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Draymond Green and Karl-Anthony Towns in war of words over Russell Westbrook comments

During a recent Twitch interview with Adin Ross, Minnesota Timberwolves big man Karl-Anthony Towns was asked his opinion on Russell Westbrook and kept it 100. Towns and Ross were on the topic of stat chasing, and Towns, while also praising Westbrook for being a great player, did acknowledge that he plays to fill up… Read […]

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IDIOT OF THE YEAR 2021: Tony La Russa, Tommy Tuberville, every NFL referee, and other esteemed dummies

Happy holidays, you filthy animals, and welcome to Deadspin’s annual IDIOT OF THE YEAR extravaganza. Within these hallowed slides are 50 of the year’s least bearable dorks, whose transgressions range from “just kinda silly, ” to “dangerously stupid, ” to “Trevor Bauer. ” Read more…

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Twitch’s “ban evasion” toolset: An intriguing step in moderation cat-and-mouse

Enlarge (credit: Twitch) Twitch, the livestreaming platform that largely revolves around video games, has exploded in popularity since being acquired by Amazon in 2014—but it has also exploded in issues with toxicity. This week, Twitch took an important step in handling its bustling, applause-like “chat” feature, and it goes beyond the usual dictionary-based approach of […]

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Millionaire Twitch streamers react to their leaked earnings

Enlarge / According to the leaked data, 81 streamers have earned over $1 million each through Twitch since late 2019. (credit: Getty Images) Usually on Twitch, the rallying cry “Let’s get top five, baby!” refers to a video game leaderboard. Now, in the wake of a cataclysmic data breach, the gaming world is focused on […]

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Join us at 3 pm ET for a live look at Back 4 Blood’s co-op zombie action

Ah, crap, here we go again with co-op zombie action in Back 4 Blood. [credit: Turtle Rock / WB Games ] 2021 is apparently the year of Left 4 Dead spiritual successors, with two co-op shooters catching our attention thanks to their ties to that original Valve series: this week’s Back 4 Blood and this fall’s […]

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Twitch source code, creator earnings exposed in 125GB leak

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty Images) Live video broadcasting service Twitch has been hit by a massive hack that exposed 125GB of the company’s data. In a 4chan thread posted (and removed) Wednesday, an anonymous user posted a torrent file of the multi-gig data dump. The dump contains the company’s source code and details […]

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Twitch leak suggests major response to streaming site’s “hate mob” issues

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Ars Technica) Twitch—the popular game-streaming site acquired by Amazon in 2014—has been inundated in recent months by “hate raids,” which can dump vulgar and hateful speech into the site’s prominent chat feeds. For some time, racist slurs and bigoted references have been winning this fight, but a leaked interface update […]

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Twitch sues users over alleged “hate raids” against streamers

Enlarge (credit: MikkelWilliam | Getty Images) Since early August, Twitch has been wrestling with an epidemic of harassment, known as “hate raids, ” against marginalized streamers. These attacks spam streamers’ chats with hateful and bigoted language, amplified dozens of times a minute by bots. On Thursday, after a month trying and failing to combat the […]