Everybody on ILG complains about Twitch

twitch is so, so good rn

So I started watching Flare2V's expert Terraria run on 1HP (using a save editor to force the handicap) and I have followed along for 727 deaths so far. still catching up. Now VG Badger has started the same type of run, I get to compare and contrast I guess. Artificially super-fragile runs are good shit though.

twitch emotes and chat spam are at the top of my 'get off my lawn you kids these days' list of things that I will never understand

If there's a game coming out that I'm interested in, such as the upcoming console release of 7 Days to Die, I like to check out a few well-curated lets plays on youtube to see if it is something I could get into. But I'll rarely watch twitch streams. I want to hear from the gamer about the game they are playing and to learn a thing or two about strategies game mechanics, but twitch streams always seem to devolve into senseless shoutout banter.

Yeah it's amazing how little most streamers talk about the actual game they're playing.

Anyway I'm still catching up after a bunch of work travel, watching Flare do his 1hp run of Terraria and he's now died over 1500 times. The landscape is just completely littered with gravestones to a truly surreal degree. Twitch needs searchable tags for salty masochism, this shit's hilarious.

Now with microtransactions, presumably to get Twitch a cut of the donations
https://blog.twitch.tv/introducing-cheering-celebrate-together-da62af41fac6#.lrume5xvm

Honestly kinda surprised this didn't already exist on Twitch. Once again porn innovating and leading the way for respectable business

tippin on 44s

I .want to turn Flare2V's spear-only Terraria run into a screenplay. where can I find an agent. And/or a therapist

I need to draw a proportional Venn diagram.

1 / 2 = dull streamers playing dull games = easily avoidable, like oncoming traffic
1 / 6 = dull streamers playing entertaining games = the trap
1 / 7 = entertaining streamers playing dull games = the disappointment
1 / 8 = people drawing (incl Bob Ross) = still don't get this tbf
1 / 15 = entertaining streamers playing entertaining games = oh so this is what this is about

i'll go ahead and ask what we're all thinking

that's 1/841th over a full share (841/840, or 100.00119%)

otherwise that's about right, although i like some of the drawing/creating stuff

drawing stuff is easy to understand. regardless of your skill it's mesmerizing to watch someone well-practiced doing a piece

bad games are OK if the streamer is entertaining enough

bad and dull aren't the same, I mean the Awful Games section of GDQ is always my favorite part

don't forget about social eating

that's 1/841th over a full share (841/840, or 100.00119%)

I included the streams that appear to be live but then you click and they're not

lol "bits" are not available for Canadian strimmers

Is this Venn diagram actually a pie chart or?

5 spheres: "entertaining streamers," "entertaining games," "dull streamers," "dull games," and "art?" with different sizes (and differently sized overlaps) computed according to my rough proportions

http://www.wired.com/2016/08/why-i-watch-lets-plays/

I tend to watch them the way I watch other sports: in the background, not necessary to pay too much attention, occasionally entertaining. But I kind of get the point the author is making.

I used to lend the older kids quarters so I could watch them play gunsmoke in the arcade.. been watchin other people play video games my whole life, son

severe technical difficulties are funny.
All the streams appear to be dead and this is the account currently featured on the front page: https://www.twitch.tv/undefined

Given that my options are a sport that I hate, a debate I can't watch because it's a japanese horror movie, and some other stuff that I don't care about, Twitch is more important than ever right now

People with Amazon Prime can now watch Twitch ad-free, get a free sub to a channel every month plus skins and other digital flotsam.
https://twitch.amazon.com/prime

lol looks like people are giving their free subs to whoever is streaming at the moment, meanwhile a lot of streamers are attending TwitchCon and missing out on the free loot (as far as I can tell Amazon still passes on the usual cut to streamers)

this is pretty nice, i picked a good year to finally try out prime

best Twitch channel http://www.twitch.tv/bubblepuppets

Desert Bus for Hope 10 is on.

https://www.twitch.tv/desertbus

lol

https://twitter.com/BadLayouts

twitch is cool for poker streaming too

wow some of those are phenomenal

I now tend to think of twitch streams like regular season sports broadcasts - well served being on in the background, sometimes it might be nice to have a producer with a replay option handy for when things accidentally get exciting

as if the subscriber support/donation shoutout circle-jerk wasn't enough of an abomination there is now 'cheering'

https://help.twitch.tv/customer/portal/articles/2449458

i guess thats months old but i haven't noticed it shitting up things until now

Streamers definitely have an interesting set of idiolects that they build up over time. I'm used to the weirdness of it now but I remember when I was first browsing streamers, flexing my eyebrows through almost the entire range of possible huh wtf ehh positions, it seemed so foreign and inexplicable.

