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Apr 01, 2020.
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People Are Already Playing Final Fantasy VII Remake In Australia
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When Square Enix announced physical copies of Final Fantasy VII Remake would ship to Europe and Australia earlier than its April 10 release date due to the covid-19 pandemic, we didn’t think they meant this early. The eagerly anticipated game is already in the hands of many Australians, as evidenced by a growing number of Twitch streams and YouTube videos.
“Love livin in aus right now” reads...
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Generic Jargon
Apr 01, 2020
Oh No! Spoilers for a game that’s been out for 2 decades - so scary!
fleshsword
Apr 01, 2020
Dumbled ore dies!
SSReset
Apr 01, 2020
Apparently there have been small storyline changes and additions to the remake, so you would get spoiled but it may not mean much in the long run.
Faux Bravo
Apr 02, 2020
Lots of snark about spoiling a 20-year-old game from people who already played it. But this isn’t Star Wars or some other major cultural touchstone . Tons of people have probably never experien ced FF7 and will be for the first time.
Foxstar loves Bashcraft
Apr 02, 2020
While Final Fantasy is well known enough that people outside of gaming know the title, I dare say that if anyone has played video games in the last 20 years, FF7 -is- a major touchstone and proof of that is that you can play it on everything. Are there going to be some people who have never tried it? Sure, but by this point, if one hasn’t already been spoilered, they will be and I that’s not the rest of the internet’s fault.
At what point do we say “If you don’t know about it, that’s no one’s fault but your own.”?
bullshooter4040
Apr 02, 2020
Probably, not the best of analogies. Final Fantasy, the franchise, rides Star Wars coattails
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Mar 29, 2020.
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The Punch-Out Speedrunning Community Spent Five Years Trying To Beat One Player And All His Records
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Back in the early 90s and early 2000s, Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out for the NES was a popular early speedrunning game. But eventually, players moved on. However, one player went back to some old Punch-Out fansites in 2010 and discovered that every world record at the time had been set by one player, Matt Turk. Nobody had even tied any of his times.
This story, of a community coming together to...
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Jhelter Skelter
Mar 29, 2020
Summoning Salt is a treasure, his videos on speedrunning are fantastic and he also just happens to be one of the best Punch-Out runners there is (note the complete lack of fanfare at the current records he posts at the end of the video).
Also he has an alternate account for speedruns on Youtube called Summoning Alt and that’s just a magnificent pun.
LB3PTMAN
Mar 29, 2020
Summoning Salt’s speedrun videos and Ahoy’s video game in general videos are all fantastic
diddyknux
Mar 29, 2020
Summoning Salt’s content is so good. Probably watched his video on Mario Kart’s Rainbow Road records a good three or 4 times.
spartanwarrior
Mar 29, 2020
I was kind of “ meh” on the art of speed running when I saw it described in articles on Kotaku over the years - rar ely watched the videos or paid attention when I did - until I stumbled into my first Summoning Salt video analysis .
He rivals the masters of the Florentine High Renaissance and a Super Mario Bros sub - 4:56 run is his canvas.
Mar 16, 2020.
9 comments
There Sure Are A Lot Of Trains In The Half-Life Series
I’ve played all the Half-Life games a lot. I already knew that there were a few trains in the series. But I had no idea just how many trains are jammed in games like Half-Life 2. And I also had no idea that many of them are based on real trains.
Luckily, Youtuber Amtrakguy365 created a lovely video going over every train that has appeared in a Half-Life game. Of course, he covers the obvious...
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traumabobby
Mar 16, 2020
Hahaha was Half-Life: Blue Shit intentional?? Cmon it wasn’t that bad !
Zack Zwiezen
Mar 16, 2020
No! That was a mistake. I like Blue Shift a lot, actually.
kerning
Mar 16, 2020
Indeed. It fleshed out Barney Calhoun ’s story pretty well and, even if it is not canon, it will still be head-canon to me since he went through the same Black Mesa shit that Gordon Freeman did, except for the world-saving stuffs. Heck, even the G-Man didn’t pay attention to him, which still fits in the overarching plot of series!
