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Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Post by Perrydotto (?) » Wed Jun 27, 2018 2:50 pm

that but in reverse was the setup for what's his face's really good Other M playthrough, he knew the game very well and his co-host did not so there were genuine reactions but also insight and good play
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Post by Angel Beat (?) » Wed Jun 27, 2018 4:29 pm

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I think I may have stumbled onto the ideal formula for a Let's Play series: There are always at least two hosts, the player (who has no prior experience with the game) and the co-pilot (who has played through it already). This way you get the benefits of a blind playthrough, minus the frustration of watching someone be stuck for a long time or miss something important because the co-pilot is there to help if necessary. Plus they can offer the occasional piece of trivia or commentary that only a veteran can provide. And unlike a Twitch chat, they aren't going to spoil anything.
Eurogamer does something like that: Late to the Party. It's bloody hilarious 9 out of 10 times. :vogue:
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Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Post by West Filly (?) » Wed Jun 27, 2018 5:23 pm

I imagine the veteran would give blatantly bad advice from time to time for the entertainment value, or they'd just remain silent in places where there's something the new player really ought to know. It's a design for a lot of good chemistry.
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Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Post by diribigal (?) » Thu Jun 28, 2018 6:41 am

That formula was used to good effect when Vinesauce Vinny played Sonic 3 for the first time.
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Post by Weird Autumn (?) » Thu Jun 28, 2018 8:55 am

Knowledgeable host/blind co-host is the Chip/Ironicus dynamic 9 times out of 10

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Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Post by Adiwan (?) » Thu Jun 28, 2018 9:52 am

Isn't it basically GameGrumps? I mean Arin isn't the best player but Dan takes more often the backseat role and is the one who is oblivious to the whole current gaming scene. The only gaming competence Dan is assigning to himself is the whole gaming era before the SNES.
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Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Post by West Filly (?) » Thu Jun 28, 2018 9:58 am

The whole "straight man and the wise guy" dynamic is as old as time.

The original Men In Black movie is a solid example of this.
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Post by Octavia (?) » Thu Jun 28, 2018 11:28 am

I told myself in college that I'd never play a straight man again :amazing:
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Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Post by Factory Factory (?) » Thu Jun 28, 2018 12:37 pm

Octavia wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 28, 2018 11:28 am
I told myself in college that I'd never play a straight man again :amazing:
Because of that, no matter how good a partner you are, you'll never be a good partner.... AT IMPROV! :rant:
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Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Post by West Filly (?) » Thu Jun 28, 2018 12:42 pm

I doubt that the men you played were straight.
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Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Post by Pocket (?) » Thu Jun 28, 2018 10:49 pm

Sorry if this is a bit heavy for this thread but it's something that's been nagging at me lately: Is Teen Girl Squad misogynistic? :nnngh:
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Post by Perpetual Motion (?) » Thu Jun 28, 2018 10:58 pm

I don't think so. It's riffing on the sexist archetypes of teen girl-focused media, not reinforcing or promoting them.

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Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Post by Pocket (?) » Thu Jun 28, 2018 11:19 pm

I'm talking about the random violence.
Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part that wonders what the part that isn't thinking isn't thinking of...

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Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Post by SlateSlabrock (?) » Fri Jun 29, 2018 12:54 am

Pocket wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 28, 2018 11:19 pm
I'm talking about the random violence.
It's the kind of lolrandom scribbling that artistic friends of mine in elementary school would make.

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Post by Pocket (?) » Mon Jul 02, 2018 1:49 pm

You know how Chinese immigrants tend to give their kids white-sounding names and white Americans give their adopted Chinese babies Chinese names? I'm now imagining two Chinese Americans meeting each other and being like "Hi, I'm Randall Chang" "I'm Mei-Ling McCree" and then there's just this awkward pause and I can't stop laughing.
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Post by West Filly (?) » Mon Jul 02, 2018 3:21 pm

and then they kiss
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Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Post by West Filly (?) » Mon Jul 02, 2018 3:23 pm

At work today I was wondering what it'd be like if chess was livestreamed but had commentary like you'd get on a twitch stream.

He's going for a castle strat, here we go. QUEENSIDE HYPE
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Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Post by West Filly (?) » Mon Jul 02, 2018 3:30 pm

Spess mehrens

today the enemy is at our door

we hope they are prepared for an unforgettable luncheon
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Post by Logicgate (?) » Tue Jul 03, 2018 9:29 am

West Filly wrote: ↑
Mon Jul 02, 2018 3:23 pm
At work today I was wondering what it'd be like if chess was livestreamed but had commentary like you'd get on a twitch stream.

He's going for a castle strat, here we go. QUEENSIDE HYPE
Just a pawn here, watch chat carry me across the board!

