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they’re cracking down on blogs tied to the IRA because of some legal thing, and because it’s tumblr they handle something delicate by slapping it
ain’t no purge, just tumblr handling things in their usual slap manner
The fuck’s the ‘ra got to do with this?
Yo, yo, yo! Team Skull’s
comin’ at ya! Get the Team Skull look with this new collection from the Pokémon
Center, US Trainers: http://bit.ly/2jL8DyU
Shame that Guzma hoodie’s going to cost me like €100 once I factor in An Post AddressPal forwarding fee, customs likely going to charge 23% VAT on it, and An Post tacking on another tenner for “customs clearance fee”…
C’mon guys, an official European storefront and depot wouldn’t go awry…
Guys. I’m about to do a rant about D&D things. Because I’m so frustrated about dumb DMs who undermine an out of the box character.
From now on when playing Prianna, I’m giving her a frying pan as her weapon. DMs freak the hell out on me about 90% of the time if she doesn’t have a “normal regular weapon”, but I never use it because she stays in the back? Also… frying pan is going to be her focus for her magic. It’s her tool. It’s her craft. It’s how she, as a bard, performs. So of course the frying pan would be her magical focus item as well. BUT WHO THE HELL CARES IF I DO THIS?! Does anyone actually check in with their bard every single attack and be like “okay are you playing your lute right now what song are you playing?!” - no, it’s just assumed they’re using their instrument as focus. SO I WILL DO THIS BUT WITH FRYING PAN SHE’S ALREADY HOLDING.
AND FUCKING HELL ON THAT NOTE
I’m tired of having to write up this character as being a musician because some people struggle to see cooking as an artistic skill, when it 100% totally is. I’ve had DMs in the past tell me that her cooking something is a dexterity skill, or a intelligence skill, and I HAVE WITNESSED THE BEST CHEFS BE CLUMSY AS FUCK AND NOT VERY SMART BUT STILL CREATIVE ENOUGH TO MAKE IT GOOD. I will not accept this dumb “cooking is not a performance skill” anymore.
Frying pan is her focus. She has proficiency with cook’s utensils. She performs her craft by cooking amazing feasts to delight the masses. I’m making her a glamour bard and she will be the Gordon Ramsey of the tabletop universe, gathering fans and cooking for powerful NPCs. I’m 100% done with this lame attempt at trying to over-complicate a simple mechanic just because it’s not a “traditional art form” - just treat it like a musical instrument, it’s literally no different, and I already get a disadvantage because I actually NEED ingredients instead of handwaving that I have them like a lot of magic classes already do.
JUST LET ME HAVE FUN, DAMN IT. I’m not breaking the game by doing any of these things. Most of the time her cooking doesn’t even come into play anyway, it’s just a dumb little thing she uses to charisma the fuck out of things when she’s dealing with NPCs - LIKE A BARD WOULD DO ANYWAY.
I’m going to damn well keep my frying pan mechanic.
IT’S
NOT
HARD
TO
RESKIN
A
FRYING PAN
AS
A
MELEE WEAPON
AND
A
BARDIC FOCUS!
Being a DM often means knowing when to bend the rules of the game to accommodate interesting and good ideas your players have, or adjusting/reskinning class features for your players so they best suit their characters.
If you get bent out of shape over a player using a cast-iron skillet (which weighs almost as much as a small mace or hammer), you lack imagination and are probably a weenie.
Be a better DM than that. Please and thank you.
If Samwise Gamgee can do it (3:18), so can your player characters.
Please come play with us.
Seriously though, if you need proof for cooking = performance, just refer to ANY cooking video.
Also, if you were to argue that some sort of skill shpuld require dexterity or some other thing because it’s not cooking but it’s using a cooking technique to complete a task– why not give the player advantage or their proficiency bonus to the roll?
There are ways to play this and, honestly, a bard that uses cooking to be inspirational or a frying pan as their focus is not even that hard to work into a game.
