Thursday, October 21, 2010

Vinepedia - Part 2

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


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



Friday, October 15, 2010

Need For Speed World Contest

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




Monday, October 4, 2010

Call to Stream




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.

Sunday, October 3, 2010

Vinesauce Homobutts Banner Contest















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.

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Vinepedia - Part 1



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!

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Corruption Winner and Meet The Streamers


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

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Corruption Contest: The Quest for Fanoth





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!


Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Vinesauce Casting Call


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...

Thursday, August 5, 2010

T-Shirts and More




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!

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