Chapter 21
Chapter 21
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Translator: MadScientist
Chapter: 21
Chapter Title: Loser Turns Cam On for Zero-to-Three Minutes of Pain
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[LIVE ON: Loser Turns Cam On for Zero-to-Three Minutes of Pain] What kind of day is Wednesday?
For office workers, it's the day they sigh, "Ah, only halfway through the week."
For the warriors burning up communities from their rooms, it's something on the level of, "Huh? It's already Wednesday?"—barely registering on their radar.
But for Ias players, Wednesday held a special meaning.
📰 Ias Gallery — Title: When's the patch gonna finish?? [Title: Ias's survival is riding on today's patch, for real] [Title: Practice) Holy shit, 5GB patch size lol] Because Wednesday was Ias's patch day.
For players sick of the same old side dishes and craving fresh content, Wednesday was like ripping open a random box—you never knew what you'd get.
📰 Ias Gallery — Title: Today's Update Prediction Regular maintenance complete Bug fixes End — Lmao saw the whole patch already — Fuck, if it's another no-update day — Spoiler: Evande — Spoiler warning) << Where'd it go lol Of course, the odds of hitting the jackpot were as RNG-heavy as any MMO RPG random box.
Still, people opened them with puffed-up expectations.
Clinging to that tiny hope: "Today'll be different," or "There has to be something today."
Forgetting the time-honored gamer proverb: "Expectations just lead to betrayal."
[Patch Notes] Regular maintenance complete Bug fixes And after opening the box...
— Title: Are these fuckers actually insane???? [Title: Game's totally fucked lol] [Title: Selling all my gear and quitting, peace] — Title: Time to let it go for real... [Title: Official) Ias Gallery Declaration.txt] [Title: Never claim Ias is top K-RPG again] "Whoa... this game's really fucked."
Of course, I was part of that raging crowd too.
Part of me wanted to belt out "Arise, Masses" and protest in front of SG headquarters.
Even in the off-season, this was too much.
With Ias drilling new lows when it desperately needed a comeback, my head was starting to hurt more and more.
Trust rating patches killing off even gold farmers, and as Ias tanks harder, my stream's chances of blowing up tank right along with it.
Of course, no matter how pissed I got—
— Title: Why the ragers right now are third-rate ㅇㅇ —gotta do what needs doing.
— Anonymous Ias is sorting the wheat from the chaff right now. Kicking out the fake fans who'd starve without constant handouts, leaving only the true fans who love the game. SG's probably going all-in on the winter break update coming in a few months lol. First-raters like me will elegantly wait and watch the generations shift ㅇㅇ ↳ Reply Fuck off ↳ Reply Don't care, fuck off ↳ Reply Get the fuck out, you shithead ↳ Reply You a troll? ↳ Reply But kinda makes sense ↳ Reply Fuckin sock puppet, rom ↳ Reply Nah (OP) not me? Check out those savage replies—you only see shit like this when the gallery's on fire.
It's a unique flavor, in its own way.
— Title: If you can wait quietly til winter break you're a real Ibro ㅋㅋ [Title: Complaining about no update is short-sighted thinking, no?] [Title: Mod, you doing your fucking job?] [Title: One psycho in the gallery] [Blocked IP. Reason: Aggro post spam. Ban: 7 days] After wringing a white flag out of the mod,
I plugged my nearly dead phone into the charger and flung myself onto the bed.
It was a cheap mattress not even worth 200,000 won, but lying on it turned me into a sage, pondering life's purpose and my future.
'Come to think of it... time to brainstorm some content...'
After yesterday's first stream, I'd promised another today, but I had zero ideas lined up.
I'd decided on maining Ias streams, but honestly... Ias wasn't exactly streamer-friendly.
If there'd been new content, maybe, but right now? Every player had devoured every scrap of content ages ago. For streaming, it was the worst matchup imaginable.
Suha Yam climbing to big-league streamer status with this turd of a game? That's impressive.
If she'd streamed something popular like League, she'd be even bigger now, right?
Yeah, no takebacks.
Anyway, I had to scrape together some content for today's stream, come hell or high water.
📰 Saintess Nice Gallery — Title: What're the odds galju streams today? Otherwise, I'd get royally screwed over.
No clue what happened overnight, but I woke up to my own fan gallery.
Stream's only been up a day, no real fans yet—why the hell?
Checked it out...