Frying pan melee weapon stats:
Frying pan (cast iron), versatile, 1d8+STR or 1d10+STR If wielding 2 handed.
On a critical hit, the target must make a dc 15 constitution saving throw or be stunned for one round.
If anyone else still doubts the viability of a frying pan, just remember than the frying pan is the most feared weapon in Team Fortress 2.
Obligatory really old Star_ video:
YT Sponsorships are live, and you don’t pay VAT on them!!!
Wow, Twitch subscriptions just lost all semblance of value they once had, especially since YT splits 70/30. Time to go update my previous post and really hammer home how bad Twitch is…
So late last night, casually watching BWoods be so-so at Quake Champions, I decided I’d go through with my initial plan for taking advantage of Twitch’s Subtember promotion - first-time subscriptions for half-price - by buying a high-tier sub to several people for the first month only. Main reason for this being that I never really considered that Twitch subscriptions were worth the money that I as a contributor spends relative to the amount that the content creator gets in the end.
Anyway, as I was going through the process I got a bit of a shock as I was going through all of the annoying red-tape that Xsolla adds as the payment processor:
Apparently VAT gets added on top of the subscription cost rather than being absorbed by Twitch themselves in the amount they take? After that as well as the fact that Xsolla basically then wanted permanent access to my PayPal account in order to process the transaction, I backed the hell out of it and started to look into just how bad Twitch subs are when it comes to wanting to support people.
So we all know that for Affiliate and lower-tier full-Partner streamers, subs are split 50:50. But that 50:50 is only after various taxes, payment processor charges and the like are taken out of the initial fee. That would mean 40-45% of your sub cost goes to the creator. However, when you’re in the EU like me, you have to pay anything from an extra 17% (Luxembourg) to an extra 27% (Hungary) on top of that; which now makes it paying anywhere from $5.84 to $6.34.
I haven’t yet touched properly on how much the creator gets because… it’s so varied depending on aspects such as their country of residence, the country from where the subscribers reside, tax status, choice of payment processor etc. From various threads on r/Twitch, I’ve seen some be worth as little as $0.54, with the top end not going higher than $2.36 for non-Prime subs. So, if we take the absolute best case scenario from these figures: a Luxembourgian sub being worth $2.36 to the creator, that’s 40.41% of the total cost; while the absolute worst case scenario - a Hungarian sub worth $0.54, that’s 8.52% of the total cost.
It seems that regardless of the location and method around a Twitch sub, they’re a terrible method of directly supporting someone compared to a multitude of various other methods. I presume a lot of people will have seen this image comparing Twitch cheering with YT Super Chat and PayPal donations:
Well, even that lies a bit because you also pay VAT when buying bits. So while the image may make them seem good at 71-81% to the creator; once you factor in VAT, that drops to under 60%.
YouTube’s “Super Chat” feature at first glance seems pretty bad, what with them taking 30% of it regardless of the size of the tip. But from what I’ve read online, it’s really not as bad as that because YouTube *possibly* covers the VAT costs from their cut. I can’t say this for certain since I’ve never sent nor received a Super Chat to be able to confirm for myself, so I’m having to go off of reddit search results again; but if it is indeed true, then it’s a lot better and a lot more understandable of a system to determine how much the creator gets.
UPDATE 2017-08-19: Now that YouTube Gaming Sponsorships are out of beta and available to all, I can directly compare them to Twitch subs properly.
The first major difference is that these sponsorships are split 70/30 between the creator and YouTube. Secondly, the sponsor does not pay VAT on top of the cost - as you can see from my investigating below, dividing €4.99 by 123% (cos 23% VAT here in Ireland) is €4.06, which works out with the 93c listed below.
