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but i was told

7:34 PM

on good faith

7:34 PM

that

7:35 PM

"if it has a hdmi out and you have a capture card it will work"

That should be true

7:36 PM

If it's a camera and you are plugging it into a capture card, I hope you have a mini hdmi to hdmi

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cable

Yeah I do

7:36 PM

thats ordered too

dope

and I bought one of those flexible camera stands

7:37 PM

so I can like

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jury rig it onto my monitor

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as i have nowhere to put a tripod

Sounds like a plan

just hope the hdmi out is clean

7:37 PM

without all the icons n shit on it

it should show up that way, it's not like its a tape camcorder lol

7:38 PM

but i think cameras have setting fo rthat stuff too

its a fucking uh

7:38 PM

panasonic something

7:38 PM

7:38 PM

this

yeah you should be golden

Huehuehuehue

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wait shi

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if its real high quality

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people are gonna see how bad my skin is >.>

That's where the behind the scenes comes in

7:41 PM

Adjust the resolution on the camera

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No one will ever knowo

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i have no idea

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if this tripod even works with this camera

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i just kind aassumed they all use a standard mount

They do use a standard mount, at worst if it's a freak of nature camera, there's adapters for everything

uhuhuh

7:42 PM

thank you mr grim

Not a prob, happy to help

Do you know how to actually set it up

7:42 PM

idk if i need the capture cards software

7:43 PM

or if i just select cap card in streamalsb

What is the capture card?

avermedia live gamer extreme

7:44 PM

id rather not have a bunch more shitty software open every time i stream

So theoretically you have two ways to go about that. You may need to have the software and have it run in the background with a window capture on it. Alternatively, you can use it as a video capture device, but this one isn't as guaranteed. Either way you will need the drivers installed for sure

reeEE

It's really not that bad

7:47 PM

Just the way capture cards go

I will cri

Nah, just gotta do what needs to be done

ONLY CRI

fine

REEEE

7:50 PM

it is like

7:50 PM

"to download drivers you have to download our software first :3"

7:50 PM

like NO

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JUST

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GIMME DRIVERS

sec

I dont have the camera yet tho lmao

Support > Downloads > Game Capture > 1080p60 Record > Live Gamer Extreme GC550 > Driver

7:53 PM

just to skip the download

yes

7:53 PM

you are smart man

I've dealt with avermedia before lol

Wow this is sketch lmao

7:54 PM

its just a zip file with a bunch of exes in it

That's avermedia for you lol

fucking chinese companies lmao

That's why I swapped to elgato down the line lol

7:54 PM

well

7:55 PM

not the chinese thing, just bad experience

Eh

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I got what I could

7:55 PM

a 1080p60fps elgator cap card is like

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$120 on ebay

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this one was $50

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blue light

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what blue liught mean

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uh

No that's fair, I just got this one because of store discount

"ready" apparently

7:55 PM

Like

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i dont wanna pay $200 for the elgato camlink

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when I can just get this

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also i need a 1080p 60fps one as I plan to do console streaming one day

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so

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its an investment

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or something

I hear you lol

7:57 PM

I just capitalized on electronic store discount

everything is ebay

7:57 PM

cam was $90 on ebay

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stand $10 on ebay

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cable $10 on ebay

7:57 PM

I sold my uh

7:57 PM

c920 for like $150 lmao

7:58 PM

and used that top upgrade to profeshunal camewa

I'm using a c922 myself just for the convenience

7:59 PM

I'll up to the 4k one eventually, but not spending the money yet

yeah the 4k ones are $400 rn

8:00 PM

xD

8:00 PM

if I hate this i can always sell it all, get my money back, and then buy a c920 for $20 in a few months when the price drops

That's true

8:04 PM

I'm sure your set up will work, just gotta get it set right

hopefully

8:04 PM

oh god i just realised

8:04 PM

how am i gonna adjust it

8:04 PM

what is a white balance?

