to the Moon! Get ready! 🚀 🚀 🚀Discussion *Note that this thread was 6 days ago. Still strange that it was not taken down
Comments in this thread talking about 1 PM pump
EVIDENCE THE 1 PM PUMP WORKED: 1 PM seems to be the main time that was set. You can actually see the coordinated pump spike the price of AMC up to $9.70 right after 1 PM. You can also see the massive amount of volume increase during that time as well. Volume between 1:00-1:05 shot up to 8,725,700. This was the highest volume for a 5 min period all day. Check it out here.
It was also reported to me that some users received DM's about the pump. If you are reading this and received any kind of DM like this, please message me. After seeing the first pump work successfully, they tried it again 1 hour later. Here are a swarm of comments made coordinating the pump for 2 PM.
"2 shares at 2 pm AMC!!" EDIT: This account has been deleted. You can view a picture of this post here.
"Everyone buy 2 shares of AMC and 2pm let’s rush these heggies 💎💎💎💎🚀🚀🚀" "AMC at 2 !!!!" "2 AMC shares @2pm rush" "AMC at 2. Let’s give them some payback🚀" "do i buy now or at 2" "Buy AMC at 2pm Eastern, 11am Pacific. 2pm is when it’s happening."
The 2PM coordinated pump was not as successful. It could be that some users were confused with the time differences. Either way, there was still a marked increase of volume during the 5 min period of 2:00-2:05 which also resulted in the stock re-testing its daily high. Check it out here.
You can actually watch a Youtuber Trey's Trades see the pump at 2 PM in action. He is reading comments on a WSB spin-off subreddit amcstock. You can see people spamming chat for people to buy at 2 PM. Here is the video. The fact that this guy's stream chat is filled with a pump-and-dump scheme and he did nothing about it is pretty telling.
I've backed up the comments and info here. If you find anything else suspicious about this, please DM me. I want to make it clear that there isn't evidence that the mods participated in the pump. But the pump-and-dump (which is illegal) happened under the watch of the mod team. They may have tried to stop it, but 8.5 million people is a lot. If they didn't think they could keep the place running without illegal things happening in the comment sections, they should have set the sub to private and put in proper pre-cautions first.
EDIT: This pump also occurred for GME and users in the GME thread were able to comment about it. None of these comments are removed and they exist in very large numbers. They are mostly heavily downvoted, but the fact they are able to stay up means the mods failed at their job.
Comment 1 Comment 2 Comment 3 Comment 4 Comment 5 Comment 6 Comment 7 Comment 8 Comment 9 Comment 10 Comment 11
The volume spikes do show an uptick in volume around 1PM and around 2PM, but they are not as strong as the AMC boost in volume. The volume during these times were high, but they weren't the highest points in the day for GME.
EDIT: I want to make it clear to people who are saying "those are just bot accounts." Bots are still controlled by humans. If bot spam cannot be caught and deleted, that means 8.5 million people are exposed to pump-and-dump schemes run by bots. It does not reflect any better on the mods if the comments are made by humans or made by bots controlled by humans. It is now a day later, and still none of the comments have been removed by a moderator or moderator bot.
UPDATE: Wall Street Bets has completely removed any post talking about ZJZ and his post about the head mods trying to engage in crypto scams and strange movie deals. (EDIT: This has changed, see above.) The rising sections is now completely filled low-effort, small text posts that are only pushing $GME. Here are those threads. Low-effort threads like these are explicitly against WSB rules. Why are mods letting rule-breaking, ticker spamming posts stay up?
Example 1 Example 2 Example 3 Example 4 Example 5 Example 6
WSB mods are banning users for mentioning ZJZ and his post. (EDIT: This has changed, see above.)
Mods Removing Negative GME Posts
I started digging into this when I posted to Wall Street Bets with a post containing some information about GME. The post pushed back against some of the "GME revolutiuon" talking points. It was a pretty tame post, meet all the guidelines for posting, and contained enough content to warrant staying up. The post was removed by the mods, but you can still see it up here. The content of the post was a combo of these two comments I made. This comment here and this comment here. Somebody in the comments recommended I make the contents of the comment into a separate post- which I did until it was removed.
The moderators removed this post, the removal states: "Moderators remove posts from feeds for a variety of reasons, including keeping communities safe, civil, and true to their purpose."
I sent a DM to the mods asking why exactly the post was removed. I have not been given a reply. Does the content of the post I made (pt.1 / pt.2) break any of their rules? Why would the mods remove a post containing that info?
Even worse, the exact contents of the post I made exist in comment form and are still up. If the info somehow breaks their rules, why leave it up in the comment section? Why haven't they removed the comments that contain the EXACT wording I used in my post?
It seems very strange to me that a post I made that contained some research to counter act the "GME Revolution" narrative would be singled out removal for "keeping communities safe, civil, and true to their purpose."
The front-page of Wall Street Bets is FILLED will positive memes and DD that supports GME. There is not a single negative post about GME on the entire front page that I can find. Why not leave up some negative DD and let the community downvote/upvote it?
The mods will let the comment section of threads get filled up with misinformation (GME SI being 226% is a common one that is easily debunked, yet is posted every 5 min in daily threads). People are gambling their life savings on outdated information yet when I make a post to push back against some of the common GME arguments, it gets removed.
Mods removing negative GME posts is unethical because WSB mods own GME shares.
jamsi is a mod on WSB. They left this comment: "I just received this e-mail from Robinhood. I am no longer using Robinhood for any of my purchases. Only keeping my $GME - not selling." Here is the comment.
Swedish_Chef_Bork_x3 is a mod on WSB. They left this comment: "Another $2k locked and loaded to buy in tomorrow. Feels like fucking Helm’s Deep in here. I have tomorrow off work, gonna get drunk and hope I don’t sleep through my alarm.". Here is the comment.
rawbdor is listed as a mod under the Moderators section of Wall Street Bets. rawbdor posted a comment saying: "The price is going to plummet hard no matter what we do. The real question is, will they be able to steal our shares in the process. They can drop the price all they want on low volume. But they'll never be able to buy it back unless you sell it to them."
A link to that comment is here.
This comment makes it pretty obvious that rawbdor owns some shares in GME, right? Saying things like our shares implies they own some.
ITradeBaconFutures is also listed as a mod. They made it clear that "Mods did not trade GME". You can find that comment here.
turdled is listed as a mod. They said, "We don't comment or promote trades. That's up to the subscribers and their upvotes/downvotes to decide." View it here.
One mod claims that mods don't trade GME, when its obvious from the three examples above that they did. Another says they don't comment or promote trades, which is also a lie. Other mods have been doing that. They also "promote" trades when they remove content that argues the other side of GME. If the only content they allow on the front-page is GME Positive content, they are promoting that content.
WSB has a mod team of 35 accounts moderating 8.5 million people. CNBC gets about 200k viewers at peak hours, while WSB has almost a million viewing it at a time when the market is open.
The mods could simply send me a DM and explain why my post was removed. They haven't. Market manipulation is bad. It's bad when investment firms do it and its bad when retail investors do it. The mods could DM me right now and say "Hey, here is the reason the post was removed." They haven't. If they do send me a DM, I will post an update here.
TL;DR
Now-former WSB mod ZJZ, in a removed & locked post, accused dormant top mods of coming back to siphon media coverage, potential movie rights, and springboard a cryptocurrency, while suppressing other mods
Coldcutcombo69, a moderator on WSB, was posting comments and threads promoting AMC. A coordinated AMC pump happened in the daily threads and comments that this moderator (and others) were tasked with moderating. This mod was removed as a moderator after this thread was posted. Coldcutcombo69 held AMC stock before the pump, but it is unclear if they held or sold that stock around or after the time of the coordinated pump.
Today, several users, but no mods, in a discussion thread attempted to push buys of AMC at 1 & 2 PM EST. Those times would later coincide with high volumes of stock trades for the day. Similar coordination was attempted by users (no mods) for GME.
WSB's front page is filled with only positive coverage of GME (here's a snapshot), while they removed my post containing negative GME DD with no legitimate reason given.
Mods are holding GME contradicting another high level mod's comment that "mods did not trade $GME". Mods made a false statement that they don't promote stocks, as one of them clearly did. You can also see the other mods comments about GME as also promoting stock.
Tervia's comment here has good info on Reddit moderation.

Hi y'all I'm here to share an problem I have faced and after speaking to a few other female streamers, it seems to be a normal problem. There shall be no links or sales pitches and this is on a throwaway. This is also going to be a very long post.
To begin - If you are doing twitch solely for income, there is nothing wrong with that and this warning will not apply to you. If you are trying to build a community please read on. This is also mostly directed at female streamers, I am one myself, but good knowledge all around.
I'm a mid-20's part time streamer while I go to school during the day. I started streaming over a year ago. Things went well; I had an active community both on and off twitch. My twitch income was low but it was never the main focus of my stream. Unfortunately I'm a poor college student so every sub and every bit warmed my heart. I got pretty close to partner, just shy of an average number of viewers. I started a push with some goals and incentives to hit partner!
I never hit partner.
During a personal celebration stream I had someone come into chat and after posting come cute animal emotes from the other women he's subscribed to, I welcomed him in with open arms as I would anyone else. Then he gifted 100 community subs. He spoke altruistically about how my community seemed fun and he wanted to support me and my community. Everyone was hype! In my stomach I felt strange that someone came in and spent that much on my stream but gift subs were normal in my stream and even an inside joke to a degree.
I kept an eye on this new person wondering what would make someone spend that much on someone they'd watched for only a few hours. He spoke about his job and he was very open about exactly what he did. In an effort to not doxx myself or said person, let's just say it was one of those jobs that the general public assumes anyone working in makes fat bank. He had spending money and seemed to be an adult not spending his last few dollars for attention. He never made any overtly creepy comments and we often spoke about adult things. No boundaries were ever crossed.
It got weird after a few months. Around the beginning of each month he'd gift another hundred or so subs. He'd sometimes treat me like a dancing monkey asking "what is your favorite drink" "what is your favorite pizza" "what's your favorite meal" "what games have you been wanting", all innocuous questions but then he would almost always immediately donate through paypal to cover the costs for any of these things. It reminded me of when I'd be out at a bar drinking with friends and a man would come up to me and ask me nearly the same thing as an ice breaker to then buy me a drink or meal. I would often tell these men no but these are usually the type of men to not take a stern no for an answer. This isn't a flex by any means. I don't want to be someone's sugar baby, I came on twitch to build a community and maybe make money.
I believe Community subs were built for big streamers, the streamers with hundreds if not thousands of viewers. Community gift subs are not really that great for someone with less than a hundred viewers. As a celebration or one-off thing they can be fine but they were almost all handed out to bots or people who had likely opened my stream and closed it. Even worse they were often handed out to people who had followed and unfollowed. I can't begin to count how many times we had people follow and unfollow only to follow again (presumably out of guilt) when they were gifted a sub.
Long gone were the days that I'd had people making friends in chat anymore. All of my regulars slowly disappeared and all the newcomers sort of worshipped this guy. They called him generous, they called him epic, they thanked him and acted as if they were friends.
Nobody was friends with this guy. Not even me. I realized far too late he'd basically forced his way into my community. He started suggesting games for me to play and just like the men at the bar who didn't know how to take a soft no as an answer, he'd offer to pay for them. I'd naïvely added him on steam so I was constantly gifted games he'd love to see me play.
How do you say no to any of this? This isn't someone outright giving me money asking for nudes back. This isn't someone who is afraid to talk about how much he makes or spends. He was always telling me how many subs he gifted in other channels. Maybe as a brag or maybe an attempt to make me jealous. Or even worse maybe in an attempt to make me beg for those subs myself.
Streaming albeit profitable is no longer fun. Do you remember in old movies when there was often a woman singing alone on a stage and a man would walk into the jazz club and start flaunting his wealth an an attempt to woo her? That's what streaming feels like now. I no longer know anyone in my community. My dreams of reaching partner are dead as I have no desire to stream anyway. Whenever I do stream I feel more like this guy is now my pimp and he's never done ONE actual bad thing.
I've reached out to a few other female streamer friends and quite a few have very similar stories. I've come to realize a lot of these men talk like dads in chat. RANDOMLY.......capitalizing WORDS.....and using.....A LOT.....of ellipses. Once they stop using the cute animals or cute girl emotes from the streamers they subscribe to. I could theorize all day long if they have some sort of father-daughter fetish where they really want to take care of a much younger woman, but it also may just be someone who is socially dumb and believes money will solve everything.
Community gift subs alone have scared off all of my regulars. Now my chat is constantly full of people asking me who I am, following me, then thanking the very generous man who gifted them a sub and pulled them into my stream. I'm constantly getting notifications that I was gifted a sub from the same man to another woman's stream. Another common thread I found was they love to intertwine their favorite streamers. In the same way they'll push hard for you to play their favorite game and they're often not really gamers themselves, at the end of a stream when you start looking to raid someone they're quick to pipe up with a few names of people who they do the same thing to.
Beyond killing my own community, I can no longer recommend my friends who were often female as this same guy would go into their chat and gift their community another hundred subs. To see that unawareness and excitement upon getting that breaks my heart. If this guy stays and does the same thing to me as he did to them, I'd never wish that on a friend. It's not like I can pass him off to someone else either as he already seemingly does this to a handful of other women.
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So now I write this as a eulogy for my streaming dreams on twitch. I'll never make partner. I can't just outright ban this man as he's given me so much money and I have no real reason to ban him. My discord is bare and any time I post in there to liven it up he hits back with some caring type message. I cannot talk about anything without some overtly nice input from him. I was naive in the beginning and didn't have a business paypal so he knows my full name. I've deleted my social media accounts under my real name as I never want this man to follow me off the platform. I tried to remove different aspects from my stream that even remotely incentivized money. Turned off hype train, got rid of paypal, even turned off on stream notifications. Nothing worked. He just wants to give me money. Which from the outside doesn't sound like much of a problem but it is. No longer do I have friends in chat jokingly giving bits or subs to friends. My entire stream is under his thumb and if he decides to leave then I'm back at square one as my community has been gutted. I suspect this guy with his job that you have to be pretty intelligent to partake in knows all of this too. My stream is now his.
So my only option is to quit and maybe someday stream under a new name and without a webcam. I only want this to serve as a warning to anyone else who finds themselves with someone like this in their stream. Maybe you can nip it in the bud, lest you find yourself as a dancing monkey for one wealthy man.
After reaching out to friends we realized a few things as well. Gifting 100 subs will give an affiliate around $250 in revenue and cost the gifter around $550 dollars. Whereas they could buy 25,000 twitch bits which will give the streamer $250 but only cost the bit-gifter around $350. These are already insane amounts but why would you spend $200 more dollars to give the streamer the same amount of revenue. In most cases it's a celebration of community and gives back and helps build a community.
In this case, it killed my community and made this man the one and only OG of my stream and he's likely fully aware of it. All while never actually doing anything wrong. Lots of love and be safe XOXO

