Game:

Super Metroid (1994)

Duration: 5:28:07

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EDIT: So... apparently Twitch muted the first 6 or so minutes of my VODs on Super Metroid... which is all kinds of fun in and of itself. So. This is a purely vestigial video that serves no actual purpose... but we might as well let it stand as a reminder just how finicky and fraught with problems something as "simple" as playing a game and beaming that over a global network for otherwise innocent people to have to see... at least if their decision-making skills are poor enough to subject themselves to it...

So, I just kinda got the notion that I needed to play Super Metroid one night. So I did. Most of it, anyway. There's still more to come... the best parts, actually... but I decided that only I needed to suffer that night, and not even all that much. No need to take it out on anyone else who didn't deserve it.

But this raises a very important question... and it's the kind that only YOU, the depraved individual who clicked on and decided to watch a video like this at all can answer!

I-is... this okay? I feel like it's not. A game like this could've been an uploaded sequence of parts, carefully divvied up for more orderly consumption at the user's choosing.

Don't get me wrong, the stream part was fine, too. A surprising number of people dropped in and said their hellos and remarked as they do in the real time, and that's also cool. That's what makes streaming... streaming.

But afterward... I don't want it to just... vanish, as Twitch would prefer. The gameplay itself still has value, after all. Technically speaking. If you believe it does. (If you didn't, why'd you click this?!)

But then... who the heck is a five-hour stream archive copy really "for"? Don't get me wrong, I believe it's a choice... and a choice someone might make and deserves the right to choose it.

However... there's no way in heck I'm clicking a five hour video with the intent to watch it. I already know my own impulse control is bad, but it's not like I'm going to go and do THAT to myself on a whim.

But does it feel... "right" for me to chop it up, upload it on top of my unending backlog pile of projects I'm already neglecting, and pretend like it's as good as my carefully-curated efforts?

What's the over-under on effort, anyway? Effort from me? Effort on YOUR part, the presumed watcher? ...do you even watch THIS video as it is? ...would you be more likely to watch it if it was a "normal" series, except it just happened to have been handled live once upon a time, and you won't be on that train anymore?

Heck, if people prefer streams, but miss out on the opportunity... they obviously don't want to wait for it to come out on home video weeks apart...

I guess the summation here is that I'm worried about "lockout"... people who can't spare hours in one big chunk to watch a stream or even peruse its archive on their own time. People who NEED to catch up before I stream the sequel session! Either way, someone's getting shafted here, and I'm at a loss as to how I might best serve those purely hypothetically needy individuals.

... ... ...would it be... entirely redundantly annoying if I did... both...? Eventually, I mean. It's not like I'm going to flood the world with stream reruns when there's so much more NEW content that I'm not finishing in a timely fashion...

But seriously, I'm kind of at a loss, and I'm stuck with only my own thoughts on the matter, and you can see here that they're... a complete mess.

Any insight you can offer, as someone who, at the bare minimum, decided to READ A DESCRIPTION certainly matters to me.

Worst case scenario? I just keep doing what I'm doing, and we all just have to live with it. But I'm open to suggestions if there's any thoughtfully-inclined individuals who made it this far without falling asleep or going straight to a different video because this one's too long and the wordy-words are too preachy!

(Please don't leave me. Not alone. With HER... the one who makes these videos... the one that I can't convince to let me game in peace!)

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