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DreamShipWrecked posted:Question about the Archives, are we basically adding in every single thread that is finished on SA, or is it a certain type? I am asking because my current Alice LP is far, far more conversational and casual than my previous ones (the current episode is half Miz Kriss and I talking about anime) and while I am having a lot of fun posting it I don't want to poo poo up the Archives if it's more designed for more game-focused commentary. The only ones I've ever heard of Baldurk refusing were anime porn games and/or Fate/stay night and Tsukihime, but he relented on the latter due as the primary objections to those were how much space/bandwidth they'd take up, and that was back when the archive was a tiny thing. You should be good!
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Artix posted:Okay, so I have a strange idea for an LP and I need a little feedback on the idea. Basically, I want to show off The Beginner's Guide - if you've never played it, it's basically a guided tour of a collection of small indie games, narrated by Davey Wreden (of The Stanley Parable fame). The catch is that because it's a "guided tour", Davey basically never shuts up, so voice commentary is basically out. But the game also has subtitles for Davey, subtitles for the assorted dialogue options that start showing up about halfway through, and adding a third set of subtitles (from me) would be basically unwatchable. Would it be a massive faux pas to post what basically amounts to a longplay before getting to the actual meat of the LP? The game isn't long, maybe 90 minutes or so, so it would only be like 5 videos at most, and it's kind of required reading for when we start going into the literary criticism part of the LP, because it does a ton of interesting things with Death of the Author and the separation between the Author and the Narrator. Or am I just totally overthinking this? How are you going to present the LP part of the LP? Text? Video?
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Oct 3, 2016 19:41
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Artix posted:I was thinking that after getting through the "text" in and of itself, I would do videos where I mute Davey and do voice commentary over video the appropriate bits of the game. I was kicking it around with some folks on the SA discord, and we came up with a handful of theories worth going into, and obviously anything the thread comes up with might be worth taking a deeper look at. That sounds good to me! Divvy it up so that someone who's already been through the text (i.e. me) can skip it and check out your LP stuff for new insight on the game, and for those who don't have it they can catch up with the class. I like it.
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Oct 3, 2016 20:12
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Edmond Dantes posted:Something Awful Forums Where's the option to post untagged spoilers in a thread marked no spoilers?
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Oct 19, 2016 21:49
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Hashim posted:So would anyone be interested in a Paradox LP/megacampaign? I've been recording it over on the Paradox forums, but as I was getting towards the end of the CK2 volume, I wondering how it might be received over here? On the one hand, we've had a lot of Paradox LPs and they're great. More are always great! On the other hand, that's a bit of a youtube dump-esque situation, if we've got a mostly complete LP being posted all at once, and that's frowned upon.
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Nov 6, 2016 02:42
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The video is still processing, but I can at least offer this: in my opinion, having such a tiny banner be timg-ed is unnecessary. Let it be full-sized, don't make a potential viewer click on it to see its full-size.
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Nov 13, 2016 05:43
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Artix posted:That seems...unnecessary? Like, it would take 5 seconds to find out whether it's video, screenshots, or some weird hybrid thing just by clicking on the thread and thread title space isn't exactly overflowing. It's like what, 75 characters? A minimum of 5 of which would be eaten up by this. Agreeing with this. It's super pedantic to put a rule like that in place. e: Not to mention that most of the time if you know the game, you know how it's going to be LPed. Dark Souls gets VLPs, Ultima gets an SSLP, and so on. StrixNebulosa fucked around with this message at 06:22 on Nov 20, 2016 |
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Nov 20, 2016 06:20
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MythosDragon posted:A good chunk of the lps around here are for RPGs, which dont really agree with that. I mean theres a new Pokemon VLP for Red, nuff said. ...nuff...said, what? Of course there are exceptions that prove the rule. A Pokemon VLP is genuinely surprising because it's rare.
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Nov 20, 2016 07:15
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Real minor nitpick - I'd change "And with that, let's *slightly damp hug*!" to *slightly damp hug* and just drop the extra text, keeping with the theme.
