Let's Plays, Virtual Reality, & Capitalist Inaccessibility | joyce-stick
Channel: joyce-stick
Date: 2020-05-28

in which I argue that let's plays are a perfectly fine way to experience video games and people without money cannot buy things.

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art used in thumbnail: https://www.deviantart.com/dj-gish/art/Half-Life-Alyx-Wallpaper-821018907

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Half-Life Alyx footage from Danny O’Dwyer and videogamedunkey

Other games shown:
Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Wii Sports
We ❤️ Katamari
Portal 2
Persona 3 FES
Trailers of Death Stranding, Yakuza Remastered Collection, FFVII Remake

Music:

Half-Life 1, 2, Alyx soundtracks
Portal 2 soundtrack
Symphogear AXZ soundtrack
Ghost Trick Phantom Detective soundtrack
Transistor soundtrack
https://bloompunch.bandcamp.com/album/three-simple-steps
https://patriciataxxon.bandcamp.com/

Sources:

https://twitchtracker.com/games/515195
http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2020/05/animal_crossing_new_horizons_sold_11_77_million_copies_in_just_12_days
https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/nintendo-switch-animal-crossing-new-horizons-new-leaf-shortages-prompt-gamers-pick-up/
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2020-04-11-china-bans-sale-of-animal-crossing-new-horizons-after-it-becomes-a-haven-for-hong-kong-protesters
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2020-03-24-half-life-alyx-reaches-43-000-concurrent-users-on-launch-day
https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/26/20833315/youtube-union-youtubers-negotiate-germany-meeting
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/15/nyregion/kickstarter-union-employees-fired.html

https://www.wired.com/story/half-life-alyx-review/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2020/03/31/half-life-alyx-vr-problems-future/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2020/04/11/half-life-alyx-should-have-been-vrs-big-moment--it-isnt/#53032146ca34
https://garry.tv/half-life-alyx

https://archive.org/details/NGC-120-2006-06/mode/2up
https://archive.org/details/NGC-106-2005-05/mode/2up
https://archive.org/details/hardcore-gamer-magazine-v2i7/page/n7/mode/2up
https://archive.org/details/dreamcastmagazine18
https://archive.org/details/Official_US_PlayStation_Magazine_Volume_2_Issue_12_1999-09_Ziff_Davis_US
https://archive.org/details/Dreamcast-Arena-01/mode/2up
https://www.reddit.com/r/HalfLife/comments/ecwdt6/halflife_dreamcast_magazine_articles_megapack/

https://abcnews.go.com/US/10-americans-struggle-cover-400-emergency-expense-federal/story?id=63253846
https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/22/20976234/valve-half-life-alyx-steamvr-index-headset-gaming-storefront-platform
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/film-industry-facing-5-billion-loss-coronavirus-outbreak-1282038
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/21/technology/personaltech/coronavirus-video-game-production.html

https://news.yahoo.com/20-leading-economists-just-signed-191514939.html
https://money.cnn.com/2016/02/08/news/economy/sanders-income-jobs/

https://engineering.stanford.edu/magazine/article/economic-damage-climate-change-may-be-more-you-think

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLIadk8ot84
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5FGuBatbTg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTSaFYQASLA