The Sandcastle - Let's Play Discussion and Drama (Archive info in OP!)

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Runa: Feb 13, 2011

Speedball posted:

I have spent the last three months in therapy over this poo poo, beating myself up. But you know what? I feel better right now. Because if all the drama was manufactured, it wasn't on me at all.

goddamn, yeah you didn't deserve any of that

# ¿ Mar 5, 2024 00:42

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# ¿ May 3, 2024 19:45

Runa: Feb 13, 2011

Meadowhill posted:

Is there a specific thread people are researching the dark id thing cause this is fascinating

I dunno if this is what you're looking for but the sagas/legends thread has been having a field day with it

this one got goldmined today even

E: Current thread is here but also it's very much a gossipy old hands chat thread

# ¿ Mar 5, 2024 01:11

Runa: Feb 13, 2011

The Dark Beer

# ¿ Mar 5, 2024 01:14

Runa: Feb 13, 2011

Commander Keene posted:

Good to hear this revelation has improved your mental health, though. I'm not familiar with your past LP content personally, but I'll be keeping an eye out for whatever you choose to do in the future!

Speedball's Civ 5 Big Boss LP is a pretty good read

# ¿ Mar 5, 2024 01:51

Runa: Feb 13, 2011

Cooked Auto posted:

Had no idea James Somerton did LPs.

I mean, we've already got Tommy Tallarico at home

# ¿ Mar 5, 2024 12:41

Runa: Feb 13, 2011

idonotlikepeas posted:

Catching up on the last few days of posts in this thread has been loving wild. I think part of the reason a lot of this poo poo works is that it's hard to imagine a person lying on that kind of scale. Like, yes, everyone has told a few lies in their life, but most people do not compose an entire soap opera with multiple terminally ill characters and try to sell you on it as their actual existence. Our brains just aren't ready to deal with something like that.

When coolguye first mentioned some of this stuff on discord years ago I legitimately just thought TDI was doing a weird bit and didn't think much else of it. After all, it's not like he was expecting to be taken seriously, right? Right?

# ¿ Mar 5, 2024 14:15

Runa: Feb 13, 2011

more importantly when is dahir insaat going to produce new content

# ¿ Mar 7, 2024 15:10

Runa: Feb 13, 2011

Meowywitch posted:

I miss retsupurae but I think they just moved on with their lives

cest la vie

i know slowbeef does alright on twitch

# ¿ Mar 7, 2024 23:41

Runa: Feb 13, 2011

John Wick posting on discord each time he takes down another ambusher

# ¿ Mar 11, 2024 00:01

Runa: Feb 13, 2011

Fedule posted:

Anyway, there's actually a better but far less interesting and funny reason for there not being a mod challenge in LP since then; it's actually really difficult to make a mod challenge funny. Like. At minimum you need someone you want to ban or at least punish harshly over their bullshit. But also someone you want to potentially let off. Then you need a challenge that's appropriate to said bullshit that needs to be, you know, doable but just challenging enough to, you know, be a challenge worth overcoming for clemency, but also not something so specific that other posters can't also compete. Finally, the whole endeavour, including the competition itself, has to be funny. How that works exactly depends on the context but like. This is LP. We don't really have very many contexts.

It's really very rare for all of these elements to come together in LP. Hell it's rare enough we get the first and most fundamental element at all - the guy. LP is quiet and drama free for months at a time. And when something does come along, it is invariably either a minor dispute over spoilers or... the Pok�mon Amputee Sex Slave ROM Hack LP Request Guy. Or wesflarger. Or... The Dark Id.

Also mod challenges aren't really, like, a thing across the forums anymore. The culture had long since shifted away from that kind of forums content creation and if punishments are called for they're usually pretty direct and swift. And if reactions aren't fast enough, well, see you in ~~Forums Court~~ SAD. Which is arguably sort of the replacement content, in a Jerry Springer-esque fashion.

# ¿ Mar 12, 2024 05:53

Runa: Feb 13, 2011

Yeah it was a weird moment

# ¿ Mar 30, 2024 00:19

Runa: Feb 13, 2011

FutureFriend posted:

i feel even generally maligned goons have posted lps in here and gotten away fine. im sure its different in the discords, but hell, i have mostly known this as a forum of peace

for what it's worth, it probably helps to be able to read the room, and also to not reheat decades old beef apropos of nothing because of an internet lore archaeology pet project

making that kind of post has been a genuine hobby for that poster over a long enough period of time across multiple subforums that, I think, a lot of people are just exhausted of him

# ¿ Apr 1, 2024 13:27

Runa: Feb 13, 2011

As far as I'm aware, Chip and Grant are the gold standard of VLP, a format that has largely been superseded by regular streaming for the majority of the Internet.

