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hi hello, azure here. twitch mod, future video essayist, occasional artist. 🇨🇦🇨🇿 researching games and live-streaming 🦋

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azure @azureii.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I wonder about the impact of the Subscriptions feed (on mobile) changing from most-recent-upload to yet another algorithm slot machine. I find it even harder, now, to consistently find new videos from those I'm subscribed to.
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bluequills_ @bluequills.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
heard the game was turning 9 today so quick little doodle to celebrate! #hollowknight
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Dan Olson @foldablehuman.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Sea of Sorrows isn't going to shadow drop for the Hollow Knight anniversary in two days, but just because it won't doesn't mean it can't.
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ostonox @ostonox.com · 03/10/2025
we dont deserve clean air and water
top free apps: Sora by OpenAI, Google Gemini, ChatGPT
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Brennan Lee Mulligan @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Naked authoritarian fascism. Love and support to the entire team at @jimmykimmellive.bsky.social, who *will* come out the other side of this horrendous abuse of power. Disgusted to see ABC caving to this glaringly illegal and unconstitutional threat from Brendan Carr.
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azure @azureii.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
This unhinged 5am Bluesky rant has done me so much good in archiving this rabbit hole of information
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azure @azureii.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Different position, yep
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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 13/08/2025
More and more people reporting today that Stripe - the payment processor that Itch said were putting the most pressure on them - now have staff actively confirming that yes, they are censoring LGBT content, adult or otherwise. That this is official company policy. This seems kinda significant.
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azure @azureii.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
I agree Dropout has a stronger image and more influence (mostly notably with Gamechanger but also D20, UA, and MSN) but it feels like Nebula isn’t failing at what it aims to do? Nebula definitely has some misses and problems. Monetarily though, it seems to be doing alright which is rare enough
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azure @azureii.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
I hear about Nebula in any discussion about Jet Lag and certain video essayists (Lindsay Ellis, Geller, BobbyB), and also within academic/student spaces (in a few different ways, but most often as a collection of worthwhile content or a means of accessing exclusive videos).
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azure @azureii.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Has Nebula failed? I feel like both platforms have comparative strengths and weaknesses yet are both on the successful end of the spin-off platform spectrum
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azure @azureii.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
hi twitter user
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azure @azureii.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
kind of rude of Ludwig to do League Week 2 while I’m busy so that I can’t follow up my hit League Week analytical write-up with a banger sequel
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WIRED @wired.com · 18/06/2025
Want to push back against the bigoted attacks targeting trans and gender-nonconforming people? Here are specific ways you can help—with your time, money, and everyday actions.
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How to Advocate for Trans Rights in Your Community
Want to push back against the bigoted attacks targeting trans and gender-nonconforming people? Here are specific ways you can help—with your time, money, and everyday actions.
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azure @azureii.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
learning how to stardew :)
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azure @azureii.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺
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azure @azureii.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
He did; it is! Here's the playlist :D youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Breath of the Wild 100% - YouTube
PointCrow completes Breath of the Wild 100%
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spri 🌱 @semispri.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Are you upset that Twitch has seemingly used AI image generation for their new category images— INCLUDING the ART and other CREATIVE categories?? Please tell them by up-voting and commenting on the UserVoice here: tinyurl.com/twitchimage Up-voting is great, commenting is even better!
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azure @azureii.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
A convention for video and streaming creators in Canada would be very cool, depending on the focus is (fan meetings vs. actually interesting discussion panels or guest talks) I'd definitely go.
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Nebula @nebula.tv · 13/05/2025
Guess who made a Broccumentary? 17 Pages, a documentary from Kevan MacKay, the creator behind the BobbyBroccoli account, is out NOW on Nebula. go.nebula.tv/17pages
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17 Pages – Nebula
17 Pages revisits one of the largest scientific controversies of the 20th century. Directed by Kevan MacKay. Coming 2025.
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azure @azureii.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
<3 <3
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azure @azureii.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Maybe it’s more wild that “I Am Not Your Friend” went from meme, to *the* video to send to parasocial viewers, to being taken quite seriously, to being accepted as an important milestone in Twitch discourse—and to now being treated by viewers as a rejected/outdated idea -in the span of 4 years.
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azure @azureii.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Kind of wild that Ludwig made Twitch-discourse history with “I Am Not Your Friend” only to softly walk it back a couple years later
Highlighted text: “In response to such transgressions, Twitch partner and variety streamer Ludwig reacted to a YouTube video aptly titled "I Am Not Your Friend," agreeing with the premise and reminding viewers that the relationship he had with those who watched him was not a reciprocal one.”
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azure @azureii.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
In my defense I do warn the viewer
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azure @azureii.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
So this is a lesson that those boring plot re-hashes might be kind of essential even if they hollow out your soul, I guess?
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azure @azureii.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
This was a solid plan until friends and family have asked to see what I was working on and at no point in the video do I explain *anything* about the plot, setting, or the game's most-obvious themes
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azure @azureii.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
So I wrote my SotC video essay for the target demographic of "people who watch gaming video essays on YT and are probably familiar with Shadow of the Colossus in some form" Because personally I get tired of video essays rehashing the plot and major themes of a game that's already very well known
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azure @azureii.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
this is so cute :D
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azure @azureii.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
heyo i just finished my video essay :) it's pretty cool imo
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azure @azureii.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
freedom is so close just one more all-nighter
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azure @azureii.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Can't wait to see Tom Holland as Wander! (Source: Róbert Orri Gunnarsson, 2023)
Screenshot of an academic paper, that reads: "A film version of Shadow of the Colossus was announced in 2012, directed by Josh Trank, but that one never went into full production. It remains to be seen if Sony are
willing to try again in the future, but given the success of films like Uncharted (2022, Ruben Fleischer), it seems plausible that the game could one day get successfully adapted for movie audiences. "
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azure @azureii.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
maybe the structure of the video would just need to be completely reworked which I don't have time for haha
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azure @azureii.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
in the same vein: it's really hard not to repeat discussion points because what I say, for example, regarding environmental storytelling, is relevant to both the section on ecology, the section of agency, and the section about BluePoint.
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azure @azureii.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
I *do* have arguments I'm moving through, but the problem is that they all connect/overlap intrinsically to the other points that it's hard to keep the ideas in a straight, divided line, and instead are more like.... this:
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azure @azureii.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
So far my video essay script is doing something I dislike in video essays, where there's no clear chapters/section divides, just one idea flowing into the next. Does this style of scripting bother anyone else or is this an ADD brain thing
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azure @azureii.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
:( why can’t it be a butterfly
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Petty Lobster 🦂🏳️‍⚧️ @pettylobster.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
You all need to treat Harry Potter IP like we’re treating the Tesla brand.
Twitter post/pohoto from JK Rowling who sits on what looks like yacht, taking a puff of what looks like a cigar.  She holds a cocktail close to her face and looks smug as fuck. Text on tweet: I love it when a plan comes together. #SupremeCourt #WomensRights.Text on screen: our.moral.imperative British billionaire JK Rowling has posted several gloating tweets today after the UK
Supreme Court ruled that only 'biological women' legally count as women, excluding trans women from legal protections and safeguards.
Rowling's vicious smear campaign against trans people in Britain has been going on for several years now and has played a major role in cultivating the extremely hostile and toxic environment that exists in the country towards trans people, particularly in the name of liberal 'feminism'.
@fight_for_a_future @rowllingofficial
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azure @azureii.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
:D
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azure @azureii.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Going to be playing some SotC to record footage! Join me as I stumble through my favourite game :D www.twitch.tv/azureii_
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long promised Shadow of the Colossus Stream!!! [Recording footage for a video; Not spoiler safe!]
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azure @azureii.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Maybe in a couple hours? I need footage of the whole game + time attack mode + ideally Hard Mode time attack mode and *then* exploration... but I won't have time for all that :(
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azure @azureii.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
I set everything up and realized it's 11:30pm; everyone is asleep. :(
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azure @azureii.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Brainstorming footnote icons for a video essay! Struggling to come up with a good one for “see more” (i.e. see footnotes for more info” There probably isn’t a need to specify article or book, but I wonder about a system of differentiating whether you’re quoting, paraphrasing, or referencing.
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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
mini-scoop: during a recent twitch meeting, ceo dan clancy faced pushback for un-banning adin ross, the controversial streamer who's friends with andrew tate and has platformed multiple nazis. clancy claimed it wasn't about business, which I would find more believable if he wasn't the ceo of twitch
"What evidence did you evaluate that Adin Ross had reformed enough since his ban to justify him being unbanned?” the employee asked. “To be transparent, this is one of the decisions we've made that I've disagreed with the most. I strongly believe that this opens the wider community to harm and sends a signal that we will allow the sort of vitriol Adin has been known to perpetuate." 