8:04 PM

what do settings mean

8:04 PM

aaaAAAA

White balance is an adjustment, messing around with it will help

help

A lot of it is messing around until you get the image to the settings you want. Color for example is affected my saturation, white balance, exposure and a few more things

noooo

8:08 PM

i dont wanna do any of that

8:08 PM

my logitech did it all for meeeee

It's not so hard, you will see

You underestimate my lack of brain power

You underestimate your potential

I do not

8:12 PM

I know myself

D:

Ii am smart enoug hto know

8:20 PM

that i am not smart

Well, at least you are honest

How do you find new streamers and decide which streamers to check out? I just search for a game I'm feeling and click on basically the first couple of channels I see no matter the size. Do you lean towards some type of streamer more when just browsing?

i dont watch streams tbh

@Dastr95 I like watching either story heavy games or horror games. The combination of the player and the game has a mystery science theatre vibe. (edited)

Just watch what looks interesting to you, whatever gets your attention. You aren't gonna find new things if you don't just jump into it

I like to pick smaller streamers but that's personal preference, much more interaction with someone who has 3 viewers than 3,000

^

also I really prefer streamers with facecam, feels more personal than just a voiceover

So they can stare right into your soul and interact

exactly, if they can't straight up penance stare me what are we even doing

Failure of a streamer, I say

8:47 PM

joking lmao

that being said, good luck finding webcams until June

8:49 PM

been checking every week or so but they're out of stock everywhere

Yeah

8:50 PM

They're pretty gone

Penance stare is top tier

How do you guys find the motivation to keep streaming as a small streamer. I've been streaming for nearly 2 years and I still struggle to even get viewers most of the time. I would say that id be happy streaming as long as im making someone happy but there is never anyone to make happy. Im lucky to get 10 messages for a 4 hour stream. Im sick of seeing my firends who stream once every few months and have under 100 followers and they get 10-20 views. Whats even the point continuing at this point.

Have fun with it. Don't just think of it as a chore, it's just to enjoy yourself and hopefully make bonds with people who come back. I've been streaming for over 5 years but still haven't broke 500 follows although I'm close. You just gotta branch out, have fun and make friends

11:06 PM

Playing with other people can keep things more interesting. Oh and also, make it a habit to stop checking your viewer count, that helps a lot

I have over 500 followers

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None of them ever come

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average retention rate is about 5% of followers

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by that logic I should have 20 viewers average

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but i dont even have one

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500 people clicked that button just to taunt me

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and i cant help but look at the viewer count when ive been streaming for 2 hours and havent even had a "hi" yet

Nah I wouldn't think of it that way, stuff happens is all

i had fun for a year and a half. I just wanted people to talk to

11:08 PM

i just wanted someone to chat to while I game but after 2 years i dont even have that

Maybe look at things you could do differently and change it up a bit, there's always room for improvement

Did that.

Building a community or joining an existing one is good

Did everything you could

11:09 PM

I have a community

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my discord has 150 people in it

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none of whom ever join a stream

11:10 PM

changed my schedule, got a facecam, improved myaudio, tried advertising in new places, tried networking, tried changing games, tried playing popular games, tried playing niche games, I could go on

11:10 PM

name it ive done it

Well, just gotta keep on the grind then

Im just gonna quit

If that's what you want to do. Only you can keep yourself going

@The LIC to answer your question about how to keep motivation and to increase viewer retention and participation, I developed a camera personality. I’m goofy and I grab attention by just shutting my brain off, not focusing on numbers. Hell I got a couple subs and follows just for playing a scary game and doing specific workouts every time I died or screamed

4:55 AM

Streaming ain’t for everybody because I learned that if you’re not incredibly good at a game you better have an interesting on screen personality. Always talk about something, keep people entertained even if nobody is watching.

@kratos7450 are you still looking for that script for the chat?

Making a new overlay is a headache but so mcuh fun hehe

@The LIC dont focus on the viewer count. If you dont enjoy it then dont do it. Take a break or change something. What game do you play?

Another question, because I just can't have enough. Do you prefer some sort of border around the game or just the game with the potential facecam to cover the screen? Doing a frame for my upcoming series, but not sure how cool it is to actually have a frame. I like doing them, but not super into watching things with them (although I think I'm in the minority...)

