"Mad at the Internet" - a/k/a My Psychotherapy Sessions

[Maude Snew]

Having a show or segment where people try to convince Null to read about their favorite lolcow (like some kind of Shark Tank investor presentation about why they're funny) could be a good way to increase interest in threads while encouraging good site behavior. It would highlight the fun parts of online people-watching rather than the negatives, and get people talking about cows they actually get a laugh from.

Like some sort of thing where the community tells him what's happening? I doubt it'll ever work or get to a second iteration no chance no sir.

 

[Rain Team Pepe]

we, the people, demand another bad at videogames stream

its pure kino

Life is strange remaster is out.
I never saw the 3 parts of the original that vanished.

Hatoful Boyfriend?

 

[Catgirl Tyranid]

Hatoful Boyfriend?

Yes.

 

[genericwhitemale]

@Null You know, I'm sure you'd probably hate this idea, and idk how it'd even work without something like discord, but it would be cool if you had a MATI stream where you took calls like in some of your old, 2019 era ones.

Vid related

 

[Nikes_JustDoIt]

With the call-ins, it will be something like this: with the infamous X man (@ 19:45)

It's going to turn off some viewers, and he makes it super chat, only it won't be fun.

 

[DSP's Tax Lawyer]

Vid related
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He missed a feeder joke though. Gotta include feeder jokes to daddy jersh

 

[Null]

we, the people, demand another bad at videogames stream

its pure kino

Okay, the four things I'm considering right now:

• When (Once a week on Saturday? Every weekday?)
• Where (New channel? Twitch?)
• How Long (2 hours a day? 6~8 hours once a week?0
• What? (Long form games like HOI4/Dota? Strictly episodic walking sims?)

I really want to know, specifically from people who actually watch other people play games already, what would work best in a general entertainment sense. I only ever watch people play games when I'm watching some romanian dude play EU4 or Dead by Daylight to learn some stuff.

 

[Amaranth]

I'd say a 40 minute format 2-3 times a week, which would be around 3 hours total,
every other day or so
you still have that twitch account, it should be fine
don't care what games let other people pick

 

[Biggie Smalls' Taint]

Play DoTA and have expensive superchats to send a message to a player in-game

BigBilly for $30: Call the enemy Shadowfiend a nigger.

 

[3322]

Personally I have no interest watching something like Dota or map-games. I'd like to see you play horror games, maybe Outlast would be too spoopy for you, but I think story and decision based games are more entertaining to watch than autism simulators. Also story-based games don't take a lot of skill and you can enjoy the story with the audience without getting frustrated and super autistic over meta-game shit. It also wouldn't matter if you are really bad at it because even getting the bad endings is still funny. You can also let the audience help you with making decisions.

Once or twice a week would be good for the beginning to see how you like it, don't burn yourself out cause you will stop having fun.

I don't think twitch would be a good idea since they will ban you pretty quickly since they have an off-site behavior based policy that means even if you don't ever break the twitch rules they can still ban you for saying the n-word somewhere else. I agree with making a new channel on yootoob called "Bad at Videogames".

 

[Gaunt King Ithan Rilph]

Okay, the four things I'm considering right now:

• When (Once a week on Saturday? Every weekday?)
• Where (New channel? Twitch?)
• How Long (2 hours a day? 6~8 hours once a week?0
• What? (Long form games like HOI4/Dota? Strictly episodic walking sims?)

I really want to know, specifically from people who actually watch other people play games already, what would work best in a general entertainment sense. I only ever watch people play games when I'm watching some romanian dude play EU4 or Dead by Daylight to learn some stuff.

• Multiple days a week (doesn't have to be every weekday)
• New channel might be better for the algorithm because of limited audience overlap. Youtube is less ban happy.
• 2-3 hours is pretty solid.
• Games that allow viewer interaction are good, walking sims, The Sims etc. but also games that are difficult, scary or pure trash which you can have a laugh at. I think super long story driven games (like RPGs or whatever) might be not so great.

A streamer I watch sometimes does "trash streams", he preps by going to itch.io and downloading a whole bunch of shitty looking games. If they don't have any sort of entertainment value, he just moves to the next one within the first few minutes.

