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Cooked Auto posted:Isn't it Nephalem in this case?
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Do you guys have (or have you guys noticed) any preferred lengths for updates compared to update frequency in screenshot LPs? I can pump out a significant amount of content without tiring but I worry posting too frequently might overwhelm the thread. Like, my first successful LP I posted ~1200 words nearly every day and I’m pretty sure the flood of content disrupted conversations and drove a few people away. In my current LP I’m going for slightly longer updates every two or three days, but I still worry about overwhelming readers. Do you guys have word counts you shoot for or that you’ve noticed get better reactions?
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Oct 1, 2022 20:39
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IMO most people who write SSLPs write updates that are a little too long. The one update you've got for your current LP so far is fine. If there's a discussion going on that you don't want to disrupt, you can just hold off on posting and work on a backlog for a bit.
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Oct 1, 2022 21:03
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ultrafilter posted:IMO most people who write SSLPs write updates that are a little too long. It's true, I do
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Oct 1, 2022 21:04
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 I usually gauge it by page length and try to shoot for around 8-11 pages on average unless a story beat is too fitting of a cutoff to pass up, but I have no clue whether thats a good thing and Im also impatient enough that i sometimes get tempted to do daily updates if I have enough buffer lol
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Oct 1, 2022 21:08
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I've tried many different things in the past for update length. I've taken the time to set up multiple scripts from which to pull screenshots, parceling them out more or less at a point where I think "that's enough." I've gone off nothing but gut feeling. I've tried to limit the number of screenshots. With my two most recent LPs I've hit upon just limiting myself to approximately half the character limit for a post. 25,000 characters is a surprisingly small amount to work with and it helps keep updates from taking 12-14 hours to write because "oh I'll stop at 120 screenshots" in a super dialogue heavy update.
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Oct 1, 2022 22:10
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I usually try to limit myself to a certain amount of gameplay, sometimes more, sometimes less, depending on whether anything meaningful happens. Sometimes an hour of gameplay is an extra long update if it's full of plot or new enemies/mechanics, sometimes five hours of gameplay is a single update if it's mostly mindless monster mashing.
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Oct 1, 2022 22:28
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As a SSLP reader, I've never really paid that much attention to the length of each update, it's always just felt like the updates should be cut where it makes sense in the narrative. What is a lot more noticeable is the frequency - give each update a little time to breathe and have discussion, but don't have them so spaced out that the thread loses momentum.
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Oct 1, 2022 22:46
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Yes, given a choice I'd rather read SSLPs with a weekly update schedule than 2-3 times a week, and I'm very likely to tune out of ones with daily update schedules. I get the precise preferences will differ a lot from person to person, but for me that works out so I can enjoy an LP without it taking all of my free time away from other hobbies.
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Oct 1, 2022 23:04
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IMO, most SSLP posts that go on too long don't have too much text or too many pages, they just pile one thing after another, rather than trying to keep to some sort of theme \ location. We're going to explore the new island (cool) slay the dragon (cool) go back to the tutorial zone for some dialog we've missed (?) do some grinding in the item zone (??), advance the dialog tree for one of the party members just a bit, explore the new island some more... Stick to something.
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Oct 5, 2022 11:12
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I tend to read SSLP update posts in bursts, because at some point I filter out the images as they usually end up feeling very samey and just focus on what's being said but it also ends up being a lot of scrolling.
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Oct 5, 2022 12:02
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PurpleXVI posted:I usually try to limit myself to a certain amount of gameplay, sometimes more, sometimes less, depending on whether anything meaningful happens. Sometimes an hour of gameplay is an extra long update if it's full of plot or new enemies/mechanics, sometimes five hours of gameplay is a single update if it's mostly mindless monster mashing. Pretty much this. I generally try to focus on a specific part of the game and have that be the focal point of the update. Super important bits tend to have the update all to themselves. Otherwise it's a buncha condensed stuff if a bunch of gameplay happened but nothing really meaningful did in those hours.
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Oct 5, 2022 23:30
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Hey LP goons! I've been kicking around the idea of doing a Screenshot Let's Playing of Disgaea 4 and have put together a rough OP and part 1. I am hoping for some feedback. Like are the screenshots a good size? Too many? Too few? Is it a good length? Thank you. OP+part 1: https://lpix.org/sslptest/index.php?id=161614
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Oct 7, 2022 00:21
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OhFunny posted:Hey LP goons! I've been kicking around the idea of doing a Screenshot Let's Playing of Disgaea 4 and have put together a rough OP and part 1. I am hoping for some feedback. Like are the screenshots a good size? Too many? Too few? Is it a good length? Thank you. Images look fine to me but they're pretty heavy for jpgs that size, like i saw one that was 700+kb. Try compressing them a little more. For the portraits, i think they'd look nicer if you made the background transparent, flipped them to face towards the text instead of away from it, and got rid of the colons after the portrait (you really only need them for text). You can also combine dialogue boxes when someone has multiple lines in a row, like this quote:
could easily be quote:
Or, if you want to break up the paragraphs, you can use a clear image to indent them like this quote:
to avoid showing the same mugshot 43 times in a row. Also, the main character's (?) portrait seems to be missing. Finally you seem to be making italics only for the... game narration i guess? It's a little disorienting - usually people will use it for either the game content or the commentary. Might be better to give the narration its own "portrait" and keep all game content the same style.