Ortikon
Mar 16, 2020
In my teens I got my first taste of 3D software messing around in the Valve Hammer editor (for first half-life). It taught me the use of navigating a 3D world and making things to specific sizes in orthographic windows. Most importantly it taught me lighting and render-baking which is what I have doing for a living for over a decade now. One part I had found fascinating because it had a specific system for them, was making trains/rail paths. Valve had a whole dedicated workflow for trains, so it doesn’t surprise me that they had so many in the game.
Mar 09, 2020.
13 comments
The Original Doom Is Filled With Toy Guns
Have you ever been playing the original Doom and stopped to look at one of the weird faces that dot the many walls in the game? Or maybe looked at your gun closely and thought about how it was made?
Well, it turns out that id Software used an old book by author Stephen King and photographer f-stop Fitzgerald and a bunch of toy guns to create a lot of the art found in Doom.
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lazarus
Mar 09, 2020
DOOM!?
TIME FOR A LAN PARTY!
slvc
Mar 09, 2020
fuck. a picture from a bygone era. everything in this picture makes me nostalic and sad, because I’m old and will never have these days again
Itto Ogami
Mar 09, 2020
When lanparties were lanparties and one present had to be a Novell CNE. Crap - check the terminators. Everyone run ipx...
thejewosh
Mar 09, 2020
Jesus, I thought that photographer’s name was a typo. Who the hell would do that to themselves?
Jack Shaftoe
Mar 09, 2020
Are we remotely surprised the Doom team knows a guy whose nom de plume i s a dad joke?
D. Walker
Mar 09, 2020
Seriously.
I could see it as a middle style nickname, like Douglas ‘f-stop’ Fitzgerald, but even that feels a little pretentious, and it would be hard to pull it off it properly.
But full blown changing your given name to ‘f-stop’? I don’t care how much you love photography, that’s just masochistic. And even if you ARE a masochist, you’re still also inflicting it on everyone else. Every bank teller, every doctor’s office receptionist, every person who has any reason at all to ask and record your name is going to just LOVE dealing with your bullshit , I’m sure.
Mar 07, 2020.
10 comments
Down The Strange, Sometimes Upsetting Rabbit Hole Of Twitch Streamers' TikToks
Over the past 72 hours, I’ve spent an ungodly amount of time watching TikToks created by Twitch streamers. It all began with a simple question: Can people whose whole line of work is built around creating the lengthiest, least-filtered form of pop culture possible excel in a medium where minimalism thrives?
TikTok is a video platform that allows users to share clips no longer than 60 seconds....
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NeverEndingJediGIF
Mar 07, 2020
What... the... hell... did I just watch. I watched the first five vids and every single one of them is cringe worthy. I guess I truly am old and out of touch. Even though I don’t get into watching streamers, I can at least understand the appeal. But this crap? Yikes.
CoastersPaul
Mar 07, 2020
I’m 20 and I don’t get TikTok. Didn’t get V ine, either. Guess I’ll stay a dinosaur watching YouTube instead.
Stalematebread
Mar 07, 2020
I don’t think it’s an age thing. Go on meme subreddits and you’ll see hundreds of thousands of posts by teenagers about how much they hate TikTok.
BrewHaHaHammer
Mar 07, 2020
Thank you Nathan for delving into a community that I do not have any current plans to explore, and bringing back stories about your journey . I’m happy that people found another way to communicate and express their ideas, but for now...I think I’m ok.
Mar 04, 2020.
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YouTuber Says He Didn't Recently Buy 1,000 Rolls Of Toilet Paper
While hoarders
have been causing toilet paper sell-outs in Japan, there has been a rumor that popular Japanese YouTuber Hikakin is to blame. The above image is proof of his mass purchase. However, this isn’t a recent screencap. Hikakin bought twenty-years’ worth of toilet paper nearly four years ago.Below is the original clip, which was uploaded in August 2016:
In the clip, Hikakin...
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TadBravo
Mar 04, 2020
Wiping shitty butts with paper is just so fucking gross.
Use water, people. It even feels better.
Trouble
Mar 04, 2020
What do you dry it with, a towel? A butt towel??
Bring Back Duckman!
Mar 04, 2020
The wind, my friend, the wind.
