Hangout: Bethesda Press Conference

By Shamus Posted Friday Jun 12, 2015

Filed under: Notices 25 comments

So E3 is this coming week, and Twitch.tv is doing something new. They’re allowing people to re-stream their feed. Which means we can watch a press event and comment on it in real-time. Josh and I (and maybe some other guests, I dunno) will stream the Bethesda press conference, and talk over it like a couple of opinionated jerks.

Honestly, I have no idea if this will work, if it makes sense, or if you will enjoy it. We’re off the edge of the map here.

But maybe it will be fun. I’m sure they’re going to spend a lot of time talking about Fallout 4. You can be there to witness the hardening or melting of our hearts in real time. You can type questions into chat like, “Will you fix your reprehensible karma system?” Josh and I can ask each other those questions, conclude that we have no idea because Bethesda is still talking about plasma rifles or whatever.

The event is at 7pm on Sunday night on the West Cost. Here’s a countdown to to event:

If the Bethesda thing falls through, maybe we’ll just hang out and watch Josh play a videogame. If it works out, we might cover a few other events later in the week.

When the event is live you’ll find it here: twitch.tv/spoilerwarningshow

 


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25 thoughts on “Hangout: Bethesda Press Conference

  1. Tony Kebell says:

    This ought to be fun at least.

  2. lucky7 says:

    9:00 on a SUNDAY? Curse you, Bethesda!

    1. AileTheAlien says:

      How long is the event scheduled to be?
      (Just figuring out if I need to call in sick again on Monday… :P )

    2. Joseph P. Tallylicker says:

      AKA 4 AM on a monday for me. WTF Beth! Stupid sexy timezones.

  3. krellen says:

    Hey, this is NOT during one of my gaming sessions. Maybe Bethesda isn’t so bad after all.

    1. Josh says:

      WE HAVE FAILED.

  4. el_b says:

    two best friends have done this kind of thing few times, they were pretty good. always good to get hours of spoiler warning all at once :)

  5. Jarenth says:

    If I’m getting the timing right on this, this stream will be… 4 AM, Sunday night.

    Somehow, I doubt I’ll be able to be there.

    1. Josh says:

      IT IS BECAUSE YOU LACK CONVICTION.

      1. JackTheStripper says:

        Sleep is for the weak.

      2. krellen says:

        I can come and talk in a funny accent if you want.

  6. Bubble181 says:

    Hate being that guy, but….their instead of there? “You can be their to witness the hardening of […]”

    Also, won’t be there, wrong timezone :(

    1. RedSun says:

      And it’s 7 PM on the West Cost? Dammit, I’m horrible with exchange rates!

  7. The Other Wes says:

    If anyone is having trouble with timezones for E3, here’s a handy table that someone made.

  8. bigben1985 says:

    So the stream is on the 19th or 20th, and E3 is from 16th to 18th?
    Someone’s going to have to explain that to me… does Bethesda not care about official E3 times? is the timer wrong (it says 7 days plus change right now for me). Or am I just bad at math? (Never do math on live tv, children)

    Edit: NVM after reloading the timer decided to show 1 day amd change instead. Wonder what went wrong

  9. And for some inexplicable reason, they’ll never do this again.

  10. Muspel says:

    Seems like a fun idea.

  11. Can you archive the stream, in case we miss it?

  12. Phrozenflame500 says:

    Pleasantly surprised that Twitch is allowing this. I’ve watched some of the award shows before with other people restreaming and commentating over it, but they had to use a different site since it was against Twitch TOS. It’s pretty fun, as when the conference gets inevitably drudged up in marketing speak you have people to crack jokes about it.

  13. Gruhunchously says:

    …but plasma rifles are cool….

  14. Adam Phant says:

    Given the Diecast is usually recorded on Sundays, how will this press conference hangout thing effect this week’s podcast?

    1. Shamus says:

      We record on Saturdays. So, recording all done for this week.

  15. For those with half an hour to spare. Kung Fury (Movie Short) 31 minute playtime. (free, official channel)

    And here’s the trailer.

    I’m sure most here has seen this movie by now but if not, at the very least check out the trailer. The movie was a kickstarter project.
    And word has it that the short will become a full feature movie later thanks to the popularity.
    The short was also screened at the Cannes Film Festival.

    1. Zak McKracken says:

      What the I don’t even… ahh… David Hasselhoff?

      1. Yeah, apparently he was asked to do a song (sing), he watched the first 15 or so seconds of Kung Fury and said “I’m in”.

        I’ve seen Kung Fury more times than I can count (partly due to watching other people react to it on youtube), some go into full nostalgia mode for the 80s while others just can’t process what they are seeing.

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