10 Million Get

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.

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9 Million Viewer Minutes + Site Down Time

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.

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Super Mario Brothers X Level Contest!

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!

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Put this on, and close your eyes.

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.

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What Stream is Best Stream?

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!

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