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Jun 16, 2014 17:00
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BMS posted:
Well, @BitchPenguin thought it would be a good idea to tell Pollock about this, as he is friendly with SuperPsyGuy. Unfortunately, it wasn't planned out very well. I won't defend what Pollock said, but bringing it to his attention was not a great move. And trying to bully Pollock into believing the truth like some people I noticed was doing REALLY wasn't helping.
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Jun 16, 2014 17:10
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The Vosgian Beast posted:He is a semi-popular LPer, mainly due to sucking up to internet celebrities. He's been around in the gutters of the internet since before LP was a thing. His main claim to fame is his website, where he produces lovely webcomics, lovely podcasts, and hosts other people's webcomics. I followed his stuff back when I was a dumb kid in high school, but I never knew he was this bad. 
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Jun 16, 2014 17:22
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SlothfulCobra posted:His main claim to fame is his website, where he produces lovely webcomics, lovely podcasts, and hosts other people's webcomics. God damnit. I knew better than to click that poo poo. Sure enough, Donation page, "testimonials", and AWESOME SAMPLES OF ANIME BABE WALLPAPERS (or avatars or something...not 100% certain, and I'm not finding out), ONLY AVAILABLE TO "EXCLUSIVE" MEMBERS! Coincidentally,  Hmmm, SA upgrade, or Exclusive WAHPAH or whatever content. Where's a coin to flip. (I chose beer instead).   edit: because I find it oddly appropriate  
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Jun 16, 2014 17:37
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I read the last couple of pages, and I think I'll go pursue video game related escapism in one of the other threads instead  .
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Jun 16, 2014 18:29
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SlothfulCobra posted:I followed his stuff back when I was a dumb kid in high school, but I never knew he was this bad. That's a really common narrative. Practically everyone I know, and everyone who's chimed in on this without being a giant pedo-defending rear end in a top hat, thought he was the last word in humor when they were like freshmen in high school. I think that's where he gets this idea that he's a really big deal; back when everyone on the internet was in high school, he was.
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Jun 16, 2014 21:13
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About all I remember about him is that he had a sprite comic where he had a female character named "Jen" who was, more often than not, a black-colored, much-more-naked Tails (she didn't even have the luxury of shoes/gloves like Tails does). I believe it was the fan character of an actual female friend of his, too, not somebody he came up with entirely on his own. I'd have assumed she just felt like having a character like that beforehand, but after hearing some of these accounts, I have to question if that's actually the case. Also recall some Flash animation where he and some friends say random words like "galloshes". For some reason, that has stuck with me over the years, despite me not watching said animation in around a decade.
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Jun 17, 2014 01:22
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Man, I am so glad I never even touched anything Sonic related, let alone looked at it. There should be a PSA out there for parents to not let their kids get into the fandom, but that may be too harsh.
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Jun 17, 2014 01:34
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Shadow Hog posted:About all I remember about him is that he had a sprite comic where he had a female character named "Jen" who was, more often than not, a black-colored, much-more-naked Tails (she didn't even have the luxury of shoes/gloves like Tails does). I believe it was the fan character of an actual female friend of his, too, not somebody he came up with entirely on his own. I'd have assumed she just felt like having a character like that beforehand, but after hearing some of these accounts, I have to question if that's actually the case. Oh my god I remember this  Some webcomic guy I used to read like ten years ago partnered with his site, and instead of the normal comic, the artist I read started solely doing lovely sprite comics featuring himself and this guy's characters. I also remember that Jen character eventually getting a human form which looked exactly like what you'd expect from him. I think between that and Dominic Deegan or whatever was when I gave up on webcomics altogether from sheer disgust.
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Jun 17, 2014 02:05
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Shadow Hog posted:Also recall some Flash animation where he and some friends say random words like "galloshes". For some reason, that has stuck with me over the years, despite me not watching said animation in around a decade. The audio for that flash was actually a pre-existing comedy sketch. Search for Bulbous Bouffant on Youtube.
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Jun 17, 2014 03:01
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Waffleman_ posted:The audio for that flash was actually a pre-existing comedy sketch. Search for Bulbous Bouffant on Youtube.
