Let’s say goodbye to this shitty year by saying fuck you 2020 and I hope 2021 is a better year for everyone! I am hoping for some big things in 2021, some stuff I got started on in 2020 that will continue into 2021 and some more things coming. I want to get more into reviews, get my name out there more, improve my site, my stream, etc.
What are some things you are hoping for for 2021?
Did Twitch ban all simps, incels, and virgins from using their service? No, of course not, but calling someone (or in some cases even just saying the words) will get you banned for using them. That’s correct, using racial, sexist, and ableist slurs are fine, but defending yourself by calling the attackers, simps, incels, and virgins are not. These new changes pissed off most of the community though and they weren’t shy to tell Twitch about it. I too had some ideas for how Twitch could implement better ideas, that I shared via Twitter, however since Twitter’s not always easy to read, I will include and expand on them below.
Show where every single view is coming from. If you had this implemented, bunnyhop would have been discovered sooner. On top of this, show where individual chatters are from, were they referred from Twitch or from an external site? Did they come from the browse page? Did they come right from someone else’s stream that posted the link for a hate raid? Did they come from Twitter as part of a hate raid? Tracking where every view is coming from would help track down hate raid and sites like bunnybop sooner.
Ability to ban usernames from chats, including wildcard name bans. Users could set it where Knee* would automatically be banned upon trying to chat. How many times will we have to ban ice_wallow_come before they give up? We could easily ban ice_wallo* and everything that started with that would be banned from chatting in your stream.
The RIAA fee was $200,000 per year in 1999, did it go up that much since then? You could just take $1 or something from every paycheck you give affiliates and partners and put it toward that so we don’t need to worry about DMCA complaints.
This one might be tricky, I am not sure if it is possible from a technical standpoint per user, but allow the option of only chatting on Twitch, so they won’t be able to chat on something like bunnyhop, but if they come to the channel itself they can chat without issue. Theoretically it would be possible, it would just require the proper coding on your part to tell if the parent window is twitch.tv or not. The ability for streamers to turn off all embeds or block out websites that the embed can be on, or if it is technically possible ability to white list domains of where it is able to be embedded (technically this may not be possible at all, I haven’t dealt with embedding content like this in years, since the Myspace days).
Allow different levels of mods. Some mods you might trust to mod your chat, but you wouldn’t want to know your address, some mods you know personally and hang out with at your house. Allow us to make that distinction and then certain mods will be able to see things the others won’t. A multitier mod system would allow us to ban our addresses, emails, real names, parents’ names, etc without worry that a mod could go to moderation options and see all of our banned words and connect the dots.
Allow mods to see something like “this IP address has been banned from your chat 5 times since X date” so we know a troll is going to potentially cause problems.
Let streamers timeout and purge mods without them losing their mod power, sometimes they say something that they shouldn’t, but doesn’t mean it’s something that should mean they lose mod. Also let mods purge their own chats as well as other mods. I’ve seen some instances where a mod will accidentally post a password into chat and then the streamer needs to purge them and give them mod back, which can take away from the creative flow of a stream.
Add an option for videos to be seen only if you’re logged in to a Twitch account, this way if we ban someone from chat, you could turn off video for them and then they won’t be able to logout and keep watching.
We saw what happened with pornhub this week with them removing every nonverified video because of potential child porn. There have been age verification laws pending in the UK for years now with mindgeek (pornhub’s parent company) leading the charge in making the age verification technology. You should do it. Amazon having age verification for free that could be implemented into Twitch and any website allowing alcohol sales, adult vids, etc without having the need to provide an ID to individual sites could be a good game changer for the internet. This technology would mean that a user could submit their ID once, you would be able to verify they are an adult, show them beer, weed, condom ads, have an adult section on Twitch like you have alluded to in the past, and change internet culture forever.
Set clear rules for what is allowed on the rated E, T, and M streams. Mixer had these. Any alcohol, tobacco, excessive cursing, or weed had to be on rated M, you can then use this to determine ad spacing since if it’s for everyone they shouldn’t see beer or condom ads. What would happen if a Nickelodeon Show had beer and condom ads on it? In addition to better ads per rating, allow tags for what ads should not be shown on a stream. It’s in very poor taste to have a recovering alcoholic have beer ads on their stream (yes this happens a lot).
