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CafePress is a website where any idiot can upload a .png file and they automatically put it on a bunch of products like T-Shirts, thongs, and mugs. It's not like he called up a bunch of thong manufacturers to make this. Did you know that I'M A BELIEBER and RESISTANCE IS FUTILE?
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Well, DSP underwear is the last thing I expected to see. In Chuggaaconroy's Super Paper Mario videos he read out all the text until the finale where he stopped and just let the game speak for itself. So, he realizes that reading the dialog can detract from the experience but he does it anyway. I just don't like how people feel that there's an obligation to do this stuff. Boxturret fucked around with this message at 22:28 on Oct 20, 2013 |
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bobjr posted:I honestly do wonder how a professional style interview with DSP would go, because I couldn't see him lasting 3 questions without him getting pissy over something. "How am I supposed to know the answers to these questions?! You never said you'd be asking questions! This is bullshit!"
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I personally don't mind text being read out loud; I usually have LPs on as background noise for work, so if there is Plot going on, I don't want to have to stop what I'm doing to read textboxes myself. Silly voices I'm more borderline about, I think it depends on what mood I'm in. When I'm happy I'm more tolerant of it.
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JordanKai posted:Game Grumps playing a game on the OUYA. You're unsubscribing because they're playing the one game on the Ouya that's actually considered good?
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miscellaneous14 posted:You're unsubscribing because they're playing the one game on the Ouya that's actually considered good? You don't understand. They have touched an OUYA. They are now tainted.
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My god, I should have known. By tomorrow's episode, the transformation will be complete, and we'll hear two Julie Uhrmans talking about how great the Ouya 2 will be. e: And they'll still get lost trying to play Sonic '06. miscellaneous14 fucked around with this message at 01:55 on Oct 21, 2013 |
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I subscribed to them just to unsubscribe. No, wait, I'm an adult and I didn't do that.
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A taste of what's to come: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSMGEa4gFnY
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I recommended Spooky a few pages back, and he's starting another LP right now, a Golgo 13 LP, in fact. Spooky is the chillest motherfucker ever.
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TaurusOxford posted:A taste of what's to come: This seems like such the typical Cage game. You get one, maybe two good sequences, like the surprisingly robust Carrie simulator here, and then the rest of the game is the most boring horseshit. I hope they play the whole thing.
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That pseudo-dump of Long Live The Queen someone did reminded me of the BackwardCompatibles - they're a couple episodes into what I assume will be a single attempt at that game. They said at one point their job is making cosplay costumes, so if they're ever dressed up for videos/intros that's why. I'm not exactly sure what you guys would think of them as they do sometimes flash to a facecam, and aren't usually super informative, but on the flip side Allison usually knows the game they're playing fairly well. They usually do one-offs though, not full LPs (plus other miscellaneous stuff).
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I think I've just found the dumbest facecam video ever. I found a facecam LP of a Cooking Mama game! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTbppOi5Ae4
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IceAgeComing posted:I think I've just found the dumbest facecam video ever. I found a facecam LP of a Cooking Mama game! Why do these people always overact every little thing? They act impressed by everything that occurs in the game. The title screen pops up and you would think a miracle was just performed judging by the guys reaction.
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Dartigan posted:Why do these people always overact every little thing? They act impressed by everything that occurs in the game. The title screen pops up and you would think a miracle was just performed judging by the guys reaction. I think there's a "me too!" kind of thing, at the core of it. Internet media, pretty much since its infancy with AVGN, has largely been characterized by loud, shouty overreaction. Some people make it work, and others see that and think "that's funny" and do it themselves, whether they're good at it or not. Reinforcing it is the fact that there's a certain writing style associated with geek and nerd culture, exemplified by things like Cracked and The Oatmeal, which tries to give a kind of grandiosity to every little thing ("Isn't that so loving cool!?!?!"), and the overreacting video persona is a kind of offshoot of that in some ways Plus when you can't act the easiest way to pretend is to overreact
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Vicas posted:Plus when you can't act the easiest way to pretend is to overreact It's this in a nutshell, people thinking that volume is an effective substitute for personality. Like the self-professed "weird people" in high school who thought that going around reciting Monty Python quotes in a British accent and randomly shouting "Spork!" was the height of wit. In high school you can be forgiven for that because everyone in high school is a dumb rear end in a top hat. Some people never move on from that point, though.
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That thumbnail makes me irrationally angry for some reason. Then again nearly any video where the thumbnail has their "wacky" face plastered all over it is annoying to see. That's really the most pointless thing.
