Media Channels and Platforms

As I'm writing this it's 23.35 o'clock and Fallout 76 comes out at midnight. I figured I'd write an entry on the new game because I'm still a bit wary of the social aspects in it. It's the first multiplayer game in the Fallout series and there are no NPCs. Instead, all communication is with the other players. This worries me because I'm not a big fan of the kind of crew online multiplayer games tend to attract. I don't really play much online multiplayers, but in Overwatch my communication with the other players usually is kind of a "kill them with kindness" situation. I try to make friends with my teammates in the voice chat and sometimes with people from the enemy team as well. My psychology behind this is that if I'm kind to them first they have less incentive to be an asshole back at me. I have zero reasons to trust the others players; there's no honor system in online games. I'm going to continue writing thi...

I landed on Justin McElroy because of the people whose profiles I stalked his was the most active. There's a surprising amount of people on Twitter just cross-posting their Instagram feeds. Justin McElroy is a podcaster and a former journalist for the video game website Polygon. I listen to a bunch of the podcasts he makes, mainly My brother, my brother and me , which he makes with his brothers Travis and Griffin, and Sawbones, a medical history podcast that he makes with his wife, Dr. Sydnee McElroy. Justin posts on twitter multiple times a day. Most of the tweets he makes himself are humorous in nature, but he retweets and links to more serious subjects as well. Most of his page is links to projects and articles that he wants to bring attention to, such as cross-promoting various podcasts and bringing attention to his wife's campaign of standing up against anti-vaxxers. Not surprisingly, this week a good amount of tweets went ...