![[No Commentary] DRAG x DRIVE Shut up and Jam @YuuGiJoou](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/uYw96u7PG5s/maxresdefault.jpg)
Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Originally streamed at:
twitch.tv/yuugijoou
Thank goodness we're spared any notion of the player controller interface throughout all this:
twitter.com/yuugijoou
discord.gg/bKT9pRW
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If you get worried these robot players have too little personality, here's a version of the same footage with sideshow act of saucy puppet show:
youtu.be/5bMWg1pjh4s
As with the preceding session, I'm pretty impressed with the game's level of polish and detail... but I can already tell it's going to fall on an exceedingly niche audience. At best.
So I'm glad to share what I can of it while we've got people crammed into close quarters and temporal proximity. For free!
...but I still strongly advise keeping sessions to around two hours at most unless you want to invite the wrath of vengeful ergonomic powers beyond potential reckoning, much less proper catering to.
Originally streamed at:
twitch.tv/yuugijoou
Thank goodness we're spared any notion of the player controller interface throughout all this:
twitter.com/yuugijoou
discord.gg/bKT9pRW
---
If you get worried these robot players have too little personality, here's a version of the same footage with sideshow act of saucy puppet show:
youtu.be/5bMWg1pjh4s
As with the preceding session, I'm pretty impressed with the game's level of polish and detail... but I can already tell it's going to fall on an exceedingly niche audience. At best.
So I'm glad to share what I can of it while we've got people crammed into close quarters and temporal proximity. For free!
...but I still strongly advise keeping sessions to around two hours at most unless you want to invite the wrath of vengeful ergonomic powers beyond potential reckoning, much less proper catering to.
![[No Commentary] DRAG x DRIVE Shut up and Jam](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/uYw96u7PG5s/mqdefault.jpg "[No Commentary] DRAG x DRIVE Shut up and Jam
Originally streamed at:
twitch.tv/yuugijoou
Thank goodness were spared any notion of the player controller interface throughout all this:
twitter.com/yuugijoou
discord.gg/bKT9pRW
If you get worried these robot players have too little personality, heres a version of the same footage with sideshow act of saucy puppet show:
https://youtu.be/5bMWg1pjh4s
As with the preceding session, Im pretty impressed with the games level of polish and detail... but I can already tell its going to fall on an exceedingly niche audience. At best.
So Im glad to share what I can of it while weve got people crammed into close quarters and temporal proximity. For free!
...but I still strongly advise keeping sessions to around two hours at most unless you want to invite the wrath of vengeful ergonomic powers beyond potential reckoning, much less proper catering to.")
![[Clip] F-Zero 99 All Yours (to Lose)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/vD9mCKcI0Ng/mqdefault.jpg "[Clip] F-Zero 99 All Yours (to Lose)
Sink to win! Miss and lose! Got item?!
twitter.com/yuugijoou
discord.gg/bKT9pRW
I have always wondered if getting first place in a Team Battle would get you credit for having finished a race in first with that vehicle.
Guess I will continue to not know. (Blue Falcon is still the one vehicle I havent done so with, so the Challenges list will continue to taunt me over it.)
Of course, its not a TOTAL loss, seeing as how that still wouldnt qualify for the somewhat onerous condition of ALSO needing to get a first place finish in a plain ol F-Zero 99 race... which is massively more tedious, considering the stages are far more boring as a result
Imagine actually winning. On a Mute City track, of all places. :P")
![[Gameplay Only] Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition 3. The Power of Her Juju(s)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/wPWi2_uKKQQ/mqdefault.jpg "[Gameplay Only] Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition 3. The Power of Her Juju(s)
Never wander into danger without DPS, tank, AND a healer!
If you REQUIRE needless chatter, theres that version as well:
https://youtube.com/live/cRdIWNrPoBI
(and also lower resolution video, egads!)
Originally ALSO streamed at:
https://twitch.tv/yuugijoou/
Stay up to date on what nonsense Im doing:
https://twitter.com/yuugijoou
https://discord.gg/bKT9pRW
...or, yknow, just harass me if Im doing something you dont like, whatever.")
