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Nihilarian
Oct 2, 2013


Boxturret posted:

Bitcoin has decided to try and cash in on the TPP hype.

Live stream:


Instead of writing commands in the chat you send money to different accounts!
Why. Why would anyone pay real money to have a game character step one square to the left. That's what's happening, right? Ugh.

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Nihilarian
Oct 2, 2013


I thought it was just engrish.

Nihilarian
Oct 2, 2013


The Game Grumps get all their games from their fans, if I recall correctly. So that probably cuts down on their expenses.

Nihilarian
Oct 2, 2013


Jon's replacement is also internet famous. Danny Sexbang from Ninja Sex Party.

Nihilarian
Oct 2, 2013


I used to watch Tobuscus pretty regularly. I understood he wasn't really like that, but I found him amusing anyway.

Nihilarian
Oct 2, 2013


Lazyfire posted:

That said, I can't understand why anyone would want to track down a let's player like they are suddenly going to be best friends simply because the stalker really like the videos the LPer puts out.
For the same reason all stalkers do. Because they're crazy.

Nihilarian
Oct 2, 2013


I stumbled into the LPArchive from Chorocojo's TVTropes page, back when I used to go there. That ended up leading me to SA.

Nihilarian
Oct 2, 2013


Since we were on the topic of Game Grumps recently, I thought I'd bring up Table Flip. It's an interesting side project of theirs where they play tabletop games and wear funny outfits. As I understand it, it's primarily Barry and Suzy's show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcVy8le8oyo

Seems like it could bring exposure to some lesser known tabletop games.

Also, it gives me an excuse to use :livintrope:

Nihilarian
Oct 2, 2013


Boxturret posted:

He's an lper from here who just keeps making threads despite everyone saying he's bad at lps.
Does he finish them?

Nihilarian
Oct 2, 2013


Jamesman posted:

I'm almost 1/11th of the way through the Dragon Age playlist. I wonder if I might actually end up watching the whole thing.
His Dragon Age playthrough has over 200 videos? Are they 5 minutes long or something?

Nihilarian
Oct 2, 2013


Jamesman posted:

He's also slowbeef's brother.



(ok not really)
I bet there's a fastbeef out there somewhere.

Nihilarian
Oct 2, 2013


Has no one done a non-english LP on the SA forums?

Nihilarian
Oct 2, 2013


PAMaster posted:

Wait so I could send them lovely games like Superman 64 or Glover or something and they'd play it.
They already played Glover.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArnYKNnSQaI

Nihilarian fucked around with this message at 04:39 on Apr 15, 2014

Nihilarian
Oct 2, 2013


Mr DJB posted:

I remember liking them power through Skyrim in hardly anytime at all, showing off a ton of sequence breaking glitches. Also the Randy Savage Dragon mod.
My only complaint about their Skyrim videos is when they fast forward through the speedrun tactics bits. The rest of it is great. But then, I like Ross and Danny better than Erin.

Nihilarian
Oct 2, 2013


What game is this?

Nihilarian
Oct 2, 2013


RSCNyx posted:

Funny thing recently came to my attention via Twitter. Apparently some LPers are asking for a percentage of the sales when they LP a game.

This is the most hilariously awful thing that I don't think LPers are thinking through. First, that would mean that you would be sponsored by a company, and if you want a share of the profits, you'll have to do a good job selling the game. Yelling "RAPE" and "OH MY GOD THIS GAME IS BUGGED" isn't gonna work anymore.

Second, they don't understand how the relationship works. LPers don't make the games they LP (with very rare exceptions), companies do. If a company flat out refuses (and they all will) to share their profits with them, what is the LPer gonna do? Refuse to play their game? That runs the risk of cutting into their paycheck!

While some will give free copies of games to LPers for them to LP it, hell if they're 100% depending on you and you alone to make their game look good.
Seriously? There's no way.

Nihilarian
Oct 2, 2013


So It Goes posted:

Is there some really good poo poo of theirs to temper this opinion I am forming?
Have you tried Steam Train? You might like it better (at least, when Erin doesn't hijack it.)

But they do have their moments.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etBH99Ys5u8

Nihilarian
Oct 2, 2013


So It Goes posted:

This is ridiculous. They don't have "conclusive" endings because they completely arbitrarily cut off at 10 minutes. Well the 10 minute cutoff isn't arbitrary because it is the exact minimum of time needed for a video to run the more expensive full ads. No matter what happened in a video, they "sign off" as soon as they can be bothered after 10 minutes because that's all they need to maximize ad revenue and maximize video output.
They'll often do a 15 or even 20 minute video if they feel they haven't done enough, or if they're at the finale and want to present it as one episode.

So It Goes posted:

I agree with the other guy that game grumps are terrible in the same ways other bad youtube channels are and its weird that this thread presents them as different (also egoraptor is literally one of the dumbest persons I've ever heard speak). I just thought it was funny that the dark souls community would be the one to call them out on not even trying to play games because they need to be "zany" or whatever.
I've never even played Dark Souls and I knew exactly what would happen when they started playing it. They'd dick around and the Dark Souls community would give them poo poo for it, because Dark Souls is Serious Business to a lot of people.

Nihilarian
Oct 2, 2013


Here's the Sad Hoshi bit in question. (It goes on for the rest of the video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7mFEAyzH0M&t=267s

Nihilarian
Oct 2, 2013


Dr. Buttass posted:

My friends and I loving hate Suzy. She is dull as poo poo and she only ever drags an episode down, and we're really not sure what Arin sees in her as a person to be married to either.
You don't like her material so you think she doesn't deserve to be married to Arin?

