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feedmyleg
Dec 25, 2004
I agree with that crow. He's a bird, he shouldn't have to deal with this bullshit.

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Blue Footed Booby
Oct 4, 2006

got those happy feet

freeedr posted:

I don’t even know video games but that sounds really funny. Is the article still around?

Riot Carol Danvers posted:

Excuse me what now

I don't have a link handy, but it was the same guy who played Cuphead and got stuck in the tutorial.

Phthisis posted:

I got through like half of Mass Effect 1 without leveling up (or maybe leveling up my weapons or something? I don't remember what exact mechanic I was missing) because I was playing it on an old CRT and the text was too small to read. I thought the text was just like, fake space text to look cool and sci-fi-y. I ended up getting stuck because the game was too hard, but then after getting an adapter to connect my xbox to a computer monitor, suddenly figured it all out and spent 10 minutes leveling up, and then breezing my way through the rest of the game.

I got pretty far before I realized I had multiple heals. That thing was illegible in SD.

ultrafilter
Aug 23, 2007

It's okay if you have any questions.


https://twitter.com/dril/status/1670926011561807872

https://twitter.com/dieworkwear/status/1670911354587475968

https://twitter.com/PoodleSnarf/status/1670792831680618498

John Lee
Mar 2, 2013

A time traveling adventure everyone can enjoy

Captain Invictus posted:

my favorite part is Amelia going "I could grab them one by one, but that's lame, that's not the point!" and then cuts to DSP doing that exact thing

"What, so I'm just supposed to KNOW what to do, without the game TELLING me!?"

yeah motherfucker, it's called a puzzle

"What, is this a PRESSURE plate? Who knows?"

A: then test the hypothesis, dumbass! Jump on it, put a couple things on it and watch, peer beneath the panel surrounding it, something

B: so you figured out what it was instantly, as the very next thing you said? Guess you didn't need the game to tell you what do then!


The funny part is, I remember that specific shrine, and didn't notice the bulldozer either

but I wasn't a fuckin' constantly complaining rear end in a top hat, so when I saw it I was like 'lol'

Elysiume
Aug 13, 2009

Alone, she fights.

Blue Footed Booby posted:

I don't have a link handy, but it was the same guy who played Cuphead and got stuck in the tutorial.
Oh my god, that was the same guy? I guess that makes sense. It's gone on the live page, but it's here on the archive and his retraction is here. I think the worst part is that he mentions that he started out by leveling up and just forgot about it by the time he got to the second zone. And kept forgetting for the entire rest of his review.

e: oh part of this was already in the thread

Elysiume has a new favorite as of 04:50 on Jun 20, 2023

One More Fat Nerd
Apr 13, 2007

Mama’s Lil’ Louie

Nap Ghost

Dameius posted:

The reviewer was Dean Takahashi, also the reviewer who got stuck on the Cuphead tutorial because he couldn't jump and then dash while in the air.

Just a quick Google couldn't find the original review which he titled Mass Defect and the original publication he works for only has the updated review after he was called out for being an idiot. The updated review is here.

I'm reminded of a goon who got extremely mad in the cspam gaming thread, full meltdown, etc, because he couldn't get past like, the second room in metroid dread, cause he did not read the tutorial and couldn't figure out that you hold down the jump button to jump higher.

I assume he was sleep deprived or something.

That video of Takahashi struggling with the cuphead jump may be the most frustrating thing I've ever watched.

Tiggum
Oct 24, 2007

Your life and your quest end here.


Shitshow posted:

Yeah, they all obviously go in the square hole.
In case anyone is unfamiliar with these:
https://twitter.com/TiredActor/status/1352731881716985857
https://twitter.com/TiredActor/status/1583544879656771584
https://twitter.com/FizzySodaIsland/status/1590496820933058560

Hyperlynx
Sep 13, 2015

That's why I like Day[9]. He's smart as heck, a genuinely lovely guy, and he also makes silly mistakes that are very funny, particular when learning a new game. He just totally misses stuff and comes to wrong conclusions and whatnot.

The thing is, he laughs his arse off about it too when he realises what he did wrong.