Clancy largely replied in platitudes and rules-speak, which we’ll get to in a second. But the last part of his response is the most interesting, so let’s start there:

“I can say this emphatically to everyone: This is [in] no way, shape, or form based upon any business considerations whatsoever,” Clancy said during the meeting. “This isn't even remotely related to a business. It's about deciding about when you can give someone a second chance – and then giving them a chance, but if they don't live up to our expectations, we can take action. So in terms of this opening the wider community to harm, I think that if he doesn't live up to our community guidelines, then he won't still be on Twitch."
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azure @azureii.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
I promised Shadow of the Colossus streams. They might be soon.
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azure @azureii.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
if Twitch could stop using genAI that would be super neat
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🎀 ultineet 🍙 Nagoriyuki’s Wife @ultineet.com · 02/04/2025
SILKSONG IS REAL
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azure @azureii.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
And most importantly, we're not getting Wind Waker HD. :(
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azure @azureii.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
The game selection is really amazing but how do you justify spending over $1k (CAD) to "get started" with the console.
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azure @azureii.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
I think my overall thoughts about the Switch 2 are that I just feel priced out. Games will be near $100 (CAD), there's no support for all the joycons we had to buy for multiplayer and joycon drift, old SD cards and microSD cards won't be compatible...
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azure @azureii.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
This might be wild but I kind of want Nintendo to come out with more colour options
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