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drygear posted:Ok so I went and watched the rest of the first video. I like the commentary style but to me it overall feels a little too fast or busy or something. You're saying a lot of things and there's a lot going on in the game and it's switching back and forth between versions and it's hard for me to follow it all so I find myself becoming disengaged and not really absorbing any of it. It feels like a jumble of jumping around and frantic voices. Thanks for the feedback. I'll try and see if I can slow things down starting with Episode 3, but there's a lot to talk about with this game!
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I might have been feeling kind of crabby too. I think something that would help would be explaining a little more about what's going on in the game since it's hard to pay attention to what the game is telling you with you guys talking. Maybe some narration about what you're doing and why. If someone says something important or you find an important document take the time to emphasize it. So yeah I guess that might mean slowing down a little while you record to give yourself some extra time to talk about everything.
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Videos are working, screenshots are looking nice, and I have all of my games together. Nice. Just wanted to query about the quality of this opening post as well as whether it needs any additions, and I should be set to go at some point in the near future. First Post. Second Post. Blueberry Pancakes fucked around with this message at 19:15 on Jun 20, 2019 |
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Jun 19, 2019 21:44
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Blueberry Pancakes posted:Videos are working, screenshots are looking nice, and I have all of my games together. Nice. Your spoiler policy doesn't actually tell people what they can and can't discuss. You should probably be clearer about that.
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Jun 19, 2019 21:47
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My mistake. Fixed that.
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drygear posted:I guess that might mean slowing down a little while you record to give yourself some extra time to talk about everything. Well I recorded all my footage months ago, but I'll be sure to try and slow down a bit in future commentaries. Part 2 is a bit better at explaining what's going on in the game, by the way.
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Hey, I've got a question for the subforum at large. To preface, I think we have way too many stickied threads in Let's Play (currently there are nine with the recently forum-wide announcement, but eight explicit to LP). I think they can be condensed or unsticked to a far more manageable number. It's been a complaint I've seen surface now and then, so I thought I'd pose it to the posters who use this subforum. Should we cut down on the number of stickied threads in LP? There doesn't have to be a specific way of doing it. I thought I'd float the idea here in the Sandcastle and get a feel for whether or not other posters still share the same sentiment as me. We could always then have a vote, and from there, decide one what to unsticky or condense. My own idea for a possible sticky reformation would be as follows:
This would cut the number of stickied threads in half, and I think this would have the effect of making the front page of LP look a little less cluttered or intimidating to potential new posters. That said, if everyone's happy with the number of stickied threads, then why change anything? So, should we cut down on the number of stickied threads in LP?
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Personally I'd rather keep the New LPs thread as its own thing, because it would suck big time to come post an new LP and someone comes in after wanting to discuss something like 'which commentary style should I use' for a page and half.
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Jun 26, 2019 07:26
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Add more sticky threads, imho.
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Jun 26, 2019 11:40
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I think you could do the following: 1) Combine recommendation and request; 2) Keep tech support; 3) Unsticky streaming (it's just advertising with no discussion); 4) Keep new LPs for announcement purposes; and 5) Toss co-commentation into sandcastle. It's pretty dead unfortunately. Rules are for nerds
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Jun 26, 2019 11:53
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Tech Support is fine on its own. I agree with keeping New LPs stickied and its own thread. Good for letting people know since new LPs aren't like super high traffic on this forum. Recommendations and request I can see overlapping nicely, so I think combining those can work. Don't see the need to keep streaming stickied.
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Jun 26, 2019 12:06
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Count another one for unsticky-ing Stream thread and combining Requests/Recommendations.
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Jun 26, 2019 14:05
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+n for unstickying the stream thread and combining recommendation & request
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Jun 26, 2019 14:12
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GrandmaParty posted:I think you could do the following: I agree with this.
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GrandmaParty posted:I think you could do the following: This is a good plan. Agreeing with this.
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I say this every time something like this comes up, but the New LPs thread really isn't needed, since there's an RSS feed for it. I've even set up an IFTTT recipe to send a notification to your phone every time the RSS feed updates with a new LP. Other than that, I agree with GrandmaParty's outline.
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Jun 26, 2019 15:19
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You don't get an outline or an elevator pitch with an RSS feed though. Aside from getting a notification, having a dedicate announcement thread is better in every way
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Very few people use RSS feeds these days.
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Kheldarn posted:I say this every time something like this comes up, but the New LPs thread really isn't needed, since there's an RSS feed for it. I've even set up an IFTTT recipe to send a notification to your phone every time the RSS feed updates with a new LP. Not just that, the bot in the SALP Discord makes an announcement in a special Discord channel whenever a new LP is posted. Then again, not everyone uses Discord or rss, so it's good to have the thread around. I don't care about the amount of stickies because I do all my thread checking from my bookmarks page.
