Of course she knew. This way gets more viewers and attention though.
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Streamer stumbles upon BOTW tutorial after playing for 95 hours
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Why does every goddamned thread on this forum turn into a clusterfuck now? Can't you people just be NORMAL for once.
So you say she knew, but deliberately avoided doing these moves for her entire 95 hours playthrough?
"You know what I'm gonna do, Jerry?
"I'm gonna wake up today and start a Twitch channel. I'm gonna get big enough to get some sponsors and a fan base.
"In a few years when Breath of the Wild comes out, a game in a franchise I don't even play, I'm going to play it first. I'm then going to lie to my established audience that I don't know anything about this game and pretend to play the game without knowing the extended combat mechanics.
"Then I'm going to upload my reaction upon discovering the tutorial onto my also established Twitter because as a woman I need attention--
"No, no, no, Jerry! It's not stupid! You're missing the point. In order for me to get attention, I need to build up a Twitch fanbase, wait for a Zelda game to come out, and then pretend to fuck up at it.
"It's how you make money in this late-stage capitalist world."
Aren't you literally forced to heal Snakes wounds at the start of the game though?
I mean yea, Twitch streamers are closer to actors than how normal people talk and act.
I'm having a hard time believing that people are seriously calling fake on this. I think they're only doing it to get attention, and score points with the cool idiots. I mean, how could you miss the fact that people miss shit all the time?
I'm not sure if the negativity and accusations of being a liar comes more from her being a streamer or her being a woman.
So you think she planned this out years ahead.
Lol.
Let your heart be your guide.
See, my immediate assumption was to sneak around and collect the arrows.
When the Lynel spotted me I freaked out and jumped off the cliff. On the long climb back up I thought to myself, you know what, I'm stronger than I was before, maybe I can take him.
Broke one weapon barely making a dent and jumped off the cliff again.
I can't tell what's parody anymore. This is some next level tinfoil hat shit.
Absolutely and complete inability to put themselves in anyone else's shoes, even as a thought experiment. This thread is actually great at low-key exposing people's capacity for empathy. :D
Haha, same with me. I knew you had to sneak around, but the fact that a lynel was there and I'd already been traumatized had me sitting on my couch Thinker style like "What did I do wrong in my life?"
I think one time I got caught, I ran around gathering the remaining arrows I needed before bailing.
"We've got them now, Jerry. It's working!"
I'm still trying to wrap my head around your whole mental model of the situation. I mean, you're saying she:
- Lied about not having played the game.
- Went on to play the game on camera for 95 hours, convincingly faking she was playing blind.
- Successfully avoided using any single one of these techniques during any of these 95 hours (this may be the biggest leap of logic for me; I mean, she didn't even slip up once into muscle memory? Wow!).
- All of this for a five minute video payoff of her faking learning of the existence of these moves.
Is that about right? Am I off with any of these points? Please correct me if I got anything wrong, this is downright fascinating.
I wanna say there's a short blurb during the great plateau saying you can dodge attacks with the jump button, but I may not be remembering that right. Even if there is it would be easy to click through it. This shrine is at a location the game does suggest you go to early on, but it's BotW so you could miss it or ignore it.
I mean... 'play' Zelda for 95 hours without charge attacking to post a twitter video and go Viral?
Small price to pay.
I shouldn't be surprised, but it's really incredible how much intent and manipulation Twitch audiences ascribe to women and how much they deny to men. When a woman misses a tutorial, it's part of a months-long, byzantine con with the intention of getting more viewers. When Pewdiepie recommends a Nazi, he's just flailing at the keyboard. Women mastermind global conspiracies, but men are incapable of keeping racist slurs out of their mouth.
Imagine how deeply humiliating it would've been for her if she'd accidentally charge attacked 60 hours in and her house of cards had come tumbling down. Quick, let's all watch all her archived streams to try to find the fault in her plan. And donate a lot of money to her to see if that stirs her guilt and compels her to be honest. We'll get to the bottom of this!
I myself found a new way to unlock seeds at like hour 100 and it felt sort of amazing, another reason to love the game.
I don't believe she never did one of those moves in 95 hours. Impossible. I believe she might have done them by accident and not know how to replicate or maybe not notice the prompt until the actual tutorial but I didn't the the previous 95 hours.
But in the end what is the point? Is the video aimed to be a negative or positive. I don't get some of the reactions and why it has devolved.
I don't believe she never did one of those moves in 95 hours. Impossible. I believe she might have done them by accident and not know how to replicate or maybe not notice the prompt until the actual tutorial but I didn't the the previous 95 hours.
But in the end what is the point? Is the video aimed to be a negative or positive. I don't get some of the reactions and why it has devolved.
