Velvet Sundown Live!

We should just lock Vinny in a dark room with a shitty laptop and pay him all the money for our entertainment.

@hansolol said:

Sure there is: Judging people for something they didn't even do. The game's free.

you could tell everyone Vinny was talking to was like 16.

"...like a hamster in his cage with no way to check the news or have deep relationships. This is what I see in you, Mr. Boyle."

Jesus christ, Vinny. I love you.

Omg, kickstarter to get these guys a solid $1000 pc, this is painful lol.

I've... seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-Beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. All those... moments... will be lost in time, like... pudding... in... the sun.

Premium Vinny

What the fuck is going on?!

ecks dee

In her defense, that money was, "$ $ $ $ $ $ FUCK".

This is episode two of Vinny's Word Games. Where Vinny examines video games that use language as a primary means of gameplay.

Boom sha boom boom sha!

Vinny can really get into the roles he's given.

Yes and no. Alex always needs to find who's missing their thong, but who is missing their thong changes. And the Data is basically discovered by a different person each time.

The way the game is structured is that you have people who are spies for the two oil companies who are trying to identify each other and also located the Data so they can sabotage the other company. But there are some that are simply free agents; they typically will find the data, and then work to extort as much of a benefit as they can before the time limit runs out.

Each character has their own story objective as well; Alex has to find whoever is missing their thong, Malik must bless and meditate with people, Cooper is collecting signatures for his petition, etc. Those are always the same (though elements change; the person who is missing their panties changes, and that can be an additional objective for them).
The other X-factor is items. Who starts with what can be totally randomized. For example, one great item to have is the tazer, as it allows you to shock someone and steal important items from them. Especially if you're a spy, and know who has the Data, the tazer can be very useful. The downside is you have to be in a conversation with someone, either individually or as part of a group, to taze them. So if people know you have the Tazer, and they have an item they're guarding, they will deny conversations.

In short, this is the greatest game ever made.

This is literally a multiplayer Tommy Wiseau simulator. I love it!

This should be a once-a-week thing.

When are you getting computer gear that isn't from 2000 Vin?

This seems like it would be a really neat and fun game if everybody on the server was actually taking it serious; which with random internet strangers is almost guaranteed to never happen.

Thank you, holy shit almost as good as this video.

GBEAST cannot be stopped, hammered to the wall.

So very sad to see that the Text-To-Speech feature has been removed from the game right now.

Without it, it's just a terrible chat room. Hope they put it back in ASAP!

I would agree, if the text-to-speech tech wasn't making half of my sentences not appear.

@hubrisranger: Is that why Vinny was constantly finishing half a sentence and starting a new one? Hmm..

Yes, and it actually got worse on the game itself. In this video, all the phrases eventually pop up, they just take a while and then woul doverlap. When I was playing before they turned Text-to-Speech off, things I was saying were just disappearing. they disabled it so people could talk more clearly, but it did lose something. Hopefully their servers and services can keep up with the new load coming up on Steam brought them...and this video, I'm sure.

Awesome job Vinny keep it up. Love everything you guys are doing.

So I played this a bit, and when it works it is pretty fun. You basically need the right people who are going to try and complete the objectives and role play, but do it in a funny way. People who take the game part too seriously ruin it, as to trolls, and AFKers. Vinny is like the perfect person to play this with it seems!

I could watch Vinny do this all day

Bullshitting Simulator 2014.

Incredible.

lmfao.. this is so genius lol! @vinny your brain is magnificent.

who are the patriots vinny?

For some reason, watching this game makes me super uncomfortable

no idea what's happening, but this is worth my premium membership right here

Dolla fuck yall

Giant Bomb East does it again! Vinny, please keep it up with the premium content! It's great! Weird games are so fun.

This is literally the best thing I have ever watched.

I love how Vinny kept in character and had fun with it.

It's like a bizarro Whose Line Is It Anyway?

My first time through this, I somehow bullshited everyone into giving me both companies data, the $100,000, a lacy red thong, countless free drinks, and I smoked the [REDACTED].

If I'm that good at bullshiting, I suppose I should run for public office...

chika chika boom sha

This is so weird. It's the best when people play along with Vinny.

I hope we don't end up with Vinny playing Second Life.

I also love how everyone is doing their best Francis York Morgan hands while talking.

I'll just assume this game is a very realistic recreation of what it's like the be in the Scientology Sea Org.

Vinny is a role-play master.

@bonorbitz: Felt the same as you... The first time I saw it. So far across several MMOs and in real world settings I've encounter the name as a screen names and character names. Why ? because Rowsdower.

This looks like feces from a bovine. I love it.

I like doing that *thumbs up

Vinny got real quiet when talking about wearing a thong as a sanding mask, something you want to tell us?

Vinny is GB.

Already better than Second Life and there wasn't even Cyber Aids.

Well this was incredible. The broken English chatting was a weird kind of great.

I'm not sure the universe could hold itself together with that much Vinny role-playing, but yes.

...yeah I probably would too.

@merxworx01 said:

Hey. If I want to chug a beer and then wash it down with a can of gravy while wearing my denim jacket and nothing else at 6:30am, I can. Why? Because Rowsdower.

This is a really strange thing.

I went a full hour into watching this, not realizing that they were other human players. Thinking they were Computer AI made it way funnier.

This is my favorite thing on the Internet this week