T w e n t y S i d e d
I have no good explanation or reason, but my brain is fried, and I’m sad. Instead of a Sims 4 Overthinking post this week, I’m just going to throw out my Twitch. I’ve been live-streaming The Sims 4, but I’m also planning to get into some emulated games. Maybe old Animal Crossing or Harvest Moon titles. It’s quiet, no-dialogue streaming. If it’s a quiet game, I put music in the background, if it isn’t, I don’t.
It’s much less of a ‘professional streaming’ setup, and more of just a place to play games without feeling alone. I don’t have a schedule currently, but I play something or other most days in the evening. My handle is ‘Capsulepon‘ because Gashapon (my usual online handle) was taken and my hyper-fixation on capsule dispensing and claw machines only grows stronger by the day.
I’m posting today instead of tomorrow because when this post goes up I should be live, and Fridays are doctor appointment days.
Dead Island
A stream-of-gameplay review of Dead Island. This game is a cavalcade of bugs and bad design choices.
MMO Population Problems
Computers keep getting more powerful. So why do the population caps for massively multiplayer games stay about the same?
TitleWhat’s Inside Skinner’s Box?
What is a skinner box, how does it interact with neurotransmitters, and what does it have to do with shooting people in the face for rare loot?
A Star is Born
Remember the superhero MMO from 2009? Neither does anyone else. It was dumb. So dumb I was compelled to write this.
The Loot Lottery
What makes the gameplay of Borderlands so addictive for some, and what does that have to do with slot machines?
The time difference between the East Coast and Hawaii is just a bit too large, apparently; I read this post upon getting home from work, and Twitch said you’d finished an hour ago. Ah well. (That’s kinda the main reason I don’t usually watch streamers live, schedules just don’t line up here.)
Well, I’m planning to start recording them and turning them into Youtube videos. The Sims4 build I made last night would be best as a speed build I think, I’m still working on what’s actually interesting enough to warrant wasting 45 minutes on with people watching.
Speed builds can be fun, perhaps combined with a bit of judicious editing (though I know from experience that that increases the production time a lot).
European here, and I am raising my hand as also being likely to be watching recorded video that joining a live livestream.
“I have no good explanation or reason, but my brain is fried, and I’m sad.”
this could easily describe my mood during one out of three days or more