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Dec 2, 2016 10:41
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Raiad posted:I was planning a Screenshot LP of Darklands. I'm a bit worried that the screenshots might be too large, and thought I might be falling for the "well, it looks good on MY screen" trap. Once I have enough content to warrant it, I plan on adding a table of contents to the OP. I tried to focus more on the actual start of the quest for this post- massive effort posts about mechanics would come up later when they became relevant. Looks good on my 1600x900 resolution monitor - they don't break tables. On the other hand, given the kind of font that game uses, readability might be an issue unless they're a little smaller.
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Dec 24, 2016 07:03
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Nehru the Damaja posted:Any advice/pointers on how best to handle an LP of "The Sea Will Claim Everything?" Part of me is saying just "don't do it" because its format seems to resist LPs pretty hard -- large walls of text that wouldn't play well on video, but tons of back and forth that would make the story and progression feel weird and disjoint. Maybe screenshots joined by narrative to keep it flowing? Something like that would have to take the game very slow, I think. It's like a 5-hour game that would take many posts to do it like this. But it's such a neat game and story. My immediate thought is to point you to the ongoing LP of Geneforge by POOL IS CLOSED as a good example of a screenshot LP - if your writing can match the style, absolutely do it like that. My more practical suggestion is to LP one of the prequel games like the Book of Living Magic as that's shorter and of similar quality, so you could get the hang of it there, maybe?
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Siegkrow posted:Hey anybody knows what happened to speedball? Last I knew of him was making an lp of endless legend. Seems like a nice chap and I usually saw him posting around the same threads I lurked in. https://forums.somethingawful.com/member.php?action=getinfo&userid=134545 "Last Post Jan 22, 2017 12:57 PM"
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Speedball posted:I'm alive and well, though I had to take a big-rear end break from anything creative for a while and I'm still not back at 100%. Sorry to worry you. I post quite regularly in other threads. Not to pressure you to pick up your LP or anything, I'm just curious: did you ever get the Tempest expansion for Endless Legends? It adds some pretty cool stuff to the game, and I think that'd be a fun thing for you to play with if you're feeling down.
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Jan 26, 2017 03:57
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Speedball posted:I did! and it's both awesome and very game-changing. Instead of just being a barrier the ocean is now this dangerous place full of opportunity and pirates. I totally suck playing as the fishmen though. Glad to hear it! I haven't touched the fishmen yet because I'm still obsessed with the allayi, but the world feels way more alive with the oceans actually doing things - makes me wish Civ would've done something similar, but eh, discussion for another thread.
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Jan 26, 2017 06:38
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I'm throwing in my vote for Bowser Head 64x64 Left because it really helps show off the size difference and has a lot of detail. Also I just like the left alignment because it's clean.
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Feb 5, 2017 00:26
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The way it's a banner and right next to the advertising banners gives it the perfect stealth capabilities. Next april fool's baldurk should give it sunglasses and a mustache.
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Feb 28, 2017 11:58
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Mraagvpeine posted:Can someone explain to me what Let's Play Zone is? After SA did certain things that drove away a lot of posters - including LPers - it seems they've made their own home for SA-style LPs.
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Mar 30, 2017 05:08
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FeyerbrandX posted:People need to be mindful of those who watch lps on their phone, so you should stretch to 9:16 resolution. Your video app doesn't turn the picture sideways?
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Apr 14, 2017 03:54
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Blind Sally posted:why the heck wouuld you turn your phone sideways? It makes...videos...look better.....?????
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Apr 14, 2017 04:23
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Teledahn posted:You're off your ****ing rocker mate.  I meant turn it 90 degrees, and I'd take a picture to show you but I can't take a picture of my phone without a spare phone.
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Apr 14, 2017 05:28
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Nihilarian posted:he did turn it 90 degrees though The other way, doofus.
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Apr 14, 2017 06:56
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The drama of the font breaking can be found here. tl;dr zen death robot will fix things tomorrow, if things still need fixing.
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Apr 18, 2017 07:13
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anilEhilated posted:You might wantto consider starting with Dragonfall, DMS is boring as hell. Objection, I found it to be fun and relatively short. A good short story compared to how freaking long Dragonfall is.
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Apr 22, 2017 23:17
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PMush Perfect posted:Please make this LP. 