Bring back communities. You added tags, but removed communities. It’s not exclusive, it would be good to be able to search for LGBT+ in the X community playing Dead by Daylight. You want to help out small streamers? That’s how you do it, you add discoverability like that. When it comes to new tags, listen to the community. Trans people are already being harassed on your website, they are banning and moderating their chats just fine, so the excuse of a trans tag would bring more hate is just dumb. Add the damn tag, it’s what the community is specifically asking for, you can go around and around when people say we want to hold you accountable and what does that even mean because it is vague, this is a very clear ask of them, they want a tag. Give them the tag.
Show all games that have gotten streamers DMCA complaints for in game music specifically so we know what games to avoid. You have a list of banned games that will get a user banned for streaming them, why can’t we have a list of games that are getting DMCA complaints?
Ability to turn off affiliate on a stream by stream basis. Sometimes if you are running a charity stream you may not want to get subs and donations and instead want all money to go to charity. This would also allow us to stream to multiple platforms for more exposure for charity. Also allow us to just opt out of the Affiliate Program with the click of a button. I have seen people who try to opt out and never receive a response and are stuck in it because you never got back to them. A cashout and turn it off completely where they won’t be able to join back for X amount of months where they don’t need to contact you at all would solve this.
Allow alt tags on images for improved disability options. You give us limited options on how to use our profiles, but the fact that there is no alt tags for images means we can’t have it look nice and be disability friendly. Mixer gave us full HTML fields to play with, which included the option for alt text on images, making a profile more of our own and less generic, etc. While these wouldn’t necessarily play well with Extensions and the tab profile you have setup, allowing us alt tags could allow us to be inclusive as well as making it pretty.
Links should NOT be clickable by default. If a mod posts it fine, but a random user? Yes, we can turn it off in automod like @DarlingAndDeath said, but new streamers might not know that. At the very least if you don’t want to turn off clickable links by random users, maybe have a warning that says “this is going to another website not associated with Twitch” like @DanMaskedGamer said.
A way to add a text file full of terms to the automod list so that we can just share terms that should be banned. After seeing @xdetune’s tweet about having to add every single variation of the “N” word he could think of, I thought it would be great to just have a list that could be copied and pasted in that could be updated over time when more and more trolls figured out ways around it. Much to my dismay when I went to test this out, I found out you had to add them one by one and you could not do multiples at a time.
Twitch, you said you wanted us to hold you accountable, but when you do dumb stuff and then double down on it, it sends mixed messages. You’re the biggest streaming site in the world, but you aren’t the only one and with Facebook and Youtube figuring out how to do handle some of this, it makes them look better and better.
Is a remake of Red Dead Redemption coming to consoles? If these amazon images are real then the answer is yes. These made the rounds over the weekend and featured screenshots of the Outlaw Collection that contains both Red Dead Redemption 1 and 2 for Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, Playstation 5 and Playstation 4. Seemingly missing from this series is a PC release, which fans have been clamoring for for years. While Red Dead 2 eventually was released on PC, Red Dead Redemption was never released for PC and with Rockstar seeing a lot of returns on PC releases, it’d be hard to imagine they would want to skip a PC release for this.
It’s possible that if this rumor turns out to be true then we could be hearing about it in a few weeks at the Game Awards on December 10th for an early 2021 release. With Grand Theft Auto 5 getting a next generation upgrade next year, it’s possible that 2021 is going to be a huge year for fans of the Rockstar franchises.
UPDATE: I changed my handle on both names so lepslair used to be lepslairtv and lepslairtv is now my old restricted account.
What happened to my Twitter? Where did it go? Is everything okay? Let me explain.
My main Twitter account is restricted right now, so follow me on lepslair until everything is settled and I have my account back (if I get my account back). They say that there’s unusual activity on it and things seem to be automated, but there has been no automation for years. I even tried to buy some ads to get it restored with no such luck, so for now I build my backup account until I get my real one back. For more information regarding what happened and what Ted Cruz had to do with it, please see the following video:
You asked and I answered. What did you ask and what did I say, however? Well that is all in the video!
