T w e n t y S i d e d
Be sure to mark your calendars for… Hm.
That would be pretty stupid, wouldn’t it? You take the 2016 calendar down, write “Twenty Sided Stream” in the very last box, and then throw it in the garbage. You hang the 2017 in its place, but it doesn’t become relevant until the day after this event. I suppose you can use the box for January 1st: “Twenty Sided Stream will be yesterday”. Or something like that. It doesn’t matter.
But if you’re the sort of person who needs to remind themselves about how they plan to spend the celebration of the New Year in 3 days, than maybe you need more help than a calendar has to offer.
Whatever. I’ve gotten sidetracked. The point is, we’re doing the thing we always do every year, which is playing videogames. Josh is going to play some stuff. We’re going to hang out and make fun of the game, of him, of his choice in games, and of how he plays them.
What games? Good question. Josh promises it will be “a medley”. I know Overwatch is on the list, but that’s not going to last the entire night. Right now I’m campaigning for Grand Theft Auto V. I dunno. Nominate your choices in the comments. Or maybe don’t. Josh has a contrarian streak and will probably avoid anything that seems popular. You might think you could outwit him with reverse psychology and nominate what you don’t want him to play, but he’s clever and will simply play the requested game, which means you still end up with a game you don’t want except now it’s your own fault.
We’ll see. The event will start at 10PM on the east coast.
Of which continent?
Guess.
Or I suppose you could cheat and consult the following timer:
The stream will go until the games run out of fun, or Josh runs out of booze. It will appear on the Spoiler Warning stream at the appointed time. I hope you’ll be there.
Netscape 1997
What did web browsers look like 20 years ago, and what kind of crazy features did they have?
Deus Ex and The Treachery of Labels
Deus Ex Mankind Divided was a clumsy, tone-deaf allegory that thought it was clever, and it managed to annoy people of all political stripes.
Stolen Pixels
A screencap comic that poked fun at videogames and the industry. The comic has ended, but there's plenty of archives for you to binge on.
Mass Effect Retrospective
A novel-sized analysis of the Mass Effect series that explains where it all went wrong. Spoiler: It was long before the ending.
Trekrospective
A look back at Star Trek, from the Original Series to the Abrams Reboot.
TIE FIGHTERRRRR!!!!!
PS Wouldn’t it technically be 23:00 on the east coast of the continent?
Edit: Or even 00:00? Which continent is Greenland considered part of?
Edit edit: It’s: “physiographically a part of the continent of North America,” according to Wikipedia, and ‘physiographically’ is my new Word of the Day.
Canis canem edit: And squinting at the map again, the east coast of Greenland has the same timezone as Iceland and Great Britain, so technically it starts at 03:00. If you’re on the correct part of the east coast of Greenland, that is: if you head a little south, it’s the same timezone as the Azores (so 02:00). However, if you either paused on your journey south, or headed to the extreme north, or absolutely went for it and headed overland as far south as possible, you’d be on the same time as the east coast of Brazil; i.e. back to 00:00 again. I hope this clears things up.
East Coast stops when you reach the Atlantic. Greenland is the Post Coast of the continent.
Maybe ‘pre-coast’ fits better – it gets earlier as you move east.
I think it gets later, actually. Doesn’t it?
I guess it depends how far you move east.
Derp. My mistake.
Putting in a vote for My Twin Brother Made Me Crossdress As Him And Now I Have To Deal With A Geeky Stalker And A Domme Beauty Who Want Me In A Bind, whose title I just typed from memory. I hear it has a SFW mode now.
Not entirely seriousThat title is some Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? level stuff.
I second stuff like this, really. Do something the cast wouldn’t normally do. I could go for some Dark Souls 3 to go with the old Dark Souls 1 streams personally. Or perhaps Metal Gear Rising Revengeance.
The other way I would go with this was a playlist of games that appeared on this site in some fashion during 2016. A little Fallout 4, a little Soma, a little KOTOR, a little Good Robot, a little of that mobile, Korean dating sim Mumbles likes.
I looked this up, expecting it to be a joke, or at least something unthinkably obscure… but it’s actually by the same developer as “Analogue: A Hate Story”, a game I played and enjoyed, and this RockPaperShotgun article actually makes it sounds somewhat fascinating, (if not particularly up my alley). So, that exceeded my expectations quite a bit.
Quote from that article:
Yeah, well said! And that’s why I don’t play them, and why I find it creepy if and when people do.