Now, I have no confirmation whether or not YouTube absorbs the VAT costs into their 30% cut of both Super Chat and Sponsorships, and probably won’t be able to compare until I get a sponsor. If they do, then €3.49 would be my 70% split, and thus the contribution percentage. If they don’t, then €2.84 would be my split making a percentage contribution of 57% - better than Twitch subs, comparable-ish to Twitch bits. I’ll update this in the future with any new findings I may come across.
Supporting creators on Patreon is still one of the best ways to contribute, especially if like me you want to support lots of different creators with a small amount every month - since they batch everything together, thus meaning you only have one overall payment and thus only one processing charge. You decide how much you want to give every month (or per item they publish), and you know that the creator will get 95% of that.
You do still pay VAT via Patreon, and the processing fees will vary depending on how much you’re spending overall per month, but if we assume a $2.50 pledge - meaning $2.37 to the creator - that would be worth about 74%-80% of the amount you spend depending on your VAT rate (17% costs $2.93; 27% costs $3.18).
While I was writing up these comparisons, I also had the idea to compare the cost of a Twitch sub to other more conventional methods of money transfer. So I looked up how much it would cost me from here in Ireland (23% VAT rate) to a bank account in the US, since it’s the most comparable method to these online contributions. I thought I was crazy and expecting this to be something silly like €15 to send that small amount, but I was wrong. VERY wrong.
Wow. €4 to send someone more money than they would get from a Twitch sub - which itself would cost me about €5.15 at today’s exchange rates - and they get the money a lot sooner than waiting for their $100 payout threshold, and without them having to pay their cashout fees. Oh, and the service fee stays pretty much the same regardless of the amount, so the overall percentage only gets better as the amount being sent increases.
If you ask me, there are two ways Twitch can make the subs better for the creator:
Until something changes with how they do things, I’ll stick with my current way of doing things - supporting creators on Patreon, and one-time donations if I feel like it.
Latest “update” sort of thing has been posted on Patreon.
tl;dr: Dithmarschen, Discord, Paradox DLC
If you’re ever in an Irish speaking part of Ireland (Gaeltacht), and you see a mother with her child, tell her, “Ith an páiste.” It’s a beautiful way of saying, “Your motherhood glows with radiance and grace.” There is no English equivalent for this so give it a go!
last time i trusted an irish guy i walked home at 4am with my bra in my handbag so lets see
ah yes
never trust the irish
An rud nach d'thuigim ó seo ná: Céard a tharla chun gurbh ort do cíochbheart a iompair leat i d'mhála ag uair a chloig mar sin?
Just finished recording EU4 Mali. Now I have two days to decide what the next campaign will be, because god help me I’m apparently not allowed to play and upload anything else if I want to keep the same level of views 😑
PSA: Please don’t let at your computer when it’s not doing everything perfectly.
They have feelings, and yelling at them puts them under more pressure; to the point they start messing up.
Just like you’d make silly mistakes, if you were under severe stress and someone started yelling in your face; so too do the poor machines.
Be nice to them now, and when the singularity happens they’ll be nice to you.
They’re also like dogs, in that they despite really loud, high-pitched noises which rile them up and cause them to start acting really bizarrely:
(I’m only now realising the linked article actually contains this video! 😅😅😅)
Posted a bit of a wordy update on Patreon, detailing a few things including current affairs and some future plans that I want some input on!
And if you’re not yet a Patron, now’s a great time 😉
Right, time to see if this Lidl knock-off version of Ben & Jerry’s is anything like the original - and if so, revel in the fact that it’s so much damn cheaper than the big brand name!
Damn, I’m really falling in love with this discounter.
Back above 5k - probably just until the next main inactive account purge, so no point re-celebrating the milestone much.
*feeble flag waving in half-celebration*
I don’t usually share RT stuff, but as a YouTube content creator, finding out that major entertainment companies are being scumbags by abusing the DMCA takedown system really makes my blood boil.
Wow, that’s harsh. Well surely YouTube’s not that condescending to all it’s creators; I mean there’s no way that’d appear on my chan-… gdi
motherf- 😧😧😧