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Jun 17, 2014 03:16
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Hmmm, let's see, a change of pace. Let's see what our old pal GAMINGO is up to. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnsiUWLJOsU WATCH THE gently caress OUT EMINEM.
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Jun 18, 2014 05:32
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You know the funniest thing about the Psyguy video? Dude doesn't even record his own gameplay. I remember he actually literally put out a call for people to submit gameplay footage for them to talk over. Like, he misunderstood a fundamental part of Let's Play.
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Jun 18, 2014 05:36
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watho posted:In some not depresing-as-hell news, chuggaaconroy's LP of Xenoblade Chronicles began the other day and the game looks pretty drat interesting. It's been a while since I watched his videos but he's one of the few people who I can say really deserve to make a living out of their LPs because he has some fantastic production values and really does his research. Has he at some point stopped stretching 4:3 video to 16:9? Because I can't call that high production values no matter how spiffy his editing is. I've never understood people who stretch images to fill the screen. Is it the dreaded black bars? E: And nope, still looks like this:  See those round things in the corners? They're supposed to be circles you heathen aaahhhhh I am incredibly anal about aspect ratios. Amppelix fucked around with this message at 12:30 on Jun 18, 2014 |
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Jun 18, 2014 12:25
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Amppelix posted:I've never understood people who stretch images to fill the screen. Is it the dreaded black bars? There's actually moments where I prefer the black bars. I've seen some pretty wacky things done to prevent those from appearing! Like showing parts of the screen, except a different color, or blurred out. To me, it's just really annoying, and distracts from the video. Although, maybe that was the intended effect. I could use a distraction from the screeching scarecam.
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Jun 18, 2014 15:12
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Amppelix posted:Has he at some point stopped stretching 4:3 video to 16:9? Because I can't call that high production values no matter how spiffy his editing is. Though to be fair that looks like Mario Party 4. I remember from Pokecap's thread that this one has a stupid abnormal aspect ratio anyway.
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Jun 18, 2014 15:24
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RSCNyx posted:There's actually moments where I prefer the black bars. I've seen some pretty wacky things done to prevent those from appearing! Like showing parts of the screen, except a different color, or blurred out. To me, it's just really annoying, and distracts from the video. Oh wow, that video was more awful than I would imagine. How'd you find it so quickly? It's only a day old.
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Jun 18, 2014 16:07
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To be clear, I don't dislike black bars at all and I don't know why some people do. Black is the most neutral thing ever, why would it be distracting?Earnestly posted:Though to be fair that looks like Mario Party 4. I remember from Pokecap's thread that this one has a stupid abnormal aspect ratio anyway. See, this is what I mean when I say I'm incredibly anal about aspect ratios. That immediately jumps at me as wrong looking, while most people, like you here, are none the wiser and probably not bothered at all. Example screenshot:  Although, you're right, those aren't circles at all even in the proper ratio! 
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Jun 18, 2014 16:15
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Amppelix posted:Although, you're right, those aren't circles at all even in the proper ratio! That's because to Mario Party 4 the proper resolution is 580x480.
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Jun 18, 2014 16:25
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chitoryu12 posted:Oh wow, that video was more awful than I would imagine. I usually sort videos by upload date, and his just happened to be up there. And yeah, I totally agree! I think black bars are fine. If anything, you could use the bars to show game-related information you may not be able to go over in an LP.
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Jun 18, 2014 16:36
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RSCNyx posted:There's actually moments where I prefer the black bars. I've seen some pretty wacky things done to prevent those from appearing! Like showing parts of the screen, except a different color, or blurred out. To me, it's just really annoying, and distracts from the video. I hate that poo poo, too. I can understand some kind of little border that's not too distracting, but poo poo like this is loving annoying. For context, that is an old friend of mine who used to be popular-ish but now gets like no views and is always reminding people to fund him on Patreon because he has a kid now and still wants to do YouTube full time. He made a gaming channel which was bad, and would do poo poo like that on the sides. Also, I got about 3 minutes into that Sonic video somehow, and then noticed I had about 12 to go. Yeah, no. As far as decent border stuff, there's a Pokémon player I follow who puts both his and his opponent's teams in a thing, as well as which Pokémon are still alive, any status conditions, etc. It's pretty nice. Also I saw this TAS which, for an RPG, shows off lots of information on the sides, which I thought was decently done.
