I just sent you my first ever twitch chat
― El Tomboto, Monday, 28 August 2017 00:19 (seven years ago) link
that was fun!
― Karl Malone, Monday, 28 August 2017 01:06 (seven years ago) link
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 3startropicsmario lost levelssonic 2
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 29 August 2017 01:24 (seven years ago) link
karl my wife is a dark souls fanatic, do you ever twitch it?
― harbinger of failure (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 29 August 2017 14:23 (seven years ago) link
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
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 29 August 2017 14:42 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 29 August 2017 17:39 (seven years ago) link
it's been forever but i LOVED startropics back in the day
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Tuesday, 29 August 2017 17:43 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 29 August 2017 17:44 (seven years ago) link
i believe it was a 9 on my listForks' video game rating sytem POLL
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Tuesday, 29 August 2017 17:46 (seven years ago) link
lol
that's above "worth taking from little kid" level!
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 29 August 2017 17:47 (seven years ago) link
but juuust short of deadly force authorization
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 29 August 2017 17:48 (seven years ago) link
yeah, don't get your hopes up TOO high
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Tuesday, 29 August 2017 18:13 (seven years ago) link
changing gears and working on an extremely tedious 100-frame loop based on the samuel beckett play Quad
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 02:18 (seven years ago) link
oh boy
https://www.twitch.tv/danielfromsl
― 👁 (am0n), Tuesday, 5 September 2017 23:10 (seven years ago) link
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.
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 14 October 2017 04:48 (six years ago) link
i like https://www.twitch.tv/endgameblues
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 05:25 (six years ago) link
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
― sleepingbag, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 05:30 (six years ago) link
touching up makeup on stream while waiting for a HOTS matchup to start: I really respect this, after some of thinkin baout
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 14 December 2017 04:46 (six years ago) link
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
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 14 December 2017 04:53 (six years ago) link
how long until "monkaS" is in webster's
― am0n, Thursday, 14 December 2017 18:29 (six years ago) link
Karl Malone just waved his hand between a book cover and a camera for an hour and a half?
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 27 January 2018 21:41 (six years ago) link
Classic Karl Malone :)
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Saturday, 27 January 2018 21:43 (six years ago) link
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.
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 27 January 2018 22:05 (six years ago) link
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
― i remember the corned beef of my childhood (Karl Malone), Friday, 23 February 2018 03:40 (six years ago) link
http://ew.com/gaming/2018/03/15/drake-broke-a-viewing-record-when-he-played-fortnite-on-twitch/
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 15 March 2018 13:03 (six years ago) link
i asked some of my students to explain twitch to me in terms i could understand. they said “it’s like khan academy for video games”
― the late great, Thursday, 22 March 2018 01:22 (six years ago) link
like, in unison, or is that just the best one according to you? it's pretty good
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 22 March 2018 01:29 (six years ago) link
nah one of them said it and everyone else agreed
― the late great, Thursday, 22 March 2018 02:25 (six years ago) link
what, that doesn't sound right at all.
― Nhex, Thursday, 22 March 2018 02:33 (six years ago) link
twitch is an exploration of the worst case scenario answers to "what does success look like on this platform?"
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 22 March 2018 02:39 (six years ago) link
Nhex it sounds right to me, in that generational context? my kid watches let's play youtubes to see what can be done & how to do it, and she's 7.
/me = old dog ! new tricks, so I watch it for the cursing in funny accents and the amazing feats of input timing that I was never capable of even at my peak of hand-eye coordination.
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 22 March 2018 03:00 (six years ago) link
i don't remember Khan Academy having live chat, birthing shitposing, racism and memes
― Nhex, Thursday, 22 March 2018 05:30 (six years ago) link
don’t take it too literally
― the late great, Thursday, 22 March 2018 05:43 (six years ago) link
lol 'shitposing'
like it
― when worlds collide I'll see you again (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 22 March 2018 15:29 (six years ago) link
so I learned that Domina, a game where you play as John Hannah's asshole character from the Spartacus TV show, i.e. the owner of a gladiator training academy with no redeeming qualities, has Twitch interaction functions. So while the streamer plays the game (buying, outfitting, training gladiators, making some rudimentary choices about who to curry favor with, and how frequently to put on exhibition matches for extra cash at the expense of morale, etc) the subs and followers in chat can cheer and vote on things - which is, actually, kind of amazing.
