Everybody on ILG complains about Twitch

old jrpgs basically require you to read a guide to 100% them, they're not designed for it to naturally happen in a single playthrough

yeah, i'm definitely not trying to 100% it. i'll be happy if i just don't make an ass out of myself on 50% of the puzzles. i'm enjoying the game so far! and it's a good choice for me, because howlongtobeat.com suggests it will only be around 20 hours long. i completed the last of the five towers before stopping yesterday, which seemed like an intro. looking forward to getting to the main quest today, after i finish eating lunch!

I'm glad to see Trihex got unbanned (background - https://kotaku.com/streamer-trihex-apologizes-for-homophobic-slur-after-tw-1829604490)

Karl have you streamed any more Terranigma? I was really enjoying your playthrough. I guess I should just check in more often.

We should also use this thread to share streamers we find ourselves going back to and following -zoeyproasheck is priceless imo

I've also been enjoying dozing off to disnof while he curses and complains in his implacable southern-ish accent about the only game he ever seems to play, good 'ol rimworld

i've thought about doing some streams for friends now that i live alone with fast internet, probably won't have time until closer to the holidays though

I’d tune in

Jesse reviews a Black Ops 4 toilet amidst heavy gunfire pic.twitter.com/Ajt8JHMsCE

— The Go Off Kings (@GoOffKings) October 14, 2018

like maybe...lufia or something? i'm open to that too

have very fond memories of lufia 2 and how FAST it felt. the walking animations, the text scrolling, the random battles... it all felt like it was blazing by 2x the speed of some comparable j-rpg from the era. probably 3x faster than something from the ps2 era. I should play this again.

JF is doing God's work

listening to AOC talk about politics with a disheveled man in the process of hitting hour 50 of streaming himself playing donkey kong 64 without any sleep is probably one of the craziest things i've ever experienced

— friedrich nichijou (@levarburzum) January 20, 2019

So glad millennials are good now

I’m old as fuck and I love twitch!

Hbomb raising so much money/awareness for Mermaids through this stream is so fucking heartening, honestly.

Yeah. I hadn't heard of the charity. Seems like they are good?

Is DK64 really this long of a game?

if you try to do 100% without a guide yeah, it's filler collectibles hell, there's like thousands of bananas and other little things to get

lol at twitch today

"Lost Bet - Watching AYAYA for 10 Hours"
http://i64.tinypic.com/o5upna.png

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/977822609/break-the-game-the-documentary

Narcissa <3<3<3

after a certain point, the relaxing vibe of watching a chill streamer gets destroyed when they spend 10 minutes splitting hairs over which magic wand to pick in the latest cool roguelite that's making the rounds. PICK SOMETHING AND PRESS D

more generally than that - having to reckon with the fact that fairly entertaining streamers of the non-shouting variety can also be dumb is a disappointment I'm still not completely used to. This person is funny! They're engaging! They don't scream all the time to keep their chat engaged! Oh. Oh. They're kinda dumb. Oh, that's why they have a Patreon for this. Uff da.

I still enjoy Twitch from time to time when the right games are on.

I also shouldn't judge people for not having the level of education or reading & arithmetic capacity that I do. It does drive me up the wall sometimes, because I refuse to join chat and help.

This seems cool! https://www.polygon.com/2020/3/13/21178447/zelda-breath-of-the-wild-twitch-plays-pointcrow-nintendo-switch

i'm gonna stream in a bit! like, probably in 30 minutes to an hour from now. i will be playing some old emulated game. if anyone has a "request" i'll do that, but otherwise i might just gravitate toward a comfort food game that i know well, like SMB3 or something. or maybe i'll play a simulation game that i always wanted to rent from blockbuster when i was a kid, but never played: Aerobiz

