You don't have to be 8 years old to like the Pokemon games. I'm 45 and I still get the old GB Color out for a game once in a while. I also have every YuGiOh game ever released for any console. Games like that aren't always as easy as they seem. Sometimes they require a great amount of thought before playing your next move.

I found myself leaving it as background and taking a look every now and then when the music changed or something, so I thought that displaying the stream on a TV would be more appropriate for that, but where's the fun on running HDMI from a tablet to an LCD TV when I can do it the old school analog way 🤣:

One of my spare P4 rigs playing the stream full-screen with a video card capable of composite TV-out, plugged into a small analog TV transmitter = Twitch Plays Pokemon on VHF channel 12 at any TV around the house (and maybe the neighbors' too).

Here it is on an old set I've been repairing/restoring recently, for that oldschool feel.

luckybob wrote:

I would have expected someone else to say something by now.

Eh, I don't feel inclined to discuss it on every forum I visit.

The fanart and commentary is totally what makes it worthwhile. I have very little inclination to actually join the chat and start spamming my own button presses.

Jorpho wrote:

luckybob wrote:

I would have expected someone else to say something by now.

Eh, I don't feel inclined to discuss it on every forum I visit.

The fanart and commentary is totally what makes it worthwhile. I have very little inclination to actually join the chat and start spamming my own button presses.

speaking of...

https://churchofthehelixchoir.bandcamp.com/

I'm genuinely scared.

It's an interesting experiment. I check in every now and then and keep myself updated on the latest "meme".

133MHz that's one awesome idea 😀

Paid subscription?! Oh, that "monetize everything" thing. 😵

I'm waiting when everyone gets bored of this novelty. There's also some "rng plays *game"" streams too and most of the motives seem to be for raking in the donors.

This also says something about watching actual people play games is that they're not as fascinating as some fuzzy logic. Is this what society has come to?

leileilol wrote:

most of the motives seem to be for raking in the donors.

I did not have the impression anyone was making money off these things, except maybe Twitch (which I don't think I'd heard of before this).