Vinesauce Vidya

Vinesauce at NYC Comic Con 2011!

2011-10-13T22:07:00.000-07:00

Parts 1 and 2 of my Comic Con adventures are now online. Enjoy!

Super Mario Brothers X - Level Contest Part 2

2011-06-26T19:59:00.000-07:00

For those that haven't seen it, there is now an entire board on the forums devoted to this contest. Check it out and post your submissions there, ask for help, etc.

http://vinesaucevidya.com/vinetalk/index.php?board=11.0

The following is a copy/paste of what is in the post:

Here it is! The continuation of the Super Mario Bros. X level contest from back in November. We had a ton of great entries then, and I'm hoping for a similar response this time.

RULES:

- Download the FREE Super Mario Brothers X http://download.cnet.com/Super-Mario-Bros-X/3000-7433_4-10962266.html
- Use the level editor to make the best, most creative level you can. We're not going for extreme difficulty, make it challenging, but doable.
- The level can have any theme you choose, and can be fairly long; but try to make it look nice and try not to make it too long. The length of an average Mario Brothers 3 level is perfect.
- You can upload the level to http://www.mediafire.com/ and post your submission as a post in this forum. You can post it in incomplete form, but myself and whoever else judges the levels will not play them until they are 100% complete or the deadline is met.
- The levels will be judged by myself and other streamers ON STREAM! That's right, all seriously submitted levels will be played on stream for all to see!

PRIZES:

- First Place: Your choice of a $30 Steam game.
- Second Place: Your choice of a $20 Steam game.
- Third Place: Your choice of a $10 Steam game.

DUE DATE:

- Due date is Saturday, July 2nd, 2011.

LEVEL SETUP:

- You MUST divide your levels into one of two categories. Troll Levels or Campaign Levels.
- Troll Levels are exactly what they sound like. They can be funny, a bit trolly, or even more difficult, but still completable. Troll Levels, although fun, will be MUCH harder to win the contest with. No one likes getting trolled.
- Campaign Levels are levels that are reminiscent of old Mario levels. You can put your own unique twist on the classic level format, but make sure it's playable and not frustrating. Mario 3/World levels are closer to what I'm looking for here.
- When you make your forum post about your level, be sure to say what kind of level it is.
- You can create a world with multiple levels if you so choose, but keep the number of levels to a minimum. Anything over 3 and we'll be way less inclined to rate them, or even play them for that matter.
- Throwing a vinesauce meme or two in a level as a joke is perfectly acceptable. Also, NOT EVERY LEVEL NEEDS A BOSS!! Keep your levels classy.

If you need help, it's best to ask a veteran of the previous contest for help, or google whatever you might need to find. To everyone participating, use this forum to your advantage when creating your levels and be sure to help out a brother in need. Any questions? Ask here. Well, that's it, good luck and godspeed!

Note To Potential Ballbusters: I am not the creator of Super Mario Brothers X.

Minecraft Treasure Hunt Contest

2011-04-17T13:33:00.000-07:00

New contest! This time it's interactive. Basically, I've hidden 12 signs around Vineshire and it's surrounding provinces. Each of these signs have a unique contest code attached to them. The person to find the most signs wins! Here are the rules:

- You must connect to our Vinesauce Minecraft Server and look for contest sings. If you don't have access, ask to be white-listed. Here's the thread to do so.

- Some signs are well hidden, others are a bit more obvious. You will NEVER have to destroy someone's house or creations to find a sign.

- First Place Prize: $20 Steam Game of your choice.
Second Place Prize: $10 Steam Game of your choice.
Third Place Prize: $10 Steam Game of your choice.

- You MUST PM the codes to me using the forum. My user name is Vinesauce. I accept Forum Private Messages only.

- Contest ends Tuesday at 5:00PM EST. I will NOT accept any entries beyond that time. Basically, this means you have 48 hours from when this was posted.

- The signs will say "CONTEST CODE:", so you'll know one when you see one. Following that is a unique combination of letters and numbers.

- Once you write the codes down, you may choose to destroy the sign if you want.

So that's it! Everyone get to hunting and good luck to all!

New Forum Icons

2011-03-21T15:44:00.000-07:00

This may be the most trivial blog update I could ever make, but I decided to add some new posting rankings to the forum. Here they are:

Streamer

Jabroni		Current Members 360	Posts Required 0
Vinebro		12	50
Meister		2	100
Saucy		1	150
Darkholme		0	200
?		0	250
?	?	0	300
?	? ?	0	350
?	? ? ?	0	400

Tame's Greentext Challenge

2011-03-10T23:56:00.000-08:00

Hey everyone, time for another contest! You know how in chat, we see plenty of greentext? Especially from a certain person named Tame? Well, that's all about to end with a new contest!

Starting on March 12th and ending on March 24th, Tame is swearing off of greentext. If you think the implications implied here are impossible, then challenge him.

The first person to post an actual Chatango screenshot from Tame using green text (>Implying >Using Greentext or saying MFW, etc) will either win a $10 Steam game or the ability to force Tame to stream whatever game you want. The second and third place winners will either win a $5 Steam game or the ability to force Tame to stream a game of your choice for an hour. Post your screenshot here and contact Tame to win your prize. Remember, the screenshot must be timestamped between the 12th and the 24th.

2011-03-06T20:04:00.000-08:00

And the winner of the Spleunky level competition is...

SOUTHSEA

Look how happy he is

Congratulations on the awesome level, bro. Honorable mentions go to CrossStitch's Fallout 2 remake and JesusMod's story about a fine African American gentleman.

Download his level and all of the others here: http://vinesaucevidya.blogspot.com/2011/02/spelunky-custom-level-competition.html#comments

Nice job on all of the entries, and congratualtions again to Southsea.

SPELUNKY CUSTOM LEVEL COMPETITION

2011-02-19T14:04:00.000-08:00

What you need:
http://www.derekyu.com/games/spelunky_1_1.zip
http://mossmouth.com/forums/index.php?topic=631.0

Rules and such:
1. Must be created using Spelunky Editor Plus, downloaded in the second link up there.
2. You can program what level an exit of one goes to). Number of level files in an entry does not matter, but they must be connected so as to be a single unit. In other words, you could make a single level, or a full game, but you still only get one entry.
3. Custom music CAN BE USED, you just need to insert the music as an .ogg file into the "sound" folder and then specify the file name when editing the level's info. Make sure any extra sound files are included with your entry.

Entries are due Saturday, March 5th. I will stream hopefully all of the levels the following day, and a winner will be announced then. Entries should be uploaded to some file hosting site and posted as a comment in this blog. Winner gets a $10 Steam game.

Any questions about how to use the level editor, contest details, or Jewish culture should be directed to KY, or http://livebyfoma.chatango.com. Happy spelunking!