She did everything right! Play the game how you want to.
Also, her hammy reactions are just top tier streamer camera work. TV presenters have to do this all the time, as do some salespeople or hospitality folk. Also some people just have very large personalities.
Her experience reminds me of playing Oblivion, where I played for seventy hours as an archer and had a great time with my first elder scrolls. A friend said 'but isn't annoying with the demons spawning all over the map'... I had neglected to close the first Oblivion gate and do whatever causes the spawning!! I had no idea. Oops I accidentally had a great time.
Also, her hammy reactions are just top tier streamer camera work. TV presenters have to do this all the time, as do some salespeople or hospitality folk. Also some people just have very large personalities.
Her experience reminds me of playing Oblivion, where I played for seventy hours as an archer and had a great time with my first elder scrolls. A friend said 'but isn't annoying with the demons spawning all over the map'... I had neglected to close the first Oblivion gate and do whatever causes the spawning!! I had no idea. Oops I accidentally had a great time.
This thread is honestly incredible. Even IF she knew the whole time, it'd be next level if she was such a mastermind to avoid it for her whole 95-hour playthrough, only to build up to this manufactured moment. It'd be amazing in a completely different way.
I think it's pretty possible not to run into them! I don't believe these games are her usual thing.
My partner plays almost no games but clocked over a hundred hours in BOTW. She never uses these moves!! She uses archery, but mostly relies on food items and extra hearts.
Women are such sneaky and manipulative creatures that they would create this masterplan for the clicks.
lol
No, it's not. If anything, it proves how truly open and special BotW is.
Game of the generation outside of Bloodborne.
A lot of their combat relies on context and holding down certain buttons while using other inputs. It's not impossible to miss this.
The video is obviously an amusing bit of self-deprecation.
But #gamers decided to come in here and accuse her of being a liar based on the fact that she's a woman who didn't play the game like they did.
Who has time for research when you can jump to toxic conclusions.
Because Nintendo got accused of making Zelda too hand-holdy, and decided to make a game where you figure out everything as you go. Again, they made it so you can technically beat Ganon after leaving the Plateau, thus missing the shrine she did. Most of the stuff you do is for the sake of convenience and exploration.
The game doesn't require the player to be tutorialized on non-essential mechanics. It triggered in this shrine, because this shrine exists to show off this tactic, but it's completely optional.
HONOR AND SHAME!?!?! the fuck are you talking about.
it hurts the heart but i laughed way too hard at this.
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No? I think exactly what I said in the post you quoted. I didn't read your Seinfeld script.
I'll simplify it again, streamers act.
My first thought was, "Yuuuup," I stream and do videos sometimes, and have missed things like this myself, and her reaction is similar to when I realize I've not known about something the whole game.
I was expecting to see some fun jaunty jokes and fun chat, but of course the topic has a lot of people accusing her of lying and acting. Some of y'all are way too uptight, suspicious, and accusatory from gut instinct. I should've remembered some people here for some reason really don't like streamers and get weirdly accusatory towards them.
I was expecting to see some fun jaunty jokes and fun chat, but of course the topic has a lot of people accusing her of lying and acting. Some of y'all are way too uptight, suspicious, and accusatory from gut instinct. I should've remembered some people here for some reason really don't like streamers and get weirdly accusatory towards them.
It is unnecessary. She wouldn't have made it through 95 hours of the game otherwise. There's plenty of mechanics in this game that aren't necessary in order to progress.
Clearly, you're not an expert of streaming culture if you don't get it.
It's really not uncommon for people to miss things in games.
Same here. When games have an objective marker, that's a place I'll avoid until I've looked around first.
Played the game for 80+ hours and beat it back when it launched... Not entirely sure if I knew you could charge attacks.
Exactly, and her responses seem genuine to me while also still being in the "Streamer roll", and I don't think she's the only one who's been through this. It's also telling some immediately got accusatory despite the fact she was streaming the game the whole time and it's obvious they didn't background check this at all and just were speaking from their ill-informed gut, conditioned by what I can only assume is some viewpoint expressed onto them from their life. Even if she was staging this (which she isn't), why does it even matter? Some people getting way too uptight here and stirring drama.
Though it'd be fun to go down this rabbit, going to cut it short and mention to Krauser that the person you're quoting is citing a meme that carried over from GAF. Back when Final Fantasy XIII was announced to be coming to the Xbox 360 (the first Xbox FF game), there was an infamous NeoGAF post about Japanese game developer culture and honor and shame that became a meme that still persists today. It got so well known even some games (like Persona 4) lightly reference it in the game. So on occasion people will spin it to the topic as hand, as it's kinda' a joking way to show uptight some people are sounding in the thread.
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