Everybody on ILG complains about Twitch

i keep seeing this mentioned but no idea what it is. what's the tl;dr?

player unknown's battlegrounds

it actually looks really fun, i wish i had a pc

you start out by parachuting out of a helicopter to your choice of location on a giant map, which in itself a cool way to start. you can be on small teams or by yourself (i think). the map is really large and has different areas with different pros and cons as starting spots. as time goes on, the map gradually shrinks as players outside of the shrinking circle start to take damage. this has the effect of ratcheting up the action as the overall number of players dwindles and the surviving, better players start to converge on each other, until at the end the map is very small and it turns into a tactical squad based (or solo) shooter.

it's fun just to watch, tbh, if you can find a good stream where the person shuts the fuck up

xp i think they're planning to do it on consoles too, it's still in early access though so that could be a ways off

i'm normally bored to death by shooters but have really enjoyed watching this so i guess i'm not surprised that it's putting up huge twitch numbers

sounds interesting ty

yeah, it's also interesting to watch because it seems like there are a variety of ways to play it and it doesn't seem like a particular approach is optimized yet. it's a new spin on the genre and it seems like new strategies are popping up in response. i guess i've only watched about 6-7 full games so maybe i'm totally wrong there. but i'm still enjoying the feeling of watching people pioneer new ways to play. and also just watching people goof off, i like that too.

one of my favorite streamers has been offline for a month. sad!!

Last night I realized that I get a free Twitch Prime account with my Amazon prime account. The only apparent benefits are I get a special icon by my name that everyone else has, and also I get a free $5 subscription that I can give out each month. I used mine on the ninja garden cowboy because I love that guy. Spin and win!

yeah i just throw my free subscription months to various people i like who don't seem to have a ton of viewers/income

you also get free stuff, usually its just skins/DLC for various games but sometimes there's actual games in there. I just claimed a free copy of Oxenfree from mine. not sure if its the same for everyone or different.

(you have to install their desktop app to play the free games is the caveat. doesn't seem too bad though?)

Sheriff Eli

https://www.twitch.tv/sheriffeli

^^^^ live right now. possibly the best thing i've seen on twitch ever? ex-cop basically just doing policework in gta. amazing.

bizarre! how are they doing this, GTA V online multiplayer?

yeah GTA5 online roleplay

watching one of the guys I follow playing Crusader Kings 2 the other day and he was consistently surprised at how the duke's wife, who hated him to the tune of -77 or whatever (like, his character's wife REALLY hated this guy, I guess) kept getting pregnant by the duke. (Crusader Kings 2 is weird, guys)

The fact he couldn't figure it out was mildly adorable but mostly like, oh right, you have played video games on webcam on a daily basis for a couple of years in a row non-stop.

I just realized all the people I follow, at least the ones who use a cam, have great hair.

selection bias

unconscious though! and mostly I wound up following these people because they don't play MOBA, FPS or 4X all day like a shit-ton of people do

http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2017/08/11/harassment-livestreams-on-twitch-are-multiplying-and-easy-to-find

seems like a healthy development

Can't afford to ban paying customers, you know, those rape-threateners are some of our biggest bit buyers, see

Watching people nearly piss themselves playing Nidhogg II without having to have roommates is why this was invented

working on my marble madness record attempt at https://www.twitch.tv/weinventyou

go ZS!!

I just sent you my first ever twitch chat

that was fun!

okeydoke, i'm back in marble madness world again tonight. i plan on doing that for maybe 30-45 minutes, then switch over to one of the games i've been meaning to play but have never beaten out of this list:

mega man 3
startropics
mario lost levels
sonic 2

karl my wife is a dark souls fanatic, do you ever twitch it?

Found out I showed up on someone else's DS twitch stream, it was strangely exciting to watch back: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/160354431

xpost

i only have DS on PS4 and i haven't tried to stream anything from there yet. i somehow lost the little headset that comes with the ps4 so i'm not sure how i would hook it up.

but the bigger problem is that i'm really bad at DS games. there's kind of an entertaining way to suck, i think, but when i play DS i spend a lot of time just wandering around lost, dying to mid-level grunts over and over while accidentally exploring some section of the world that i have already traveled through. i think i might try startropics tonight.

it's been forever but i LOVED startropics back in the day

i rented it back in the day but i don't think i got very far. according to hotlongtobeat.com it takes about 11 hours to complete at a "leisurely" pace, so i'm going to assume it'll take me about 13 or 14.

i believe it was a 9 on my list
Forks' video game rating sytem POLL

lol

that's above "worth taking from little kid" level!

but juuust short of deadly force authorization

yeah, don't get your hopes up TOO high

changing gears and working on an extremely tedious 100-frame loop based on the samuel beckett play Quad

oh boy

https://www.twitch.tv/danielfromsl

I'm officially a FiZone fan. haven't subbed yet, will probably do when my free Prime sub comes around again. I hesitate to use the word cute, because gender stereotypes, but I think any pair of humans that cracks up this much playing games together would be considered adorable by most.

i like https://www.twitch.tv/endgameblues

twitch is sweet

there's a good ny-er piece about career streamers this week

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/11/20/how-to-get-rich-playing-video-games-online

touching up makeup on stream while waiting for a HOTS matchup to start: I really respect this, after some of thinkin baout

the Fizone remains my jam lately

TVGBadger is a lot less fun since he started cursing and mostly gave up the hat schtick. I guess I liked him better as a clown.

Flare2v barely streams anymore but his run through Cuphead was all worth it

how long until "monkaS" is in webster's

Karl Malone just waved his hand between a book cover and a camera for an hour and a half?

Classic Karl Malone :)

sorry, i didn't think anyone was watching! i was having crazy lag problems with OBS that would only show up when streaming, not locally, and i was trying to test out a bunch of fixes. turns out that i just needed to install the latest version of OBS.

but man oh man, now it's fixed and i'm itching to get back to pg 41 of a million random digits. 10% of the way there

live D&D is sometimes great: https://www.twitch.tv/geekandsundry