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How do I request a game to be Run?
Both are funded via bits and donations on stream. In earlier times there were incentives done during runs to help fund them and keep the show going, but now days this is all done in advance. The amount any given Run costs varies, most dominantly affected by how long any given Run will be, but also changed by relative popularity, effort and prep-work, et cetera. I am always taking suggestions for both, but I always try to look into a work to determine if I think it’s good Premiere Run or Lorerun material before accepting a suggestion.
When is (suchandsuch) stream happening?
Most streams start at 9 AM Eastern Standard Time, regardless of other considerations; the only exceptions are things like event coverage. There is a Queue, or Upcoming, page which lists all upcoming streams to give a vague idea of when they will be Run. Obviously thanks to the morphic nature of how long a game can take there is no hard schedule.
So we’re pretty anti spoilers here, but we also tend to be ‘no mentioning’. Sometimes this is jokingly abbreviated as NO MEN thanks to a production screw-up during the Dragon Age Lorerun (where the text accidentally got cut short from ‘no mentioning’ to ‘no men’). This means we try to avoid serious or obvious spoilers for other works in comments or on live stream, unless it’s relevant to the current work, or if proper warning is given first. Regardless, the rule of thumb is ‘no unrelated spoilers’. If we’re streaming Grand Theft Auto it’s okay to discuss spoilers for that game or series, but not for Star Wars or Mass Effect.
How exactly do Patreon, Paypal, and Twitch subscriptions work?
Patreon and Twitch subscriptions are both monthly. Twitch offers four ways of subscription; a free subscription you can give once per month to a streamer via Amazon Prime. This has to be manually updated each month. They also offer a $5, $10, and $25 subscription referred to as Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3 respectively. Twitch claims 50% of most of these (claiming 40% of the Tier 2, and 30% of the Tier 3). The most obvious benefit of a Twitch subscription to a viewer would be access to our Twitch emotes.
Patreon offers one method of subscription; you sign up on Patreon and set how much you wish to sub for per month. The minimum is $1, but aside from that you can set it to whatever you want it to be. We have plenty of people who put in 1, 5, 10, etc. dollars a month. Patreon claims 15% of these.
Paypal donations are once-only and claim a very small percent of the cut, close to 1.5%. Paypal also includes a transaction fee, so if you are donating a very small amount, please do not use Paypal. There is also Stripe for those seeking a monthly option that is not Patreon, which also takes 15%. Finally there are Twitch Bits, which shifts the cost to you rather than me. In short, to buy Bits you have to pay more than the amount (eg. $1.40 for $1.00 worth of bits) but I get 100% of the take rather than getting $.60.
I tend to have phrases or examples I use, my own lexicon I’ve built up over the years (long before I ever started the show). These are almost universally based on examples from real life or fiction, and refer to a specific type of scenario. I have a whole page dedicated to them you can find on the website, at https://lorerunner.com/loreiums.
I do! However, thanks to issues we’ve had over the years, access is invite only. Bug one of the mods about it during a stream and they’ll consider it, based on how well we know you.
Why do you have your No Polemic rule?
I’ve actually had this rule for a very long time, since I was in High School actually. It boils down to several problems. First, in my experience most people can’t actually discuss more controversial issues without devolving into shouting, hyperbole, or argumentative fallacies. There is no benefit or purpose in such yelling matches, and therefore I’ve found it simpler to avoid the topics entirely. Second, it’s entirely too easy for less-than-scrupulous people to try and take advantage of an open forum to deliberately stir up trouble by couching their statements and questions in seemingly innocuous words with the express purpose of insulting or making things worse. As an aside, we have a long standing tradition of lifting this rule during the Halloween stream once a year.