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00:00:03.120 what’s up everybody
00:00:04.160 i had asked on twitter for you guys to
00:00:06.480 submit
00:00:07.359 questions and boy did you guys deliver
00:00:10.719 some of you didn’t however and for those
00:00:13.440 that didn’t there will be spankings but
00:00:15.679 for those that did
00:00:16.960 i am going to answer your questions
00:00:18.560 right now so the first questions come
00:00:20.720 from luna me
00:00:21.600 who asked it is not a question but you
00:00:23.760 totally talk and sound like a teacher
00:00:25.760 not meant as an offense what subject did
00:00:28.080 you teach so the reason i sound like a
00:00:30.240 teacher
00:00:30.800 probably is because i was a teacher at
00:00:33.760 one point in my life i taught
00:00:35.600 preschool i had plans to be a certified
00:00:38.239 teacher because with preschool you need
00:00:40.160 to get
00:00:40.559 fingerprinted piss-tested tb tested all
00:00:43.760 of that stuff so my my fingerprints
00:00:46.000 and dna is on file with the fbi
00:00:49.600 so i’m pretty sure they have a record on
00:00:51.680 me just
00:00:53.039 just because but other than that you
00:00:55.120 have to get like cpr certified
00:00:57.039 first aid certified that kind of thing
00:00:59.359 which i did
00:01:00.480 so i had like all of that and as far as
00:01:03.359 like
00:01:03.760 teaching i would have loved to become
00:01:06.159 like a fully
00:01:07.280 certified teacher but that never
00:01:10.000 happened
00:01:10.560 because i never finished college she
00:01:13.280 then
00:01:13.760 asks you are permitted to grade me
00:01:16.799 teacher
00:01:17.439 what subject honestly when i had thought
00:01:20.560 about
00:01:21.119 doing teaching and when i was going
00:01:24.159 to go and become certified for teaching
00:01:27.360 i had no idea because
00:01:28.720 it wasn’t oh i’m going to college to be
00:01:31.200 a teacher it was i’m going to college to
00:01:33.200 get a degree in
00:01:34.159 computer science and then i would later
00:01:36.640 get a
00:01:37.600 teaching degree but it never occurred to
00:01:39.920 me like what i wanted to do with it uh
00:01:41.840 but thinking
00:01:42.640 now i think i would want to be probably
00:01:45.360 an english teacher
00:01:46.720 because i think i think when it comes to
00:01:49.360 a lot of stuff
00:01:50.960 you can probably incorporate a lot of
00:01:53.200 stuff into
00:01:54.079 english see i wanna like i had numerous
00:01:57.280 teachers who
00:01:58.320 went outside the box i had an astronomy
00:02:02.079 teacher
00:02:02.719 who we would make bombs
00:02:05.920 in their class and we learned like
00:02:09.280 a whole bunch of other things that
00:02:11.440 didn’t necessarily
00:02:12.480 have to do with astronomy per se like
00:02:15.520 camera obscura’s
00:02:16.800 uh distribution of weight using beds of
00:02:20.160 nails
00:02:20.959 flash animation and so i i don’t
00:02:24.239 think if you’re a teacher yeah you want
00:02:26.400 to teach like the core
00:02:27.840 stuff but i don’t necessarily think that
00:02:30.560 you
00:02:31.519 want to necessarily limit
00:02:34.560 what like you could teach in any given
00:02:38.239 moment like there’s
00:02:39.840 and i i think that’s what the big
00:02:41.840 problem now
00:02:42.879 with schools is teachers kind of teach
00:02:44.959 by the book now
00:02:46.000 and not by the passion of the students
00:02:49.440 the book tells you where to go and what
00:02:51.760 to teach
00:02:52.480 and how to prepare them for the test but
00:02:54.959 like not
00:02:56.080 really where to go after that like i
00:02:58.800 have
00:03:00.000 i have memories of a lot of teachers
00:03:02.800 right
00:03:03.280 and i i i have memories of my
00:03:07.360 astronomy teacher um who’s actually on
00:03:10.080 youtube
00:03:10.879 right now um that i found a couple
00:03:13.200 months ago which i think is hilarious
