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So... people are getting up in arms because their free streaming service implemented a completely optional monetization scheme?
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Jul 11, 2016 21:41
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So if you want to donate a bunch of money use paypal, if you want to go onto a bunch of streams and "cheer" buy bits and spread around your pennies that will probably play a fun animation.
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Jul 11, 2016 21:48
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No. You don't even have to use it. They're calling out the pricing scheme as horrible.
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Jul 11, 2016 21:48
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I just find it funny that Twitch has introduced literally camsite tipping.
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Jul 11, 2016 21:52
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I think Bits will have value as anti-chargeback protection but the cut is not reasonable.
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Jul 11, 2016 21:55
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I've got an elgato HD but I want to capture Wii footage should I buy a Wii HDMI adapter or buy a GV-USB2 or try to find my composite cord and buy a bunch of splitters and wish for death?
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Jul 11, 2016 22:02
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Zamujasa posted:Bits are microtransaction bullshit where you pay a markup price for a certain amount of Fun Money, but apparently the Fun Money is a 1-to-1 bits-to-cents rate. Paypal just takes a chunk out of the donation and calls it a day. yikes The Rokstar posted:I just find it funny that Twitch has introduced literally camsite tipping. You're not the only one. It's really funny.
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Jul 11, 2016 22:07
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That's heinous. Twitch taking 3x-6x more of a cut from loving $5 onward is absurd. I guess if 1-3 bucks is how you want to tip it's whatever but man, if you're going to do literally anything else just use PayPal.
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Jul 11, 2016 22:15
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i'm gonna become king of the genesis aladdin speedrunners cuz it seems like most runners play the lovely vastly inferior snes version.
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Jul 11, 2016 22:27
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One thing that troubles me about bits is that I don't feel like it's clear to me exactly how much the streamer is getting. Regardless of how much twitch of it twitch takes, I like knowing that whatever I type into a box is at least close to the amount they get. Particularly with the (I think recent?) twitchalerts addition of the "I want to help [streamer] and also tip the processing fee" checkbox, I know more or less exactly what I'm paying and exactly what they get. I'm a big fan of actually knowing how much I'm helping when I help a streamer. Bits feel like the microtransaction thing of muddying the water in terms of what I pay and what the result is. They feel shady. If they'd just put in a donate button on every stream that just says "we'll take 10% of whatever you type into this box" I wouldn't have any problems, and I might even use it.
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Jul 11, 2016 22:48
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Crotch Bat posted:That's heinous. Twitch taking 3x-6x more of a cut from loving $5 onward is absurd. I guess if 1-3 bucks is how you want to tip it's whatever but man, if you're going to do literally anything else just use PayPal.
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Jul 11, 2016 22:59
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I'm running Sonic CD all good futures. I haven't found any info on this category since it seems like everyone that ran this game in the past just did any% with tons of glitches. so I'm just learning as I go and going for PBs, not chasing any real record because I can't find one. https://www.twitch.tv/travsouls
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Jul 11, 2016 23:18
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MooCowlian posted:One thing that troubles me about bits is that I don't feel like it's clear to me exactly how much the streamer is getting. pretty sure that's intentional
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Jul 11, 2016 23:33
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MooCowlian posted:One thing that troubles me about bits is that I don't feel like it's clear to me exactly how much the streamer is getting. Regardless of how much twitch of it twitch takes, I like knowing that whatever I type into a box is at least close to the amount they get. Particularly with the (I think recent?) twitchalerts addition of the "I want to help [streamer] and also tip the processing fee" checkbox, I know more or less exactly what I'm paying and exactly what they get. I'm a big fan of actually knowing how much I'm helping when I help a streamer. Bits are worth one penny each to the streamer. You're just giving Twitch an extra 40 cents (at most) every 100 bits you buy. This isn't clear or really mentioned anywhere though, so yeah it's sketchy.
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Jul 11, 2016 23:46
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Renegret posted:pretty sure that's intentional Yeah. And that's lovely. Like, I can accept them wanting to take a cut. Outside donations do probably take a big cut of potential donations. They're a business and it's understandable they're not really happy with all the people making money from their service without them getting even a small look in. Their method of getting a cut of that is really dodgy and it makes me uncomfortable. edit: I typed that before the second reply was there. I guess that's at least a fairly simple conversion. If nothing else, it's an annoying extra step. At least for me, I feel like they'd make more money from me if I didn't have to buy their funbux first. Apart from anything else, it's an extra layer on inconvenience. Deformed Church fucked around with this message at 23:53 on Jul 11, 2016 |
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Jul 11, 2016 23:47
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Basically people have been migrating to Patreon etc to avoid giving up half their income to a 'partner' that barely supports them, so Twitch is now scrambling to find ways to whiz bang people into at least giving somewhere near their normal cut.
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Jul 12, 2016 00:30
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Groovelord Neato posted:i'm gonna become king of the genesis aladdin speedrunners cuz it seems like most runners play the lovely vastly inferior snes version. I support this statement.