Log Horizon season 3 is about to start, and if you're like me you do not at all remember everything that happened in seasons 1 and 2. Well, I didn't want to risk getting spoiled from reading wikis, so I binge-rewatched the first two seasons this past weekend and took a ton of notes so I can share with anyone else needing a reminder or ten.
 
This is certified 100% anime-only content meant specifically for anime viewers. I haven't even glanced at the light novels or wiki. Fans who have read the novels, this is NOT the place for you to chime in with "clarifications" and "by the ways". This place is for anime-only viewers, most of whom do not want to know the slightest bit of what happens next so we can experience it ourselves. I and the people in this thread do not give a rat-man's ass about some novel exposition from volume 2 that the anime skipped over in season 1 - go make your own thread if you are compelled to share that information.
 
This post is almost certainly going to hit the character limit, so I'm not going to summarize every major character or every plotline from the first two seasons. I could never hope to outline every major character's arc and development over 50 episodes in that few characters. Instead, I am only going to focus on the rules of the world and the plotlines that were still ongoing/unresolved at the end of season 2 - in other words, what I think you may need to know heading into season 3. Even if you don't remember them well, I'm sure you'll pick up the interdynamics of all these goofballs well enough just from seeing them in action again.

Poster Characters

Basics

• Elder Tale was a MMORPG that a bunch of people played. One day, everyone who was logged on got transported into a world that resembles the game. This event is now known as The Apocalypse.
• Elder Tale's setting was called Theldesia. Geographically, it is the same land/ocean layout as the real Earth, but half as large.
• When it was just a MMORPG, the game had 13 different servers, separated by region. If your character was in Theldesia's equivalent of Japan, you'd be playing on the Japanese server, and in order to travel to Theldesia's equivalent of Australia you'd have to switch to the Australian server. Most players played on the server corresponding to their region.
• A 14th server, called Mare Tranquillitatis, also existed - it was a beta-testing server used for experimentation and testing features before they rolled out. Some players had access to it. Its geographical region is... the Moon.
• The series has so far taken place entirely in the Theldesia equivalent of Japan, which is called Yamato or The Yamato Islands, and particularly in the city of Akiba (aka Akihabira) which is located approximately where Tokyo would be.
• The Elder Tale MMORPG ran for 20 years in real-life before The Apocalypse happened.
• Post-Apocalypse, the history of Theldesia has a ratio of 12:1 for events that happened in Theldesia vs in the real world. An event that happened in the 10th (real-life) year of Elder Tale's run happened 120 years ago in Theldesia history. This means that some Adventurers who had created their accounts and done notable things in earlier years of the Elder Tale game are now characters that are known to be over a 100 years old within the history of Theldesia.
• When people and monsters in Theldisia die, their corpses turn into bubbles/particles after a short time.
• The Apocalypse happened on the same day that the 12th expansion for Elder Tale was launching. This new expansion - called The Novasphere Pioneers - increased the level cap for players from 90 to 100, and was to include many new raid bosses and other content. Because of timezones, only the Japanese server had the expansion applied at the time The Apocalypse occured.
• As of the end of season 2, it has been about 1 year in Theldesia since The Apocalypse.

Populations of Theldesia

Adventurers

• Adventurers is the collective name of player characters in Elder Tale, turned special folks trapped in Theldesia after The Apocalypse.
• Adventurers can be any of a bunch of different races - humans, dwarves, cat-people, fox-people, wolf-people, and more. They have classes, special skills, and all sorts of MMORPG staples, and typically can improve all these things beyond any other population in Theldesia.
• Adventurers have a "friends list" which they can add each other to. They can make long-distance voice calls to anyone on their friends list - they refer to this as Telepathy.
• Adventurers can also talk psychically to other adventurers they have formed a party or a raid team with. Note that this is a separate ability than Telepathy, so effects that block Telepathy from working won't necessarily also prevent party/raid chat.
• When an Adventurer dies, they reappear at a Cathedral or another respawn point nearby (e.g. if in a raid zone they respawn at its entrance) after some time (anywhere from minutes to half a day).
• In-between dying and reappearing, they have surreal experiences based on moments from their life before The Apocalypse, during which they must mentally confront the failures that lead to them dying. Once they've finished that, they appear on a beach on the moon (Mare Tranquillitatis) with the world (presumably Theldesia, though it could be the actual Earth I suppose) hovering overhead. There, the Adventurer must sacrifice a piece of themself (eventually confirmed to be a memory from their life before The Apocalypse) to return. When they wake up, they retain only the vaguest memory of this ritual or none at all. (See S2E6 for an example.)
  
• Adventurers mostly live in Adventurer Cities - cities that have special buildings like guild halls, banks, and Cathedrals, and which are populated mostly by Adventurers but with many supporting People of the Land living there, too. Most or all of the Adventurer Cities in Yamato and many of their surroundings have a post-apocalyptic aesthetic, full of overgrown abandoned modern structures like highways, parking garages, and broken-down cars. There are 5 Adventurer Cities in Yamato:
  
• Akiba (aka Akihabara) - Situated where Tokyo would be in real life. This is the primary setting of the series. Governed relatively liberally by the Round Table, a group of the most influential guilds.
  
• Shibuya - An incomplete Adventurer city with no guild hall very near to Akiba. All the adventurers who were there have gone to Akiba so it is empty.
  
• Susukino - Northern city in the real-life equivalent of Hokkaido. It started out as a violent city run by oppressive guilds. Akiba sent forces up there several times to let anyone who wants to leave it and come to Akiba, so only a couple hundred Adventurers remain there. The Akiba guild Silver Sword ended up moving there and taking it over, which made it less violent and lawless than before.
  
• Minami - Situated to the west, vaguely where real-life Osaka would be. Governed autocratically by the guild Plant Hwyaden.
  
• Nakasu - Even farther to the west. Very little is known about it.
  

Monsters

• Monsters are hostile wild animals - things like angry giant plants, wild felines that attack in forests, etc. They are aggressive, have stats and levels and special skills, but are of similar intelligence to animals. They haunt certain areas, and when they die eventually replacements respawn there.
• After they are killed and their bodies dissipate they "drop" ingredient/crafting items and gold coins.
• Most Adventurer Cities, People of the Land cities, and some People of the Land villages have a "no monster" effect/barrier that prevents monsters from entering into them. Large-scale events like the goblin nation invading Eastal are probably not prevented by this.

Demi-Humans

• Demi-Humans are a special type of monsters that includes species like goblins, giants, fishmen, and other usually-humanoid hostile creatures. Unlike other monsters, they have actual social structures, use weaponary, and seem to be at least semi-sentient.
• Miscellaneous demi-humans can be found in the wild like monsters, but larger populations of them also occupy significant portions of territory - e.g. there is an area of Yamato full of goblin tribes that live in their own society and where People of the Land are not present. These areas can have complex social structures.
• Similar to monsters, demi-humans magically spawn/respawn in their lands. Since they have some intelligence but are difficult to research, it's unclear whether this is new individuals spawning or whether they are actually respawning with intact personalities in a similar manner to Adventurers.

People of the Land

• People of the Land are what were NPCs back when it was a MMORPG. In the game they just had simple NPC patterns, always saying the same things and doing the same basic tasks, but since The Apocalypse they are now fully sentient humanoids with their own lives, backstories, generations, politics, culture, etc. The People of the Land greatly outnumber the Adventurers - for every Adventurer City there are another dozen or more "regular" cities full of People of the Land and a bajillion towns and farms spread across the countryside.
• People die when they are killed.
• Revival spells on a recently-dead Person of the Land slows down how fast their body disperses but doesn't prevent it.
• The People of the Land in eastern Yamato (the area around Akiba) are socially structured as European-style feudal nobility, with each city and its surroundings ruled by a Baron and a patrilineal Duke as overall ruler of the area, or something like that. They have their own knights, armies, academia, etc.
• Named NPCs would have lasted in the game for the whole 20 years that it ran before The Apocalypse, and with the timeline acceleration mentioned earlier that would make some of them a hundred years old or more, but it seems The Apocalypse retconned this and where necessary the names of characters the required continuation became titles passed from teacher to student, and so on. The People of the Land don't seem aware of any incongruities there.
• People of the Land can learn skills, have classes, and other things that Adventurers can do, but they learn them much more slowly and generally have a lower "cap" on their level or abilities than Adventurers.
• While People of the Land are less powerful than Adventurers, in some special cases they can have access to equipment that puts them on par or beyond the abilities of Adventurers. Of particular note, the Royal Guard (aka Defenders) are People of the Land who keep the peace in the no-combat-zones of Adventurer Cities - they have special armour that massively buffs their physical abilities and makes them able to teleport around the city.

Ancients:

• Ancients (aka Progenitors) are a special class of People of the Land that are much more powerful than usual - even more powerful than maxed out Adventurers. In the MMORPG, these were mainly for two roles - legendary NPC characters tied to a particular quest, and the 13 Knight Orders. Only one Knight Order has been named in the anime - the Knights of Izumo that defended Yamato (since there are 13 regional servers, presumably there is one Knight Order per server). The Knights of Izumo suddenly disappeared around the time of The Apocalypse.

The Kunie Clan:

• The Kunie Clan are a special group of People of the Land that manage all the banking and financial systems of Theldesia. They are of some mysterious other humanoid race that look similar but not quite the same as humans or elves, and they seem to all be almost identical (plus many or all of them seem to go by the same name, Kinjō, making them even harder to tell apart).
• They can be found at the guild halls or banks of Adventurer Cities and similar places, but they also have secretive villages where they originate from that Adventurers and most People of the Land do not know about.
• The Kunie Clan are not necessarily the actual cause, but are at least somehow involved with the world's supply of gold and how it gets distributed to monsters/demi-humans when they spawn. This includes access to the giant lake of gold coins that reside deep below the Depths of Palm and which serves as the world's main vault to store coins before they teleport to monsters and demi-humans.
• They are also involved with many other "fundamental" aspects of the world, especially operating and managing ancient magical technology. For example, they can deactivate and reactivate the magic circles beneath Adventurer Cities which power the anti-monster barriers and Guard armour within the cities.

