Disguised Toast Banned From Twitch For TV Meta And Now Watch The Rules Change

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01/22/22 • 14 min

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On Monday, variety streamer Jeremy “Disguised Toast” Wang was banned from Twitch for watching Death Note, a 2007 Shonen anime licensed by Viz Media. What many hoped was only a short ban, especially after Imane “Pokimane” Anys was suspended for just 48 hours for a similar act, might stretch to an entire month, according to a recent tweet from Disguised Toast.
It seems the ban was because Disguised Toast watched “hours and hours” of anime without adding any of his own commentary. This has been dubbed the “TV Meta” within Twitch, in which streamers big and small watch and react to film and television while live on their channels. Everyone’s doing it, from Pokimane to Félix “xQc” Lengyel, who has reportedly been streaming Viz Media’s Hunter x Hunter without receiving a ban. Not yet, anyway.
We’ve reached out to Disguised Toast for comment and will update if we hear back.
Streamers like Hasan “Hasanabi” Piker, Ludwig “Ludwig” Ahgren, and Thomas “Sodapoppin” Morris have warned about Twitch’s new meta, which is primed for DMCA takedowns in the same way music was just a few years earlier. And yet, people are taking their chances by watching movies and TV live with thousands—if not millions—of their fans on the platform.

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Sea Cave Arcade Shuts Down Again After SUV Crashes Through Front Door

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On the night of January 12, an SUV crashed into the Sea Cave arcade in New Orleans. The vehicle damaged the front of the building, crashing through a wall and allegedly smashing into two people who were inside near the front of the arcade at the time. One person was hospitalized as a result of the crash. This incident follows a different but also terrible act of destruction that took place inside the arcade last month, when a man with an ax allegedly smashed windows and arcade machines in two separate incidents.
As reported by WDSU news and local reporter Shay O’Connor, last night an SUV crashed into the front of the arcade. According to a Facebook post on the Sea Cave’s official page, the crash happened around 8 p.m. CST. That post also shares more details about the crash, including information about the folks behind the wheel of the vehicle. According to the Sea Cave, the SUV was stolen and full of teenagers. After the crash, the driver apparently jumped out of the car, leaving it in drive and ditching his fellow hooligans. The other teenagers scattered as police pursued the driver and passengers.
Unfortunately, according to the Sea Cave Facebook page, the car crashed through the front wall and into two people: Judah Lea, the co-owner of the arcade, and a new employee who for privacy reasons is only referred to as Goat. According to Lea, Goat was sent to a local hospital where he is currently recovering from his injuries. Kotaku has contacted the Sea Cave about the injured employee and any updates on the suspects and police investigation.
The Sea Cave owner clarified in the Facebook post that this crash is “completely unrelated” to the multiple violent attacks that the arcade suffered last month. On December 12, a former customer wielding a large ax allegedly locked the arcade’s front doors with a bicycle lock, trapping customers and employees inside. Then he started smashing windows as folks trapped inside escaped out the back. After police arrived too late, allowing the man to escape, the attacker returned later that same night and was reportedly seen smashing arcade machines via security cameras. Once again, police arrived too late, letting the attacker destroy every monitor, arcade machine, television, and window in the Sea Cave. Lea estimated the damage to be between $30,000 and $50,000.

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How Does Microsoft Buying Activision Blizzard Change The Gaming Industry?

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Last week was a big one for the videogame industry. In a deal that dwarfed all others before it (in the game business, anyway), Microsoft surprised the world with the announcement that it will acquire Activision Blizzard for a whopping $68.7 billion. The news came exactly two months after Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer described the sexual harassment and discrimination scandal at Activision Blizzard as "horrific," and said Microsoft was "evaluating all aspects" of its relationship with the company.
The scale of the buyout is staggering: When completed, it will give Microsoft control of some of the biggest game series in the world, including Call of Duty, Warcraft, and Overwatch, and a massive backlog of older games. In conjunction with Microsoft's purchase of Bethesda Softworks just over a year ago—a blockbuster deal in its own right, even though it was only for a small fraction of the Activision Blizzard price tag—it will make Microsoft the third-largest game company in the world by revenue.
It's not a done deal, and Activision Blizzard comes with a lot of baggage that could complicate the regulatory approval process. But if it does go through—and the general consensus is that it will—then it could shake up the videogame industry in ways unlike we've ever seen before.

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