sounds interesting ty
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 11 May 2017 20:30 (seven years ago) link
yeah, it's also interesting to watch because it seems like there are a variety of ways to play it and it doesn't seem like a particular approach is optimized yet. it's a new spin on the genre and it seems like new strategies are popping up in response. i guess i've only watched about 6-7 full games so maybe i'm totally wrong there. but i'm still enjoying the feeling of watching people pioneer new ways to play. and also just watching people goof off, i like that too.
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 11 May 2017 20:45 (seven years ago) link
one of my favorite streamers has been offline for a month. sad!!
― your cognitive privilege (El Tomboto), Thursday, 11 May 2017 23:58 (seven years ago) link
Last night I realized that I get a free Twitch Prime account with my Amazon prime account. The only apparent benefits are I get a special icon by my name that everyone else has, and also I get a free $5 subscription that I can give out each month. I used mine on the ninja garden cowboy because I love that guy. Spin and win!
― Karl Malone, Friday, 12 May 2017 00:11 (seven years ago) link
yeah i just throw my free subscription months to various people i like who don't seem to have a ton of viewers/income
― ciderpress, Friday, 12 May 2017 01:07 (seven years ago) link
you also get free stuff, usually its just skins/DLC for various games but sometimes there's actual games in there. I just claimed a free copy of Oxenfree from mine. not sure if its the same for everyone or different.
― ciderpress, Friday, 12 May 2017 01:12 (seven years ago) link
(you have to install their desktop app to play the free games is the caveat. doesn't seem too bad though?)
― ciderpress, Friday, 12 May 2017 01:14 (seven years ago) link
Sheriff Eli
https://www.twitch.tv/sheriffeli
― sleepingbag, Saturday, 20 May 2017 00:42 (seven years ago) link
^^^^ live right now. possibly the best thing i've seen on twitch ever? ex-cop basically just doing policework in gta. amazing.
― sleepingbag, Monday, 22 May 2017 18:29 (seven years ago) link
bizarre! how are they doing this, GTA V online multiplayer?
― Nhex, Monday, 22 May 2017 18:37 (seven years ago) link
yeah GTA5 online roleplay
― ciderpress, Monday, 22 May 2017 20:19 (seven years ago) link
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.
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 8 July 2017 03:31 (six years ago) link
I just realized all the people I follow, at least the ones who use a cam, have great hair.
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 15 July 2017 20:33 (six years ago) link
selection bias
― ciderpress, Saturday, 15 July 2017 20:44 (six years ago) link
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
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 15 July 2017 20:47 (six years ago) link
http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2017/08/11/harassment-livestreams-on-twitch-are-multiplying-and-easy-to-find
seems like a healthy development
― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 11 August 2017 17:22 (six years ago) link
Can't afford to ban paying customers, you know, those rape-threateners are some of our biggest bit buyers, see
― As an ilxor, I am uncompromising (El Tomboto), Friday, 11 August 2017 17:35 (six years ago) link
Watching people nearly piss themselves playing Nidhogg II without having to have roommates is why this was invented
― As an ilxor, I am uncompromising (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 03:52 (six years ago) link
working on my marble madness record attempt at https://www.twitch.tv/weinventyou
― Karl Malone, Monday, 28 August 2017 00:11 (six years ago) link
go ZS!!
― El Tomboto, Monday, 28 August 2017 00:18 (six years ago) link
I just sent you my first ever twitch chat
― El Tomboto, Monday, 28 August 2017 00:19 (six years ago) link
that was fun!
― Karl Malone, Monday, 28 August 2017 01:06 (six years ago) link
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 3startropicsmario lost levelssonic 2
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 29 August 2017 01:24 (six years ago) link
karl my wife is a dark souls fanatic, do you ever twitch it?
― harbinger of failure (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 29 August 2017 14:23 (six years ago) link
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
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 29 August 2017 14:42 (six years ago) link
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.
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 29 August 2017 17:39 (six years ago) link
it's been forever but i LOVED startropics back in the day
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Tuesday, 29 August 2017 17:43 (six years ago) link
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.
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 29 August 2017 17:44 (six years ago) link
i believe it was a 9 on my listForks' video game rating sytem POLL
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Tuesday, 29 August 2017 17:46 (six years ago) link
lol
that's above "worth taking from little kid" level!
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 29 August 2017 17:47 (six years ago) link
but juuust short of deadly force authorization
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 29 August 2017 17:48 (six years ago) link
yeah, don't get your hopes up TOO high
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Tuesday, 29 August 2017 18:13 (six years ago) link
changing gears and working on an extremely tedious 100-frame loop based on the samuel beckett play Quad
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 02:18 (six years ago) link
oh boy
https://www.twitch.tv/danielfromsl
― 👁 (am0n), Tuesday, 5 September 2017 23:10 (six years ago) link
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.
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 14 October 2017 04:48 (six years ago) link
i like https://www.twitch.tv/endgameblues
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 05:25 (six years ago) link
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
― sleepingbag, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 05:30 (six years ago) link
touching up makeup on stream while waiting for a HOTS matchup to start: I really respect this, after some of thinkin baout
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 14 December 2017 04:46 (six years ago) link
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
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 14 December 2017 04:53 (six years ago) link
how long until "monkaS" is in webster's
― am0n, Thursday, 14 December 2017 18:29 (six years ago) link
Karl Malone just waved his hand between a book cover and a camera for an hour and a half?
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 27 January 2018 21:41 (six years ago) link
Classic Karl Malone :)
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Saturday, 27 January 2018 21:43 (six years ago) link
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.
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 27 January 2018 22:05 (six years ago) link
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
― i remember the corned beef of my childhood (Karl Malone), Friday, 23 February 2018 03:40 (six years ago) link
http://ew.com/gaming/2018/03/15/drake-broke-a-viewing-record-when-he-played-fortnite-on-twitch/
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 15 March 2018 13:03 (six years ago) link
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”
― the late great, Thursday, 22 March 2018 01:22 (six years ago) link
like, in unison, or is that just the best one according to you? it's pretty good
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 22 March 2018 01:29 (six years ago) link
nah one of them said it and everyone else agreed
― the late great, Thursday, 22 March 2018 02:25 (six years ago) link
what, that doesn't sound right at all.
― Nhex, Thursday, 22 March 2018 02:33 (six years ago) link