The Geek Digest

This week Victoria and Zzayphod discuss JennaTwitch having her affiliate and partnership taken away because of leaked Discord logs showing rampant homophobic, sexist, and racist messages over a long period of time. The European Union votes to make chargers for phones standardized across their member countries. YouTube issued a copyright strike to a livestream on their platform before the channel even went live.

In our newest segment, we bring you the Shitpost of the Week. We scour the internet for some of the best shitposts ever written, and bring them to you with our reaction and glory that this kind of content deserves. The first one is about a girl who just wants to play a realistic horse game! Give it a read, trust me, it’s worth your time.

Horse Games Are Trash and I’m Pissed Off

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This week Victoria and Zzayphod discuss the Pokemon direct and the expansion that was announced. Battlestate Games gets into hot water when a journalists uncovers their old decision to not include women in their games. A true start to a game workers union is in it’s ground stages. And the Playstation 5 logo was revealed and no one was surprised.

Guess what jerks, there’s actually show notes here. BUT, we’re gonna do something FUN. If you’re reading this, tweet @victoriashaz with exactly this: “Moist –Love @zzayphod”.

Anyway, here’s this week’s memes we referred to:

Sony's lead graphic designer coming up with the #PS5 logo#SonyCES pic.twitter.com/7xOJXBWHCF— chris trenary (@bagel_chris) January 7, 2020

And here’s a long Furby for your nightmare fuel:

I only had 45 minutes to make this during my lunch break, please be gentle pic.twitter.com/35phsD9CoO— Samantha Nye (@TheSamethyst) January 9, 2020

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This week Victoria and Zzayphod discuss their top 5 games from 2010 – 2019. If you know either of their content, most of the games won’t come as a surprise, although there is one or two on there.

After almost 8 hours in the Ganon bossrush alone, I finally beat Breath of the Wild with a single stick#BreathoftheWild
FULL VIDEO: https://t.co/fzX5aTZKmB pic.twitter.com/QG2NbbcoMQ— PointCrow (@PointCrow) January 6, 2020

This week, Victoria and Zzayphod discuss their top 5 games released in 2019. They did not share their lists with each other before recording and went into the episode completely blind! Share yours with them @thegeekdigest on Twitter!

This week Victoria and Zzayphod discuss the Game Awards and all the announcements that came out of the show. Steam removed Nazi profiles and racist propaganda from their platform. They also discussed Twitch signing 3 big streamers to exclusive deals, and some other avenues streamers are making money.

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On a slow news week, Victoria and Zzayphod discuss the changes in how YouTube and the FTC handle the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, and what it may mean for how content is handled on YouTube. Also, they break down an interview with Mark Cuban and his opinion of eSports teams as a business, which you can see in the link here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8gmARGvPlI

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IT’S ACTUALLY HAPPENING!!! Half Life 3 is real and going to be released. It’s titled Half Life: Alyx and it’s going to be a VR only release. PayMoneyWubby and his recent ban come under fire since he returned to Twitch and we discuss how they handle ban situations. Steam has released a new couch coop feature that allows players to play games together remotely.

https://www.twitch.tv/paymoneywubby/clip/HumbleUnusualAniseNerfBlueBlaster

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This week Victoria and Zzayphod discuss the absolute barebones launch that is Google Stadia – An interesting look into the statistics of hours watched on different streaming platforms – the Sonic movie reveals the redesign of Sonic – and a review and conversation about Disney+.

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This week Victoria interviews Zzayphod about his fruit on pizza preferences, his life growing up, and what made him want to make content on the internet! Also, another big name shooter streamer leaves Twitch, and Kojima, hot off Death Stranding, says his studio is going to make movies!

This week we kick off with an interview with Victoriashaz. We ask how she became a content creator, what inspires her, and how it feels to be a female personality on the internet.