Everybody on ILG complains about Twitch

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.

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.