The Sandcastle - Let's Play Discussion and Drama (Archive info in OP!)

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Xander77: Apr 6, 2009; Fuck it then. For another pit sandwich and some 'tater salad, I'll post a few more.

Edmond Dantes posted:

Glukhovsky'ws

Huh. Serious question - how do you copy-paste wikipedia text in a way that introduces spelling errors?

Proofread in general, you have a lot of stuff like "waaaaaaaay lethal" (omitting the "more") in there.

# ¿ Sep 15, 2016 06:38

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# ¿ Apr 25, 2024 17:22

Xander77: Apr 6, 2009; Fuck it then. For another pit sandwich and some 'tater salad, I'll post a few more.

CJacobs posted:

The Deadly Premonition LP has three types of dead videos to choose form.

They're all up on SGF's youtube channel, but the archived LP doesn't link to that.

# ¿ Sep 24, 2016 23:08

Xander77: Apr 6, 2009; Fuck it then. For another pit sandwich and some 'tater salad, I'll post a few more.

senrath posted:

No, but it does link to the Internet Archive, which has the videos too.

Yes. I'm saying that that is a really needlessly messy way to do things, when the videos are still up. Nevermind that people have noted that the Internet Archive link is hard to spot.

# ¿ Sep 26, 2016 12:39

Xander77: Apr 6, 2009; Fuck it then. For another pit sandwich and some 'tater salad, I'll post a few more.

Sternieliscious posted:

Chapter 01: A Pup Learns To Walk

"Access denied for user 'baldurk'@'localhost' (using password: YES)"

# ¿ Oct 10, 2016 05:27

Xander77: Apr 6, 2009; Fuck it then. For another pit sandwich and some 'tater salad, I'll post a few more.

davidspackage posted:

I think I've beaten the game on my current PC... but I'll do a rush playthrough just to be sure, thanks.

Good luck. I couldn't manage to finish the game due to the aforementioned issue, so I'm looking forward to the LP.

# ¿ Nov 22, 2016 11:52

Xander77: Apr 6, 2009; Fuck it then. For another pit sandwich and some 'tater salad, I'll post a few more.

Lustful Man Hugs posted:

I was meaning to imply - This is my first attempt at an LP in ages, so please feel free to criticise it [the opening post] down to the grittiest detail.

Actually give us a sample of gameplay to show us how you intend to LP the game.

Stick it here and link.

# ¿ Dec 21, 2016 13:08

Xander77: Apr 6, 2009; Fuck it then. For another pit sandwich and some 'tater salad, I'll post a few more.

Garbonix posted:

How is this going to go down?
Being a RPG there is grinding that I'll be cutting out because nobody wants to see the same fight over and over again. Thinking of having some other folks come in to co-commentate, but nothing is set in stone.

Videos
Episode 1: Music Start

I'm going to beg baldurk to put this in the first post in the thread:

Include actual gameplay in your test post. Show us what an average update is going to look like. Recording the introduction is practically worthless.

# ¿ Jan 13, 2017 19:27

Xander77: Apr 6, 2009; Fuck it then. For another pit sandwich and some 'tater salad, I'll post a few more.

TooMuchAbstraction posted:

baldurk isn't responsible for the sandcastle, just pointing that out.

Fair enough. Guess that bit might need some bolding?

# ¿ Jan 13, 2017 19:54

Xander77: Apr 6, 2009; Fuck it then. For another pit sandwich and some 'tater salad, I'll post a few more.

Nihilarian posted:

no, that's 270 degrees

If I'd do 270, I'd go completely around and end up back where I started!

# ¿ Apr 14, 2017 09:45

Xander77: Apr 6, 2009; Fuck it then. For another pit sandwich and some 'tater salad, I'll post a few more.

Mega64 posted:

I've toyed with the idea of Let's Playing Breath of the Wild, and after a couple attempts realized that the game speaks better for itself than I could really do, so I decided to simply do no-commentary, instead letting the atmosphere of the game itself and Link's actions be its own commentary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUBcjJaTKAc

I made an LP of Nelly Cootalot: The Fowl Fleet that had no commentary (except before each video was posted) and got basically no reaction. Up to you whether that's a problem.

