📹 Blakeyrat's Videos Thread (Robots in the News et al.)
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Someone should gift him HuniePop.
Can't be any worse than this place, at least in magnitude. You'd get a different kind of bad examples from it, though.
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I'm not that athletic.
6 year olds can bowl a couple of strings. Bowling makes golf look like an endurance sport!
If you can't get up and take ten steps every two minutes for a half an hour or so you are probably already posting to TDWTF from an ICU.
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I've never understood the purpose of "hanging out." Granted, I usually don't have any topics to talk about that would interest people, but that's another thing entirely.
The point, for you, would've been to learn what things others are interested in talking about, that you might better fit in.
Bejeweled is fairly boring, or are we talking about something else?
This is a more interesting species of shoulder alien than those to which we're usually suspect. Go watch @blakeyrat's HuniePop video. I think someone linked to another one, as well. Then, don't talk to women like the protagonist of that game does. Nor the fairy helping him.
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: Derailment length limit exceeded. Flagging for Jeffing.
Just when we'd wrenched the subject back to @blakeyrat's videos, too!
I wanna see him LP WoW or something. I'm picturing something like Shamus Young's LP, only with (of course) more vitriol. Been years since I read it, but IIRC there was already lots of feigned confusion.
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golf
Golf is a... well, frick.
If you can't get up and take ten steps every two minutes for a half an hour or so
*analyzing movement patterns for the last three days...* Well.... That's only slightly lower than my current activity level, but only because the points are farther spread out and steps taken are just a bit more...you are probably already posting to TDWTF from an ICU.
Wouldn't that be something?
I'd probably post in the Status thread when/if that happens.The point, for you, would've been to learn what things others are interested in talking about, that you might better fit in.
This is weird, I swear I've had this conversation before... My answer then (and now) summarized is: It's not that I don't care about the subject, it's that I can't expect myself to remember sufficient detail about a given subject on the fly to properly engage in meaningful discussion. Also, I am under the understanding that having a tablet open and constantly Googling for information during a conversation would be frowned upon and rude.Go watch @blakeyrat's HuniePop video.
Odd, my records indicate this has happened already.Then, don't talk to women like the protagonist of that game does. Nor the fairy helping him.
Ah, that would explain why I don't have much more on that. Most of the time I don't keep track of "don't do this" items due to how massive the list got back in 2014. I couldn't handle that much data, even with external indexes, and my response rates were so abysmal I decided it wasn't worth it.
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I wanna see him LP WoW or something. I'm picturing something like Shamus Young's LP, only with (of course) more vitriol. Been years since I read it, but IIRC there was already lots of feigned confusion.
This is a perfect example of the above mentioned "to learn what things others are interested in talking about".
At present, I would say this would be an interesting idea for him to do a video on, however, my information indicates WoW is not Free-to-Play, which (from what I know) seems to be a big turn-off for @Blakeyrat, unless someone were to gift him a subscription.I don't know "Shamus Young", and am not able to access much more information at present than what amounts to "He plays MMORPGs?", so I cannot comment very much on that end. However, your comment "Been years since I read it" seems to indicate he might have been a writer/reviewer instead?
Regardless, this would be a good example of the maximum I could contribute to a conversation on-the-spot, which (as far as I know) anyone would say is rather pitiful.
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WoW is not Free-to-Play
It actually is, at least through (IIRC) level 20, which would be enough. I doubt he'd stick around long enough to hit the cap. IIRC the only limit on free accounts is you can't join guilds and maybe you can't send/receive in-game mail.
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I don't know "Shamus Young", and am not able to access much more information at present than what amounts to "He plays MMORPGs?", so I cannot comment very much on that end. However, your comment "Been years since I read it" seems to indicate he might have been a writer/reviewer instead?
Yes and yes and here's a round up of all his text plays/let's plays except the ones he did with other people, which are filed under "Spoiler Warning".
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Yeah, it's free to look around and be boring. Playing costs money.
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It actually is, at least through (IIRC) level 20, which would be enough.
Information updated.
I doubt he'd stick around long enough to hit the cap
Simulations indicate it would be unlikely he would leave the starting area.Playing costs money.
I would hope so. At least, I would assume that someone who makes a product would expect some way of gaining money from the product, no matter how far-out the way to get it is...
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Your assertion is that making a second video about a game without mentioning the first video makes me a dick. Right?
I thought I understood @Tsaukpaetra's post, but I'm not at all sure any more. I thought he was saying that mentioning the first video would be reasonable thing to do, but your public persona is to act like a dick; therefore, you intentionally didn't mention it in order to be consistent with your persona. But now I'm just confused.
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I thought he was saying that mentioning the first video would be reasonable thing to do, but your public persona is to act like a dick; therefore, you intentionally didn't mention it in order to be consistent with your persona.
Yes, this was it. Why are you asking @Blakeyrat what I said, when he was clearly confused about it?
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Why are you asking @Blakeyrat what I said
I wasn't. There is no question mark anywhere in what I wrote; it was a statement, not a question. I was offering an interpretation of what you wrote that seemed to be a little different than @blakeyrat's confused interpretation in the hope that it might help alleviate Blakey's confusion, but the ongoing attempt to explain the original post just confused me, too.
