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Running down the week's news on alternative platforms, indie gaming, and content creation.
Josh (00:00)
Good morning, you beautiful people. How's it going, everybody? it is time for another last stream tonight. I mean, it is Wednesday. mean, wow. This week has been something. It's Sunday. That's right. It's Sunday, not Tuesday, not Wednesday. It's Sunday. So how the heck are you guys? How are you doing?
It is, it's been, it's been a week. It's been a very busy week. If yeah, a lot of announcements, a lot of stuff just like being shotgunned out. It's just like whole much a whole bunch of like things and announcements and trailers and all this other stuff. It's kind of, you know, daunting as it were.
So we're going to talk about a couple of different things. Actually, we're going talk about a lot of different things.
Thumbnail is OK on the live stream over on YouTube.
Yeah, I wish there was a way that we can do like pre setting up, especially on the YouTube side of things where it's.
All set, ready to go where automatically has a thumbnail ready to go because it does give you the option for the title and description. That's perfectly fine. But it doesn't have the option for bringing in the thumbnails. But that's OK. That's something that I can let them give some feedback on. Say, hey, can you give us some thumbnail?
Uploads ability to do you already give us a title on the description thumbnail be even better. Yeah All right, so it is it is that time? This new episode it is chock full of different things I'm probably probably get most of it done, but we'll see we shall see but
First things first, there is one thing I have to let you guys know is that I'm moving to owncast. So for those of you that are watching on owncast currently, I will be shutting down the live.2tonewaffle.com and moving everything to 2tonewaffle.live as part of this, as you know.
like I talked about in the first episode is we're getting everything all branded together and make it a little more simple. So that's what I'm that's what I have been working on. It is actually I am streaming to both the new and old owncast sites. So I will have the links for the new stuff within the description when I post it up later on PeerTube and YouTube.
So there is that. Also, I've been working with, or not working with, I've been doing this by myself.
Making some changes. I know, yes, again, making some changes to the forums. It is something where, you know, I was happy, but I wasn't overly impressed. Excuse me, of how the forums over using NoBB were going about their โ process. It's just for me.
It's just, I don't know, something about it. It just didn't click for me after running it for the past couple of months. So I decided to, okay, let's just go ahead and re go back to โ using Envision Community. So that's what I've been doing or I have done. And that's what I've got here over on the screen is if you're watching the live stream or the episode later, I'm getting everything all.
Pretty much it's all set up and ready to go. I'm just doing a couple different fine tuning things here and there, building out the content once again, because there is no, I shouldn't say there is no, but there's no easy way of converting the database from NodeBB into Envision Community without knowing a lot of code or paying a lot of money to someone who knows.
So I decided, no, screw it. Let's just start over again. You know, it is what it is. And I only have myself to blame, so that's all. So that is the new, the old slash new two tone waffle forums. โ They will be going up soon on the two tone waffle that forum, because right now that that domain is going to the old.
but I'll switch it around to the old switcheroo. So I'll be all set up or be redirected to these new forums. So yeah.
How's it going, Flux? You've been keeping up to date with all these game announcements and โ pretty much this past week has been one game announcement with hardware, software, โ new games, everything. It's just...
I don't know whose bright idea was it to have all of these announcements and showcases and presentations all within a single week, pretty much almost a weekend, because they started, was it Tuesday, โ with the release of the Switch 2. Yes, for all you Nintendo fanboys and girls, the Switch 2 is available for purchasing at what, $500?
Hopefully your wallets are mighty thick because they're going to need to be getting this hardware.
And we had had Summer Game Fest, had Day of the Devs, we had the Xbox Showcase, we had the PlayStation State of Play, we had โ PC Gamer Show. It's like five or six, seven different โ things all happening at once. was was crazy, really, that we had all this stuff like I I titled this the stream. It's like there's so much stuff.
It's kind of really hard to keep up with everything. you know, I think what would be better is to have this stuff spread out over the course of like two or three weeks. But I can see like the marketing and the PR and those type of people like, we have to have everything all together at one time because of reasons or whatnot. yeah. So looking at.
I'll go ahead into the...
I posted up the game devs or the data of the devs.
