Everybody on ILG complains about Twitch

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.

https://blog.twitch.tv/the-doctors-will-see-you-now-370564b877c9

8 hours of classic doctor who starting today

Sorry 8 hours each day, for seven weeks.

what better way to watch doctor who than with racist comments from the dregs of humanity scrolling down the side

Apparently some people are into it, but yeah, I think it’s pure insanity. At least the chat panel can be minimized, though.

my esports viewing preferences have shifted from mobas to fighting games lately, looking forward to EVO this weekend

I’ve tried watching pro fighting games tournament play and just cannot keep up. I have no idea how the shoutcasters do their job.

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.

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).

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 iteration
BlazBlue 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 viewers
Injustice 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

I saw that Smash is actually AFTER SFV though!?

nah, SFV finals is the final event on Sunday. earlier rounds are ongoing and can be in whatever order

Tekken is def very watchable, whenever I try to tune in to Guilty Gear I get nauseous.

the character designs, music, aesthetics are sooooo much better than Tekken (well, every other fighting game series is imo)

to be clear I don’t think the anime games are bad or anything they just give me vertigo

Anyway I’m excited to see SonicFox hopefully win DBFZ in a fursuit

bbtag top 8 on right now, this is insane to watch

Anyway I’m excited to see SonicFox hopefully win DBFZ in a fursuit

― devops mom (silby), Thursday, August 2, 2018 9:11 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this just happened!

It did! He’s the best.

he said he was interested in smash ultimate, i hope he ends up destroying all the smash lifers at it

otm

people scoff at intersectionality but, sorry haters, it's 2018 and our hero is an american gay black furry gamer

uh, N.K. Jemisin is on twitch, and she's streaming Nier: Automata at this very moment!!

https://www.twitch.tv/nkjemisin

she is currently holding forth on nier lore, and how it relates to an older game called Dragon Guard

sorry, that should be Drakengard

for those not in the know, jemisin just won her THIRD hugo award in a row, the first time that's ever happened

I am not in the know but will follow just because

I think twitch might be is the best way to experience system-heavy sims like rimworld btw. let some other poor bastard do the work of making the little computer people do the work. and if it's a video you can fast forward through the fast forward parts.