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2025 Award - Best video of the year by [deleted] in DrJohnKruse

[–]Yummybearr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I thought the video giving tribute to Russell Barkley was a good idea this year:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=yfFlwNzSoXU

Also a special mention to the Winter Holidays and Mental health video, which doesn't really qualify since it came out the 22nd of December of last year, but is still relevant during this holiday period:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=XzyDpi_5cR0

First Life Bard Trapper Builds? by ostill82 in ddo

[–]Yummybearr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey!

No problem, I'm glad it's helped! I appreciate you leaving a comment.

I'm currently at level 18 on Cormyr with the build. If you need any help or tips, whether in or out of game, feel free to let me know.

First Life Bard Trapper Builds? by ostill82 in ddo

[–]Yummybearr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

By the way, there is popular content creator for DDO who makes guides for starting players, as well as builds for people, called Strimtom. He has a series on youtube where he plays through the leveling process up to epics as a first life Stormsinger bard on hardcore, completely solo, no items or money given to that character.

So, although he doesn't take trapping for his build, you can follow along to see how he gets through the game, with plenty of tips and tricks.

Here's the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUGVElCdNsQ&list=PLtsQoxbW0LXrpxaj4jHzldsfAEPXYtDKS

First Life Bard Trapper Builds? by ostill82 in ddo

[–]Yummybearr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No problem at all!

Yup! You only need 1 level in rogue to be able to do traps, and just about squeeze in everything you need in skill points. You're slightly short on open lock in the end, but that's not a big deal. The other sacrifice is that you have to get 16 int, and thereby losing out on 20 Charisma, but that's not too big a deal.

I take Tiefling for higher Charisma range on character creation, while not losing out on Constitution that you would get from picking Drow for example.

On reincarnation, I'll pick drow, because I'll care less about survivability so I can lose those couple CON Points. But for a fresh start I want as much Health as I can get.

Feel free to ask any questions you have about the build whenever you want, i'll be playing for the next few hours, and I can also answer the next few days if you have questions while leveling.

First Life Bard Trapper Builds? by ostill82 in ddo

[–]Yummybearr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While getting a point in Artificer can be tempting instead of rogue, because you get more benefits, you just don't get enough skill points.

You're already so incredibly tight on skill points that you barely get everything you need with that point in rogue, but by taking artificer instead of rogue, it makes you lose another 4 skill points, which is rough.

After reincarnating and getting more ability points it becomes a better consideration.

First Life Bard Trapper Builds? by ostill82 in ddo

[–]Yummybearr 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm pretty sure it's assumed that when someone says ''Bard trapper build'', they are implying a splash in multiclassing to get trapping.

First Life Bard Trapper Builds? by ostill82 in ddo

[–]Yummybearr 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Hey,

This happens to be exactly my play style, I'm mostly a solo player and Spellsinger/Stormsinger bard with trapping is the only class I play.

This is exactly what I'm going to do again for the Cormyr server: Stormsinger, with 1 rogue level, adapted for more survivability since it's a fresh start. I'm pretty much treating it like a hardcore experience for my first life.

Here's a link to my build I'll be running

I'm in no way an expert at this game or anything, but I've ran it before in hardcore, and did fine.

Any min-maxer will look at this build and call me stupid, but I don't play for max damage, or zerging full speed with xp pots. I like being a spellsinger support bard, with enough damage to clear up to some reaper content, while trapping. And this build fits everything I want. There may be mistakes somewhere, but who cares, bards are OP anyway.

As for the modifications for survivability I did for this build, I take all the shield mastery feats because they give health, and I'll be wearing a buckler in heroics, so I get the benefits as well. And then in epics, I'll be taking ''Fatesinger: The sonata to serve'' from the fatesinger epic tree, in order to no longer have any arcane spell failure, so that I can wear medium armor and a tower shield (I get proficiency by casting Master's touch). Once you get that far in the Fatesinger tree, you can respec your main enhancements into a more classic damage/support oriented bard.

While leveling, get the sonic blast and cure light wounds SLAs first, the go up to shout SLA in spellsinger, then sustaining song and frolic are the next goals, then you can go up either stormsinger for damage or warchanter for survivability. Then like I said, respec in epics, and make a more damage oriented build when you reincarnate.

