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Some of you guys mentioned you liked the behind the scenes etc, so thought I would share this since I got online today :) This was my first souls like game, I normally play horror or adventure games (Tomb Raider!!!!!)
I enabled Crowd Control which means that you can set it so you pay money to receive "crowd coins" and your twitch chat can then use an extension on the stream to help or hinder a game. I did this and raised the money for Special Effect charity who make bespoke gaming setups for physically disabled people to improve their quality of life :)
Cactus21
If you haven’t been told today @op - you’re awesome
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elvianempire
weirdo
Capum15
Crowd Control is always a good time. Sometimes it's an unplayable horrific mess, sometimes you get insane skips or extremely helpful late game items/abilities, but it's always funny.
MCroft07
it was so fun!
mumbojumbo29
She is just adorable
Drives11
Twitch chat chaos mods are always a good time
Cranbananarama
Tell them with courage. "We raised your charity money IN THE NUDE. Well, sometimes in the nude. Sometimes only half nude. Sometimes with a giant head. Look, the important part is you're welcome."
ionicseraph
I didn't know Elden Ring had so much cake
weave
This is hilarious and amazing and I wish I had known about this earlier.
emoclone
Someone needs to post a link of that stream.
MCroft07
I did two, the first one (mostly tears was a test run to make sure it would work for the charity stream, skip the first bit it's the chat helping me get the mod to work)
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/270">87938">https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2709387938
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2714623429
I will be doing it again soon after I finish Resident Evil Requiem with OG Tomb Raider :)
smashpro1
And there's a ton of games that have Crowd Control functionality. https://crowdcontrol.live/games/
ariania
please just type out the full subtitles, dont fall for the tiktok titles please. its more inclusive to type them out (all reading disabilities and speeds).
StellarJay77
Streamers are one person production "teams" and unfortunately choices need to be made to streamline things and not have to put a ton of work into something that won't necessarily pay off. The amount of work to do subs manually vs how much is made on the stream doesn't make sense so using automatic ones are usually decent enough. I see complaints about these subs consistently on all videos and until there is a viable alternative that doesnt involve a ton of work it's not going to change.
MCroft07
Software has now put paywalls in front of a lot of closed captioning, I use the TikTok one because it is mostly accurate and free :(
rubypilgrim
wait - you can do this on any game?
MCroft07
I think on any game you can add "disruptions" but they have specific mods for specific games - crowd control is the name of the programme
rubypilgrim
thank you. this was great!
iRegretThisUsernameAlready
Would love to see the list of mods and how much each cost. Looks like it was a good time (for your viewers at least) :P
MCroft07
https://crowdcontrol.live/games/ you can alter the cost of them on your side so it is different for everyone
iRegretThisUsernameAlready
Oh wow that’s a lot of options. Thank you!
0570
Cha cha cha!
resworn
This is cool and you're awesome for doing this! I would suggest Sekiro or Bborne over this or Souls for newcomers. The combat is a lot more satisfying imo and a little easier to transition to/from!
Ryebread91
Yeah, coming off of Nioh to Elden Ring I was disappointed with the combat.
necroticon
Huh, that's interesting you say that. As someone who has never really played a soulslike, I've had a few friends who are waaay into them recommend Elden Ring as the perfect one to get started with if I wanted to try one out. Mostly for similar reasons - the combat is better/easier, and apparently making your own build is more intuitive, iirc?
StellarJay77
Came to say essentially this. As someone who came into this genre late and started with BloodBorne I was super lost and had to look up a guide because several builds are just not at all viable unless you really know what you are doing. Then I started Elden Ring and found that all the builds were at least somewhat viable and way more intuitive for different playstyles so most could progress into mid game without needing to understand a ton.
ironymus
I'm not compatible with any From Software game. I let Elden Ring pass in my long list of games played
MCroft07
In the end my chat felt so bad for me they just damaged the boss till it was over
WackyWavingInflatableArmFlailingTubman
She looks like the sister that goes to prison at the end of season 3 of the Expanse
B99Reactions
good for the charity , but the content is still cringe as fuck
Conz
I love the slow descend into a mental breakdown lol. Kudo's for the charity work.