So posted up that all the indie games that were released or well, showcased, not released, but showcased during the day of the devs at the end of the Summer Game Fest presentation on, what was that, Friday or Saturday? I forget, I think it Saturday. Again, it all blends together. It's kind of ridiculous. Anyways, so there was like 20 something games. You had like Snap and Grab, Big Walk, Sword of the Sea.
Escape Academy 2, Mixtape. Mixtape actually looked pretty interesting. It was one of those โ on a Pora. I keep messing up their developers, their publishers name blighted Doza Divas possessors. Moonliner 2, please watch your artwork. Now I did play a year or two ago, the Please Touch the Art.
the first game that was released from what's his name? I forget the developer's name. But anyways, it was a fun game. So this is like the third iteration of his games that he created with Please Touch the Art. Marvel Cosmic Invasion, Neverway, Reluded, Ratatan, Thick as Thieves, Pocket Boss, Consume Me, Off
Tire Boy, which is very interesting. That was a weird one. And Tome 2. So you can definitely find I'll have the link up on show notes and on a description after the fact. But you can also go to our website, two tone waffle dot com, and you can find the link right there on the main page. It has all the listing of the trailers and the links to their steam page.
And I went through and I made sure I got the links to the developers or publishers actual YouTube page for their trailers, not, you know, IGN or some other web YouTube channel, because they don't need that traffic. The actual developers and publishers are the ones that need the YouTube views and everything like that. So that's why it took me a little bit of time to go through and making sure I get
links to their actual channels.
So there was a lot. don't know. If you watch Summer Game Fest, was, it was what, two hours or so, two and a half hours of just nonstop trailers. And a lot of these events, they're designed to basically, they're like a replacement for E3. E3 died a couple of years ago because, yeah, of reasons, I guess. But.
game or game summer game fast. The video game awards and David Devs and all these other different kind of shows or presentations are built in order to kind of replace the major large conventions like E3 and stuff like that, which I think is perfectly fine. It's just, from my understanding, especially with the video game awards, is those games in order to be
featured or shown within the actual presentation, the live stream or whatnot. It is it is a lot of money. I think what was like $50,000 for your game trailer to be shown during the video game awards. And I'm wondering is, is that very similar to how it's run during the same summer game fest? So, you know, is it because
Most of the games are from large AAA developers and publishers. know, like, how was it?
Xbox or Microsoft or, you know, Bethesda or, you know, large, large companies like that. They have the marketing budget to put their games, their trailers in these particular places. And it's good real estate for this PR because a lot of people tune in. There's like millions of people watching it through either YouTube, Twitch or other methods. And it's just amazing to think about that. We've gotten to this point where
We really don't need to go to a conference or a large gathering like E3 was in order to see these world premieres and the trailers and everything like that. Because I remember Xbox had, you know, their major, they had like their own space that they paid for to showcase their trailers of upcoming games and hardware stuff that they have coming in within the year or next year.
So it's kind of nice that we're not really having to go to a place in order to see these things. And we're lucky enough to see a live stream. So having Summer Game Fest and these type of live streams and presentations is a good thing in my opinion. And it's even better that for
the small indie games developers that they have their own kind of presentations as well, like Day of the Devs. There is, I'm blanking on the name, is from, was it 6.1 Studios? They do, I'm having a brain fart here, but they have their own presentation that they do every year, again, focusing on indie games.
And which is a great thing because, you know, any game developers don't have the budget in order to be shown up against or part of, you know, the AAA titles. So it's a good thing to see. Now there was also, what was it?
Yeah, part of the games that we saw, that's the wrong one. I'm just gonna vamp here while I try to get the right link shown. But anyways, speaking of like hardware, because we had to switch to, the Xbox announced the launch of the ROG.
ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Alley X. It's going to be a, what was it? Universal app design. Developers would be able to publish these to the devices easily. It is like a cross between Windows and a Steam OS type of thing.
Is PC game optimized hardware?
Anyways, so not only did we get game trailers galore, we also got the announcements for new hardware coming up. So, I don't know, has you got have you anyone out there got to purchase the Switch 2? Hopefully you didn't get it from the GameStop and was it Jersey or New Jersey area, the one particular store that was stapling the receipts onto the boxes.
and which caused the staples to inadvertently hit the screen. I'm thinking to myself, how is this possible? Is this because how Nintendo decided to have the packaging or the actual hardware packaged in a box that there is no room whatsoever for any kind of between a screen and the thin cardboard shell of the box itself? I was kind of...