(alright, the mechanics are usually so abstracted that it transfers to actual “pick-ups” about as well as Counterstrike translates to actual gunfights but the whole attitude towards potential “partners” shown in the game is just wrong, and I’ve met too many people who actually think like that.
Good dating sims and good dating sim elements don’t. They let you act the way your character would and then see what happens. Hang out with the people you want to hang out with, say to them what you’d normally say, and hopefully at the end you find the ones you like and who would like you.
We don’t really have a lot of really good dating sims and dating sim elements yet, but the better ones lean more this way than the “Say what you need to say in order to get what you want”. While still allowing for you to do that if you want to game the system or your character would.
Oh yeah, the reason I wasn’t that serious about playing it isn’t because it’s a bad game or anything, it’s because it would be a bit weird to be playing a game with hardcore sex scenes on a New Years Eve stream (also Twitch might get mad and ban you)
“…whose title I just typed from memory”
Someone should give you a nod for that, so I’m just here to say that your comment amuses me.
Obligatory Shogun 2 vote. On a more serious note: Good Robot.
Bureaucracy.
Your link is broken, therefore your game gets an anti-vote! :P
That is beautifully fitting.
Since the lparchive link didn’t work let’s try the Wikipedia one.
I do actually have a copy of that. Legally.
Does it work after all this time?Because digital media arent that great at not deteriorating with time.
Ill throw in a vote for Paladins, aka That Game Everyone Compares To Overwatch.
Seconded! We’ve already seen Overwatch – give another game a shot! Worst-case scenario, you just go back to Overwatch after you try this game. :)
An ‘alternatives to Overwatch’ night could be cool. I’d like to throw Atlas Reactor on as a suggestion as well for that theme.
I’d like to suggest everything by Paradox, ever. In a row.
Also, thanks to you guys for doing this! It’s great to have a social hangout for people who don’t have a NYE party planned.
Stellaris is the one true title that they must play! Weird space-aliens for life! :P
So what kind of government/physiology would Cuftbertians have? Also Missiles, Lasers or Massers?
Is it possible to do no government at all? Because if so, that. Physiology could be fairly flexible, and there may well be plenty of inter- or even intraspecies variance.
With one absolutely critical exception: mutton chops.
Well it’s a space RTS 4X kind of game so there needs to be some way to guide the expansion of your society. They do allow you add traits to set the ethos of your society/goverment. Things like Individuality vs Collectivism, Materialism vs Spirituality and Militarism vs Pacifism, and give traits to your species both positive and negative.
In the end you get something like this.
Haha! That’s quality! – absolutely nailed it, I reckon. (And he does technically have mutton chops – it’s just that he also has, er, the rest of the sheep? Too.)
Cuftbertians would definitively look at the three weapons options and ask themselves: “Which ones comes closest to stuffing grenades down people’s trousers?”.
And then probably take Mass Drivers anyway because Missiles suck in the current patch.
Yeah, Tyranny!
By the magic of creepy Steam stalking I can at least confirm that FFhe does at least own Tyranny. Not that I’d not wish to wouldn’t watch him not play nothing like Tyranny and if not definitely not on the Year Isn’t New stream which probably isn’t or wouldn’t be mentioned above or at least not by Shamus.
I don’t know if that was contrarian-proof but I gave it a shot. Or, didn’t.
Josh knows my pick, because I mentioned it in the Steam gift note. The rest is f you get to speculate about what game it might be that has me hoping Mumbles can show up…
If we’re allowed to spoil the democratic process by gifting games, then I’m throwing in Space Food Truck! It’d actually be perfect for the crew, since it only needs 4 players. Like when they played The Yawhg! (You can play with less, but it’s not really fun with 2 or 1.)
I sent the gift before the stream was announced. I knew it was likely, but there wasn’t anything announced.
Interestingly enough, ‘mark your calendar’ has become *more* relevant as a phrase during these in-between times between the end of one paper calendar and the start of the next.
After all, how many people actually hang calendars anymore? Instead we’ve got a perpetual calendar/appointment book/diary on our smartphones linked to our desktop.
Mark it today and it’ll be marked in perpetuity (read: until your two-year contract phone subsidy hits and you throw old-and-busted away for the-new-hotness).
I’m just disappointed that Shamus ‘Old Man’ Young threw out the fact that the majority of paper calendars start in the year previous to their remit. i.e. A good new calendar will include the last week of the previous year…
On the other hand, he probably knew this but wanted to go for the easy joke instead! A sign of something, I’m sure!
