this is pretty nice, i picked a good year to finally try out prime
― ciderpress, Saturday, 1 October 2016 17:19 (seven years ago) link
best Twitch channel http://www.twitch.tv/bubblepuppets
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 01:56 (seven years ago) link
Desert Bus for Hope 10 is on.
https://www.twitch.tv/desertbus
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 13 November 2016 02:13 (seven years ago) link
lol
― am0n, Monday, 14 November 2016 03:50 (seven years ago) link
https://twitter.com/BadLayouts
― am0n, Sunday, 22 January 2017 17:49 (seven years ago) link
twitch is cool for poker streaming too
― k3vin k., Sunday, 22 January 2017 17:54 (seven years ago) link
wow some of those are phenomenal
I now tend to think of twitch streams like regular season sports broadcasts - well served being on in the background, sometimes it might be nice to have a producer with a replay option handy for when things accidentally get exciting
― The beaver is not the bad guy (El Tomboto), Sunday, 22 January 2017 18:58 (seven years ago) link
as if the subscriber support/donation shoutout circle-jerk wasn't enough of an abomination there is now 'cheering'
https://help.twitch.tv/customer/portal/articles/2449458
― am0n, Sunday, 22 January 2017 19:36 (seven years ago) link
i guess thats months old but i haven't noticed it shitting up things until now
― am0n, Sunday, 22 January 2017 19:39 (seven years ago) link
Streamers definitely have an interesting set of idiolects that they build up over time. I'm used to the weirdness of it now but I remember when I was first browsing streamers, flexing my eyebrows through almost the entire range of possible huh wtf ehh positions, it seemed so foreign and inexplicable.
Conversing with a chat window, inventing onomatopoeia for game events, all sorts of little semantic units for chat window stuff like the Twitch-specific emoji, etc. and these guys only talk to each other on Discord in chat room raids, so while there is a common dialect, it's perhaps more clearly of a collection of discrete idiolects than normal dialects seem to be.
― The beaver is not the bad guy (El Tomboto), Monday, 23 January 2017 04:08 (seven years ago) link
why does deadmauFive have a twitch channel of him just making bad logo animations in cinema 4d
god i hate twitch
― dollar general (am0n), Monday, 6 February 2017 03:57 (seven years ago) link
TVGBadger totally made me get Sunless Sea for the iPad
― Not the real Tombot (El Tomboto), Friday, 24 March 2017 15:48 (seven years ago) link
FailBetter and Re-Logic owe that dude money
― Not the real Tombot (El Tomboto), Friday, 24 March 2017 15:50 (seven years ago) link
sunless sea is great but i had to abruptly stop playing when i lost the essential, copious notes i was keeping when my laptop got wrecked. i don't think i could ever go back. tip: make copious notes, they will be essential
― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 24 March 2017 15:58 (seven years ago) link
what the fuck is this
https://www.twitch.tv/directory/game/IRL
― El Tomboto, Monday, 24 April 2017 00:27 (seven years ago) link
thats been up for a while as a catch-all tag, ever since they okayed streaming things other than video game content
― ciderpress, Monday, 24 April 2017 00:33 (seven years ago) link
I think I just never noticed it on the browse by game page before. yeesh
― El Tomboto, Monday, 24 April 2017 03:06 (seven years ago) link
these battle royale games got so popular so quickly
― ciderpress, Thursday, 11 May 2017 20:01 (six years ago) link
one of those things that's kinda surprising it hadn't been done long ago but i guess developing netcode that can support 100 players one one map smoothly isn't trivial
― ciderpress, Thursday, 11 May 2017 20:04 (six years ago) link
i keep seeing this mentioned but no idea what it is. what's the tl;dr?
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 11 May 2017 20:08 (six years ago) link
player unknown's battlegrounds
it actually looks really fun, i wish i had a pc
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 11 May 2017 20:15 (six years ago) link
you start out by parachuting out of a helicopter to your choice of location on a giant map, which in itself a cool way to start. you can be on small teams or by yourself (i think). the map is really large and has different areas with different pros and cons as starting spots. as time goes on, the map gradually shrinks as players outside of the shrinking circle start to take damage. this has the effect of ratcheting up the action as the overall number of players dwindles and the surviving, better players start to converge on each other, until at the end the map is very small and it turns into a tactical squad based (or solo) shooter.
it's fun just to watch, tbh, if you can find a good stream where the person shuts the fuck up
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 11 May 2017 20:18 (six years ago) link
xp i think they're planning to do it on consoles too, it's still in early access though so that could be a ways off
― ciderpress, Thursday, 11 May 2017 20:25 (six years ago) link
i'm normally bored to death by shooters but have really enjoyed watching this so i guess i'm not surprised that it's putting up huge twitch numbers
― ciderpress, Thursday, 11 May 2017 20:27 (six years ago) link
sounds interesting ty
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 11 May 2017 20:30 (six 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 (six 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 (six 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 (six 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 (six 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 (six 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 (six years ago) link
Sheriff Eli
https://www.twitch.tv/sheriffeli
― sleepingbag, Saturday, 20 May 2017 00:42 (six 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 (six years ago) link
bizarre! how are they doing this, GTA V online multiplayer?
― Nhex, Monday, 22 May 2017 18:37 (six years ago) link
yeah GTA5 online roleplay
― ciderpress, Monday, 22 May 2017 20:19 (six 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
Fuck these people.
― gyac, Saturday, 7 May 2022 15:29 (one year ago) link
The whole Good Guy Johnny Depp internet phenomenon around this thing is some of the cringiest shit it the world.
― circa1916, Saturday, 7 May 2022 18:02 (one year ago) link
It’s pretty disturbing and upsetting. I have no idea why people are so fond of this guy.
― gyac, Saturday, 7 May 2022 18:02 (one year ago) link
they liked him in the movies and people think movies are real now
― ciderpress, Saturday, 7 May 2022 18:08 (one year ago) link
That was a rhetorical question. I know why.
― gyac, Saturday, 7 May 2022 18:19 (one year ago) link
i don't follow the twitch streamer scene at all, and have just barely followed the Amouranth saga. i just think this, in isolation is a funny tweet
I played more overwatch than I did hot tub. That’s NEVER HAPPENED— Kaitlyn (@wildkait) November 27, 2022
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 12 January 2023 19:23 (one year ago) link