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YouTube Words: Markiplier and Game Grumps Word Profile Comparison by Channel

A person’s Word Profile is unique. As you learn to speak and get used to speaking a certain way, you gravitate towards certain words more regularly than others. This profile changes depending on the context of where you are in life and how you let life affect you. In stressful situations you can choose aggressive words, in one-on-one conversations you pick words that signal your shared history with the person, when talking to a crowd of people you choose words that elicit a strong leader role, when talking to a specialized crowd of peers you pick words that only make sense to that crowd because the context is already shared amongst everyone there.

You can find out the Word Profile by finding a person’s word choice when in similar circumstances and how often those people will gravitate towards certain word. You can also go deeper into grammar structure, sentence length, topics and topicality of discussion, but there are limitations to doing this based on how I got my data through YouTube’s subtitles.

What I went looking for was the distinguishing Word Profile characteristics between the Game Grumps channel and Markiplier’s channel, both because they talk a lot through their videos and because they have a substantial collection of videos with a different cast and they have seemingly similar temperament though play primarily different games.

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August 22, 2015 2

Presented Narratives vs Present Narratives

Does a game’s narrative always need to be presented?

We play games for many reasons. To have a ready-steady shoot-em-up time, to watch over-the-top explosion filled action set-pieces, to have an emotional ride through the struggle of the human condition, to have a few minutes of escape from our current reality in a world completely disjoint from our own. You start up a game (can we really not say “pop-in a game” anymore? Is that obsolete?) and you go in looking for that game to fulfill some criteria for you. Sometimes that criteria is already known. You’re in the mood for a mindless bullet-feast or you’re looking to strum your plastic guitar to some Beetles music or whatever. Sometimes that criteria is unbeknownst to you, so you walk into a game blindly and hopefully some aspect of the game is worthwhile. But does this mean all parts of the game need to be there for you to enjoy it? Are your priorities always the same when you start up a game?

I ask this because of games like the Dark Souls/Bloodborne series approach to how it deals with story, mainly which isn’t really presented to you. The story is present but not presented to the player. The player can read descriptions and text to figure out all that’s going on but they aren’t given a mandatory lecture of the game and its world. The player isn’t even given a synopsis. But is that a problem?

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August 21, 2015 3

YouTube Words – Game Grumps: Language and Mario Games

These are the Game Grumps

We’ve seen how they use language on their shows.

We’ve seen how negative they can be with each other in competition.

Now we explore how their language while playing a game using their word profile focusing on Super Mario *.

More specifically, how positive they can be while playing a game.

Because they do like playing Mario games and because they’re fun, they aren’t typically too negative on them.

But there can be frustrating moments when playing a Mario games.

And sometimes that frustration turns into magic for the viewers.

Or we just get sad at what we’re watching.

Good thing I typically listen, instead.

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August 20, 2015 2

Youtube Words: Game Grumps – Language across Games

These are the Game Grumps

We talked about how many mean things they say in the last post

They play a lot of games, and at roughly 10-15 minutes an episode they’ve put out a lot of episodes per game.

They don’t typically talk about the game and at 10-15 minutes of non-commentary, they’ve said a lot of things on the show.

Not all of those things are nice things.

And depending on the show, you’re probably not hearing something nice being said.

But they do say a lot of nice things, too.

They aren’t always shit-talking.

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August 19, 2015 1

Youtube Words: Game Grumps – Language Use

These are the Game Grumps

Their channel spans many different brands.

In each brand, the Grumps spit a lot of shit.

Because of this, they’ve said plenty of hurtful words.

But overall, they try to stay light hearted.

This isn’t always true for all of their brands.

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August 18, 2015 3

Youtube Words – Markiplier Roundup

Markiplier and Language Use

Markiplier and Language Per Series

Markiplier, Word Profile and Drunk Minecraft

Link for more in the YouTube Series

August 18, 2015 5

PAX Prime 2015 Nighttime Survival Guide

Timeframe: 6pm – Midnight

Daytime Survival Guide (10am – 6 pm)

With the sunlight fading and the showroom closed, you shouldn’t think that all of the events are over because there is still plenty of fun to be had in and around the Seattle area.

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August 17, 2015 2

PAX Prime 2015 Daytime Survival Guide

Timeframe: 10am – 6pm

Nighttime Guide (6pm – Midnight-ish)

With PAX Prime rearing its head for August 28^th-31^st, it might be time to start getting your Airborne ready and figuring out what to do for PAX this year. For those that aren’t familiar with what goes on in and around the convention center, this is probably relevant to your interests.

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