Surprising. I would think, you know, there'd be a little bit more padding or maybe like a larger or thicker styrofoam or something, some layer protection. But unfortunately, it is not the case. And I'm probably going to think that Nintendo is going back to the drawing board and how they package up their devices with the next iteration, the new updated version in about what, three to four years from now.
So it'd be interesting to see what kind of changes they they make for that. That was just that be heartbreaking. You get home, you get everything set up and you just see these two little points. It's like, you know, a vampire hitting it or biting into it or a cat biting into it. Hey, interrupt. You prefer Amiga? Yeah. It's interesting to see all of these.
portable handheld devices coming out because we have the Steam Deck, the Switch 2 to Switch, the original Switch, the Switch Lite, ROG Ally. was a Zeus makes one. So it's interesting to see all of these upcoming devices that are already out there, but are very powerful or bringing gaming to the handheld market.
be more mainstream as it were. Because we went through that whole process decades ago with like the Game Boy. What was it? The Game Gear was from Sega. There was a Neo Geo portable one. It might be a hallucinating, but I think there was one. There was another one besides Sega and Nintendo.
Speaking of games, going more game related, our favorite game store, GOG, or G-O-G, is releasing something, a new initiative, which is actually pretty cool that they're doing this. GOG is just released, or put up this blog post, experience your favorite classics on the next level with GOG one-click mods.
So there's this talking because a lot of the people they mod the games like they have Horn of the Abyss for Heroes of Might and Magic 3, โ Doom 3 for mods, Vampire the Massacre Raid, they got Fallout London for Fallout 4.
Yeah, trying to mod some of these games are very difficult. think especially for Fallout four, they recently it was a couple of months ago, they โ pushed out the Fallout London โ mod available for everyone to pick up, I think for free. For like a couple of like a month or a couple of weeks or something like that. Real RTCW is the best mod, in my opinion, today.
I have, to tell you the truth, have not โ had any experience of modding a game. So it's actually pretty cool to see that I'll play. โ
I'll mute that for just a moment. But going through and seeing that GOG, not only have they been trying to preserve some of these older games that might not have any lifespan or life going forward because the original developer or the publisher just kind of gave up on it. So it's kind of like nice to see that they're trying to โ
keep these older games alive. it's just, GOG is actually because not only do they sell DRM free games, and you don't have to have a, I like this guy's, let me go back here real quick. โ
The picture of Todd Howard in the back. I just all noticed that. Interesting choice.
those Nintendo key cards are a scam. Yeah. It's just. It's nice to see a store that is actually for and wanting to help protect and further gaming as a whole is GOG, and it's just one of those things where it's a complete opposite of how like Nintendo goes about, we'll sell a physical copy.
I'm using air quotes there, but it's all it is just a key, a digital key and a SD card that you put in. It's like, why even bother? Why are you creating all of this extra garbage as it's going to be thrown away? It's just it's it's it's mind numbing, really, where I don't understand why they'll continue to do this. But, you know, places like GOG is like, yeah, it's all digital good.
And it's yours for however long you are alive. So it's a โ different dichomany. I'm not going to say it or try attempt that word. It's a difference between these companies and storefronts like Steam โ and Epic Game Store where no, can't. All right. โ Have a good night there, interrupt.
But it's kind of โ where you see these different storefronts and one of them is actually trying to be the good guy here. They are the good guy. Yeah, if they can fit all cyberpunk on a cart, then any other game should fit exactly. And I think, well, how big is cyberpunk compared to the likes of, say, like Call of Duty?
Call of Duty is massive. It's like, what, 600 gigs? Cyberpunk is probably three to probably the same amount. So yeah, I think it fit it on an SD card. And these SD cards are massive, especially the high efficiency ones where you can have the entire game on it. So why are we still doing the key card scam?
It just doesn't make sense. I understand people are loyal because of nostalgia and how they basically how we grew up is Nintendo and Sega. That was pretty much it. โ That was the big guys. โ Nintendo is really not a very nice company. And if you attempt to mod
or hack your device or any way or your account, your Nintendo account, it's kind of, they'll break your device. And to me, they're not very consumer friendly. In fact, they're very consumer hostile where you really don't have full ownership of the games or even your hardware that you spend 500 bucks on and the games are like 80 bucks that you're going to buy.
