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The Most Disruptive Thing About Let's Play Videos

Message received?

Okay, so this is just a small post but it's about a thing that seems to happen a lot in the Let's Play videos I've watched and it's made me think about noises and impulses.

It's that thing where you're watching a video and the person making the video gets a notification. It could be Skype, it could be Facebook, or a text or anything, but if it's a tone or a set of vibrations from a service you use too then there's that moment where you think you're the one being messaged.

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Philippa Warr: Pip wrote for Rock Paper Shotgun between 2014-2017, covering everything from MOBAs, hero brawlers and indie curios. She also had a keen interest in the artistry of video game creation, and was very partial to keeping us informed of the latest developments in British TV show Casualty.
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