 

[DSP's Tax Lawyer]

When (Once a week on Saturday? Every weekday?)

A Monday or Tuesday to balance off the Friday Streams

Where (New channel? Twitch?)

New Channel or wherever you can. You post the link here so people can find it and that should be good

How Long (2 hours a day? 6~8 hours once a week?0

I like how the MATI streams are at least an hour but have a good cut off point. Whenever you get to a good stopping point works

What? (Long form games like HOI4/Dota? Strictly episodic walking sims?)

Just start off with games you know that would be entertaining. The world war strategy games are fun but eventually you can branch off into other games you enjoy

 

[JustSomeDong]

Okay, the four things I'm considering right now:

• When (Once a week on Saturday? Every weekday?)
• Where (New channel? Twitch?)
• How Long (2 hours a day? 6~8 hours once a week?0
• What? (Long form games like HOI4/Dota? Strictly episodic walking sims?)

I really want to know, specifically from people who actually watch other people play games already, what would work best in a general entertainment sense. I only ever watch people play games when I'm watching some romanian dude play EU4 or Dead by Daylight to learn some stuff.

I don't watch streamers/let's players. I'm too old to have caught that particular wave of autism. We just got stoned in a basement and took turns actually playing games. But you, dear Null, you, I will watch. Or at least leave it streaming while I go do other things. Because I liek u. My suggestions:

Whenever you want, Dont care where. However long you want.
But the game? THIS:


As HJIC*, you need to sweep it up.

*Head Jannie In Charge

 

[Miller]

• What? (Long form games like HOI4/Dota? Strictly episodic walking sims?)

A game that is fun to watch.

 

[0 0]

Okay, the four things I'm considering right now:

• When (Once a week on Saturday? Every weekday?)
• Where (New channel? Twitch?)
• How Long (2 hours a day? 6~8 hours once a week?0
• What? (Long form games like HOI4/Dota? Strictly episodic walking sims?)

I really want to know, specifically from people who actually watch other people play games already, what would work best in a general entertainment sense. I only ever watch people play games when I'm watching some romanian dude play EU4 or Dead by Daylight to learn some stuff.

In terms of "what," I know of a handful of indie game bundles made for things like pride month or Juneteenth. They're all universally awful, laughable, and mercifully short, if you're interested.

 

[Flexo]

NULL, I really enjoyed watching your life is strange archive when I found it. (The game where you're the Asian chick who sees colors emotion).

So... more of that?

Or maybe we should do the obvious and you should play a sonic game. Say... Sonic '06?

 

[Rain Team Pepe]

Okay, the four things I'm considering right now:

• When (Once a week on Saturday? Every weekday?)
• Where (New channel? Twitch?)
• How Long (2 hours a day? 6~8 hours once a week?0
• What? (Long form games like HOI4/Dota? Strictly episodic walking sims?)

I really want to know, specifically from people who actually watch other people play games already, what would work best in a general entertainment sense. I only ever watch people play games when I'm watching some romanian dude play EU4 or Dead by Daylight to learn some stuff.

It's better if the game doesn't require you to focus to execute gameplay with precise inputs while entertaining an audience.
I don't want to watch you be a top tier raider in World of Warcraft, or pwn newbz in Valorant.
I want you to have a storyline to react to and comment on.
In the spirit of that Rainbow Six Siege would work, due to your teammates needing to execute objectives and you having time to talk between deaths.
You're at your most entertaining for me personally when you're covering the Nepal store, or talking about Hawtdag man.
HOI or EU could work, better yet Crusader kings 2 for the narrative.
How about Total War Warhammer 2?
(Maybe a Pokemon Nuzlocke? )

 

[SevenEightNine]

Multiple shorter episodes (<2h) would be really nice. Tuning in at the anticipated time for LiS was very fun.

That Russian channel you used last week worked pretty well. I would watch on YouTube. Even the normie, no gamer-words streamers I like on Twitch get struck or suspended without notice sometimes, and it is very annoying.