20 Million Get + A Special Visitor

2011-02-16T15:20:00.001-08:00

As you guys may know, we hit a pretty impressive milestone this past weekend. 20,000,000 viewer minutes. This is especially impressive given we've only been around for 9 months or so. If Vinesauce Vidya were a person, he'd now be about 38 years old. His first wife would have just left him, his first kid would be hitting puberty and his first colonoscopy would be scheduled. Congratulations guys, you helped a website achieve a virtual mid-life crisis!

I have a few special things planned for the 20 million get. First, a video which will be posted here when it's completed. Let's just say it involves pudding and piercing the heavens.

Perhaps the best surprise anyone could have hoped for will be happening soon. Vineswim bumps from Mr. Plinkett himself will soon appear on the autopilot. Who's Mr. Plinkett? Some would say he's the Orson Wells of movie reviews. Others would say he's a wheelchair bound sexual predator from New Jersey. Both of these things are surprisingly true.

Most of you know the Star Wars reviews, but if you don't, go check them out! Plinkett is doing us a huge favor by recording some audio for us, so bookmarking his webzone is a small way of saying thanks. Also, check out the Great Plinkett Auction. These crazy bastards are actually auctioning props from the Star Wars reviews and other Plinkett movies. Be sure to include a pizza roll or two with any bids you make. He likes pizza rolls.

http://redlettermedia.com/

Mario Retardy Winner

2011-02-05T23:14:00.000-08:00

Proboscis

Oglopox

2011-01-27T23:23:00.000-08:00

This isn't a contest, but drawing an Oglopox can win you e-fame.

Basically, draw what you think the mythical Oglopox would look like, based on its name alone. The best versions will be added to a Vineswim video and kept in autopilot rotation. The very best Oglopox creator can even choose the music to be added to the video. Post all submissions here!

Photograph Contest Winners

2011-01-27T23:07:00.000-08:00

First off, this was not an easy contest to judge. Not because there were so many entries, but rather, I find looking at Chad Kroeger for extended periods of time to be grating and soul absorbing.

But seriously, this contest was tough because there were so many clever entries. Before I announce the winner, I'd like to give a big thank you to Proboscis. Not only did he make some great entries, but he made twenty-one of them. Unfortunately Probo, none of your entries won, but the overall quality of your numerous submissions clearly makes you the Nickelking. Thanks for looking at his face long enough to make those entries!

Now, on to the winners:

Third Place - Suaig

This entry is really well done and funny,
but the idea isn't really original. Still, amazing job Suaig!

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Second Place - GreyBlackJay

A well made and funny homage to Bowser: by Curtis.

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First Place - Gnarlson

This entry received the most votes and eventually completely won me over due to it's brilliant simplicity. The shop is well done, sure, but the important part of this picture are the implications it presents; Chad Kroeger being too dumb to turn the picture towards the camera. Sure, it's not as flashy as some of the other entries, but I can safely say that something like this would probably piss off Chad himself. THAT is an accomplishment.

Congrats to everyone and thanks for all the great entries!

Photograph Contest

2011-01-22T20:18:00.000-08:00

TAKE A LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH:

EVERY TIME I DO IT MAKES ME LAUGH.

Rules:

- Photoshop the most ridiculous thing you can think of into the picture frame.
- Funniest entry wins!
- Due Date is Tuesday, January 25.
- Prize is $10 Steam game of your choice.
- Post all entries here, include your chat name and Steam name!

Mario Derp Contest Winner!

2011-01-15T11:58:00.000-08:00

A star is born! NES001 won the contest hands down. I present Mario 2.0:

All of the entries made me laugh, but this was exactly what I was looking for. Amazing job NES! I'm going to begin working on a Mario Derp Banner combining all the entries. Stay tuned for more contests soon, including a Vinesauce SMBX Campaign Contest. Also as a bonus... animooted:

UPDATE: Banner!

What should Duke say?

2011-01-09T15:56:00.001-08:00

Mario Derp Contest

2011-01-07T21:40:00.001-08:00

- You must draw Mario from this screencap.
- The funniest reinterpretation wins!
- Prize is a $15 Steam game of your choice.
- Due Date is Thursday, Jan 13th.
- Post entries as a comment to this post. Include your chat name and Steam name.

Hylian Loach Acquired.

2011-01-05T23:54:00.000-08:00

After catching the "Lunker" I took a detour and got the iron boots to assist me and my loach hunting, I was able to find the hidden lure but not able to find the loach, after spending about an hour entering and exiting I was about to give up and decided to just give try one more time and actually to try fish, I found the lure

and the loach, and after spending about 3 hours trying to catch him I was about to give up there as well then on my last cast I snagged a random fish who let go and as I was reeling that in suddenly HYLIAN LOACH snags on to my line and U freaked out. After holding R, A, and left on the control stick as my heart was pounding and after about one of the most intense minutes in my video gaming career Victory was at hand and I finally caught the Hylian Loach. After 12 years I can finally put Zelda Ocarina of Time at rest with peace in my mind. Even our "friends"" from /v/ came to "cheer" me on and I deeply appreciate all of you who stayed and were patient with me to experience that moment. Victory for Vinesauce!

Dwarf Fortress Tutorial: Part 2

2010-12-28T19:40:00.000-08:00

In the last stream of Dwarf Fortress, we learned how to navigate the menus, dig into the mountain some basic rooms for us, and start production on our farm and other necessities. We still have a lot to do. I wanted to do this with a couple of days in between each stream so as to not have Dorfan every single night during prime time, but also, New Years is coming, so it'll be a few days more. Part two of this three or four part series will be on Sunday, January 2nd 2011, 8:00 PM EST.

(alcohol explodes with fire)

Also, if you took part in it, I ask that you leave a comment or two about the first part of the tutorial. Ideas to consider (but not limit yourself to): Did you learn a lot? Was the pacing good? Were my language and directions accessible? What can I do different for the next time? You can say whatever you want, things you like or some criticism for future streams, so part two is even better.

If you missed part one, it is on the On-Demand. My save from the end of this part can also be downloaded here:

http://www.mediafire.com/?q3brqt7jcb770h0

Just place the folder in DF > Data > Saves, and when you load up, load up from the name of the folder.

Strike the earth!

"The Minecraft for people with class."

2010-12-20T16:41:00.001-08:00

When one thinks of Dwarf Fortress...

...things can be pretty overwhelming.

That is why I am going to stream a Live Dwarf Fortress Tutorial. You can finally learn how to play this daunting game in an incredibly accessible way. I will be streaming purely for those who need instructions on how to ~~fuck spaghetti~~ play this game, beginning with navigating the interface and working up to overall strategies and things you need to know to be started on your way to a successful fort, and more importantly, on your way to fun.