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Kheldarn posted:I say this every time something like this comes up, but the New LPs thread really isn't needed, since there's an RSS feed for it. I've even set up an IFTTT recipe to send a notification to your phone every time the RSS feed updates with a new LP. I've never used an RSS feed in my life.
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Yeh, telling people that they don't need a thread in a forum because there's an RSS feed is a weird thing to say in 2019. I'd personally be in favor of rolling the Sandcastle, requests and Tech Support into one thread. Sandcastle and Tech Support kinda have a lot of crossover anyway and I'd hate asking for feedback here only to be told that I should go to another thread to fix one specific thing not that this happens a lot or anything, but the point stands. It's not like any of those threads are extremely active either. Leaving New LPs separate is an obvious, thing. It's great for people to have a place to advertise their stuff but I'd hate to have that place be used for other discussions too. It'd bury some stuff and deter me from using it to shill my stuff at all.
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The gently caress is an rss feed?
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rename the new LP thread to The rear end Feed
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GrandmaParty posted:I think you could do the following:
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GrandmaParty posted:I think you could do the following: Another vote in agreement for this system + folding tech support into the sandcastle. I like having the new LP thread on its own for seeing what's come up in the past few days when I'm busy with work, so keeping that separate is nice. But recommendations & requests go together well, as do co-commentation & sandcastle & tech support, so I think condensing those together in those combinations could decrease the bloat on the front page significantly.
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Maybe allow people to post streaming notifications in the New LP thread?
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Jun 27, 2019 03:28
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I think that would really hurt discoverability on new LPs.
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Yeah, stream notifications in the new LP thread would bury every new LP with dozens of "Hey I'm gonna stream now" posts. The new LP thread would become completely unusable.
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Commander Keene posted:Maybe allow people to post streaming notifications in the New LP thread? There are people who advertise their stream EVERY time they stream, sometimes almost every day. Wouldn't work.
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GrandmaParty posted:There are people who advertise their stream EVERY time they stream, sometimes almost every day. Yeah, look at the total number of posts in each thread compared to their lifetimes.
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If I want to know when someone streams I will sub to their channel. Please don't put it in new LPs.
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Commander Keene posted:Maybe allow people to post streaming notifications in the New LP thread? the streaming thread already does this and is posted in frequently enough that it'd regularly be on the frontpage. i wouldn't agree to combine it with the New LP Thread. it'd overwhelm the thread to serve a redundant purpose.
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OK, bad idea, I guess.
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I'm largely in agreement with:
* This one I have slight reservations with because I feel it may muddle the intent and purpose of each individual aspect of the threads in question. There's too much room for confusion between people requesting LPs be done and people recommending LPs that have already been done for them to be slammed into a single thread, in my opinion. But I'm open to suggestions. ** The former is evergreen on the front page anyway and the latter has long since outlived its purpose and in some cases did more harm than good thanks to some bad actors. I think if anyone's looking for new co-commentators these days they can either use the Sandcastle or the SALP Discord.
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I fear a lot of requests might get missed among recommendation discussion, and vice versa. Even worse would be the folks reporting that a game is in progress being mistaken for a recommendation of said LP. I don’t think that particular combination would work and whatever unlucky sod that has to deal with that would not have a great time of it.
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I'm a bit wary about combining the Sandcastle and Tech Support Fort. They've got slightly different posters in each, I'm kind of worried conversations about one may drown out the other, especially since the Sandcastle already doubles as general LP chat, and combining the two means one massive OP. Good with the rest.
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nine-gear crow posted:
I have some reservations about this, for reasons already stated (confusing between requests and recommendations). I think there needs to be some clear way of formatting requests or recommendations (and hopefully keep an updated list on the first post) so that none are missed. Given that I'm scanning the request list for things to LP, this would be super helpful for me.
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I feel like requests and recommendations should be pretty easy to tell apart at a glance, based solely on "Person X is doing a great job with [game]" versus "I would really like to see [game]." Plus, I can't imagine any future version of the thread, even a merged thread, wouldn't keep the request list around.
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Mega64 posted:I'm a bit wary about combining the Sandcastle and Tech Support Fort. They've got slightly different posters in each, I'm kind of worried conversations about one may drown out the other, especially since the Sandcastle already doubles as general LP chat, and combining the two means one massive OP. I'm with you on this one. The issues of tech support are real different from meta-LP chat. Here I want to be all "Can I show feet if people pay enough?" and that's not a good tech support topic.
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