Everybody on ILG complains about Twitch

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.

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?

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