![[Gameplay Only] Hollow Knight: Silksong 16. Fraying Loose Ends](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/wbCsQrJGgb0/mqdefault.jpg "[Gameplay Only] Hollow Knight: Silksong 16. Fraying Loose Ends
I mean, only if I can actually FIND them, I guess... ;3
You can also have an interrupting, distracting puppet show interfering with your video game footage here:
https://youtube.com/live/onu1F_RS_iE
Originally ALSO streamed at:
https://twitch.tv/yuugijoou/
Stay up to date on what nonsense Im doing:
https://twitter.com/yuugijoou
https://discord.gg/bKT9pRW
...or, yknow, just harass me if Im doing something you dont like, whatever.")
![[Archive] Splatoon 3 [Side Order] #1. Going Rogue](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/wgpmj24W0QI/mqdefault.jpg "[Archive] Splatoon 3 [Side Order] #1. Going Rogue
The first 50 minutes or so of this stream is what comprises the #0. episode on this one, just a little tidied up for running time and technical difficulties and such. (That and reincorporating the Anarchy Splatcast news story bookend behind whatever was going on in Inkopolis Square, hint-hint-wink-wink-nudge-nudge, Player-san!)
...this stream went on a bit overly LONG, so you may have no difficulty imagining that trying to post-process it all into a coherent series of actual gameplay elements might be... um... ... ... stupid? No, more like crazy.
So... I think the least-unhealthy way to handle it is... ... ... not? Yeah, that.
Originally streamed at:
twitch.tv/yuugijoou
Its a regular rogues gallery over here:
twitter.com/yuugijoou
discord.gg/bKT9pRW
Hey, look! I published a stream archive for the first time in... ... ... nobody check me on that. The facts are harsher than the realities.")
![[Gameplay Only] Fire Emblem: Three Houses 12. Nothing Bad Happens at Prom!](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/xPQJPRANw3k/mqdefault.jpg "[Gameplay Only] Fire Emblem: Three Houses 12. Nothing Bad Happens at Prom!
Name one work of fiction where an arc-defining terrible thing happened when youre expected to be super socially awkward making perfucntory merry!
If you need LESS focus and more idle puppet show jabber and sidebarchatter, theres that version as well:
https://youtube.com/live/WRdxWDdegfo
Originally ALSO streamed at:
https://twitch.tv/yuugijoou/
Stay up to date on what nonsense Im doing:
https://twitter.com/yuugijoou
https://discord.gg/bKT9pRW
...or, yknow, just harass me if Im doing something you dont like, whatever.")
![[VTuber] Star Fox Assault Someday, Theyll Get Tired of Remaking the Same Star Fox Game](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/xPmhicyrQrU/mqdefault.jpg "[VTuber] Star Fox Assault Someday, Theyll Get Tired of Remaking the Same Star Fox Game
This is the one with Panther in it. I will accept no other arguments.
If the chatterbox puppet show is too much, you can always ask her to go away:
https://youtu.be/PBYCCx5QdFg
Originally ALSO streamed at:
https://twitch.tv/yuugijoou/
Stay up to date on what nonsense Im doing:
https://twitter.com/yuugijoou
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...or, yknow, just harass me if Im doing something you dont like, whatever.")
![[No Commentary] Sea of Thieves #00. Character Uncreator, Uncharacteristic Creation?](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/xZ-DRAaABaA/mqdefault.jpg "[No Commentary] Sea of Thieves #00. Character Uncreator, Uncharacteristic Creation?
Im sure this is a sign of a quick project thatll be open and shut soon. Just look at Iggys Reckin Balls!
As often I doth protest too much, I feel like... at least in THIS case, the version polluted with uncanny puppetrcraft is the... ... ... less unbearable alternative. If I may grudgingly be forced to admit so myself (under extreme duress), at any rate.
If youre willing to tolerate my unseemly alternative lifestyle choices and want some insight as to WHY were doing all this? Well... it MAY be gleaned to some small degree here (no promises):
https://youtu.be/Cpa3dQSSJ4g
And REALLY bad eggs:
twitter.com/yuugijoou
discord.gg/bKT9pRW
Theres no surprise and a mountain of evidence already entered into the record that I seem to take character creation VERY seriously. I think. Sort of. Its... complicated!
