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The Vosgian Beast posted:I don't think the fandom is as bad as he says it is It is much worse than I say it is. DkS hardcore fans are obnoxious as poo poo.
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slowbeef posted:It is much worse than I say it is. DkS hardcore fans are obnoxious as poo poo. Any hardcore fans are poo poo, no matter what the game. You're just stuck deeeeeeeeeeeep in the no mans land of DS fandom right now.
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# ? Jun 11, 2014 03:40 |
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It's really weird looking at Dks footage after having gotten used to how Dks2 is.
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# ? Jun 11, 2014 03:48 |
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I'm sure making videos and dealing with commenters makes it worse too. Also there are probably people who message just to send "Why the gently caress did you do X I didn't do that on my first time I didn't even get hit" and I bet that gets tiring over time.
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# ? Jun 11, 2014 03:59 |
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slowbeef posted:It is much worse than I say it is. DkS hardcore fans are obnoxious as poo poo. I was going to say that my experiences with the thread on SA are positive, then I realized I stopped visiting that thread because 20% was funny/informative stuff and 80% was absurdly stupid arguments. You win this round, Slowbeef.
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# ? Jun 11, 2014 04:18 |
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bobjr posted:I'm sure making videos and dealing with commenters makes it worse too. Also there are probably people who message just to send "Why the gently caress did you do X I didn't do that on my first time I didn't even get hit" and I bet that gets tiring over time. That's like the tip of the iceberg. One guy got mad at me for downvoting a Praise the Sun message because "what if you were playing the game in character?"
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# ? Jun 11, 2014 04:26 |
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slowbeef posted:That's like the tip of the iceberg. One guy got mad at me for downvoting a Praise the Sun message because "what if you were playing the game in character?" Fun fact: a message's rating is the number of votes it has received, both negative and positive, with only the miracle Guidance revealing how many of each.
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# ? Jun 11, 2014 04:31 |
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SnakemanMn posted:Let me propose a formula for you all. I feel like the formula could use even more quotation marks and lacklusters. Though with such hits as "Miley Cyrus Plays Minecraft" (1.1 million views) and "Fart Battle" (1.7 million views), I'm waiting for Matthew Lesko to make commercials for YouTube.
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# ? Jun 11, 2014 05:43 |
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Are they just being obnoxious twats saying he's bad at Dark Souls? Sounds like a awful lot of youtube commenters.
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# ? Jun 11, 2014 12:29 |
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Golden Goat posted:Are they just being obnoxious twats saying he's bad at Dark Souls? Sounds like a awful lot of youtube commenters. Dark Souls has a very vocal elitist subsection of its fanbase. If you don't do something exactly like they would or you're not optimal enough then they'll poo poo all over you.
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# ? Jun 11, 2014 12:32 |
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You parry the final boss: Worst player ever omfg, so cheap. kill yourself. You did not parry the final boss: Scrub, go back to farville. The Dark Souls community is horrible.
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# ? Jun 11, 2014 12:36 |
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This section is somewhat badly designed??!?!?!?! No, you're just bad at Dark Souls!
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# ? Jun 11, 2014 12:36 |
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slowbeef posted:That's like the tip of the iceberg. One guy got mad at me for downvoting a Praise the Sun message because "what if you were playing the game in character?" In character i always kill Solaire because i'm tired of his poo poo
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# ? Jun 11, 2014 12:39 |
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Suspicious Dish posted:This section is somewhat badly designed??!?!?!?! No, you're just bad at Dark Souls! Zedd posted:You parry the final boss: Worst player ever omfg, so cheap. kill yourself. Okay yeah that's pretty loving stupid when the game has a bunch of valid ways to go about sections and it can be pretty lovely at times.
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# ? Jun 11, 2014 12:40 |
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HOOLY BOOLY posted:In character i always kill Solaire because i'm tired of his poo poo The correct way to do it is kill him and then take all your stuff back since you are the real Solaire.
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# ? Jun 11, 2014 12:43 |
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My favorite dark souls thing is people talking about shields, a central gameplay aspect, being a crutch and you're a scrub if you use such weak-rear end moves like blocking.
