social topic

ryu

2017-06-18 10:27:58 am

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The study showed that 13% of 11 to 18 year olds say they're regular churchgoers - double the numbers from a decade ago.

Yeah, that comes with an economy and socitey going downhill.

DJGrenola

2017-06-18 11:39:26 am

yeah it definitely points to a generation with nothing else to believe in :(

tomatobob

2017-07-02 10:16:26 pm

One shall stand, one shall ball.

*Opens SGDQ stream*

Bunch of people sitting on a couch watching another dude fight Thardus in complete silence. Yep sure is a GDQ stream.

tomatobob

2017-07-02 10:19:32 pm

One shall stand, one shall ball.

"I have time for donations" says the runner with the couch that has said three whole sentences in like 20 minutes.

Glad the host is so concerned about interrupting the riveting commentary.

arkarian

2017-07-02 10:21:20 pm

red chamber dream

lol i didn't know sgdq was going on. sounds accurate!

tomatobob

2017-07-02 10:31:23 pm

One shall stand, one shall ball.

lol Yeah I just heard about it earlier today, checked the schedule, and then remembered Prime was happening around now. Figured I should check watch that at least since I love me some Prime.

tomatobob

Edit history:

tomatobob: 2017-07-02 10:34:17 pm

2017-07-02 10:34:11 pm

One shall stand, one shall ball.

Hahaha god this guy keeps telling the host that there's time for donations as if there's any commentary happening at all. It's nice that the host is allowing the runner and couch room to speak but like if hey ain't saying shit you gotta take over. Not a whole lotta people be gonna enthralled by wall crawling.

tomatobob

2017-07-02 10:38:52 pm

One shall stand, one shall ball.

Like for real there are four people wearing mics on stream and no one has anything to say.

arkarian

2017-07-02 10:46:12 pm

red chamber dream

i guess it can't be helped, wall crawling is boring as fuck to watch, and knowing it's quite difficult and precise doesn't even help

tomatobob

2017-07-02 10:53:08 pm

One shall stand, one shall ball.

Yeah, like they try to only bring up some informative things, which is fine, but if that's the case the host has a bunch of donation incentives and, you know, a charity they could be talking about instead of letting everyone just sit in silence while a guy hops around in a void. At this point you should have a pretty good read on how talkative the couch and runner are and be able to interject on your own instead of waiting to be told you aren't interrupting dead silence.

tomatobob

2017-07-02 11:21:48 pm

One shall stand, one shall ball.

The run just ended and the host has mentioned for the second time since I tuned in that there was a donation incentive for the following game.

Emphasis on "was" because the incentive ended when the Prime runner called "time". So, you know, good job driving up donations on that one, pal. There was only a metric ass ton of dead air in the run so I understand how it could be hard to find time to talk about those incentives.

arkarian

2017-07-03 01:49:44 am

red chamber dream

wow i can't believe the presentation hasn't improved more after all these years

tomatobob

2017-07-03 02:24:36 am

One shall stand, one shall ball.

Yeah, if this was, like, year two or whatever it'd be one thing, but they've been doing this a long time now. Someone needed to pass the guy a note to say "Yo we got an incentive cut off coming up in half an hour I don't know maybe pimp that shit."

You can't expect every runner to be super charismatic and engaging so you need to get hosts that bring more than just a pleasant voice to the show. It's a charity stream, get people excited to donate! Prime runs aren't that exciting to people that don't know what's going on. Even some of us that do know aren't terribly thrilled by wallcrawling.

If you're losing me, an idiot that likes Prime runs, think about the poor fool that's just waiting for Symphony of the Night.

It's actively annoying at this point that they haven't figured out how to do this. And you're doing this for MSF, a good charity that practically sells itself! Maybe mention that more than, like, zero times during a very quiet run.

ryu

2017-07-03 04:21:38 am

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MSF uses their money to work with people smugglers in Africa to bring economic migrants to Italy in violation of international law. Their actions support the dangerous human trafficking activities and lead to the drowning deaths of many African migrants.

Time to prepare the popcorn.

DJGrenola

Edit history:

DJGrenola: 2017-07-03 04:58:11 am

2017-07-03 04:57:51 am

Quote from tomatobob:

Hahaha god this guy keeps telling the host that there's time for donations as if there's any commentary happening at all. It's nice that the host is allowing the runner and couch room to speak but like if hey ain't saying shit you gotta take over. Not a whole lotta people be gonna enthralled by wall crawling.

to be fair, I think silence is infinitely preferable to a relentless barrage of unfunny internet jokes

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MSF uses their money to work with people smugglers in Africa to bring economic migrants to Italy in violation of international law. Their actions support the dangerous human trafficking activities and lead to the drowning deaths of many African migrants.

lol was this from the twitch chat or something?

ryu

2017-07-03 05:01:41 am

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lol was this from the twitch chat or something?

it's a comment from reddit

DJGrenola

2017-07-03 05:04:31 am

makes sense

ryu

2017-07-03 05:28:21 am

apparently mike is still ill?

arkarian

2017-07-03 11:41:16 am

red chamber dream

Quote from DJGrenola:

Quote from tomatobob:

Hahaha god this guy keeps telling the host that there's time for donations as if there's any commentary happening at all. It's nice that the host is allowing the runner and couch room to speak but like if hey ain't saying shit you gotta take over. Not a whole lotta people be gonna enthralled by wall crawling.

to be fair, I think silence is infinitely preferable to a relentless barrage of unfunny internet jokes

i still think that by now they could have come up with a way to have interesting commentary related to the game for most of the duration of any run. i mean i could talk about metroid prime for hours and i haven't played that game in ages

arkarian

2017-07-03 11:43:57 am

red chamber dream

the main problem is that 95% of speed runners don't know how to talk to people when off camera, let alone on

there's nothing that can be done about that