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Jun 18, 2014 16:52
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heytallman posted:I hate that poo poo, too. I can understand some kind of little border that's not too distracting, but poo poo like this is loving annoying. For context, that is an old friend of mine who used to be popular-ish but now gets like no views and is always reminding people to fund him on Patreon because he has a kid now and still wants to do YouTube full time. He made a gaming channel which was bad, and would do poo poo like that on the sides. It's one of the more common ones. I agree, it's really obnoxious. Don't worry, I lasted less than a minute on that video, because the border combined with the voice acting was just too much for me. Sorry about your friend, though, and I'm hoping he has an alternate source of income for the kid. I know it was brought up before, but I think that shows just how dangerous making a living on YouTube can be. Just as easily as you can get a rather large audience, you can lose it quickly over time. Then you have things like AdBlock to deal with, and you can suddenly find it difficult to get by.
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Jun 18, 2014 17:21
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RSCNyx posted:I know it was brought up before, but I think that shows just how dangerous making a living on YouTube can be. Just as easily as you can get a rather large audience, you can lose it quickly over time. Then you have things like AdBlock to deal with, and you can suddenly find it difficult to get by. Whenever I hear about people trying to make YouTube their job I just have to stop and think what exactly they are thinking. It's such a volatile source of income even today, and what is gonna happen five, ten, twenty years down the road? They can't keep that boat afloat forever. They can't exactly retire with a pension even if they were making the equivalent of a minimum wage job from ad-revenue. It's worked for a few people, it can't work for everyone. It would be like going into music expecting to be able to live the rest of your life off of the pittance you scrape in.
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Jun 18, 2014 22:52
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Samtron75v1 posted:Whenever I hear about people trying to make YouTube their job I just have to stop and think what exactly they are thinking. It's such a volatile source of income even today, and what is gonna happen five, ten, twenty years down the road? They can't keep that boat afloat forever. They can't exactly retire with a pension even if they were making the equivalent of a minimum wage job from ad-revenue. It's worked for a few people, it can't work for everyone. It would be like going into music expecting to be able to live the rest of your life off of the pittance you scrape in. I think they just figure that it's easy. Making LPs is something that can be done (naked, if you so wish) in front of your computer at odd hours of the evening. Even for other YouTube video content, you work mostly on your own schedule and there's very little cost that goes into the initial content; most LPers can get away with a mic, editing software, and the games, while vloggers add on a camera that can film at least in 720p. What they don't see is the sheer amount of effort that's needed to actually keep up with it. Daniel Hardcastle has talked about it a few times, and he literally does not take breaks. He gets usually about one vacation per year, because otherwise he has to spend every single day working in order to keep up the pace. And that's for the ones who are actually successful and can sustain themselves on their video content; most who attempt will fail entirely or have to supplement it with a "real job". It's sort of a childlike view of it, thinking that they can just make money off of what they do right now when they're unemployed as long as they record themselves screaming when they do it.
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Jun 19, 2014 01:46
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chitoryu12 posted:It's sort of a childlike view of it, thinking that they can just make money off of what they do right now when they're unemployed as long as they record themselves screaming when they do it. It's the purest form of the American Dream, distilled and refined for the new generation. 
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Jun 19, 2014 01:52
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chitoryu12 posted:Making LPs is something that can be done (naked, if you so wish) in front of your computer at odd hours of the evening. "Dead to Rights" is just the code word Slowbeef and Diabetus use to signal that the recording is over and to get redressed.
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Jun 19, 2014 02:02
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Dead to Tight(ie Whitie)s
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Jun 19, 2014 03:57
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So...I'm not sure if this is the place to talk about it, but Phil Fish is causing a stir again(apologies for using Gamespot) by complaining about how LP money/ad revenue should mostly go to the developers. This isn't much of anything new but it seems to have caused a big debacle. If I'm mentioning this in the wrong topic please direct me to a more appropriate one.