# ¿ Apr 1, 2024 21:17

Runa: Feb 13, 2011

I appreciate that Sanguinia's FFXIV LP does have original fiction as an optional link in their posts for the sufficiently engaged members of the audience who might be interested.

# ¿ Apr 2, 2024 00:32

Runa: Feb 13, 2011

Your Uncle Dracula posted:

Don�t go to cspam, it rots your brain out in an unfun way.

# ¿ Apr 3, 2024 13:09

Runa: Feb 13, 2011

That's not a joke, cspam is infamous for taking the worst parts of politics doomscrolling and shoving them into an insular echo chamber that actively erodes your sense of personal shame and replaces it with outrage. Much of it performative, for clout.

# ¿ Apr 3, 2024 13:17

Runa: Feb 13, 2011

That Little Demon posted:

extremely my dude, oh for sure.

Actually since you're here, and this is just tangentially related to the thread's ostensible brief, but I still think your playthrough of FFXIV where you pretty much ignored the story to just cruise the casino and nightclub RP scene was genuinely inspired.

It's a shame people got weird about it but I'm glad you did it, that was good stuff.

# ¿ Apr 4, 2024 00:21

Runa: Feb 13, 2011

That Little Demon posted:

thank you lol, that was one of my favorite things I ever did but yeah... people stalked me and tried to ERP me lol.

lmao

but also, jesus christ

# ¿ Apr 4, 2024 00:33

Runa: Feb 13, 2011

Shitenshi posted:

Never played FFXIV but I remember during the launch period when it was a cool thing to hate on it left and right because of Squeenix's sheer laziness in actually making a good game. And now everybody loves it, considering it on par with Warcraft and whatever other MMOs are popular these days. Good times.

everyone still dunks on FFXIV 1.0, even the guy who blew it up and used its remains to make the version of the game people talk about today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmffV4oKZu4&t=266s

# ¿ Apr 4, 2024 13:04

Runa: Feb 13, 2011

Fedule posted:

But we've already had an LP of 9 Hours 9 Persons 9 Doors

lol

# ¿ Apr 5, 2024 16:46

Runa: Feb 13, 2011

claw game handjob posted:

Since the thread's never going to happen, the game also has a happy ending I will spoil here.

The game was made by an artist and a writer who crowdfunded the whole thing in the kickstarter boom era. The artist proceeds to turn in everything to contract, down to the last letter: X sprites for Y characters, backgrounds, etc., and he gets done way ahead of the writer. Artist is also the person who had been doing the updates for people while the game is in development, so he just goes "I've turned in my work, you're just waiting on so-and-so to finish, have fun with the finished product, all!" and he gets offline for years and uses his half of the crowdfunding cash to pay his way through art school. As far as I am aware he is now just a big-boob patreon dude living happily, dunno if he has a good day job, never dug deeper.

The back half of the game has a lot of very, very bitter jokes from the writer (who sucks as a dude) about how because he didn't think ahead or get more work out of his partner or whatever, now every single NPC professor in the game is the same sprite, or there aren't enough NPCs, or...

lmao

# ¿ Apr 14, 2024 01:03

Runa: Feb 13, 2011

Danaru posted:

The Matthewtheman saga because it's one of my faves lmao

The short version:

lmao

# ¿ Apr 14, 2024 12:16

Runa: Feb 13, 2011

Coolguye posted:

the first time i read it i genuinely sat there blinking for a few moments. i was like "there's no way i read that right" and i reread his post like 3 times expecting it to change somehow and it never did

holmes had been a little odd up to that point but really what romhacker isn't. you have to be a little addled to undertake that sort of project. then he just loving howls

lol

# ¿ Apr 15, 2024 05:44

Runa: Feb 13, 2011

People will definitely watch a pokemon stream, especially if it's a nuzlocke or other gimmick, but Let's Play is a distinct format with its own expectations.

# ¿ Apr 18, 2024 00:45

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# ¿ May 3, 2024 19:45

Runa: Feb 13, 2011

I wouldn't go that far

I've seen the insanity that goes on behind the scenes to make a Dougdoug or big jerma project work

# ¿ Apr 18, 2024 00:49

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