more daily waffling
Feb. 22nd, 2025 08:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thedarlingoneSo I watch approximately one YouTube channel per video game franchise I play, usually some specialist who has video titles like "Everything to Know about Camels in Minecraft". And because I spend a lot of time half-watching and listening to things on headphones in order to avoid listening to my shelter roommates quarrel, I wind up gravitating to channels that also have a lot of unedited stream archives, so I can have them running while also playing the game with the sound off.
My point is that the Legend of Zelda youtuber I mainly watch, a young man by the username of Croton who has produced a bunch of extremely well-researched and helpful videos -- I first ran across him from "How Does Stealth Work in Breath of the Wild?", which honestly got me to pick up the game again after I had put it aside as too scary/difficult (you're supposed to avoid a lot of enemies early-game and I couldn't figure out how) -- also does weekly streams, and recently he's been doing a 100% playthrough of The Wind Waker. He likes trying to figure things out without guides, but will sometimes ask chat for help when he gets stuck. I have never played The Wind Waker, but I'm bored and know a good Zelda wiki, so I've been tracking which photographs he's still missing and giving hints when requested, since one of the 100% goals is to take a picture of every animal, NPC, and enemy in the game and get each one turned into a figurine for a display gallery.
(Thank goodness he's at least playing the Wii U version. In the original GameCube version, you had to take and turn in the pictures one. at. a. time. For over 120 pictures. In the Wii U version you can turn in up to 12 pictures at a time.)
Anyway, so that was my afternoon. It's enrichment in my enclosure or something. Also Twitch has recently announced that they're going to start limiting streamers to 100 hours of stream archives saved per account, which is deeply unhelpful for the streamers, but because the shelter wifi blocks Twitch but not YouTube, means that the streamers scrambling to put their Twitch archives on YouTube are putting more things where I can watch them. (This does not affect Croton but does affect voice actor Sean Chiplock, whose old Age of Calamity streams I'd been wanting to rewatch, so that's excellent timing in an awkward sort of way.)
My point is that the Legend of Zelda youtuber I mainly watch, a young man by the username of Croton who has produced a bunch of extremely well-researched and helpful videos -- I first ran across him from "How Does Stealth Work in Breath of the Wild?", which honestly got me to pick up the game again after I had put it aside as too scary/difficult (you're supposed to avoid a lot of enemies early-game and I couldn't figure out how) -- also does weekly streams, and recently he's been doing a 100% playthrough of The Wind Waker. He likes trying to figure things out without guides, but will sometimes ask chat for help when he gets stuck. I have never played The Wind Waker, but I'm bored and know a good Zelda wiki, so I've been tracking which photographs he's still missing and giving hints when requested, since one of the 100% goals is to take a picture of every animal, NPC, and enemy in the game and get each one turned into a figurine for a display gallery.
(Thank goodness he's at least playing the Wii U version. In the original GameCube version, you had to take and turn in the pictures one. at. a. time. For over 120 pictures. In the Wii U version you can turn in up to 12 pictures at a time.)
Anyway, so that was my afternoon. It's enrichment in my enclosure or something. Also Twitch has recently announced that they're going to start limiting streamers to 100 hours of stream archives saved per account, which is deeply unhelpful for the streamers, but because the shelter wifi blocks Twitch but not YouTube, means that the streamers scrambling to put their Twitch archives on YouTube are putting more things where I can watch them. (This does not affect Croton but does affect voice actor Sean Chiplock, whose old Age of Calamity streams I'd been wanting to rewatch, so that's excellent timing in an awkward sort of way.)
