@efesell: Is that because people want to find out the mystery behind the avatar? Or because they identify with the V-tuber avatar?
I just think about the Cracking The Cryptic guys and how this very british middle-aged man seems to sit in the upstairs work-room while his kids run around downstairs and then he slowly but surely reveals himself to be a starcraft 2 nerd that uses the most typical british shouts of excitement when he cracks a sudoku puzzle and i giggle at the idea that this guy is now a fairly decent internet-celebrity while his neighbors probably hardly have a clue about it.
Or even how a Vinny Caravella sits there in his basement with all the transformers behind him. It forms an image of the other person's life that makes it so much easier to start to relate to the other than if all i had to work with was someone's words and the V-tuber avatar. I figured people liked those Jeff Gerstmann garage streams & tiktoks because it gives a glimpse of that person's actual world that we are all curious about. I think i'm missing something.
I haven't sought out a Vtuber stream myself yet, but i tend to come across some Vtube chatter here and there. I'm sure that if i found a fun Vtuber i could see myself enjoying myself and seeking that person out more. But at the same time, the same goes for all those human streamers that i could choose to try to get into, but haven't. I don't know if blocking out the human aspect makes a streamer more appealing to me. Part of the para-social relationship you develop with someone is because you start to feel like you get to know the person on the other side of the screen. But when there's a layer of V-tuber tech and a company between you and the streamer, i figure that that effect is diminished and it becomes harder to relate to someone.
What concerns me is that the people that talk about Vtubers seem to always talk about the companies that are platforming these V-tubers and how drama can arise between the 'talent' and the 'company' and then suddenly there's a new Vtuber to watch. That sounds like a huge turn off to me and i would much rather tune into a person trying to run their own stream from their bedroom than attaching my loyalty to some company and their talent that they might replace at some point. It just doesn't sound very grassroots at all. There are so many entertaining people running streams and making videos on their own.
I do think using a Vtuber avatar makes sense for people that want to run an entertainment stream but don't want their face to be online. At the same time, that doesn't necessarily entice me more as a viewer to prioritize watching this person over the tenthousands of people that do choose to put their face online. There's just so much content out there, that i've already found a handful of online humans i can relate to and enjoy that i haven't ever felt the need to figure out which of the avatars harbor an enjoyable person behind it.
I do think i once saw a girl that had a really expensive suit made for online streams and that was a novel watch from a technological viewpoint. And i think there was a V-tuber girl that interviewed artists at a festival once. Is that the draw? seeing how the tech evolves over time and how it changes the Vtuber you've followed throughout the years?
I see the slot machine numbers (DMW). Strange to keep that in there, because it takes forever for all these spins to resolve and it's just not very fun. Bless the emulators that let you assign a button to speed up the game.
That one Steam Labs experiment (seems like it's the 'interactive recommender' on the top bar under 'your store'.. pretty hard to find) seems like a decent step in the right direction to make use of your past gaming history and the ability to tweak the release date and popularity of the games it decides to put in front of your face, but i still wonder why you're not able to tweak it further when they have all these tags in place already. Why can i only exclude 4 tags? Let me for instance only see games with
the multiplayer feature
have an average of >50 ingame players a day
is playable on steam deck
is between 5$ and 20$
has been released between 2010 and 2018
has a steam positive rating over over 60%.
That should be fairly do-able given that Steam tracks all this info in their system and displays most of it on the store page. For some reason, there are filter options that could be used but Steam doesn't want to give us. Makes me wonder if this is a similar case as Amazon, which also has absolutely AWFUL filter options. But i've heard that Amazon doesn't want their customers to have the best filter options because that decreases the amount of browsing and buying they do on the store themselves. Is that what's going on here?
Hey it's me, i browse the discovery queue pretty much every sale , which means i've probably done like 20-40 queues so far! And while i only wishlist probably like.. 3% of what i see, i do occassionally come across something i didn't know about. Hylics 2, The Next Big Thing & Neofeud are games i discovered this way i think.
It's real interesting how government is this big machine that takes ages to do anything, but getting these hateful laws passed has been giving this group such a hateboner that they just can't wait to enact it. You'd think it was some sort of emergency situation or something. Honestly i still don't know what the practical desire for conservatives is. Naturally the whole 'oh god they kill the babies' is a smokescreen for something else, given that once babies are born it's the whole 'pick yourself up by your own bootstraps' mantra again for families & children in need.
Are they thinking making abortions illegal will prevent poor groups from procreating and limiting the amount of democratic voters for the future? Is it a deep urge to have control over women to make it clear that men are in charge? Is it just one aspect of bringing USA back to their ideal image for the country with the added benefit that those that might not like it will just move away from America?
@retris: hmm.. i guess you could technically see management games like Dwarf Fortress, Rimworld or Prison Architect as god-games, but for me personally a game has to give you supernatural or elemental powers to play with for a game to truly feel like a God-game of yore.
Spelunky, Binding of Isaac, Xcom: Enemy Unknown, Papers Please, Dungeon of the Endless, Hollow Knight, Return of the Obra Dinn & The Sexy Brutale are my favorites
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