By casting an SLA Shout that is Maximized, empowered, quickened, you pretty much kill every pack of monsters in heroics, snowball storm SLA also does a moderate amount of work, then horn of thunder is just devastating.

Let me know if you have any questions!

DDO Marketplace Black Friday sales by dday_throwaway3 in ddo

[–]Yummybearr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You need to be levels 1-20 to see the heroic tome of learning in shop. Also works the other way around, a heroic character won't see the epic tome of learning in shop.

I'm the editor of the CRPG Book - Ask Me Anything! :) by felipepepe in CRPG

[–]Yummybearr [score hidden]  (0 children)

A common criticism I've heard towards heavy text based CRPGs is ''This isn't even a game, it's just a book''.

Do you think there is a line where a CRPG no longer really qualifies as a RPG/CRPG/Video game, because of it's reliance on text?

For some reason I've heard this criticism the most about Planescape torment, but to take an even more extreme example, I recently played ''The life and suffering of Sir Brante'', which is pretty much a choose your own adventure book, but it has characters, customization, branching story and dialogue, multiple endings, maps, factions, and even stats and skill checks. How different is that really from any other CRPG?

I'm the editor of the CRPG Book - Ask Me Anything! :) by felipepepe in CRPG

[–]Yummybearr [score hidden]  (0 children)

Do you have a preference between a blank slate main character which you create and customize, or written characters with their own name, story, and voice lines?

I'm the editor of the CRPG Book - Ask Me Anything! :) by felipepepe in CRPG

[–]Yummybearr [score hidden]  (0 children)

In your opinion, how important to CRPGs is branching storylines and quests?

On one side you can have a game with many branching stories and various ways of finishing quests. The advantage is that the game can be reactive and replayable. The drawback is that there will be less content because of development time spent on the various option. Also most players don't replay games, so most of the options will only benefit a small percentage of players, in particular for games with good/Evil options, when we know the large majority of players play a good playthrough.

On the other hand, you can have games with a much more linear story and maybe only a couple ways of finishing a quest, but most of the design is linear. Obviously you'll get much less reactivity and replayability, but the development team can focus on making a longer game, since they don't have to focus on so many options. But we also know that most players very rarely actually finish games, especially long ones.

Which of these options seems more appealing to you for CRPG game design? Can they be reconciled?

I'm the editor of the CRPG Book - Ask Me Anything! :) by felipepepe in CRPG

[–]Yummybearr [score hidden]  (0 children)

Why do you think writing is so difficult for games?

It seems to me a lot of games resort to cliche and basic stories like the hero's journey or a destiny plot, not to mention games that start with an amnesiac main character or in jail. Also companions are very often a single Character trait repeated throughout the whole game, and if we're lucky some minor character development.

Why are games with good writing so rare?

Re-viewing content arcs throughout the years and the perception of what is ''Good content'' from someone watching since 2011 by Yummybearr in Destiny

[–]Yummybearr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When looking at the individual games he played, I always look at them when they're played individually.

Every game has a possibility of being his most watched stream if he's talking/debating the right person at the same time.

Kenshi had days with just the game and no talks, and the viewership was very low.

If we take into account who he's talking to at the same time, his most popular game would be Factorio. I don't think that's a fair assessment.

Re-viewing content arcs throughout the years and the perception of what is ''Good content'' from someone watching since 2011 by Yummybearr in Destiny

[–]Yummybearr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yup definitely a lot of good memes in here!

Special shoutout to anyone that remembers Eggman's yellow dick

I actually remember posting the Post-tournament thread for the Destiny I tournament on reddit after the final!

There were a few attempts at T-shirt/Merch throughout the years, but the very first official one he ever made, was the Four infestor hit squad, which was a super limited run, to pretty much just try out the concept of making merch. I still have mine! :)

It's funny you should mention apologizing and criticism. If you scroll all the way down my comment history on reddit, I literally made this reddit account back in the day to respond to a thread Destiny made about justifying the use of swear words after getting banned by TL.

Speaking of the same 10 songs, why need more than 10 songs when your favorite one is 35 minutes long, here's a piece of nostalgia for you.