00:03:15.040 he’s still
00:03:15.840 doing crazy things and i love that but i
00:03:18.560 had an
00:03:18.879 english teacher who who taught me to
00:03:22.879 look into why people do the things that
00:03:26.239 they do
00:03:26.879 specifically she’s talking about books
00:03:28.879 over the years i’ve kind of done that
00:03:30.640 with
00:03:30.959 everything i’m a huge kevin smith fan i
00:03:33.840 i had
00:03:34.400 watched a bunch of his movies in high
00:03:36.959 school
00:03:37.599 dogma chasing amy mall rats i i had
00:03:40.879 watched all of those
00:03:42.000 and i’m like oh this is cool it takes
00:03:45.040 place
00:03:45.440 in jersey but because of my english
00:03:48.560 teacher who taught me
00:03:49.840 to go and look into
00:03:53.519 why people do the things that they do
00:03:55.519 and she specifically talked about books
00:03:57.599 because we were reading this one book on
00:03:59.439 harlem
00:04:00.000 and harlem has bad reputation um
00:04:03.280 it has the reputation of being run down
00:04:07.599 and very poor but the author
00:04:11.439 he actually lived there and when he’s
00:04:13.920 describing he’s not describing a
00:04:15.760 neighborhood
00:04:16.560 in need he’s describing a neighborhood
00:04:19.040 full of life where the people are the
00:04:20.880 heart and soul
00:04:21.839 of the community when it comes to like
00:04:23.680 kevin smith i’m like
00:04:24.960 okay well he’s like i looked into it and
00:04:27.440 i’m like oh wow he
00:04:28.880 he grew up in jersey he’s not a
00:04:31.199 hollywood elite
00:04:32.479 that was born and bred into that society
00:04:35.120 he made an
00:04:36.080 indie film he sold his comic book
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00:04:39.199 to fund this indie film that he couldn’t
00:04:42.720 afford everything so he made it in black
00:04:44.639 and white
00:04:45.280 and because of that teacher it gives me
00:04:47.360 a new one a new appreciation for
00:04:50.240 film and everything else and and even
00:04:53.600 youtube and content creators and because
00:04:56.160 you you
00:04:56.960 look into you you learn about them you
00:04:59.280 you learn
00:05:00.160 why they are the way they are and i’ve
00:05:02.240 had uh earth science teachers
00:05:04.639 who made me write stories about
00:05:08.080 certain eras of time and bring in
00:05:11.440 elements from that era like uh plants
00:05:15.280 and animals from that era like the
00:05:17.520 jurassic period
00:05:18.720 uh the mesozoic period incorporate those
00:05:21.680 types of plants and stuff into stories
00:05:24.080 i know i didn’t go to like a traditional
00:05:26.160 school or anything but i think
00:05:27.919 i i don’t think like you necessarily
00:05:30.400 teachers should be
00:05:31.759 limited to what subjects they teach but
00:05:35.280 it should be limited
00:05:36.400 to to to what the students are really
00:05:39.840 passionate about and
00:05:41.039 kind of like help them find what they’re
00:05:43.120 passionate about
00:05:44.400 so to answer the question um which i
00:05:47.199 know i went off on like a big rant there
00:05:49.440 but to answer the question
00:05:51.120 the subject i would want to teach i
00:05:54.000 think it would be
00:05:55.039 probably english or or like computer
00:05:58.160 programming
00:05:58.800 but it would be in such a way that it
00:06:01.520 wouldn’t
00:06:02.240 just be that it would be geared toward
00:06:05.759 what people are passionate about the
00:06:08.080 next question
00:06:09.199 comes from uncle mappy who asks
00:06:12.800 what is the air speed velocity of an
00:06:15.360 unladen swallow
00:06:17.120 i think the air speed velocity of an
00:06:19.199 unladen swallow
00:06:20.240 is double that of a laden spitter the
00:06:23.120 next question
00:06:24.319 comes from ev the veg uh i probably
00:06:27.919 it’s probably ev the veg i i
00:06:31.360 am horrible with names i am so horrible
