The HotSpot - Episode 402

First!

Second

Double the 401!

Someone really needs to fix their mic picking up vibrations from their mic stand or whatever.

Anyone else think it's odd that Vinny keeps saying 'online' instead of 'in line'?

@andrew_2040 said:

Throws me for a second every time. But I remember he was called out on it in some past stream already. It's like Bakalar's Mario.

@andrew_2040: "On line" is a New York City-specific thing https://6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/06/is-it-on-line-or-in-line/

@eighte8: Hmm... good to know. Hailing from the west coast, I don't think I've ever heard people say 'on line' before.

@andrew_2040: I think its an east coast thing

Real talk - until the industry it can prove that it can hold corporate parties and/or social spaces at large scale events that can be safe and responsible environments from things like sexual harassment, it can honestly stay largely the hell away.

@heatdrive88: Shocking to hear the crew dance around rape.

TiVo will always be ok with me because I got at least 500 bucks writing episodes and season synopsis for them a while back.

If you ever read a weird and vague season synopsis of Kitchen Nightmares on TiVo, I probably wrote them!!

I started getting text message spam too...

@vinny Just because you weren't there last week doesn't mean Episode 401 didn't already happen. lol

Absolutely. Say exactly what it was, and what it became - and don't let it be forgotten for what that environment and culture enabled.

I'm getting ooma commercials for some reason LOL

Red Ventures should buy Tivo

Edit:

It's kinda sad thinking about what Jeff is talking about re: developers going to shows. Wonder how many great games are going to be buried in the hellscape that is the Steam new release list rather than picked up by someone like Devolver and had some modicum of exposure.

@heatdrive88: It's very much a human nature thing more so than a corporate planning thing. The first and only real step organizers can take is ban alcohol at their events, but that still won't protect people from potential harm that can come from "after parties" that happen off-premises.

@humanity said:

I don't disagree with you - but I don't believe that banning alcohol is the "only" step. Maybe from the organizers point of view yes, of course that's at least one possibility.

But then to at least move towards a positive direction from the very "human nature thing" that you speak of? That requires the open, clear, undistilled conversation that I'm asking for - about the kinds of sexual harassment and rape that this culture has enabled - and will continue to enable if we do nothing but tiptoe around it, or worse yet - remain silent about. And that's something that should come from everyone, not just organizers.

@heatdrive88: Of course the conversation needs to be blunt and out in the open. I was specifically referring to your comment that unless organizers can guarantee the safety of their attendees in this specific capacity then they shouldn't organize these events - which I think is actually a very difficult thing to officially enforce because of the very shitty and sleazy nature of how these people perpetrate these repugnant acts.

Yes, that I absolutely agree and can get behind. I guess at the outset, I'm just very cautious at how the conversation tends to be silenced or forgotten.

About the whole "getting an easy seperate email for each thing you sign up for": If you own a domain and have a mailhost, you can setup a "catch all" mailbox. In this mailbox every email to a non existent mailbox, will arrive. So every site that needs you to register, you can just use <sitename>@myowndomain.com and it will arrive in the catchall mailbox. If you don't want yet another mailbox to check, you can also just set up a rule to forward those mails to an observed mailbox. That way you will still know wich address the mail was originally sent to, without having to check the catch all mailbox.

I've got it set up with one email address that only gets handed out to friends & family, and is allowed to notify me of new mails. Everything else gets a "personalized" email, based on their domain or whatever I come up with at the moment they want it. Those all arrive in a mailbox that I just check once a day or so.

@Jeff You can use Peacock on Roku also. That Flex box that Comcast offers is painfully slow.

It still amazes me that 20 years after the word online started to mean something else to the rest of the English speaking world, that New Yorkers like Vinny haven’t grown out of saying “waiting online” to describe waiting in a line in the real world. Very rarely is there an actual line on the ground.

Weird. We have Comcast, and do not have their streaming box. I went to Peacock's website and signed up there, and was able to link my Comcast account there. I can sign into the Peacock app anywhere now: PC, Apple etc. Its free and the ads arent too bad.

We still have a TiVo as well! But we recently stopped our cable and started YouTube TV, so I have no idea if it even works for that or whatever. I honestly don't watch TV; the others in the house do (mainly my mom). I don't think I've watched something on broadcast TV in the house in over a decade. (I say "in the house" because I've watched TV while on vacation and stuff.) It's been all streaming services for so long.