At 1:01:20, Sean describes the idea of the Sylladex in Homestuck. The idea Sean describes is wider, but the thought's there - you've got a theme to your inventory system, and that changes the way you interact with the world. To be fair, the Sylladex is a riff on how games goof with inventories, but it would be a hoot to play.
Endrance88 Podcasts would be perfect, it's something I think Day 9 could Excell at. I mean look at his random discuss days back when he did StarCraft, heck I used his talk on kittens and ninja stars in my psych class!
Bigscreen Beta is legitimately the only reason I actually want VR atm, it has amazing potential, once vr's resolution stops being garbage (check it out on steam) You can have ALL the monitors, and virtual lan parties, and custom environments and everything. It shows where I think the true potential of VR lies, not with VR games, but Virtual Monitors in custom environments and true shared virtual spaces. instead of needing space for 3 or 6 monitors each running $500+, you just dump that money into a VR headset and get a better, more immersive, and custom experience
Hey Sean just wanna share a positive energy and boy you look great! I bet you sticking to exercise and reasonable diet. Happy to see the results and you emitting endless stream of positivity haha! Plus shout to the rest of the gang! Nice to see you guys doing another Mostly Walking!!!
I like Mostly Talking because the only reason I enjoy Mostly Walking is because of the banter and dynamic between the three of you. More of that is just more of the good stuff, so count me in. Games can be a fun pivot point but they don't need to be there for this to be entertaining for me, I wouldn't mind a bi-weekly or a monthly Mostly Talking episode to catch up on things or just shoot the skit.
You guys should start a podcast. Each session, you pretend to have a serious topic pertaining to game design, but then you just continue to go off on tangents until time is up. I'd subscribe to that.
Im not from europe, but im from sweden, which is close to europe, so there is one and a half people from europe watching! Yes, I am making an obscure Bill joke
Have not watched yet but the title is exactly what i wanted from the original idea of the show, this show is interesting because your interaction between each other is entertaining instead of the interaction between you and the outdated boring game
You can't just have people talk to eachother and have it be interesting for an hour and a half all the time, the only reason this is possible is because they haven't seen eachother in ages... the game is to have something to talk about
In philosophy there is an idea that Communication is a language game. I suppose possible to develop syntax is constraints and understanding the end goal or win condition. (i think it was Wittgenstein). So if successfully communicating an intent is a game anything is
a story with a twist near the end must still make sense without the twist ever happening. otherwise the whole story is just arbitiary nonsense. i call the process of writing a nonsnesical story with a twist thaat tries to make sense of the story, but surely just can fail to make any sense [Vanilla Sky]ing. just do not do that! de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanilla_Sky the "it was all posibly just a dream" ending is fine, but the dream must be consistent without that reveal. consistency is the difference bwtween the pathethic crap that is [vanilla sky] [matrix reloaded], and the rather good and more consisten fictions of [matrix 1] [eternal sunshine of a spotless mind] [inception], ans i dont know how, but Shamalamadingong, who generally utterly fails in consistency and twist endings, managed to make a more consistent movie with a twist with [the village] and [the sixth sense], though all his other failures clearly show that these where only accidentally getting things right.
I've been watching the show since the beginning and I live in France ! Keep on the good work, I love your show :) ps: you should checkout Rama : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rama_(video_game)
Sean B. : "game is a meaningless term, not properly defined" -> you could check the French researchs about the notion of "ludic contract", it may interest you and your position may evolve. Moreover, the fact you say that "everything is a game" shows, indeed, that this term is not defined for you. But the term has been properly defined in research fields outside of USA (by French pedagogy and by French philosophy, for what I know).
The dude got a university job teaching people how to make shovelware crap that nobody wants to play. Nobody should take his opinion of what is or what isn't a game seriously lol...
no matter what you study, universities like to stress the idea that nothing has inherent meaning (besides STEM fields where it's a functional impediment). If you study music, you will learn that notes are arbitrary. If you study sociology, you will learn that race 'doesn't exist'. For example, I haven't read the definition of 'game' you mentioned, but if brought up Sean B would likely mention some corner case of something we consider a game that doesn't line up with the definition, and use that as evidence that there is in fact no meaning to the concept, 'game'. There is truth to this approach, but it quickly becomes a dead end road if you treat it as the only truth that matters. Sean P actually swooped in and saved the day rather eloquently. Although it can be very difficult to put a definition of 'game' in writing, there is undoubtedly a functional definition of 'game' in our brains --- it's not strictly logical, part of the definition is emotional, it's hugely complex and would probably best be modeled with a network of weights rather than strict definitions --- but the definition is there, and a real thing, such that if you were to take a person and show them a series of things, they could consistently label the things 'game' or 'non-game', with complete accuracy, based on whatever complex mix of consciousness and biology is informing them.
Your description of what makes Dark Souls good, sounds a lot like The Witcher. You should give it another go, get over that hump. That was created from a single writer's vision as well.
Hope you do Mostly Talking more often, loved every minute. :D
Great to have the show back!
At least one European who watches Mostly Walking? Here is another, cheers. So good that you are back! :)
The triumphant return! Or, the return, at least. So glad to have this show back.
Been waiting for this, gonna listen while on a long drive today. Great to see you guys back.
Greetings from Sweden! Now you have two from europe that watches the show.
TheOnlyOneEuropean club - Bulgaria here
Neighbour Norway. How's all the rape in Sweden going?
Second greetings from Sweden!
woo scandinavia
Third greetings from Sweden!
1:37:02 gameplay starts
Holy shit! I was starting to worry there for a bit! Welcome back all.
I've never been able to watch live, so this change is no problem for me. Really glad you took some time to just chat about stuff as friends.
At 1:01:20, Sean describes the idea of the Sylladex in Homestuck. The idea Sean describes is wider, but the thought's there - you've got a theme to your inventory system, and that changes the way you interact with the world. To be fair, the Sylladex is a riff on how games goof with inventories, but it would be a hoot to play.
I love that TH-cam tagged this as The Crew
Holy shit! It's Sean's appartment!
shoutout to Caesar 2, that game is hashbrown tight
not gonna lie. this is actually my favorite episode of mostly walking
Really loving this new podcast guys, a lot of fun to listen to!
i would love it if you guys not only did mostly walking, but also just straight up podcasts. Also, saw you appear on carl sagan's video, noice!
Endrance88 Podcasts would be perfect, it's something I think Day 9 could Excell at. I mean look at his random discuss days back when he did StarCraft, heck I used his talk on kittens and ninja stars in my psych class!
v=QgY5Xi0_iCo at around 15:00, he doesn't show up physically, he shows up in the chat room and freaks carl out.
Greetings from germany! ;) been watching Mostly Walking since foreeeeeever.
Gotta say I've missed having my weekly Bouchard fix, Day9 and Bill are great and all but I really enjoy listening to Sean B's take on things.
Do you watch his own show, Play by Play?
I like how the game tied to this video is The Crew
If someone who got a hold of a link to the puppet master game could point me its direction, it would be very appreciated!
Bigscreen Beta is legitimately the only reason I actually want VR atm, it has amazing potential, once vr's resolution stops being garbage (check it out on steam)
You can have ALL the monitors, and virtual lan parties, and custom environments and everything. It shows where I think the true potential of VR lies, not with VR games, but Virtual Monitors in custom environments and true shared virtual spaces. instead of needing space for 3 or 6 monitors each running $500+, you just dump that money into a VR headset and get a better, more immersive, and custom experience
Gotta love that this video has "The Crew" (the game) as its game. hahahah
Dear god, they're back D:
Friendship has overcome Starcraft.
Can't this just be the new show format?
Hey Sean just wanna share a positive energy and boy you look great! I bet you sticking to exercise and reasonable diet. Happy to see the results and you emitting endless stream of positivity haha!
Plus shout to the rest of the gang! Nice to see you guys doing another Mostly Walking!!!
Mostly Talking is a great podcast. Love it
Only one european watching this show?! I even drank alcohol at 4 am with you sometimes :D
you are the one!
rps932 Now I feel special :3
I like Mostly Talking because the only reason I enjoy Mostly Walking is because of the banter and dynamic between the three of you. More of that is just more of the good stuff, so count me in. Games can be a fun pivot point but they don't need to be there for this to be entertaining for me, I wouldn't mind a bi-weekly or a monthly Mostly Talking episode to catch up on things or just shoot the skit.
IVE WANTED THIS EXACT THING FOR SO LONG #DAY9PODCAST
Does Bill have a standing desk? His torso seems unusually mobile for a seated person. Wow, I think I need some sun.
I put a link to Tlaloc's book on reddit's /day9/ feel free to add to it if you find the other games they made
Definitely hoping you do Hiveswap sometime once Thimbleweed Park is over!
The V.R. technology with a realistic date for popularity: N.V.R. !
Wooo! I have missed you so much!
THEY BACK
F*CK... It's good to see you guys again.
Top notch talk show!
10/10 for the pun in the title :)
You guys should start a podcast. Each session, you pretend to have a serious topic pertaining to game design, but then you just continue to go off on tangents until time is up. I'd subscribe to that.
Awww yeah! Gonna continue Kings Quest?
The Meaning Of Liff is very useful for the first part of tonight's show, by the way ;)
"The Crew (2014)" LuL
well, tuning in from thailand currently :D
Oh god. Here I am getting home from working on my Bachelor Thesis; Suddenly - Foucault... Baaaaah
I absolutely disagree. Demon's Souls is the way to start the series.
Poland in the house :)
Day9, Power hot is working you look 5 years younger!
Noticed that as well. Very good to see. If only Bouchard could follow suit...
Power hot? What's that?
Lookin good, Sean P!
Im not from europe, but im from sweden, which is close to europe, so there is one and a half people from europe watching!
Yes, I am making an obscure Bill joke
Have not watched yet but the title is exactly what i wanted from the original idea of the show, this show is interesting because your interaction between each other is entertaining instead of the interaction between you and the outdated boring game
You can't just have people talk to eachother and have it be interesting for an hour and a half all the time, the only reason this is possible is because they haven't seen eachother in ages... the game is to have something to talk about
Awesome!
yes!!!!!!
Demon Souls is indeed the Dark Souls of Dark Souls
Only European? No way. Hello from Poland! Never missed a show!
remember when they used to play games and get a little drunk and say funny things? yeah, those were the days.
In philosophy there is an idea that Communication is a language game. I suppose possible to develop syntax is constraints and understanding the end goal or win condition. (i think it was Wittgenstein). So if successfully communicating an intent is a game anything is
it was wittgenstien
Why is there a video called "The Real Reason Why Hollywood Dumped Megan Fox" in my related column?
Please make that adventure game so we can all pay to shit on it.
"Mario" is a verb? Why the heck not?
One Star Citizen ~
Japan rejoices that the crew is back! =D
plus one from Japan. There's a literal handful of us!
old doorknobs for new
a story with a twist near the end must still make sense without the twist ever happening.
otherwise the whole story is just arbitiary nonsense. i call the process of writing a nonsnesical story with a twist thaat tries to make sense of the story, but surely just can fail to make any sense [Vanilla Sky]ing. just do not do that!
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanilla_Sky
the "it was all posibly just a dream" ending is fine, but the dream must be consistent without that reveal. consistency is the difference bwtween the pathethic crap that is [vanilla sky] [matrix reloaded], and the rather good and more consisten fictions of [matrix 1] [eternal sunshine of a spotless mind] [inception], ans i dont know how, but Shamalamadingong, who generally utterly fails in consistency and twist endings, managed to make a more consistent movie with a twist with [the village] and [the sixth sense], though all his other failures clearly show that these where only accidentally getting things right.
Yay!
This podcast sounds too smart for me LMAO!
holy SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT i thought the show was canceled forever! Yay for me being wrong!!!
Europe here dude I watch you on TH-cam :D
Hi from France ;)
YAYAYAYAYAYAYAY!
je suis eine europe
I've been watching the show since the beginning and I live in France ! Keep on the good work, I love your show :)
ps: you should checkout Rama : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rama_(video_game)
Sean B. : "game is a meaningless term, not properly defined" -> you could check the French researchs about the notion of "ludic contract", it may interest you and your position may evolve. Moreover, the fact you say that "everything is a game" shows, indeed, that this term is not defined for you. But the term has been properly defined in research fields outside of USA (by French pedagogy and by French philosophy, for what I know).
The dude got a university job teaching people how to make shovelware crap that nobody wants to play.
Nobody should take his opinion of what is or what isn't a game seriously lol...
no matter what you study, universities like to stress the idea that nothing has inherent meaning (besides STEM fields where it's a functional impediment). If you study music, you will learn that notes are arbitrary. If you study sociology, you will learn that race 'doesn't exist'.
For example, I haven't read the definition of 'game' you mentioned, but if brought up Sean B would likely mention some corner case of something we consider a game that doesn't line up with the definition, and use that as evidence that there is in fact no meaning to the concept, 'game'.
There is truth to this approach, but it quickly becomes a dead end road if you treat it as the only truth that matters. Sean P actually swooped in and saved the day rather eloquently. Although it can be very difficult to put a definition of 'game' in writing, there is undoubtedly a functional definition of 'game' in our brains --- it's not strictly logical, part of the definition is emotional, it's hugely complex and would probably best be modeled with a network of weights rather than strict definitions --- but the definition is there, and a real thing, such that if you were to take a person and show them a series of things, they could consistently label the things 'game' or 'non-game', with complete accuracy, based on whatever complex mix of consciousness and biology is informing them.
Your description of what makes Dark Souls good, sounds a lot like The Witcher. You should give it another go, get over that hump. That was created from a single writer's vision as well.
Europe hype, yo. :P
Pfft 1 European? Must be this Dane then.
What the fuck Bill.
Capitalism is responsible for this show and all of your lives being possible....
i would like it if the ginger take shirt off
More like only talking. Am I right?
Lol antifa aren't that bad, and this guy is teaching at a high level.