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Jun 19, 2014 18:40
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All I know is that Chuggaaconroy's Xenoblade LP convinced my little brother to go out and get his own copy of the game. As far as I care, that makes it worthwhile. It's a pretty decent LP from what I've seen, too. I can only imagine how insane the amounts of research it'd require to plan out a 100% sidequest run like he's doing, however; Xenoblade has a drat lot of filler sidequests, and several that permanently expire after certain plot events.
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Jun 19, 2014 18:40
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Shadow Hog posted:All I know is that Chuggaaconroy's Xenoblade LP convinced my little brother to go out and get his own copy of the game. As far as I care, that makes it worthwhile. It's gotten a lot of people to buy the game. Most of his LPs cause a lot of people to find out about and buy the games he's doing.
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Jun 19, 2014 22:25
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HGH posted:So...I'm not sure if this is the place to talk about it, but Phil Fish is causing a stir again(apologies for using Gamespot) by complaining about how LP money/ad revenue should mostly go to the developers. This isn't much of anything new but it seems to have caused a big debacle. I know he's a trigger word around here, but TotalBiscuit put up a video today that responded to this and did a fairly decent job of hitting the points regarding all this nonsense. Would this be an appropriate thread for things like review/critique videos, or is there a better place for those kinds of things?
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Jun 19, 2014 22:43
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Jamesman posted:I know he's a trigger word around here, but TotalBiscuit put up a video today that responded to this and did a fairly decent job of hitting the points regarding all this nonsense.
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Jun 19, 2014 23:28
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Indie game developer is a pretentious douche; sun is hot; news at 11. I have played several videogames that I otherwise would never have even considered, just because I saw an LP and it looked interesting. From a marketing perspective, someone like PDP or Markeplier LPing your game has got to be loving fantastic. To suggest that an LP is taking your videogame sales revenue is to suggest that your game is so boring, so not a game, that a youtube video is an adequate substitute. Fez is better than that. Most games are better than that. Nobody looks at an LP of something like Fez and says "I was going to buy this, but now that there's an LP, I don't need to." Fish's argument is so stupid that I doubt it was worth my time to write this simple response.
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Jun 20, 2014 05:24
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Depends on the game, really. If someone does a 100% run of an adventure game there is no real reason to buy it yourself since playing it yourself doesn't really add anything. Phil Fish is an rear end in a top hat tho.
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Jun 20, 2014 05:29
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DontMockMySmock posted:Nobody looks at an LP of something like Fez and says "I was going to buy this, but now that there's an LP, I don't need to." I watched an LP of Fez and had that exact thought. That's kind of an exception to how I normally feel, but I preferred watching someone else play it, and now that I've seen the LP there's no need for me to buy it and play through it myself.
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Jun 20, 2014 05:46
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Not Grover posted:I watched an LP of Fez and had that exact thought. That's kind of an exception to how I normally feel, but I preferred watching someone else play it, and now that I've seen the LP there's no need for me to buy it and play through it myself. You are ruining the games industry. How do you feel about yourself?
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Jun 20, 2014 13:14
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Suspicious Dish posted:You are ruining the games industry. How do you feel about yourself? Worse yet, he's ruining the indie games industry! It is our most sacred and precious national resource. Think of all the Kickstarters you have ended by your apathy, you monster.
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Jun 20, 2014 13:28
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Lazyfire posted:Worse yet, he's ruining the indie games industry! It is our most sacred and precious national resource. Think of all the Kickstarters you have ended by your apathy, you monster. But who will save video games then?! Who I ask you?!!
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Jun 20, 2014 13:40
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Not Grover posted:I watched an LP of Fez and had that exact thought. That's kind of an exception to how I normally feel, but I preferred watching someone else play it, and now that I've seen the LP there's no need for me to buy it and play through it myself.
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Jun 20, 2014 14:30
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Cooked Auto posted:But who will save video games then?! Who I ask you?!! I don't know, but if you throw at least $50 in to kickstart my open world zombie survival game with crafting elements and the option to play as a zombie instead of respawning I will name an NPC after you!
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