ALSO: NEW "FEATURE": if you want, you can join the #twitch channel on the ilx slack. that way if you feel like making fun of me or other ilxors who stream, but don't want to sign up for twitch to do so, you can instead sign up for slack to do so

https://join.slack.com/t/poxyfule/shared_invite/zt-csm19k0n-P_w0mauC3_sXUXus~TI0mw

(that's not Sic-bait, that's real)

ok, it's finally happening

i'm playing Aerobiz.com
https://www.twitch.tv/weinventyou

ninja gaiden now, predictably

i went bankrupt

Figured this might be the right thread to ask, since some of you guys already seem into the process.
Thinking about pulling the trigger and buying the hardware and such to do streams/game capture. Particularly retro capture for short form videos, but it seems like live streaming is what people mostly do nowadays. Working with an iMac. Is it worth biting the bullet and buying a juicy PC?

Seems like a lot of opinions and options, from my googling. What's the good hardware/software packages - streaming, editing, recording, mics, cameras, etc - for this sorta thing in 2020? A lagless HDMI passthrough box? Etc etc. so was looking to hear from people who have done it.

1. https://obsproject.com/

i have a macbook pro, and have used OBS to attempt to stream on twitch (ask anyone who has ever had the misfortune of watching me try to stream an emulated NES or SNES game). i have horrible luck, insane bugs, bad and inconsistent performance. it seems optimized to work on a PC, not a mac, and pretty much all the online help/troubleshooting you can find is PC-specific.

oopa, meant to put that sad parenthetical after the second sentence

I bought a 4K capture card (4K60 S+) from ElGato and then realized it doesn't work with MacOS. So I installed bootcamp/OBS (shrug emoji), and it works fine. It also lets you capture video straight to SD card, which is fine for capturing gameplay, but doesn't work for streaming.

I emailed ElGato to see if they planned to support MacOS in the future, but the CS agent didn't know, and of course doesn't have any access to their roadmap.

thx for the input, some stuff to chew on

4k60 would probably be a good target for next gen consoles

My favorite rimworld streamer discovered terraria and is now on hour 23 of his hardcore stream

Logic retiring from music to be a 7-figure Twitch streamer is definitely a weird development and probably some kind of harbinger for something or other
https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/20/21327589/logic-twitch-signing-deal-exclusive-partnership

Can say with some inside knowledge that a number of big-name artists reached out to Twitch as the pandemic hit to start streaming. The team that runs Twitch Music was going pretty nuts about the prospect, at the cost of supporting many Twitch Music creators that have been on the platform for years. There are a couple voices in the company doing the right thing and trying to use these these artists as opportunities to boost some of the dedicated Twitch creators that have been around a long time.

We'll see how it pans out.

i may try to stream Hades a bit tonight, if anyone's interested. my playing ability is in that uncomfortable zone where i'm nowhere close to being "good" at it, but i can get through the game most times without too much difficulty.

last time i tried to stream was a nightmare, though, in terms of the connection and the video quality. streaming from a mac is fucking hard!

has anyone else here streamed a game from a mac? what did you use? OBS? is there anything better? it's always the sound that is the true nightmare - splitting the game audio from the microphone volume is surprisingly complicated.

Happy to see Twitch has listened to everyone who shared feedback and removed the “Blind Playthrough” tag to encourage more inclusive language for our community.

You can still use “First Playthrough” or opt to use it in combination with "No Spoilers" for the same sentiment. 💜

— Aureylian △⃒⃘ (@aureylian) December 4, 2020

Next up: blind spot, blind alley, double-blind, blind date, turning a blind eye, etc.

lame

glad they did that

other than it being uncool because it's p.c., changing the category name has literally zero negative effects on anything

Exactly.

It undermines the credibility of campaigns aimed at furthering inclusive language so in that sense, yes, it does have negative effects. 'Blind playthrough' was never a slur or even a mildly pejorative expression: it's not a 'bad' thing to go in blind when you're starting a new game – on the contrary, it enhances the experience.

They’re “happy to see” that? Way to rub it in

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.