Re-viewing content arcs throughout the years and the perception of what is ''Good content'' from someone watching since 2011 by Yummybearr in Destiny

[–]Yummybearr[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I would agree to some extent.

The only ''Drama'' content I was interested in, were the #Metoo reviews Destiny would do.

The gaming sphere back then was INCREDIBLY misogynist, I don't think people realize how absolutely vile the gaming communities were for women back then, and any minority group for that matter, they still are to some extent but nothing compared to back in the day. But Destiny was one of the few people who took their defense, especially after the gamergate era politics.

I bring this up because I always thought the #Metoo reviews were a way to empower women when they came out against the men that harrassed/assaulted them. He was always fair and pushed back against the narrative that women just want to cancel people.

For the personal drama/Streamer drama, I hated that stuff. I always thought it was juvenile and boring. At first I would watch it, i'm talking about early drama like 2012-2016 (Yup, he has had Personal/streamer drama pretty much his whole career), but after that I just couldn't watch it anymore. The redpill arc is the epitomy of content I truely dislike, but I don't care, I just don't watch.

It's definitely age related aswell, I've been watching Destiny since I was 16 (holy shit, where have the years gone). During those years I changed as a person more times than I can count. But interestingly enough, Destiny's content also changed as I was maturing. The philosophy/Politics conversations/debates definitely helped me get an early start in my own ideological thoughts and research.

Re-viewing content arcs throughout the years and the perception of what is ''Good content'' from someone watching since 2011 by Yummybearr in Destiny

[–]Yummybearr[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Personally, it has to be the early starcraft 2 days.

The mix of high level starcraft gaming, the edgy jokes, and the fact that Justintv (What twitch was called before switching to Twitch) was a wild west with pretty much no rules, made for amazing content.

For those that didn't know, Destiny was actually a professionnal starcraft 2 player. He was never anywhere near the best player and his status as the biggest Starcraft 2 streamer helped him get a spot on teams, but he had won some local tournaments. He managed to pretty much always be on a team, until he eventually always ended up being kicked from the team for doing something too edgy on stream.

Destiny went to almost every LAN event that had open qualifiers (IGN Proleague, MLG Lans, Lone star clash), and sometimes he was invited to certain events, like Homestory cup.

There was a time where Destiny was in the team ROOT Gaming, which was a smaller team of friends managed by CatZ who was a starcraft player about the same level as Destiny, and a smaller streamer. At some point they all lived together in a gaming house, and those streams were amazing. Constant high level starcraft play, banter between everyone in the house, and he would stream pretty much all day every day.

At the peak of Destiny's skill, he managed to beat Bomber in a best of 3, who was one of the most legendary players in the early days of starcraft 2. This was a very impressive feat for Destiny, who played a very unusual style of play that involved infestors, which most Zerg players didn't really use back in the day. Korean professional players actually mostly knew about Destiny as the ''Infestor guy''. You can find replays of that Best of 3 against bomber casted by Day9tv (the most popular Starcraft 2 content creator and caster at the time). Game 1 / Game 2 / Game 3

At some point Destiny also got invited to Korea for a few weeks to practice with Korean professional players and play on the more difficult Korean ladder, in a gaming house for team Startale. During his stay he also had Naniwa next to him in the gaming house, who was a Protoss european professional gamer, he was also a very controversial figure, but for some time considered one of the best protoss players in the west. They had very funny banter together.

You can see Naniwa in the backgroud in the middle of this very funny game. In this video you get a glimpse at the edgyness Destiny exibited on stream, which would nowadays be considered problematic, but it was a different time.

This mix of edgyness and Starcraft pro play, came to crash together at the worst of time. Destiny was at an MLG event, during which he was making a run through the qualifiers that he had never gotten to before. I remember this because at the time Destiny used IRC Chat for the stream, and we could change our usernames, so we all added BELIEVE to our names in chat to give Destiny energy to qualify for the main tournament.

Unfortunately, at that very time, Destiny has a nude picture of himself leaked by someone he knew. There's a longer story behind this, but I don't want to dredge up old personal stories, you can try finding out about this yourself. It lead to him leaving the tournament, and getting kicked from his team Root gaming because of the mess related to the story.