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Oct 7, 2022 18:33
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: What an impressive ability to overwrite his memory of losing his power and being forced to take the least wanted job in the Netherworld.
What an impressive ability to overwrite his memory of losing his power and being forced to take the least wanted job in the Netherworld. This is another one of his formidable powers. He can convert any suffering that he’s been through into something positive. 
This is another one of his formidable powers. He can convert any suffering that he’s been through into something positive.
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Thank you so much for your post vilkacis!vilkacis posted:Images look fine to me but they're pretty heavy for jpgs that size, like i saw one that was 700+kb. Try compressing them a little more. What would the appropriate size be? I compressed the images by about 50 to 70% and wrecked the image quality. quote:For the portraits, i think they'd look nicer if you made the background transparent, flipped them to face towards the text instead of away from it, and got rid of the colons after the portrait (you really only need them for text). You can also combine dialogue boxes when someone has multiple lines in a row, like this Did all this and it does flow much better. quote:Also, the main character's (?) portrait seems to be missing. I don't know what happened here. He showed up for me on the test page, but not when I looked at it on the forum's preview view. I must have deleted it as I tinkered with different sizes. Fixed now since I'm using a new portrait. quote:Finally you seem to be making italics only for the... game narration i guess? It's a little disorienting - usually people will use it for either the game content or the commentary. Might be better to give the narration its own "portrait" and keep all game content the same style. I've replaced all that with screenshots of the narration. I was concerned that would make the post to screenshot heavy, but I broke things up with some commentary. Here it is with the changes. Once I figure out the right level of compress I'll feel good to go. Thanks again!
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Oct 8, 2022 02:16
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OhFunny posted:Thank you so much for your post vilkacis!  quote:What would the appropriate size be? I compressed the images by about 50 to 70% and wrecked the image quality. So here's the thing, i'm a moron and they're pngs, not jpgs, which explains the size. Sorry about that! You can save them as jpg at 95 and they'll mostly be below 200, that's definitely enough. You can go a little lower if you want but i wouldn't go below 85. (If you already have all your pngs made, you can batch convert them with irfanview. Hit B, select jpg as the output format and then options and you can set the quality there.) Screenshots for the narration works better and the dialogue looks nicer now.
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Oct 8, 2022 02:56
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I would recommend converting your images to webp format, which is a lot smaller size-wise than PNG. A 5-600KB PNG for my LP turns into something less than 100KB when turned into a webp. vilkacis's suggestion is really good advice as well! Irfanview quality 90, in my experience, is almost indistinguishable in every way that matters from lossless.
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Oct 8, 2022 03:28
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I'm hoping to do or at least announce an LP this week, and I want to do something multiplayer with goons from the associated thread. I've narrowed my ideas down to a few things, with a leading contender, but I thought maybe I could get some ideas or feedback from some of LP regulars: Shadow0 posted:Factorio: Biters for Resources mod - I saw someone stream this for their subscribers, but unfortunately the ending wasn't streamed. I kind of wanted to try it myself with an army of goons. Factorio was my leading idea, but I'm open to suggestions. Also, just to check: I can have a live stream and then upload it later to YouTube, right? Or is it strictly pre-recorded stuff here? I looked through some of the threads already and mostly saw prepared stuff (I think), but maybe it was also live? I wasn't sure.
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Oct 8, 2022 15:19
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Shadow0 posted:Super Mario Maker 2: Listen to me try to read all the titles in all the funny languages. It has a co-op and a competitive option.
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Oct 8, 2022 15:35
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Rocket Baby Dolls posted:Edit: Stupid reply. lol, they aren't that person
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Oct 8, 2022 18:05
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Shadow0 posted:I'm hoping to do or at least announce an LP this week, and I want to do something multiplayer with goons from the associated thread. If I was that GBS poster who wants to make a thread in every subforum with at least a page of posts I would definitely do all that. Despite what some people might make you believe we don't really have any standards here. I also wouldn't have posted in PMF.
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Oct 8, 2022 18:26
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Shadow0 posted:Also, just to check: I can have a live stream and then upload it later to YouTube, right? Or is it strictly pre-recorded stuff here? I looked through some of the threads already and mostly saw prepared stuff (I think), but maybe it was also live? I wasn't sure. There's been some LPs that have been "group of people record in a few sessions and gave live commentary" and then uploaded it later, plus some livestreams that were edited into regular LP episodes. If you do go the live stream route, make sure you do some editing as I doubt most people here will want to watch a dump of an unedited three-hour livestream or whatever.
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Oct 8, 2022 18:29
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DoubleNegative posted:I would recommend converting your images to webp format Evil post imo.
