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Re:Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers w... by geddy on Friday May 08, 2020 @11:15AM (#23115685)

I remember quite a while back, Chat Roulette song improv was a big thing. It was the guy in the hoodie - PianoChatImprov on Youtube. I just looked it up and, wow, that was 10 years ago.

This was also before Chat Roulette became nothing but dongs.

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Re:Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers w... by Nursie on Friday May 08, 2020 @11:40AM (#23116002)

I'm kinda surprised there was a "before" in that situation. I presumed that was what was going tonhappen from the get-go.

Perhaps I am too cynical.

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Re:Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers w... by toyg on Friday May 08, 2020 @12:14PM (#23116403)

Sadly, no. At the beginning it was mostly random people. Unfortunately, you need very little to ruin things - most normal people will not play even with a 10% chance of getting a dong, and the more “normies” leave, the higher that chance gets, in a vicious circle.

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Re:Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers w... by stronglikedan on Friday May 08, 2020 @02:15PM (#23117762)

Maybe it just normalized to be only "normies", and normal people just happen to really like dongs, even if unspoken?

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Re:Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers w... by tjr225 on Friday May 08, 2020 @08:53PM (#23121162)

Perhaps, but probably not. How many people use chat roulette today?

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Re:Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers w... by rexpop on Friday May 08, 2020 @10:27PM (#23121680)

The wants of the recipients aren't represented in the marketplace of dickpics.

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Re:Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers w... by trianglem on Friday May 08, 2020 @01:27PM (#23117219)

In these confusing times I sometimes tend to forget that being a normie is a good thing.

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Re:Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers w... by TeMPOraL on Friday May 08, 2020 @02:49PM (#23118083)

That's not the definition of 'normie' I'm familiar with. In fact, I'd expect normies to be the ones showing dongs.

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Re:Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers w... by recursive on Friday May 08, 2020 @05:44PM (#23119848)

Normie means unremarkable middle-of-the-road as far as I know.

Showing dongs in anonymous video chats is not what I'd expect from a normie.

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Re:Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers w... by sullyj3 on Saturday May 09, 2020 @07:17AM (#23123772)

The dynamics here reminds me of https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZQG9cwKbct2LtmL3p/evaporativ...

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Re:Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers w... by throwaway13337 on Saturday May 09, 2020 @11:13AM (#23125324)

That's an interesting blog post.

As an aside, I've noticed exactly what the author mentions in it happening in hacker news recently - there is a shift in politics to less tolerance. I've reduced my own viewing because of it.

I suppose it will just re-enforce that lack of tolerance.

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Re:Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers w... by enjo on Friday May 08, 2020 @09:29PM (#23121338)

I was on Chat Roulette very early.. and maybe my memory is bad (I'm getting old) but I remember it being dongs pretty much from day one.

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Re:Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers w... by artursapek on Friday May 08, 2020 @11:43AM (#23116031)

You'd think with the state of machine learning these days someone could have another go at it, and ban users who show their dongs

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Re:Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers w... by glasenator on Friday May 08, 2020 @11:59AM (#23116247)

Not Hotdog

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Re:Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers w... by kripy on Friday May 08, 2020 @08:51PM (#23121150)

Or for those that want it, have a dong on / dong off preference.

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Re:Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers w... by beshrkayali on Friday May 08, 2020 @12:19PM (#23116457)

the question is, would it be possible to implement something like that in a way where dong shows don't take over? What is it exactly that turned chat roulette into that?

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Re:Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers w... by OJFord on Friday May 08, 2020 @12:54PM (#23116839)

> What is it exactly that turned chat roulette into that?

Being on the internet?

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Re:Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers w... by geddy on Friday May 08, 2020 @10:34PM (#23121714)

First and foremost, upon returning to this thread after a few hours, I’m stoked how many people I got to say the word “dong”. Anyway.

Nowadays it would probably be easier than ever to detect certain shapes? I don’t know, we have artificial intelligence that can detect all sorts of things, male genitalia probably that hard to detect.