00:06:34.000 with names who would win a fight
00:06:35.759 joe exotic or the joker um
00:06:39.199 i think joe exotic would give the joker
00:06:42.400 meth and make him a husband so
00:06:46.080 in reality i think they’re both winners
00:06:48.960 and
00:06:49.599 his next question is how is delaware
00:06:53.199 well okay delaware is delaware i mean
00:06:57.199 look as wayne’s world had it whereas
00:06:59.520 like we’re in delaware
00:07:01.280 what’s in delaware that’s pretty much
00:07:03.599 what is here there’s no major sports
00:07:05.759 teams there’s no
00:07:07.120 you know what’s here right now is a
00:07:09.919 beach
00:07:10.479 and with that beach comes a lot of
00:07:12.800 tourists and they come
00:07:14.319 from dc the biggest thing about delaware
00:07:17.120 is
00:07:17.520 the former vice president joe biden and
00:07:20.639 he wasn’t even born here he moved here
00:07:22.639 from like scranton pennsylvania
00:07:24.720 but he has lived here so long they
00:07:26.960 consider him
00:07:28.000 delaware he is basically delaware if you
00:07:31.039 if you want to think
00:07:32.080 delaware think joe biden because old
00:07:34.960 white
00:07:35.599 boring man is pretty much how i would
00:07:38.639 describe
00:07:39.199 delaware mgg5yt
00:07:43.120 asks what was your inspiration for doing
00:07:45.360 twitch growing up
00:07:46.960 i i wanted to be i guess you could say i
00:07:50.479 wanted to be a content creator even
00:07:52.080 though
00:07:52.720 content creator has only really been
00:07:56.000 a thing since youtube came out there
00:07:58.160 were content creators
00:07:59.759 before that right there there were
00:08:01.520 bloggers there were
00:08:02.879 meme makers before they were called
00:08:05.039 memes they were just like funny images
00:08:07.280 but you never called them content
00:08:08.800 creators you called them
00:08:10.319 bloggers and uh myspace graphic makers
00:08:14.879 directors that kind of thing growing up
00:08:17.680 i was always writing i i wrote like
00:08:19.440 plays
00:08:20.319 and i guess you’d call them movie
00:08:22.160 scripts and stuff
00:08:23.440 and i always wanted to be a director i
00:08:24.960 wanted to go to film school and
00:08:27.520 that kind of all felt like you know
00:08:30.400 that’s just like oh yeah those are like
00:08:32.320 pipe dreams
00:08:33.200 i guess you know had i known about like
00:08:35.839 kevin smith
00:08:36.719 while growing up and he grew up like two
00:08:39.679 towns over from me
00:08:40.880 and and stuff like that like had i known
00:08:43.599 that
00:08:44.240 while watching chasing amy and dogma
00:08:47.600 growing up i i might have pursued
00:08:50.720 film career or something yeah so um so
00:08:54.000 yeah i wanted to
00:08:55.200 basically be a director growing up and
00:08:58.000 then you know youtube came out
00:08:59.600 and i i had like in the early days like
00:09:02.000 years ago i tried
00:09:03.440 to do youtube videos i tried to like
00:09:05.600 record gameplay
00:09:06.720 and what i learned about that is
00:09:10.640 talking to yourself is hard and even on
00:09:14.080 twitch it’s hard
00:09:15.120 and then what i also learned after that
00:09:17.440 was that i
00:09:18.399 hate editing videos which is odd because
00:09:20.800 this is a youtube video that i’m going
00:09:22.480 to be editing down later but um
00:09:25.519 but yeah i i actually hate
00:09:28.800 editing videos it is time consuming
00:09:32.000 i get distracted rendering it takes
00:09:34.240 forever
00:09:35.200 and i decided i wanted to twitch and i
00:09:38.560 also really wasn’t a pc gamer back then
00:09:40.880 so doing twitch had to wait
00:09:44.240 until the xbox uh supported it
00:09:48.240 so i did it and it was like okay i i’m
00:09:51.519 getting no viewers
00:09:53.040 and i’m not talking so i will wait so i
00:09:55.920 waited and
00:09:56.959 they put out an update that you could