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Jul 12, 2016 00:36
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CrashCat posted:Basically people have been migrating to Patreon etc to avoid giving up half their income to a 'partner' that barely supports them, so Twitch is now scrambling to find ways to whiz bang people into at least giving somewhere near their normal cut. Yeah, they only provide a free streaming and networking platform, hardly any support.
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Jul 12, 2016 00:42
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Groovelord Neato posted:i'm gonna become king of the genesis aladdin speedrunners cuz it seems like most runners play the lovely vastly inferior snes version. Hell yes friend, Aladdin GEN is a quality game. The movement tech is kinda tricky though it's this weird run-cancelling thing. Evil Eagle posted:I'm running Sonic CD all good futures. I haven't found any info on this category since it seems like everyone that ran this game in the past just did any% with tons of glitches. so I'm just learning as I go and going for PBs, not chasing any real record because I can't find one. So like, good ending? Is that the goal here? Because is doing that faster than just getting all the Time Stones? I mean, it probably is I dunno really but it's something to think about I planned on learning Sonic CD any% at some point because new tech got found in that game recently which broke it wide open and it's pretty interesting. You may actually be able to make use of it in your run, it's called Moving Peel Out Glitch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxvLvjnyF0A go forth and route young one
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Jul 12, 2016 00:42
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SuccinctAndPunchy posted:Hell yes friend, Aladdin GEN is a quality game. The movement tech is kinda tricky though it's this weird run-cancelling thing. Yeah, good ending, but imo breaking all of the robot generators is a completely different run than getting all the time stones and should be considered as such. In the end this is all for fun and I would have way less fun getting all of the time stones than I am right now routing when and where to travel through time to get to the generators. I've been routing on my own and based on my best splits currently I should be able to get sub 30. it's all down to executing that in a full run now. I also like doing this glitchless but if I ever get into any% I'll probably try and learn glitches.
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The Rokstar posted:I just find it funny that Twitch has introduced literally camsite tipping. Come on guys just fifty more tips and I'll battle Nimzo.
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Evil Eagle posted:Yeah, good ending, but imo breaking all of the robot generators is a completely different run than getting all the time stones and should be considered as such. In the end this is all for fun and I would have way less fun getting all of the time stones than I am right now routing when and where to travel through time to get to the generators. I've been routing on my own and based on my best splits currently I should be able to get sub 30. it's all down to executing that in a full run now. I reckon doing All Good Futures is probably faster than going for All Time Stones anyway for getting the good ending. Also, again I rewrote the OP a little so I guess if ya'll are good with it and peaches wants to post a new thread or edit the existing one then this should be sound: http://pastebin.com/fN4Kzw4z
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Jul 12, 2016 02:31
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Full Circle posted:Yeah, they only provide a free streaming and networking platform, hardly any support.  Anyway it's what the market will bear right now so it doesn't loving matter what I think of it
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Jul 12, 2016 02:37
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SuccinctAndPunchy posted:I genuinely would not know how to write something like that because I never found it that much of a process, you just kinda play a video game, record your time and then do what you can to get it lower, ask other people questions, look up the game, talk to people etc.
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mp5 posted:BigJon update The new Speedrun thread - We call this the BigJon skip
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Hi everyone, it's not WR but I went pretty dang fast in Momodora: RUtM any% insane difficulty yesterday with a 25:11 RTA twitch vod with plenty of chat: https://www.twitch.tv/halfcoordinated/v/77476289 youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjZIvFY1GbE
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Jul 12, 2016 15:28
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Steadily improving at Sonic CD all good futures. I got a PB today @ 30:54:38. I just need to clean up my mistakes and not have a terrible, terrible stardust speedway and I'll have sub 30. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-r_6RHbIoE https://www.twitch.tv/travsouls/v/77737599
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Evil Eagle posted:Steadily improving at Sonic CD all good futures. I got a PB today @ 30:54:38. I just need to clean up my mistakes and not have a terrible, terrible stardust speedway and I'll have sub 30. I posted this in the Sonic speedrun discord and apparently the guy who was working on a TAS of a similar category found it interesting viewing. I like the idea of the category myself, seems like a good 100% analog for Sonic CD. I kinda want to pop you an invite to said discord but I have no idea if I'm even allowed to post the invite on a public forum like this and not catch poo poo for it and I don't have PMs. Sonic CD runs (and classic sonic in general for that matter) are conventionally timed with the in-game timer and not real-time though, for the sole reason of the fact that in Sonic games, the time bonus ticking down at the end of the level means optimal RTA strats is often to deliberately waste time at the end of the level and that's kind of dumb. I would probably recommend swapping over to that timing method (you'd have to punch the time in manually into your split program though which is effort) to have a much clearer picture of how well you're actually doing, as it stands you can lose a lot of time in a stage and gain it all back by having a low time bonus at the end of a level which is kinda daft. also the obviously correct soundtrack choice good man good man Oh, apparently someone else did a run of this category yonks ago at a GDQ? Maybe you can learn something from it I dunno: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFwFg1xwEbI SuccinctAndPunchy fucked around with this message at 03:06 on Jul 13, 2016 |
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Jul 13, 2016 02:08
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SuccinctAndPunchy posted:I posted this in the Sonic speedrun discord and apparently the guy who was working on a TAS of a similar category found it interesting viewing. I like the idea of the category myself, seems like a good 100% analog for Sonic CD. I kinda want to pop you an invite to said discord but I have no idea if I'm even allowed to post the invite on a public forum like this and not catch poo poo for it and I don't have PMs. I'd definitely be interested in seeing a TAS of this category just to optimize my own run, so I hope that guy finishes his. I totaled all of the individual level timers from my run and ended up with 23'19"50 which just makes me want to push it down to sub 22 or so. I can definitely cut my time down with better play and if I can get the Tidal Tempest 3 quick kill down consistently. I tried playing through once with the us soundtrack and couldn't do it. just doesn't fit the game imo. I'll check out that gdq run, his RT is much lower than mine so either I have worse routes or he's using skips I don't know about. I got into this game recently (like 3 weeks ago recently) and it's quickly become my favorite 2d sonic so I hope more people try out this category.