Nihilarian
Oct 2, 2013


orenronen posted:

Here's an oddity - the Japanese branch of Nestle, of all companies, started a year long LP project on their Youtube channels featuring Gackt playing classic video games. They plan to upload one short video every day for a year. They start with Megaman 2.

If you don't know who Gackt is, he's one of the bigger names in Japanese music (and general entertainment) - a legitimate pop-rock star with a 20 year career who still fills out stadiums. I watched the first video - he's bad at the game and clearly doesn't want to be there, which is played for laughs but isn't very funny.
That guy who was shoehorned into FFVII canon? That's fantastic/terrible.

Nihilarian
Oct 2, 2013


muike posted:

lmao what
I'm not kidding. They put him in the Nibelheim scene (made him the guy who drove Sephiroth crazy), and then he spends the rest of Crisis Core being Sephiroth but with red hair.

Edit: Apparently Gackt also appeared in Dirge of Cerberus. Not a guy based on Gackt, literally Gackt in a costume, live-action.

Nihilarian fucked around with this message at 03:41 on Jul 2, 2014

Nihilarian
Oct 2, 2013


David D. Davidson posted:

I hate to be the one to turn the discussion back to Darksydephil but well:

loving SERIOUSLY?
This is a thing? People are talking about DSP's couch?

What is special about this couch?

Nihilarian
Oct 2, 2013


Kay Kessler posted:

Oh, her. Yeah, her comics suck. No idea about her as a person, though. Some people say she's okay, but then some people hate her enough to doxx her and send death threats, so who knows. :shrug:
Whether or not someone gets death threats isn't a very good measure of that person's character.

Comic sounds terrible, though.

Nihilarian
Oct 2, 2013


I got to watch Mitt Romney get a bucket of water dumped on him, so I think it's a rousing success.

Also, money is being raised to combat a horrifying disease, and that is also good.

If you decide to take the challenge, though, you should probably take care, especially if you're on blood pressure medication. At least have a buddy there ready to drive you to the hospital.

Nihilarian
Oct 2, 2013


CJacobs posted:

I'd tell you this conversation is better suited for the comments section of the videos but she disabled them.
Thank loving god. No one deserves to be assaulted by a YouTube comment section.

Nihilarian
Oct 2, 2013


deadicons posted:

I don't think TotalBiscuit is part of Gamergate. From what I understand he is actual pretty neutral.
He's a GamerGater, but instead of providing proof I'm going to link to this, because I think it's funnier.

https://mobile.twitter.com/totalbiscuit/status/529716776410841088

I AM THE MEDIA

Nihilarian
Oct 2, 2013


I'm not sure if it counts but as I recall, Tobuscus refers to his fans as "audience".

Nihilarian
Oct 2, 2013


If I remember right the guy gave DmC like an 8/10, despite his own disappointment with it and the bitter feelings that were running rampant through the fandom at the time. He seems surprisingly reasonable?

Nihilarian
Oct 2, 2013


slowbeef posted:

One of the Rooster Teeth guys tweeted pics of his apartment building when he wasn't so famous. A fan found the complex, and moved in, then proceeded to pretend to not know the guy in order to form this fake organic relationship.

One of the RT staffers recognized her from video footage where she asked a question at a panel, and now it's like this super uncomfortable thing in their building.
uh, is he still living in the same building as the crazy fan?

Nihilarian
Oct 2, 2013


RareAcumen posted:

Though, unlike most Gods his power lies in his ability to keep being wrong. He felt that there would never be another Castlevania game and lo and behold the universe had to make him wrong and we will be getting a new Castlevania game getting Kickstarted right now.
I mean, it's technically not a Castlevania game. :v:

Nihilarian
Oct 2, 2013


Better audio for Cerulean86
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2abadvtbgxk

Nihilarian
Oct 2, 2013


I don't know who finished first but MassRafter did one too.

Nihilarian
Oct 2, 2013


After months of talking about how Anita was trying to censor games they dug up Jack Thompson to talk about how bad she is. :ironicat:

Nihilarian
Oct 2, 2013


Man, it was probably Tobuscus' Happy Wheels or Minecraft videos.

I don't really want to go back and watch them.

Nihilarian
Oct 2, 2013


I get your main point, but a lot of YouTube personalities get fanart too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJ5xHcnTcKI

Nihilarian
Oct 2, 2013


Stink Terios posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2Ec_ozQ4tc

Man, Best Friends' Freedom Planet LP is something to behold. I've never seen two people so giddy and having so much fun with a game, and it's refreshing seeing FP finally being given the praise it deserves.
I've never watched these guys before but man this is fun. :allears:

Cheez posted:

I think what everyone means to say is that it's a badly designed Sonic fangame with awkward physics and terrible voice acting/cutscenes and nobody wants to admit it.
I also like posting YouTube comments about how game is bad and the player's enthusiasm is hiding the fact that they don't want to admit game is bad.

Nihilarian
Oct 2, 2013


The Vosgian Beast posted:

In fact, I kind of compared the game to terrible fetish porn, so there's that.
I mean, you're not wrong.

Nihilarian
Oct 2, 2013


Roman Reigns posted:

Everything I've heard about the FNAF creator indicates he's a pretty cool guy.

TB on the other hand...I heard he stated that he doesn't believe racism exists, once.
I think he specifically said something like "racism doesn't exist in the UK, it's an American problem". He may have also said racism wasn't real but I hadn't heard of that.

Oh, and he thinks he's a victim of racism because of British bad guys in films or something.

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Nihilarian
Oct 2, 2013


the "I'm a victim of racism" bit doesn't seem to be in there, so let's see if I can find it.

Here!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_bggh3EOMU&t=1200s

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