game-related lolz of some fashion

Yeah, he's playing amongst us on Twitch atm

this is a good and natural direction for dunkey

It did briefly have me contemplating what if that is his real voice.

he's still doing that voice on stream with himself on camera. too lazy to watch and see if he cracks

His 3 1/2 hour (!) "reaction" stream is like the funniest prolonged deadpan schtick I've seen in some time:

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/826010265

Like, when he's playing "guess which one's the magician" or whatever? Genius. I mean, come on:

https://www.twitch.tv/dunkstream/clip/AgitatedEnergeticPizzaRiPepperonis

it is hilarious and awful that the streamer watching someone else's content has become completely normalized already. so lazy. i suppose it's slightly better than those reaction videos where you couldn't see what they were watching...

this is great if he quits next week

it would be, but i do wonder what the 600th straight day of this kind of dunkey would be like. it could be amazing, it could be a personal disaster

It might make him rich but I would prefer a twenty minute cyberpunk piece

https://pippinbarr.github.io/combat-at-the-movies/

I've just been watching random bits of the Dunkey streams, but I saw yesterday during the "Drama Monday! (react)" stream that there is a clip of him reacting to a guy reacting to his video announcing this semi-satirical switch in streaming strategy. "There is such big drama with this guy ..." Or another bit where some hack hints that after talking about bunch of shitty games he's going to talk about Uncharted 4, and Dunkey gets excited, but then the guy starts talking about some other shitty game instead, and Dunkey is incredulous. "what the fuck!? this is gonna start a *big-ass* drama." This is like the Dunkey equivalent of Autechre releasing an 8-hour album.

I assume at some point he'll revert back to his usual videos. I imagine this prolonged bit works kind of like a pledge drive?

It’s obviously a put on but gotta be tempting to play through...

Sounds like a having-it-both-ways deal honestly - if his numbers actually do go up by pumping out garbage daily, why shouldn't he do it? Quick glance on Twitch shows his old videos at 30-60k, this past week's views at 100-200K.

Yep, I read a sad polygon thing on that yesterday. At least for now, he’s getting significantly more views

On YouTube, I mean

Because of the pandemic I'm watching a lot more YouTube this year. Still can't get on the Twitch lifestyle of actually hopping on at a certain time and watching someone goof for hours. Like, I could do that with actual RL friends over Zoom, maybe, but I don't know if I could make that sort of connection with a streamer. Greatly prefer the (admittedly rife with its own problems) YouTube ingestion

the only dunkey piece that features a quote from his wife: https://www.polygon.com/2020/12/7/22160005/dunkey-youtube-among-us-minecraft-trending

I've been trying to cut myself off from Twitch after getting a bit too sucked in over the last few months. It's kind of scary how compulsive it can get, especially when I don't feel like I have the energy for anything else. There's a monotony and narcotic quality about it that makes it a little too easy to consume.

There's now a video of that streamer reacting to Dunkey reacting to that streamer reacting to Dunkey.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIchMEqVwvg

https://i.ibb.co/Sr9DJQd/nancy.png

Seeing dunkey on camera is alarming

that famous disney short with sluggo and goofy

Seriously going further and further down the metahole:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrciXNtHIm8

apologies for all dunky all the time here but he's been good at alerting me to what youtube has become. this is like, actual people's GOALS IN LIFE now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4SMSCKOXO8

you took my sadness out of context
at the totino's fortnite training room

I know, I specifically resisted posting his review of the new KFC console.

holy shit

There is nothing sadder than the distillation of everything to "content." Like, there are names for literally everything they are calling "content," but the actual, er, content doesn't matter at all, it just has to take up space/time. "You know, during the pandemic I've been watching a lot of content, reading some content, but what I really want to do is write the Great American Content. A lot of people don't know this, but I actually have a degree in content from the Iowa content program."

Anyone else see the Times article from a week or so back about iirc Chinese real estate companies selling shares in reality TV etc. housing compounds, enticing investors with a piece of their revenue streams?

Yeah framing it as "content" like that always gave me a similar impression- like it's just indistinguishable stimulation-gruel poured unceremoniously into the trough that is youtube or twitch or whatever. This content vs that content? What does it matter? It's content; consume it. It's about quantity and there always needs to be a fresh supply. Nothing else really matters. The purpose of it is the same and about as scrutinized as cartoons to keep a toddler occupied or HGTV in a dentist's waiting room.

the "content" thing has been around for a long time now. for me, it's an extremely useful indicator of sorts - "content" people are fucking weird and definitely stay far away from them

That video is like willingly signing up for an ouroboros human centipede of content creation/consumption for $13/hr.

I'm just going through all of Vanessa Beyer's Totinos commercials on SNL

one of the few good things snl ever produced
MY HUNGRY GAMERS

i knew someone who got too wrapped up in his job and would say "product" over and over again and it drove me crazy. this "content" stuff reminds me of the same thing

also people who aren't game developers using "assets" when they're talking about art / environments

images as "assets" come up frequently outside of game development, too.

assess ass asset assimilation

sound familiar? this is corporate speak for "evaluate photos of butts for the big presentation". Thank me later- oh and congrats on that promotion ;)

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The guiltiest lol

"Steve made us go meet with Nintendo to see if they would consider being acquired. They just laughed their asses off. Like, imagine an hour of somebody just laughing at you. That was kind of how that meeting went."

Oral history of the Xbox by @dinabass: https://t.co/Wnqpe1Dje4

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Lol at Karl’s vid!

Love this too

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— Erik Fossum (@ErikFossum) January 6, 2021

Lol. Bear in mind this was also during maximum Square Soft "high on their own supply" era, during the Spirits Within and FFVII movies.

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haha! was always curious about Live a Live

live a live is cool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvFk8hapDZY