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Well lets put it this way, it's a lot of work. There are different ways to do it too, I sort of picked a hard way. I had bought a piece of turd PCI capture card for my comp (about 80 bucks), borrowed a bunch of cable splitters off Joe so I could play it on TV and run it through the PC. Set up always ends up taking a few hours. In fact when I did it for Elder-Geek a few months ago, I bought a new (and cheaper) USB capture device and I spent over 3 hours setting it up the night before my 2 hour session.

On top of that it's a lot of work getting people to even watch it (email press releases to blogs, creating videos for YT that advertise for it, etc), and it's secretly harder than you think to play video games for an extended period of time. At least for me it is. It's just a very draining experience.

I'm not trying to deter you, but it's so draining that I have zero interest to ever do one again for this site. It's a lot of work to do it right.

Anyway, I'd start out by coming up with an outline of exactly what you want to play and what the rules are. You should theme it. You can't just say "We're going to playing comic book, WWF games, and classic games." Stick with a system. Stick with a series. Stick with a genre. Focus on something. Sure you can do whatever you want, but it'll be harder to write about and get the idea across. It's easier to say "We're doing a Uncharted marathon!" then "We're doing a marathon of our favorite games that are x, y, and z... and a, b, and c!" Plus that helps you define your audience and get the attention of someone willing to watch that. If you want to play comic book games, just pick comic book games, but again, it'll help to focus on one system because you don't need to swap out different consoles. Keep that stuff in mind.

Then just look up equipment and how much you're willing to spend. You can get a USB capture dongle for like 30 dollars off newegg or Amazon. If you're interested in buying splitters that's extra work and extra cash.

Other than that, when it's go time, make sure you have people to swap out and just enjoy yourself when playing. That's about all you can do at that point.

Thanks...sounds like a plan. So if I buy this USB dongle I just hook it up to my tv and it will stream what is on the TV right? I can stream PC games no problem with Procaster but the whole TV thing is throwing me off.

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No, the capture card and/or dongle will stream games directly to your desktop. You need splitters to run it on both the TV and the PC screen.

ahh ok ok i gotcha

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So I thought it odd that this was the first piece of advice I gave you that you didn't have some sort of retort to. Listening to the podcast today I got the response I suspected to get in here but didn't.

I'm not surprised to learn that you think my advice is "a bad idea", you always think my advice is a bad idea. That's fine, you don't need to follow my advice. But let me ask you, how do you plan on streaming this? Are you going to be using emulators and doing everything over PC (which is illegal BTW and you won't get sponsors because of that) or are you going to be swapping systems out during the duration of the marathon? It's a pain in the neck to swap systems. Gosh, set up time for the two hours I did for Elder-Geek took me 3 hours the night before. Proper set up took longer than my actual marathon time. I couldn't fathom untangling all those cables and splitters to hook up another system in midmarathon. Not sure how your setup is going to be but all of a sudden there is a whole new aspect being thrown in there to swap systems in mid marathon.

You can do whatever you want, but when you're going live on a camera for 24 hours or whatever it is, you need a plan and most importantly you need things to be working.

But I wish you luck, because like I said, it's hard work.

who shouts out WRONG!

what an asshole

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First mistake.

The wrong bothered me slightly, but only because I was asked for advice and then it gets shit on during a show. I'd feel differently about it if I wasn't asked for tips and suggestions and threw in my two cents regardless, that would warrant that kind of response. I mean why even bring up what I had written to you if it's just going to be dismissed?

But it's whatever, you wanted my take and my take is that its hard and that it should be focused and that I still stand by that.

ZING!

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HAHAHAHA Perfect

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Wow...this was surprising I just got home and saw this...first of all im glad you listened haha, second of all I didn't shout out wrong one of the other guys on the show did, third of all I did think about everything and I am not just jumping in on anything I am planning for this thing to be about a month from now, I talked to the charities and I am building a gameplan. Also when did I think your advice was always a bad idea? I always listen to your advice and criticisms and take them all in, if I didn't why would I ask you for it? As far as swapping systems goes I bought a universal component cable set so I would only have to change one cable in the back each time and no it wont be on PC, also I will be using a Roxio Game Capture. It probably came off bad during the show which I apologize but I appreciate all your help in everything you have helped me with. I basically just said I didn't agree with focusing on one set of games. Also nice zing Dante, glad you could take a break from your busy life and pop that in here.

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I often wonder that myself! Listen I don't want to get into a big thing and pull up a ton of examples (which I can) but I find whenever I offer feedback it is usually met with excuses or is brushed off. Maybe you don't intend for it to come off that way but that's how I generally take it.



That sounds good. It looks like you've come up with a different way of doing it, so hopefully it works out.

let's all take a deep beath here, peeps.

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Sounds good to me.

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Siri, Why is the shamoozal so angry?

Lack of William Smith? Probably... Definitely.

He's gunna make a comeback.

One day he will return.

i hope he brings the real siri with him.

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He may BE siri, he left right around when the 4s came out. Maybe theres a little William Smith in every one of those phones.

Live streaming now...5 and a half hours deep!

http://www.synergycomic.com/clash

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Go here to watch it

http://www.livestream.com/thesynformers ... ooterlinks

Don't go to the Clash URL. I'm telling you, it wants to install a virus called Privacy Protection. Sorry Stillies, just trying to help the brothers out.

Also, good luck with the rest of it man.

Yeah, I got a virus warning also.

I think my anti virus blocked it. Hopefully it did.

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