JicagoChusticeExcession
Mar 04, 2020
Dude needs to buy a toto. Everybody needs to buy a toto. Hi. I’m Jicago, and the Toto Washlet changed my life. It can change yours, too.
Mar 01, 2020.
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All The Previous Times Capcom Remade Resident Evil 3
Resident Evil 3 is getting a big, fancy remake in a few weeks. But this isn’t the first time RE3 has been remade. Over the years, Capcom and others have recreated small and large portions of the classic game in various ways.
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Nivans
Mar 01, 2020
RE3 has always been my favorite, but with it being sandwiched (pun intended) by Animal Crossing and ff7 remake, idk when I would have time to play it. So probably won’t get at launch :(
Lozzle
Mar 02, 2020
I’d argue that it’s fine to get it because you can finish(probably more than once if you have time) RE3 way before you’re ever done with AC or beat FF7.
killercow_ld
Mar 02, 2020
I’m doing Animal Crossing and RE3. I’m still wary on the FF7 remake and it only being a small section of the original game. I’ll def get it eventually but I wanna wait until I have a better idea of what I’m buying.
As for RE3, the original is one of my least favorites in the main series. And I was hesitant to buy the RE2 remake at first because it deviated so much from the original RE2. But after beating RE2 remake, I can see this gameplay doing wonders for the RE3 remake and so now I’m pumped to play it.
Classic Chad
Mar 02, 2020
Hot take: RE Apocalypse is pretty decent popcorn until Alice shows up bursting through the church window on her motorcycle. Oddly enough, until very recently it seems the developers saw that specific moment and thought thats the direction they wanted to take the games to.
ToxicMicrobe
Mar 02, 2020
Ho nestly everyone talks how terrible the RE movies are. I thought they were exactly as silly as the games gave been for some time
rogueIndy
Mar 02, 2020
The games pulled it off better than the films though. The series was cheesy from the start, they just pivoted from cheesy Romero homage to cheesy Carpenter homage (with some anime nonsense thrown in ) . It helped that they stayed fun to play (in splitscreen at least ) and still had some spooky moments.
The films meanwhile are just run-of-the-mill crappy action flicks, the sort that’ve been trying to ride The Matrix and Blade’s coattails for the past two decades.
Feb 26, 2020.
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YouTuber Etika's Memorial Is Now A PokéStop
Last year, following the passing of YouTube star Desmond “Etika” Amofah, fans got together and painted a 40-foot mural in Brooklyn in his honour. And now, after lobbying Niantic, the mural is a bonafide PokéStop in Pokémon Go.
Fans Honor Deceased YouTuber Etika With A Stunning MuralWhen YouTuber “Double A” watched Desmond “Etika” Amofah’s final YouTube video, one sentence stuck…
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mouseclicker
Feb 26, 2020
This makes me happysad. What a beautiful mural. Also, nice one Luke with the “As upstart young ... ”
CoastersPaul
Feb 26, 2020
Seems like eventually, Vice and Wired will have snatched up everyone from here and Deadspin (RIP.)
Good on them.
Rachel Fogg
Feb 26, 2020
Oh that’s wonderful and still, so tragic.
Feb 23, 2020.
6 comments
Someone Almost Beat LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga Without Collecting Any Studs
Whenever I played the LEGO Star Wars games, I would spend way too much time farming studs. I did this because collecting studs lets you unlock new characters, features and also because it is satisfying. But one player decided to try and play through all the LEGO Star Wars games avoiding every single stud.
YouTuber, Sovern Gaming, really likes the LEGO Star Wars games. So they decided last...
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C.M. Allen
Feb 24, 2020
The hardest part of this is the random studs thrown in your direction for completing mission-critical objectives. And that is, by no means, a small feat.
StefanJammers
Feb 24, 2020
I may be remembering this in correctly (and I don’t have time to watch the video ) , but don’t t he vehicle levels require a minimum amount of studs in order to progress?
In any case, a marvelous achievement.
