Everybody on ILG complains about Twitch

^^^^ 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

http://ew.com/gaming/2018/03/15/drake-broke-a-viewing-record-when-he-played-fortnite-on-twitch/

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”

like, in unison, or is that just the best one according to you? it's pretty good

nah one of them said it and everyone else agreed

what, that doesn't sound right at all.

twitch is an exploration of the worst case scenario answers to "what does success look like on this platform?"

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.

i don't remember Khan Academy having live chat, birthing shitposing, racism and memes

don’t take it too literally

lol 'shitposing'

like it

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).

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 = nope
Too much cursing = nope
annoying 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.

I approve of your selection criteria, recommend me some specific channels.