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May 29, 2017 12:08
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Putty posted:I don't know much about Pokemon is this a real thing or some fan made Pokemon for this terrible game Larvesta is a real cute thing and its evolution is quite pretty.
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Hey, is it just me or has lpix.org been really, really slow lately?
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baldurk posted:What exactly is slow? Uploading from the website, from a program like sharex or whatever? Browsing your galleries? Just loading images embedded in a thread? Loading up the lparchive, loading pictures in a thread. Using chrome on my laptop - it works fine on mobile. I've refreshed my cache, but it's basically the only slow loading website? SA, google, etc load fine. e: .... I'm an idiot. I just tinkered with ghostery - it decided to block everything on the lparchive because of an update and was slowing the whole thing down.  Sorry about the false alarm!
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Combat Lobster posted:It really isn't going to do you any good to chase after those Day One LPs, especially when you're starting out; because while it might seem like a good idea to play the SEO game in the short term you're ultimately just going to end up with a subpar result and nothing to really show for it. Trust me, you don't wanna end up like the sad sacks over at r/letsplay who keep chanting "Why am I not growing an audience!?" Like I said, you're better off in the long term to LP something you're familiar with and have strong feelings for, because the quality of your commentary will definitely improve when you know what you're going to say and how to say it. Also, from a casual viewer's perspective, I can look up a thousand day one LPs of some yahoo being overly shocked at a new game. What's gonna make your blind LP stand out from the rest? The Geop Dark Souls one worked because he had a I mean, bring something interesting/fun to the table if you're gonna do an LP. You'll do much better at it if you're invested, and after doing an LP like that, you'll be able to bring that new skill to a blind LP. Or something.
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Blind Sally posted:alternatively, just make up poo poo wholesale. did you know Minesweeper could have a deep, enthralling story? A shame about that crossover ending coming out of nowhere and not being as funny as the lead-up, though.
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Sorry, it was a good LP otherwise!
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I'm trying to decide if I want to put in more work to make a full LP out of this, but in the meanwhile - would the thread be willing to tell me if these posts are any good? Conquest of Elysium 4 OP + First Update Second Update I'm aiming for a relaxed SSLP where I walk the audience through my thought process as I play this game, and hopefully get better at playing as I go along.
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Inadequately posted:Looks good to me. Thanks! I'll try to make another update, see if my interest in LPing this game can win out over the work involved.
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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:Especially with a game like CoE4, I'd recommend playing out a full recorded game before making any work on the LP, that game can easily sling a lot of bullshit your way and unceremoniously bring things to an end. Otherwise I'm definitely looking forward to seeing more of a great and underrepresented game! Absolutely - I've played enough of it to lose my Troll King to all kinds of BS things. My intent with this game is to walk the audience through one of my typical games, explaining my decisions and choices as I go along, and then when I die to BS, well, the audience will understand how and why I got there. I'm also not averse to using the saves in the game to get around the roguelike elements, although I won't stoop to cheating and revealing the whole map upon death. I've begun work on another update but halfway through the shelter called with news that they approved my application to adopt a dog, so, uh, good thing I haven't made a thread for it. 
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Daandrah posted:Yeah I have gathered that. I have been looking at some of the other LP's and its all starting to make sense. You don't need to sign your posts.
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ugh its Troika posted:Why does this loving forum have so many stickies? Jesus christ. To cut down on useful threads being lost in the clutter. It'll be less chaotic when there aren't so many forum announcements taking up the top slots.
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nine-gear crow posted:look cool? 
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BoldFrankensteinMir posted:Hey LP friends. I have a question for you, regarding my CYOA thread: You Have 001 Goblins. I was working on an update today and, to my shock, saw this: Listen, this is a CHALLENGE. To defeat them, you have to continue updating and finish 001 Goblins before they finish their shoddy rip-off!
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LPs are too much freaking work to do one for a game you don't care about.
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mateo360 posted:some of the games you hate though can be glorious train wreaks Hate and love are two sides of the same coin
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vilkacis posted:(Though, it's still true that you shouldn't use timg for lps because no one wants to have to click every image to expand it.) Thank you for understanding
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