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Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Post by Logicgate (?) » Tue Jul 03, 2018 9:30 am

chat's scrolling so fast no one will notice I lost to scholar's mate

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Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Post by Logicgate (?) » Tue Jul 03, 2018 9:31 am

QUEENSIDE CASTLE PawnChamp PawnChamp PawnChamp

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Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Post by Fizzbuzz (?) » Tue Jul 03, 2018 10:00 am

What if we had Twitch Plays Chess, where a bot watches the Twitch chat and grabs valid moves that it sees for each side in turn?
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Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Post by Logicgate (?) » Tue Jul 03, 2018 10:50 am

Or Mechanical Turk vs Mechanical Turk in which an unidentified but highly qualified chess player faces off against crowdsourced "best moves"

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Post by stuff (?) » Tue Jul 03, 2018 5:24 pm

where is everyone

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Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Post by Mechanical Ape (?) » Tue Jul 03, 2018 6:07 pm

stuff wrote: ↑
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Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Post by Madeline (?) » Sun Jul 08, 2018 1:24 am

There needs to be a word for that feeling when you realize you’re spending your Saturday night catching up on laundry

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Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Post by SlateSlabrock (?) » Sun Jul 08, 2018 11:09 am

Madeline wrote: ↑
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There needs to be a word for that feeling when you realize you’re spending your Saturday night catching up on laundry
"more productive than usual"

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Post by West Filly (?) » Sun Jul 08, 2018 12:10 pm

There are industrial scale laundry services. These are places that will wash the bedlinen from hundreds of hotels at once, or that will wash the uniforms from chefs kitchens, industrial units, transport firms: anywhere that has a mandatory uniform and laundry service. If you've seen Breaking Bad you'll have seen brief glances of the inside of these places. Clearly there's a cost effectiveness to this scale, else hotels would be operating their own washing machines as opposed to using these services.

I wonder if you could get Amazon to deliver some identity tags to your door like those which are used to identify individual garments in these laundry services. You'd stitch these into your clothes, then you'd drop off your dirty clothes at an amazon locker and they'd send everyone's stuff to industrial units like these before sorting them using the tags and delivering them to the same locker stacks. Or to your door for an additional cost.

You wouldn't need to build a lot of new infrastructure, you'd just need to get Amazon to partner with some industrial cleaners and work out a test run somewhere to see if it works. I think the costs could be low if there's a reasonable scale to it. If the costs were low, I'd be very down with this. I work at a factory which has a uniform and uses a laundry service and you get used to waiting a week for your clothes.
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Post by West Filly (?) » Sun Jul 08, 2018 12:19 pm

hmm I did some googling and it looks like there's a UK startup called Laundrapp that's trying to do this kind of thing. Β£2 an item is steep though. If you're wearing trousers, a shirt, underpants and a pair of socks each day, that's Β£56 a week. Then every other week you're throwing in your bedlinen and your bath towels. At some point you'll have jackets to wash.

I guess this is viable if you wear nothing but morphsuits and sleep in a hammock.
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Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Post by Vivianinatoga (?) » Sun Jul 08, 2018 1:10 pm

West Filly wrote: ↑
Sun Jul 08, 2018 12:10 pm
There are industrial scale laundry services. These are places that will wash the bedlinen from hundreds of hotels at once, or that will wash the uniforms from chefs kitchens, industrial units, transport firms: anywhere that has a mandatory uniform and laundry service. If you've seen Breaking Bad you'll have seen brief glances of the inside of these places. Clearly there's a cost effectiveness to this scale, else hotels would be operating their own washing machines as opposed to using these services.

I wonder if you could get Amazon to deliver some identity tags to your door like those which are used to identify individual garments in these laundry services. You'd stitch these into your clothes, then you'd drop off your dirty clothes at an amazon locker and they'd send everyone's stuff to industrial units like these before sorting them using the tags and delivering them to the same locker stacks. Or to your door for an additional cost.

You wouldn't need to build a lot of new infrastructure, you'd just need to get Amazon to partner with some industrial cleaners and work out a test run somewhere to see if it works. I think the costs could be low if there's a reasonable scale to it. If the costs were low, I'd be very down with this. I work at a factory which has a uniform and uses a laundry service and you get used to waiting a week for your clothes.
Based on my experience working at a summer camp that outsourced large scale laundry services for the entire 200+ group of faculty and kids, it's impossible to keep track of individual items without frequent screw ups. Every week a few garments would be in the wrong bags (even mixed between cabins, so one of the seniors could have something from the little kid side, halfway across campus), and about a third of the bags would have something completely missing. It was atrocious. By the end of two months everybody was missing half of their socks.
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Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Post by Quanta (?) » Thu Jul 12, 2018 10:50 pm

Just want to bring this back:
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Post by Pocket (?) » Mon Jul 16, 2018 3:07 pm

"Firestorm" and "styrofoam" are almost spoonerisms of one another.
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Post by Daikatuna (?) » Wed Jul 18, 2018 8:05 am

violence in video games is a problem and something worth discussing but video games being video games it will just be pushed to the side and relegated to jokey jokes

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Post by Octavia (?) » Wed Jul 18, 2018 12:16 pm

I guess I'm officially old because I'm super excited about our new washer and dryer. :granny:
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Post by ToastGhost (?) » Wed Jul 18, 2018 12:20 pm

Daikatuna wrote: ↑
Wed Jul 18, 2018 8:05 am
violence in video games is a problem and something worth discussing but video games being video games it will just be pushed to the side and relegated to jokey jokes
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Post by Daikatuna (?) » Wed Jul 18, 2018 1:36 pm

you're kind of proving my point :-I

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Post by Octavia (?) » Wed Jul 18, 2018 2:10 pm

I like that they got the rights to Stuck in the Middle with You, but they had to use a soundalike for Misirlou :rariwhat:
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Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Post by ToastGhost (?) » Wed Jul 18, 2018 2:14 pm

Daikatuna wrote: ↑
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you're kind of proving my point :-I
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