If I thought a lot of people would see this, I wouldn't post it, because it doesn't concern most people. But the previous posts have, in order, 0, 3, 1, 1, 2, 4, and 0 views.
Pey's broadcast that just ended: Helo happy tbc days :D TBC TBC TBC !social for links
It will automatically expire in 60 days and be deleted.
Her dog died last weekend, three or four days ago. She has no idea why her dog died, and she has eaten very little or nothing in the past few days, other than a shake and maybe an egg. I watched this stream and much of the previous stream and didn't realize she had a Christmas tree until a user asked about it in chat, a few hours into this stream.
I missed from around 5:13:00 to 5:39:00 because I tried to look up a slang term that was mentioned in chat, and ended up opening an article that used up all available memory and froze my browser for a while. So I didn't hear everything she said about her dog dying and not eating much, around 5:24:00.
What I wrote while watching, with no intention of sharing it when I wrote it:
1:27:10 comment about Instagram, banned?
death at 1:29:50
deaths at 1:35:00 used CC?
fight at 1:58:30, kill the totem? sheeped what? and 2:01:20
wipe at 2:17:00
comment Peyton at 2:20:10
grandmother name 2:21:58
tank death at 2:45:00
damage taken at 2:54:00, 2:55:00, 2:56:00, 2:57:05, exploding ghosts?
3:22:00 lack of dampen magic against elementals, what was pally aura
almost died 3:33:05
mage died 3:35:18
comment 3:37:40
death 3:39:40
Avian Warhawk charge, 3k damage?
tank death at 4:09:00, missed it
4:13:50 question Czech, death shortly after
rez warlock 4:28:50
tank death 4:33:50
4:37:30 talking about whom, top tier
4:49:30 Instagram, inaudible with music. Asking personal info to unban?
4:51:40 Twitter?
4:53:20 Pika first in chat at midnight?
5:02:30 don't get _?
5:07:50 tank death
5:09:00 inaudible
5:10:35 inaudible
5:14:00 stream frozen, reloaded to 5:16:00
5:24:30 haven't eaten in 2 days?
5:26:30 wipe? sleep in last few days?
5:29:38 "sorry"?
missed until 5:39:00
11 Feb 2026
if drinks scale with mana pool, might people just use low-level drinks? Is 'intellect slightly decreases cost of spells' a good mechanic? Or a stat that does this, instead of giving more mana? Too much synergy with spirit to be a dedicated stat?
vampiric touch, gain mana equal to 5% of damage, assumes health scales with mana.
arcane intellect seeming useless in groups, not commenting when it falls off
point: when drinks are expensive, it makes sense to drink only when it would use entire drink. If this is every five pulls, then mana stat only really matters 1/5 of the time
point, 'multiple difficulties for content' started in TBC. Easy mode Lich King etc.
a 'reduce mana cost of spells' stat competes or overlaps with spellpower, spirit, and extra mana.
She also made a comment about not really wanting to be reminded that she's single, on Valentine's day. I don't blame you for Pey's dog dying. But it doesn't seem like there's much to counteract the sadness of her dog dying. Over 100 people in chat wished her a happy birthday yesterday, and yet today she still said that she hadn't eaten in a few days.
I thought that saying this, that I feel that people using the idea could have been something that would have made her a little happier, even if her dog still died, was better than saying nothing and possibly implying through my actions, or my silence, that I felt this way. I had intended to look up all the moments that I noted as soon as the stream finished (my computer is too slow to have reviewed those moments in the VOD while also watching the stream), but instead I will wait an arbitrary length of time, since none of the information I would learn is critical. I'll just say two weeks.
I'm trying to find an article and while this isn't it, I'll still link it because I think the author wrote a fair and informative article:
though I will say that while I was skimming it briefly, my computer froze and it took about 40 seconds after I pressed Ctrl-W before the page finally closed, due to HD swap activity.
Well, apparently I did not bookmark the article, which was on dexerto.com, and not bothering to find it. It quoted probably from a live stream where you mentioned that you had tried lots of things to find a relationship, including hanging out at the grocery store. A little funny and probably a reference to stories where an unexpected encounter takes place at such a location. (For example, in the 'Falling Into Your Smile' Chinese drama that I mentioned I had watched the first episode of, one character first sees another character at the store, although they do not talk.)
After clicking on this because it explained a slang term,
https://afterschool.substack.com/p/mini-mullets-and-and-frame-mogging
I tried to read the article it linked to, (10 Feb 2026) A Stanford Experiment to Pair 5,000 Singles Has Taken Over Campus - WSJ
which was paywalled, but something that sometimes worked in the past was searching for the article, and clicking on the link. (Or if the URL referral was from Chirp Club.) That didn't work at first when I tried it (only when I re-opened the tab after closing it, only expecting to be able to read the first paragraph), but the search also turned up https://incels.is/threads/bluepilled-stemcels-think-an-app-can-solve-inceldom.840729/ which is another perspective on the topic.
That linked to the student-run newspaper, https://stanforddaily.com/2026/01/12/date-drop-returns-following-cease-and-desist/.
I think it's a lot more informative. The title is not as attractive: the WSJ article is not just "X happened", but "X happened and everyone cares about it". But even though the WSJ article is from yesterday, it seems to be disproven by the Stanford Daily article, which is closer to the drama.
“The first few weeks were great since everyone wanted to try it out, but now the only people to be matched with are the weirdos still doing it on Week 11,” he said.
A few days ago I compared something that I don't even remember to the 'death spirals' in insurance groups, and this seems like it might be similar. The posters in the 'incels' forum speculate on bad motives by the service's creator, but if this kind of 'death spiral' is the explanation for the decline in use, then it might just be an emergent effect, which the creator simply did not predict but which other people can learn from. Like, there is https://www.keeper.ai/ which had the calculator you used, and I got several ads for https://tawkify.com/requestcall-v. Date Drop is unusual in that it leads to dates, not just matches, but also because it operates in communities where awareness of the service is high enough for people to discuss it and influence each other's opinions of it.
Maybe 'undesirable' people, the 'weirdos' are the ones using dating services A, B, and C. But people considering using these services are not aware of it, because they don't know whether people they know are using them or not, in order to gauge whether this might be true. But if the reason for this bias in usage for Date Drop is understood, it could help form predictions for how other dating sites or apps are used.
Basically, I read up to that point in the article and thought it might be relevant, and am not trying to form a better understanding or read the rest of the article before I post this.
In the past, Pey's VODs were viewable for subscribers only, so I would not have been able to look these moments up. I learned this was no longer the case yesterday, when I missed something that was said or happened and was able to watch the VOD.
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