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Xander77 posted:I was just about to say that people were bringing that up as an alternative. It's kinda dead, staffing is virtually non-existent, and it's horrible for SSLPs because it doesn't have pagination, just infinite scroll.
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I like to believe I do good work. I put a lot of effort into my LPs, and I think that it shows. That said, I can't afford to host my SSLPs myself, and I don't think I have enough of a built-in audience to really get away with setting up a Patreon even if I didn't have to solve hosting. The Dark Id managed to make it work, and I'm glad for him, but he's probably the most well-known SSLPer around and he's been doing this like, three times longer than I have. I'm not ragging on TDI, love that guy and love his work, but I hope we can put SA back in our own hands or at least find a new forum (hopefully one that uses BBcode, heh) because I'm pretty much doing this entirely because I like making jokes and I get the good brain chemicals when people say nice things to me on the internet, and while I'd love to be able to have people sending me tips like that I don't know that it's a viable solution for myself or anyone else. I also really just like the format of forum discussions, and I'd hate to lose that. I think SSLPs might just kind of die if they don't have a proper home, and that would be a real shame.
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Jun 24, 2020 16:27
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I do not trust BnR
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Jun 25, 2020 13:39
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They had a hundreds-page-long thread "ironically" discussing transphobic conspiracy theories People noticed, the thread got locked, there was a large ruckus in QCS, and FYAD got locked down for a while Lowtax stepped in eventually, gave FYAD a warning, then reopened it, and FYAD immediately started up a thread about sucking off Hitler or some poo poo Then FYAD got nuked
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Jun 25, 2020 23:12
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS is throwing a big benefit concert to save the rec center!
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Jun 26, 2020 02:05
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Sally posted:at the risk of tripleposting, i also wanted to requote this. Someone can probably do better but I hosed around in Photoshop for a bit and made this one: 
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Aug 14, 2020 18:06
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3's probably a little too fast, yeah. I would go with 2, it seems the closest to what I would be used to in this kind of game.
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Sep 12, 2020 19:39
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So, I've been planning a 13 Sentinels LP for a little while. I'm not ready to post it immediately, but I drafted a first update today and I'm wondering about a few things. First update So, because I love making bad decisions, I decided to do multiple portraits for various emotions here, but I ran into a major problem: the sprites aren't ripped anywhere, so I need to grab them manually. Which compounds with the problem of the background and lighting changing depending on the scene, so I run into parts where this will happen: quote:
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In the first example, it looks kind of weird and is hard to scan quickly that the background will change, and with it the entire color of the portrait, making it hard to tell that the first and third portraits are the same character. That's less of a problem to me than the second example though, where consecutive portraits for the same character, already something I'm not fond of doing, change dramatically in terms of general color and make it hard to tell at a glance they're the same person. Can someone tell me if I'm worrying over nothing here? Also, is (parentheses) for internal monologue readable enough? I worry I should just change it to italics.
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Dec 14, 2020 04:12
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But seriously, Amiguchi… We gotta catch that guy, and quick. 
You want to hang out again that badly?
He’s got all the good video games! They’re just waitin’ for me to play ‘em.
This sucks, man. Can’t find Amiguchi anywhere.
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Thanks all, I wanted to show off the good character art but I replaced all the portraits and they look better now with one per character.
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Dec 14, 2020 21:11
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Cropping is probably the best solution if you only need specific segments of the screen. For my Disco Elysium LP I used a Photoshop routine to automatically crop every single image to the portion of the screen that was centered on where the dialogue box pops out and then manually sorted out and cropped any others.
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Jun 17, 2021 17:24
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Just got an email from YouTube I thought I should mention, if you've got unlisted videos that were uploaded before January 1st, 2017, YouTube is going to make them all private unless you opt out. I'm pretty sure I'm not the only person who does SSLPs who uploads any incidental videos as unlisted, so just warning people.
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Jun 23, 2021 18:57
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I think you could probably find a medium between those. I tried resizing that to 60x81 and it looks mostly fine to me. It all depends on preference, though. I tend to err towards larger portraits.
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Jul 18, 2021 02:49
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People have LP'd romhacks countless times, I don't see an issue
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Aug 28, 2021 02:26
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I make long updates and I am constantly straining against the character limit.
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Oct 26, 2021 03:27
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Mix. posted:Does anyone have a good rule of thumb for how long you should pause on a dialogue section before moving to the next one when it comes to a video LP of a VN/RPG Maker/Etc type game? The advice I've heard is read it in your head twice, though I do SSLPs so it's not really relevant for me 
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Nov 14, 2021 18:11
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) to expand the range of stuff I can LP (and also, like, for practical purposes, I already edit audio for a podcast I'm part of so adding video to my repertoire would help tremendously), but my reading speed is absurdly quick so I have no personal sense of what a good amount of time would be for the average person. (Obviously if there's voice acting that helps set its own metric, but this is for stuff without voice acting).
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IGgy IGsen posted:Well, this one guy's been pissing for weeks and nothing happened. So he must be doing something right. https://twitter.com/tactfulogre/status/1347278500076654594
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Nov 25, 2021 17:10
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Confession: I transcribe everything by hand.
