- Joined
- Nov 26, 2018
Nothing of interest at all happened in the first stream, and I mean nothing. So I shall recap the Baldur's Gate 3 stream with Mikail.
She ragequits around 40 minutes in because one of the first battles is too punishing. I usually don't err on her side too much but from what I've heard BG3 does have problems with being too strict about dice rolls. But boy does she get mad.
(initial ragequit)
Cont'd
Ranting about game mechanics
Insulting Fromsoft and worshipping Bioware, this is as loud as she gets.
TL;DR game devs that want to adapt table top strategies or have difficult or inconvenient mechanics are jackasses, and Lily knows better. Now I've played my fair share of Darkest Dungeon, I've seen devs with their heads up their asses, but it's not an absolute thing. Certain games like Monster Hunter thrive off of mastering the immense difficulty curve, this is especially true with text based rpgs and sandbox games. Keep in mind, Lily couldn't make it an hour into BG3, I don't think she has the patience for these kinds of games to begin with.
Mikaila just agrees with everything Lily says, in that way that feels like they aren't having a real conversation. Lily just talks at the chat and Mikay nods. It's very offputting, especially when we get clips of Mikay acting jovial and Lily going "don't do that" in a monotone voice. Will have to dig some clips up.
1hour 18 minutes in Lily praises Mikay for her new desktop background and Mikay keeps making...noises.
This is poultry, but, hour and a half in, we get this line about "art school brats animating on 3s" which is wrong and insulting for several reasons.
If you don't know, "on 2s" is an animation technique wherein they shoot at a certain framerate but only make half the drawings, meaning each drawing shows up for 2 frames. It saves time and can effect the motion and spacing of the animation. If a show animates on 3s, that is a third of the drawings not half, that means it has little to no budget. So saying "art school brats would animate on 3s" is incredibly belittling. She's basically saying that modern showrunners are such auteur weebs that they would intentionally make their show look worse if it meant looking more like anime. Granted, I imagine she doesn't even know what on 3s means, she probably thinks it means more frames not less, but still, this is very snide. Alright sperging over.
They ask why people make lewd game mods. Same reason anyone makes visual mods, cause they can.
They decide to play *Drumroll* More fucking Old Republic.
They play SWOTOR and say very little.
This guy, puff blossom, never shuts the fuck up. 70% of the chat is them running their mouth.
The next hour and half is just Old Republic gameplay with just banter about the game and other mmos, watched all of it and couldn't parse anything of interest. Ho boy these last few streams have been a slog. Her tumblr has produced nothing, she's stopped writing, it's just videos and streams now. It's probably better for her in the long run but it doesn't leave me with much to work with. And the state of the site has only left a handful of people around her anyway. I'm not giving up, but I am hoping for something interesting on the horizon.
(initial ragequit)
Cont'd
Ranting about game mechanics
Insulting Fromsoft and worshipping Bioware, this is as loud as she gets.
TL;DR game devs that want to adapt table top strategies or have difficult or inconvenient mechanics are jackasses, and Lily knows better. Now I've played my fair share of Darkest Dungeon, I've seen devs with their heads up their asses, but it's not an absolute thing. Certain games like Monster Hunter thrive off of mastering the immense difficulty curve, this is especially true with text based rpgs and sandbox games. Keep in mind, Lily couldn't make it an hour into BG3, I don't think she has the patience for these kinds of games to begin with.
Mikaila just agrees with everything Lily says, in that way that feels like they aren't having a real conversation. Lily just talks at the chat and Mikay nods. It's very offputting, especially when we get clips of Mikay acting jovial and Lily going "don't do that" in a monotone voice. Will have to dig some clips up.
1hour 18 minutes in Lily praises Mikay for her new desktop background and Mikay keeps making...noises.
This is poultry, but, hour and a half in, we get this line about "art school brats animating on 3s" which is wrong and insulting for several reasons.
If you don't know, "on 2s" is an animation technique wherein they shoot at a certain framerate but only make half the drawings, meaning each drawing shows up for 2 frames. It saves time and can effect the motion and spacing of the animation. If a show animates on 3s, that is a third of the drawings not half, that means it has little to no budget. So saying "art school brats would animate on 3s" is incredibly belittling. She's basically saying that modern showrunners are such auteur weebs that they would intentionally make their show look worse if it meant looking more like anime. Granted, I imagine she doesn't even know what on 3s means, she probably thinks it means more frames not less, but still, this is very snide. Alright sperging over.
They ask why people make lewd game mods. Same reason anyone makes visual mods, cause they can.
They decide to play *Drumroll* More fucking Old Republic.
They play SWOTOR and say very little.
This guy, puff blossom, never shuts the fuck up. 70% of the chat is them running their mouth.
The next hour and half is just Old Republic gameplay with just banter about the game and other mmos, watched all of it and couldn't parse anything of interest. Ho boy these last few streams have been a slog. Her tumblr has produced nothing, she's stopped writing, it's just videos and streams now. It's probably better for her in the long run but it doesn't leave me with much to work with. And the state of the site has only left a handful of people around her anyway. I'm not giving up, but I am hoping for something interesting on the horizon.
"Baby do you still love me"
I think I'll let that speak for itself.
Forget your troubles come on get happy 