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# ? Jun 11, 2014 13:18 |
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Testekill posted:Dark Souls has a very vocal elitist subsection of its fanbase. If you don't do something exactly like they would or you're not optimal enough then they'll poo poo all over you. That time he got stabbed by the sentinel through the fog door and then one shotted while stun locked by Orenstien was one of those funny design and level layout quirks that people proceeded to say was his fault and not a problem with the game at all because the game is perfect. I am so glad I'm not one of those people.
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# ? Jun 11, 2014 13:26 |
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Testekill posted:Dark Souls has a very vocal elitist subsection of its fanbase. If you don't do something exactly like they would or you're not optimal enough then they'll poo poo all over you. Exactly this. So many people were trying to backseat game 'Beef during the entire LP, and making sure he doesn't miss a single thing. I don't know why, because Dark Souls encourages multiple playthroughs. The comments about the lore, though...seriously? I think a point was proven with the last video, though: It's the most disliked video in the playthrough. I think the fanbase worries that LPers won't enjoy the game if they don't know where everything is, or can't find the obscure lore, because I've seen a few Dark Souls LPs on YouTube with the comment section being nothing but backseat gamers. Lazyfire posted:That time he got stabbed by the sentinel through the fog door and then one shotted while stun locked by Orenstien was one of those funny design and level layout quirks that people proceeded to say was his fault and not a problem with the game at all because the game is perfect. Still can't get over how upset people were over one of the most hilarious things I've ever seen Dark Souls related. SnakemanNm posted:Well, I have come bearing the answer. If you took all of that, followed it word for word, and put it into practice, you will come to see that your channel will be incredibly successful, with 800k+ subscribers. I'll never understand why Minecraft channels like this are so popular. Plenty of these videos have millions of views. RSCNyx fucked around with this message at 14:07 on Jun 11, 2014 |
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a cartoon duck posted:My favorite dark souls thing is people talking about shields, a central gameplay aspect, being a crutch and you're a scrub if you use such weak-rear end moves like blocking. Dark Souls 2 has the new game stat, Adaptability, that increases things like how fast you drink Estus or how well you roll. The amount of times I've seen people call it a useless stat because those things are a crutch makes my head hurt.
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RSCNyx posted:I'll never understand why Minecraft channels like this are so popular. Plenty of these videos have millions of views. It's just an incredibly popular game with boys (not sure about girls) younger than 14-16 in my experience. At that age they don't have particularly high standards yet either. It's basically virtual Lego so it's not too surprising I think.
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# ? Jun 11, 2014 14:48 |
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Minecraft videos are peaceful to me. It's more like watching a podcast with something shiny to keep my eyes busy. Needless to say "farts farts rape your mother loving gently caress" ruins said experience somewhat so I avoid channels like that:
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# ? Jun 11, 2014 14:56 |
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Attestant posted:Dark Souls 2 has the new game stat, Adaptability, that increases things like how fast you drink Estus or how well you roll. Well, if you just played perfectly you wouldn't need the extra invincibility frames.
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# ? Jun 11, 2014 15:02 |
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Roar posted:Minecraft videos are peaceful to me. It's more like watching a podcast with something shiny to keep my eyes busy. Oh, I completely agree. Dave_O's Minecraft videos are still among my favorites to watch. It's just so many go for the fast-paced non-stop wacky commentary that really go against what Minecraft is all about. If only Bob Ross was still around to make a Minecraft LP.
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# ? Jun 11, 2014 15:03 |
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Andrast posted:Well, if you just played perfectly you wouldn't need the extra invincibility frames. It's still a drat dumb and slippery argument to make. Health is a crutch if you play perfectly! Stamina is a crutch if you manage it perfectly! Str and Dex are crutches, because better weapons and damage are useless if you play perfectly! Basically if you're not SL1 you might as well not play because you're not good enough for this perfect game series.
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# ? Jun 11, 2014 15:13 |
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Attestant posted:It's still a drat dumb and slippery argument to make. If your first playthrough wasn't a no deaths & no bonfires run you are a scrub.
