Skinwalker Ranch.

u said we could have all been rich by turning tw into twitch in the early 2000s and I'm saying I'm financially very well off and I prefer to have my ~~~~safespace~~~~ where I can say nigger w/o scrutiny
 
Ocman said:
That's awesome, good for him! Kick ass! I love when you see people succeed like this.

As for the ranch, I've been there 4 times, lots of backstory that I'm not able to talk about because of NDA's etc. I'm already looking for the next thing. I so far ahead of what you can imagine it would blow your mind. If you are seeing something on TV its already months old. I'm looking for the stuff that no one has ever heard of or has had a camera on or a producer approach yet.

Everything people think they know about the ranch is so far off. Knowing what I know is "The Curse of" being a TV producer.

I'm hoping to hear from someone that knows something specific to their small town, or wherever, that think its something people should see. Undiscovered or unreported stuff.

I'm shooting 2 other projects now but I really want to find something outta nowhere. TW has some of the best out of the box thinkers that I've ever encountered, and I love it. Which is why I always come back now and then.

For all the newbs that joined after 2002 TW could have been the epicenter for pro-gaming and you could have all been seriously rich! Ask any of the "old timers" like me and they'll tell you the same. What I tried to do her back in 2000 was met by a huge resistance of ignorance and ego. Problem was people didn't want to listen and well...now thre's Twitch.

TW would have been Twitch before there was a Twitch...if only people listened. That isn't even a little bit of an exaggeration.
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thats funny since at that time someone here invested in twitch but i guess you would already know that since you were here back in the day...
 
If that Bigelow guy bought it, and he has an inflatable space sphere tech, it could just be him investigating in the technology ten or twenty years from now, and its just leaving odd temporal phenomena in our space time that we don't understand.


It could also explain the aliens stuff: they are checking him out because it looked like someone has put together two of the technologies in the same spot that are used for an easy type of interstellar space travel.
 
I remember a few people with similar ideas to Twitch (or should I say Justin.tv) back in the day, the problem was always funding and ability (people who know how streaming video works and all the foundational things you need to address like data centers and ISP contracts and what not).

Even now huge corporations are still trying to take back some of the streaming pie (Facebook, Microsoft with Mixer, etc.) but they can't beat what Twitch has (first-mover advantage has also contributed). :weird:
 
SecretSquirrel said:
Does it seem to you like Ocman just comes out of left field with this stuff too much?

I can picture him sitting on a couch somewhere watching one of these programs and saying, "it would be really cool to do these things one day. I'll post about it on Tribalwar."

The Russians just launched a tsunami-making super weapon the other day, targeting the specific continental shelfs of debris off Norway and Hawaii, and everyone is just sitting around today eating Sonic and sucking on a moca. This tech could destroy every coastal city from Washington to San Diego. Where did it come from? There is a big disconnect between this potential of what could happen soon, and Trump's tax returns. You need to get off the couch, Ocman, just like the rest of America.
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Dang - that will send him off with his tail between his legs
 
It's funny the history has been lost. Ubisoft was interested in funding, we had buy in from some other gaming companies too. What's crazy is it was so long ago that we had partnered with Enron for bandwidth, OGL was the league system and Gameloft was going to provide servers and camera development. The guys here were so far ahead of the times it was scary. Suicide Taxi, Pubknight, Megaboris, Rayn, Bacchus, Bounty, etc. etc. The list goes on and on. They were on to something big way before Twitch it any other pro gaming league was even around. Obviously Enron went under, the tech bubble burst, and there was a lot of in-fighting. Those are some of the reasons it died but TW has always been a hub of creativity with people like Donkey and Fraggle, and so many good ideas and crazy stuff comes out of this place that its always worth talking to people here. It's an awesome community. Minus the racist idiots of course.
 
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i too signed an NDA at skinwalker ranch. Thats why i cant tell u guys whats really happening. sorry.
 
ok in op you say does anyone heard of this or does it even exist and then three post later you say i have been there six times and seen shit you wouldn't believe

which is it you fukin lunatic
 
Ocman said:
It's funny the history has been lost. Ubisoft was interested in funding, we had buy in from some other gaming companies too. What's crazy is it was so long ago that we had partnered with Enron for bandwidth, OGL was the league system and Gameloft was going to provide servers and camera development. The guys here were so far ahead of the times it was scary. Suicide Taxi, Pubknight, Megaboris, Rayn, Bacchus, Bounty, etc. etc. The list goes on and on. They were on to something big way before Twitch it any other pro gaming league was even around. Obviously Enron went under, the tech bubble burst, and there was a lot of in-fighting. Those are some of the reasons it died but TW has always been a hub of creativity with people like Donkey and Fraggle, and so many good ideas and crazy stuff comes out of this place that its always worth talking to people here. It's an awesome community. Minus the racist idiots of course.
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I worked with taxi a lot at the beginning of WSBN. TSN even turned into a profitable sport broadcast network. However, none of those organizations ever had even the slightest prayer of being a twitch though. Just as an example, Warnipple, TSN's greatest broadcaster at the time, has like 200 subscribers on twitch.
 
bowl of blood said:
ok in op you say does anyone heard of this or does it even exist and then three post later you say i have been there six times and seen shit you wouldn't believe

which is it you fukin lunatic
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My bad, I was asking for opinions. I was curious to see if people knew about it, that's all. There's is a lot of hype around it in certain circles and I was curious to see if the hype extended outside of those circles.
 
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Flash said:
I worked with taxi a lot at the beginning of WSBN. TSN even turned into a profitable sport broadcast network. However, none of those organizations ever had even the slightest prayer of being a twitch though. Just as an example, Warnipple, TSN's greatest broadcaster at the time, has like 200 subscribers on twitch.
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I think if given the resources and since these guys really were the first in that space they could have grown into something huge. There was literally no one else casting games in any real way, anywhere. Twitch didn't come around until 15 years later. At the time every TV network I pitched said basically the same thing. "You can't make an active experience like gaming interesting in a passive environment like TV viewing". Clearly they were all wrong. All I'm saying is there were some really talented people back then and there was a legit opportunity there. It's a shame that other people copied the ideas and made millions from it.
I had no idea warnipple was on twitch, that's awesome.
 
Ocman said:
I think if given the resources and since these guys really were the first in that space they could have grown into something huge. There was literally no one else casting games in any real way, anywhere. Twitch didn't come around until 15 years later. At the time every TV network I pitched said basically the same thing. "You can't make an active experience like gaming interesting in a passive environment like TV viewing". Clearly they were all wrong. All I'm saying is there were some really talented people back then and there was a legit opportunity there. It's a shame that other people copied the ideas and made millions from it.
I had no idea warnipple was on twitch, that's awesome.
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I’ve always thought that the NFL Probowl should actually be played on Madden. The game can’t be made entertaining in a real format. So if the NFL just had those selected put in a seeding format, highest seed picks who plays him, and so on. I think that would be much more entertaining than the real probowl
 
Ocman said:
Does anyone know anything about it? If so what? Would it make for a good TV series? Is it real or just bs?
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I just watched it. Skipped through most of it because it was so fucking terrible.

p.s. I'm not a typical TV viewer though. Haven't had cable for 20 years. I download shows I want to see and skip through nonsense.
 
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