Twitch.tv is more than just video-games:
April 26, 2020 10:09 AM   Subscribe

 
Also, for those who are worried about trolls, you can disable/hide the chat if you're wanting to avoid that scene.

The 24/7 Anthony Bourdain stream has been a fun place to hang out, I really miss that man.
posted by Fizz at 10:27 AM on April 26, 2020 [1 favorite]


it's not just running 24/7, but all of Game Center CX also seems to be on twitch as well :D
posted by Reyturner at 10:32 AM on April 26, 2020


I was worried MXC hasn't aged well, and it hasn't, but I don't care.
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 10:41 AM on April 26, 2020 [7 favorites]


Thanks for this! Twitch has really been great for those of us who miss pub trivia. Nearly every night there's some sort of group trivia going on, scored via Google Sheets or other mechanisms. Sometimes there are even prizes. Highly recommend SmartyPints and BrokenBuzzer. Have not tried AndytheQuizzer or MisterTrivia yet. There's also these extremely dull turtles. Twitch has an animal category but a lot of the streaming animal channels seem to wind up other places so you have to poke around. Am totally here for Seven Prairie Dog Potatoes.
posted by jessamyn at 10:49 AM on April 26, 2020 [6 favorites]


Along with 24/7 MST3K there is also 24/7 Rifftrax.

I am watching a lot of both stations lately.
posted by wittgenstein at 10:52 AM on April 26, 2020 [6 favorites]


I was worried MXC hasn't aged well, and it hasn't, but I don't care.

I grew up with MXC and my partner did not, so I was excited to share the episodes with her. Turns out, they aged very badly. Like, just groan-inducing. And I'm confident they were bad back then, it's just that I was young and ignorant enough as a teen to not really notice or care.

There is a kind of charm to them, but I can totally see why some people would just not click or click away after a few minutes of watching.
posted by Fizz at 10:53 AM on April 26, 2020 [4 favorites]


Always a good time for MST3K.
posted by Jessica Savitch's Coke Spoon at 10:58 AM on April 26, 2020 [4 favorites]


There is a kind of charm to them, but I can totally see why some people would just not click or click away after a few minutes of watching.

Yeah, I kind of wish I had edited my comment from 'But I don't care' to 'But I am still watching it'.
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 11:03 AM on April 26, 2020 [3 favorites]


You left out Metafilter's own David Bull's printmaking channel.

A twitch stream of carving woodblocks for Japanese prints is just unbelievably meditative.
posted by fatbird at 11:12 AM on April 26, 2020 [9 favorites]


A couple of other channels worth checking out for odd/cult/nostalgia movies and TV are 24/7 ShoutFactory TV and 24/7 ConTV.

If you're into the squared circle, there's 24/7 Impact Wrestling and 1stAmendmentVideos.

If ephemeral video is your thing, it's not 24/7 but AVGeeks has been streaming quite often since this all started.
posted by bawanaal at 11:31 AM on April 26, 2020 [1 favorite]


Thanks for all these additional suggestions/links.
posted by Fizz at 11:44 AM on April 26, 2020


Iron Chef Japan! Yay, thanks so much!
posted by Kat Allison at 11:44 AM on April 26, 2020 [4 favorites]


MXC opened for me with the roller skating/horse race which is my all-time favorite.
posted by MtDewd at 11:46 AM on April 26, 2020 [2 favorites]


For the five mefites whose interest was piqued by 24/7 Poker Stars, don't miss the Galfond Challenge. The first match was amazing. If nothing else, the last session is totally worth it (and the Bill Perkins sessions are more chill, but funny because they have been chatting on the phone during the game).
posted by 99_ at 11:59 AM on April 26, 2020 [2 favorites]


The other absolutely "I can't believe I am watching this" channel is Will Anderson who will occasionally team up with some of his friends and... comment on competitive Scrabble tournaments. It's really helpful to me as a very-good-but-not-great player to see how seriously competitive players work through moves.
posted by jessamyn at 12:19 PM on April 26, 2020 [1 favorite]