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Dec 15, 2021 18:57
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Acerbatus posted:haven't you LP'd persona 5 like 3 times??? 
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Dec 16, 2021 03:48
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That seems readable. A better font would help at that size but that's probably out of your control.
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Jan 5, 2022 03:14
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Sally posted:it was so bad we got two LPs gloriously ripping into it simultaneously Remember the four minutes I was going to do an LP of it and got spared because a second YIIK LP had hit the forums? Lmao
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Jan 14, 2022 18:39
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The two things I remember about that aborted LP were coming up with a joke while recording that GrandmaParty and his co-commentator for that episode had already ended up making at the exact same point, and also this post, which I'm still pretty proud of:Arist posted:Hey guys, I've been working on a little LP of my own of this game! It's in screenshot format, and I put a lot of work into it! Enjoy!
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Jan 14, 2022 18:47
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PurpleXVI posted:It helped a good deal when I learned that Irfanview let me save cutting/resizing templates. Huh, it does? I did all my mass crops for the Disco Elysium LP using Photoshop batch actions.
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Feb 13, 2022 21:17
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Depends on how long the updates will be. Speaking from my perspective as a reader and less from my experience as a creator, you somewhat paradoxically run the risk of losing readers if your updates are too long and happen too frequently because SSLPs require an attention investment and it's easy to fall behind if the updates come too often. I realize I do really long updates, but that's just me being a hypocrite
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Mar 3, 2022 17:10
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limeicebreakers posted:I was wondering something about archived LPs. If I, say, split up a single update into two posts due to length, will it be archived separately or on one page? A bunch of my updates have been a few thousand characters above forum post limit, so I opted to split them. Only just now had the presence of mind to ask about this. I don't think baldurk merges posts, though I might be wrong. If you want to merge two posts I'd just copy the text of both into the testposter, change the update text to a link to the testposter page, and notify baldurk about that update when you submit your request. Though, I heard that baldurk can't scrape forums smilies from the testposter, so if the post contains any of those maybe don't do that. e: also, if you ever want a handy trick to get your updates down within the character limit, you can actually delete everything between the lpix image number and the file extension (so, the image name) in your lpix image links.
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Mar 15, 2022 19:14
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I don't actually recommend doing that unless you need the space, for the record, because I find it really helpful for the image name to be in the link itself, especially if I have to go back and re-edit things.
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Mar 15, 2022 21:18
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TheMcD posted:Do you not use an uploader like ShareX that can just give you a list of URLs after upload? This is exactly what I do. Shift-click the first and last pictures and voila
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Mar 15, 2022 22:51
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Mix. posted:i like doing it manually because its also how i check for typos or character dialogue boxes i might've missed Friend, someone should really introduce you to FaceCopy (I also used the "word doc fulla portrait image URLs" method for the entirety of the original P5 LP)
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Mar 16, 2022 22:24
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Hahahaha. Update reserve. Hahahaha. I almost never hold back an update, I finish that poo poo and immediately post it. I barely even look it over first.
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Mar 17, 2022 19:33
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Seems mostly fine from what I can tell, but it'd be nice if like half the image in the wide shots wasn't just black space. You can use batch actions in Photoshop or even just the batch crop utility in IrfanView to cut that stuff out pretty automatically.
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Mar 24, 2022 03:20
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I'd just censor that, assuming it's an sslp.
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May 5, 2022 20:10
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I'm unfamiliar with Detention, but I LP'd Disco Elysium, which is also extremely political, with no real issues.
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Jul 5, 2022 18:02
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Even if you don't plan on sending it to the archive (the archive maxes out at 900 pixels wide), those images are much too big to view comfortably. I would figure out what you need to be showing in each image and crop them down to the important information.
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Aug 19, 2022 03:18
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Please sticky my threads so my loyal and devoted fans will harass me into updating more frequently
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Aug 31, 2022 15:13
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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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He had soundtrack uploads and they did a copyright pass
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Oct 26, 2022 22:06
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I like that the T-Rex is having fun on the raft too
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Dec 2, 2022 20:53
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The etiquette there is definitely a bit weird. If they haven't posted their LP in that thread making a post in their own thread to remind them to do so is probably the polite thing to do instead.
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Jan 26, 2023 19:47
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Mix. posted:how do you successfully fight the urge to not pull the trigger on starting a new LP until you're close to the end of the one you already have going if you're me, you mostly just don't
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Jan 29, 2023 03:53
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timg is also not supported by the archive, but yeah, it's annoying to click through
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If you need to do frequent crops and it's at all possible for the game you're LPing, I recommend making a batch crop script in Photoshop or what-have-you to automatically crop to specific screen regions. It was the only thing that made it possible for me to LP Disco Elysium, for instance. For DE, I would do several prep steps because in addition to crops for the text boxes I would also have manual crops for wider shots. Take screenshots, batch crop to the text box, manually sort out of the original shots anything that doesn't include the text box for a manual crop later, manually crop those images, replace the redundant images from those by combining the folder with the one you exported the batch crop to (which is easy because the images have the same names so they're automatically replaced), and then a final batch resize/conversion to jpg. It sounds like a lot but it was fairly simple.
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