@Dastr95 I base a lot of it off the game. So story game’s I try and make as much screen as possible. Magic the gathering and shooters I can add extra stuff because the focus is the reticule and the center.

All right! Thanks, Shane!

As Shanecus said, it depends on the game. If you have an older game you're playing that has window bars, and you don't want to mess about with resolutions, then that black bar space is ideal for overlaying. For the most part, I use unintrusive overlays and thend to move them to the best positions between games so that as much of the HUD and the screen itself is visible.

Thanks, John! Good to know! I dislike intrusive graphics a lot, but it really seems the norm in big streaming channels

Hey guys! I’ve been up and running for about a week now, and I’m trying to clean up my streams appearance a bit. (PS4 using Streamlabs) Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, Thanks!

@Couth what I’ve done is added a media player thing to play some clips during an ‘intermission’. Might be useful to you

Thanks for the feedback @bleats2k10 that sounds like a great idea.

No problem, glad it helps

Hello peeps.

Hello Chops? or Lamby?

I tend to go by Lamby.

Makes more sense lol

It’s cool that someone’s awake rn. I should be asleep but I’m just trying to wind down post stream.

lol same here. Did a seven hour one and started a new game during so was fun.

7:11 AM

Did yours go well?

Not great, not awful. Kind of disheartening. I feel like people don’t engage because I don’t have a webcam. (They’re expensive AF because of corona.)

7:12 AM

How did yours go?

Take your time with it on the camera. They are stupid expensive right now. Getting it in time will ramp it up

7:16 AM

Mine went good. Had the community turn out and it was a good time

Awesome.

️

I take off Saturday so Sunday is always a fun time back

I’m pretty new to streaming, I had to break up my stream into two 3 hour chunks because of life.

And I feel exhausted just from that.

All good Lamby, you got to start somewhere. And nothing wrong with chunks.

7:19 AM

Get some rest if needed and all lol

I still feel kind of wound up, you know?

I got ya xD

hello all

11:11 AM

@Lamby Chops i only stream for 3 hours most of the time unless im really enjoying it and getting lots of viewers

11:12 AM

and by lots i mean more than 5

hello

Hey @matty

@Misio hey hows it going

hey @matty

@maaliktomtom Hey hows it going

if you're just starting i dont think you should stream more than 3 hrs a day maybe three to four times a week

1:29 AM

when you become big you can just vibe and watch youtube videos and pretend to be just chatting

What terrible advice haha stream for as long as you want and dont take advantage of your viewers

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Man... Hellblade was a trip to finish lol

7:00 AM

Had a hype train tho so that was sick

Such a good game. I played it through for the first time a few months ago, I just got my VR headset and bought the game for that. It's absolutely nuts.

It was amazing. He ending had my chat saying they were crying. It’s just a really well put together story. And the intensity of it all. I would talk about it more but so many of the good features of the game are spoiled easy. But yea, it was an a great stream

10:09 AM

The variety streaming in the night is gaining more direction too. We were “bet” a crazy challenge and now I want to take it

10:10 AM

That I try to beat all western release console games ever made over the next seven years.

ha, not one to shy away from a challenge. How would you even begin to get a catalogue of that?

that sounds huge and exhausting

4:48 PM

how do you define western though

That sounds honestly awful lol good luck with games like civilisation vi

well it depends if you consider pc a console as well

Using backloggery to catalog. Console meaning not pc. Since steam you can upload games silly nilly. Basically we said a us release for western.

7:34 PM

It’s been fun so far

im back and i know the rules

Civ vi is on console

@maaliktomtom oh I know that I was replying to @Novolone on that part

damn trying to keep up energy while you stream is hard

10:30 PM

it's like having an empty pause for a conversation that you try to fill up by talking

10:30 PM

for three hours

You can talk about what you're doing in the game if that helps, I do this all the time. Kind of like narrating or thinking out loud.