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but the ongoing attempt to explain the original post just confused me, too.
Yeah, tangents were had, sights were lost, meaning disappeared in the drivel. I flagged for jeffing, but apparently this did not achieve anything.
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Bored, no work tomorrow, let's do "Blakeyrat Plays Indies So You Don't Have To Live!"
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What if we want to live?
Also, what game are you playing now?
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Comma, Live!
I did 4 random indies. Strangely, all of the games were decently fun to play. I've NEVER had 4 in a row before.
It was uh, The Last Warlock, Crash Drive 2, Kaiju-A-Go-Go, and A Story About My Uncle.
Putting them up as episodes in a bit. Whoa, shit. Needs noise removal badly. Maybe up tomorrow, depends on how fast Audacity goes.
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A Story About My Uncle
I hate that super-jumping game mechanic. I find it very difficult to set aside my real-life fear of falling, even though I'm sitting more-or-less calmly in a chair in my living room; even in-game, nothing really bad happens from a fall, just respawn at the last checkpoint. Still, even when I'm not playing, just watching you play, the muscles in my legs get all tensed up on every jump.
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Haha I get that.
I wish I did a better job describing how fucking awkward the controls are. Remember that super-jump in Half-Life where you had to like hold shift, then run forward, then release shift and hit jump at once? This was somehow WORSE than that.
The goddamned Xbox controller has like 47 face buttons, but no. Don't use those. Shoulders are where it's at.
Normal jump: press A
Fast jump: hold RB to charge (while simultaneously using LB and forward-left-stick to run) then release to jump
It's not just a different button, but used in a totally different way. Brain-bending.
Still it wasn't really a bad game at all. Just bad controls. That was kind of the theme for tonight: pretty good games with the worst part being awful controls.
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That was kind of the theme for tonight: pretty good games with the worst part being awful controls.
I only started watching half-way through the next-to-last game, uh, Kaiju-A-Go-Go, so I didn't hear your complaints about the earlier ones, and if you complained about them in that one, you'd finished ranting and were just playing by the time I joined. (When you attacked Seattle, I rather hoped you'd head east and destroy Redmond, but the game's geography doesn't seem to have been that accurate.)
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I only started watching half-way
Heh, not engaged enough in chat then? Sometimes I feel like I talk too much...
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not engaged enough in chat
I had the video full-screen most of the time I was watching, so chat wasn't visible. Also, other than "Go stomp on Redmond," I didn't really have anything to say.
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Goddamned, I ended up playing that Warlock game 40+ minutes and only completed one non-tutorial level.
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That is one of the problems I have with Twitch -- if you're watching the video and honestly engaged, it's hard to also be in chat. I like to put streams on my TV, but there's no space for chat up there and I don't usually have my keyboard anyway.
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I did 4 random indies. Strangely, all of the games were decently fun to play. I've NEVER had 4 in a row before.
The one I watched was the minecrafty xcom one.
Speaking of that, I saw a game on Steam recently with the same graphical style--blocky characters and furniture, made out of miniblock "pixels", and those two reminded me of a third game someone put out an alpha of a year or two ago, Cube World it was called, but was also (only first, I guess) in that style.
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What the fuck is up with Sister's Secrecy puzzles? They make fuse-inside-the-hourglass look good.
Use monster's paw to melt green ice and get sphere of light energy
Feels they use a Markov generator to tell them what puzzles to make.
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It reminds me of that King's Quest (6, I think? Maybe 5) puzzle where you find a monster in a cave, you give him a pie, and he drops a hairpin for some reason.
When Retsupurae did that one they were like, "WTF? They might as well have just put a slot in the wall with a sign reading, 'insert pie, receive hairpin.'."
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Doing some more indies, it worked well last time why not
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BTW I just looked up a walkthrough. The "solution" to the graveyard puzzle is to click that damned pot like 40,000 times until it finally breaks.
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If you're wondering what happened to this recording, I did 6 games during the stream, I put them on the YouTubes scheduled each weekday starting friday and continuing each day next week.
Sister's Secrecy ends Tuesday.
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FUUUUCK I was like 10 minutes from the end of Rituals. Seriously. THAT STUPID URN!
EDIT: Oh maybe there's multiple endings. Well, whatever, I ended the game somehow.
EDIT: And now I've done both endings. Haha. Oh well. Not a terrible game, honestly.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQeboZevD-c&feature=youtu.be&a
Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space.
Kind of like FTL but not as good.
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Kind of like FTL but not as good.
Did you like FTL, or are you damning this game with faint praise?
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FTL is a really good idea with a really terrible implementation.
It's a game you want to play, because at its core it's pretty damn fun, but actually playing it is a horrible experience because most games (even on the "normal" difficulty) are unwinnable. And playing a game that can't be won from the get-go, but not realizing it can't be won until you're like two hours in? That's shitty.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-knBVg4f_8&feature=youtu.be&a
Well, you have been warned.
What amazes me the most is you getting a jRPG, which you hate, grindfest, which you hate, with cutesy anime girls, which you hate. What the hell, Blakey?