Re: Games you prefer to watch others (and yourself) play

On 2/6/2025 1:55 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Thu, 06 Feb 2025 17:53:14 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:
 

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

On Thu, 06 Feb 2025 01:28:33 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:

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I do rarely if I'm not going to play them. Does anyone else record their
own gaming and watch the recordings like I do like in recent/last year's
onlne Pulsar Lost Colony games
(https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiTODPVxHAd8yRxOz9Iq-Bq4_O5-RJCWn)?
I also did the same for old computer games like classic Doom and its
mods (https://zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/files/doom2/j2doom/j2doom.html as
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Nope. Well, mostly nope.

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Certainly I never record for streaming online. I've no interest in
sharing my gameplay with others (which is quite convenient, as I'm
sure that nobody has any interest in watching me play either). On
very, very, very rare occassion I may do a brief snippet of video...
usually to troubleshoot or look at a very specific scene. But these
videos aren't granted any longevity; I don't keep them hanging around
for review years down the line.

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Oh yea, video walkthroughs. I forgot about those too. Yeah, I watch
those if I get stuck! Remember the days when we didn't have these? All
we had were hint books, etc. ;P
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The most I do is watch the 'automatic replays' some racing games offer
when you finish a track. But even those are ephemeral; I might watch
my exploits once or thrice, but they don't get saved to disk so once I
move onto the next race, they're gone.

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Now, screenshots on the other hand... I've got a bunch of those
(albeit almost entirely of the virtual landscapes I run across, and
not of my character). Those make great desktop wallpaper images ;-)

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Oh I share those too! Do you have any cool ones to share with us? ;-)

 I used to post them on Photobucket and other services, but they've all
killed their free user accounts, so I stopped uploading. The majority
wouldn't fall into the 'really cool' category anyway; they're just
scenes I thought looked nice.
 

PixHost has been very reliable for me for several years now and has good retention.  I actually can't remember if I _have_ an account with them but I've uploaded hundreds to couple thousand files to them over the course of a week on a regular basis.
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