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# ? Jun 11, 2014 15:20 |
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RSCNyx posted:I'll never understand why Minecraft channels like this are so popular. Plenty of these videos have millions of views. But I just had to link this HarryAndJerry channel because it isn't even any of that. It's somehow this odd trade-off between video editing effort (because there is definitely more effort applied to the editing phase, compared to most "average" Minecraft videos), and in-game effort (they aren't even playing the game normally, just setting up little scenes and props and using them to perpetuate the cold, hard truth that you can make insane amounts of ad revenue with fart jokes being an essential staple to your channel content). Even when it comes to their most popular series, the "video games in Minecraft", the jokes aren't even original most of the time. In one of those particular videos, they featured The Sims, and it was a very short clip poking fun at the fact that Sims can't leave swimming pools without a ladder. That joke's been known and overdone since the early 2000s, when the first game was released. And their "Final Fantasy" skit? It didn't even have anything to do with the game's mechanics or style as a whole, it just showed one of the players turning around in front of a zombie and crouching, then they edited in a fart (big surprise) and the battle victory music. But, of course, just mentioning Final Fantasy and throwing in that much-needed kiddie "humor" is more than enough to net you over a million views. The "Famous Youtuber" scene is nothing more than a large group of younger (and a few older) adults perpetuating the retardation of today's youth for the sole purpose of getting absurd amounts of money, with really awful content. To quote Bill Hicks, "When did mediocrity and banality become a good image for your children?"
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SnakemanMn posted:Let me propose a formula for you all. Calm down, grandpa. If you take a look back at your formative years, I'm sure you'd see your sense of humor was awful and embarrassing. None of us pop out of the womb with neckbeard already attached, craving Decent Standup Comedy and ironic tweets while thumbing our noses at internet Memes and Farts. Preteens and so on tend to grow up into adults before entering the work force, so I don't think you have anything to worry about. SnakemanMn posted:The "Famous Youtuber" scene is nothing more than a large group of younger (and a few older) adults perpetuating the retardation of today's youth for the sole purpose of getting absurd amounts of money, with really awful content. To quote Bill Hicks, "When did mediocrity and banality become a good image for your children?"
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# ? Jun 11, 2014 15:43 |
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SnakemanMn posted:To quote Bill Hicks, "When did mediocrity and banality become a good image for your children?" April 1, 2013
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Suspicious Dish posted:April 1, 2013 Hey hang on a second, there's something suspicious about that date
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Ekster posted:It's just an incredibly popular game with boys (not sure about girls) younger than 14-16 in my experience. At that age they don't have particularly high standards yet either. It's basically virtual Lego so it's not too surprising I think. Every week we all go to my in-law's for dinner and since I gave my nephew a laptop with Minecraft on it we've had to institute a ban on talking about Minecraft at the dinner table. He won't stop talking about it, and he's a chatty kid to start with. Something about the game just clicks with the kid and he will sit quietly and watch his dad scoop up lava for a moat for hours on end and report back like it was the most important event of his life. His playtime with it is limited by his mom, but he has about 100 times more fun just tooling around in that than I ever did. I think the simplicity of the game is the big selling point. Like any kid with the dexterity to use a KB/M will be able to get some joy out of the thing, even if they aren't great at it. In other Minecraft news: Mojang is going to change EULA stuff to try and stop server owners from doing a "donations for perks" scheme. Normally I wouldn't post this here, but Mojang specifically calls out Woodycraft, run by declining-fame YouTube superstar WoodysGamertag. Woody started as a Call of Duty guy, but started doing a Podcast which is his big money maker now and does occasional videos, heavily featuring his PvP Minecraft server, the aforementioned and creatively named WoodyCraft. Woody's got one of the weirder histories out there. He was making decent money as a software engineer of some sort when he quit his job to YouTube full time, is often accused of exploiting his autistic son for attention and sympathy and once had a deal with Netflix where he streamed his family watching movies on Netflix while his son humped the family dog because that's how you do that.