Of course, as I am playing you are encouraged to ask questions through the chat. Here's the best part: Everything is already set up for you to play along. You will be using the same exact world that I will be streaming, so you do not need to worry about unforeseen consequences; you can even just follow along with what I do step-by-step if you'd like. Just download the following file pack:

http://www.mediafire.com/?3uzrpd24mfix4l5

A couple of guidelines:

1. A graphics pack is currently enabled. If you do not want to use a graphics pack, simply execute the DFInit.exe file, hit "load" to load my settings, and uncheck "use graphics" in the first tab. Some argue this gives the game more of an authentic feel and leaves more to the imagination.

2. To see the chat, my stream, and be able to see the game, I recommend setting up your screen to something like this:

...or if you're a rich motherfucker, just use one computer for the stream and one computer for the game.

That's all. I'll see you on Tuesday, December 28th at 8:00 PM EST.

Strike the earth!

ElectricalBeast + Holiday Contest

2010-12-17T13:50:00.000-08:00

Good news everyone! ElectricalBeast will be streaming here for his birthday, which is this Sunday, December 19th. He's thinking of streaming at around 8:00pm GMT which is 3:00pm EST. All of us are really excited to have him stream here; be sure to stop by, check out the stream and wish him a Happy Birthday!

Screencap Caption Contest

For Christmas, we're gonna have some contests and give-aways. This is the first announced contest, so get started early and start posting those entries! Rules:

- Play a video game of your choice and take a screencap of anything (characters, events, etc.)
- Add a caption to your screencap. It can be funny, witty, vinesauce related or any combination of the three.
- One entry per person.
- Submit all entries as a comment to this post. BE SURE TO INCLUDE YOUR CHAT NAME!!
- Entries are due Saturday, December 25th (Christmas Day hurr)
- The streamers will vote on the best entry!
- First Place: $20 Steam game of your choice.
- Second Place: $10 Steam game of your choice.
- Third Place: $5 Steam game of your choice.

That's it! It's a simple contest and one everyone can participate in. Good luck to all and stay tuned for more Vinesauce X-Mas news.

It's a Kong Off!

2010-12-05T17:01:00.000-08:00

Hello sauce friends, today's entry will discuss a few things I've been meaning to get to but haven't due to being sick. Let's start with the Kong Off. Today Tame and I began the competition and after our first full hour, Tame has a slight lead. For those that don't know, we're playing DKC at the same time, trying to see who can finish first. Both of us Game Overed once and had to start from the beginning, but fear not, we'll actually be saving from now on! Also, thanks to Exhorder for making the excellent Kong Off promo image!

Next up, you may notice that the Streamer List on the FAQ looks a little different. It was outdated and as such I decided to fix it up. Some of the streamers are no longer listed. For example, PurpleSawdust contacted me and told me to remove him as a streamer given the fact that he can't stream often, if at all. I removed a few others as well.

Basically, if I removed you as a streamer without telling you, it means you stopped streaming without telling me. At some point, you can get your streamer status back, but I want to make sure our list is accurate, so for now, I'd say relax and come back in a few weeks to reapply for your position.

It's also come to my attention that people advertise their streams during autopilot. Honestly, trying to find a solution to this is the most difficult part of being a stream owner. I relayed a personal story today about the early days of Vinesauce Vidya. When I first started up, the stream I was going to was more or less dead. The autopilot was deleted and there were barely any streams, yet 30 - 40 people stayed around and chatted, complaining about the lack of entertainment. I decided to link to my stream, which now had a full autopilot and myself streaming constantly. I was banned immediately for advertising my stream. As I gained my first few loyal viewers and streamers through persistence, I decided to try an underhanded move and advertise in other, larger streams. I was banned immediately.

My point is, it's heavily frowned upon to leech viewers from a stream, even if it's just autopilot that's playing. While I don't feel strongly enough to ban people about it, the fact of the matter is, if I wanted you to stream, I'd make you a streamer.

That leads me to another point. Say I'm planing on streaming GAME DICKS sometime in the future but haven't got to it yet. During some dead time a random dude from the chat boots up his stream, and links everyone to it. Say 30 people go to watch. Coincidentally, this guy is streaming GAME DICKS. Well, when I go to boot up GAME DICKS when I'm ready to play it, 30 of our viewers are bored because just a few weeks ago a member of the chat streamed GAME DICKS.

It's very tricky business.

While I'm on the topic of streamers, I know a lot of you want to stream for us. Every day I see at least 5 different people talking about how they'd like to stream a particular game, or movies at the movie page, or whatever.

I really hate disappointing people, but I can't do it. In my view, a stream packed with willing streamers can turn nasty. At the moment we have an almost perfect (notice I said almost) mix of streaming and autopilot. You see how disappointed streamers can get if they can barely get time to go live. Three or even two more streamers could make this even worse.

Also, I've heavily considered making a separate stream to let more people in on the action, but it doesn't work at all, and as the poor people over at Vinecraft are aware, I can't run more than one stream; I just don't have it in me.

I want to end with just a few things. You can see the little sidebar with the constant Twitter announcements. So far, they've been great and should give you reason to check the blog fairly often. Thanks Tame for keeping it updated.

We also now have a page for the SMBX campaign. Use it to collaborate with each other, post levels or even ask for help. I've been slacking a bit on the campaign, but I'm still serious about it. I'm very excited to see the finished product.

That's a lot of fucking typing I just did. Thank you all again for everything! Look forward to more contests and retardation in the near future.

10 Million Get

2010-11-24T09:55:00.000-08:00

It seems like I'm writing about our viewer minutes about once a week these days. It's incredible how quickly we hit 10 Million Viewer Minutes, but as I always say, it's you guys that did it. You may have caught us in a thread about Mario Corruptions or maybe you saw a link to us for a Campfire show. You could have found us through the Livestream guide, a link from another site or even from Facebook (you'd be surprised how many people are here from Facebook.)

In the end, it doesn't really matter how you found us. People are always clicking links then moving on, wandering the endless internet landscape of filth and wonder like some kind of wastelander from the Fallout universe. What really matters most to us is that you stayed. You made this YOUR wasteland, YOUR filth. There are now people who call this place home. That... is incredible.

We're probably not the best stream out there. We don't have the best looking page nor the most advanced looking livestream player. We don't all have the highest quality capture cards and we don't always play the most interesting games to watch. Sometimes we suck at video games, but mostly we're just OK at them.

What we do have is honesty. Honesty and a desire to do the best we can. I can speak for myself (and probably all of us) when I say that I love streaming for you guys. I've always liked sharing the experience of a great game with a friend. That's why I started the stream, and that's why I still do it. Thanks again for sticking around, here's to another 10 million!