Reckless
Feb 24, 2020
I don’t believe so. In certain cases you need to shoot something specific which grants you studs (the battle over Coruscant comes to mind) , but otherwise I don’t think there’s a minimum level of studs.
nmalinoski
Feb 24, 2020
So, “ b e a t ” h e r e j u s t m e a ns m a k i n g i t t o t h e end of all the levels ? 100%ing the game a b s o l u t e l y r e q u i r e s t h e c ollection and spending of studs , and c o l l e c t i n g a l l t h e m i nikits i n a l e v e l n e t s y o u 1 00k.
uyarndog
Feb 24, 2020
I’ve read your comment maybe 10 times now, and I’m still having trouble figuring out how you were expecting “beat the game,” especially in the context of not collecting any/many studs, to be synonymous with 100%ing the game.
Feb 18, 2020.
15 comments
This Is A Controller For A Sega Saturn Game
Weird controllers! I love ‘em! And so does the YouTube channel Stop Skeletons From Fighting. They recently released a video going over some of the dumbest, weirdest and most expensive controllers ever made.
A few months back,
SSFF uploaded a great video about weird Dreamcast accessories , including a fishing controller you can use for a tennis game. But there are much weirder controllers than...15 Comments
Garlador
Feb 18, 2020
I had a friend who actually bought the Steel Battalion game... and its enormous controller.
Dr Bob
Feb 18, 2020
I also have a friend with that , and having played steel battalion on a giant projected screen while using it , I can vouch for it being both ridiculous and awesome.
crann777
Feb 18, 2020
The Steel Battalion controller is the crown jewel of my original Xbox collection.
Negafox
Feb 18, 2020
That Time I got Reincarnated as a Slime Controller
RPG Rabbit
Feb 18, 2020
I’ve always wanted a slime controller.
Foxfire15
Feb 18, 2020
Feb 08, 2020.
24 comments
Dragon Ball Z Abridged Comes To An Abrupt End
I’ll never forget the period of time during which a bunch of my friends got super into Dragon Ball Z Abridged, a YouTube series that cuts up episodes of Dragon Ball Z and stitches them back together with loads and loads of jokes. It was a different era of YouTube, the internet, and my life; back when the series first debuted in 2008, I was a teenager. DBZA has been an internet fixture for...
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TRT-X
Feb 08, 2020
The ending of the Cell Saga was well done, and if you consider even the original DBZ...it felt like a natural ending.
Goku was gone, Gohan was now the hero of Earth and we were ready to move on to the new chapter. And then they did the Buu saga and undid all of that.
So them ending it when they did is, in a way, just another part of the abridging process. It gets the ending it should have had.
Mav
Feb 08, 2020
Ha! That’s a great way a looking at it.
Stunkydunk
Feb 08, 2020
This is a wildly clever take
thewiredknight
Feb 08, 2020
I can respect bowing out on this. Honestly they did amazing work for the three arcs they did and I often wondered if they would ever finish it given that few people have an emotional attachment to the Buu arc in the first place (myself included). I think opinions would be stronger if they stopped completley having not finished the Cell Saga as was once believed they wouldn’t. Also here’ s hoping this doesn’t happen to FF7 Abridged which they’ve been working on as they’ve only got one season left of it and it has been an amazing ride as well.
McMurderpaws
Feb 08, 2020
I was just really hoping they’d go through the Great Saiyaman sub-arc at least. I just always loved Gohan playing at being a cheezy Super Sentai hero fighting crime while having to mask his identity, partially because all the story arcs of DBZ preceding it were so heavy and partially because it’s just so... absurd.
That, and I also wanted the Bojack movie... if only to finally put a pin in all of the explicit references made about him being imprisoned in the center of King Kai’s planet. (Not how the decidedly non-canon movie explained it, but close enough-- and funnier that way.)
Blind Prophet
Feb 08, 2020
From their post:
“Will this effect the production of FFVIIMA?”
Nope. We’re finishing it this year.
Feb 06, 2020.
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Why Twitch Fans Donate Money To Wealthy Streamers
Early last year,
then-Twitch streamer Jeremy “Disguised Toast” Wang received an email from a fan who’d donated $200 to him in 2018. “Hey, I donated money to you a year ago,” read the email according to Wang, who spoke to Kotaku over the phone. “I’m having hard times right now. Do you think you could return that donation?” Wang did so without batting an eyelash, only for the fan to reply that...22 Comments
TadBravo
Feb 06, 2020
I always found the word “donation” weird in this context.