Instincts, Progress, & Innovation

When Elder Tale was a game, players were limited in what they could achieve by the limitations of built-in character animations, feats needing to have been pre-programmed as skills, and the game interface itself. Following The Apocalypse, the Adventurers in Theldesia still have access to the game interface and can still do everything the old way... but they don't have to. A magical leaping sword strike formerly activated by pushing a button can now also be activated by doing the same motions and thinking about using that skill. In fact, the latter option is better - the Adventurer can control and manipulate the skill with greater control and precision than the rote motions that result from doing it through the menu.
Just as this applies to combat skills, so it goes for the rest of the world:

Food and Crafting

Combining ingredient items through the in-game interface according to a pre-programmed recipe makes food that looks correct and does nourish the body, but has no distinct taste or smell. But, if a player with the chef sub-class actually combines and prepares the ingredients by hand, it makes real food. More complex and difficult recipes require finer ingredients and a higher level in the cooking skill or they still end up turning to mush.
Similarly, Adventurers with crafting sub-classes and skills can make superior, more refined, and more varied designs if they go through the process by-hand rather than using the crafting menu.

Innovation

Adventurers with the skill and ingenuity to create and craft things by-hand rather than using the menus are also not bound by the finite list of recipes and inventions that were programmed into Elder Tale. They can combine basics in all sorts of new ways not seen before. Soon after The Apocalypse, clever Adventurers developed basic steam engines and the rate of invention has been rapid ever since - less than a year later, someone has mixed magic and technology together to create a magitech hover train.
These changes have had a far-reaching effect on the societies and economies of Theldesia. Facets of Adventurer culture such as their food and clothing have been swiftly embraced by the People of the Land and Adventurer economies have largely shifted away from quest-like tasks such as raids or guarding a People of the Land caravan to their own Adventurer industries, which has fractured the traditional Adventurer-People of the Land relationship and lead to many unforeseen consequences, such as an attempted goblin invasion.

Teachings

Teachings (aka Overskills) are supposed new skills achieved by some Adventurers that were not possible back when it was a game. They are commonly perceived as being a higher-tier version of commonly known skills or powerful new abilities.
In actuality, Teachings are just (a) unorthodox applications of existing skills, or (b) instincts gained from becoming more in-touch with the world and losing the mentality of it being a game. E.g. Nazuna figured out that she can use the protective barriers she normally cast on other people as airborne platforms she can climb/jump on instead. Adventurers tend to
 

"The Apocalypse is not over yet"

As Shiroe comments, the natural laws of the world post-Apocalypse are altogether a confused mish-mash of Elder Tale game mechanics with real-world logic. Gradually, however, these two separate systems are starting to merge. Some known examples are:

• Initially, an Adventurer needed to have the chef sub-class in order to be able to make any real food - even if a non-chef Adventurer prepared the ingredients perfectly, it would still turn to mush. After some time, though, anyone can now make basic recipes and the chef sub-class (plus leveled up cooking skill) is only needed for intermediate and harder recipes. Likewise for any other sort of crafting.
• Adventurers whose Elder Tale avatar had a different body than their real body got stuck in their avatar's body, but retained their original voice. Over time, their voices are becoming more like what their body's physical vocal cords would naturally sound like.
• The size of the world is slowly increasing, presumably until it becomes the same scale as the real Earth.
• Objects had all sorts of associated flavour text in Elder Tale. They still have this flavour text in Theledisia after The Apocalypse, but it is just that - two objects with the same stats but different flavour text behave identically. After many months, though, the flavour text of some objects started coming true.

 

The Debauchery Tea Party

• The Tea Party was a group of 15~30 Adventurers on the Japan server that frequently partied together in Elder Tale, many years before The Apocalypse. They were known for pulling off a number of incredible feats in the game, and generally had a more loose and fun tone than other groups since they weren't a structured Guild.
• The Tea Party disbanded several years before The Apocalypse and many of its members moved on to other things. Some members joined or started guilds, while conversely many others had not logged in for years by the time of The Apocalypse.
• Almost immediately after The Apocalypse, Shiroe checked his friends list to see who else that he knew was online/trapped in Theledesia, so he should have a pretty good idea of which members are/aren't in the world, but we the audience didn't get an exact list. Currently we know of 9 former Tea Partiers who are in Theledisia...

In Akiba:

• Shiroe, Naotsugu, and Nyanta partied together in Theldesia and eventually formed Log Horizon.
• Back when the Tea Party disbanded, Sōjiro, Kazuna, and Saki created a guild called the West Wind Brigade, with Sōjiro as guild-master. Saki wasn't logged in at the time of The Apocalypse.

In Minami:

• Intix is the #2 seat on the Council of Ten of Plant Hwyaden and therefore 2nd in command of Plant Hwyaden behind only Nureha. She seems like a real big jerk and is part of the faction there that wants war and total dictatorial control of Yamato. Up until the end of season 2, it seems she was emotionally abusing Nureha to get her way within Plant Hwyaden. (I don't think they ever actually specifically said Intix was in the Tea Party, but from the way she's shown with them in the OP and how Kazuhiko/KR talk about her it's 99% certain.)
• Kazuhiko is also on the Council of Ten of Plant Hwyaden. He seems to be fairly disgruntled with the way things have been going over at Plant Hwyaden, but is hoping to change it from within. He's kind of a jerk about it, though. He and Shiroe have been occasionally in contact with each other and have been sharing some info.
• KR is on the Council of Ten of Plant Hwyaden. He's very carefree, but seems like a good guy overall - like Kazuhiko he doesn't necessarily approve of the way Plant Hwyaden is running things or their desire to go to war with Eastal and Akiba. KR is a summoner with a skill to possess creatures over vast distances - at some point he possessed a horse in the China serveregion to scout out what things were like over there and while traveling around in China he encountered Kanami's party. And he can summon a giant fucking dragon that solos raid bosses. He only told Kazuhiko about his journeys in China, not Intix or the rest of the Council.

Elsewhere:

• Kanami was the leader of the Tea Party for most of its run, but she moved to Rome a few years before The Apocalypse and stopped playing the game at that time. During that time she had a daughter. Eventually, she got back into Elder Tale, creating a new account on one of the European servers, and she got trapped by The Apocalypse, too. Since the Novasphere Pioneers expansion pack content had only been loaded on the Japan server and figuring it was related to The Apocalypse, Kanami started journeying from Theldesia's Europe counterpart all the way to Yamato. Also in her party are a teenage mutant ninja frog, a farming bot that may have gained sentience, and an Ancient.

Unresolved Plots & Mysteries

Regan, New Magic and the World Fractions:

• Regan (aka Li Gan) is a mysterious guy who has shown up a few times and gradually become an ally of Shiroe. He was first encountered when Shiroe et al went to a conference with the People of the Land nobles. He seems to be a Person of the Land, but I don't think that was ever actually confirmed. If he is, he's an extraordinarily knowledgeable one, possibly on par with the Kunie Clan. He's a shady guy who may have a hidden agenda.
• He has the title Sage of Miral Lake, a name that was associated with a lot of lore in the game before The Apocalypse but (as far as we/Shiroe know) not a character anyone ever encountered. He says it is a title passed down to him from his teacher, the previous Sage of Miral Lake.
• Regan's main interest of research is magic that is on the scale of altering the entire world, something that he says has only happened 3 times so far in events he calls the World Fractions - the creation of monsters/demi-humans, the arrival of the first Adventurers (240 years ago), and The Apocalypse.
• Since each World Fraction was an unprecedented form of magic, he is intensely interested in the creation of new forms of magic that did not exist prior. Shiroe's Contract Magic which turned Rudy into an Adventurer was one such new magic, and one that Regan thinks could some day be world-altering. Around the same time, Regan says he felt another brand new form of magic with similar potential happin in the west.

Death and Resurrection

• Regan and his predecessors were researching a so-called Spirit Theory about how death and resurrections work. His theory posits that people (Adventurers, People of the Land, and Demi-Humans) are divided into anima (physical attributes, correlated with HP) and psyche (mental attributes, correlated with MP). The psyche and the anima are each required for a person to persist - when people take too great of an injury their anima is too damaged to persist to it dissipates; the healthy psyche stuck inside the body dies when there's no anima to support it.
• Since when people die in Theldesia their bodies turn into bubbles/particles, that is their anima dissipating. If the psyche is intact, revival spells can pull those dissipated bits of anima back to the rest of the body and put them back into place (up until the point where the body has completely dissipated). But if the psyche is also destroyed, there is no mind to reassemble the anima as it once was.
• For Adventurers (and possibly demi-humans), their dissipated anima particles all travel to their respawn point, so their psyche can still reassemble them there. For People of the Land, the dissipated anima just scatters in all directions, so even a healthy psyche can't do reassemble them and dies.
• However, the reassembly can't be perfect... some energy must be expended for the process. And since the anima seems to be reasembled perfectly, Regan and Shiroe theorized that some psyche must be lost - in other words, the person loses some of their memories. (See S1:E14 for the full spiel)
• When Shiroe shared this with the Council, Krusty was able to confirm that this is indeed the case, and further suggested that it seemed like memories of their lives from before The Apocalypse might specifically be targeted. (After a particular death, Krusty could no longer remember the name or appearance of a cat he owned.)
• Regan implied the Ancients had different spirits than ordinary People of the Earth and that this could be significant.
• Shiroe and Akatsuki eventually remembered the experience of being on the moon between death and revival. We don't have a lot of comparison points as no one talks about it much, but it sure seemed like Adventurers always forget that in-between experience once they woke up (Akatsuki herself when she revives seems to remember it for a moment and then quite specifically forget it).
• (Continued in the Navigators section)

Enemies in the West

• To the west of Akiba and Eastal are three People of the Land nations - the Westelande Empire, the Ninetail Dominions, and the Fourland Dukedom - and within those are two Adventurer Cities - Minami and Nakasu.
• Following The Apocalypse, a guild called Plant Hwyaden lead by Nureha took over Minami by conning money out of the People of the Land nobility and buying the Cathedral, then forcing all Adventurers to join Plant Hwyaden through the threat of controlling the respawn building. Plant Hwyaden now rules Minami and its environs autocratically, and is much more integrated with the People of the Land nation, the Westelandian Empire, than Akiba is with Eastal. Their combined government is run by an organization called the Council of Ten Seats - Nureha and her nine advisors/ministers, which includes some people of the land.
• Nureha herself is a somewhat emotionally unstable person and she occasionally runs off on her own private journeys, so the much of the actual policy-making has been driven by Intix and Mizufa, the bloodthirsty Westelandian army general.
• Ever since establishing control, Plant Hwyaden have made efforts to suppress information about the west making it to the east. This isn't outright possible, as plenty of Adventurers in Akiba have friends in Minami, but it has overall made it more difficult for Shiroe and the Round Table to gather detailed information about Plant Hwyaden's capabilities and motives.
• Likewise, the presence of spies from Minami in Akiba has lead to the Round Table waging their own information warfare, trying to keep their own secrets and knowledge of their operations out of the hands of Plant Hwyaden.
• Nureha herself came to Eastal, disguising herself as a People of the Land chronicler named Dariella. She was seen suspiciously visiting various various places in the east, and then eventually met up with Shiroe, who saw through the disguise. Revealing herself as Nureha, she encouraged Shiroe to join Plant Hwyaden so they wouldn't have to be enemies, but Shiroe declined. Apparently she knew Shiroe in the game before The Apocalypse and is somewhat obsessed with him now, but Shiroe doesn't remember her at all, and furthermore it's clear that Nureha lies a lot so who knows how much of this is true.
• Recently, factions within Plant Hwyaden - especially Intix and Mizufa - want to go to war against Eastal and Akiba. They have been power-leveling their People of the Land soldiers (using a disturbing magitech system wherein People of the Land control spirit monsters), built a giant hover train base, and have been making other preparations.
• They sent a small expeditionary force to the border of Eastal which caused a bit of havoc in some towns, but Kazuhiko and Nureha made them withdraw.
• The threat of all-out war or a smaller, more focused attack by a faction within Plant Hwyaden still looms large. Nureha seems to be taking a more active role in government and standing up to Intix now, but that doesn't mean she has full control or even that she wouldn't order an attack herself.