- SMBX Contest Winners -

Most of you guys already know who won, but here are the winners:

1st - RichardRickson
2nd - PhantomDust
3rd - Suaig

Congrats guys! We'll start organizing levels for the campaign soon. For now, keep working on your maps and I'll get you more details soon.

9 Million Viewer Minutes + Site Down Time

2010-11-14T11:48:00.000-08:00

So guys, 9 Million Viewer Minute Get! This time, I think we should thank all the new viewers that have been watching. There's a lot of streams out there, so it can be tough to settle on one or two that you really like; so seriously, thanks for sticking with us guys!

As you guys are aware, we've had two separate occasions where our webhost went down. If this happens and you still want to watch the stream, here are some places you can go:

Our Livestream Page
Direct Link to our Chatango

Generally, the site should be up within a few hours if it goes down. Apparently our host was simply doing some site maintenance. Of course, you can always check the blog and see if anything serious is happened to the site.

To close off, we've decided to make our current Guest Streamers part of the stream team. Exhorder and StreamTrap are now Part-Time streamers! You guys loved their streams and so did the streamers; now they can be a part of our jabroni gym.

By the way, Jen has been up-keeping a list of games we've streamed since we started. Check it out and let us know if you think it's accurate.

Super Mario Brothers X Level Contest!

2010-11-11T11:03:00.000-08:00

Contest time again! This time we're holding a contest for best Mario Brothers X level. Here are the rules:

- Download the FREE Super Mario Brothers X here: http://www.supermariobrothers.org/smbx/
- Use the level editor to make the best, most creative level you can. We're not going for extreme difficulty, make it challenging, but doable.
- The level can have any theme you choose, and can be fairly long; but try to make it look nice and try not to make it too long. The length of an average Mario Brothers 3 level is perfect.
- You can upload the level to http://www.mediafire.com/ and post your submission as a comment to this blog post. Be sure to include your chatango name when posting your level.
- All good, non-troll entries will be added to the official Vinesauce campaign! I'll create a world map to tie all the levels together.
- The levels will be judged by the streamers and placed in order of easiest to hardest.
- The winner will receive a $20 Steam game of their choice.
- Second and Third place will spotlighted in the Vinesauce campaign.
- Due date is Saturday, November 20th.
- ONE level per person!

Basically, make this level as you were designing levels for Mario 3. Use whatever graphics, NPC's you'd like, but keep the level classy. Throwing a vinesauce meme or two in a level as a joke is perfectly acceptable. Also, NOT EVERY LEVEL NEEDS A BOSS!!

If you want to give my Zebes map a try, download it here and extract the "Zebes" folder to your SMBX/worlds folder. From there you can play it, or even edit it if you'd like.

So there you go everyone, have fun and make some cool levels!

Put this on, and close your eyes.

2010-11-08T19:45:00.000-08:00

Remember when it was so much simpler? Before the sex and the parties and the girls and the schoolwork and the jobs and the bills?

Remember when all Saturday was, was just sitting in front of your TV trying to beat Bowser?

Remember when getting every star was more important than getting the girl?

Remember when you didn't have to worry about anything? All you had to do was be a kid, and enjoy life.

Why can't we do that now?

Close your eyes.

Go back to that time.

What Stream is Best Stream?

2010-11-05T14:47:00.000-07:00

As you guys know, I can't stream all day errey day. My work schedule more or less leaves me with only night-time streaming as an option. While I'm busy at work, I manage to lurk a bit here and there. I've noticed that our viewer count drastically decreases when certain "factors" are in effect. I'll try my best to explain what I mean.

CHAT: I'm not a believer in telling people what to talk about. It's extremely easy for me to ignore dumb comments, so I have faith that others can do the same. I don't like when people try to moderate what others say in the chat, be it a streamer or ESPECIALLY a viewer; if people can't say whatever the fuck they want, we may as well not even have a chat.

I personally get annoyed when the chat turns into facebook, because after-all, we are a video game stream, but even that can't really be helped. I like getting to know people as well as chat video games, but drama need not apply. People don't come to Vinesauce chat to see us arguing with each other, and that's not an opinion.

GUEST STREAMERS: I'm giving this guest streaming thing a try so people from other streams can check us out and we can fill some dead-time (which, let's not fool ourselves, there is dead-time.) Remember we're giving them a try, so feedback is important. If you guys don't even like the idea of guest streamers, you HAVE TO LET ME KNOW. I'm an easily approachable person and I'm open to how you guys feel; viewers and streamers alike.

VINESAUCE STREAMERS: If the guest streamer has been on for a while and you want to stream something, ask them nicely, they'll get off and then you stream! It's easy as that. We only stream on one page, so of course, we're not all gonna get a chance to stream on a daily basis at the exact time we want. Sacrifice and patience are as important as being a great streamer.

SKYPE CLUSTERFUCKS: I really, really don't like skype calls with lots of people in them. I avoid them when I'm streaming as much as possible. My exceptions are Mario Retardy and drinking games. A clusterfuck can ruin the immersion of a single player game and it's been proven to drop our viewer count. Also consider the viewers from livestream, they join to see a game they like and the audio isn't even remotely related. Clusterfucks have a time and a place.

So these are the things I really wanted to get off my chest. Is this all too much? Am I being fair? Let me know in the comments.

PS: 8 Million Viewer Minutes Get!

Updated Streamer List

2010-10-29T15:10:00.000-07:00

To the best of my ability, I've put together a list of the part-time/full-time streamers. This is totally based on my own observation, so if I'm mistaken let me know by sending me a message on skype.

Full-Time Streamers
Vinesauce
Tame
MentalJen
m3ss (Ravi)
Fzuul (Fred)
Bombchu

Part-Time Streamers
ToxicToothpick
VicariousGaming (Darren)
SleepDeprivation
Spacebat (Adam)
RevScarecrow
KylieTheDorf
PurpleSawdust
TheBobito
Imakuni
KY

I'm probably wrong on a few of these; I don't really know what happens in the early mornings because I can't get up before the sun starts descending. Those that are on the very edge of being full-time, let me know what you'd like to do. Read the previous blog and tell me what works best for you. Also, I decided to make Bobito and Imakuni part-timers instead of guest streamers. They're great streamers, great viewers and great friends. If you see them in the chat, tell them congrats.

Next week we'll take our first "Guest Streamer." I am excite about this. Very much!

Also, expect lots of fun stuff for Halloween, including Campfire and a movie on Sunday night. There's now a link to the movie page at the top of the blog. Praise Bill Murray.

Streamer Organization

2010-10-28T10:17:00.000-07:00

In an attempt to organize our large list of streamers, I've decided to create Full-Time and Part-Time positions. Now, before I get any further, I'm still aware that this isn't a job, nor am I paying anyone to stream, but, this'll hopefully be a way to categorize the less active streamers and reward the more active streamers. It goes like this:

Full-Time Streamer: Someone who streams as much as daily to as little as 3 or 4 times a week. These streamers put a lot of their time into the stream, so it's important to recognize them. As somewhat of an unspoken rule, full-timers retain priority over the other types of streamers because of how much they contribute to the stream.

