solon.bsky.social
Game & Stream Dev, Library Scientist, Games Performer, aka "No Gimmicks Needed" Chorby the Samurai
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She's just making small talk! It's just regular small talk and not her life on the line!
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halfway through Metal Gear Solid and I'm already getting excited to play MGS2... vamp and stuff
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she just had it tough iunno
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Popcorn to me!
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This is a deep oversimplification, but it's a huge deal to go from:
Our emulator needs to run ANY PS1 game
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Our emulator only needs to run EVERY PS1 game (4221 entries).
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Emulation realized there were no more distinct ROMs to conquer and they wept for they knew they were free
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Babydoll's ass out to the breeze, Sydney on his lips, desperately trying to foebreak through Lea Monde while the entire world slips away underneath him
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Ashley Riot needs your help !!
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I'm just trying to not fall down the doomer hole because like
folks ain't gonna do all this fucking work. Twitch has ensured that with their language. I don't even want to, and I love this shit.
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Fortunately, we'll still have the two-week rolling archive, but this distances streamers from their own history in a really annoying and existential way (since there's just no point vs how much effort this will be)
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Don't let Seattle's greatest shame be yours just because you 'need the space' Twitch
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Look, I've lived in and around Seattle my whole life.
I wish we had architectural history. Homes built here are erased even within one's own lifetime by developers who also 'just need the space'. I know building home online is a fool's errand. But like; we NEED history.
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It kinda tears me up thinking about how Twitch has this beautiful platform that spans the entire history of this very special and largely unresearched medium ... and they'll just toss their history unilaterally away like this.
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All of this kvetching today (because I'm procrastinating working in the youtube mines) is just to say: YOUR gameplay is so important to me as a historian of the stuff,
but also I hope it is to you too. I want you to show your kids or your future friends all the fun games you played over the years.
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Folks might not know, but Twitch and Youtube are not in lockstep. Some things that are appropriate on Twitch are not on Youtube, which means every time I upload a video to YT from Twitch I have to deal with a barrage of emails telling me which countries my VOD is illegal in and who owns my VOD now.
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It stinks. I have a whole lot of work to do now figuring out how to organize and store 990hrs of vods on another site.
It stinks. I have to build a new logistic pipeline through Youtube (and/or HDDs) to save my larger wider-variety performances.
It stinks. I will have to check regularly with YT now.
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The biggest failure for Twitch here is that VODs were a thing that drove people to the site and now that relationship is gone.
But solon, the VODs aren't going away?
Streamers will have the two-week backup, sure, but the relationship of history ownership and stewardship is gone. It's gone.
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Third, 100hrs total? You do know I can fill that up in four livestreams right? Just a distressingly miserly number
twitch, you down bad? Here's a prime sub
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I'm hoping that there was at least an option on the table for a swipeable VOD browsing interface that helps game fans find new streamers via their VODs. Cuz like, the streets DO need that. I am so often looking for gameplay footage for an incredible number of reasons, and Youtube isn't great
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Second, they show their hand by blaming 'low viewership percentage' as a cause. That is a failure to integrate the platform's history. Twitch's platform is rich with a genuine history and culture of play, and it's neatly tagged so that folks can find games they like! A mountain rich with gold!
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First of all, when I think of VODs, I think of Twitch. That conceptual branding will be handed to Youtube for free.
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aughh I've got too many twitch streaming literature to read which is not a problem I had two weeks ago but now I have two books AND THAT IS A LOT OF BOOKS!
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oh my god this explains the novelty of HLVRAI in such an extreme way (it's all four?? It's gotta be why my brain sparkles watching it)
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Then there's the pseudo-duality of games as art and games as data which are really well embodied by Mia Consalvo (comms lens) and Jin Ha Lee (lib-sci lens). Just soak up ANYTHING that they've published and the folks around them and you'll get a good idea of the space in a short amount of time.
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absolutely, I'd love to share it with folks (no idea if I'm allowed to) but there is so many incredibly cool ideas to grow off of from here!
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Even my homie Furret playing four pokemon stadiums at once lands on this model (under 'Whatever Furret Does?')
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Even playing that fun puppets installation game firmly lands on this model x_x
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aghh the worst problem is that this is like two or three steps away from even being 'provable' in the academic sense. Like, I have to establish a theory of 'Hegemonic Play' before I can say, 'yeah that's the only one you all keep talking about!' (out of FOUR?)
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I am looking at a document I made in MSPaint and just shaking my head back and forth... no it can't be this simple cmon brain think of every way you've fucked up the act of playing a video game
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there are four ways you can play a videogame.
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I asked @willovergard.bsky.social recently what have I spent these 10,000 hours of streaming and performing games mastering? Turns out, knowing every possible way you can play a videogame.
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Yes, I've been a little gamer goofball around the internet all this time for deep insights and because of a petty academic difference in ideology
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So I'm realizing we probably don't have a model for the IB Space of games...
And I think I can make that! Because of the last 10 years of performing games? I've specifically trained my art towards finding all the ways you can play/perform a game
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And then they bring up 'interactivity' and it's like reading a youtuber essay about how players "play games because they wanna win". And I'm like ??? no they don't? The IB Space of players is so much wider than that? so silly
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I'm reading this incredible model for understanding videogames as a medium and any time they talk about the player behavioral structures it's like angelic choirs singing above, it's incredible.
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AHH YEAH MAN THIS IS GOOD! IT'S SO SO GOOD T_T just a 0/1 little guyyyy
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Sazh's chocobo is not legendary... Yet!
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I watch an entire pyramid get built in awe just to find out afterwards that the people who made it weren't paid and that it will be destroyed by the end of the fiscal year. Charlie Brown is laughing at us