Elysiume
Aug 13, 2009

Alone, she fights.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGGTEFfZW9M
This is my favorite Day9 clip. I think he was super jetlagged or something during it.

PetraCore
Jul 20, 2017

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Hyperlynx posted:

That's why I like Day[9]. He's smart as heck, a genuinely lovely guy, and he also makes silly mistakes that are very funny, particular when learning a new game. He just totally misses stuff and comes to wrong conclusions and whatnot.

The thing is, he laughs his arse off about it too when he realises what he did wrong.
The thing about streamers is they're not just there to play videogames, they're there to be entertainers. What people find entertaining is going to vary, of course, but from what I know it's actually a lot of work to be good at streaming and a lot of that is also just.. being able to connect with your audience somehow. I like funny streamers the best.

Philippe
Aug 9, 2013

(she/her)
The baffling thing to me is that DSP is still an active let's player. I thought he'd have given that up years ago.

Hyperlynx
Sep 13, 2015

Elysiume posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGGTEFfZW9M
This is my favorite Day9 clip. I think he was super jetlagged or something during it.

He also has a degree in mathematics :D

I think it's much harder to play a videogame properly when you're trying to present at the same time. I know I find it harder to focus if I'm also trying to explain what I'm doing and maybe crack jokes too.

Talorat
Sep 18, 2007

Hahaha! Aw come on, I can't tell you everything right away! That would make for a boring story, don't you think?
I read a probably bullshit but sounds right statistic that you play about 30% worse when you’re streaming, because your attention is divided by the game and responding to chat and attempting to be entertaining, it’s a lot harder than playing by itself. Honestly it’s an impressive skill set that I definitely don’t have.

Captain Invictus
Apr 5, 2005

Try reading some manga!


Clever Betty

Elysiume posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGGTEFfZW9M
This is my favorite Day9 clip. I think he was super jetlagged or something during it.
I like this one, I love his tangents about creative freedom and all that poo poo.
"BIO QUARTZ SPACE GODZILLA. LOOK AT THOSE SHOULDERS!!!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62lfYjg7Hcc&hd=1

dude's literally the second account on twitch after twitch itself, he's been around long enough to not really have to worry about cultivating an audience, while he's not some huge Ninja type he's doing very well for himself and that really takes a lot of weight off of worry about Being An Entertainer I think.

Dameius
Apr 3, 2006
Even when he was doing Brood War dailies from his bedroom he was entertaining. Also I still get a laugh outta remembering the LOTR joke.

goatsestretchgoals
Jun 4, 2011

I was not streaming but my kitten tried to help me play video games earlier tonight. Despite being an adorable fuzz ball, her 5-way CTF instincts leave much to be desired.

Fake edit: For the record, when opfor is capturing B the correct move is not in fact to begin kicking me in the mouse hand.

E: I have an awesome picture but pasteimg appears broken and imgur is imgur.

goatsestretchgoals has a new favorite as of 08:59 on Jun 20, 2023

Anticheese
Feb 13, 2008

$60,000,000 sexbot
:rodimus:


Tom of Shetland

Biplane
Jul 18, 2005

Anticheese posted:

Tom of Shetland

lol

caspergers
Oct 1, 2021
https://twitter.com/skyler_higley/status/1670874100993085442?t=SO6P8wibgt7dt8kT4ILhUQ&s=19

Deep Glove Bruno
Sep 4, 2015

yung swamp thang
sorry to drag it on but what interests me most about that tweet is not the video but the description. on what planet is knowing how to play zelda games at all related to media literacy? is knowing how game puzzles tend to work media literacy? are we all dead, and in hell?

projecthalaxy
Dec 27, 2008

Yes hello it is I Kurt's Secret Son


What's a video game? Why are those people doing that? Is that happening in real life???

Tenebrais
Sep 2, 2011

Deep Glove Bruno posted:

sorry to drag it on but what interests me most about that tweet is not the video but the description. on what planet is knowing how to play zelda games at all related to media literacy? is knowing how game puzzles tend to work media literacy? are we all dead, and in hell?