Also, if you twitch search the term "lego", you'll get some amazing streams where people just build lego sets/creations. It's very addictive and easy to watch.
posted by Fizz at 12:35 PM on April 26, 2020 [1 favorite]


I’ve been working all day on setting up a streaming channel. Expecting a big upswing on these in the next months.
posted by iamck at 1:03 PM on April 26, 2020 [1 favorite]


Just spent a very relaxing afternoon cooking up a few days’ worth of meals and mainlining Iron Chef. This is great, thanks!
posted by The Card Cheat at 1:30 PM on April 26, 2020 [1 favorite]


I like watching live blitz chess on twitch.
posted by Obscure Reference at 1:57 PM on April 26, 2020


There is also a lot of creative and IRL stuff. I stream myself doing labwork and crystallography when I am in the lab, and my partner streams themself knitting on a regular basis. Last night I attended a replacement for a dance that was cancelled with live DJs.
posted by Canageek at 3:16 PM on April 26, 2020 [1 favorite]


Thanks to a DJ friend of mine, I've recently discovered Twitch Creative. Because I'm not a gamer, I never paid much mind to Twitch previously. But after a few weeks of watching, learning, and participating in the chats for DJs and musicians, I've become a total convert.

I hope Twitch continues to catch on with more musicians and DJs, because the culture of Twitch lends itself to building engaged and supportive music communities. I find the social elements of the tipping culture (gifting subscriptions to other viewers, hype-train, etc.) particularly fascinating.
posted by velvet winter at 3:31 PM on April 26, 2020 [2 favorites]


Bourdain 24/7? I am so in! Thank you for this post!
posted by sundrop at 4:13 PM on April 26, 2020 [1 favorite]


Iron Chef Japan!

I had such an experience with this show.

Watching the first episode:
Me: "What the hell is this?"

Watching the fourth episode:
Me: "Oh man, I bet he's going for a mole sauce."
Ohta: "Fukui-san, the challenger is making a mole sauce."
Me: "Yes. Fucking YES."
posted by Mr. Bad Example at 4:21 PM on April 26, 2020 [14 favorites]


Twitch.tv is also the new virtual home to world's greatest venue, Chicago's Hideout.

The Hideout is using the service to host music, comedy and community events during which they pass the virtual hat with the pot split between the performers and the beloved venue's staff.
posted by MrJM at 5:04 PM on April 26, 2020 [3 favorites]


Earthnight2020: over 100 DJs, 75 cities, 1 track each, to raise money and awareness for a lot of good causes. More information on Earthnight.org. If I can find an archived link to the video, I'll make this into a post, but I think it's just about over now.
posted by filthy light thief at 5:12 PM on April 26, 2020 [1 favorite]


Is MXC really this delightful, based on this animated GIF of the afore-mentioned roller-skating horse race? Or is it funny stuff, painfully tainted by awful channer-types?
posted by wenestvedt at 6:10 PM on April 26, 2020 [1 favorite]


MXC is of the Airplane! school of shotgun humor. In some sections there could be literally three or four jokes in less than ten seconds. The hit rate on the jokes is as you'd predict, and there's a lot of juvenile humor that crosses the line into passable for mass media during the mid-2000s-decade but wouldn't fly now racist, misogynist and homophobic humor.

That said, the shotgun style of humor has some real gems. I leave it to others to decide whether the gems are worth the garbage that comes along with them.
posted by tclark at 6:19 PM on April 26, 2020 [2 favorites]


BTW MXC was a jokey riff show in English over episodes of Takeshi's Castle from Japan, which was also campy, silly, and according to a couple people I know who watched it in the original Japanese, had some of its own problematic content and comments. The voiceovers in MXC have almost nothing to do with what was said in the original. There were other western offshoots that did a similar thing with varying levels of faithfulness to the original.
posted by tclark at 6:23 PM on April 26, 2020 [3 favorites]


