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Time to prep my Super Mario 64 SSLP test post.
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I remember when the three month rule was still the six month rule. But yeah, the overall atmosphere at the time was pretty restricting and caused some possibly great LPs to simply not happen. I'm definitely happier with how the forum is now. e: The SM64 SSLP joke reminded me that a few years ago I did a test SSLP update for SMB3, part as a laugh, part to see if I could pull it off, part to encourage people to get more creative and goofy with LP premises. Mega64 fucked around with this message at 20:51 on Sep 14, 2016 |
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Sep 14, 2016 20:47
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The only LPs I've heard Baldurk turned down were his own.
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Sep 20, 2016 02:23
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Mraagvpeine posted:Didn't Tindeck shut down, or am I thinking of another service? There was talk of it dying for awhile, but apparently it was just down for a bit and is back as normal. Which is kind of a shame since whoever runs it hasn't really bothered with the site at all the past several years except to try to sell it, which it seems like didn't work out. It still works fine but doesn't really seem to have much support behind it, and as mentioned the music player is still using Flash in 2016 (though with a couple more clicks you can access the file directly and bypass the Flash player). At this point it's better to pick another service. As mentioned, LPix can host MP3s now, and if you ask baldurk he'll bump up your account's file size restrictions to 10MB. I still suggest keeping images and GIFs below 2MB, but apparently MP3s are on a separate drive so it's not as big an issue for those.
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Oct 30, 2016 16:23
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Also make sure any e-mails aren't going into your spam folder. Had that happen on a secondary account and I didn't catch it for weeks.
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Nov 20, 2016 14:06
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Mraagvpeine posted:Huh, when did the forum start archiving threads again? IIRC archiving was still off due to the last mishap and ZDR didn't notice until recently when someone mentioned it. So if you've got an LP you might continue, at least keep the thread bumped every three months.
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Jan 1, 2017 00:01
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On the other hand, there are people who avoid SSLP's like the plague and even prefer VLPs of stuff like jRPGs. The LPer should go with what they feel suits the LP and their personal style the best and try to make the LP work from there.
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Jan 6, 2017 22:31
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Some awkward sentences here and there but as a big FF5 fan this looks crazy interesting to me and I'd definitely follow such an LP. And yeah, focus on the mechanics, nobody's going to read a ROM hack LP for the plot.
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Jan 29, 2017 18:37
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You picked a hell of a first Let's Play to do. Can't really speak for image quality (looks fine to me for an upscaled 3DS game, but I tend to have a bad eye for this sort of thing), but commentary seems fine enough, and you look to have a good balance between screenshots and dialogue during conversations. Lengthy RPGs are generally not the best first LP but multiple people have pulled it off including myself, so might as well try. I think it looks good!
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Jan 31, 2017 11:13
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drat, that's amazing! Here's to another ten!
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Feb 2, 2017 01:11
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I need some advice on how to handle character portraits. I'm planning to do Paper Mario as a SSLP, which is kind of a pain for various reasons I'll get into once I start the LP, but right now I'm stuck on character portraits. The main issue is that my best bet is using character sprites, but the sprites themselves have large size variations, which means if I do consistent portrait sizes like 64x64, there's a lot of ugly blank space, but I can't really go lower than that without doing some ugly resizing that throws scale right off. 50x50 helps with that, but it also means I have to resize the larger sprites such as Bowser, which can look rather ugly. Mainly, I want to see which one people think look the best, or if there's a better alternative I can go with (I've thrown around the idea of using other Mario game sprites, and I've even made very rough sprite edits for the game's partners when I toyed with LPing this game several years ago, but I really don't want to make special edits for each unique character model, such as the entire Goomba family so I'd rather avoid that option if possible). This is kinda long so I posted all my options in the SSLP test poster. Feedback is much appreciated! e: Added a couple more options for left-oriented 50x50 portraits. Mega64 fucked around with this message at 18:13 on Feb 4, 2017 |
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Feb 4, 2017 18:05
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Thanks for the feedback, everyone! Definitely going left-orientation, Bowser Face, and probably 64x64 at this rate but may still go 50x50 later. Much appreciated, and hopefully I'll get the LP up sometime tomorrow!