00:09:59.920 have
00:10:00.720 more than one
00:10:03.839 voice you could record the uh party chat
00:10:07.279 so i waited for that update to come out
00:10:09.360 and then i me and a friend
00:10:12.800 we went into voice chats and
00:10:15.920 i thought we were funny we were just we
00:10:17.680 were just making you know
00:10:19.600 commentary on twitch and it turned out
00:10:22.560 to be okay and then i’m like well i
00:10:24.480 actually like this so i’m gonna
00:10:26.160 when he fell off doing it i just
00:10:28.320 continued and i’m like screw it i’m just
00:10:30.160 gonna keep doing this because i like it
00:10:32.000 and i you know doing it with someone
00:10:34.959 else i found
00:10:35.920 that i it is not as hard to talk
00:10:39.120 i mean i it is hard to talk to yourself
00:10:41.279 don’t get me wrong but even just
00:10:42.640 commentating
00:10:43.600 what you’re doing in the game like at
00:10:45.360 this point it’s kind of like second
00:10:46.959 nature and mindless for me but
00:10:48.800 when you’re starting out and you have
00:10:50.959 really nothing else to say
00:10:52.800 it can be hard so that was kind of my
00:10:55.360 inspiration because i i just always
00:10:57.360 wanted to be
00:10:58.079 a content creator mercywolf asks
00:11:01.760 what is an acceptable length and girth
00:11:04.160 for an eggplant
00:11:05.120 420 high 69 wide
00:11:08.240 anything more and anything less than
00:11:10.800 those two numbers is just
00:11:12.160 unacceptable and that could be inches
00:11:14.399 centimeters millimeters however the hell
00:11:16.320 you measure an eggplant
00:11:17.760 jelly darling asks how long is a
00:11:21.600 giraffe’s dick
00:11:22.800 i know a horse stick is pretty long that
00:11:25.279 you can injure a human with it
00:11:27.120 i imagine a giraffe stick while not as
00:11:29.839 long as his neck has to be
00:11:31.600 pretty damn long i mean how did giraffes
00:11:34.240 even have sex just those two necks in
00:11:36.160 the air
00:11:36.800 waving around like they just don’t care
00:11:38.959 that would be really interesting to see
00:11:40.880 i
00:11:41.360 now i want to see two giraffes having
00:11:43.200 sex thanks
00:11:44.399 kelly so this has been
00:11:48.079 a lot of fun i i really enjoyed making
00:11:50.320 this video um
00:11:52.560 i may do more of these amas uh if you if
00:11:55.519 you guys actually like this
00:11:56.959 ask me some questions in the comments
00:11:58.800 and be sure to like and subscribe
00:12:00.720 and i will see you guys next time
According to Twitter account SEGAbits, Sega was set to be announced as a Xbox Game Studios at at E3, so could there be any truth to this? According to this alleged leaked image, on June 14th, Sega was set to announce that they were acquired by Xbox. Of course with Covid-19 and the cancelled E3, if this announcement was true, then it is more than likely it is delayed or moved to a different date. Microsoft did announce that they would do an all digital event, but with the future being so uncertain that too may be rescinded soon as it is hard to imagine them announcing hard release dates for games.
While Sega joining Xbox could be a stretch for some, with Yakuza joining Xbox and Xbox Game Pass in recent months, it is not that far fetched. Besides the Yakuza franchise, Sega could bring exclusives to Xbox like Sonic, who just had a huge success with the recent movie, and possibly a port of Shenmue 3. Shenmue 3 was a Sony/PC exclusive mainly because Sony helped back the funding for it, but if Microsoft owns the studio a port could be coming to Xbox as well as a Shenmue 4. A few years ago a Shenmue 1 and 2 port was put on both Microsoft and Sony’s consoles, leading speculation of a Shenmue 3 port to Xbox even more enticing.
Either way we won’t know for sure until Microsoft does show their hand for their E3 presentation and Xbox Series X console later this year.