Tipping, or funding are more appropriate terms imo.
I have a smallish art channel. When I started I didn’t want to have a paypal button on my channel as I don’t do it for the money. But I ended up adding one anyway because I’d rather people send the money they wanna put in my channel through paypal rather than twitch bits which are a total waste. (small channels don’t get anything from bits)
BillyHatesRonaldo
Feb 06, 2020
It’s specifically called “donating” by Twitch/streamers to make it seem more charitable/altruistic when really you’re just giving money to someone.
blazekingnj
Feb 06, 2020
Nah. Donation is the correct word because it carries its own subtext: You’re WILLFULLY GIVING these proceeds out of the kindness of your heart rather than expecting something in return.
A “ tip” when it comes to money is a donation ( outside of restaurants in the US) . Funding is an in vestment in which you expect a return on that investment. People just need to fucking pay attention in class and remember what the definitions to elementary-level words are and stop donating their last bit of cash to people when they need it for later. Doubly so to people that ask for refunds on donations they made. They don’t have to give you shit back if you made a donation.
Tomacxz
Feb 06, 2020
Just another symptom of the weird a symm etrical relationship between viewers and content creators.
Al so lots of people are really bad with their money (myself included) and it’s extremely hard to get out of bad spending habits.
The most concerning thing imo is that we have a generation of kids growing up i n this system where sending money to wealthy people in return for hollow attention is normalized. Kids will be gettiing jobs at McDonald’s and sending their paychecks to Ninja.
hcd4
Feb 06, 2020
How are you defining that relationship? I mean, I think I agree, but the weirdness is that—specific to streaming—I think it turns from the viewers having power to outsize signal investment if you will in a relationship, but once the creator has a following, the individual viewers have commesurately less. And in general, not specific to streaming, there’s not a lot of respect to lots of content creators, at least in terms of control.
In anycase, I think your second paragraph is what Toast was reacting to the most. A tip/donation can be just a show of appreciation, but having had that interaction with a fan who needed the money he could see it wasn’t necessary.
kingdom2000
Feb 06, 2020
I refuse to donate to anyone that makes more money in a month then anyone I know makes in year(s) and refuses to help others in Twitch community benefit.
A thing to keep in mind is for subs, they get about $2.50 per, once become a Twitch partner that becomes $3.50. This doesn’t include money they may get from donations, YouTube videos, ads, behind the scenes transactions (fans giving them money, ads, appearances, advice and who knows what else). Most full time streamers have multiple sources of revenue.
So how do you know how much they make in a month? Based on testing with multiple streamers here is a ballpark method to get an idea of the minimal amount of income they get per month.
Total # of followers x .008 x $2.50 = good estimate of their monthly income
1000 x .008 = 8 * $2.50 = around $20.00 per month low end estimate
10,000 followers = $200.00 per month low end estimate
100,000 followers = $2,000.00 per month low end estimate
250,000 followers = $5,000.00 per month low end estimate
500,000 followers = $10,000.00 per month low end estimate
1,000,000 followers = $20,000.00 per month low end estimate
Again this is only one low end revenue stream where this person just absolutely refuses to become a Twitch partner for the higher money per sub (this never happens) and has decided their one and only revenue stream is those subs (again this never happens). I f the person you follow has more then 200,000 followers then they make upper middle classes wages at minimum. Usually around this point, their popularity only climbs as 200,000 seems to act as a kind of “hump” where things only speed up from there.
Not saying don’t donate...but just consider “are they making more money then me now?” If yes, sub them only. Then ask “Can I afford to donate?” If that is a yes, then donate quite literally anywhere else. A new streamer, a charity, your savings account. Anywhere but them. You already did your part with the sub. Use that donation to help others instead.
On top of that value, also consider who they are as a person and what they have done for the Twitch community.