Part-Time Streamer: Someone who streams a few times a week and less. These streamers are understandably busy in their personal life and/or just don't have the ability to stream very often. Sometimes I'll ask someone to be a Part-Time Streamer by request if we have too many streamers and very little dead time. A part-timer is most useful to fill the gaps during our off hours.

Guest Streamer: Someone who has streamer access, but not permanently. It's not a final decision, but my idea of a guest streamer would be someone who streams one entire game over the span of a few streams. Guest streamers might be appointed when there are some open hours of daily streaming available.

We've been retaining a fairly busy stream, but our "dead hours" definitely seem to lie in the afternoon and just before then. Something like 8am to 3pm EST. Nights (6pm - 3am - remember, New York time) are more or less reserved for the more active streamers, or full-timers. Inactive nights do happen sometimes, in which case, whoever's available to stream should take over. Of course, it's good to ask if anyone's going to stream first.

It's difficult to maintain the free-for-all environment of a stream, yet still have some semblance of order. Again, this is more or less a way to help things run a bit smoother. What do you guys think? Streamers and viewers alike, post your comments and tell me if this is a good idea.

Vinepedia - Part 2

2010-10-21T15:47:00.000-07:00

Welcome to Vinepedia! This will be an occasional series that explains some of the "memes" of Vinesauce history. Lets continue with Part 2.

Jack Nicholson - A fantastic actor and frequent attendee of many sporting events. These sports are not limited to just real life. He's been known to make appearances in Mario Kart Wii, often cheering on Vine from the sidelines. On one particular occasion, he was watching from the sidelines of Luigi Circuit as Vine crashed his Kart into the wall. Jack, always one for a good bet, was clearly disappoint as his sponsored racer, Vine, continued to lose time and time again. Assumedly, after losing so much money betting on the races, Jack had to resort to becoming a tollbooth operator at Moonview Highway. The only evidence of this was his second appearance in which he was spotted in the toll booth, shouting at the faltering Vine, "Vinny boy, Vinny boy, Uncle Jack is ashamed of you. That'll be 75 cents."

Funguy - One of the many characters from Chrono Cross. In the game, he is a bald guy who eats a strange mushroom in the forest. As a result, he himself becomes a living, breathing, fighting mushroom. The chat's insistence on leaving Funguy in Vine's party for most of the game led him to become somewhat of a Vinesauce hero. The look of satisfaction on his face can be possessed by no other living creature, be it man or myconid. His face was shooped onto many a chat regular.

Jaakko - One of the heroes of Vinesauce Vidya, Jaakko is either the most oblivious, aloof person in the world or the best troll on the internet. He calls himself the Angry Video Game Nerd and reviews games often repeatedly spouting nonsensical phrases such as "dip", uttering nearly unintelligible sentences, mispronouncing words, failing constantly and ending the video in the middle of the review. Aside from reviewing games, he produces an astounding number of bizarre videos ranging from a cube spinning in place to various community quizzes, political insights to pictures of himself shirtless and many other pointless and awe inspiring creations. Many despise him solely for the sound of his voice. Others, like myself, are aware of his brilliance. Go to his youtube account to see the insane number of videos Jaakko has contributed to the internet. The amount of his videos we have on our autopilot ensures he'll be a Vinesauce meme for a long time to come.

Until next vine, see you in the chat!

Stream-a-thon + 7 Million Viewer Minutes

2010-10-21T15:28:00.000-07:00

As some of you may know, Tame organized a spur of the moment 24 hour Stream-a-thon. For a full day, there was not a single moment of autopilot.

It started with me doing Mario Corruptions. From there I went to a few other random games ending with 2 or so hours of Final Fantasy 9. So after 6 and a half hours of Vinesauce streaming, Revscarecrow picked it up almost immediately. He streamed a bunch of random games as well, including Facade and Happy Wheels.

This is when Tame noticed the opportunity to celebrate our 7 million viewer minutes. He started streaming and kept on going. Breath of fire, some shitty Mickey Mouse game and others. His only break was to get some food and expel his bodily functions. During this time SleepDeprivation took over. Around the time Tame was finished streaming iFluid, I, in my weakened state, took over for the remaining 2 hours. I began with Threads of Fate, then tortured myself with the Home Improvement game, completed an excellent run of Star Fox 64 and ended the Stream-a-thon with Kirby 64.

It lasted from 7:35pm est on October 19th to around the same time the next day, October 20th. Thanks to everyone that watched, and especially thanks to Tame, Rev and Sleep for helping to make one of our finest moments. Special thanks to Adam for failing at Douk Nouk Kem in an attempt to keep the streaming going just a little longer.

Here's a song I played yesterday after the streaman was done. I'm reposting it to help us reflect over the past 6 months of Vinesauce Vidya. You guys make this possible each and every day. Thanks for hanging out with us.

Friends Will Be Friends - Queen

Need For Speed World Contest

2010-10-15T21:16:00.000-07:00

Ravi's holding a contest tomorrow (October 16) where you can win games! Real games! Here are the rules. Click the images to enlarge.

Call to Stream

2010-10-04T11:47:00.000-07:00

Uncle Vine has noticed a disturbing trend here on vinesauce vidya, lack of streaman. If you check the FAQ, you'll see our large number of streamers, yet I can count those that don't stream on every finger of my right hand as well as on a few toes of my left foot. This is upsetting. Those with streamer and mod privileges should at least try to stream a bit more often, otherwise, they are no more than glorified viewers.

Now, before people start becoming Butta the Hurt from Star Wars, I know no one pays you to stream and I know you all have busy schedules. I'm just asking those that idle and chat during an 8 hour autopilot gap to pick it up here and there.

Currently, during the day (est time) there is very little streaming. This discourages viewers from staying and hanging out; after-all, how many times can someone watch the same videos before growing tired of them?

My point is, I don't want to have to add new streamers when we have perfectly capable ones available to pick up the slack. Those that do stream with some regularity, you know who you are, disregard this post. For everyone else, there are a lot of viewers who would love to stream for us, but can't because of the overwhelming volume of streamers/mods we already have. If you no longer desire to stream, that's ok too. Just let me know and we can give some other streamer hopefuls a chance. We'll still be friends.

Streaming for our regulars is a privilege, and it makes my life so much more worth a damn. I can't do it alone though guys. You're all the reason we've come so far, let's give everyone a reason to keep coming back.

-Uncle Vine

PS: 6 Million Viewer Minutes Get.