Media literacy in the specific medium of video games. Understanding how they communicate, what they're trying to say and what they want you to think and do. It's different from the usual meaning of figuring out when a journalist is lying but I wouldn't say it's a bad use of the term.

Morpheus
Apr 18, 2008

My favourite little monsters

Deep Glove Bruno posted:

sorry to drag it on but what interests me most about that tweet is not the video but the description. on what planet is knowing how to play zelda games at all related to media literacy? is knowing how game puzzles tend to work media literacy? are we all dead, and in hell?

It's not the way I'd put it, but one could view the ability to internalize video game mechanics and language, such as "oh if there's a bunch of balls to move in a game built around constructions and innovation, surely there's going to be a way to move them that isn't tedious and repetitive" as a form of media literacy.

e: beaten by a whole second

Deep Glove Bruno
Sep 4, 2015

yung swamp thang
i'll clarify: if you think media literacy is something you can demonstrate from twitch streams, you aren't media literate

e: lol thanks. it's just twitter hyperbole i know but it's such a stretch. never heard anyone even attempt to use the term in that way

Mak0rz
Aug 2, 2008

😎🐗🚬

She elaborates further down
https://twitter.com/Doodletones/status/1670851112625397760

The Wicked ZOGA
Jan 27, 2022
Probation
Can't post for 46 hours!
I don't care how she's explaining it, she's full of poo poo

projecthalaxy
Dec 27, 2008

Yes hello it is I Kurt's Secret Son


DarksidePhil is right! The w*man is wrong! Its the only literacy anyone needs!

Yngwie Mangosteen
Aug 23, 2007
https://twitter.com/hehewaitwhut/status/1671039552654573568?s=46&t=LuWlVigXSHv3TXi-WVRPYA

Riot Carol Danvers
Jul 30, 2004

It's super dumb, but I can't stop myself. This is just kind of how I do things.
Getting so hung up on the terminology versus the guy being a total dipshit who doesn't understand video games to the point that you're calling her "full of poo poo" is some 2008 Goon rear end energy, godamn

steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat

Oh great, the tweeter thinks i will MAGICALLY figure out what her words mean, without even BOTHERING to explain them to me? Thanks for wasting my time with something that's LITERALLY impossible! NOT!

boofhead
Feb 18, 2021

words? huh. what are they good for? absolutely nothing

The Wicked ZOGA
Jan 27, 2022
Probation
Can't post for 46 hours!

Riot Carol Danvers posted:

Getting so hung up on the terminology versus the guy being a total dipshit who doesn't understand video games to the point that you're calling her "full of poo poo" is some 2008 Goon rear end energy, godamn

I think you need to 'engage' with the joke

Riot Carol Danvers
Jul 30, 2004

It's super dumb, but I can't stop myself. This is just kind of how I do things.

The Wicked ZOGA posted:

I think you need to 'engage' with the joke

Dammit I just woke up ignore me

Wee
Dec 16, 2022

by Fluffdaddy
https://twitter.com/CoolBoxArt/status/1671151592501018630

Morpheus
Apr 18, 2008

My favourite little monsters
It'll get you deep into gaming

Professor Wayne
Aug 27, 2008

So, Harvey, what became of the giant penny?

They actually let him keep it.
are you tired of substandard controllers?

cohsae
Jun 19, 2015

It'll take your breath away

rodbeard
Jul 21, 2005


If she wasn't a vtuber, I would think this was all just a bit she was doing. She's basically pointing at a clown and saying look at him he's doing a terrible job of not dropping those pies as an example of people not understanding media.

Friend
Aug 3, 2008


lmao, I became the Square Hole girl when he made a scoop out of the balls and it looked like he might use that to push the other balls but just carries it over them instead.

https://twitter.com/MNateShyamalan/status/1670988720227401728

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Grassy Knowles
Apr 4, 2003

"The original Terminator was a gritty fucking AMAZING piece of sci-fi. Gritty fucking rock-hard MURDER!"

Deep Glove Bruno posted:

i'll clarify: if you think media literacy is something you can demonstrate from twitch streams, you aren't media literate

If you think “media” means “news” you are not regular literate

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