;)
Games for Josh… well, I’ve been playing and writing about it so much this year (going on 60+ hours now) I’ve got to nominate Hyper Light Drifter. I think it’s a good streaming game too because it’s fun to watch. Well, at least I find it fun to watch… Oh, god! I think I need help!
After failing to get a paper calendar last year, I picked up two of them. One of the started with December 2016. The second one started with NOVEMBER 2016. But that one tracks curling events, and the season starts to pick up about there, so it makes sense.
I still have a paper calendar on my wall. Granted it’s for 2013 and is currently on October of that year, but it’s there.
I use mostly the calendar on my phone but also a paper calendar on the wall for marking important days and stuff. So, if I put the date on my phone, it’ll stay there anyway.
But even back in the paper world: Why would I throw away the calendar before the last relevant date on it has occurred? That would make it generally impossible to mark any time for anything on the 31st of December! I’m not quite sure where Shamus’ assumption comes from.
And that’s even before taking into account the fact that in the paper days I used a notebook-style calendar with replaceable sheets for every week — so there was never really a limit on which year I could look at at since I’d buy the sheets for the coming year some time in Octover and could just remove and add sheets to the calender I’m carrying with me, to cover whatever range of weeks I want/need.
Oh, ohh, OHH! *shakes hand around to show he can answer the question*
The east coast of Europe!
Shouldn’t have made wisdom my dump stat after all…
The East Coast of Europe is where the shores of Europe hit the waves of Mongols, right?
Shadow tactics:Blades of the shogun
And then they can watch the Shogun miniseries.
Wow – I thought this was a joke title that you’d made up. And that it was pretty funny joke title! If a bit over-the-top.
I vote for 2 attempts at Death Road to Canada.
Won’t take too long and is highly entertaining.
Ooh, maybe a game of Lichtspeer too!
Many calendars have spots with dates for the last week of the previous month present. So depending on the type of calendar your archaic calendar hanger owns, they very well might be able to put up a 2017 calendar and still mark the 31st of the previous year’s December for this event.
The brookhaven experiment! Would love a vr stream!
I would be super keen to see Armello, if that’s an option.
I nominate literally anything other than Overwatch. It’s hard enough to keep track of what’s going on when I play Overwatch, watching it just turns it into a chaotic mess.
pick up and play the first Magicka! http://store.steampowered.com/app/42910/
I like Shogun 2 or anything where Josh can talk about history.
Doing a heist in Grand Theft Auto V sounds like it could be fun (planning, getting the stuff you need, etc).
I want to watch the Spoiler Warning crew struggle to come up with anything to say about Touhou: Imperishable Night, other than that Marisa is basically Regina Cuftbert and the music is nice.
No but actually, I’d like to see you guys play one of the Homeworld games, maybe even Deserts of Kharak. There’s plenty of things to say about those for the brief amount of time you’d be spending with them, and I haven’t seen much “middle brow” commentary on them besides facile people like me going on and on about how great Rob Cunningham and Aaron Kambeitz are.
Feh, Subterranean Animism FTW.
Hah, that’d be amazing. But the sincere part of me would want to at least see Josh get past the first two stages before they called it quits, and boy. SA.
Honestly Imperishable Nights is one of my least favorite Touhou games, just because the danmaku are probably the least interesting and ugliest in all the Windows era imo. But what can you do? It’s just too good an intro for both mechanics and tone.
Since the new year promises to be stressful as hell, I’d suggest Darkest Dungeon. And name party members after the cast and associates.
What better way to start the new year than by sacrificing people in the endless and futile struggle against eldritch abominations?
Well, I guess I may as well mark my calendar for some time in the early hours of the 1st of Jan seeing as I get the New Year earlier than Americans :P
4 AM New Years’ Day for me.
:) My list of game-requests for Josh to ignore:
Game I would love to see played (because there is no way I’d have the guts to play it myself): “We Happy Few”
Game that’d be interesting to see the Spoiler Warning crew suffer through: “The Sims”
Game I’d like to see Josh play again: “Witcher”
I’ll chose new Hitman game. Should be fun, and with latest Holiday hoarders contract would be thematicalle appropriate
You should play Grim Dawn. Or Tyranny.
Only eleven hours until the stream, so, from where I live it should start in the early morning, 2017.
The Jack Box games they played on Campster’s stream might be a good idea. It looked like there was a good amount of audience interaction, and some would benefit from a larger audience too.