Vinesauce Homobutts Banner Contest

2010-10-03T23:14:00.001-07:00

We here at Vinesauce Vidya have a strict policy we adhere to: If Tame's around, it must be homobutts. This policy has worked for us so far, and we've decided to take it to the next level.

Starting on October 6th, 2010 and running until October 13th 2010, we will be holding a banner contest for the stream to go into the rotational banner system. However, we have a theme: homobutts! That's right -- Van Darkholme is going to be somehow prominently featured on our website one way or another. There'll even be rewards!

Contest rules:
- Banner for the website, 1220x203 resolution.
- Homobutts themed, eg Billy Herrington, Gay Steve, Gay Ricoh or Van Darkholme.
- No actual nudity or "butts" allowed, let's keep the site SFW.
- Rainbows, Billy Herrington's Face, and the text "Vinesauce Vidya" on the banner are a huge plus.
- Must be submitted by Midnight EST on Oct 16th 2010
- Voting will be done by Vinesauce mods.

Rewards! Everyone loves some rewards, so Tame will be providing a Steam game (oh boy, here we go..) of his choosing (oh god..) to the first place winner of the contest. Second place will recieve chatango donator status for a month, and no one cares about third place!

All banners, as long as they are on topic and fit the actual rules of the contest should hopefully be added to the rotational system eventually, just not as fast as the winners.

Good luck, and may the butts be with you.

Vinepedia - Part 1

2010-09-21T10:20:00.000-07:00

Welcome to Vinepedia! This will be an occasional series that explains some of the "memes" of Vinesauce history. Lets start with a few basic ones.

Uncle Zion - From the Rev. Billy trolling. I had called in to speak to the reverend, but I got the call screener lady instead. I told her that I wanted to reverend to pray for my Uncle Vine. She said "what?" about 3 times before I finally said, "Uncle V-I-N-E... It's french." Unfortunately, when she went to speak to the reverend, she said "We have a called that wants you to pray for his Uncle Zion, he said it's a french name." That's when I became Uncle Zion.

Bowser by Curtis - The pinnacle of 3D model art. Found on Google 3D Warehouse, it has since become ingrained in many of our hearts forever. Click here and see what I mean.

Select a Worldo - A more recent phrase that many of you are probably already familiar with. During a Mario Brothers ROM Corruption, I had reached a level with text floating above Mario, seemingly suspended in mid air by Bowser's evil magic. The text simply said: Select a Worldo. A superstar was born that very moment.

Until next vine, see you in the chat!

Corruption Winner and Meet The Streamers

2010-09-14T09:15:00.000-07:00

Late as always, but as most of you already know, the winner of the Corruption Contest is OptimalPower!

His corruption turned Mario into a frequent LSD abuser, experiencing extreme and colorful flashbacks. It also has a few other odd effects, such as turtles spawning whenever you pick up an item. The corruption was really fun to watch and surprisingly stable, so for that OptimalPower get's the grand prize. Other excellent entries included Super Minecraft Brothers, Super Swim All The Time Brothers and Super Tyrone Brothers. Thanks for entering guys!

The next addition to the site itself will be a Meet The Streamers page. This will give the viewers a better chance to know who's streaming as well as give the streamers a better idea about what games have already been streamed. So, before I get started, I'll need the following from the streamers:

- A paragraph about yourself written in the third person perspective. It would be campy, well written, truthful, or whatever you feel is a good representation of yourself.
- A 250 x 250 picture of anything you'd like. It could be a picture of you, your avatar, a metal dildo, whatever.
- Jen already compiled a list of streamed games from the viewers, but it's preferable you list the games you streamed/are streaming personally followed by a wishlist of games you want to stream in the future. Could be just one or two games.

I'll get started on the page when I have at least 5 bios and we'll see how it looks.

One final announcement... 5 MILLION VIEWER MINUTES GET. HOLY SHIT GUYS WAT IS THIS I DON'T EVEN

poodlesnostalgia

Corruption Contest: The Quest for Fanoth

2010-09-02T11:37:00.000-07:00

Select a Worldo! I've decided to hold a contest for Super Mario Brothers ROM corruptions based on the overwhelming positive response to our corruption streams. Using the "CORRUPT" program, you can change data in ROMs to create bizarre, sometimes disturbing effects. If you've ever seen the stream, you'll know exactly what I'm talking about. Here are the rules:

- The funniest, most interesting or most playable corruption will win. (EDIT: A playable version of Fanoth will be given extra consideration.)
- Winning entries will be voted on by the mods and myself.
- Limit 2 entries per person.
- Must use the CORRUPT program: http://www.zophar.net/utilities/corruptutil/corrupt.html
- Must use the same version of Super Mario Brothers as me: http://www.mediafire.com/?fuh2fvp5m120ilr
- Do NOT use random bytes as the results will impossible to replicate.
- Must submit entries as a comment to this post. Include your steamid.
- Your results can be submitted in the form of a youtube video, as text (the exact coordinates you used,) or a picture of your coordinates.
- Winner will win a steam game of their choice up to $20.
- Deadline is Saturday, September 11th.

Any questions? Post em in the comments. In other news, we passed the 4 million mark a loooong time ago. Thanks for sticking with us guys!

Vinesauce Casting Call

2010-08-10T14:39:00.000-07:00

Here is an amazing drawing did by Exh0rder, a regular in the community. In this picture he drew every regular who was willing to give him a photo of themselves.

I regret doing it already...

T-Shirts and More

2010-08-05T15:45:00.000-07:00

What's that? Did someone say T-Shirts? No? Actually, no one even mentioned T-Shirts, but I went ahead and made us a cafepress store anyway. We have a bunch of designs already there with more to come. If this gets popular, I'll register for a paid account. That adds more items and design options to the store. For now, check out the designs and see what you like. If there's any vine related design you want me to add to the store, give me a heads up and I'll add it.

http://www.cafepress.com/VinesauceVidya

By the way, 10% of all sales go straight to me, so that means more money for contests to give this stuff away. Speaking of contests, we'll have a new one for you guys real soon. One that doesn't involve art this time.

NOTE: For the mushroom and Vinesworth designs we may soon have a cheaper alternative, just as high quality, AND more of the money will go straight to Vinesauce. So if you are considering buying a shirt of either of those designs, you may want to consider waiting a little bit. Contact KY for details.

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As you guys know, we're buddies with GPM from DatStream. As you may also know, livestream hasn't been very kind to him these days. For whatever reason, his stream was locked twice. To make it up the the viewers, he's holding a special event where he and his streamers play nothing but classic games for a week. The thing is, instead of emulating the games, he's actually gonna buy them and stream through his capture card. I absolutely love this idea, and wish him the best of luck.

He's had a shitty past few weeks, a few donations will cheer him up. Want more info?

http://datstream.net/nostalgia/

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In other news, I still haven't declared a winner for the Vinecraft banner contest. A combination of busyness and laziness is the reason. Don't worry though, it'll happen soon. Also, be sure to check the FAQ page for an updated list of streamers. Until next time!