I watched a match where one of the streamer's gladiators surrendered and the chatroom got the deciding vote on whether he would be allowed to live, the streamer was yelling at everyone, and it was pretty intense. Most of Twitch is just like sitting down on a dorm lounge couch and watching somebody else play games, but this was a lot more exciting (even if the game itself is a pretty lame sim tbh and you know me, I love human resources management sims).
― El Tomboto, Friday, 23 March 2018 02:36 (six years ago) link
Twitch is totally my radio now. I leave it on in the background while I do other stuff, and decent sound quality (and voice quality) is easily my #1 criterion for streams to watch. Which, by the way, happens to rule out most pro Dota 2 casts, because good lord, the production values are ridiculously mediocre.
Too much yelling = nopeToo much cursing = nopeannoying vocal qualities and/or affectations = nope
I just do chores and review documents and draft plans while I drag my laptop around the house like a boombox with some nerds on it yammering about how their space colony needs THIS or that battlemech needs THAT. What a world we live in.
― El Tomboto, Friday, 27 April 2018 23:45 (six years ago) link
I approve of your selection criteria, recommend me some specific channels.
― JimD, Saturday, 28 April 2018 13:55 (six years ago) link
https://blog.twitch.tv/the-doctors-will-see-you-now-370564b877c98 hours of classic doctor who starting today
― El Tomboto, Friday, 25 May 2018 13:43 (six years ago) link
Sorry 8 hours each day, for seven weeks.
― El Tomboto, Friday, 25 May 2018 13:44 (six years ago) link
what better way to watch doctor who than with racist comments from the dregs of humanity scrolling down the side
― i am fast and full of teeth. i willl die in a barn fire (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 25 May 2018 13:44 (six years ago) link
Apparently some people are into it, but yeah, I think it’s pure insanity. At least the chat panel can be minimized, though.
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Friday, 25 May 2018 14:21 (six years ago) link
my esports viewing preferences have shifted from mobas to fighting games lately, looking forward to EVO this weekend
― ciderpress, Thursday, 2 August 2018 15:18 (six years ago) link
I’ve tried watching pro fighting games tournament play and just cannot keep up. I have no idea how the shoutcasters do their job.
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 2 August 2018 15:24 (six years ago) link
it's not that hard to keep up with street fighter or tekken imo but yeah some of the anime games are almost unreadable if you're not familiar with them.
― ciderpress, Thursday, 2 August 2018 15:30 (six years ago) link
I was at the gym the other day and ESPN2 was apparently showing Overwatch matches. It looked ridiculous, totally illegible to a non-player (like me).
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 2 August 2018 15:45 (six years ago) link
this year's evo lineup, for the interested:
Street Fighter 5 - it's street fighter. very fundamental and grounded and slow paced. this is the main event as usual and the finals will be on ESPN2 Sunday night. Tekken 7 - the most popular 3d fighter this generation. this is probably the most watchable game for the uninitiated, it has good clarity and is faster and more exciting than street fighter.Smash Bros Melee - half the smash players only want to play this game still so we're stuck with 2 tournament smash games forever. I played this for like 1000 hours as a kid and don't really want to see more of it at this point even in a different context.Smash Bros Wii U - this is kinda a lame duck game now since the new one looks like a big improvement on it for the esports setting. Dragonball FighterZ - this game looks absolutely amazing in motion though the pro matches get a little samey. fun to watch in small doses.Guilty Gear Xrd - stylish anime fighter. the original guilty gear is the common ancestor of all the fast anime games but I don't know much about this iterationBlazBlue Cross Tag Battle - extremely fast paced anime crossover game. my personal favorite on this list and the one I'm most looking forward to watching but probably the least legible to uninitiated viewersInjustice 2 - DC comics fighter from the makers of mortal kombat. I only watched it once and it looked pretty slow
then of course people will be streaming side tournaments of all sorts of more obscure games all weekend which is probably my favorite part of the whole thing
― ciderpress, Thursday, 2 August 2018 16:23 (six years ago) link
I saw that Smash is actually AFTER SFV though!?
― Nhex, Thursday, 2 August 2018 19:15 (six years ago) link
nah, SFV finals is the final event on Sunday. earlier rounds are ongoing and can be in whatever order
― ciderpress, Thursday, 2 August 2018 19:36 (six years ago) link
Tekken is def very watchable, whenever I try to tune in to Guilty Gear I get nauseous.
― devops mom (silby), Thursday, 2 August 2018 23:36 (six years ago) link