I enjoy when you have played the big Map/Grand Strategy games and have time to explain them, but I don't play those games. I liked watching EU and Civ streamers who knew about the periods of history and added little bits of information and context. It might be tedious to explain how those games work to an audience that has a big mix of people who are good at those games and people who don't play them. The Walking Simulator games were really fun to watch, I would never play one on my own. Even the silly pozzed characters were entertaining with commentary, and it was really fun to hear you polling chat for advice and decision making. I also watched a streamer play "Euro Truck" once a week for several months. He became very, very enthusiastic about trucking routes and it was endearing/funny. The Trucking happens in "missions" which is good for a serial format, like the episodes of the walking sims.

I mostly like watching people stream games who...like games. Seems kind of ridiculous, but there you have it. Even if they hate the game, it's because they knew it could have been so much better.

 

[Near]

Okay, the four things I'm considering right now:

• When (Once a week on Saturday? Every weekday?)
• Where (New channel? Twitch?)
• How Long (2 hours a day? 6~8 hours once a week?0
• What? (Long form games like HOI4/Dota? Strictly episodic walking sims?)

I really want to know, specifically from people who actually watch other people play games already, what would work best in a general entertainment sense. I only ever watch people play games when I'm watching some romanian dude play EU4 or Dead by Daylight to learn some stuff.

• I'd be down to watch you play vidya as often as you'd feel doing it tbh. Could even be multiple times a week, but that poses the risk of a burnout.
• Whatever you do, don't fall for the Twitch meme. They're like Hollywood lite except ran by complete simps. And they'll ban you instantly. At least YouTube fucks everyone equally. Twitch wants to fuck the titty streamers. I'd say make a new YT channel and plug it on the podcast. That'd be the least intrusive way to get things running.
• 2-3 hours is good, and if you ever plan on doing slobbermutt 2D avatar, that's essentially how long vtubers stream for on average.
• Episodic games so far worked out well for you, but I doubt it's the best you can do. For now I'd recommend something like As Dusk Falls, the latest cuck simulator episodic game you could look into. I playtested it as part of a gig before, and I think you'd make it entertaining because the game is pretty stupid.

Honestly with branching out, it's not easy to consider what people would want to watch. My advice is try classics, especially ones you never played before and would go through blind. If you never played Metal Gear Solid or Rising. That would be a good start. other than that, Max Payne or Devil May Cry, even Resident Evil games. Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy. Those would be pretty cool to see you play. If it's games you do know, then challenge runs of them would be a good idea.

 

[Tetra]

Okay, the four things I'm considering right now:

• When (Once a week on Saturday? Every weekday?)
• Where (New channel? Twitch?)
• How Long (2 hours a day? 6~8 hours once a week?0
• What? (Long form games like HOI4/Dota? Strictly episodic walking sims?)

I really want to know, specifically from people who actually watch other people play games already, what would work best in a general entertainment sense. I only ever watch people play games when I'm watching some romanian dude play EU4 or Dead by Daylight to learn some stuff.

• Consistency usually helps with growth, so if you can make a habit out of 1 or the other either or should be fine. I'd go for 4 videos a week. Monday to Thursday, topping the week off with mad at the internet. and then a break during Saturday and Sunday (due to reason 3, how long) Even better, if you don't want to do it every week, you can do what Jim does and have a super week at the end of the month.
• I'd suggest doing it on your main channel and then getting an archive channel for later viewers
• Personally I think 6-8 hours streams scare people so I'd suggest doing 1-2 hour streams both to make things more digestible and less scary for people. Simiarly if some trouble happens with the forum you don't have to abruptly cut of the stream 3 and a half hour in and at worst waste 55 minutes giving potential griefers less ability to fuck with you / have to do it every day
• It doesn't have to be one or the other always, playing only one genre might lead to burn out and thereby hurting you more than not. I like the episodic walking sim stuff as you rip on them a lot but I think if you do that you'll probably overdo it, same with watching maps change color and shape.

edit: I also think you should multistream to both twitch and youtube, you don't own any platform your loyalty and you should use it to increase your reach, if possible you should also find a way to make money on it, even passive income like people rewatching your stuff with ads that adds up to maybe like 50 cent a month could help. I have rewatched your content on odyssey years after the fact for instance. of course this is easier said than done.

edit2: some game suggestions: heavy rain, detroit become human, basicly any game by David Cage