It is this there again, like I said, they're very hostile to their loyal customers, their loyal fan base. And there's a whole thing with like the Super Smash Brothers tournaments and that whole arena and how things get completely screwed up with copywriting and just shutting down tournaments that were, you know, trying to bring more awareness and potential fans to this game that
they own, they just don't, they didn't want, they want to have full and outright control over. But it's something to see that, you know, going forward in the next couple of years that people are still going to be purchasing Switch 2s. They're going to be paying, buying another Super Mario Brothers game that is probably very similar to the 40 that they purchased prior to that. So,
It's kind of OK. I mean, it's your money, but you're telling Nintendo, hey, keep keep screwing us over. We'll we'll gladly be on your side. So, So moving on from the gaming side of things, because I think we talked enough, there's this way too much gaming to even cover.
really of everything. If there was anything else, I already said that all these presentations and news cycles, it should be spread out because it is very hard to keep up with and very difficult to kind of try to get, know, keep up to date with as it were. Going back to previous weekend,
A lot of information from TwitchCon EU was released. Most of it, this is going from gaming to content creating because that's what we do here at the Two-Tone Wallflow is we cover both universes, the content creators and the gaming side of things. But TwitchCon EU was, I think it was a success for a couple things.
Let me backtrack to release product updates that were geared more towards the monetization side of things.
Becoming an affiliate. know I'm my brain decided to have a brain, another brain fart, but becoming an affiliate is where you can be a have your channel monetized. I know. Thank you, Flux. Becoming monetized on your channel with Twitch is a little bit more easier now because they lowered the threshold of what your requirements are to be monetized. And this is in part
Because what I'm thinking is that they're wanting to have more channels showing ads and which means that by more ads being shown on the platform, they mean Twitch are earning or getting more money from said ads. But the thing is, is that a lot of these channels are I I'm not I'm not being deluded myself.
thinking that, my channel is this โ hundreds of thousands of people watching my streams. No, I got flux and maybe one other person. But.
They lowered the standards. I shouldn't call it standards. They lowered the threshold of how to get affiliates. But the problem was the code in the backend and how their infrastructure was designed wasn't designed for all of a a massive number of new affiliates coming on board. But it's also previous or already affiliates like myself and
hundreds of thousands of others. All of a we became affiliates again. So it's just all of sudden, their system has just been over inundated with all of these things. So this Blue Sky post from Zach Bussey, and if you don't know who Zach Bussey is, he does a lot of news style reporting that covers, he covers a lot of the streamer space as well.
Mostly Twitch, but he is very, he has a lot of โ little spiders and little birds everywhere. But yeah, they had an issue with all of these people becoming affiliates, the newer ones, and plus old affiliates and current affiliates becoming affiliate once again. So their system was just getting completely inundated.
and it's just getting all screwed up.
So as you can see here, โ it is the old, you had to have three concurrent viewers over a 30 day period, stream at least seven days, eight plus hours and have 50 plus followers. So that's the old. The new is you can have three concurrent viewers on four days. You can have, it doesn't have to be concurrent or within a 30 day period, it just has to be four days.
โ You have to stream at least four days and of those four is at least stream for four plus hours. So it's like half of everything and have 25 plus followers. So these new โ requirements for affiliates are going to be bringing a lot of people on board and becoming monetized because they've been pushed. They've actually pushed out the that
Everyone has monetization, but you cannot have access. You're not able to have access to the money that you have been earning until you become an affiliate. You can use those funds in order to purchase subs or bits within the platform itself. You know, it's like the company store, that whole analogy where you work, or actually the company town, I should say.
