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Rich Evans Ayypologist said:
It depends on the context. Their Night in the Woods stream is fantastic, because the play-through gives them abundant things to discuss the whole way through. There's game-design talks, there's character design talks (in particular, the wrenching feeling of an interesting art style wasted on such a pile of garbage), writing and dialogue critiques, and the growing fatigue of "there's an entire game of this" combined with just how wholly out-of-touch the writing is with anything even mildly resembling actual depression, much less actual life. Not to mention the classic "rich yuppie attempts to write deep work on depression" trope of trying to pair a serious examination of melancholy with a spooky otherworldly lovecraft-lite monster. God there's so fucking many of those.

There are of course quirks with the stream - I believe someone donates them a stupid amount of money and DD insists on refunding it a few times, but every entertainer has quirks. DD&J work just fine as stream hosts when they are the ones providing the direction and material - ripping that stupid game to shreds. When they just put on an old game and rely more on their audience for chat topics and direction, you get the more middling, meandering content that doesn't quite have the bite and focus.
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Ding Dong has a good mind for event-type streams, like the fan movie one. You can tell he enjoys the planning and specifics of all that stuff.
 
The boys take on one of the toughest bosses in the game:
 
Muahhahahahahaa -- guten eventag, boneyplays fanscum. i have something truly... diabolical for you tonight, a chilling little slice of terror we call "SPORTS GAME BEST OF"
 
Haha Mick got yeeted from Hasbin Hotel
Replaced by Keith David
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At least he took it gracefully, which is, in itself, a power move.
 
Rich Evans Ayypologist said:
It depends on the context. Their Night in the Woods stream is fantastic, because the play-through gives them abundant things to discuss the whole way through. There's game-design talks, there's character design talks (in particular, the wrenching feeling of an interesting art style wasted on such a pile of garbage), writing and dialogue critiques, and the growing fatigue of "there's an entire game of this" combined with just how wholly out-of-touch the writing is with anything even mildly resembling actual depression, much less actual life. Not to mention the classic "rich yuppie attempts to write deep work on depression" trope of trying to pair a serious examination of melancholy with a spooky otherworldly lovecraft-lite monster. God there's so fucking many of those.

There are of course quirks with the stream - I believe someone donates them a stupid amount of money and DD insists on refunding it a few times, but every entertainer has quirks. DD&J work just fine as stream hosts when they are the ones providing the direction and material - ripping that stupid game to shreds. When they just put on an old game and rely more on their audience for chat topics and direction, you get the more middling, meandering content that doesn't quite have the bite and focus.
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Agreed

Even though Dingdong and Julian (in particular Dingdong) can come off as pretty bitter, they are very good when it comes to evenly offering harsh criticism as well as praise when it's deserved and are generally very capable of coming up with insightful or at least unique perspectives on a game like Night in the Woods that you just wouldn't find with most other people.
In general, it's a real shame that their streams are marred by so much drama of their own creation because they are interesting guys that have a lot of passion for games and animation and I really enjoy listening to people who I think are genuinely smart nerd out about that stuff.
Even just watching DD play random Neo Geo games and talk about them is pretty engaging when it's not going off the rails.
 
Nick Obre said:
Haha Mick got yeeted from Hasbin Hotel
Replaced by Keith David
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At least he took it gracefully, which is, in itself, a power move.
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Mick honestly doesn't seem the type to get salty over something like this in the first place. Shit happens. Plus he's being replaced by a solid talent, so what could he really gripe about other than one less paycheck coming his way? Dudes talented enough in his own right to not have an issue finding more work.

Shame he mostly chooses to do shit tier projects, but oh well.
 
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