Hey guys, any thoughts on this? (edited)

9:43 AM

https://www.reddit.com/r/streaming/comments/gevprt/leaving_this_subreddit/

9:44 AM

Some valid points raised I think. I tried to be relatively harsh on deleting low effort posts (just a link with no background) but it's pretty constant. Should I ban self promotion on the sub entirely, police it more strictly, anything else?

9:45 AM

I'm open to suggestions of any type

Personally, I think that self promotion is what really allows people to advertise their stream and get their names out there, but I think there should be a criteria for posting at the very least

9:47 AM

I don't know how else people would get their streams out there without self promotion, unless you have other ideas?

At the moment the rules say

9:48 AM

Any post that is posted under the /r/Streaming subreddit must contain a minimum body of text and not just a single link. Please include some detail about your stream, yourself, your schedule and the times you will be live (including the time zone). Posts with uninformative titles will be removed. Low effort posts will be removed.

9:49 AM

I'm happy to keep self promotion, but it is just a storm of "Come join the boyz" "come joing the madness" with a link, which I try and remove as much as possible. I could add a character limit in the automod. Make it above 200 characters or something like that?

I would keep it possibly a little lower on the required character limit, just because not everyone is going to easily just crack 200 characters for a post where they are just trying to stream link

hmm, yeah, a shorter one might be enough to prompt people to add a bit more detail

10:13 AM

the thing is people are much more likely to click through to a stream if the poster spent a bit of time putting their personality/niche/type whatever into the post

I understand that, but I think that the requirement shouldn't be too steep. Not a lot of people really know what to say

Yeah, there's definitely a balance. I'll have a think on it.

does anybody else watch twitch startup streams?

2:14 PM

watched a guy wander around the tutorial of a game for ten minutes and say nothing but bruh

2:14 PM

bruh sound effect 15 minute loop ASMR

There any limit to posts per day in #old🔴streams?

Not specifically, but I can't see any need for more than one or two

got some donations today!

had a great stream

Whats up guys! who is streaming?

3:34 PM

I'm working right now, but would love to poke in for a bit and drop a follow.

I'm streaming some conqueror's blade at the moment

welp my channel is dying

know that feel bro

What is going on?

12:54 AM

Why dying I mean? Dying and a plateau are two separate issues lol

I guess plateau is better to put it

1:07 AM

I have a very big fear of getting banned for stuff I say so it makes having fun kind of hard. My friends and I love to play games and joke around, but some of the things we say can be raunchy and dark

1:07 AM

We aren’t racist, homophobic, or down right hateful

1:08 AM

But idk, I’m always afraid that if I join them having fun while steaming I’ll be banned. I can only do so much talking while playing a single players game or Minecraft. I just know I’m becoming boring to watch because I’m getting bored of just talking to myself

@Smol Peepee if you are afraid of getting banned for shit you say then you should probably change the way you speak in general lol

not really

1:17 AM

my channel has been striked for obscure reasons

1:18 AM

i doubt teasing each other and dark humor isn't much to change

Dark humor is whatever, just don't be a jerk and you'll be fine

2:45 AM

You already know what's going too far

Me and my homie playing minecraft, check out get gooder games

Depends on the dark humour. Punching up is fine, Punching down is not

either way, i dont konw the extent in which we can go

Good rule in life. Dont be a dick

k?

I mean that's about it

5:57 AM

lmao

5:57 AM

not too hard

Hi

yo

wut

hey guys, how do you deal with being severely interrupted in the middle of your stream

just say sorry to the stream and end the stream . life is more important , the stream will forgive you as well the odd quick stream

@Smol Peepee that is hard. What you say lighthearted may be harsh to another. Neither is wrong in their opinions because, they are opinions. Twitch is popular because of community before everything else. People are choosing to watch you over Netflix or Hulu or literally anything else. So the question is what do you give them that the others don’t and that is interaction. I would say try the stream with a different tempo if you want and see if that changes it. Or go hard in the direction and attract the crowd you enjoy. For every good vibes streamer there is a rage streamer after all. And this is a profession of personalities, what is yours?