BTW MXC was a jokey riff show in English over episodes of Takeshi's Castle from Japan

A bit of trivia: the Takeshi in question is "Beat" Takeshi Kitano who has an eclectic career that includes directing and/or acting in a whole mess of his own films and acting in other peoples' films ranging from Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence to Johnny Mnemonic. He's also at least partly responsible for the design behind arguably one of the most intentionally difficult video games ever made.
posted by juv3nal at 7:02 PM on April 26, 2020 [1 favorite]




Uh-huh, uh-huh... Shut up Beavis...
posted by Windopaene at 7:07 PM on April 26, 2020 [2 favorites]




Iron Chef is still so good. In the episode airing right now, Chen's battling an Italian chef and the theme ingredient is giant prawns. He's under the gun, but it's Chen so who knows? He's gonna pull out a miracle.

(Also you can tell it's a Canadian dub by the way they keep saying "pasta")

I missed this so much.

OMG the chili prawns he pulled off look amazing.
posted by fifteen schnitzengruben is my limit at 9:30 PM on April 26, 2020


Just don't watch the channel where a guy is fixing and cleaning used electronics while eating finger foods and non-stop touching his face. It is mesmerizing.
posted by jojo and the benjamins at 10:00 PM on April 26, 2020


First line heard:
“And there you go. Salads...to ponder.”
Oh television, never change.
posted by sexyrobot at 10:53 PM on April 26, 2020


Drag Race star Trixie Mattel has been running a Twitch channel, playing The Sims with simulations of famous drag performers to raise money for charity, including for The Trevor Project and others. If you follow RPDR or watch Uhhhnnn and Trixie and Katya Save the World, you'll likely have a lot of fun watching Trixie use The Sims to riff on the Drag Race world.
posted by They sucked his brains out! at 1:56 AM on April 27, 2020 [1 favorite]


Because I am an Old, I just now opened a Twitch account so some friends and I can watch old monster movies together occasionally. This list is WONDERFUL, and thank you to the folks who keep adding to it in the comments! I am sure I will pop into the MST3k and Riff Trax channels today.
posted by Bill Watches Movies Podcast at 2:05 AM on April 27, 2020 [1 favorite]


Thank you, this is great.
posted by smoke at 4:04 AM on April 27, 2020


This is great because finding new streamers on Twitch is almost impossible.
posted by Foci for Analysis at 7:04 AM on April 27, 2020 [1 favorite]


I have been watching the hungry channel since this was posted. Thanks for the non-game recommendations, this is great background noise for quarantine :).
posted by bradbane at 11:51 AM on April 27, 2020




Music Performance tag search for live streams
Music Performance + Classical Music tag search for live streams
(full disclosure: I and people I know are sometimes present on those pages)

One if the issues with Twitch as a music performance platform: classical music recording copyright holders are very zealous with content ID, and often claim ownership of streamers’ own performances of public domain works with no recourse. This has happened to musicians with large and small followings on a variety of live streaming platforms, and results in archived streams being silenced, copyright strikes, or live streams being cut off. The note saying exactly which recording artist their performance sounded like can be taken as flattery or insult.
posted by polytope subirb enby-of-piano-dice at 10:26 AM on April 28, 2020


Since this post, I have been glued to the RiffTrax channel for the past few days during work.
I'm an old MSTie from the Comedy Channel days, and it's so comforting, and so enjoyable and I really REALLY need some laughter and old familiar voices in my life these days.
Thank you again, @fizz! I hope others will keep adding to this list as they find little gems.
posted by Bill Watches Movies Podcast at 2:23 PM on April 29, 2020 [2 favorites]


I was worried MXC hasn't aged well, and it hasn't, but I don't care.

Strong agree, but it's just so filled with verbal gags that its hard not to hit stupid gold.

"He's a champion fencer: foil, epee, chain link"

I mean, come on.
posted by absalom at 4:09 PM on April 29, 2020 [1 favorite]


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