Whether properly accurate or effective in taking a personal inventory, Im one of THOSE people who likes to treat these situations as a chance for a blank slate to insert myself into a new, unfamiliar, and exciting situation. (counterpoint: the unbridled freedom to sin against nature offered by Street Fighter 6 shows that Im woefully lacking in my understanding of what makes a human being... um... human?)
But what if, instead, this isnt your average character creator engine? Sure, all the pieces and parts are there, and theres an incredibly exciting diversity in individual expression and a frankly jarring breadth of body types being made possible.
Possible.
Because you dont actually CONTROL any of it. Youre not so much creating a character as you are evaluating as many possible candidates for your player character as you care to see ferried into the interface for your perusal and approval. And... thats more or less it. Dont like them? Try again!
You CAN lock any slot that you feel might be compelling enough to keep around, but the option doesnt seem especially constructive, since you wont be able to do anything with or to them, just one less generation per roll of the dice.
I want to be very clear: this idea has merit. Its used quite effectively, in fact. To varying degrees in various contexts. And in the sole context of populating a piracy simulator and open seascape for the players to freely interact with, this is a mighty impressive feat of how to fill said world with actually amazing diversity in its people.
But, aside from bespoke NPCs designed exactly as intended and serving specific functions, the PEOPLE populating this world are. Yknow. People. Humans. Playing a game. An online game. Each one will be somone different. Someone unique. And quite likely someone uniquely nonrepresentative of themselves?
I actually really enjoy it in games that are significantly more roguish in persuasion. Getting brand new, uncontrollable generations of characters in the likes of Rogue Legacy or The Swindle and such is positively refreshing, whether or not the difference is really anything but cosmetic.
Im loath to use it as a proper counterpoint, but theres also a certain degree of this in my very early, formative evaluation of Fortnite. That is, bereft of any actual cosmetic items of their own, every new player will boot into the preeminent battle royale as a completely arbitrary... somebody. And each new game thereafter, theyll be someone else. It actually felt kinda impressive and practically self-aware that cramming a hundred people on an island and having them have at one another would by necessity run through a metric ton of personnel in an awful hurry, so populating them uniquely seemed like a nice fit.
Until you acquire a skin. Any skin. I thought at first that maybe it was a unique fashion statement that the random people-generator underpinning it all would suit up with in fair turn... but even the seemingly nondescript Twitch tie-in gal wearing otherwise normal clothes would come back time after time for more without variation.
Obviously where THAT diverges from my expectation is the fact THAT game lives and breathes on grotesque amounts of monetization of visual dissimilarities each available for an often exceedingly real price. And people do love their very pretty, very specific blank slates to project onto, so Im definitely in the wrong in my misaimed iota of admiration that quickly fell off a cliff when I realized.
In THIS game, it was succinctly summarized to me by a veteran player that if people could freely choose their character... wed be overrun by Jack Sparrow impersonators and the like. Oh well.
All it costs ME is about fifty minutes of rolling the dice and trying to separate form, function, and stylization against my already questionable sense of residual self-image. (...and a fleet of self-esteem crises just simmering on the back burner. Its actually cool! I swear!)
Ghoulish facsimile is one of my signature physical attributes, no?
Believe me, it couldve been worse. (I can be MUCH worse.)")
![[Stream Archive] Splatoon Raiders 9. Multiplayer Makes the Medicine Go Down](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/xvMWYk2pV3Q/mqdefault.jpg "[Stream Archive] Splatoon Raiders 9. Multiplayer Makes the Medicine Go Down
We speak ONLY in the language of violence!
If you need LESS chatter, theres that version as well:
https://youtu.be/XBUUsyIiWYM
(the gameplay resolution will be higher at least?!)
Originally ALSO streamed at:
https://twitch.tv/yuugijoou/
Stay up to date on what nonsense Im doing:
https://twitter.com/yuugijoou
https://discord.gg/bKT9pRW
...or, yknow, just harass me if Im doing something you dont like, whatever.")