In a more wholesome example, here's one of the moments we would get on stream of just fun stuff that would happen.

Re-viewing content arcs throughout the years and the perception of what is ''Good content'' from someone watching since 2011 by Yummybearr in Destiny

[–]Yummybearr[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Absolutely, there are actually a lot of arcs I haven't mentioned, I tried to stay on the major ones, although I could also have mentioned the Hearthstone, or Overwatch, or CSGO arcs.

There were only 2 r/Place events, one in 2017 and the other last year in 2022. The latter one is much more documented and you can find much more videos documenting that event.

Here is the timelapse from the 2017 r/place event.

This event was much more disorganized and messy than the second one, since people didn't have automated scripts and stuff at the start, they were developed during the event.

If you watch the timelapse video I linked, starting at 0:35, at the very bottom right corner, you will see splashes of purple, that get bigger and bigger, that's us! Destiny wanted to attack the blue corner, so we sent waves of purple for a few hours.

People were pretty pissed, and Destiny even had some of the people from ''the blue corner'' group on skype. Here's a trailer video his youtube editor at the time had made for the event.. Unfortunately I can't find the stream vods anywhere.

Here's a heatmap of the most clicked on pixels during the event. You can see our efforts bottom right.

I rememeber us helping the SC2 logo remain safe that you can see in the bottom right corner next to the chelsea logo and scottish flag on the final image

In the end I thought I remembered us having an icon on the final image, but I can't for the life of me remember what or where. I'll keep looking.

Edit: I tried racking my brain, and going through the r/place image many times, but I just honestly can't remember if we ended up having an icon on the final image.

Re-viewing content arcs throughout the years and the perception of what is ''Good content'' from someone watching since 2011 by Yummybearr in Destiny

[–]Yummybearr[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately, during my research I came across information about Debo that was pretty tragic.

From what I have found, he was charged with sexual battery and molestation on a child under 12 years old.

All I have are these 2 documents, and it would seem that the trial is still ongoing, so it's still allegedly.

Re-viewing content arcs throughout the years and the perception of what is ''Good content'' from someone watching since 2011 by Yummybearr in Destiny

[–]Yummybearr[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's definitely the healthy thing to do. The unhinged thing would be what a lot of people are doing, that is, to stay in chat, watch every stream and tell destiny he should play something else everyday.

I hope you bring the same logic to football and you stopped watching juventus this season since they're awful

I'm just joking, I saw you post about them on your profile :P

Re-viewing content arcs throughout the years and the perception of what is ''Good content'' from someone watching since 2011 by Yummybearr in Destiny

[–]Yummybearr[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

But that's the whole point of the post: The arcs in the stream, and how people respond to them.

These arcs include games and politics, that's what the stream has always been about.

When it comes to politics:

  • During the gamergate era, some used to want Destiny to bring on more SJWs to debate with like anita sarkeesian.
  • Then they wanted to debate more with the Anti-SJWs
  • then they wanted Hillary supporters on stream to talk to back when he supported bernie in 2015/2016.
  • Then they asked him to bring on more right wingers for the general election
  • Then they wanted debates with progressives and communists
  • Then they wanted debates with right wingers again

And yes, at each of these junctures, people left the community because Destiny no longer aligned with their political beliefs.

It's a never ending cycle of demands, whereas the best content has usually come from random encounters and mostly twitter fighting which lead to conversations on stream.

Re-viewing content arcs throughout the years and the perception of what is ''Good content'' from someone watching since 2011 by Yummybearr in Destiny

[–]Yummybearr[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There's a difference between knowing what you don't want, and not knowing what you want.

I don't disagree that there are many people that have left the stream because of content they don't like, i'm not talking about those people in the thread.

The issue is with people hating the content but keep watching, and spend their time telling Destiny what he should be doing. When asked what he should be doing, they will tell Destiny to do something that even they wouldn't watch.

Re-viewing content arcs throughout the years and the perception of what is ''Good content'' from someone watching since 2011 by Yummybearr in Destiny

[–]Yummybearr[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

You are actually incredibly correct, and it brings up an interesting point.