DerpyBestPrincess
"Kudos", not "kudo's".
SomeGeek75ygh
Fucking thank you.
LiarLiarPantsUntier
I’ve once met someone named Kudo - maybe it’s a reference to him?
Conz
As a non English speaking country citizen, I am allowed to make the occasional spelling error. But thank you for pointing it out :P
DerpyBestPrincess
English is my fourth language myself. Apostrophes are pretty easy to remember. Used when you mean possessive, not when plural.
Cactus21
And not kudu either - that’s a meaty snack…
acme64
and not combo's thats a pretzel snack
Loadertron
And not Kuru, that's the result of a meaty snack.
InitHello
And not kudzu, that's a perennial vine native to east and southeast Asia.
EroticZombiePants
And not Ludo, that's the band that made the song Love Me Dead.
Clayman8
[Regrets were had]
Not for us though... but still
MCroft07
LOL
bluewitch
I usually watch your videos for the artwork, but this one made me laugh out loud and wake up my dog.
unannouncedguest
This woman is one of the most beautiful creatures I have ever seen.....I'm totally simping here, I don't even care for the content, I need to go to horny jail
EroticZombiePants
You haven't watched any of her body painting cosplay videos?
unannouncedguest
Yes I did... I just somehow let the perv out this time and commented like a total creep
EroticZombiePants
She is attractive, especially when she's wearing glasses.
unannouncedguest
Yes Hahahahaha Yesss ;-p
mercyPandaRunner
I think I have a picture of you
unannouncedguest
Hey where did you find that?
DadeCrashOverrideMurphy
Ok. I must be old. What does “chat” mean in this context?
youreathing
Reference to people in the Twitch chat. It's become commonplace now because Twitch has taken over a LOT of eyeballs from other platforms.
LazerSpacePirate
Think of it as the forever online's (born '95 and later) Shakespearean version of the royal "we." Literally it's her talking to her live comments via the chatroom. If this was a live streamed video currently WE would be "chat" :)
iRegretThisUsernameAlready
Uh… Isn’t the royal "we" a replacement for first person singular? Addressing "chat" is addressing a group of other people, second person plural.
Karilyn
"Chat" is the online livestreaming equivalent of "Viewers" for television, or movies; "Listeners" for radio, audiobooks, or podcasts; or "Readers" for books, newspapers, or magazines.
All 4 words have the same definition within their context. They are second-person plural pronouns, used to address the audience, and all 4 are defined as, "You(plural), who at this moment, are currently consuming this media."
DethasarusRex
She was streaming and chat woukd be the live viewers that are able ti talk or "chat" via a live comments section.
thedill2000
Remember when people called into shows to vote on the outcome? Same thing
vonKaiser
Pretend you're on stage in front of and audience, and you wanted to speak to all of them at once. In a streaming environment however, you are on stage and the virtual audience communicates to you by way of a chat room. So instead of "hey you guys" or "Hello audience", the streamers often refer to the audience as "chat"
NameOfRandomThingOnDesk
Some academics are describing “chat” as a fourth category of pronoun i.e. fourth person plural. It has also been likened to a character in a work breaking the fourth wall by addressing the audience yet still distinct from second person you/you all.
arewenotkingsandqueenstogether
It just means "you" in the plural
Larktonguesinadicecup
It's French for cat. A cat is helping her play the game for charity
Larktonguesinadicecup
That's why it's not doing very good it's because it's a cat
OozingRabbit
Hence why she was shoved off a cliff at some point.
mercyPandaRunner
Had she told the cat that she was playing to raise money for calamity, it would be way more cooperative.
DerpyBestPrincess
I'm 45, soon 46, and even I know that "chat" means... well, the text chat on Twitch. I know Norway is a bit ahead, but do you not have Twitch and e-sports coverage on linear TV across the pond?
LiamRobertsonjr
I'm 46, and using "chat" to refer to your streaming audience is as old as streaming to me. Using it in a real-life situation is the only new thing to me.
11Weasel11
We do not. However, I'm 44, soon 45 and I was able to figure it out just by context.
mercyPandaRunner
The audience chatroom of the livestream. She seems to have activated some kind of program that allows the audience to inrerfere/input commands via the chat.