The Disappearance of Krusty Suzumiya

• Krusty is the guild leader of D.D.D., one of the most important guilds in Akiba.
• When flavour texts started becoming real, the scythe (which admittedly had some pretty evil flavour text) of Krusty's lieutent, Takayama Misa, one night suddenly flew up into the sky and show a giant red beam of pain around her. Krusty pushed her out of it and got caught in it himself. Then the beam disappeared, Krusty and Misa's arm vanishing with it.
• For the longest time no one knew what had happened to Krusty. He did not respawn, could not be reached by Telepathy, and Misa's arm couldn't be healed or revived either.
• At the very end of season 2, they discovered that Krusty is in China with Kanami.
• He still has Misa's arm with him. And it is twitching (ew).

Ennui & Social Safety Nets

• Living as an Adventurer is easy. Slaying a couple low-level monsters every few days gives more than enough gold coins to buy food and a bed. Throughout their time since The Apocalypse, the leaders of Akiba have struggled to keep its culture and economy engaging so that its people will have motivation and drive.
• However, the mostly-capitalist system of economy and governance they've established, especially with its focus on guilds within the government structure and trade in its economy, has furthermore left a growing population of Adventurers who do not have social standing, influence, or prized trade skills and who do not wish to leave the safety of the city disenfranchised and despondent.
• The Round Table is aware of the issue but hasn't figured out what to do about it.
• Most recently, Eins and his enormous guild Honesty have been the leading voice for this issue. He's even suggested some extreme socialist/communist economic reform measures, but no one else thought that was a good idea.

Navigators

• During a westward quest, the junior members of Log Horizon encounter Roe2, Shiroe's second account, acting independently from him. She says a bunch of cryptic stuff and also sends a letter to Shiroe via the juniors. Putting it all together (but she could be lying about some or all of this):
• Navigators are artificial lifeforms that come from a society that ran out of empathion and now search different universes for more in order to survive.
• What, exactly, empathion is is not entirely clear. It seems to be a resource necessary for life and which is evidently tied to the psyche.
• The Navigators were brought into this world by a process they call "the Match", something they don't fully understand and which they did not cause. Probably the same thing as The Apocalypse.
• Navigators are divided into two types: Observers, whose role and motives is not yet fully clear; and Harvesters, who are less intelligent than Observers or Adventurers/Humans and who prioritize collecting empathion above all else.
• Adventurers dying is one way that empathion is collected. Given the name and the correlation with the psyche, it's 99.9% certain that this is the same thing as when Adventurers give up a bit of their memories on the moon before they revive.
• Navigators don't have their own bodies in Theldesia - instead, they have taken over the bodies of unused character accounts and monsters. In particular, Roe2 took over Shiroe's alt account on the Mare Tranquillitatis server (and other Observers have likely taken over other accounts there) while Harvesters have taken over Geniuses (see below).
• Roe2 was able to get to Yamato by swapping positions with a summoned creature, but most Observers are still on the moon. She told Shiroe that if he contacted them, they could help him find a way home.

Genius

• Geniuses seem to be a new type of quest/raid boss that were introduced in the Novasphere Pioneers expansion pack. They have a common theme of being disguised as People of the Land (including all the appropriate menu pop-ups), and are only revealed as monsters after certain triggers or once confronted.
• Most, but not all, of them become powerful raid bosses once revealed.
• Easily identified (once unmasked) by them all having a "Genius of " title.
• They have all been taken over by Harvesters, used in Harvester plots to thwart Adventurers and increase the rate of Adventurer death so that more empathions are collected. And this means they can show up anytime as new adversaries rather than only as part of quests or events.
• Their abilities and tactics vary wildly. Some are simple combat adversaries, another was stealthily kidnapping Adventurers through hypnosis.
• One Genius/Harvester referred to Elias, an Ancient, as "a survivor" suggesting that they are related to the disappearance of the Ancients.
• While they aren't as intelligent as Adventurers/Observers, don't think of them as mindless foes. As soon as Akiba started planning to use the Shibuya antenna station, the Geniuses setup an Eternal Moth hive around it blocking the Adventurers' attempts to use it and potentially forcing them to destroy the antenna along with the hive.

The Third/Fourth Party

• Since The Apocalypse, Shiroe was searching for evidence of "the third party" - that is, people or things other than Adventurers and People of the Land, and who presumably caused The Apocalypse. He believes that The Apocalypse must have been caused with some motive, and therefore whoever is responsible should be out there somewhere. However, all his various investigations could not find any evidence that a third party exists until Roe2's letter.
• However, Roe2 says that the Navigators did not cause The Apocalypse, leaving this still an open-ended question.
• Since the Navigators are "artificial" lifeforms, it hasn't been ruled out yet that whoever created the Navigators is also the ones that caused The Apocalypse.

A Way Home

• Of course, the big question always looming over the Adventurers has always been "can we go home?" As they learn more about the world and create even more advanced new magics and technologies, they may find such a way.
• At the end of season 1, Nureha suggests that Shiroe is on the verge of finding a way home. Shiroe says he doesn't know if whatever technique he's cooked up yet really does send someone home, yet, all he knows is that it makes them disappear.
• Following the letter from Roe2, Akiba is now trying to contact the moon where they may be able to learn more about how to get home from the Observers.
• Some Adventurers are truly desperate to return to their old life and feel that Theldesia is their prison, especially those who feel disenfranchised by the current socioeconomic structure of Akiba. At its most extreme are the Odyssey Knights, who intentionally get themselves killed in order to glimpse the old world in the mid-revival dreams.
• On the other hand, many Adventurers have adapted to life in Theldesia. Many enjoy their life here better than their old life and have no wish to return.
• Shiroe was torn on this issue, seeing no good option. Either undo The Apocalypse, separating thousands of happy Adventurers from their friends, their new lives, sending many back to misery... or don't, forcing the other miserable thousands to remain imprisoned in Theldesia. But a well-timed inspiring conversation with Kanami reminded Shiroe of what Log Horizon is all about - achieving the impossible third option. Hence, Shiroe and Log Horizon aren't trying to undo The Apocalypse anymore, they want to find a way to merge the two worlds so people can travel freely between them.

Other Mysteries

• The fast-travel gates between Adventurer Cities have been offline since The Apocalypse. Regan says it has something to do with the moon phases.
• Does old Shiro really drink that much juice in one night, or are those bottles for pissing mid-raid?
• Will Akatsuki ever sit on a chair normally? Does she always sit seiza because of ninja roleplay, or because it makes her taller?
• Goat slimes?

The Crushes

• Shiroe and Kanami almost certainly had a mutual crush back in the Tea Party days. Shiroe wasn't over it for most of the series but he is now.
• Akatsuki has a crush on Shiroe but is shy about admitting it/pushing it and Shiroe is pretty oblivious to it.
• Minori also crushes on Shiroe. She's more upfront about it, but he's even more oblivious to this one, though pretty much everyone else has noticed it. (Shiroe and Akatsuki are both college-aged while Minori is like 14 or something so this isn't much of a love triangle per se, more of a character development for Minori plus a way to pressure Akatsuki into taking more initiative.)
• Nureha is unhealthily obsessesing over Shiroe from afar.
• Serera has a little-girls-first-admiration sort of crush for Nyanta, and absolutely everyone knows it. Nyanta is a perfect gentleman.
• Marielle and Naotsugu started out as just platonic friends that get along well, but this has gradually evolved into something vaguely resembling the start of a relationship. They were even long-distance-calling each other every night to share their day with each other for a bit.
• Shōryū has a crush on Marielle, which Marielle is oblvious about. Shōryū gets jealous when Marielle pays attention to other boys (particularly Naotsugu), which Hien loves to tease him about.
• Henrietta likes dressing up cute girls in cosplay as a hobby/obsession. She has a squad of subjects for her obsession in her guild, but she is especially fond of doing so to Akatsuki.
• Henrietta has had a couple moments of thought about crushing on Shiroe, but has no intention to pursue the idea further.
• Sōjiro is a harem protagonist.
• Nazuna is Sōjiro's one true love, or else the childhood bestfriend character that hangs out in the harem but ultimately only loves him platonically.
• Naotsugu must decide who he loves more, Marielle or panties.
• Krusty and Princess Lenessia have a pretty good thing going. I dunno what it is, but it's good and it was going, until he disappeared.
• Rudy is an eager puppy and Isuzu is his proud owner.

Best

• Best boy: Nyanta
• Best girl: Kurinon
• Best speech: Shiroe (sorry William, yours was good, too)
• Best faces: Akatsuki
• Best smile: Nazuna
• Best hat: The other giraffe girl
• Best pants: Kushiyatama

Afterword

I'm really glad I rewatched all of Log Horizon. In my opinion, it is a series that has gotten even better with age. If you are debating about delaying season 3 to rewatch the first two seasons or not, I say do it.
There was no shortage of isekai series when Log Horizon first aired, and that number has only increased since. But how many isekai series actually want to seriously engage with their premise? Having the protagonist recognize that they've been transported into a video game world only to immediately shrug off all possible ramifications of this is funny, sure, but it's also definitely taking the easy way out. Nowadays, many series don't even bother with the 5-minute isekai-and-forget-it routine and just opt to pitch it as a fantasy tale in a nonsensically video game-themed setting, but even then the characters rarely engage with the consequences of the setting being game-ified.
Not so Log Horizon.
Log Horizon never forgets that its characters are real people and real gamers, worried far more about the existential unknown than yet another goblin king. It's not just that the story dabbles into politics, economics, and social reform, though that's great, too. It's the constant fear of the unknown, the optimism to rally against it, and the heart to learn lessons from it.

Disclaimer : I realize this has already been extensively discussed post-release, and that some of you might find this redundant. This is not necessarily meant as a Blizzard-bashing post - though it will inevitably turn out to be one - but more as a summary of the events of the past twelve months, as seen by someone who has been actively playing Warcraft 3 for almost two decades.
This is also meant to hopefully shed some more light, through a big subreddit, on a group of people who have been very hard at work trying to fix Blizzard's many mistakes, and who could do with a bit more mainstream recognition.
The original Warcraft 3 was released in 2002, with its expansion The Frozen Throne coming a year later. It has, ever since, been many different things : One of the staples of early RTS competitive gaming, the main hub for Blizzard's then-new and improved BattleNet, the setup for World of Warcraft's entire storyline and, perhaps most importantly, the cradle for a map editor that ended up changing the face of gaming forever, giving birth to entire genres - the most famous of which remain Tower Defense and, of course, MOBA.
Warcraft 3 stayed very active up until the early 2010s, when both Starcraft's sequel and Valve's standalone DotA game naturally assimilated a huge chunk of the player base, leaving only the more diehard fans to play together and bide their time, in hope that Blizzard would once again give its legacy games some attention.
During that time, the competitive scene (which is going to be my main focus, as it's what I'm closest to) survived, but only barely and almost solely resting on the shoulders of community-made ladders, a small but hyperactive YouTube/Twitch channel called Back2Warcraft as well as a few Chinese/Russian tournaments. In 2018, Blizzard started patching Warcraft 3 again, making significant balance changes and overhauling the game's servers (online ping went from a fixed 250ms to a much more playable state), breathing new life into the scene. With Starcraft 2 losing traction, a lot of high-profile people returned to Warcraft, and it did honestly feel, for a while, as if the game was coming back to life for good.
This, of course, culminated with the announcement of Reforged. I can't even begin to tell you how enthusiastic I and a lot of people were to see it happen : It was huge, it had to be. Warcraft 3 is an incredible game, and while we realized that RTS had become pretty niche, we had high hopes that a healthy new influx of players would come in and that we'd be good for another ten years.
Reforged, as most of you know, was not only disappointing, it was almost impossibly bad. The systematic destruction of everything that made BattleNet great : A ladder replaced with the most barebones random-ass (and, for a while, straight up non-functional) matchmaking I've ever seen, high ping, no more clan, no more profile, no more statistics, no more real discussion channels, poor custom maps compatibility, horrendous UI, etc.
This, added to the... controversial new graphics that are yet to be competitively viable (I won't get into that, you'll just have to take my word for it) and overall fake advertising, ended up in a 0.5 metacritic user score and a PR dumpster fire for Blizzard, who soon 'apologized' in an official post on their forums (https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/warcraft3/t/warcraft-iii-reforged-developer-update/18425), promising to fix the game as soon as possible and offering no-question refunds for everyone asking.
It's been a year, and Reforged is still more or less in the same terrible state. A couple of patches have fixed compatibility and the original inability to even find an online game, but none of the other important issues have been adressed. The hype died down, and the player base went from growing before Reforged's release to dwindling again, almost to a point of no-return.
Meanwhile however, the community took it upon itself to capitalize upon the short-lived surge in interest to keep the competitive scene going and do Blizzard's work for them. Back2Warcraft managed to become a fully-fledged Twitch channel that now gets 5 to 10k viewers and a guy nicknamed Pad, engineer at BMW, created another community ladder called W3Champions. For personal reasons, Pad then left access to that ladder's framework for other members of the community to work on it. That team has since done an incredible job at providing the services that Blizzard won't, adding back the missing BNet features one by one and even improving on many of them, with the last (and greatest) addition being the financing of strategically located host bots that allow for something Warcraft 3 had never had before : Cross-region play, merging the Western and Eastern scenes (game is still popular enough in China) into one so that all the few remaining players can play together.
What Blizzard classic and the dedicated Reforged team (if there even is one, which I'm starting to doubt at this point) have been doing since is unknown. It's been a long time since we've had any significant news or update, they did say that an official working ladder was on its way, but it's been more than 6 months and nothing substantial has come up.
I guess my point is, beyond summarizing the events and getting things off my chest, that I really wish for this all not to be forgotten. We're small, and we don't expect Blizzard to pay much attention to us. But they know they've taken a massive dump on their legacy with this fiasco, and they know we've been hit by most of the splatter. All we ask for is some basic decency. Actual news, regular posts on forums to let us know what they're working on - if they're even working on something, which is far from certain. It would truly go a long way.
As for you guys... I don't know. Try to check on Twitch's Warcraft 3 streams, both small and 'big' and take a quick look around if you have any interest in RTS and competitive gaming. Tweet at Blizzard. Visit W3Champions' website or leave them a support message on their discord, help them keep the flame alive. Please don't let this all fall into oblivion.