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I agree that that's a huge factor, but I think the first paragraph I wrote provides an environment that encourages the behavior. It's so easy to find examples of successful people whose gimmick is mostly yelling, so it makes people think that'll get them more views as well. Sort of like how after That Guy With The Glasses got big there were a billion reviewers of incredibly niche media whose "shows" all had the exact same format (awful skits and all)
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I think the problem comes in three steps: First, an LPer gets praise for whatever's genuinely unique about him ("You always sound so enthusiastic, I love it"). This is fine. Second, that LPer realizes he can get more praise just by stepping it up, and up, and up; soon, it's become an expected gimmick ("If I don't talk like a game show host, people think I'm depressed; I guess this is what I do now"). This is...silly, but kind of human nature. And third, new LPers see the end result of that echo chamber - a gimmicky, one-note character with a surprising follower count (because they came along for the whole ride and contributed to the problem, not because this mess is anything good) - and decide to imitate it from Day One, without the first guy's self-awareness about it. This is stupid. Then that ridiculous baseline becomes their Step 1, and it gets even worse for the next 'generation'... Sorites fucked around with this message at 17:00 on Oct 21, 2013 |
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Vicas posted:I agree that that's a huge factor, but I think the first paragraph I wrote provides an environment that encourages the behavior. It's so easy to find examples of successful people whose gimmick is mostly yelling, so it makes people think that'll get them more views as well. Sort of like how after That Guy With The Glasses got big there were a billion reviewers of incredibly niche media whose "shows" all had the exact same format (awful skits and all) No, I agree that the echo chamber effect is definitely a part of it, but I somehow think that even without that environment we would still inevitably see people making LP videos featuring themselves spazzing out and shrieking because not everybody who does that needs encouragement to behave that way, that's just the way they are and the internet gives them a platform to be themselves in a way that they can't in their day-to-day life.
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miscellaneous14 posted:You're unsubscribing because they're playing the one game on the Ouya that's actually considered good? I thought I was very clearly joking but I guess  doesn't mean the same thing to others as it does to me.
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IceAgeComing posted:I think I've just found the dumbest facecam video ever. I found a facecam LP of a Cooking Mama game! I may be in the minority here, but I don't think this was THAT bad. The voices and reactions were over the top, but there's clearly SOME effort here. There's sporadic editing, and the facecam is probably the least obtrusive facecam I've ever seen. Does that make it good? No, not really. But it does show at least SOME potential, which I feel should be recognized.
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I also guess of all games to face cam, Cooking Mama makes a lot of sense, if only for the "haha guys seriously does what I'm doing look anything like cooking" angle
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IceAgeComing posted:I think I've just found the dumbest facecam video ever. I found a facecam LP of a Cooking Mama game! It's one thing to do "goofy" voices, but it's another when you decide to film your face doing said voices it just makes you look really awkward. Wait a minute, the oddly shaped scarecam, the blurry footage that serves as a border, the jump cuts; is this the same guy featured in the latest Retsupurae video? Edit: Going to his channel already answered my question. Combat Lobster fucked around with this message at 17:45 on Oct 21, 2013 |
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Sorites posted:Second, that LPer realizes he can get more praise just by stepping it up, and up, and up; soon, it's become an expected gimmick ("If I don't talk like a game show host, people think I'm depressed; I guess this is what I do now"). This is...silly, but kind of human nature. I've seen so much evidence of relatively unknown LPers that get caught doing this in particular, and it's odd when you can tell right away it's not who they actually are. When you have somebody who is otherwise a reserved and quiet individual, and they switch personalities Dr Jekyll/Mr Hyde style, it's uncomfortable at least, and borderline earache-inducing at worst.
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Combat Lobster posted:It's one thing to do "goofy" voices, but it's another when you decide to film your face doing said voices it just makes you look really awkward. Wait a minute, the oddly shaped scarecam, the blurry footage that serves as a border, the jump cuts; is this the same guy featured in the latest Retsupurae video? ...turns out it is! I'll give him a little credit; he seems to edit the location of the facecam so it doesn't block anything that happens in the game. The video in the Retsupurae is better because the guy literally edits out all the silence between him talking; to a much greater extent than he does in the Cooking Mama one. I'll link to the retsupurae, because it shows it off much better than me! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EdXHMgeoVs IceAgeComing fucked around with this message at 17:48 on Oct 21, 2013 |
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Did I miss a video, or some back story, or is it just sheer luck that NintendoCapriSun hasn't been featured in RPs?
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SelenicMartian posted:Did I miss a video, or some back story, or is it just sheer luck that NintendoCapriSun hasn't been featured in RPs? He's been mentioned in a RP, and that's about it from what I can remember. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpMUdQAFyaM&feature=player_detailpage - 4:48 Edit: \/\/\/ - SirRonLionHeart - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm1IBHlI-Og TaurusOxford fucked around with this message at 18:15 on Oct 21, 2013 |
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So on the topic of goofy voices, what was the weirdest one that you've ever heard? I wish I could find this video again but there was some guy that was doing a wacky clown voice. On all his videos. It kind of blew my mind because I would never think the wacky clown voice as a selling point. And I assume unless he got bitten by a radioactive clown, then he had to be purposely doing that voice as a selling point. Are there some other crazy voices out there that I should experience at least once? edit: ^^^^^ Hah, what voice is that? I guess, Triumph, the insult dog, and an Eastern European accent? VivaVizer fucked around with this message at 18:23 on Oct 21, 2013 |
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SirRonLionHeart always sounded like Enrique from King of the Hill finding his one true calling and I love it.