(I worked really hard on making every action and puzzle solution undestandable as well :saddowns:

)

# ¿ Apr 20, 2017 06:05

Xander77: Apr 6, 2009; Fuck it then. For another pit sandwich and some 'tater salad, I'll post a few more.

Kanfy posted:

OP
Update 1 - Down and Out

Music links don't work.

# ¿ Apr 22, 2017 23:10

Xander77: Apr 6, 2009; Fuck it then. For another pit sandwich and some 'tater salad, I'll post a few more.

Mega64 posted:

If you're concerned, give it a bump. I don't mind people bumping a thread to keep it out of archives if it's your LP or some sort of megathread or whatever, just as long as you don't get carried away bumping a thread that hasn't been updated in like six months or whatever,

Sometimes that's the only way to bring back the OP for the final updates :/

# ¿ Apr 27, 2017 05:19

Xander77: Apr 6, 2009; Fuck it then. For another pit sandwich and some 'tater salad, I'll post a few more.

discworld is all I read posted:

There's not any real problem with it; they aren't super strict about content checks and they don't really place ads that I've noticed.

Yes they are. You might be thinking of dailymotion 2-3 years ago.

# ¿ Apr 29, 2017 05:44

Xander77: Apr 6, 2009; Fuck it then. For another pit sandwich and some 'tater salad, I'll post a few more.

Grapplejack posted:

Literally in catboy's case, since that only ended last year after a 10+ year sojourn.

I'm not sure what part of quote contains anything relevant to your response.

The only "catboy" the LP master list brings up is ShadowCatboy, and his last LP ended in 2011.

# ¿ Aug 29, 2017 10:03

Xander77: Apr 6, 2009; Fuck it then. For another pit sandwich and some 'tater salad, I'll post a few more.

Blind Sally posted:

alternatively, just make up poo poo wholesale. did you know Minesweeper could have a deep, enthralling story?

Rock paper scissors had one of the best LPs in forums history.

# ¿ Aug 29, 2017 18:26

Xander77: Apr 6, 2009; Fuck it then. For another pit sandwich and some 'tater salad, I'll post a few more.

I was thinking about doing a CYOA of Aviary Attorney:

https://lpix.org/sslptest/index.php?id=148992

What do you think? Is the picture quality acceptable?

# ¿ Sep 18, 2017 17:45

Xander77: Apr 6, 2009; Fuck it then. For another pit sandwich and some 'tater salad, I'll post a few more.

POOL IS CLOSED posted:

Looks good to me.

Launched with that resounding endorsement.

# ¿ Sep 21, 2017 12:05

Xander77: Apr 6, 2009; Fuck it then. For another pit sandwich and some 'tater salad, I'll post a few more.

Din't we used to have a cyoa tag? What happened to it?

# ¿ Oct 20, 2017 12:26

Xander77: Apr 6, 2009; Fuck it then. For another pit sandwich and some 'tater salad, I'll post a few more.

Maple Leaf posted:

No OP yet, test post here.

Another problem with huge webms is that the break the tables.

But more to the point, don't just do a test post with the intro, do a typical update. How do you plan to handle the basketball sessions, for instance?

# ¿ Dec 28, 2017 11:53

Xander77: Apr 6, 2009; Fuck it then. For another pit sandwich and some 'tater salad, I'll post a few more.

Remember that doing an LP of a game is a really good way to get over loving it.

# ¿ Jan 16, 2018 03:57

Xander77: Apr 6, 2009; Fuck it then. For another pit sandwich and some 'tater salad, I'll post a few more.

Alexeythegreat posted:

I know there have been instances of people deleting their LPs after years because they couldn't stand them anymore.
Has there ever been a case of someone redoing an LP of the same game they LPd ages ago because they felt the quality was not up to par? ~~Asking for a friend~~

There was an FF8 LP that was deleted, restarted, and cancelled due to a lack of gay jokes. Does that count?