I use to follow a female Fortnite player who was very good. She grew in leaps and bounds in popularity because other popular streamers (Dr Lupo, Kinstaar, etc) would invite her to join their teams. You could literally chart when these team-ups occurred by the massive bump in subs. However, hear her tell it - it was herself only that got her to at least a $20k per month income in less then a year. OK fine. This attitude explains why she doesn’t share the same benefit she received to others. She refuses to play with other non A-list streamers (aka more popular then her) as she considers it them advertising on her stream. She makes more per year then me and refuses to pay it forward. I could ignore some of the former, if saw lot of the latter but since don’t, it was a no brainer of a choice. I still occasionally check in for giggles but discovered other players as a result to my benefit (and thus theirs via subs, etc.).
In short, to get my money, a streamer has to meet 2 key requirements of yearly income amount and trying to help other Twitch streamers. That is my minimal standard. You should create your own standard and stick with it.
Feb 04, 2020.
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How Twitch Encourages Fans To Obsess Over Streamers' Viewership Numbers
Sit in any sizable streamer’s Twitch chat for long enough, and the topic of numbers is bound to come up. Why isn’t viewership what it used to be? Why has the streamer plateaued? Why aren’t they as big as [insert bigger streamer here]? After a while, it starts to wear on some streamers.
Cory “King Gothalion” Michael is a Destiny streamer who
signed an exclusivity deal with Mixer in October . He...10 Comments
GTCvDeimos
Feb 04, 2020
Straight talk... I really can’t deal with any stream that has more than 50 viewers.
That is all...
MegaBlastoise
Feb 04, 2020
Viewers, or chatters? Because 90% of the people who watch Twitch don’t type a single thing in the chat room.
Makist
Feb 04, 2020
I’d much rather focus on making content, making relationships ,
Well, at least he’s honest and upfront about encouraging one-sided parasocial relationships for money.
I mean, I get it, but sometimes I feel bad for the poor sod on the other end...
Jakisthe
Feb 04, 2020
The idea of people paying money to streamers boggles my mind. It seems to grimy; people just begging for scraps of attention. -Signed, someone who has been watching Twitch since Justintv focused on Starcraft 2
Blind Prophet
Feb 05, 2020
The idea of people paying money to streamers boggles my mind. It seems to grimy; people just begging for scraps of attention.
Does the concept of going to the movies also boggle your mind? Or watching TV? Or netflix? Paying for a haircut?
Jan 30, 2020.
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Top Streamers Are Leaving Twitch Amidst Big Money And Shady Deals
Let’s say you’re an up-and-coming streamer. You’ve done it for a while and you make decent money, although you’re no Tyler “Ninja” Blevins. But you’re on your way there, or so you hope. A while back, you got the opportunity to sign with an agency that promised to help you set up deals to advertise brands on your streams. Today, that’s finally paying off. The agency calls you to offer a $10,000...
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OldManLight
Jan 30, 2020
is it weird to anyone else that the reason people cited for engaging with streamers was the whole “it’s like hanging out with my friends” or because it felt more authentic than a professional media outlet but now that the big ones are so heavily sponsored and have such notoriety that they feel more like advertisers than actual people? just me? ok, i’ll be quiet.
Roto13
Jan 30, 2020
Also “Watching this person who doesn’t know or care about me and is mostly only affable so I’ll give them money feels like hanging out with a friend” is creepy as fuck.
Blind Prophet
Jan 30, 2020
is it weird to anyone else...
Yes when you assume the only streamers people watch are the big names in order to make a point...sure you’re right its weird in the way you’re talking about to a degree.
When you consider the countless other streamers who aren’t like the Ninja’s of the world and that people do watch them...its significantly less weird in the way you’re talking about.
I mean its still weird that thats the reasoning and numerous people have spoken up about that, but its weird due to the one way relationship between audience and streamer and not in the way you’re talking about.
RSQViper
Jan 30, 2020
The Ninja bs that comes from that camp is just ludicrous . You 100% did it for the money. You already had deals left and right outside of gaming . get real. It was 8 figures and you took it and I can’t blame you. Just stop lying. And Mixer was going to let RENEE lead them and give them advise? LOL I CAN’T THINK OF MANY PEOPLE WORSE. Wow, shows you why Mixer is still in the back of the pack. Even after the Ninja signing they LOST viewers.
Frizzkills
Jan 31, 2020
Agreed.... Ninja is as fake as they come. Mixer is absolute trash too.
sighing
Jan 31, 2020
Yeah, I have to believe part of the terms of the contract are probably to downplay the reason he left Twitch.