— Title: Where the hell does galju even live? — Anonymous I just wanna knuckle-rap her hard once ↳ Reply One knuckle-rap enough? ↳ Reply I'm gonna slap her as many times as the hate pics she's posted — Anonymous Will spam the ever-loving shit out of her stream the second she goes live, you thirsty dogs get a like Ordering ice cream and ghosting it? Unforgivable. ↳ Reply Like ↳ Reply She prolly just forgot and ended stream? ↳ Reply Nah, with galju's personality? Totally on purpose. ⭐ Top Comment — Anonymous Galju's a commu addict so she's prolly lurking. Ease up on the aggressive posts ㅇㅇ Hey Saintess Nice who came here from this, Eat ice cream mukbang OR shove a dodgeza up your ass on stream today or else — Anonymous For real lol Fan community my ass—it was just a support group for my shitpost victims from the Ias gallery.
I explained it a million times yesterday.
Even without me, someone would've spam-posted hate pics and crap.
Thanks to me building their immunity, they can thrive in commus now. Shouldn't they be grateful?
In shady spots like galleries, hate pics are like natural disasters.
When disaster strikes, just be glad you're alive... why charge the storm for revenge?
Reciting a famous manga villain's mindset in my head,
while brainstorming content to calm the angry mob—
— Title: Galju said no PC so streams from PC bang, wanna check it out? — Anonymous SG's hosting an Ias PVP tourney, why not enter? Top 8 gets a custom Ias PC—free rig? Dunno her personality but her mechanics look solid, let's go ↳ Reply Galju does PVP??? ↳ Reply — Nah she doesn't ↳ Reply Her mechanics suggest she'd crush tho ↳ Reply No updates but they run a PVP tourney lol ↳ Reply For real, ass-backwards ↳ Reply Anyone even doing PVP?? ↳ Reply She does it more than you'd think ↳ Reply PVP's fun tho... ↳ Reply Just stalling til peak season ↳ Reply Yeah that tracks "PVP...?"
Like most RPGs, Ias had PVP content.
Though as a PVE-focused RPG staple, it was "only for the diehards"—practically abandoned.
Still, Ias PVP had a solid niche following, even trending briefly during peak season.
Hell, I'd even tried it a few times.
⚔ PVP CHAT LOG ⚔ [Saintess Nice: Ah, stop] [Saintess Nice has been killed by Jaw Cling Duo's attack] [Saintess Nice: Fuck] [Saintess Nice has been killed by Jaw Cling Duo's attack] [Saintess Nice: No way] [Saintess Nice has been killed by Jaw Cling Duo's attack] [Saintess Nice: You bastards] [Saintess Nice has been killed by Jaw Cling Duo's attack] [Jaw Cling Duo: ^^ ] After getting 12-manned by sweaty boomer pros, I steered clear.
Unlike predictable AI patterns and tells, PVP demanded raw mechanics against humans.
But now? I could hang.
Objectively, Lee Min-ji's reaction time crushed old me.
Back as Lee Min-uk, spotting pre-tells was barely enough; now, Min-ji reacted with margin even on sight.
Early on, the gap got me half-killed by Vermouth repeatedly, trolling hard—but now? I could dodge anything.
'This... is perfect!'
Upgraded reactions + official devs spoonfeeding a PVP tourney.
— Title: If galju wants a knuckle-rap, like lol Plus a commu full of users dying to "support" me.
All ingredients for killer content, just clicked.
◇◇◇◆◇◇◇ "Whew, that's it for today, ending stream. Too exhausting."
-Huh?
-Where you goingggg
-Already??
"C'mon, I streamed three hours earlier than planned today—cut me some slack."
-Fair
-Suhaaaa
-Coming early tomorrow too right??
"See you all tomorrow!"
Ending earlier than usual, Suha Yam opened the streaming app and searched for Saintess Nice.
Saintess Nice's second stream was due in 10 minutes, at 6 PM.
Why end early? To funnel her viewers over.
'No real need to help this much, but...'
Her Ias vids' views were still dipping.
Interest in newbie Saintess Nice was waning too.
To reignite the embers, she needed fuel—and Suha was supplying it.
Saintess Nice blows up? Suha profits too.
'That stream yesterday, though...'
Suha's jaw dropped at Saintess Nice's abrupt end yesterday.
She wasn't gunning for sex appeal, but any streamer would've cracked a moan in that moment.
A total newbie shattering nearly 100 viewers' expectations and dipping? Unheard of in Suha's world.
*Ding!*
"Oh, she's live."
Saintess Nice's stream popped on.
Seeing the title, Suha reached one conclusion.
[Seongna LIVE ON: PVP—Losers Turn Cam On for Zero-to-Three Minutes of Pain] This girl had a god-given talent for pulling aggro.