# ¿ Feb 14, 2018 21:26

Xander77: Apr 6, 2009; Fuck it then. For another pit sandwich and some 'tater salad, I'll post a few more.

Only tangentially related to LPs - is there a way to find out what a deleted / blocked youtube clip was about? Also, what's the logic that decides when you get a "Youtube title of cl- was blocked by IGN for copyright distribution" notification, and when you get a short "this content is blocked" with no hints as to what the content even was in the first place?

# ¿ Feb 20, 2018 22:02

Xander77: Apr 6, 2009; Fuck it then. For another pit sandwich and some 'tater salad, I'll post a few more.

StrixNebulosa posted:

Gaaah that's somehow worse!

Try:

Yes to bot of these. JFC was RP's attempt painful.

# ¿ Mar 3, 2018 16:56

Xander77: Apr 6, 2009; Fuck it then. For another pit sandwich and some 'tater salad, I'll post a few more.

Ragnar Homsar posted:

For narration text in Etrian Odyssey games, I made a "portrait" based on the icon that shows up when saving.

Yeah. I've been using the MST3k crew as the portrait for my own interjections, and that (along with italics when I add some ~~fanfic~~ thing) seems to work well enough.

# ¿ Mar 3, 2018 22:36

Xander77: Apr 6, 2009; Fuck it then. For another pit sandwich and some 'tater salad, I'll post a few more.

Commander Keene posted:

So, I'm looking at starting up an LP of the PSX version of Wild Arms. How does this look?

Oh hey. I remember I tried following Azure Horizon's LP (the intro movie and theme really got my attention), but it was as boring and incoherent as all his LPs. Looking forward to this.

# ¿ Apr 4, 2018 18:23

Xander77: Apr 6, 2009; Fuck it then. For another pit sandwich and some 'tater salad, I'll post a few more.

Level 1 Thief posted:

Also, to that one person who just hit the dislike button: not very constructive.

There's dozens of us. Dozens.

# ¿ Apr 17, 2018 21:08

Xander77: Apr 6, 2009; Fuck it then. For another pit sandwich and some 'tater salad, I'll post a few more.

nine-gear crow posted:

No. Baldurk uses a program that does... something that scrapes all the images, text, and formatting from LP posts. Archiving does not affect his ability to do this one bit.

Ok. So any of the people who go "oh man, I left my LP alone for a year and it got locked - now I'd have to copy-paste everything by hand if I wanted to resume the LP" could ostensibly just ask Baldurk for a copy?

# ¿ May 29, 2018 20:01

Xander77: Apr 6, 2009; Fuck it then. For another pit sandwich and some 'tater salad, I'll post a few more.

nine-gear crow posted:

Again, it is infinitely easier to just PM ZDR and ask him if he can revive the thread. Going to baldurk specifically for that is incredibly obtuse and impractical, and an imposition on his time and energy. Plus, do you really want to wait upwards of 6 months or more for baldurk to get back to you with how busy he is, when ZDR can ostensibly do it for you in seconds?

Ah. I was actually thinking of the old archives, from which no thread could escape. At this point, a thread would have to be at least 4 years old to be unrevivable.

Which is the point at which you resort to ~~weird archiving programs~~ the Emigre Manuscript. And just pray the LP doesn't come back wrong.

# ¿ May 29, 2018 21:49

Xander77: Apr 6, 2009; Fuck it then. For another pit sandwich and some 'tater salad, I'll post a few more.

Turtlicious posted:

Is using your LP as a form of interactive fiction still cool and good, or cringy as hell? I want to do it, but I'm worried it'll be embarrassing as poo poo.

It was never cool and good, despite all evidence to the contrary.

...

Depends on your writing skills and context.

And the audience, obviously. There will be someone who into every fanfic, no matter how objectively terrible.

# ¿ May 30, 2018 20:12

Xander77: Apr 6, 2009; Fuck it then. For another pit sandwich and some 'tater salad, I'll post a few more.

Did General Ironicus and Cheezum leave the forums along with Voidburger etc?

# ¿ Jun 19, 2018 04:53

Xander77: Apr 6, 2009; Fuck it then. For another pit sandwich and some 'tater salad, I'll post a few more.