Jan 25, 2020.
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Overwatch League, Call Of Duty League, And Hearthstone Esports Will Air On YouTube, Not Twitch
With Overwatch League season three set to kick off in just over two weeks, it was becoming a little conspicuous that we still didn’t know where it was going to air. Now we do: With its
two-year Twitch deal now expired , Overwatch League is moving to YouTube. It will be joined by Activision’s new Call of Duty League as well as Hearthstone esports.Activision and Google announced the news in a...
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ToxicMicrobe
Jan 25, 2020
big chunks of their commentary leaving, Contenders getting scuffed, move to youtube. I think OWL, at least as it is, is on its last legs
GreyReaper
Jan 25, 2020
Alternate hot take, Twitch is a cesspool and has been losing plenty of product/ their own influencers all on their own.
Wraithfighter
Jan 25, 2020
Ah, yes, as compared to the bastion of polite, civilized discourse that is YouTube.
JayHankEdLyon
Jan 25, 2020
Won’t be watching OWL anymore anyway thanks to Blizzard’s nonsense stance on China. Add the push towards home stadiums and the issue with contenders and commentary and hoo boy.
Randomness In Video Games Is Not All The Same
Random chance mechanics in video games can be frustrating. Missing a 90% shot in XCOM, when you really need it to hit, can cause some players to throw their controller or rage quit. But not all randomness found in video games is the same and how developers use randomness can make you scream or cheer.
In a recent video from Game Maker’s Toolkit, the topic of randomness is examined and broken...
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KishPrime
Jan 19, 2020
Haven’t watched the video yet, so maybe it talks about Fire Emblem, but I’ve always suspected they underestimate good things happening for the player in the raw numbers they display, in Three Houses at least . I think I’ve missed a 95% chance to hit mayb e one time in 50+ hours of play.
This is probably good game design in terms of engaging the player, but it’s annoying to me as a data nerd. The Civ information you put in is going to put a bug in my brain every time I play from now on.
Syntax111
Jan 19, 2020
That’s the problem with probability though, no matter how many rolls against that 95% you got in your 50+ hours, its not nearly enough times to properly weight against a 95% yet lol
KishPrime
Jan 19, 2020
Well I was just grabbing one value , there’s easily probably 1000 data points against a range from 30-99% at this point, and I’m relying on anecdotal memory of course, I just know from my experience that I expect 90+ to connect every time and I can only remember it missing once or twice over that span. I think that’s getting to statistical significance.
supermarxiobros
Jan 19, 2020
A good example of output randomness that was jarring for the player was Fallout 3's accuracy system. It caused some bullets to miss due to a character’s gun stats. But in a first-person action game where players want to feel like they’re in control of their shots, bullets that miss for no visible reason feel unfair. Contrast that with VATS, where the player is told the likely outcome of their shot, and there's no presumption that player skill will have any impact. It's clear why they changed this so that gun skill in later games affected sway and not hit chance.
Hamologist
Jan 19, 2020
Yeah, in non-VATS combat the game ran something like a half dozen checks on top of a positive hitscan, right? With how fast and often enemies moved, it’s no surprise the free aim was so frustrating.
I get trying to preserve some of the pen-and-paper flavor of the Interplay games’ turn based system, but jeez was it ever clunky .
Bartschinator
Jan 19, 2020
Deus Ex Veterans didn't even notice ;}
Made In Dreams, This Is What Cyberpunk 2077 Would Look Like If It Was Released On The PS1
Cyberpunk 2077 is shaping up to be a big game with some incredible visuals that will probably end up pushing current-gen hardware pretty hard. But what would Cyberpunk 2077 look like if it was released back in the 90s for the original PlayStation? Well, someone used Dreams to give us the answer and it looks rad.
This demake was Created by Bearly Regal who is a popular Dreams creator....
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stepped pyramids
Jan 12, 2020
I’m assuming the lighting effects on the textures (which are definitely not PSX-ish) are built into the engine and unavoidable. Looks pretty good regardless.