Conversing with a chat window, inventing onomatopoeia for game events, all sorts of little semantic units for chat window stuff like the Twitch-specific emoji, etc. and these guys only talk to each other on Discord in chat room raids, so while there is a common dialect, it's perhaps more clearly of a collection of discrete idiolects than normal dialects seem to be.

why does deadmauFive have a twitch channel of him just making bad logo animations in cinema 4d

god i hate twitch

TVGBadger totally made me get Sunless Sea for the iPad

FailBetter and Re-Logic owe that dude money

sunless sea is great but i had to abruptly stop playing when i lost the essential, copious notes i was keeping when my laptop got wrecked. i don't think i could ever go back. tip: make copious notes, they will be essential

what the fuck is this

https://www.twitch.tv/directory/game/IRL

thats been up for a while as a catch-all tag, ever since they okayed streaming things other than video game content

I think I just never noticed it on the browse by game page before. yeesh

these battle royale games got so popular so quickly

one of those things that's kinda surprising it hadn't been done long ago but i guess developing netcode that can support 100 players one one map smoothly isn't trivial

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.

It's actually quite hard to play a video game when you're blind. I wouldn't say it enhances the experience at all.

My bad, I'd forgotten that the word 'blind' only has One True & Literal Meaning.

I dunno, letting your actions be dictated by edgelords and would-be edgelords seems to be a losing proposition twice over: first, you're ceding the moral high ground to them, and secondly, you're letting them dictate the contours of language.

I'd also like to imagine that acts like this might prompt other people to reexamine their own language, too.

But 'blind playthrough' was never the sole province of edgelords, unlike many other gaming-related expressions. If the goal is to pwn the Gamergate crowd (which is fine by mine), a self-pwn is not the best way to go about it imo.

The goal is to honor a simple request by a subset of visually impaired gamers, not to pwn anyone.

Again, 'blind playthrough' does not denote anything negative. Arguing the observe is really stretching it.

Why don't you tell that to visually impaired gamers like @stevesaylor or @stevenspohn. I'm sure they'd be happy to know it's just a misunderstanding.

I hope you realize that not all visually impaired gamers agree.

do you know what subset means

Said subset is not enough to determine whether 'blind playthrough' is acceptable or not.

Like I said, go tell them that

I would discuss this with them in person if given the chance, sure. As it stands, I don't have a Twitter account and am not interested in creating one.

are people with nervous tics not offended by "Twitch" ?

It's reasonable to consider it akin to all the examples under the posted tweet, so I would be curious what those cited visually impaired gamers would say about "double-blind study" etc.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/07/tech/pogchamp-emote-banned-capitol-hill-trnd/index.html

https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2021/05/21/lets-talk-about-hot-tub-streams/

being found to be sexy by others is not against our rules

whew!

being found to be sexy

we find the defendant to be...NOT SEXY!!

*cries of relief from the family*

i'm painting here now: https://www.twitch.tv/zach_tbd

Not twitch exactly, but does anyone know anything about Discord? I use it for ttrpgs through video and was looking for a bot that would track counters or tokens so that all players on the channel would be able to see the current count(s).

https://t.co/7vTDeRA9vt got leaked. Like, the entire website; Source code with comments for the website and various console/phone versions, refrences to an unreleased steam competitor, payouts, encrypted passwords that kinda thing.
Might wana change your passwords.

— Sinoc (@Sinoc229) October 6, 2021

Annoying. I changed all my passwords this morning.

just a thought - why haven't I received an email from Twitch/Amazon advising me to change my password?

https://kotaku.com/twitch-depp-heard-trial-hasanabi-pokimane-xqc-johnny-am-1848892955

This might be the thing that finally breaks my streaming addiction.

Fuck these people.

The whole Good Guy Johnny Depp internet phenomenon around this thing is some of the cringiest shit it the world.

It’s pretty disturbing and upsetting. I have no idea why people are so fond of this guy.

they liked him in the movies and people think movies are real now

That was a rhetorical question. I know why.

i don't follow the twitch streamer scene at all, and have just barely followed the Amouranth saga. i just think this, in isolation is a funny tweet

I played more overwatch than I did hot tub. That’s NEVER HAPPENED

— Kaitlyn (@wildkait) November 27, 2022