{"id":7958,"date":"2010-05-11T09:37:42","date_gmt":"2010-05-11T14:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=7958"},"modified":"2010-05-11T09:39:54","modified_gmt":"2010-05-11T14:39:54","slug":"spoiler-warning-fallout-3-3megatons-of-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=7958","title":{"rendered":"Spoiler Warning Fallout 3 #3:Megatons of Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"

First, the episode:<\/p>\n

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And now, the tirade:<\/p>\n

Livestream sucks.<\/strong> <\/p>\n

We want it to stream the video footage to Rutskarn and I so that we can view and comment on the game. But the feed dies frequently. Then when we hit refresh on the page to try and kick-start the feed again, it will play an ad. But not just any ad. It will repeat the last ad we saw. There are many ads in the rotation, but it relentlessly shows me the same one, over and over. It will show Rutskarn the same ad as well. There are four Slim-Fast ads (that we know of) in the system. I’ve seen ad A dozens of times, B a half dozen times, C once, and D never. Rutskarn has seen D dozens of times. Maybe this is a marketing technique? But then why go to all the trouble of making all these spots? <\/p>\n

Then the ads will stutter and lag badly. The ads are all in HD, and sometimes they just don’t come in fast enough, so the ad keeps pausing. Not skipping, pausing. This makes the ad really annoying to watch. Worse, it makes the ad take longer.<\/em> A twenty second spot will eat up a whole minute. <\/p>\n

And then the ad will end, but Livestream won’t return us to Josh’s feed. It just dumps us at a black screen. So we hit refresh…<\/p>\n

I can’t describe how infuriating it is to record twenty minutes of a half hour show and then have Livestream ad-bomb our recording session so that we have to restart. (Josh has to stop the feed and restart his Livestream client to get it going again, which means exiting the game.)<\/p>\n

After a few takes everything gets all disjointed because we’re trying to continue conversations that Livestream ruined and want to refer to events that are no longer part of the continuity. In the end it took us over three hours to record an hour of worthwhile content. <\/p>\n

Livestream doesn’t even offer any sort of “premium” or ad-free viewing options. I understand that bandwidth costs money and I’d be willing to pay to be able to watch ad free. Maybe a flat yearly fee? Or pay a small fee for a few hours? Or just let me watch a whole bunch of ads in one go and get them out of the way? But no. The system will force-feed you ads which don’t work and which break the service. Livestream is broken. We can’t do our show. And we hate Slim-Fast and hope everyone in the company dies in a plague pit. Everyone loses.<\/p>\n

Josh did a really good job of editing out all the Livestream-based nonsense and confusion. Hopefully Livestream gets their act together. I don’t even think there is a rival we can turn to at this point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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