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anilEhilated posted:Please do this, it is certain to elevate humor to depths hitherto unseen. Extra points if you can do funny accents, especially if they're racist. Sorry I was caught between "People will be impressed at all the languages you speak! Make it a selling point!" and "Be humble" and ended up with a weird sentence. I would never do such a thing as make fun of someone's language or accent. Unless it was Dutch. Mega64 posted:There's been some LPs that have been "group of people record in a few sessions and gave live commentary" and then uploaded it later, plus some livestreams that were edited into regular LP episodes. If you do go the live stream route, make sure you do some editing as I doubt most people here will want to watch a dump of an unedited three-hour livestream or whatever. Ah okay, yeah, I can at least edit out the dead air and stuff between happenings. I haven't done any real editing before, but I will give it a try! Gonna add a bunch of star swipes! IGgy IGsen posted:If I was that GBS poster who wants to make a thread in every subforum with at least a page of posts I would definitely do all that. Despite what some people might make you believe we don't really have any standards here. Sorry, I'm not sure what you mean...
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Oct 8, 2022 18:57
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Shadow0 posted:Sorry, I'm not sure what you mean... E: okay, actually, we had a guy last year that proved that wrong.
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Oct 8, 2022 19:16
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i'm gonna make IGgy post in PMF
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Oct 8, 2022 19:16
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Sally posted:i'm gonna make IGgy post in PMF I'm gonna post in your thread. Oh wait haha.
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Oct 8, 2022 19:17
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LP idea sounds fine, OP. the big reason for a lot of the rules in LP are because for while there were a bunch of people who wanted to be YouTube superstars joining SALP to dump links to their 120hour Pokemon Snap Lets Pkays that sucked and were done four years ago. they just like.... posted a nearly empty thread with a link to the playlist commanding people to like and subscribe and discuss. not a problem here, as you are making your thread for people in SALP to join in on... sounds great! see the Tech Support Fort thread if you are having any technical issues getting this going. people in there are super helpful and rad
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Oct 8, 2022 19:20
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IGgy IGsen posted:You need to realize that my post is 100% sincere. There's no sarcasm, no trap to be sprung. You literally can do no wrong. LP is the forum BYOB wishes it could be. iggy come post in byob please, we are also sincere and chill 
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Oct 8, 2022 20:04
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biosterous posted:iggy come post in byob please, we are also sincere and chill I'll post in Shadow0's BYOB thread.
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Oct 8, 2022 20:10
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IGgy IGsen posted:I'll post in Shadow0's BYOB thread. I'll be glad to have you! 
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Oct 8, 2022 22:33
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hell yeah
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Oct 9, 2022 02:22
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Hi there, I noticed that a lot of LPs archived here use tindeck to link to soundtracks. e.g. https://lparchive.org/Mother-3-(by-Mega64)/Update%2001/. I was wondering if any efforts were considered to update these links to point to archive.org? Or maybe to just scrape the archive and directly host the relevant files? I did try to look up some of the urls on the wayback machine and it failed with messages like "http 302 at crawl time". But I might have just messed it up.
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Hello all. I've been thinking of trying to do an LP of Triangle Strategy. I have an intro update ready, but would love a bit of feedback before I go any further. I'm specifically wondering about the quality of the screenshots, but any other thoughts/suggestions would be appreciated as well. OOrochi fucked around with this message at 04:08 on Oct 22, 2022 |
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Oct 22, 2022 04:04
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OOrochi posted:Hello all. I've been thinking of trying to do an LP of Triangle Strategy. Yeah, the screenshot resolution and downscaling looks... very questionable. What was the source resolution and what percent are you scaling it down to because that looks kinda rough and jarring to look at for any length of time.
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Oct 22, 2022 04:44
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That looks like an unfiltered (or poorly filtered, I guess) downscale, which is never* a good idea. Make sure you're applying some kind of filter, bicubic or lanczos are generally the choices to go for. (*There's one case where you might want to unfiltered downscale, which is when you're trying to regenerate an unscaled image from a upscaled one. But that's a very specific use case that's almost never relevant in practice.)
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Oct 22, 2022 04:49
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Gracias. Glad I decided to check. The original resolution was 1920 x 1080 and I was just using the resizing function on Rightload to bring them down to at most 900 wide, since that's what I remember being told was the max size for an image on the archives when I started a previous LP. I guess that for that previous one, since it wasn't pixelated, the jankiness wasn't quite as noticeable. Apologies if this isn't the right spot for it, but any suggestions as to what to use/what resolutions to scale it down to to not look terrible?
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Oct 22, 2022 05:22
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OOrochi posted:Gracias. Glad I decided to check. I'd scale them to 40% (768px) using an image editor like GIMP. Image editors have scaling algorithms that give a cleaner picture, and the round-number percentage makes it more likely you'll get a good result.
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The other thing you can do is crop instead of resizing, to provide focus on the thing you're trying to talk about. Obviously this is more work, but it also makes the LP easier to read.
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