T w e n t y S i d e d
I have no good explanation or reason, but my brain is fried, and I’m sad. Instead of a Sims 4 Overthinking post this week, I’m just going to throw out my Twitch. I’ve been live-streaming The Sims 4, but I’m also planning to get into some emulated games. Maybe old Animal Crossing or Harvest Moon titles. It’s quiet, no-dialogue streaming. If it’s a quiet game, I put music in the background, if it isn’t, I don’t.
It’s much less of a ‘professional streaming’ setup, and more of just a place to play games without feeling alone. I don’t have a schedule currently, but I play something or other most days in the evening. My handle is ‘Capsulepon‘ because Gashapon (my usual online handle) was taken and my hyper-fixation on capsule dispensing and claw machines only grows stronger by the day.
I’m posting today instead of tomorrow because when this post goes up I should be live, and Fridays are doctor appointment days.
Punishing The Internet for Sharing
Why make millions on your video game when you could be making HUNDREDS on frivolous copyright claims?
A Telltale Autopsy
What lessons can we learn from the abrupt demise of this once-impressive games studio?
Self-Balancing Gameplay
There's a wonderful way to balance difficulty in RPGs, and designers try to prevent it. For some reason.
Why Batman Can't Kill
His problem isn't that he's dumb, the problem is that he bends the world he inhabits.
Games and the Fear of Death
Why killing you might be the least scary thing a game can do.
The time difference between the East Coast and Hawaii is just a bit too large, apparently; I read this post upon getting home from work, and Twitch said you’d finished an hour ago. Ah well. (That’s kinda the main reason I don’t usually watch streamers live, schedules just don’t line up here.)
Well, I’m planning to start recording them and turning them into Youtube videos. The Sims4 build I made last night would be best as a speed build I think, I’m still working on what’s actually interesting enough to warrant wasting 45 minutes on with people watching.
Speed builds can be fun, perhaps combined with a bit of judicious editing (though I know from experience that that increases the production time a lot).
European here, and I am raising my hand as also being likely to be watching recorded video that joining a live livestream.
“I have no good explanation or reason, but my brain is fried, and I’m sad.”
this could easily describe my mood during one out of three days or more