It's hardly about the viewers. It's about the experience. It's about staying in a 9-person house with all your PCs arranged in the living room, just like at home. Afterwards,visiting and chilling with other gamers at their houses in between games. It's about enjoying ridiculous German alcohol prices. I can safely say everyone who attended had a blast.

My deutschlan experience was basically being at home and playing video games while chatting to friends, who are sat next to me instead and I'm in some large house in a scenic nature park in Germany instead of my shitty room. Other things:

• One man making spaghetti for about 20 people (and subsequently knocking the power off for their house)
  
• Stealing a slice of watermelon from the neighbours BBQ
  
• Having a real life rock, paper, scissors match and attempt at a 18-man fist fight to decide who starts on red.
  
• The copious amount of free pizza and croissants.

Because the lack of chemistry is not necessarily Raptor's fault but he is the one who suffered by being cut.

the EUphoria is too strong

I listened at the wrong time. I'm trying to relax for bedtime :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zanzCgIyEP8

Old clip, though I still think it's one of the better made parodies

http://puu.sh/klQvj/b8ad01aa51.jpg

Anyone else use taskbar at the top? I get a lot of shit for using it that way. Just makes more sense to me. If all my chrome tabs are at the top, my eyes shouldn't have to travel far when I get a Steam message or smth.

We love you Stinson!

Seriously, this LAN was a huge success. I actually had a serious bout of post-LAN depression and so did my other teammates. We got eat REAL FOOD (that we made ourselves) alongside the immense amount of free pizza that got delivered to us. Nieheim is a beautiful location on the hills - very scenic and quaint German town.

People bringing their own BBQs, an array of food (horse sausages HELLO?) and a buttload of waffles from Netherlands and Belgium. This is what the LAN experience should be like.

Can we have a 'lol hl' emote please

Is that Phil Collins singing in French?

Also, this is from the soundtrack of Treasure Planet. Not your traditional Disney song but a Disney movie nonetheless. Underrated movie imo.

I'm not here by Johnny Rzeznik
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMGXq9_IQBQ

I signed up for CS (London, England). Feels more like a dating website for travellers tbh.

I haven't hosted anyone because I haven't managed to get in contact with anyone who fits my schedule. I'm a bit reluctant to hand over keys to strangers. I'm usually away from home between 9am-7pm.

https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/echoiie

If anyone wants to go sightseeing in London, UK hmu. Just bring your own food - can barely afford to feed myself as it is.

24 hours to go till the cup starts! Still some space left!

Good day! ETF2L is proudly announcing it's second 1v1 Scout Cup! Here is your chance to show off hours of practice on MGE servers. There are keys, hardware, steam games, etc. to be won!

The rules are simple: you face another scout until one of you kills the other 20 times. The competition is open to all nationalities as long as you are able to play on the schedule round times. Put your Scattergun to the test!

More information and signups here!

I forgot to reply to this sooner, sorry!

Social identity model of de-individuation effects (SIDE) is actually a critique of de-individuation. It's a bit more technology/social-media-oriented which is why it is one of the most used theories for explaining cyber bullying. It's an explanation for individual behaviour when anonymity is in play. There is no 'loss of self-hood'. Outgroup aggression is increased if you are anonymous to the outgroup (but known to the ingroup = circlejerk). etc etc etc

No ethical approval from university to conduct interviews. The research outline specifically stated to use online discussion boards as sources - some of my classmates used YouTube comments are their source. Forums are a good way of gathering large amount of data in one place.

The data I gather is simply for analysis.Not all of these responses are going to be featured, but if say, plenty people say the same thing then it's considered a 'theme' that I can talk about.

Interviews are long and tiresome. You need to convince people to sit down somewhere quiet (or in mumble/teamspeak), outline what you are gonna ask, say it's going to be recorded, do the questioning, listen through the "uhhms, aahhs, like yeah like". To be able to use in them in writing, you'd have to transcribe it word for word - including all the uhhms ahhs, pauses, liiiike. For every participant, you gotta do this.

Plus what better way of asking opinions about CYBER bullying than asking a bunch of people online? More likely I might come across someone who doesn't know how to turn on a computer if I were to recruit on the streets.

I am collecting data from multiple forums and not all of them are created by me. The analysis is conducted by looking for the most common themes that appear in the responses.