rawb

but yeah, after that it was mostly just name rec that carried him

he got peak yogscast exposure

The super hostile maps were genuinely super fun to play with my buddies too.

He was one of the few making worthwhile custom maps at the time

is this website supposed to be live?

It is for me, yeah.

doesn't work through my vpn connection either

Wait, what happened to Vechs?

he's doing game dev

When I was scanning around at mindcrack stuff and found this discord, I was reading a lot about Vechs and he's apparently been blasted for being a republican and anti-tranny or whatever, but then there are posts that he says he's just simply pro-gun. But otherwise it's just what Spooky said, that after Super Hostile maps he kinda didn't do too much more.

The real evil person is BTC, because he pivoted into media reviews

and became friends with mauler and his circle of media autists

I really only know BTC from Rob's amazing song lol

same

I just laughed when I was watching EFAP and he just showed up on stream one day

look, if you have Minecraft autism

you probably also have "talk about Starwars for 12 hour long streams" autism

Spooky I just looked because I was curious

the last "we make fun of a retarded video essay" stream was 6 months ago

Ruined concept of a channel

It was half of the correct topic as listed above though

what do they even review now?

the wave of TV slop is mostly slowed down

last month of streams

its movie reviews

and superchat catchup streams

thats all that is left

I'm not crazy right

those views are a lot lower

yes

Overall views are down (but consistant)

and that's with a back catalogue too

I imagine backlog is less of a factor since their entire catelogoue is 6-12 hour long stream archives

So most views are people who did not catch the entire stream live, but would otherwise watch it

idk, I feel like they're kinda built for passive views

long videos on pop-culture things

I know I watch a fair amount of YouTube n shit, but like, do people actually get home after work and decide to chip away at a 6 hour vod every day?

yeah, but that is diminishing returns after the pop-culture thing is no longer in the cultural talking points

I don't get the sleeping ones at all

I watched them at 1.5x speed while gaming

I guess this is a redundant question because yes there are 80k+ views so obviously.

usually

but I've met SOOOOO many people who just have a playlist of random male YouTubers who they like the voice of

talking about innane bullshit while they sleep

Okay, that's true, I have coworkers who say they can't stand silence.

thats insane but I know that is common

I was remarking to Pika in vc, I want YouTube to show creators the stat for how many views of their video are from non-focused windows

Ooh that would absolutely demoralize people but I am genuinely curious.

Polu's dad watching watchmojo actively for 12 hours straight

breaking the trend

I had a coworker describe to me how she has to watch YouTube or TV while she falls asleep because if she doesn't, she thinks and that distracts her from sleeping. I feel like.. I dunno, that probably isn't sustainable.

I just lay in bed an hour before I want to go to bed so I can think about things

because its a good time to just lay and think

I don't fault people for needing noise or w/e, but it is strange to me the desire for slop YouTube essays to be that noise

I sleep to yt

yeah I can't get this link to work in firefox or chromium, in Japan or over VPN https://mindcracksmp.com/wordsearch/

I wonder if it's js related, or if your JP locale or something causes it to load weird or smt

if I vpn to the UK it works

ew

I'd say the seasonal break wasn't so much a thing as much as it was the jump (dive head first) into the pool of production quality format over the fun format. I get have a break to write up some campaigns. But he went full on into having to have it all staged out hard post season 2. They did need some spacing, but I think doing breaks in the winter to do so was a miss. Mostly because people stuck indoors around the holidays or rolling early into the year will have more time off to enjoy the shows.

I think doing small recaps would have done a lot. Cannon isn't too huge in so far as just having a better time line of events. Them being fuzzy is workable

Site was about mid 2

for the breaks, I get why some sort of break was needed, but 9 months to reload was kinda silly and a lot of the rationales like you said, we're probably counterproductive in the long run anyway

Rob was also getting worse during this time of being able to convert his time/work into output (I forget how I normally word this)

8 hours of Rob "working" on something would output 1 hour of actual work

so he'd kill himself during the offseason churning away at scripts and software overhauls, and have relatively little to show for it, given 9 months of time

It got longer due to production quality and of course his spiralling issues. I can also see him as a passion worker and overhaul stuff in inefficient ways

and imo the issue with cannon was not even that it mattered, I just think it was the driving issue of why he felt the need to overly script some stuff, and get all flippant about which campaigns were "real" or not

I mean the biggest issue I had was Season 3 turned everything into spectacle. The mechanics made things so low stakes. I think the best balance for show and stakes was when deathroles came in when players went down mid season 2.

Season 1 was awesome because the way the system worked the stakes were always high. Problem Rob was sorta running into was making stories that could survive a TKO of the party. This was mostly because of C5 or 6 of one where they got tko'ed mid a heist and shit sprinted to the end.

Shield and deathrolls being a serious issue if you get downed or ways of just totally fucking your shield in where you have a floor of 25% chance to die made sense. When it became the only way to die it kinda sucked

Buckaroos I think it was did it the best.

But he was trying to make it purely for show after awhile which just wasn't a good game system either. He jusg needed to take advantage of the fact that one shots do allow you to be flexible with the plot.

As for what was 'real' I can totally understand fudging some details. That stuff was fine, but he did get way to into the Meta shit as time went on.

Rob swung back and forth a lot on whether Urealms should stand on its own as a game, or just be a way to facilitate the show and I think universally, everyone wanted the former

I think if he accepted that eventually there may be an unsalvageable campaign in design. Stuck with what season 2 had and maybe nerfed the health stuff a bit to keep it high stakes and balanced around shield utility he could have found a good inbetween for the show to be functional and it be a fun game

People want to be able to set themselves into the game. Living the show through it makes it feel like you could have been in any of those campaigns along side them. Plus seeing what they do is just fun

Season 1 did suffer from some god awful.combat speed though too. A lot of became dependent on donations beefing the guys up so first combats were just horrid for awhile