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IceAgeComing posted:I think I've just found the dumbest facecam video ever. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1gZHqL8Hb4 We now live in a world with facecams without faces. (Though I'm fairly certain this is a contractual thing by the makers of Oculus Rift.)
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SelenicMartian posted:Did I miss a video, or some back story, or is it just sheer luck that NintendoCapriSun hasn't been featured in RPs? Searching Google for Retsupurae Nintendocaprisun gets what I think is a recording of one of the livestreams they did a few years back where they riffed on him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTXTBMd039o
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Sorites posted:First, an LPer gets praise for whatever's genuinely unique about him ("You always sound so enthusiastic, I love it"). This is fine. I was actually a bit concerned about this for my own LPs. My first LP was Wolfenstein 2009, in which everyone agreed that my LP had gone from "good" to "amazing" in the 6th video when I got the Particle Cannon and proceeded to spend five minutes vaporizing Nazis while laughing maniacally. I was complimented for being one few people able to pull off a genuine maniacal laugh. The problem: the game features several other spectacular weapons such as a Tesla Gun, flamethrower and and a plasma cannon that skeletonises people. When I get those weapons should I similarly go on a rampage and laugh maniacally? Is that gonna be "my thing"? I didn't want to start artificially forcing a sadistic insane persona to gain video views. Either the game actually makes me want to cackle like a madman, or it doesn't, I'm not going to force it. Instead for the Tesla Gun I decided to go on a rampage while quipping a series of cheesy Schwarzenegger-style electricity gags (some of them my own, some of them inspired by Red Alert's Tesla Troopers). That also went down well. But for the flamethrower and skeltonising plasma cannon I decided to just do some montages of going on a rampage while accompanied by some appropriate music. Maybe I'd have gotten more comments or likes etc by acting mad or doing more bad one-liners but I knew that if I went down that road it would become expected from my audience. Thankfully I've found the quiet chuckles I naturally make when incinerating or exploding enemies are enough to satisfy the expected sadism quota.
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Saagonsa posted:Searching Google for Retsupurae Nintendocaprisun gets what I think is a recording of one of the livestreams they did a few years back where they riffed on him. His early works include a 100-part camcorder LP of FF6, and, going by the playlist thumbnails, he stopped filming at an angle only in the last 6 videos or so. He has a blind LP of some Pokemon and a solo LP of Mario Party 2. His Yoshi's Story LP carries a high risk of giving you a lobotomy through incessant repetition of "So happy!". When I last watched him (more than a year ago), the normal commentary included burping into the mike, reading all the texts, telling stories about his sister and his old jobs, and also picking a spot in the game and telling the viewer, that he would sleep there. I think, at some point he explained, that as a kid he used to sleep in front of his TV with a game running and his character just standing somewhere nice. He may or may not cut out the "searching for collectibles" bits - usually he keeps them long enough for the boredom to creep in, and then cuts to reinforce the Stockholm Syndrome in the audience. 22 videos into the LP of the third SNES Donkey Kong game, which spontaneously turned into a semi-blind 100% run, he comments in the description: "I'm starting to think maybe I'm showing too much of levels I've obviously already played so maybe in the future I'll try and cut back on that. The only tough part is figuring out where to cut the commentary if I happen to be on some subject and I'm just railing on it." Sometimes I think he does it on purpose. The fans requested an LP of Donkey Kong 64 at one point, and for their sins he gave them one. It's a gem of droning. In the description to Part 3 out of 73 he wrote: "Man, this is already kinda painful to watch how slowly I wade through this stuff. I'm getting better though!" Part 29: "Yet again we start wandering off the subject while mindlessly walking around this world, and I guess we get a banana at some point." Part 68: "We have more than a few brain farts here, but progress is made.. somehow." Even his N64 controllers tried to stop him from recording, through heroic suicide ad malfunctions.
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I really wish the overreactions and 'funny' voices fad would die off. I mean look at some of pewdiepie's old videos. He didn't use to put on the act that he does now. Granted his vids still weren't that great back then either but they weren't obnoxious. He was just being himself but then he started putting on a weird accent and it got him a ton of views and there has been no looking back since.
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SelenicMartian posted:Even his N64 controllers tried to stop him from recording, through heroic suicide ad malfunctions. Gotta love when hardware tries to kill your LP. On another note, his Youtube Wikia page is really poorly formatted and has a collection of his "best lines" and "quotes." Read those if you are pretty ok with hating yourself and everyone around you. http://youtube.wikia.com/wiki/NintendoCapriSun
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Lazyfire posted:Read those if you are pretty ok with hating yourself and everyone around you. Oh, the first paragraph is already a  quote:a popular Let's Player on YouTube, best known for his bathroom humor
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