Elentor posted:

Writing an LP in a diary format mocking the game's writing would be pretty easy to do but I'm not sure the joke can last long enough for an entire LP.

Just doing it in addition to a "real" LP. The reader needs to be familiar with whatever you're describing to begin with.

# ¿ Jun 26, 2018 09:22

Xander77: Apr 6, 2009; Fuck it then. For another pit sandwich and some 'tater salad, I'll post a few more.

Is it just me, or you can't see unmarked youtube links in archive screenshot LPs for some reason?

For some example, here:
https://lparchive.org/Fire-Emblem-Radiant-Dawn/Update%2050/

Just after " If you're not Micaiah, then who are you?"

# ¿ Jul 12, 2018 13:49

Xander77: Apr 6, 2009; Fuck it then. For another pit sandwich and some 'tater salad, I'll post a few more.

It displays as a regular youtube link in the original thread. Is that what the little video symbol before the link means - that it's supposed to be embedded?

Xander77 fucked around with this message at 07:42 on Jul 13, 2018

# ¿ Jul 13, 2018 06:47

Xander77: Apr 6, 2009; Fuck it then. For another pit sandwich and some 'tater salad, I'll post a few more.

What's a good tindeck replacement?

...

Now I feel bad about being annoyed with everyone who used lovely tindeck replacements in their LPs. Might take longer to load, but at least their links won't be gone by the end of the month.

# ¿ Jul 16, 2018 12:47

Xander77: Apr 6, 2009; Fuck it then. For another pit sandwich and some 'tater salad, I'll post a few more.

Why is tindeck still alive?

# ¿ Aug 13, 2018 11:04

Xander77: Apr 6, 2009; Fuck it then. For another pit sandwich and some 'tater salad, I'll post a few more.

Fedule posted:

This is an interesting edge case.

We specifically allow concurrent LPs of the same game. We have never really addressed the general case of taking over an LP because it doesn't really happen very often.

I'd say, if you are set on taking over a thread rather than restarting it, if you have made a good faith attempt to contact the OP and have every reason to believe the LP has been abandoned, then I'm not going to object.

I do question the value of doing this just for one update if you don't specifically intend to continue, though.

What?

I took over several LPs and never bothered with any of that. I really don't think it's that big a deal. (I mean, I'm not a mod, I'm just relaying common practice as I understand it)

# ¿ Aug 17, 2018 18:44

Xander77: Apr 6, 2009; Fuck it then. For another pit sandwich and some 'tater salad, I'll post a few more.

Geemer posted:

Considering how much it leans on silly animations, music ambiance and immediate emotional reactions, I'd say SSLP would be a pretty bad choice for the game.

The only LP on the archive is an SSLP, and it's very good.

# ¿ Sep 10, 2018 17:38

Xander77: Apr 6, 2009; Fuck it then. For another pit sandwich and some 'tater salad, I'll post a few more.

Mycroft Holmes posted:

i miss from earths lps of silent hill

They're not on the archive anymore?

Why?

# ¿ Oct 16, 2018 20:27

Xander77: Apr 6, 2009; Fuck it then. For another pit sandwich and some 'tater salad, I'll post a few more.

Poster name + game title gave me this:
https://www.dailymotion.com/gravitypenguin

But yeah, it's weird that the videos aren't archived.

# ¿ Oct 19, 2018 17:40

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# ¿ Apr 25, 2024 17:22

Xander77: Apr 6, 2009; Fuck it then. For another pit sandwich and some 'tater salad, I'll post a few more.

Xanderkish posted:

Alright! I'm planning to do an LP for Telltale's The Wolf Among Us, which I love. I haven't gotten the OP set up yet, but I do have the body for the first episode (issue, if we're gonna get all comic book-y). How does it look?

For some reason, you're using Toad to give a bit of meta-commentary towards the end? Generally accepted practice is to separate your contributions from the ingame text with italics or something. You can also use a little LPer avatar for your interjections.

# ¿ Dec 6, 2018 01:24

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