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# ? Jun 11, 2014 15:52 |
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Lazyfire posted:That time he got stabbed by the sentinel through the fog door and then one shotted while stun locked by Orenstien was one of those funny design and level layout quirks that people proceeded to say was his fault and not a problem with the game at all because the game is perfect. I thought people were saying that he purposely set that up to make the game look bad?
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# ? Jun 11, 2014 16:16 |
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Boxturret posted:I thought people were saying that he purposely set that up to make the game look bad? That's too stupid for even them to say that.
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# ? Jun 11, 2014 16:23 |
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I wonder if Lego videos on YouTube would have been popular if it was around in the late 80's-early 90's. But then I s'pose it wouldn't have the flair of being an FPS to make it not as childish.
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# ? Jun 11, 2014 16:25 |
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RSCNyx posted:It's just so many go for the fast-paced non-stop wacky commentary that really go against what Minecraft is all about. Eh, most of those people will do that with any game. The "I'm OHSOWACKY!" approach where they make a fool out of themselves for "comedy". It is like being a clown... or maybe a whore. Usually why I turn off a video in 3 seconds. That and lovely intros that add nothing to the video.
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# ? Jun 11, 2014 16:33 |
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Golden Goat posted:That's too stupid for even them to say that. I'm pretty sure in a podcast slowbeef talked about how people were saying he doctored the footage, or manipulated the game to make that happen. Seriously, Dark Souls is a loving PERFECT game and GOD HELP YOU if you think otherwise. Hell, even goons go into a frothing rage, they had to actually say "No darksouls" in the old pyf dragging this game down thread cause whenever a goon thought something was terrible 10 other goons would rush to the thread telling him how poo poo he was and how the game is flawless.
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# ? Jun 11, 2014 16:48 |
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Leal posted:I'm pretty sure in a podcast slowbeef talked about how people were saying he doctored the footage, or manipulated the game to make that happen. The most annoying part is when fanboys get tired of arguing (or a mod tells them to knock that poo poo off) and they just say "Weeeeeell, it's not for everyone, I guess," with the biggest you can possibly express through text.
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# ? Jun 11, 2014 17:20 |
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Leal posted:I'm pretty sure in a podcast slowbeef talked about how people were saying he doctored the footage, or manipulated the game to make that happen. Wow it took two seconds to find a example of Dark Souls fans vs Slowbeef. From Reddit An asshat posted:Yes Yes Yes Yes. Also, the amount of stupidity in this picture is so high it was most likely done intentionally. Crazy poo poo like that doesn't actually happen in the game. You will never die out of nowhere in Dark Souls. You only die because you screwed up. The bosses and enemies really aren't close to being impossible, provided you take them slowly and watch their attacks. The reason this game appears so difficult to many is that they try and fight carelessly like they would in Skyrim or something. A dude literally smacked him in the back from behind a fog door. That's the game falling into "bullshit" country and not the players fault.
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# ? Jun 11, 2014 17:23 |
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Golden Goat posted:Wow it took two seconds to find a example of Dark Souls fans vs Slowbeef. From Reddit Wouldent have happened if he had went slow, took his time and watched enemy attacks for weak spots, if he hadent been playing this game like [insert popular game here] then the game wouldent have punished him for. But that's okay if he just wants to give up, Dark souls isnt for everybody
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# ? Jun 11, 2014 18:40 |
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Maybe he should've methodically and carefully cleared all the enemies up to the door before continuing on.
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Wilkin posted:I wonder if Lego videos on YouTube would have been popular if it was around in the late 80's-early 90's. But then I s'pose it wouldn't have the flair of being an FPS to make it not as childish. Kung-Fu Jesus posted:Calm down, grandpa. If you take a look back at your formative years, I'm sure you'd see your sense of humor was awful and embarrassing. None of us pop out of the womb with neckbeard already attached, craving Decent Standup Comedy and ironic tweets while thumbing our noses at internet Memes and Farts. Preteens and so on tend to grow up into adults before entering the work force, so I don't think you have anything to worry about. SnakemanMn fucked around with this message at 19:35 on Jun 11, 2014 |
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