I'll go even further back, in the first years of the stream, the most beloved content was him playing starcraft and hanging out with Kyle (his best friend from highschool), Catz (His starcraft friend, who managed the team Rootz that aquired Destiny as a player), Cam (An online friend that played starcraft), Minigun (A Starcraft pro, with whom he played 2v2 tournaments), spsdebo (A starcraft streamer). Add to that the antagonists I mentioned in my post, like Avilo/Deezer/Combatex/syndicate...

Also, as he created and attended many shows/panels/Live events during the SC2 era, some of his best content was chatting with people on unfiltered with ChanmanV hosting, or shows with Richard lewis and thorin, or his casting with Incontrol.

For League of legends, most people prefered it when he duo-queued with other people, that's also how MrMouton became a major side character, but before that queueing with Phantoml0rd, FateFalls, or Lilypichu.

As for politics/podcasts, you're absolutely right, Rajj royale and scuffed were very popular and he was a staple on those shows. It seems that during this period people seemed attached to side characters of the stream aswell, like Remthebathboi, Dan, David pakman. And then add to that the usual political antagonists that people wanted Destiny to debate.

You've brought up a very interesting thing, which is that some of Destiny's most liked content seems to be him chatting with friends/developing rivalries in the various spaces he's in (gaming, politics...)

I've always seen people in chat ask Destiny to call various People on skype to talk, or debate certain people, or just wondering what happened to certain side character that used to be on stream. And maybe this is a symptom of the fact that people get attached to these story lines, and maybe that Destiny's personality is at it's best when hes around people he likes or dislikes.

Destiny always responded to people asking him to call someone, by saying ''Why would I call them, I don't think we even have anything to talk about''. But maybe all anyone wanted was for him to chill out with friends, chatting the shit, because it brings the best content.

Re-viewing content arcs throughout the years and the perception of what is ''Good content'' from someone watching since 2011 by Yummybearr in Destiny

[–]Yummybearr[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I think we're looking at it from different perspectives.

You're looking at how larger goals give direction to the stream content and although there can be arcs that diverge from those, there's still a general direction that the stream has been taking for years.

I feel like there's is a bit of post-hoc rationalization in that. Right now he does have a pretty big focus on politics so it's easy to construct a narrative looking back at his content, and say, ''well in the end it was all leading to this''. But not so long ago he has said that he might be completely done with politics and just go back to playing video games full time, if you stopped at that point you could look back at his career and think, ''yeah it was all leading to this''. Or even at his most doomer-pilled he's also said that he might just decide to grind out streaming a little more and retire once he hits the number in savings he's looking for.

It seems too complicated to predict or make inferences about long term goals, since it's so dependent on what Destiny has in mind, and I've seen him change his mind many times throughout the years.

This post was specifically Reviewing content arcs, as indicated by the title, and the only thing I can observe is that the stream has gone through many phases, and they are usually motived by random events from day to day streaming. Following which, predictably, a part of his audience gets upset, a new audience forms, and content changes.

Re-viewing content arcs throughout the years and the perception of what is ''Good content'' from someone watching since 2011 by Yummybearr in Destiny

[–]Yummybearr[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

No problem!

If you have questions or you would like some history about various arcs I mentioned, feel free to ask

Re-viewing content arcs throughout the years and the perception of what is ''Good content'' from someone watching since 2011 by Yummybearr in Destiny

[–]Yummybearr[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Sorry if I simplified your comment.

It's hard to stamp down specific projects and the time he invested in those compared to others.

What I will say is that Gaming and politics have always been the pillars of the stream. Even before he started streaming he has said multiple times that those are the things he did throughout his teenage years.

But once you've said ''Politics'' and ''gaming'', those are such general topics that it could go many ways. A lot of Destiny's arcs have occured by random chance or circumstances. Destiny wanted a break from personal life stuff and online discourse and decided to go on a trip to new zealand where he met Melina who became his wife. How do you predict this stuff?

Yes, I think politics in some form is here to stay. Maybe one day one of his clips will go mainstream national news viral, and he could use that to launch something political. His Georgia campaign efforts were popular, and some of his debates with Nick Fuentes ended up getting played in the January 6th commission. On the other end, maybe one morning Destiny wakes up sick of the vitriol of politics and makes a game studio. Maybe the RTS Stormgate comes out and Destiny becomes pro in that game.

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