BlankIX
Jan 13, 2020
That was my first thought. I don’t remember any 3D rendered PS1 games that had remotely good looking lighting. Or... well, anything really, due to some major problems in its vector pipeline causing weird inaccuracies and jankiness. You’ve got to remember t hat doing 3D at * all* was fairly impressive at the time; until the PS1 / N64 era really took off, you didn’t see that often outside of PC games. But then suddenly everyone is doing 3D games all the time, and it was this experimental wild west. For a time it was *magical,* and we mostly forgave the warts as the industry figured the new medium out.
rabbit
Jan 12, 2020
A game that isn’t out yet makes a version of a game that will never be out for a game that isn’t out yet.
We live in interesting times.
A Creepy Face Hidden In A Racing Game For Kids Is One Of 2019's Strangest Easter Eggs
There were a lot of great Easter eggs discovered this year. Some found in new games others found in old games. Youtuber Oddheader has cataloged some of the best Easter egg discoveries this year and has released a new video showing off some of the weirdest and coolest secrets Easter egg hunters have found in 2019.
One of the strangest discoveries was found in a racing game for kids. A data...
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TheWP
Dec 30, 2019
Is it really an Easter Egg if its not found in-game? Unless I missed something, this is only seen if you go into the game files
GuanoLad
Dec 30, 2019
In the olden days of computer games, that’s where all easter eggs were hidden - in the code itself.
thewayigetby
Dec 30, 2019
I think the way things are now they count. Every game gets datamined at some point and the developers know that.
2Fast2War
Dec 30, 2019
Someone is already working on the Creepypasta
CoastersPaul
Dec 30, 2019
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Someone Spent 24 Hours In VR The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time
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YouTuber SwankyBox is a huge fan of The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time, the classic N64 RPG. As a kid he would play it for hours and hours and hours, exploring every inch of the world and also just chilling out and watching the sunset. So he recently decided to experience Ocarina Of Time in a brand new way, using VR. And he was going to do it for 24 hours straight, even sleeping and eating...
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Urambo Tauro
Dec 08, 2019
Sleeping was really interesting, as SwankyBox had to find areas of the game that were quiet, where he could lay down in real life and get some sleep.
Good luck with that!
Minecraft Is The Top YouTube Game Of 2019, Thanks To A Boost From PewDiePie
It’s not like Minecraft ever really went anywhere. But it definitely spent the past handful of years less firmly entrenched in the zeitgeist than in the first half of the decade. Not so in 2019. The blocky game about digging holes and punching the ever-loving shit out of trees is back on top of YouTube, leaving even Fortnite in its dust.
As part of its annual Rewind feature, YouTube put out a...
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SpaceCop
Dec 07, 2019
I have to really give Felix credit, he’s made me take a second look at this game, and I’ve been hooked for most of this year! I know he’s a controversial guy, but he’s really made an impact on my life, and I bet he’ll continue to do so in the future, when a racist fan of his will scream his name before shooting to death me and 53 other people at a shopping center in July 2021.
Kyuzo
Dec 07, 2019
You deserve this star. You had me there.
Donklin
Dec 07, 2019
I love how it’ s impossible for blog writers to compliment PewDiePie without mentioning the Christchurch shooting. Despite the fact that it is completely irrelevant to the topic and obviously not something he caused. Couldn’t be less related to the “broader context” of why Minecraft shot in popularity.
the ghost of eazy e
Dec 08, 2019
Why would they not mention that he’s a bigot with ties to white supremacy? It’s the main reason he’s so popular
Cochese: 4k120fps
Dec 08, 2019
What are his ties to white supremacy again? I mean, I’m of mixed decent and my uncle on my mother’s side was (he’s thankfully dead) a white supremacist, which means I have ties to it. But that doesn’t make me a supremacist. Hell, I even had friends growing up that have become white supremacists. Most of his controversies are barely anything. There was the instance where, I think it was Vox started some shit over a bit in which he was said to be in a nazi military uniform (it was a British officers uniform purchased from Amazon). There was the youtube channel recommendation in which, you’d have had to really paid attention to what was in the background. I don’t know if the youtuber was racist. Never cared enough to watch his video all the way through in which they state is the issue. And then there was the christchurch shooting. Which literally had nothing to do with him. If you can find one instance of him advocating killing any particular group of people such as that, I’d love to see it.