You work inside, you work in the mines and you're paid in the company's script and you can always spend that money in the company store. And so you're trapped. It's, you know, it's a life of โ indentured servitude that you cannot get out. Maybe you can get paid for your hurricane coverage. As long as you get the new affiliates. Because that's the thing you do, you earn money from.
subs and bits, but you you can't you can't pull them out. You can't withdraw those funds and use it elsewhere. They have to stay within Twitch until you become affiliate. Then you can pull out those funds. Hey, Aaron. Yeah, West Virginia pretty much is a company state. So there is a lot of information that came out this past this past weekend.
and over the course of the week and new things being slowly rolled out. One thing that is actually not good news for a lot of people is more layoffs, this time from StreamElements.
that they had another round of layoffs, which was communicated to impacted employees earlier this week, which was this week. So the team over at Stream Elements, don't think is very large to begin with. I want to know, actually, I'm interested how much of a percentage of their employees were laid off. And as a company, it's like,
I always wondered how StreamElements makes their money. Because if you're a streamer and you've โ been in this game for even like a month, you've been pushed the StreamElements sponsorships. โ You have to play, let's say, like Star Trek, Bridge Commander, or whatever that mobile game is, and have people sign up and use your affiliate link.
It's. It's not good if you're a small streamer like 10, 10 viewers, it's good for it's actually I'd not say it's good, but it's more in line for someone that has 100 plus viewers where you can get at least 10 people, 10 percent or one percent of your viewers to go through this whole process. And, know, you get paid 100 or depends on it like.
a couple hundred dollars. So I think that's how they get a lot of their money. But it's interesting to see that StreamElements, which is the free version of StreamLabs, I think is the better version of these alerts and streamer centric kind of companies. But to see them also be affected by, know,
Inflation. It's kind of sad that people are losing their jobs for this.
Yeah, the whole state, Heron, is company owned.
So we also get.
think there was a crash in the economy one sector at a time. And 2025 has been just a bloodbath from the game developer side of things, the just all around the IT industry as well.
Yeah, Soulkick isn't doing huge signing contracts anymore either. Yeah, that's another thing that has happened this past week was I don't have it pulled up here, but Kick, the reason why they were doing those huge signing contracts is that they're having competition between themselves and YouTube of keeping and trying to bring over content creators from like Twitch or other places.
Say, hey, if you stream on YouTube for the next year, you will have a signing bonus. Same thing for Kik. They did with XQC. was like, what was it, 100 million? And not stock, but it was not like $100 million cash. It was like, here you go. It was kind of like a deal that he got like probably like 10 million, but extra bonus, signing bonus on top of that.
They recently announced that Asmongold, you don't, if you're not been a part of like Twitch and stuff like that, you probably haven't heard of them. Or if you've been part of the WoW community or any WoW community within the past couple of years, you probably heard of Asmongold. He has started multi streaming to kick and Twitch. He's still streaming to Twitch, but he's also opened up
to be in multi streaming onto kick as well. And one of the things a lot of people are trying, this is the thing, streamer, yeah, Roachman, exactly. Streamer social media is, how can I put this nicely, is not good. They do a lot of...
manufacturer drama and just, you know, trying to one up each other and everything like that. Asmango has been a real inspiration to me. That a lot of the things that they're saying, he got a contract. No, all they did was fast track him to be part of the kick partner program.
which also they have a segment. I'll have to cover this in a video or something else or another stream is that Kick has like, you are essentially getting an hourly pay rate. You bring in more people to watch your streams. You have more people interact on these streams. The more per hour that you make. So you can make anywhere from like,
six bucks an hour to what 30 to $40 an hour for, you know, the larger people who are bringing a lot of viewers and interaction on your kick streams. So it's very, it's a lucrative, I'm not going to say scheme or yeah, it's a method to get an hourly pay on top of, you know, subs and
Do they have kick bits? I don't think they do yet. You basically get that on top of your kicks up. So you're getting paid like twice. So it is actually pretty interesting how they're going about keeping and gathering new content creators. I myself, I stream as well to kick as well as Twitch, YouTube.
and owncast. So it's one of those things of what it's might as well, because for I know Flux, you're watching over on Twitch. But the thing is that on kick, you don't have ads as it is right now. And you also get 95 percent of any subscriptions. So you get a lot more money for the same amount of work that you do on Twitch. On Twitch, you get
50 % of your subscriptions, only bits is 100%. But you're also inundating your viewers with advertisements. And that's just something that either you have to be comfortable with and your viewers have to deal with as well. So it's just one of those things that if you stream on Twitch, that's what you have to deal with.