Hey everyone,
I've been seeing translations of the Ryujehong statement make rounds across Twitter and cow and haven't been super impressed with them. While they try to get the general gist of the statement across (with their own varied flavors), there are some key parts that the translations I've seen miss out, which can definitely change the meaning of what RJH said in Korean when translated into English. As someone who worked for OGN Global in 2014-2015 as a translatointerpreter for their League of Legends broadcast and a person who works with Korean players in LoL and OW as an agent, I wanted to try my hand at a more direct and hopefully, a more accurate translation.

Hello. This is Ryujehong
I would like to talk about a recent stream. First, I would like to apologize to the viewers that felt discomfort from the strong level of language I used along with the overuse of profanity on the day of the problematic stream. Going forwards, I will try to adjust the level (of language) and endeavor to stream within the lines where many people can enjoy (the stream).
I would like everyone watching my stream to understand that I am guiding my stream as Ryujehong the streamer. I know that there are viewers who watched my streams regularly in the past that are struggling to adjust to the changed chat atmosphere as many new viewers started joining, and I know that there are those that are quite confused of me using Twitch memes, but I think (those viewers) need to understand.
Going forward, the stream and the chat atmosphere will be developed bit by bit and stabilized using the feedback of various viewers, but I would like to progress with a free feeling that is like me. I will hire bots and managers to thoroughly manage (my stream/chat) so that I can make a stream that anyone can enjoyably view.
Finally, I read and saw various comments, and if you're not a fan of me, stop with the incitement.
Thank you for reading this long post.

Translator's Notes:

1. Korean uses a sentence structure that is unlike English about half the time. Whereas most sentences in English follow a [Subject]-[Predicate/Verb]-[Direct Object] structure, Korean (and Japanese for that matter) sometimes uses a [Indirect Object]-[Predicate/Verb]-[Direct Object] sentence structure with an implied subject. The parentheses sprinkled through my translations are what I understand to be the implied subject of that sentence through context clues.
   
2. When RJH says "...I think (those viewers) need to understand," it's unclear in his statement what exactly he wants 'those viewers' to 'understand.' My take is that he's saying older viewers need to understand that he's evolving the content of his stream as he transitions to being a full-time streamer.
   
3. When RJH says he want to "progress with a free feeling that is like me" with regards to his stream and chat environment, a (perhaps) better nonliteral translation is that he wants to "progress in my own way with my own spin to it." I translated more literally so that the direct/literal translation is available.
   
4. The way RJH says 'incitement' towards the end of the statement implies a decent amount of distaste that doesn't translate very well.
   

My personal take:
Translating is difficult, and translating between Korean and English can be especially difficult due to the foibles of grammar and idioms. Unlike other interpretations of RJH's apology, I understand his statement as directly apologizing to the viewers that felt discomfort, rather than apologizing that viewers felt discomfort at what was said. There's a nuance here that got lost in translation that I personally feel was colored by personal reactions to what was said on stream.
Did what RJH say on stream cross the line in terms of decency? Yeah, I believe so. That was strong language that was used which would NEVER be used in polite company nor on a public facing communique. But the way I understand his statement is that he apologizes for crossing the line and that he's going to work on that, albeit at his own pace with his personal spin on it.
Can you trust my translation?
No translation is 100% perfect, especially between Korean and English where you have to rearrange the order of words so that the sentence makes sense in English. On top of that, as translating is an exercise in writing, there is always the chance that the writer's personal views and biases can influence the translation. What I offer is my attempt at a more direct/literal translation and I make no promises of 100% accuracy, but I think I'm pretty good at this having done this in the past as well as having worked with Korean esports players in League of Legends and Overwatch as a talent agent. I'll leave that determination up to you, the reader.
[Edit: Formatting and clarity]

I streamed every day for a year. In that time, I gained 2k followers and have currently reached a 45 viewer average. I list these metrics simply because I want the post to have some kind of weight. I didn't reach partner in a year, I didn't reach 1k subs, I'm not a superstar. I just want to share some of the things I learned to newer, or other streamers out there. I'm going to break down some of the things I learned into sections and hopefully this can benefit some people.
Also, I wrote this whole thing out and then it deleted itself, so this'll be fun.
Consistency, time and place, keep to your schedule, even if it's loose
This is the most important point. Have a start time, a set schedule of days and stick to it. I used to think that 10pm - midnight as a start time was okay but now I make sure to be there for 10pm. You don't need to stream every day, by any means, however, letting people know what days, even if it's just Saturday, at 6pm, will keep you in their mind throughout the week.
At a certain point, if your consistent enough and have created a routine for yourself, you may notice people following that, meeting up in your pre-stream chat or Discord.
Make a Discord or Twitter
Why? For the SOLE purpose of notifying people when you're live. Reminding people the time and place is great but some people are busy, or don't deal with time-zones very well. Having an alternative way of being notified, rather than having to remember your start time or rely on the shitty Twitch notifications is so helpful for viewers.
Personally, I chose Discord, as you can do two things: Create a special role to be pinged. I have a message you react to on the join page and boom, you’ll be notified when I’m live. Secondly, it creates a community that sticks around after you’re live. You can interact with people and make friends, instead of simply being a face people see on Twitch.
Be sure to greet everyone, remember names, remember traits and interests
Viewers are not numbers. Getting to an average viewers milestone is great but it doesn’t feel like a big jump. Not because I’m ungrateful but because I’ve met 90% of the people that are watching. If they talk in stream, I have something I can say to them and that is a great landing zone for anyone who might be new to the stream.
This doesn't just mean you should say welcome over and over. Sure, that's a start but I can't tell you how weird it feels when I go into someone's stream, pose a question or comment that could be discussed, and they'll instantly say welcome, and then ignore what I've said. Take your time, make sure you can offer attention to a chatter. Make them feel welcome, don't tell them.
View count
Every time I see this mentioned, the majority of people will say they turn it off. This is fair, as it comes down to a lot of things. Big numbers can ego boost and then you'll feel shit when the numbers go lower. There are two things to say to this. Firstly, those are people, not numbers. When you're a smaller streamer, remember that people can be busy. Secondly, the viewer count can be helpful in some situations.
For example, you can monitor what discussions turn people away. I've seen myself talk about computer parts and the stock market only to see a bunch of people check out. More helpfully, though, if you see more viewers than usual, take that time to let them know your focal points.
Mine are: time and schedule, Discord and the community aspect, YouTube for highlights. Just something simple, "While we're loading in, if you're new and you're enjoying... or not, do know that we stream every day at 10pm UK/5pm EST ..."
Make use of the VIP role
As I said, I accidentally deleted this whole post while writing it, so some parts may be shorter, including this one.
The VIP role is not just for famous people in your chat, or those who have donated. I use the VIP role to show my appreciation to those who stick around. if I have noticed someone's been chatting, for a week, or I see them say hello at the start of each stream and goodnight at the end, to me, that is a VIP. It's someone who helps the stream grow as an individual presence, who contributes to the community. Plus, it's a nice little thank you from me to the viewer for being around.
Market yourself and find proper branding
No, you don’t need a literal campaign of adverts but, knowing how to showcase your content, even to those not watching, is a huge key to little boosts here and there. Find your unique selling points and run with them.
Some that I use include the fact I accidentally acquired a world record for the game I play. Now, I label myself as the “World Record Pig Main.” Even if there’s other Pig players out there, there’s only one world record, and that’s a unique tagline I can use in my banners and titles, etc.
Another little thing that started off from fun and spiralled into a bit of advertisement was a project a user in my chat did. He kept data for 100 of my games in a row and we found I had a 96% win rate. We turned that into an infographic, posted it on the relevant sub-reddit and it got a large amount of attention. Small things that, when capitalised on, will add up.
Playing the same games
Personally, in my first few months, I would play variety games. In between my main game of Dead By Daylight, I’d stream Resident Evil, Half-Life, Ori, just games I was interested in playing. However, I think there’s something to be noted here, if you’re looking to really capitalise on growth, as opposed to, just playing what you want. At a certain point I noticed significantly more growth, in regards to viewer retention and follows, if I played Dead By Daylight. So, I stick to that now. Personally, I don’t have a problem with this, it just means I play other games off-stream.
The point is, be sure to take stock. If a certain game is picking up your growth and people are there to see that game, as long as you enjoy it, it’s definitely something to explore in regards to creating a foundation for your channel. Though, not everyone can play four hours of Pig every day.
Teams
I have no first-hand experience with teams, as, in my opinion, I feel it offers you a lot of fluff. The vibe can be nice, if not off-putting for some, as everyone in the team will shout-out and encourage other members. Yet, in the long run, I don’t know how much all these recurring raids and shout-outs actually get you.
At the end of the day, though, this one just isn’t for me. If you find a team your comfortable with, I don’t think it would do any harm. The one part I don’t like is that you can become associated with that team, or the big name heading said team, instead of being your own entity.
VoDs and follower-only
A small entry. Outside eyes have told me that I will be "hurting my growth" by using sub-only VoDs or turning them off. I strongly disagree. My VoDs were a breeding ground for stolen content, toxic clips and drama. So, I turned them off and put my highlights on YouTube.
Follower-only mode for your chat, on the other hand, will have you dead in the water as a small streamer. Ultimately, you want as much exposure/interaction as you can get and chat is the best way to do that. People don't want to commit to a follow just to ask you a question. So, if it means banning some bots/toxic people, do keep your chat open for all.
Alternate interaction
I could never wrap my head around what to offer people for subscribing. So, I settled on a small amount of interaction in regards to the game I play, Dead By Daylight. I main the Pig, but if people subscribe, they can choose my killer, build or a challenge. I found this to be a great and simple way for people who support with money to get something extra. That way, we can discuss their build, the killer, and watch me struggle with a different game dynamic.
This then escalated to a similar amount of bits or donations for the same type of request and these days, it's not uncommon for me to barely touch my main for a whole stream.
The point here is to offer that little bit extra. Don't break your back, and don't be afraid to keep it simple or common, but an interaction that shows your appreciation for that person's money. Then, I offer a lite version of that for channel point rewards.
Make a YouTube… kinda
This is the first thing every video or thread says about growing on Twitch. "Bro, how are you gonna grow if you don't post content on other platforms ?? No one will be able to find you."
You need to look at YouTube carefully. Again, don't break your back for hours to create a ten minute video that will get 30 views. That helps no one.
Instead, grow your YouTube alongside your Twitch with specific, catered content that people will want to watch. Throw in some variety but don't go making a four hour essay on why the Pig is garbage because there's a gigantic chance it will get no coverage.
Start small, cater to your audience. For example, I upload a Kinda Weekly Highlights video every Saturday. This does few things: it grows a secondary presence, slowly, and it allows those who can't watch the stream to check out the best bits that they might have missed. On top of that, you're learning to edit videos and images. My content isn't above average, by any means. The editing is simple and the thumbnails are silly.
Do not go balls to the walls on YouTube if you have no presence there. Slowly build it up, otherwise you will be disappointed before you even get the ball rolling.
That's it. There were some extra sections but I foolishly lost them. I don't mean to sound arrogant or overconfident, at all. I simply like writing and love streaming, so I thought I'd merge those two together and make a post here. Maybe it'll help some people, and hopefully we'll see some input from other streamers.