Mascot Contest Winners

2010-07-29T12:12:00.001-07:00

As usual, I'm a bit late, but here are the winners of the mascot contest. We didn't get a whole lot of entries, so I'm just gonna post all the legitimate ones (ie: no Larry) so everyone can see how much hard work you guys put into this. Let's start off with our winners. Click on the images to see them in their full size.

1st Place: KylieTheDorf

2nd Place: Exhorder

3rd Place: Shadow

Congrats to Kylie for making an epic mascot! It was a close call, especially between Exhorder and Kylie, but almost all of the entries got some votes. Also, as a first for vinesauce vidya, the chat voted along with the mods this time, which worked out really well. Here are the other entries:

Pandanyo

Slowbro

Regigigity

Unknown

I even made a few just for the hell of it:

Vinecraft Banner Contest

Guys, there's only one day left until your Vinecraft banners are due. If I'm not online to accept your entries, send them to either GlueGuy or Adventure. Here are the rules one more time:

- Image size must be 1,220 x 203.
- Again, no dicks or racism.
- Can be something constructed in Minecraft and made into a banner.
- Must say Vinecraft somewhere. You can also hide your name somewhere, but it should be smaller than the Vinecraft text.
- Due date is Thursday, July 29th.
- Winners will be voted on by the mods of Vinesauce Vidya.
- All legit entries will be rotated randomly as the Vinecraft banner.
- First Prize is any Steam game of your choice under $10 + 1 month donation status on Chatango. Will become the main banner of Vinecraft for 5 days.
- Second Prize is 1 month donation status on Chatango. Chat fish spam, FUCK YEAR! Will become the main banner of Vinecraft for 3 days.
- Third Prize is nothing! Again! Will become the main banner of Vinecraft for 2 days.

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Anything creative, whether it be an in-game screenshot or something in photoshop, is perfect for our contest. As a bit of motivation to enter in the contest, I made a banner to show you guys an example of what we're looking for.

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In other Vinecraft news, we removed a few inactive streamers and got a few new ones. I really hate removing streamers, but if you haven't logged in to the studio in 2 weeks or so, you make it really hard for me to justify your position. More on that in the FAQ another time. Everyone be sure to say congrats to our new Vinecraft streamers!

NeroLucien
McDaddyJesus
Magicschismo

On a final note, thanks again to all who donated! Check the donation page for my personal thanks to all of you. As I always say, the viewers are the only thing keeping us going. Thanks for being bros, all of you.

Click to enlarge.

2010-07-22T20:37:00.000-07:00

NOPE.AVI

2010-07-21T01:19:00.001-07:00

In the aftermath of some technical difficulties, it appears that our entire autopilot and on-demand library has mysterously vanished. But do not fear, citizens of Vinesauce! We are not going anywhere. Where are we going? NOWHERE. That's right, do not let this "offline" business fool you. Raise your fist and resist. Nothing can keep Vinesauce down, not even losing our library of hilarious and entertaining videos.

There will be some healthy new autopilot uploaded soon enough, if we cannot recover the lost videos. On a positive note, congratulations Fzuul for earning streamer status. You rock!

More to come. Get on those banner and mascot entries, will ya?

VINESAUCE PREVAILS

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UPDATE

Autopilot is in the process of being revitalized. Victory nearly is upon us. Rejoice, dear viewers!
Embrace the Vinesauce autopilot master race!GOD BLESS THE VINE

Two Contests, Real Prizes!

2010-07-19T13:06:00.000-07:00

It's contest time again, but this time, there are some legit prizes involved. This is for artfags, so if you are a drawing wizard, you should enter. Even if you can't draw, try anyway for the lulz. Here are the rules:

Uncle Vine Contest

This contest is for the best vinesauce mascot. My idea was a suit and tie with a vine growing from the collar in the style of Earthworm Jim. That's just a starting point, you guys can take it any way you want. Bonus points for creativity. Rules:

- Can be any image size.
- The winner(s) pictures will be scattered throughout the site, blog, in threads, etc.
- Consists of the best drawing of what Uncle Vine would look like, or any other suitable mascot.
- Can be in the form of a banner.
- Due date is Sunday, July 25th.
- Winners will be voted on by the mods of Vinesauce Vidya.
- First Prize is any Steam game of your choice under $5 + 1 month donation status on Chatango.
- Second Prize is 1 month donation status on Chatango. Big eyefuck text, here we come!
- Third Prize is nothing!

Vinecraft Banner Contest

We need more banners for Vinecraft. I tried making one with a cartoon creeper and pig making sweet love, but Gimp crashed on me and it was lost forever... Anyway, like the main site, we're doing a competition for the best banners. At the end of the contest, all entries will be rotated randomly. Rules:

- Image size must be 1,220 x 203.
- Again, no dicks or racism.
- Can be something constructed in Minecraft and made into a banner.
- Must say Vinecraft somewhere. You can also hide your name somewhere, but it should be smaller than the Vinecraft text.
- Due date is Thursday, July 29th.
- Winners will be voted on by the mods of Vinesauce Vidya.
- First Prize is any Steam game of your choice under $10 + 1 month donation status on Chatango. Will become the main banner of Vinecraft for 5 days.
- Second Prize is 1 month donation status on Chatango. Chat fish spam, FUCK YEAR! Will become the main banner of Vinecraft for 3 days.
- Third Prize is nothing! Again! Will become the main banner of Vinecraft for 2 days.

As always, any banner you submit for the main site will be added to the random rotation. Feels good man.

Just to clear the air about something people have been asking about, our mod Nuke hasn't been banned, far from it. He wanted to start up his own stream again, so we left him a streamer at Vinecraft, but did indeed remove him from the main stream. He is a bro and I really appreciate the time he spent with us on the site.

Visit him at Nukes Bomb Shelter and check out his streams!

That's it for now. Any questions about the contest, just ask.

Around the Campfire

2010-07-16T13:48:00.000-07:00

Last night we decided to try something a little different. Being a fan of Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell, I thought it would be a good idea to have a ghost story night. It was totally spur of the moment, but it actually turned out to be quite good. I must have spoken to at least 12 people who had some really odd paranormal experiences. The only regret I have is not being able to get to everyone; there are still quite a few stories left until. Perhaps, cool stories.

We may try this again from time to time, so keep checking the blog for a possible future occurrence of Around the Campfire with Uncle Vine.

A few new pages are now up and running. The first was the completed Vinecraft page, which has become a bit of a success. We're in the process of adding a few more streamers, so if you catch me online at the right time and want to stream, let me know. I'm extremely disorganized when it comes to recruiting streamers, but a voice chat on skype is my usual method.

