07-07-2020, 12:17 AM
Hey Gang,
I did a spur of the moment idea to play Jackbox Party Pack games on the discord tonight, and it was a very successful event. We had a grand total of about 16 people watching and participating in the stream that lasted around 5 hours. Everyone had a good time and I felt like it was a really enjoyable moment for the community. It was a combination of people of all ranks and statuses in the community, ranging from Test Mods and people I know very well on TTT to people I've never met before.
I'd really honestly like to make this a trend because it gives us a chance to take a break from being on Garry's Mod, and gives the opportunity to merge the community together. I plan to do more things in the future, such as playing Golf with Your Friends, the online Cards Against Humanity game, etc. At the end of the day, I always view playing games with people as a chance to just immerse myself into a mood to just have fun, and tonight's activity really helped me reinforce that mindset when approaching games. The games we play don't even have to be limited to PC; for example, we could even play games on the Switch like Smash, Mario Kart, etc. I'd be down to do things like that also. That's honestly one of the most beautiful things about the internet to me. We have this ability to connect with people so effortlessly and I believe that if it's used in the right way, we really can make positive change in the community; not that there's any negativity going on (at least that I'm aware of) but as I mentioned earlier, it gives us the opportunity to communicate with players that we usually don't run into while we play on Dink's servers.
At the end of the day, this is just an idea that I've been thinking about. Discord makes it really easy to set things like this up, with the ability to stream and have decent quality without having to pay for any of the special features. I just wanted to pitch this idea because it has very high potential as to what we can do with it.
With Love,
saltychapdaddy
I did a spur of the moment idea to play Jackbox Party Pack games on the discord tonight, and it was a very successful event. We had a grand total of about 16 people watching and participating in the stream that lasted around 5 hours. Everyone had a good time and I felt like it was a really enjoyable moment for the community. It was a combination of people of all ranks and statuses in the community, ranging from Test Mods and people I know very well on TTT to people I've never met before.
I'd really honestly like to make this a trend because it gives us a chance to take a break from being on Garry's Mod, and gives the opportunity to merge the community together. I plan to do more things in the future, such as playing Golf with Your Friends, the online Cards Against Humanity game, etc. At the end of the day, I always view playing games with people as a chance to just immerse myself into a mood to just have fun, and tonight's activity really helped me reinforce that mindset when approaching games. The games we play don't even have to be limited to PC; for example, we could even play games on the Switch like Smash, Mario Kart, etc. I'd be down to do things like that also. That's honestly one of the most beautiful things about the internet to me. We have this ability to connect with people so effortlessly and I believe that if it's used in the right way, we really can make positive change in the community; not that there's any negativity going on (at least that I'm aware of) but as I mentioned earlier, it gives us the opportunity to communicate with players that we usually don't run into while we play on Dink's servers.
At the end of the day, this is just an idea that I've been thinking about. Discord makes it really easy to set things like this up, with the ability to stream and have decent quality without having to pay for any of the special features. I just wanted to pitch this idea because it has very high potential as to what we can do with it.
With Love,
saltychapdaddy