Coronavirus has people pretty much all over the world staying home and social distancing. Now there are those that do not understand that you shouldn’t be seeing your friends or going to the store for no reason during this time and those people put everyone at risk, but unfortunately it is something you have to deal with because you cant just lock people in their own homes, even if it is for their, and everyone else’s own good.
Personally the whole thing has not changed my life that much. I have worked from home for years now and while we should probably hit up a grocery store soon, besides that I wouldn’t go out besides to Home Depot to pick up supplies for a project here and there, but other than that I never really leave the house anyway. The biggest change personally is if I order something on Amazon I need to wait a bit longer for it, which is no big deal if it means that people can and will be safer.
Living in a resort area, when the weather does get warm, the tourists and out of staters will come and during a pandemic there is no exception, to the point that police are now pulling over out of state license plates and telling them to go home, the governor has closed the boardwalks and beaches, and stores are only letting 20% occupancy at max in at a time. In a week the number of cases here has tripled, so it is no wonder they are trying to curve it as much as possible.
Unfortunately I don’t see this getting better until it gets much worse, possibly all states having to shut down hardcore, which they still aren’t doing. There are those that still think it is a hoax or whatever and those people are thankfully the minority, but how much evidence does someone need? It is 2020 you would think that all the research, all the stories, all the pain and deaths so clearly laid out in front of them would be enough to convince them, but I guess if you don’t want to believe something is true then no amount of facts and evidence is going to convince them otherwise.
I am just hoping that by September they have a handle on things and they can get the virus under control.
How are you handling the pandemic? Do you need to work? Let us know in the comments below.
Do stupid people have it easier? Are they plagued with a brain that doesn’t stop thinking, that will always be active and that overanalyzes everything? I wish I could turn my brain off. How many times am I my own worst enemy? How many times do I want to do something and yet stop because I don’t think I can do it or that I am good enough. I have a to do list, it’s very long. A lot of it is things I want to do, but I overthink and it doesn’t get done. This falls into many aspects of my life. From things I want to do around the house, projects I want to start, it’s like my brain has two left feet and it stumbles over itself. I’ve been told “don’t think, just do countless times in the past. I’ve told myself that a lot as well.
The idea of “don’t think just do” is kind of an oxymoron isn’t it? You can’t do without your brain making you do, but it is also the thing getting in your way. It is weird that the brain can be at a constant struggle with itself and you can be your own worst enemy when you don’t even want to be. You want to get along with yourself, you want to let yourself have fun with it, but fear cripples you to the point of not even starting.
“Nothing to fear, but fear itself” is a phrase said by FDR during his inaugural address in 1933. 87 years later and that still rings true. People say that you need to fight a fear thought with a positive one. That seems to work for some, but for me my brain just goes into overdrive with specific reasons it could fail and how bad it could actually be. Sometimes it takes weeks, sometimes months to dig myself out of those thoughts and get back on a project. Combine that with hyper focus and losing interest quickly and I have projects I start and never complete. It is a vicious cycle.
I’ve been working on a bit of an art project for a while now, it’s a cheap guy being made to look more realistic. I will probably post it when I am done, so many times I just thought I should do it another way or give up entirely, but I think I will be painting it soon and while it won’t be perfect, it could be decent for the Instagram pictures I do for fun and exposure. Depending on how this actually comes out, I am looking forward to doing more creative projects, even with my brain trying to stop me.
I started writing this many times over the last month and somehow never could finish this. Sometimes I couldn’t even begin writing it. It is weird when you want to do something, but your own brain gets in the way of doing it. Here we are now, many starts and almost starts and I can finally say that I have a new theme.
Kris did an amazing job with it and it has a lot of things I wanted and things I requested. I am going to be able to write reviews and articles and everything else I want to do. She did an absolutely incredible job on it.
There is some things I need to figure out and things from the old site that I want to bring back. I eventually want to bring back forums and maybe profiles, but that might be best for a separate community site and not the main one. I also want to bring back tutorials. It was popular and if I can update what was there and move them into WordPress then it might be worth it. I also ant to get back into reading blogs again. I know there’s nothing like Despair anymore, but I always did love reading and commenting on people’s blogs in the past.