The second is the FAQ page which details mostly everything you need to know about the site. It also has a handy list of streamers.

The last is the Donation page, which is pretty self explanatory. If you do decided to donate, you get added to a list of demi-gods and help pay for the site. Feels good man.

We have some more interesting things to try out in the near future. A few contests loom on the horizon. One for Vinecraft banners and one for a Vinesauce mascot. I'll draw a prototype soon, but basically a guy in a suit and tie with a vine head. Think Earthworm Jim, but slightly more vegetable. Check the blog from time to time and we'll give you the heads up on all this noodly nonsense. Ramen.

Ask not what your autopilot can do for you; ask what you can do for your autopilot

2010-07-08T11:33:00.000-07:00

Our Current Autopilot

As many you know our autopilot is continuously expanding to accommodate different tastes in video, longer length, and more humor. These three main focuses exist because that is what we feel you want. If you feel differently, please speak now or forever hold you peace. No? Ok, lets move on.

The central idea behind the creation of the autopilot is that there could be a filler of utter randomness and humor that would be there when there aren't any people streaming in the stream. So far, that has worked out pretty well for Vinesauce but that is no reason to stop improving it. The next step in the quest for improvement is more user control. This control was originally planned to be 10-page survey that included voice authentication and credit card information for ~~blackmail~~ survey purposes. Sadly, What was decided against my better judgement was that most suggestions should go through the comment box.

Please put in the comment box of this post any ideas and suggestions that you feel could be done to improve the quality of the current autopilot. Also, if there are any funny or videos of different taste (Japanese, Mind Fuck, Ect...) that you have come upon in your travels, please link to them in the comment box. Your contributions, if added, will not be ignored and a golden statue will be made in your honor.

Vinecraft and 1M Get

2010-07-04T16:11:00.001-07:00

Minecraft, minecraft, minecraft. Most of us love it, but some hate it. We've noticed that a good 40% or more of our streaming lately has been Minecraft. While this isn't necessarily a bad thing, too much of any one game can get a bit lame. To fix this, Tame came up with the idea of Vinecraft, a separate branch of our site devoted to nothing but Minecraft.

Currently, you can click the Vinecraft link at the top of the page and it will take you to the plus4chan version of the site. We'll have a page similar to the main stream's very soon, but until then, you can either check that out, or the livestream version. Also, it can only hold up to 50 viewers for now, but when we get approved, it'll be unlimited.

What does this mean for vinesauce vidya? It'll be streaming every game except Minecraft. Vinecraft will also have it's own set of streamers and mods. Some will stream on both sites, others will be exclusive to one particular stream. We are currently looking for minecraft streamers, so if you have streaming/minecraft experience, let me or any of the mods know.

Over 1,000,000 viewer minutes.

You can see by visiting www.livestream.com/vinesaucevidya that we surpassed one million viewer minutes. That's a really huge accomplishment for us, and I'm still at a loss for words for how much of a success you guys have made us. Thanks again.

Here's our gift to you guys for being dedicated: http://vinesaucevidya.com/afs/

In other news, thanks to GPM for helping us move to our new web server. You may not know this, but he hosted vinesaucevidya on his server for a while just because he's a bro. If he stops by the chat, be sure to thank him and pelt him with tomato sauce.

Thanks Tame for this strikingly realistic portrait of how I feel when playing Petz Horsez 2.

Banner Contest Winners

2010-07-01T11:29:00.000-07:00

We have winners! Obviously you know who won if you've been to vinesauce vidya recently, but you may not know who else won. The mods have spoken, here are the top 3.

Pandanyo - First Place

KylieTheDorf - Second Place

Ragu - Third Place

These rankings aren't entirely accurate. Pandanyo won 2 spots in the top three, but we wanted to be fair, so I spoke to him and he agreed to let some other bros get the top spots. To be fair to Pandanyo, though, here was his other entry, which we all loved.

Pandanyo

Thanks to everyone who participated, your entries were great. After the specified time goes by for the winners, we'll have code for a random banner to be displayed each time you reload the page. Everyone is winner.

On a slightly different note, we're about the reach 1 million viewer minutes! This is amazing considering how new our stream is. You guys have really made all of us feel good man. Every single viewer minute is appreciated, and when we do hit 1 million we're gonna have a party... perhaps a Mario Party?

In other news, fuck Petz Horsez 2.

Seriously though, thanks Exh0rder for being a true bro and gifting some awesome Stream games for the mods and I. Also, he and some of the chat also made some epic calls to the Preacher Man. Salty milk and coins. lulz.

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2010-06-26T15:47:00.000-07:00

My word.. how many of ya'll planted a twenty ten last night? Apparently many, we broke a vinesauce vidya record! Most of you already know what happened, but for those that don't, we trolled a "preacher" begging for money on his stream. You can't feel bad about trolling someone trying to get rich in "Jesahhh's" name.

Anyway, we've got a few more days of the banner contest and so far all the entries have been great. Keep it up guys.

In other news, Moogs is now a mod/streamer. Congrats Moogs! You've earned it sistah. By the way, there always seems to be a bit confusion about who here is actually a mod or streamer. Here's an attempt to fix this.

List of official channel bros:

vinesauce (hurr durr)
MentalJen
Tamed
KY
m3ss3d
RevScarecrow
Nukleahboy
PurpleSawdust
Spacebat
MichaelJackson64
MoogleChix0r

Until next time guys.

Banner Contest (second offense)

2010-06-22T11:58:00.001-07:00

Hey everyone, welcome to the new blog!

So, for those that don't know, we had to scrap the previous banner contest rules since we moved to our new site. The old entries will still be voted on and the winners will still go on www.livestream.com/vinesaucevidya for the same time as defined in the previous rules.

This time, though, we need a banner for vinesaucevidya.com, and for that we require additional pixels. Here are the new rules.

- Dimensions are now 1,220px × 203px.
- Still no racism or dicks. Must say vinesauce vidya somewhere, you can put your name on it too, but smaller than the vinesauce logo.
- Can be in the form of a flash movie.
- The mods will vote on their favorite entries. The one with the most votes wins.
- First place banner will stay up for 5 days. Second place for 3. Third place for 2. All other good entries will be shuffled at random as the banner of vinesaucevidya.com.
- Images should be uploaded to imageshack or photobucket, then linked in the chat.
- New due date for the contest is Tuesday, June 29th.
- Up to 2 entries per person.
- Photobucket of current entries.
- UPDATE: The winner also gets one free month of donor status in Chatango. That means custom backgrounds and fucklarge text. Rock it like a boss. Thank M3ss3d for this.

For those interested in the previous contest's entries, check em out here.

If you have any questions, email me at info@vinesaucevidya.com

Also, big thanks to GPM for everything he's done. Visit Dat Stream sometime, they are real bros.