9:21 PM

@Novolone you make the best of it as you can. I ended mine quickly when I reread through the chat on a break so I could message and talk to the people in the chat about what they said. It wasn’t okay and I don’t want it in the community. It was a DND stream and the party helped save a child. The chat went into Chris Hansen jokes and then crossed the line. I stopped. Messaged them. And apologized to the other chatters that were in there. Even with none of it plowing stuff I said it was still my stream. So interruptions happen. We just have to deal with them as best we can.

@Shanecus wise words my friend.

lol some times I can spit out logic

What's going on?

Work :p

like Content or Work?

Right now work work. I take “off” Friday night and Saturday But schedule videos to post those days. Haven’t gotten enough traction just yet to strictly work twitch. Fingers crossed by the end of the year tho.

Ahhh okay

11:06 PM

@Shanecus is the new channel layout here now?

There was an overlay I made for the DND stream last night if you mean that? Or do you mean the new layout on twitch? With the channel trailer?

11:09 PM

I make layouts for my channel all the time like a dummy xD

the new layout on Twitch

Hmm I’m not sure. I only have my phone right now and it is the same on that. I’ll have to check when home. It has been “ready to go live” for like two months it feels.

11:18 PM

The channel trailer and all that is ready. Made a new trailer too so that is satisfying

What your trailer like? Idk what to do on that

A shorter version of the one on my Facebook

11:45 PM

I can show you when I get home if you are curious

absolutely

I liked your new resident evil layout btw

@Shanecus Resident Evil layout? You mean my overlay as J stream or the background thing?

I meant your overlay. You had it Jill I want to say? I saw it about a week about? Lurked for a bit while working on stuff

Ahhh okay. Yes it is Jill

what is your username in reference to? drama or the republican tea party?

None of those honestly lol

12:46 AM

The party represents the people in/on my channel. TEA is my favorite drink, and T is what some family call me

ah ok haha

12:47 AM

cause as soon as i saw it, i thought about the republican hate group called the tea party

T_T looks like a cool kinda emote. I wish I had a bigger reference but that's all I had xD

12:47 AM

2nd person to ask me that. It never once crossed my mind making it

haha it creates a chat i guess!

12:48 AM

anyway gtg, teaching online sucks!

np. Cya @maaliktomtom

Hey guys what's up, I'm new here. Looking for some new friends in the twitch community for co-streams and such

Hi @Zarenimizxax I am new here as well . What games do you play ?

So I tried to share the large trailer to here and the files are too big amigo @T_TEA Party

7:54 AM

It is on my facebook page tho first thing there

7:55 AM

https://www.facebook.com/Shanecus/

7:55 AM

So if you want to see what I put together you can click on that bud

7:55 AM

@Zarenimizxax and @daz300™ welcome, glad to have ya

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Thanks

I recently purchased a Zeal Sound microphone from amazon, and whilst inital set up was easy its the pop filter I'm struggling with. It just simply doesn't screw on. I've searched for videos on YouTube for set-up and everyone either already has the pop filter screwed on or doesn't have the problem (bar one guy who's pop filter wasn't tight but still stayed on). I can't get mines to screw on and stay on at all. My sister and dad tried as well but we all have the same problem. I was wondering if anyone has this microphone and knows how to properly attach the pop filter (as the instructions were just two pictures with Chinese instructions), or if the pop filter is faulty and I need to return it?

12:49 PM

Hey everybody ^ will anybody be able to help me?

@Shanecus "let the bodies hit the floor". It was a really good trailer

Hey everyone, my name’s superkid and I’m just joining this group! Glad to be apart of it and I hope to meet some great and helpful people here!

welcome dude

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Welcome

1

@T_TEA Party they were asking what song I washed my hands too xD

7:16 PM

@Deleted User welcome glad to have you

7:18 PM

@Novolone I’m still curious to hear about that bot that happened where you said it forced you to follow? And @Beannoott not sure if I can trust you Farquaad

lol it wasn't a bot that forced me to follow

7:45 PM

i still need to figure out what i'm doing with twitch commands and stuff

Which not do you use? I use Streamlabs at the moment and use their cloudbot

7:46 PM

Bot*

yeah same one i think

7:47 PM

also using streamlabs

7:48 PM

i dislike that they update so infrequently but I dont have another way to stream with one monitor

I stream one monitor as well. Have an old laptop I turn on and go to creator dashboard on twitch to interact with chat

8:43 PM

I also use stream avatars tho

Hi @Zarenimizxax I am new here as well . What games do you play ?