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Feb 5, 2017 02:52
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Many of Tindeck's uploads randomly break. I've had to reupload each MP3 file for my last update several times before it worked. LPix or self-hosting is probably the best option at this point.
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Feb 10, 2017 05:10
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Congratulations!
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Feb 22, 2017 23:59
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I'm thirty hours in and still have large chunks of the map missing. Good luck 100%ing it.
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Mar 7, 2017 04:33
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Mraagvpeine posted:Can someone explain to me what Let's Play Zone is? Short story, there was a Twitter argument between Lowtax and several prominent LPers that resulted in the latter getting banned (and a bunch of others leaving). I think the LP Zone was planned for awhile but this kicked it into gear. It's been slow to take off but I assume because they're still trying to get established (they just launched their Discord yesterday). I do hope they grow though because it'd be nice to have competition that isn't obnoxious shriekbats to help both communities improve our craft (their recommended hardware/software certainly seems less outdated than ours, for instance).
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Mar 30, 2017 10:18
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The Ayshkerbundy posted:I slap like buttons like as to if they were drenched with the creamy gravy sauce of the gravy cream Remove the face cam and I think you're set.
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Apr 4, 2017 00:41
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No one better be talking poo poo about lazycat619 in this thread.
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Apr 4, 2017 00:46
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BioEnchanted posted:I think it's because all the american TV I've seen treats Disney land like that kind of experience so my perspective is skewed. British People (including me) love Alton Towers but it's not in every show as a "The Family/Team goes to Alton Tower" special like in many american sitcoms, so americans don't think much of it because it's not literally EVERYWHERE in our media. You could see how my position was cemented by everything between Rosanne and Sabrina the Teenage Witch :P Part of that is Disney owns ABC and has its own network, so of course they're gonna plug their theme parks in those shows.
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Apr 6, 2017 21:45
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Max for LPix is 2MB, so that's usually the rule I use.
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Apr 10, 2017 20:57
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juicedup posted:So BBcode looks simple and all, but is there a faster way to do it? Here's a rough guide I post when this comes up. Probably needs some tweaking and updating but it'll do for a start. quote:My Full Process: Things may change based on stuff like OS, software preferences, type of game LPed, and so on. Should be a good starting point, at least.
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Apr 16, 2017 01:10
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I've toyed with the idea of Let's Playing Breath of the Wild, and after a couple attempts realized that the game speaks better for itself than I could really do, so I decided to simply do no-commentary, instead letting the atmosphere of the game itself and Link's actions be its own commentary. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUBcjJaTKAc Something I'm probably going to do on Youtube regardless, but I'm curious if this would fly here and with this game in particular, and also kinda curious on no-commentary in general since it kinda goes into Long Play territory, which is its own thing, though we've had some creative no-commentary LPs before. If it won't fit this forum then I'll leave it off.
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Apr 18, 2017 22:59
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Thanks for the feedback, everyone! Actually decided I'm going to keep it off-site anyway (and it'll probably be abandoned anyway at some point, knowing me). Still, something good to know next time something like this pops up around here.
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Apr 20, 2017 10:03
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Color Printer posted:I probably won't post this for a while because I'd like to get the next update for my other LP out soon after dealing with a bunch of technical issues, but I had a really stupid idea that I have to act on because I'm an idiot: The way you handled the story stuff in the update is fine. My only suggestion would be to add some screenshots for the bosses for those not watching the videos, though considering how trivial they are so far you'd probably only need a couple. Otherwise, looks fine to me! Looking forward to seeing the thread!
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Apr 22, 2017 13:13
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Do these look fine? Are they too large, either in width or file size? Anything obvious I'm forgetting? 
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Apr 26, 2017 00:47
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Thanks for the feedback! Hope to have something this weekend, but it may be awhile since I'm busier and more exhausted than usual. Also, everyone join the Discord as it's cool and good and full of cool and good people.
