Fantastic video, thank you so much for sharing it.

Me bringing up the Muppets came from a several hour long debate me and a friend had a while ago over whether or not the Muppets counted as VTubers. We eventually concluded the answer was something like “yes, though the dynamic is different in a number of important…

That’s nice, but like I said I fully allow for Vtuber guys. And it doesn’t necessarily discount my language. Once again, I can name about 100 VTubers for anime girls, and it might be interesting if we could add together all the anime girl streamers I know and all the anime girl streamers you know just to get a proper…

Well I’m glad I could help then.

That’s correct. I cannot name a single VTuber who is a guy and 100% of the ones I know are anime girls. After you challenged me I contacted a friend who is way deeper into Vtubing than I am, and he could only name a couple. I’m not surprised that there are VTubers who portray themselves as guys, I just didn’t know any…

Yep, shout-outs to Pro Wrestling for its lexicon. The semi-transparent pane on its fourth wall has produced a lot of really useful terms to be applied broadly in entertainment.

*shrug* I can name about 100 Vtubers off the cuff and all of them are anime girls of some stripe. I’m not surprised there are exceptions, but that’s splitting hairs.

The supershort, reductive, not completely true but mostly accurate answer is that a VTuber is a Muppet but a streamer but digital but an anime character and it’s set up like pro wrestling.

The actual, real, in-depth answer is that VTubers are streamers of varying stripes whose main gimmick is that they represent…

The main thing to note is that he didn’t actually die. The game is acting like he did, the swooping aerial death camera activates and starts to zoom out, but his character never actually touched the kill plane and is still controllable and can take actions.

This is possibly relevant for Speedrunning, because as…

Totally true. And there’s absolutely no way to play Eldin Ring offline at all.

Wow, and I thought this person just had bad takes on baseline, solved, quality of life features in video games. Man, does this well go deep.

Interesting hill to die on, but okay.

Maybe don’t purchase it though, the people re-releasing it are scummy NFT grifters with a history of squatting on trademarks and churning out cut-rate releases using stolen code:

Or make PC Games. Or set out a digital shingle and made a storefront. Or aimed at being Gamepass instead of weird Steam but more expensive and streaming.

This. If Stadia had been canny enough to try “Netflix but games”, IE a monthly fee for access to a library of games, it probably would have survived and been the market winner Google demands from its ventures. It didn’t, you pay full price for each game individually on an unproven service by a company with a track…

I know a lot of people stand by the position that game streaming is likely going to survive and thrive into the future, but they all agree when it happens it won’t look ANYTHING like Stadia’s bass-ackwards implementation and pricing.

Anyone surprised by this? Show of hands, anyone?

Putting aside “maybe it doesn’t work?” or “maybe it’s empty?” or even “is it really worth 1.5 million dollars even if it’s real?”, did you honestly, really, truly not understand how and why a Mario 64 cartridge might accrue value? Did you not recognize why that thing might be sold for so much with little more than a…

I love it when you respond to exactly one tiny thing in my posts, it really proves how on the level you are.

Either Dan is quoting wrong or you’re quoting him wrong, cause you’re describing wash trading, not a sybil attack.

The fact that they weren’t means that either: