Antiwhippy
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It depends really. Giantbomb has the pull and the infrastructure to grow. It's going to be harder when it's their part time gig. Also they're not getting final bosman right?
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Giant Bomb XXI | Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth
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Simply finding remotely suitable office space in SF and, to a lesser extent NY, would be absurdly expensive. Not to mention the video equipment which I know nothing about, but whenever Drew mentions how much some essential piece of hardware costs, the price is always astronomical.
So, yes, just like this. Probably with guys coming to each other's houses/apts to record joint videos.
So, yes, just like this. Probably with guys coming to each other's houses/apts to record joint videos.
Oh yeah, I think Drew or Jeff said that the equipment someone stole at E3 three(?) years ago was worth over $20k, and that's not close to everything they've got.
It's telling that the Gametrailers guys had $50k as the "get a studio" goal.
Keyser Soze
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That also openes up its own isses.
- YT bitrate is still terrible in most cases.
- Many of GBs older content (Happy Hours) has stuff that would be instantly content ID / blocked
- Nintendo is going to Nintendo all over YT
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Depends on what you want to do. You really don't have to spend that much for streams and weekly podcasts, a few K at most for decent equipment which honestly isn't that much to get setup for this kind of gig professionally.
They don't even need to do what giantbomb does, such as on the fly feed switching. They might put on an air of of goofiness but giantbomb honestly has one of the better productions out there for internet live broadcast,
Piston Hyundai
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Any word on a Trackmania Turbo quick look?
1) Yes, but the GB stuff isn't that much better.
2) A definite problem.
3) Nintendo has agreements with larger entities to not fuck with their content.
Number 3 is the reason something like Gamespot or IGN can have game previews of Nintendo games and still monetize their YT channels.
upstart patreon youtubers aint got time for all your bitrates
Piston Hyundai
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it's truly Dailymotion's time to shine
Amazon as a pure bandwidth and storage solution has gone down in price, but when you're dealing with streaming video internationally, you really need a proper video CDN like Akamai's - and they're still really expensive.
Yup, he did, but having your entire business at the mercy of Youtube's clandestine partner management is not a day-to-day stress I'd envy.
RepairmanJack
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10 minutes into the new Project Beast...they have no chance.
stump sock
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they use Akamai now, but it's more or less the same deal. it looks like 100tb of traffic would cost about $8k, which you can probably scale up (though I think most CDNs get cheaper per measurement as volume increases).
even if we went super low end on sub numbers, say 10k people at $3/mo, that's still $30k/mo just on subscription money. obviously that doesn't take into account salaries, equipment costs, storage costs, etc, but basically they're left with a pretty good amount of overhead after raw hosting costs, on sub money alone.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Giantbomb to exclusively stream through pornhub.
Premium just got a whole new meaning!
Premium just got a whole new meaning!
Hear hear!
Piston Hyundai
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I'd believe it because 95% of the time I hear PornHub mentioned it's because they're doing some pathetic "look at me" publicity thing. I don't give a shit about what people in each state jack off to, and I certainly don't want to hear Coolio if he's not doing that one song off of Gangster's Paradise that had E-40 in it.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
To be fair the canadian porn map was very informative.
stump sock
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Quebec searching for "Quebec" is one of the funniest things I've encountered in recent memory
Well, Giant Bomb might already have the connections
edit: I didn't intend to land on this post number, but I'll take it
Actually what people on patreon typically do is have a channel with unlisted YT videos where only the links are shared to backers. However it doesn't get around to the issue that some premium content will face, which is content id.
Piston Hyundai
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That's ironclad. Holy shit.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
I still really want to know what eskimo porn is.
Grumble grumble
RepairmanJack
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Was "I think I found a new fetish" not in the running for OT titles? Because it's pretty great.
Tbf it's extremely easy to get around the premium wall too, but yeah, that's even easier
Tbf it's extremely easy to get around the premium wall too, but yeah, that's even easier
At least GB can monitor content and try to chase pirated lists, but the Patreon model is so bad if premium videos are the selling point - you can pledge, bookmark all the links, and rescind your pledge before the payment cycle; having never spent a penny.
For sure.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
I dunno, people can do that, but stuff like this relies so much on passion I don't think it'll attract the people who would do what you're describing.
Piston Hyundai
Member
To be fair, you can kind of do a similar thing with GB videos by just bookmarking all of the raw mp4 URLs before your sub expires.
It is just slightly less secure than premium content on GB. There is nothing stopping people from rehosting stuff.
RepairmanJack
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Holy shit! "We built a prison!!"
But you gave them at least $5 to begin with. Not saying it's okay, but it's better than 0.
shortsFortallPeople
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I need a DOTT quick look.
desk senpai, are you up for it
desk senpai, are you up for it
TheMrPliskin
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I bet it's not hard to find that stuff being freely shared.
They do that shit because they can't advertise pretty much anywhere, and it's the one way for them to get their name out to the general public.
The same way I feel when I see a former sports professional become a talking head, sports critic or working for big sports league or organization. Good for them! Get paid! As long as they performed their jobs professionally on both "sides", there's no issue.
I'm glad that they stop pretending to be anything else, so it's a plus I guess.
stump sock
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I like when harmless stereotypes are reinforced. I can only imagine Quebecois porn to be people pleasuring themselves looking into a mirror.
RepairmanJack
Member
I am so confused by the Project Beast preview.
so good, so stupid
It has more to do with the fact that most people outside of Montréal only speak French and want to understand what the girl is saying lol...
Doesn't have anything to do with ego, it's all about being ignorant rednecks.
I noticed recently that a lot of people (mostly Americans it seems) tend to waaayyy overestimate the level of patriotism/fervent separatists that we have here in Québec... It's really just a perfect case of vocal minority.
The vast majority of Québecers are not separatists and don't give a fuck about all that crap.
Whatever happened to the universal language of love?
German never had a chance over there
Salty Catfish
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The Kerbal Prison is like every claustrophobic space nightmare ever given flesh. Horrifying and hilarious.
Piston Hyundai
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nice
shortsFortallPeople
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all i know about Quebec comes exclusively from Infinite Jest
RepairmanJack
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It's all I want from my Kerbal series. I want to hear "This looks cool, we should try this." a lot more often.
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