gumi posted tonight's ppsat lobby!

game currently unknown (unless someone saw her secret stream last night and wants to share oooh you wanna tell me so bad)

09/09, 6PM PST/9PM EST

So for those unaware, dasnerth is apparently banned from Karl & MrBeast challenge, accord to the discord message he showed today (1/29/2024), (which notably is from 8/30/2023)

basically, as it stands, almost all the "content" you provide by being in a video almost always gets cut out because you're generally pretty toxic, you take the gameplay extremely seriously which makes your time on-screen inherently destructive / toxic. If you are genuinely super interested in not being blacklisted, if you could just refrain from being toxic we can lift the blacklist. It would also mean reporting any exploits instead of abusing them.

A message he published himself, claiming he was only being competitive.

I've seen in response, certain people claiming that this is unfair, that he needs to be defended, or that this will inevitably lead towards toxicity towards people like Sapnap/Punz/Hannah.

This is not true, and I think people need to understand that there is a line between being competitive and being toxic to be around and effectively unwatchable and making others uncomfortable.

First, take note for a moment that Dasnerth has been banned for well over 5 months, and despite being very clearly and flatly told he's unwelcome, he's not only still stalking the discord to try to join stuff, but also then turned to twitter to kick up a fuss about the ban still being enforced.

This is pretty telling of him as a person. He's clearly been told that he's blacklisted and unwelcome, and five months later he's still trying to sneak in. That is a very clear indication of failing to respect boundaries, feeling entitled to participate in contests, and being unable to take no for an answer.

Putting that aside though, you can still clearly draw lines between taking competition seriously and being a toxic asshole in a game. I think a really good example of this is actually, weirdly enough, 5up's lobbies.

If you don't know 5up, he's a guy who plays among us. When he was starting out, he often played with what were called "sweat lobbies". These lobbies often devolved into yelling, shouting, insults, etc. 5up was noteworthy for generally not falling to that level. You can watch how awful of a viewing experience this is here. These lobbies are very competitive, and also suck so bad 5up left despite generally being willing to tolerate a lot of bullshit.

Contrast this to his later lobby that he built with Hafu, a very experienced streamer with a much calmer vibe. The morning lobbies that they built are known for being relatively serious and competitive, but not being toxic messes. Here's a good example, In this game 5up played an amazing crewmate much like the XQC, and caught Steve and Tina (Tinakitten) as imposters. Tina's distressed but not angry or being mean, and Steve compliments him on figuring out! It's a complete flip of the above. People sometimes yell and get excited, throw a bit, or get a bit salty, but it's nothing like what you see above with the constant screaming and insults. People from other lobbies that are more chaotic come in and are generally surprised by how seriously they take stuff.

To go even further, 5up also plays in the stell lobbies, which are very competitive and take the game very seriously. Listen to a meeting in the stell lobbies. Nobody is yelling, even when directly accused. They all remain calm and polite. They're still playing the game very seriously, they're playing to win, but nobody's being toxic or mean.

There's a difference between being competitive in a fun way, where you take a game seriously and try to win, and just being an asshole and disregarding good sportsmanship. It's perfectly valid for contests to ban players for violating good sportsmanship and abusing exploits. Technoblade was a very competitive person, but even when he's being teasingly toxic to squidkid for example, it's clearly in good fun. The two of them became friends. There's a fundamental level of respect there, and nobody is going over the top.

So yeah, while we don't have the specific behavior cited, it's perfectly valid for an event to ban someone for being toxic, and no, banning someone for being toxic isn't bait or eliminating competitiveness. It's just showing an asshole the door.

wills cigarette cards stop tempting me i do not need to buy the set i do not need to own you

I went on ratingupdate for the first time in a while to check availability for a potential clan tag and while I was there I checked my record and

pretty close to getting on the top 100 board!

Man, you want to talk about the impact of "smaller" state elections -- now that there's going to be a Democratic trifecta in the Minnesota legislature, the Governor is talking earnestly about pushing for automatic voter registration in the state, which is the sort of thing that could sure continue to have ripple impacts even after this particular legislative session is over.

As a professional courtesy, unless your dog is a service animal, *please* do not bring them into the bank in general, and specifically not into your appointment with the banker.

ngl though it is kinda weird for people to swear off chik-fil-a but not do the same for hobby lobby.

like lest we forget all the weird stuff hobby lobby does to its employees, like denying them coverage of birth control and “encouraging” them to be and remain christian and not using barcodes not-so-subtly because theyre the mark of the beast or whatever. or like. hobby lobby using funds from its business to fund actual terrorist organizations in the middle east via smuggling cultural artifacts for a “bible museum” it was building.

like. are we not gonna refuse to go to hobby lobby and chew out people who do so. no? no???

oh yea since new skyblock players are following me. about 12 hours from now derpy is gonna be elected as mayor! every once in a while a special mayor shows up in the community center (scorpius, derpy, or jerry)

derpy is a really helpful one for people because he doubles minion output (double the money and minion exp) and you'll get 50% more exp for anything you do!

the potential downsides are that mobs have double health and the auction house will be shut down while he is in office. killing stuff might be more tedious for you (yes runic mobs will ALSO have their health doubled), and if you want a new weapon or something you'll have to go get it yourself if you didnt already have it. you also wont be able to immediately sell something if you got a cool drop. but the bazaar will still be open so you can at least grab some materials if you need them

oh also my school closed off another hallway for lunch. so now i cant sit where ive been sitting since like sophomore year 💀💀

I have to stay at the hotel once more night because the roads are so icy and I have to sleep on the right side of the bed tonight because I had my outside clothes on in the left side foolishly thinking I would be going home tonight.

Experimenting with some designs, idk how I feel about the manager but I’m happy with how the owner looks c:

Shoutout to the two team fire people I played splatoon with tonight. It's past 2am now and I played WAY longer than I intended but it was so much fun it was worth it

Before you get all pompous about how a leather shoe is more eco-friendly than a plastic one: Just how many plastic feed sacks do you think went into feeding that oh so biodegradeable cow? This is not a leather over plastic argument: this is "we can't individually purchase our way out of ecocide".

i will put up with a lot of things for my mutuals, but the second i find out my archnemesis from two fandoms ago says smth is perfectly catered to their tastes, i'm banishing it from my dashboard

tina was invited to lcs iirc and she’s a big league fan

the gang getting big invites is so fucking cool that's epic

Did you know that even “fully-vaccinated and boosted” individuals can contract and spread Covid? And that the best protection you personally can count on is to wear a well-fitted respirator-style mask?