Before I start, I'd like to thank everyone working on HyperScape for the great job you're doing.
Forget the haters, You're doing an awesome job. Thank you for your tireless work.
That said, here's some ideas I have:
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Character Skins:
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Reworking character personalization like this would get me spending on the game fast.
Base characters have their default outfits
New clothes can be earned or bought and changed in locker
Existing extra skins be converted into full outfits or itemized
The ability to use these clothes and accessories on all characters to maximize versatility
This would allow the community to personalize our look and feel far more unique
Add hairstyles, helmets, hats, tattoos, face-paint, glasses, watches, armbands, chest-plates, backpacks, boots, socks(thigh-highs would be nice)
Recognizing friends by their look is fun
Twitch integration allows viewers to vote on what streamers wear (would incentivize streamers to get more accessories)
Some accessories could unlock specific emotes, like a Mecha Armband
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Emotes:
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Futuristic vibes work *so* well for this game's aesthetic, some ideas:
Mechanize - (Must be wearing mecha armband) crystals cover the player starting from the armband then form a mecha suit. player retains appearance. repeat emote to reverse the effect
Flexplode - Character flexes ( like this http://gph.is/1KjiEKH ), body expands then explodes into crystals
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Weapons:
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Cyber-Claws - Think wolverine with lightsabers for claws.
Rightclick = lunge
Leftclick = up to a 3 hit combo, each click brings the next hit
Hold Leftclick = Charged attack dealing big damage causing pushback on the enemy
Fusion upgrades add extra hits to the combo, higher movement speed for the character or higher damage
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Vampire pistol, smg, rifle -
Different percentage of HP returns depending on weapons DPS
Leach HP over a short time on hit
Red and black crystals flow to you from the enemy as you gain hp
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Hacks:
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Vampire - Gain HP when you hit enemies, visuals like the vampire gun above
Magnetic Boots - always active, ability to run on walls
HackMirror - Reflect the effect of hacks when hit by them (shockwave, slam, reveal, etc)
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Map:
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Color coding sectors would help identify them and make callouts easier, have the minimap reflect colors "3 enemies purple-zone on me"
Fixed 2 way teleport points - Teleport from point 1 to point 2 or vice versa
Random teleport network: scattered teleport points around the map, entering one teleports you to a random point throughout the network. Cooldown on teleporter after use.
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Competitions:
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Any competition like the one now on twitter should have exclusive in game rewards or free premium battlepass for the top 10ish entries
This will make us far more likely to try our hardest to bring the best content to help you advertise your game. If battlepass is the reward, that will keep players playing consistently
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Bots for unpopulated servers:
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In Australia I haven't been able to find a single battle royal in solo or squads. Friends who were interested in trying the game lost interest fast because of this
Connecting to other servers gives over 125 ping which is impossible to deal with in fast paced FPS games
Maybe if the timer goes over 5 mins to enter then add bots
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Crossplay:
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Add keyboard and mouse support for console to help level the playing field
This would be far more inclusive and make the game more attractive to players who have bought the keyboard and mouse
Hackers would be reported, monitored and banned just like any other FPS game
Banning by console ID and Ubisoft account would be a huge deterrent to hackers
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Thanks for reading my novel. Much love. Keep up the good work

I'm just wondering about some things but I may be overthinking this slightly.
I recently started streaming (same name as this reddit account) and I am getting young viewers join into the stream. I am perfectly fine with this, i keep things PG13. I don't really swear or make any off-colour references and I am happy for them to be around and chatting. the only inappropriate thing that's been asked is if i would play fornite with them but I just ignored that! and one of them said "Darren (my name) is too pro to play with us!". So I know they are aware it's inappropriate to ask me to play with them.
I am aware having a young audience is perfectly normal on twitch. I have worked in a school with young people (when I was 19-23). I look at twitch as a professional thing as i did the school. I do have a discord where I want my chat to form a small community but I want no direct communication with them and so far that hasn't happend. I think my current audience are aware i'm not their friend but just another streamer.
I do just feel it's a little wierd having a young audience. I am 26 and though i am a very child-friendly person. My sister is 12 and I get on with her great! I do just feel it's all a bit wierd. I don't to upset any parents or have any young people getting too attached. also I do not want to come across in a way that's inapprorpiate. Working in a school we worked very hard to keep things professional and to protect safety of staff. (like never being in a room alone with a child etc.)
I think I might set some rules saying things like "Do not try to contact me directly" or something. Just so it's clear I will never message them back. The only message I've had is a young person (about 16) DMing me bots she wanted in the discord. I feel even this is massively inappropriate. Private messages are a big no no.
My channel is going to be primarily a chatting channel. I'll talk about friends, family, depression and things like that. I think I am a perfectly good role model. I've sort of started to look at myself as like a kind of childs entertainer but more for young people in college and whatever.
I think if just make sure i make it clear direct communication is against the rules of my channel - that will be enough to protect myself. But i wonder if there are any other ways to protect myself from essentially - allegations of inapproriate behaviour on my part or anything else like that.
Right now I am calling them by their names and I wonder if I should just refer to them as "chat" for good and never by name just to make sure that barrier is clear. Is referring to them by their twitch names inapproriate? Maybe so. Right now i am thinking to add the "no direct communication allowed" and i'll stop referring to them by their names. Just to make it less personal to them.
I wonder if other streamers know how to deal with approrpiately interacting with a young audience. I want to make sure I put all precautions in place to protect myself and to ensure they are aware what is/isn't approriate on their part! Right now I am possible "getting to know them" becuase they are so regular on the stream, which feels inapproriate.
I wonder what other streamers take on this is? I want viewers to contribute to the stream but I want to keeps things fully appropriate. I might just be overthinking things tbh. would be good to hear other views! i am really enjoying twitch but If i feel it's too inapproriate I will stop streaming which i don't want to do. But i don't want to interact with young people in an unhealthy/inappropriate way.

So i have been streaming on my twitch and every stream at the very exect time a view bot appers on my ps4 stream 1 fake viewer is starting to get me on edge what do i do ?

I've been active on Twitch for a few years now, with its ups and downs. First as a streamer straight from PS4, then PS4 through PC and now fully PC. However, I've never really felt what you would call succesful on Twitch. I have what I would consider a pretty decent setup including a good running PC, nice overlays, even selfmade yet simple stinger transitions and some fun alerts. However, I still don't seem to be getting found.
I've gotten affiliate, but I achieved that after almost 4 years, and it was mostly thanks to a community from a certain game regularly raiding me as a newb with insane numbers, cracking up my average viewer count finally past the point. I couldn't continue playing the game though, as I didn't really enjoy it. I only kept playing it for the viewers, and I didn't want that.
Now, however, I'm playing games I like, and even though I wouldn't count most of the games as oversaturated, the viewers aside from a handful of semi-regulars still don't seem to come. Something I heard a lot to possibly remedy this is networking, and although I'm not sure how to do this, I don't think I want to. I'm not a big user when it comes to social media like Facebook or Twitter, and going to another streamer with the goal to basically leech on their viewers doesn't sit right with me. And don't get me started on how annoying those 'become famous' bots are...
So please, tell me if there is a way to get more viewers? I'm not asking for a one-trick-fixes-all wonder way, and I know I should care less about viewers and more about having fun, but I'm basically out of options. I'm at a point where I have gotten streamraiders for more interaction and everyone besides myself in the match I don't recognise, and I'm even considering spending money on gear for becoming a VTuber as that seems to actually stand out, even if I'm not sure I actually want to go that way.

Hi this is a remake/repost of a somewhat old post I did, this time I added more livers and was a little bit careful to mention that this doesn't mean every liver is a master at english and all that, first I put the people that is or was doing english streams with duolingo or other methods to learn english.
Learning english streams:
Suzuka Utako
Amamya Kokoro
Sakura Ritsuki
Ririmu
Onomachi Haruka
Momo Azuchi (She is using Pokemon as a way to learn english)
Himawari Honma (She did it a while ago)
Interacts with english viewers:
¡Count pretty much every liver that has or will post in the subreddit at this point!
Every liver from Nijisanji ID and IN counts too
Be mindful that not everyone or none from this section is fluent on english and if you want to ask or interact something I strongly recommend you to wait for the right moment, don't just throw your comment in the midde of some conversation, also remember to use very simple english with most of the livers, it will help a lot to understand you faster and better than using too much words.
Kanae He interacts with english comments if there's enough to be noticed, he specially does this in his Twitch channel
Nui Sociere (If there's enough overseas fans she can speak like a full hour or more like how it happened in the stream from the clip I linked)
Mononobe Alice (talks a lot with english viewers in her music streams)
Suzuki Masaru He recently integrated a bot that translates him in this reading stream, he also noticed the latest Nijisanji english offcial clip were he is in
Sister Claire She speaks some english in her more relaxing stream and she uploaded this with full english texts
Sara Hoshikawa she does read english comments and is very active in her translated videos, she's very fluent too!
Yumeoi Kakeru probably the king of english in the JP side, the official channel uploaded this clip about his english skills, he's very very fluid and sounds pretty much native, he barely has an accent.
Fumi the goddess likes to pick english comments, even questions (simple ones) if she saw some while streaming, she even jokes around or gets excited when someone calls her super cute
Nagao Kei His very good at english, I know he scored high in some test but I don't remember much, even in the linked clip he mentions that it's fine to even send him english marshmallows
Ienaga Mugi people commented that she likes to interact with english viewers, I haven watched her streams due to schedule but there was a good amount of people backing that up
Hayama Marin her english is pretty good and even throw some jokes in english, there's always some overseas in her streams and she's a mod here so what other reason you need, she's cute and funny, perfect combo (applies to everyone here)
Ushimi Ichigo She's a great fps player and artist too, Ichigo encourage foreigners to comment, even if she doesn't know a lot of english, it takes her a while to read a english comment and then she usually translate it if she's not playing something, so please if you go to her streams use very very simple english, and she's likes to be called cool (kakoii) rather than cute
Genzuki Tojiro a lot of people commented him so here he is. Genzuki has a great pronunciation and he picks english comments from time to time, he has recognized that he doesn't know much english but that's seems to be improving. (I linked a clip because it's very chaotic but his channel is in the description)
Machita Chima The amazing singer and Freesia abuser does read english comments and there are a few clips of her speaking english, she's not fluent but she is getting better and better
Matsukai Mao It seems that she's pretty good at reading english, I didn't found a lot of clips of her picking english comments but the offcial english channel clipped her being smug about how good she's at reading english
Nijisanji KR:
I haven't watch all of the livers from the KR branch so if someone in the comments can help me I would be in debt.
Yuya Shin Her audience consist of KR, JP and english, she is pretty good at english and a couple of months ago she commented that she understands english more than japanese (she has studied a lot of japanese since) She's an adorable and loud trilingual gamer
Suha Min As Yuya he is also good at english a lot of his viewers are from overseas, he constantly interacts with english viewers, and has been part of english collabs
Hari Ryu She's totally fluent in english, sounds pretty native to me, Hari is one of the latest additions to the KR branch, she's adorable and very chill.
I know I'm maybe missing a lot of them and more important, I didn't added descriptions of how the vtubers are so I wlil do my best to answer that in the comments or just look for clips, even tho there's probably people with more knowledge about this members here so I hope they comment here

Here is an off-the-cuff list of things that I think not only help with retention but actively making people want to follow/sub/dono. Hopefully there are some different views of the same information you've read or perhaps something new that no one tells you.
This list is from all of my experience and if even one person gets one thing from this list I will consider this list successful.

