Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@Joeynator3000 Blows out the candle and eats the cookie

Thanks! It was tasty.

nods owo
_{(note to self: use trick candles next time...)}

@YummyHappyPills To be fair, making money off YouTube is difficult anyway. Twitch and Patreon seem to be far better options. Don't how much much views you were planning to get, but unless it's a consistent five-digit number on each video, the potential ad revenue isn't worth it.

@Octane It would have been enough, alongside other supplements, to cover a few software licenses.

But therein lies the issue.

To get money from Twitch you basically need to make a part time job which I wont be able to do, see above, and Patreon requires a sizeable base as very few out of hundreds would pledge.

So I'm re-evaluating a few things.

I've got a meeting today to start on welfare (a whopping £10 a week by estimations) else my family loses the house because I have no income to cover living costs.

They also revealed, slyly that a lot of YouTube features you got when partnered may vanish. So the stuff they made to help you grow? Gone.

They havent said to what extent. All I know is custom thumbnails is still a thing. End cards, links, so on so forth, I dont know.

Heck I cant remember if videos over x time limit were locked behind it.

This is more than a money issue from that side of things. As I said it is dangling some keys in front of people and yanking them away.

Plus this is Youtube being theirusual self.

Youtube sees a problem
Youtube reacts to another totally unrelated and smaller issue that causes more problems for unrelated people

@Luna_110 Happy birthday Luna. I hope you had a great day yesterday.

So with some work I have found a way to make this YouTube situation, and basic slap in the face, work out.

Time to consolidate all my efforts into one big interlinked network.

@YummyHappyPills: Chin up, I'm sure things will work out. Your 2018 reads a little like how 2017 was for me.

@Luna_110: Happy late birthday! I hope your day was spent well with friends, family, fun, and games!

@Tyranexx Nah. 2018 reads like how 2017 was for me, with less relationships ending and death XD

I've been thinking of making this move for a while, it's just now YouTube has effectively shown me the longer I remain as I am on that platform, the harder it will become.

Do people still read blogs? I've been thinking of starting one for two years now but I don't know if people are still interested in those. People prefer YouTube nowadays but it's not for me. I would like to write but it seems that TL;DR holds true. It's evident here as well. How many of you skip the review and go straight to conclusion and score?

If I were to start one, I'd be writing about games, art, programming, music, etc. Things I like. I'm not looking for huge audience but I don't want to go totally unnoticed either. I want to recommend games, tell stories, make people think. I have bunch of things I want to talk about but I have no one to talk to. I can't just start a thread here on some obscure DS game and expect to have people to talk with. No one reads DS topics anymore and it's a shame.

@Late Thats pretty much what my site is.

@YummyHappyPills Do you get many visitors? And could you also provide a link to your site? I'd like to take a look.

@Knighty_IX Did you or someone else delete your message? I can't see it here but I got an email saying I was mentioned here. I'd love to share my experiences with DS games. I don't have the time to write right now but I'll come back to it once I do.

@Late I cant provide a link here obviously but my Twitter is in my bio. Find it there.

And we get a fair few visitors when I post.

You could put a link to it in your profile and signature... Unless it's a site of questionable content.

@Meowpheel I aint risking that XD

Hey, you guys wanna NOT look at TVs and monitors the same way again?
Slow-Mo Guys to the rescue!!! (I love this channel, lol)

@Knighty_IX I recently wrote a sales speech for an English course about Jam with the Band, why it failed miserably in west and why Nintendo should try again with Switch so I'll be talking about that game since it's still fresh in my mind. Prepare for a long post (which I'm writing for the second time because I exited Chrome by an accident when I was almost done).

Now, Jam with the Band is the localized version of Nintendo's rhythm game Daigasso! Band Brothers DX which was released back in 2008. Daigasso! Band Brothers DX sold half a million copies in 1.5 years in Japan so Nintendo decided to bring it to west but in the end, it arrived in 2010 and only in Europe. It was dead on arrival. 3DS was already on the horizon and casual games had lost their momentum. Had they released the first Daigasso! in both America and Europe as a launch game like in Japan, this story might have been a lot different. There weren't many games at launch so another game from Nintendo would've definitely gained at least some attention. It deserves to be up there with Nintendo's other two DS rhythm games: Elite Beat Agents and Rhythm Heaven.

I came across Jam with the Band a year or two ago while searching for DS's "hidden gems". I like to think I have quite a good grasp of everything DS has to offer. I have over 70 games myself and I'm aware of most of the games that are above average. Yet, I had never heard of Jam with the Band. I took a quick look of its gameplay and instantly ordered it. It's really cheap since it didn't sell well.

I started playing and was greeted by Barbara the Bat. Most know her as the assist trophy character who plays guitar in Super Smash Bros. Brawl. I was a bit surprised by the song selection. There are 50 songs. There's too much classical music to my taste but it also includes songs such as The Final Countdown, Material Girl and Smoke on the Water. But then there's also video game music from F-Zero, Zelda and Mario. Those are my favorites for obvious reasons.

There are 4 difficulties to choose from. Beginner has you using just one button while master utilizes 10. The game doesn't punish you like EBA which ends the song if you're not doing well enough but you will go and cry in the corner if you choose to play on master. Some songs are just impossible. In addition, each song has up to 8 different instruments you can choose from. You can even sing thanks to DS's microphone. Each song has so much to offer. Unfortunately, there are times you'll pick an instrument, let's say drums and you'll end up playing the same comping for the whole duration of the song. Or you pick an instrument which isn't used that much during the song you picked.

Where the game truly shines, is its multiplayer. You can form a band with 7 other DS owners and you only need one copy of the game thanks to download play. You can choose any song while playing this way, even one of the user created songs! Oh, I didn't tell you? You can create and share songs. You have bunch of different instruments at your disposal, including the NES soundchip. Once your song is ready, you can share it with the world. Nintendo also updated the game with additional songs you could download for free. 222 in total. More game songs as well from games like Star Fox, Animal Crossing, Metroid and Pikmin. There's just one problem. You can't access them or any user created songs anymore.

But that's what Daigasso! Band Brothers P is for, right? Unfortunately, they wen't back to Japan only and 3DS is region locked so I haven't had a chance to play it. You could even make your own vocaloid in that one. Here's a user created Splatoon song to demonstrate what you can do with this game Link.

I hope they continue the series on Switch. Now would be a perfect time to release the game when there aren't as many heavy hitters. I hope they'll localize the next game but at least Switch is region free so I'll be getting a new Daigasso! regardless if they do make a new one. It would also be much easier to gather friends around one console instead of each having to own one. I've only been able to play Jam with the Band with maximum of 3 people. It's fun when you're doing good, you start paying attention to the other instruments and you notice your friend is missing every note.

@Joeynator3000 They're still the same to me

.................You're no fun. lol

@Joeynator3000 I'm smarts, I already knew all of that.

@Joeynator3000 No way, where do monitors get all that processing power? I can't fathom all that power ...is the Flash real? Has he been sitting in front of me the whole time and he's actually my TV? Isn't this UNLIMITED POWER?