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Re:Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers w... by tripzilch on Sunday May 10, 2020 @10:19AM (#23132745)

They could have Snapchat-like filters that turn it into something innocent

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Re:Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers w... by dec0dedab0de on Friday May 08, 2020 @01:05PM (#23116979)

* would it be possible to implement something like that in a way where dong shows don't take over? *

Having an option to mark yourself as NSFW, and to decide if you want to see NSFW cams would go a long way.

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Re:Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers w... by strombofulous on Friday May 08, 2020 @05:21PM (#23119620)

IIRC they had this and only guys used it (because only guys were naked on chatroulette to begin with) so nobody used it.

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Re:Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers w... by thatcat on Friday May 08, 2020 @01:41PM (#23117396)

Yea, discord can detect dicks. I'm guessing that the hotdog/no hotdog algorithm is advanced enough by now.

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Re:Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers w... by chipperyman573 on Friday May 08, 2020 @05:22PM (#23119623)

Really? I've never been in a group where one is sent, does it block it or just mark it as NSFW?

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Re:Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers w... by thatcat on Friday May 08, 2020 @06:03PM (#23120040)

There might be a setting for the room, I've seen it marked as explicit content prevented from uploading and it doesn't show the picture.

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Re:Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers w... by seph-reed on Friday May 08, 2020 @02:33PM (#23117928)

I still play piano on omegle occasionally. Dudes will cancel the chat immediately.

One time I got a girl who was just talking about her shitty relationship with the chat on mute. I had to skip her myself.

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Re:Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers w... by optimiz3 on Saturday May 09, 2020 @03:50AM (#23122998)

Perhaps some sort food detection software that returns "Hotdog" or "Not Hotdog" could be repurposed for this.

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Re:Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers w... by 98codes on Friday May 08, 2020 @01:24PM (#23117189)

The concert(s) in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhJyX08GecU

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Re:Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers w... by bredren on Friday May 08, 2020 @08:07PM (#23120882)

In this vein, Steve Kardynal did a chat roulette performance of Miley Cyrus’s “Wrecking Ball.”

The editing is very good: https://youtu.be/W6DmHGYy_xk

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Re:Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers w... by zankly on Friday May 08, 2020 @02:22PM (#23117822)

I feel that this is a violation of trust. A lot of users are there to talk to another person, they're not necessarily ready or willing to be shirtless in front of tens of thousands of people. If I was on a jury and there was a lawsuit, I would award damages.

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Re:Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers w... by domador on Friday May 08, 2020 @03:22PM (#23118424)

Isn't showing up shirtless to a video chat with a stranger a huge violation of trust in itself? I'd be much more inclined to consider "shirtlessness" (to give this phenomenon a short name) to be a sign of aggression, rather than of innocence and of trust in others.

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Re:Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers w... by lopmotr on Friday May 08, 2020 @04:40PM (#23119211)

They're clearly OK with exposing themselves to strangers because that's the reason they're doing it. How does the number of strangers matter? If they were shy, they could have put their shirt on before going out in public.

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Re:Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers w... by birdyrooster on Friday May 08, 2020 @07:47PM (#23120767)

So if you flash me on the subway and I take a photo of it to share... I am violating your trust?!

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Re:Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers w... by stale2002 on Friday May 08, 2020 @06:28PM (#23120248)

The other stranger did not consent to being situation where the rando was shirtless, though.

Them being shirtless without telling the other person in advance, is harm that theyd be causing in the first place.

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Re:Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers w... by tasogare on Friday May 08, 2020 @11:46PM (#23122116)

Consent was given implicitly by browsing chatroulette. Or so is the mainstream rhetoric used for third party cookies "consent".

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Re:Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers w... by metamet on Saturday May 09, 2020 @03:47AM (#23122992)

By that logic, consent was given to be shown on a projector at a concert by showing yourself on Chatroulette.

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Re:Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers w... by ubercow13 on Friday May 08, 2020 @05:11PM (#23119513)

What would the lawsuit be for?

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Re:Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers w... by electricviolet on Friday May 08, 2020 @03:02PM (#23118219)

This is why we can't have nice things :(

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