• Evaluate the games you're playing (grinding cod 24/7 isnt good) Use TwitchStrike and sullygnome to evaluate your stats, see what works for you in what timeslots! Try to have a schedule of games you play to let your viewers know what you're doing next.
• Get a friend in your stream to keep things moving or have them in discord (If you have 0-5 viewers a friend can make a world of difference) Make sure they are compatible and match the values of your channel.
• Play a community game once a week (stream raiders, Marbles on Stream or Jackbox come to mind)
• mic/camera is basically a must nowadays, people watch youtube for gameplay and watch twitch for the personalities make sure yours shows!
• Watch your streams with an objective eye and work on better content. Keep a notepad and WATCH THE WHOLE THING. Also, have a friend or fellow streamer you want to be like, review your channel. This is a big ask so money may need to be exchanged for time, or subs or gummies, idk you know what your friends like. (I have a channel point redeem to review channels and its a valuable tool when you get some knowledge under your belt)
• talk! all the time, about what you're doing and the choices you're making. I know you hear this all the time yet, I never see this in 0-5 viewer streams. Learn to communicate everything youre doing, then put some personality in it!
• Join other streams and make friends, find someone with 5/10/15/20/50/75/100 viewers and see what they are doing to keep people entertained. Just remember expecting to get raided by being buddy with everyone is automatically the wrong mindset, the streamer doesn't owe you anything for you engaging in their stream. This happens a lot. No one owes you anything, the earlier you know this the sooner you can get on making yourself happy.
• this is a business, try to treat it like such, do moves and try to keep innovating
• Put your phone on your stream so it says you have 1 viewer, streaming to 0 means no one wants to be there. There are mixed opinions here however, try to find 1-3 friends that hang out and talk instead then, you don't need to do that!
• Advertise your stream to your friends and play games with them try to get 2-3 regulars that way that are invested., if you can. Find out what friends are playing, feel them out and see if they want to come on stream with you. MAKE SURE THIS IS A GOOD FIT. By Advertising i mean, personally message them, catch up, see how they are doing and just feel out if its a fit. Don't do this with expectations in mind. Your facebook/twitter is a decent start.
• do not spam going live notifications that's a fast way to get muted (seriously dont do this) it REALLY hurts your reach! Dont use any post bots or follow bots, they all get you muted or ignored which hurts your chance of having them come in forever basically.
• Don't spam your live notification on popular posts or ads!!! This is also terrible! It makes you look bad and no ones going to click it. It's spammy and if you want to be noticed and you consider this, you may not be ready for attention.
• do not invest in advertising until you have a solid product. Unless you have a team that guides you, my recommendation is 1500 hours streamed before advertising minimum. Unless of course, you have management, a solid product and a firm understanding of marketing (or someone that does)
• do not use f4f l4l or s4s they all inflate your stats and don't add value and hurt you in the long run. Don't follow people that do this and don't bother, I've never seen a f4f streamer make partner let alone be successful. They just have skyrocket follows and views and very very low CCV (concurrent viewers) than those with "real" stats
• work on making your stream engaging with redeems, gifs and sounds. Voicemod can be fun, Lioran board is advanced but can help here, there's millions of tools! Look up something cool and run with it. Gifs, interactions and anything visual can engage and keep people in the stream longer and build a better bond.
• MUSIC! Find something that fits your vibe that is also DMCA free. Game music just isn't good most of the time. By now it's mostly DMCA. You'll feel when your music is right even when it's something you might not listen to.
• Community games when you're at 5 viewers will make you good and bring in new people. Its like streaming to a brick wall and will make you good quick. You HAVE to talk about what's going on, talk to people and be focused on them. It might change your perspective.
• make sure to peek at chat every 10-15 seconds. Ask questions into the void and make sure you're talking (again) This is the inherent problem with COD streams, you need to be looking at chat every few seconds!
• If you make good content they will come, think of it like a show. Why would people watch yours? What makes you unique? What drives people to your stream and what can you do to retain them.
• Keep notes in your discord or personally on every change to the stream, it can be surreal to look back on and seriously gets people interested in new stuff!
• I want to add, try out TikTok it's amazing for views, twitter is decent if you like to randomly post. Just don't use it as a going live or pity platform and you'll be fine. Find something that does well with your content and just run it. Remember your first 3 videos hit harder, make sure it's a tailored experience that multiple people can enjoy! Funny moments, weird glitches, good laughs are always a good time. TikTok is a serious tool!

I've learned this the hard way, 1.2k follows, 20CCV 80 peak. I'm not saying im a pro but, I've seen some things and I've learned what it takes to hit 30-40-50 in a stream and it's not what you think. It takes a lot of work.

• don't forget the secret to twitch which is Always Be Improving. Every stream if you can. Fix that gif, fix that flash, fix that scaling issue, fix the centering, add things, adjust things, set angles, change your camera, add multi layer effects. (Example, sad scene with rain, make it black an white, add clouds, add sounds, add screen effects, add motion that's tons of improvements on one little thing!)

Please reach out if you have further questions but, TBH the most important thing I would think is decent webcam/mic and showing your personality. If you don't have those im not saying don't stream but don't be surprised when you have low viewership. It's already hard to grow with all the right things!

• Secret tip because you made it this far. ALWAYS READ THE VIEWERS NAME OUT LOUD IT ENGAGES THEM MORE AND MAKES THEM FEEL SPECIAL.

I hope this list helps, feel free to ask questions, I'll be around :)

• Edit: Read their name out loud*

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Madness of the Gods 3: February 2021

Hi, I'm TriggerHaven, a gaming Wizard from the Twitch Realm and I've teamed up with CopperPitch, CommunityGaming, Immutable, Banano/CryptomonKeys, and the Gods Unchained Community to bring you our THIRD Gods Unchained Community Tournament and Prediction Bracket! Featuring over $1000 USD worth of ETH and prizes!
This event is free to enter. The rules are simple: Single Elimination, Core + Welcome + Trial of the Gods cards only.
BANS: TBD (We are curating a ban list before registration ends)
What is Gods Unchained? It's a Free-to-Play, Play-to-Earn, Trading Card Game! Download it here! If you don't have any cards, download now and start grinding for the next tournament!
Registration Open Now:

1. Sign up for an account in CommunityGaming.io and enter the tournament from the main page!
2. Enter Trigger Haven's Discord to verify your GU and Discord accounts with our API bot so we can track matches and you can easily communicate with your opponents.
3. (Optional) Create an account in Challonge if you wish to make an entry in the Prediction Bracket once the bracket is published. After creating a prediction you must FILL OUT THIS FORM in order to verify.

✨Registration Ends: 4am Friday, February 12th, PST.
✨Predictions End: 12am Wednesday, February 17th, PST
The tournament will consist of Three Phases lasting through February and into March:

1. Qualifiers - After registering with our discord bot successfully, play in the official Weekend Ranked competition in the Ranked Constructed Mode in Gods Unchained from 4am Friday, Feb. 12th - 4am Monday, Feb. 15th Pacific Time. We will take a snapshot of the MMR of registered participants, and the Top 128 registered participants will be assigned to a single elimination bracket.
2. (Optional) Predictions - For reddit, Twitch, and Discord community only. Anyone may post predictions when Predictions open on BRACKET PREDICTION DAYS: Feb 15th/Feb 16th. Predictions will close before the Round 1 matchups begin. Participants MUST fill out this form after the bracket is finalized and their prediction is posted.
3. Brackets - Players in each matchup will schedule a Best of 3 in which they play tournament legal decks against their opponent (switching decks between matches is allowed). NOTE: Legal decks may only include Welcome, Core, and Trial Set Cards. Cards from any set other than the Welcome Set and Core Set will result in disqualification (e.g. the Genesis Set, Promo, Etherbots, etc.). You must also follow all ban restrictions.

TENTATIVE Tournament Timeline:

• Qualifiers are Feb 12th-15th (The official weekend ranked event)
• BRACKET PREDICTION DAYS: Feb 15th/Feb 16th.
• Round of 128: Feb 17th - Feb 20th
• Round of 64: Feb 21st - Feb 24th
• Round of 32: Feb 25th - Feb 27th
• Round of 16: Feb 28th - March 2nd
• Round of 8: March 3rd - March 4th
• LIVE Round of 4/Finals: March 5th

We ask that all participants who make it to The Finals be able to share their desktop or stream their gameplay in order for us to present the finals on Twitch.

✨✨✨Hype Events and Content! ✨✨✨

Top Gods Unchained Players, CopperPitch, TriggerHaven, and Shaleby_ will be hosting weekly content on our Twitch Streams about the tournament! Join up for Analysis, Viewer Battles, Cosplay, and Marquee Matchups from the tournament!! If you have ideas to add to the hype, or would like to participate, send me or CopperPitch a message! CopperPitch also makes Weekly Exclusive GU Content on YouTube! Be sure to follow his channel for tips and tricks on how to git gud!

🎉TOURNAMENT PRIZES🎉

Winners of the Grand Finale will Receive (at least) the Following Pledged Prizes:

• 1st Place - 35% of Prize Pool
• 2nd Place - 20% of Prize Pool
• 3rd Place - 10% of Prize Pool
• 4th Place - 07% of Prize Pool
• 5th - 8th Place - 05% of Prize Pool
• 9th - 16th Place - 01% of Prize Pool

Bracket Predictions Prizing

• 1st Place - Avatar of Deception
• 2nd Place - 1st and 2nd Pick from "Community Prize Shelf"
• 3rd Place - 2nd and 3rd Pick
• 4th Place - 4th and 5th Pick
• 5th Place - 6th and 7th Pick

We will also be raining and raffling additional Gods Unchained Prizes, $Banano, and CryptomonKey prizes during our live streams of the matchups each Friday of the Tournament Period!

Game Rules

Qualifiers:

• After following all registration instructions, players will receive a unique TRxxx code. You must put this code in your Gods Unchained username then play one match in Ranked Constructed in order for us to verify you. Note: You need not DM the bot if you have participated in the Welcome Set Tournament or the Early 30 Ranked Leaderboard, as you are already verified.
• Participate in "Ranked Constructed" battles, 4am Friday, Feb 12th - 4am Monday, Feb 25th Pacific Time.
• NOTE: You may use any cards in this phase.
• The Top 128 will be seeded into the bracket based on MMR at end of the qualifier period. They will then be placed in groups in the Tournament Discord Server to assist with scheduling.

Scheduling a Match for Single Elimination Brackets:

• After you are assigned a bracket, it will be your responsibility to arrange a best of 3 matchup with your opponent using the "Direct Challenge" mode during the legal time period for the round (See "Tournament Timeline" heading above).
• Each player is expected to put forth reasonable effort to be available for matchups. Since players are in many different time zones, be aware that schedules may not align at convenient times.
• EACH DAY the bracket advances, players have 24 hours to contact each other to schedule a matchup, and a backup. Failure to meet these agreed upon times will result in disqualification.
• Having your availability ready to share with your opponent when the bracket is published will help greatly. Failure to communicate with your opponent in your appropriate tournament channels may result in disqualification.

Disconnections during 1v1 Bracket

• Disconnection during Best of 3 Matches after cards are dealt must count as a loss. Be sure you have a good connection for your matchups. If disconnections or hang ups occur before god powers are picked, alert your opponent in your bracket's discord channel, force close the game, then continue playing your matches as normal.

Conduct

• All bracket matches are recorded in the API and will be checked to verify validity of only using Tournament Legal cards and powers. Violations will result in automatic disqualification.
• Be concise and courteous in your communication with your opponents across all social media during the tournament.
• Unsportsmanlike conduct across all social media (not just the tournament server) may result in disqualification from the brackets and forfeiture of any and all participation prizes.

Considerations

• My friends and I will be doing our best to make sure it runs smoothly, but there will assuredly be a few problems here and there. If things aren't perfect this time around, we'll refine it for future community events!

Official Sponsors

A big thank you to Immutable and CommunityGaming.io for sponsoring $1000 of Eth to the prize pools. Thank you to Banano for heaping piles of $Banano to rain in Twitch and the 10 Rare and 30 Uncommon CryptomonKey to use throughout the event. And a HUGE thank you to the Community Sponsors spicing up the prediction prize pool.

❤ Community Sponsors ❤

Thank you to the following community members for putting up prizes for this event!

• ✨ Prize Shelf of Genesis Set Cards ✨ (G) = Gold, (S) = Shadow
• VeteranHoplite's Shelf -- Avatar of Deception
• LordTetas' Shelf -- Pyramid Warden
• StrongHands' Shelf -- Backstreet Bounder (S), Contagious Ghoul (S), Blood Rage (S), Shadow Scryer (S), Dangerous Ritual (S), Inflammable Imbecile (G), Gentle Monk (S)
• Ares' Shelf -- Hurl Weapon (G), Arcane Transcendent (S), Rift Scholar (S)
• OhhShiny's Shelf -- The Old Ritual (S)
• There may be additional prizes! If you'd like to contribute to the Tournament Prize Pool for this and future events, please send me a message in Discord!