And I do have a video, I have a live stream or video scheduled in the works to compare Kick and Twitch. No, because they are essentially pretty much the same nowadays. There used to be difference, but it's pretty much gone now. Make a pure commercial stream that has breaks for native advertisement. Funny you say that.
There are people, especially during like the later part of the year, from like November to January. The reason for that is because that that time of year is the advertisements are, I should say companies purchase more ad spend during those months because of holidays and stuff like that. people would normally
put like 22 minutes of ads every hour. Because you can that's the highest I think you can have advertisements for. And it's also right now streamers on Twitch do the same thing. Do it as well for Twitch drops events. Say everything Twitch drops in Overwatch. One streamer I watch, Flats. He does like 22 minutes of ads every hour because most of the time people who are watching during
drops events basis have the tab and it's just often the background. It's just there. You're not actually watching the the stream at all. There's this there's just to get the time in the get a drop or the digital good for the game. That's all that matters. So it's a smart thing because you're getting ad revenue for people who are not actively watching your stream.
So you're saying Kick and Twitch both have similar size audience? No, it's more of that they are Kick is actually if you look at between Twitch and Kick, they look are basically the same. It's like the meme of the two pictures are the same kind of meme because Kick uses or is built on Amazon IVS, which is
essentially the technology that powers Twitch. That's why Amazon bought Twitch a decade ago. But yeah, you the office meeting. That's what I was trying to think of. So Kick at the beginning had this reputation of being the place that streamers who were banned or kicked off of Twitch or other places would gravitate and go and stream to Kick because Kick was like the Wild West. That's where all your degenerate
streamers would and they're more. Let me put this also as a caveat. They kick has a controlled ownership of a company called Stake. Stake is a crypto gambling website based out of Australia that, like I said, has a controlling ownership of kick. So a lot of those. Yeah.
Flux, do bring up a good point. On Twitch, there's another thing that they had just announced. If you're if you're at all familiar with live streams on YouTube, you can take you can rewind or start from the very beginning of that live stream and watch the stream all the way to the end.
like a 2x speed or whatever to catch up where it is live. You can do the same thing on Kik for free. As Twitch had announced that they have implemented that technology that you can rewind a live stream. But this is a big but you only have that capability if you subscribe to that particular channel or you have Twitch Turbo.
Yeah, let that sink in. It's a paid feature. To rewind. The live stream to the point where you had come in and he had missed like 30 minutes prior so you can watch those 30 minutes and be caught up. So that's a that's a paid feature on Twitch, but it's free on YouTube kick and pretty much almost every site. Peer tube.
has that as well, I believe for the live streams. I'm too familiar because I really don't live stream on I don't live stream on PeerTube. It's just, you know, there's a lot of it's just not very reliable. But hopefully it gets better. But yeah, Herron, you're right. Hoping that streamers jump to own cast or peer to. But the thing is, there is a a steep cliff for
the majority of content creators and live streamers that when you tell them that they have to set the things up as like a hosting or anything like that, they kind of balk at the idea and you're like, what?
I'm going away. And that's perfectly fine. That's perfectly fine. And they'll they'll go to places like kick or moonbeam or beam trovo D live any of the other services or go to Twitch or stay on Twitch or whatnot. On cast and peer tube is I not to put this
badly, but it's more for the higher technical skill creator. That is something that we all have to make peace with that if we can because you're not going to see somebody like Coke Carnage or flats or like Pokimane or any of these large live streamers, they're not going to they're not going to
have an own cast or peer tube, they probably don't even know about this stuff. And if someone did say, hey, why don't you direct them to find out more about these particular places, they're not going to use them because they don't see the monetarily potential that own cast or peer tube is capable of. Because this is something that is simple, easy.
and quick. All three, that's all they care about.
And speaking of PeerTube, I don't know if you guys had noticed that there is a new update for PeerTube 7.2. I'm getting the screen up here.
redesigning the video and management side of things. I popped into it. When I uploaded the Kala Cthulhu review up on our peer tube, I was like, oh, this is so much nicer. Because when you're uploading a video, let me see if I can. It's not going to show. But before, had like, if you want to put in.
or upload โ a thumbnail. It's a tab. But the new way is all one one place is the upload of your thumbnail. The captions are uploaded. The file, the captions file is all on one page. There's no more having to go to to do the things there was like there was like three or four tabs that you would have to go through again. Thank you for, know, all this this work you guys do on PeerTube. But
is navigate between your videos using the ClearPageNation system, which is more efficient than previous versions, Infinite Scroll. Now, some people like Infinite Scroll. Some people like the pagination. Words are hard. โ
โ I wish what they would have done is give us the option of either or.