The far weirder part is, when really young kids start adopting that phrase, even when they are not lifestreaming. There have been instances of kids muttering "Chat, is this real?" in moments of disbelief.
QuazMasta
It's all good, fam.
allformmo34
My brain puts it in the same box with the atheist (me) still saying omg as an expression
mercyPandaRunner
Yes. Humans are kind of famous for speaking to themselves/a non existent 2nd person. I had a phase where I addressed myself in my head as "my dear", headtalking to my selve in second person sometimes, to conciously comment/reflect on thoghts and behaviors. We are great in temporily compartmentalizing our minds like that. Which is where I think the idea of deities kind of comes from. We tend to turn things into addressable entities. From the direct, the wind and mountain, to the abstract, the>
mercyPandaRunner
omnipresent god that takes over from the little parents that we construct in our heads, the Daimonion, as Socrates called it.
It's all basically our mind talking to things it impersonates itself, as a means of talking to itself.
NotSomoneElse68
But this is the actual case that the slang comes from.
mercyPandaRunner
obviously
seafox7
It means y'all. 2nd person plural.
shorey66
Also when something goes wrong or breaks, it has 'left the chat'. Fire example, my cars battery has failed.... The battery has left the chat. Language is so interesting
StellarJay77
In that context it's kind of like querying anyone around them who happen to hear and/or might care to provide an answer. The idea is that when streaming you can't be sure if anyone is actually paying attention in your chat so they are not necessarily expecting an answer to the question but would be nice if someone did provide one just like in real life. So not really wierd just a different way of asking a semi redundant question.
mikeatike
At first I thought you said "audience claasroom".
faphappyscreencappy
Feel like that's the same energy as us older crowd hopefully muttering "Computer, end program."
Trisar
"Computer, initiate self-destruct sequence. Authorization: Picard-4-7-Alpha-Tango."
faphappyscreencappy
Old geek me saw this and immediately went "What, not Code 1 1 A?"
Trisar
Code 1... 1-A. Code 1-1-A-2-B. Code 1B-2B-3. Zero zero zero DESTRUCT... zero.
mercyPandaRunner
Some people (that I think are full of shit) are even claiming that talking to "chat" is some kind of novel grammatical case the young generation invented. It's obviously just second person, but i guess the thought is that it is addressing some kind of undefinable collective entity.
Mxlespxles
I don't think it's novel, but I do think the adoption is fascinating
LiamRobertsonjr
Yeah they just took 20 year old streaming speech into the real world.
DrMcPoJo
It's just "guys" or "y'all."
MisterFluffi
I mean, especially if being said by an atheist "Gods give me strength" is almost exactly the same. Referring to a known to be non-existent plural collective. In the case of a believer a call out to spirits that may be in the area might be even closer, speaking to a believed in but indefinable collective group... Seances might get weird in a few decades. Oh! "Ladies and gentleman" by a ringmaster/MC to a room so dark they can't even see them...
mercyPandaRunner
Simple second person speech. Yes.
Xenarion
The general concept isn't novel, but the use of the word "chat" is.
Einstein9073
The second person plural is you in english. This is the fourth person.
mercyPandaRunner
Hey, Einstein! Is 2nd person. "Einstein" is "you". "Chat" is "you".
mikeatike
Einstein9073
Nope! Panda is "you". Chat is "all y'all".
mercyPandaRunner
A "4th person" doesn't exist in grammar.
Nanoxt
Even so; "Chat, chat, chat, chat, chat, chat!"?
mercyPandaRunner
"Chat", addressed as a collective entity, is messing with her while playing. As the other commenter put it very well, it's "Guys! Guys! Guys! Guys! [silent: please stop it!]"
BDD85
Like saying "Guys, guys, guys, guys..... guys."
cosonfused
Chat is just the streamers' era version of "viewers", "listeners," or "readers".
mercyPandaRunner
Yes, but the chatroom is also a lifefeed. It's a responsive, real time, interaftive and faceless audience. Which is why streams got so popular. Viewers can directly interact with the streamer. Which also happens to be the reason I avoid streams.