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Apr 26, 2017 20:08
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If you're concerned, give it a bump. I don't mind people bumping a thread to keep it out of archives if it's your LP or some sort of megathread or whatever, just as long as you don't get carried away bumping a thread that hasn't been updated in like six months or whatever,
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Apr 27, 2017 01:58
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Archiving was accidentally turned off for awhile, it was how I was able to revive an LP that hadn't had posts in seven months. That's since been fixed. Mods can't unarchive threads, sadly.
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Apr 29, 2017 01:36
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Considering how crap some games' official translations are, unofficial ones shouldn't be a problem. Go for it!
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May 3, 2017 00:38
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The way SA embeds MP4s is weird since it was a temp hackjob that probably won't be fixed until we move to Xenforo. It'll autoplay anything that comes from Imgur or Gfycat, but anywhere else that hosts MP4s will not autoplay. My advice is to avoid using those sites and use other MP4 hosts (the two I use regularly are Nya.is and Mixtape.moe) so that your MP4s won't autoplay. Hopefully after the forums move and we get proper MP4 support we'll have better solutions. Also, it's not worth using WebM since it's just a less compatible form of MP4 anyway.
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Jun 18, 2017 14:07
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I went ahead and added it to the Q&A in the OP.JordanKai posted:
Let me know if you think it needs tweaking or whatever.
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Jul 1, 2017 17:07
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: How long can a thread go without posts before it falls into the forum archives?
: Two months. If you intend to continue a LP you haven't updated in awhile, make sure to post before two months expire, even if to say something to the effect of "Sorry, I'll get back to this soon" so that it doesn't fall into the forum archives. Once a thread falls into the forum archives, it cannot be brought back out and you'll have to start a new thread over.
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Asterisk is fine with me. I've done LPs where I did portraits for every single NPC and it ate up so much time and drove me crazy enough that I almost abandoned the two LPs I put all that effort in. You may want to come up with a better-looking generic portrait, but I do think it's a better time and sanity investment to just have a giant catch-all for general minor NPCs than to make portraits for every single NPC you encounter.
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Jul 1, 2017 21:03
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Putty posted:I had the idea to start putting sponsored content in my LPs, but disguise them as screamers so people get scared rather than think I'm a shill. Thoughts? I see no flaws whatsoever with this plan.
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Aug 8, 2017 22:39
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achtungnight posted:Just watch out for all the hints of jerkiness still on the forums if you want to avoid them. One major example- if you don't pick a genre label for your thread you end up with "poo poo Post". You may not want that designation, or if you're like me and ended up with it unknowingly, you may decide it's all about irony and defying labels. And if you do gently caress that part up, you can always post a request here, in the Discord, or PM Fedule or me to change the thread tag.
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Aug 20, 2017 12:53
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LPs are distinct enough that there can be multiple LPs of the same game running at the same time. Knock yourself out.
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Aug 27, 2017 00:48
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Stay out of my fanfiction folder.
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Aug 29, 2017 02:14
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ZiegeDame posted:Just so I'm clear here, this would entail recording a mission, uploading it to youtube, then re-recording the mission with the sound turned off if the first video gets claimed. Or just doing two takes every time a licensed song comes up. Couldn't you manually silence the audio of the copyrighted parts? Even if you're recording commentary while playing it should be in a separate recording from the game's audio anyway. Just record pure gameplay to learn which parts to silence. Not that this isn't all incredibly dumb but, well, welcome to Youtube!
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Aug 31, 2017 23:37
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Screw MIDIs, hum and sing the music yourself.
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Sep 1, 2017 02:29
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All that said, there's nothing stopping you from making, say, Final Fantasy 1 as a video LP or Super Mario Bros. as a SSLP. They're just going to take more effort to make worth watching/reading and you might restrict your potential audience a bit. If you're confident enough and have a good idea on how to keep things interesting, you could make any format work with any game. It might just take a lot more effort than you should reasonably spend on a LP. Otherwise, the above posts are good guidelines. Just don't feel comstricted by those.
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nine-gear crow posted:I had a good one, but I lost it. gently caress Should've stickied it!
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