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Also if you want to invite me to the secret sonic discord here's my steam account. http://steamcommunity.com/id/Travler903/
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Jul 13, 2016 15:10
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Eventually all of the controversy about Dark Souls 3 quit-outs are going to be completely moot because they're going to find a way to skip all of the doors. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgyyQSLfpA8
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Jul 13, 2016 22:03
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Getting my time down in Sonic CD but I just missed sub-30 RTA. 30:01:26 RTA and 22'23"55 by the in-game timers. https://www.twitch.tv/travsouls/v/78089678 I had a sloppy metallic madness and a slow stardust speedway 2 but the rest was really solid. I'm starting to become confident in my skills at this game and I'm finding new faster routes every day. Now I just need some competition to really push my time down. Evil Eagle fucked around with this message at 00:52 on Jul 15, 2016 |
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Jul 15, 2016 00:46
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 Yay I got world record Uhhh Now I guess I check out how to uhh submit runs I guess e: link to the run if anybody is interested for whatever reason http://www.hitbox.tv/video/1092336 Plenty of places I can cut time, gonna shoot for sub-20 next time but who knows FirstAidKite fucked around with this message at 02:56 on Jul 15, 2016 |
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Jul 15, 2016 01:49
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i have WR in that dumb game Raelcun showed at SGDQ because I'm luckier but I got some stuff to try with it because I think a different wagon than Wild might be faster
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Super Amazing Wagon Adventure is a great game. Super Amazing Wagon Adventure is a terrible speedgame.
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In case you enjoyed the dustforce DX run at sgdq, and also because there was a small miscommunication where the twitch link they had for sivade was wrong during the gdq stream, he's currently streaming WR attempts here: https://www.twitch.tv/sivade Currently he's basically tied for WR (0.6 seconds on a nearly 1 hour run), and trying to get it unambiguously. e: over now. had a run where he was green into yotta, feel like he can definitely get this soon. animatorZed fucked around with this message at 23:26 on Jul 16, 2016 |
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Jul 16, 2016 22:41
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KennyMan666 posted:Super Amazing Wagon Adventure is a great game. It really is. Like runs can be summed up in note form as "Got Event X (+Y seconds from getting nothing/fastest event)" and the goal is to get as little of the things that make the game fun in a run. Also, I tried my theory of a different wagon being faster and nah it's probably not worth it in the end. 100% would be like a reverse stupid where you want to get every event but are then going to be annoyed when you inevitably don't in a reasonable time frame. Here is the run video! Or, in text form: lost time on forest to random events, good bandits though due to random laser blaster drops which mitigated somewhat (this is relevant exactly twice in the game which is that events that actually don't progress until waves of enemies are killed go faster if you use a weapon that vaporises bodies because otherwise it doesn't progress until the bodies scroll off the screen) random events were largely ok enough for the next three areas, not great but nothing that wastes huge chunks of time got a random event that I could suicide to skip and save time on mountain pass which made the difference did not get any random events from that point onwards, resulted in time saved Might try for sub-8 if I get bored. SuccinctAndPunchy fucked around with this message at 03:42 on Jul 17, 2016 |
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Jul 17, 2016 03:34
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I submitted a run of Bionic Commando (2009) to speedrun.com, but the only mod for the game hasn't been on in weeks. Does anyone know if there's an admin I could contact to get my run approved?
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Jul 17, 2016 13:38
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LackAttack24 has been lured out of retirement to try improving his Legend of Zelda any% WR https://www.twitch.tv/lackattack24
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that's sick how he has the pb video running in the corner.
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