Thank you for reading all the way to the end! If you'd like to show support for this and future events, come visit us on Twitch to follow, subscribe, and hang out for some good times! We're very excited for this event, and hope you have a lot of fun. Good Luck!
✨ TriggerHaven| CopperPitch✨
If you'd like to show your appreciation with Eth, here is the tournament appreciation address! 0x01b08d40e20C21e22A6641B690C6d0Eae4543c99

As we know, the spamming pandemic has wrecked havoc in the pre-stream chats of the girls, especially Coco, Haachama, and Fubuki. To tackle this, I rather recommend moderator bots (will be referred as "chat bots" later) instead of human mods.
So, what are chat bots? They act just like mods, but they're bots. So, Cover won't have to pay money to mods because... they're bots. It's cost efficient, and they work very efficiently as human mods require to keep on eye on the fast-moving chats and some of these chats could get away with this. Besides, there are chances where the mods won't be available on certain streams. Chat bots won't give these spammers a chance and these bots will always active whenever the girls are streaming.
One of the characteristics of the bots is chat logs, which displays lists of banned messages and users so the girls can take action effectively.
Another advantage is that it requires no certain apps to run them. They run on cloud, which means no physical storage is required to be prepared by the girls. This won't effect the PC performance of the girls mid-stream, thus creating a smooth streaming experience.
Another advantage of having chat bots is that the girls can customise the settings of the bots. This makes them easier to engage with viewers mid stream, also helping in getting rid of the spammers. The girls can also input commands in the bots in order for it to engage with viewers.
My suggestions of the chat bots are Nightbot and Cloudbot as most of the streamers on YouTube use this feature to moderate their chats mid-stream and they worked pretty efficiently. The girls only need to go to their websites provided below and sign up with their YouTube and/or Twitch accounts to begin using the bots. It's that easy. These are my recommended chat bots' site.
Nightbot
Cloudbot
I hope u/Hololive can consider accepting my suggestion to provide better experience for the girls and the viewers in the future and bringing an end to this spamming pandemic once and for all.

hai my name is lake. i am approaching my 2 year anniversary on twitch. i am 23, and i am mixed. this is a summary of my experience based off of race & gender, also being new to the platform.
just to clear the air, i am not one of those. by “those” i mean an onlyfans, just-dance-streams-in-booty-shorts, tits out typa streamer. i ain’t ever got the tits for that.
i’m just another human being who loves to play games and shit. i’m not here to be cute, i’m not here for attention i would actually prefer to have less. my ultimate goal was to become a cracked fps player, but then cold war came out. 💀
when i started streaming, i came to the quick realization that this platform wasn’t made for people like me. everyone at e-sports tourneys, the peeps with most views & recognition to me seemed to be anyone but black people except for the rare few.
i ignored that fact not caring what race or gender anyone is, i just enjoyed the mutual hobby of gaming.
but being a WOMAN is just unfortunate. even as a small streamer, people would say “your boyfriend probably wants you to get off his playstation” or they would be direct, come in and just tell me to show my tits or something.
as i grew, i would go into other woman’s streams and see some of my viewers in there. these were titty streamers. i started wondering why people watch me? do they watch me because i’m a woman or because i’m a goated?
the answer was clear. eventually i had a talk with my friends in which they told me it’s just easier for women to grow on twitch. i argued saying that with the more reasons people follow me because i’m a woman, the more hate and harassment i receive in return.
sexist, racist comments are nothing to me. someone bought 4 thousand bots to follow me and say “fuck black people trump 2020” another 1000 times.
people join my discord and scream “NI***R” yes with the hard ER while i’m live.
eventually, people started saying “oh you have an army of simps” etc etc and i’m like bruh, i just want some HOMIES or something not simps.
the worst part about this shit is i can’t do anything but become better at games so that i can hope people watch me because i’m a beast and not because of my race or gender. i had a twitch partner tell me he was going to fly me out to suck his dick in front of his 3k live viewers. like what kinda shit is that.
i do support other black streamers though, because i know what they go through and what we have to deal with existing on twitch.
now 2 years later i have a good following, a good community. i’ve stated my intentions with my audience multiple times and said that if you are here for anything but gaming and a good time then you’re in the wrong place. i still have to accept that these weirdos who clip me standing up every time, these mfs who say my feet looking beautiful as i walk away, they’re always going to be there. and i can’t do anything but coexist with these types of mfs.
i also have trouble finding other women and women of color with the same intentions!!! a twitch thot raided me and all her simps follow me and now i gotta deal with even more weird bullshit.
man. to y’all who look at women like “you got it easy” i really wish i did. if i told you everything that i’ve gone through it would be a book of bullshit. anyways, thanks for letting me share my story!!!

TLDR: The game lacks actual learning for jobs/mechanics and leads to potential community problems later when called out about it. Should they do anything to solve this?
This is something that's been on my mind recently and I really saw it come into play while watching a popular Twitch streamer start doing previous late game content that isn't a "main" FFXIV streamer.
We know the obvious "you don't pay my sub" but there are also the rare occurrences of people actually being toxic/elitist while people are learning fights. In my experience this is actually not that frequent relative to the number of times people are running said content. This would be one end of the spectrum I'm referring to. The other side would be the ones where you can't say anything at all or people will get offended/defensive and in turn actually call you toxic/elitist even for the simplest things when still phrased politely.
For example a certain popular streamer was playing DRG, which wasn't their main, and they were doing Omega raids normal and grouping with their viewers/FC. Their personal DPS was completely irrelevant, and it "didn't matter" even if they were being carried cause it was for fun which is fine.
The “problem” was that they were not using Blood of the Dragon at all initially. If you play DRG and know even a little bit, you would realize that's an important mechanic of the job. That also meant they weren't using half of their important skills. Part of the problem was their hotbar setup and they didn't want to spend time messing with it then, which is fine I guess for an excuse, but we can plainly see a fundamental problem here. This was with the job at 70+ and I’m pretty sure not boosted (maybe).
Of course because it’s Twitch, and this person is a popular streamer, you had people pointing out the lack of Blood of the Dragon. For the most part it was pretty tame or memeing with emotes, but nothing like calling them a bad player or not being optimal with perfect play. But either because of their own community or it being part of the FFXIV community, those people were then called out for being toxic or elitist and to “let him play the way he wants” or “stop backseating”. I get backseating is annoying, but pointing out that they weren’t using BotD is like the farthest thing from that and it wasn’t like people were trying to get them to do their full rotation properly with optimal off global cooldown usage, it was literally one ability that is the main function of the job. Their DPS didn’t matter, but it’s the principle of the whole situation.
This to me was a great example for why the lack of proper in-game tutorials hinder the learning experiences of new players and instigate the entire community problem when it comes to player skill level either with learning jobs or the fights themselves.
The more you watch streams of people who don’t main the game, the more you realize how bad the situation is. Then you start to think about all the people who aren’t streaming and are maybe playing on their own without anyone ever pointing them in the right direction.
There’s basically nothing to help these people in-game and at the same time nothing to stop these people from progressing through the game in their own world of blissful ignorance. Then when the time comes when someone tries to help or calls them out for it, it’s either you’re actually toxic or accused of being such and they do what they want anyway or worse quit. The middle ground is basically silence. The rare unicorn is someone being helpful and the person actually appreciating it and learning.
I was always a supporter of making Stone, Sky, Sea required for relevant content even if it could be manipulated and didn’t accurately represent requirements of fights simply as a lowest possible bar to do said content. Watching some of the streamers I’ve watched, I do not think they could even do that much. Then throw in the mechanics and it would be nowhere close.
Since SSS isn’t teaching anything, what else could the game do to actually help people learn? The Beginner’s Hall only teaches the most basic of things, and I don’t even think it’s required to progress. But what if there were lessons for each job that functioned like the Blue Mage Masked Carnivale fights? Except in this case it actually explained optimal rotations for given levels, like 50, 60, 70, 80.
For example have a training dummy for each level set that shows you the exact rotation to do on a set timer that’s a pass/fail like you see in combo trials of fighting games. Then have another set of lessons be fights for those level sets that show off known mechanics for people to learn and explain them, using npc party members as necessary of course.
Then it’s a question of, should that type of content be required for progress? I can guarantee some of you will say no, and thus defeat the whole purpose. Meanwhile countless people suggest players to look up video guides for fights before even doing them or looking up rotation guides to learn how to play a job, but making that an in-game requirement seems too far-fetched and frowned upon. So what’s a casual player supposed to do when they are just trying to go through the game like that streamer was? Why doesn’t the game itself do something about it?
Is it basically a lost cause and why they haven’t bothered with anything more in-depth than the job guides on the lodestone? Is this why the safest thing to do in this game is to be silent and not say a word as you do content? Or otherwise have a premade for everything to avoid these situations at all cost.

Hello and welcome to the first ^id3 changelog, PLUS an exciting announcement!!
Exciting announcement first: At 4pm Pacific Time, we are going to stream a Tsubaki coding stream!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yay what could possibly be more fun than watching max code Tsubaki Bot while I (River) constantly interrupt him in voicechat with fake questions to make the stream more interesting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Even if this doesn't sound like the most fun thing ever, you should still watch anyway because we will be extremely sad and lonely if we don't have viewers so please come watch us!!!!!! The stream link is https://www.twitch.tv/tsubakibotpad yay!!!
Edit: The stream is over now, we hope you enjoyed it!!!
Okay so now that you are all convinced to 100% definitely watch the Tsubaki stream here are the ^id3 updates!!!

• We made a list of modifiers that you can now refer to! Yay documentation!
• We improved prioritization from "match the thing with the lowest base id" to "regular > special event > seasonal > gh collab > collabs in both NA & JP > JP-only collabs" and then "rem > farmable" and then "lowest base id" so for example this fixes "Fenrir" which was previously matching the farmable Fenrir knight, now matches the GFE, and "Gilgamesh," which was previously matching FF farmable Gilgamesh, now matches pantheon Gilgamesh. Also "Kisaragi" was previously matching some random JP-only card, now matches to Knight Kisaragi.
• We're calling everything "modifiers" now instead of "prefixes" because....
• You can now search e.g. ^id yuna equip with "equip" at the end of the query! This ONLY works for equip, all of the other modifiers still need to be at the start.
• ^id 4974 now returns Zeo Megazord Saber! If you want the JP collab version, you can do ^id jp 4974, for Voltron/Power Rangers. This should help out a lot when you're looking at builds with Power Rangers equips.
• We waaaaay decreased the ability to fuzzy match on modifiers. (Before, indigo was matching indiangod)

Planned work

• We need to deprioritize all of the "fluff" words like "Indigo Ocean Water Dragon Caller" - the word "indigo" there obviously doesn't matter. Similar deal "Lucid Draconic Songstress on Vocals, Fashil" - the "Lucid" is matching "Luci" and conflicting queries for Archdemon / Archangel Lucifer.
• We're going to change our fuzzy matching algorithm - currently, tusbaik and vajrayska don't resolve and we think they should.
• We still need to make "disambiguation screens" for when there's truly ambiguous queries like kali or sonia etc. This one's a long way away though, it has a ton of prerequisites before it's done.

Links to stuff!

• Patreon - Consider how much better Tsubaki makes your PAD experience compared to 1 collab chase card, and you get shiny ^id colors!!
• Tsubaki invite link! currently Tsubaki is unavailable to invite to new servers, as we are waiting for Discord to approve a ticket for us
• Discord server
• Github - contributions are welcome!
• Past updates & improvement posts

To go ahead and say that I have a substantial amount of viewers is wrong. In fact, completely misleading. I currently have about 45 followers, only 5 away from the affiliate mark, but i've come upon this very quickly.
I started working on various projects around mid October, starting a podcast to help deal with (in my opinion) a modern day mental-health crisis living in our current world climate. While we've done well and I continued to run the podcast as well as my YouTube channel, it felt like I was running in place. Working day in and day out for seemingly nobody. I looked to Twitch for solidarity after months of restless nights, hoping that people would pop in even just for a few minutes to talk. Just like that, it began. I started streaming beginning of December.
While I don't have millions of followers (or really want that as a matter of fact) I think as streamers theres an obligation to appreciate, respect, and work to improve our communities no matter what. These 45 people aren't bots who come in for a few minutes, they are living breathing people who now turn to me for assistance in times of distress...
..and I feel like I can't help.
I feel like I am failing to match the standard of a streamer that will consistently be able to repair sad moments at the press of a play button if that makes sense.
What lessons have you learned when approaching mental health crisis situations on stream or individually?
What have you guys done to make your community feel unique? In this day and age, everything idea already exists and is being utilized. I honestly don't want to fade away like many do when their streams start strong. How can you keep your viewers feeling individually appreciated without crossing inappropriate (or what could be stretched to be) boundaries?