Some people like chocolate, some people like peanut butter, you know, put them together and you got something delicious. But also you can choose to display videos from a particular channel or several using specific buttons to redesign the video update page. So that's another good update and something that you don't get access to on YouTube unless you are in the YouTube partner program. โ
If you're in a YouTube partner program, you have the ability to replace the video file. If you're not in the program, you have to delete and start over and redo everything, which is stupid. But whatever.
Is this multi-billion dollar corporation that has the server infrastructure that is godly, can't give access? Well, also because they're looking at billions of users and millions or billions of hours uploaded every day. So I can kind of see it. moving on. โ
You can also hide having just reading through here, having studied existing systems on major platforms, social media, video, music, et cetera, as well as Fediverse software helped us, the company that helped do all this updating to get a better understanding of improvements to develop in PeerTube system for hiding sensitive content. So not safe for work stuff makes it a little bit easier having to go through and
check it off where the thumbnails are blurred out or anything like that. Comments are enabled or disabled or it needs to be approved.
Also with bug fixes and everything else, it's good lore. if you own an instance, I would highly suggest upgrade to the latest version. Or if you're a part of a peer-to-platform that has not updated yet, would suggest they would update because this is a lot of good stuff that they have added.
in this latest update. And they've been doing a lot of updates just this year, really. It's just been like almost once a month there has been a new PeerTube update, which is pretty cool to see. And the future is very bright with PeerTube.
So I'm gonna hit and let's see here.
And I think that was all of the news and catching up with this past week of events. I know I'm probably missing something. If I have missed something, do let me know. If you're watching this after the facts, let me know in the comments below or on our forums, which I showed earlier is I have changed things yet again.
I know, I know. Let me go ahead and show you guys our new forums.
using Envision Community. I'm going to be slowly phasing out the NodeBB forums over this coming week. Everything is going to be moved over into the new forums, which also is very โ branded with our colors, the dark gray and the tan. So if you go to the tutownwaffle.com, it'll be very similar to, yeah, hot.
Diggity dog, this place is magnificent. I had to do that for you, Flux, because you had that channel point and it didn't play. I know I do improv too. Which also, Heron, Solid Heron, โ I'm also going to be moving the own cast to our new domain at TwoTonWaffle.live. โ Right now I'm streaming to the old and the new own cast.
currently, so like I'm making a post tomorrow announcing the change over on Masson's on tomorrow morning once I wake up or if I schedule it and stuff like that. So a lot of changes and just, know, just something to, you know, I wasn't too happy.
Yeah, it's better live. We'll it alive. Damn it. But yeah, so yeah, if you haven't already, can join our forums or also our community discord server. I have been making some experiments with Patreon and Kofi getting getting those set up. So if you want to join in there, also have our fourth wall at two ton waffle dot store.
Why am I saying woof-woof? Wow. It is getting late. And it is the last stream tonight. That's why I named the show that because, you know, it's closing out the week, looking back at the last week's stories and events with an homage to last week tonight with John Oliver.
But yeah, hopefully you guys had a good time. Learned a lot of things and we'll do this again next week, next Sunday, same time frame, 9.95. Wow. Holy crap. Let's start this again. Next week, 9.45 PM Eastern, right here, wherever you're watching on Twitch, OnCast, YouTube. Twitch, yeah, I already said that, and kick.
And on YouTube and PeerTube, you'll you'll see the the episodes there to Pepe Sabres. That's right. And of course, after the recording of tonight's stream, there will be a audio version that I'll be posting up that you can also subscribe to via whatever podcast player of your choice. You can catch up with all of the past episodes, these past three episodes. So there's going be going out weekly.
It was this last stream tonight will be replacing independent creator podcast. So that is more news for you. So with that, I'm going to go ahead and call it a night and I will see you guys next week. Later taters.
Try to, you know, stop.