@daz300™ Sorry man it's been a busy day

lots of Warzone recently but I would like to stream something else cause it's bloated

@Shanecus i do the same

12:36 AM

to my knowledge the best set up is 2 computers using an NDI over ethernet. im just too lazy to do it

I just feel as long as you have a way to chat with with the chat that is what is the most important

so this isn't where i find a link to stream ufc?

2:13 AM

lol

no @🅰🆁🅽🅸🅴 haha

2:15 AM

is UFC even on at the moment? i thought all sporting events had stopped

yes it is sir!

2:21 AM

found the right discord

2:21 AM

big fights tonigh

what?

2:30 AM

where?

yeah some dude with long hair go kicked clean across the face right off the gate

3:14 AM

shit was dope

Why is there sports happening?! WHAT IS HAPPENINH

?

i've said it already lol i thought all sports had stopped. i know they have in most places

4:43 AM

was there a crowd? if there was that's such a dumb fucking idea during a pandemic

probably not a crowd

4:53 AM

not that i saw

4:53 AM

im sure they are smarter than that

I dunno. Depends where it is. Some of the more conservative states have completely shit the bed on this virus

Do you?

9:01 AM

Kinda weird to advertise

@Smol Peepee That definitely feels like it's crossing over into the "don't be a dick" area, in case you were unaware.

lmaoooo

9:02 AM

pretty solid way to see it all come full circle

Imagine just dissing the server admin because you got called out

9:04 AM

That's some next level shit

9:05 AM

At least you have one thing you can say lmao

Okay, so @Smol Peepee you have a couple of options. You can go and let the rum talk somewhere else and come back later, or not.

Class

Well

9:17 AM

On a slightly related topic. Have you seen the WWE wrestling with no crowds? it's really odd. There's a video floating around with it set to the music from twin peaks (edited)

9:17 AM

which is https://twitter.com/SIDEEYEmusic/status/1240303610430455808?s=20

9:17 AM

super super odd

A WWE match without a crowd going wild in the background must be bizarre

I'm not into wrestling myself, but the difference is pretty dramatic

9:18 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEFixHJsCpI

you can hear him in "pain"

9:19 AM

thats hilarious

did you just call me a soyboy unironically?

9:19 AM

lmao

@maaliktomtom he can't hear you

that ships sailed

damn i was teaching

9:21 AM

yeah so he's just a dick i suppose? who would have thought that the person who complained about being banned for "dark humour" is in fact just a prat

It's a shame because I'm quite into dark humour, it absolutely can be hilarious, so I was sort of hoping in the back of my mind that maybe he did mean funny jokes that were riding the line. (edited)

Having to ask that question kinda red flagged immediately

I know, but I like to think the best of people.

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That's fair enough

What do you teach @maaliktomtom ?

Hes probably just a kid who thinks hes edgy

9:25 AM

@Misio english to primary school kids in singapore. Its very dull Im doing my masters in international teaching

Ha, I used to teach English to kids online years ago. They were in Taiwanese, and incredibly badly behaved in hilarious ways.

9:27 AM

The worst part was trying not to laugh when this little kid was being a complete bastard.

Nice! I know a few people who taught in taiwan

9:28 AM

Ive taugjt in hong kong and hanoi too. Hk is very similar to Taiwan right

I did it entirely online from the UK, it was a weird sort of setup, I did it for some extra cash during Uni.

9:29 AM

Mainly I think they just wanted native speakers for practice conversations.

Aah ok!

9:32 AM

Yeah ive pretty much settled here haha no way im coming back to the UK

@GrimmmReapa But yes, you're right just the question "I don't know what's allowed" is hugely telling

Kind of a "what are acceptable racist jokes?"

Thats definitely the vibe i got @GrimmmReapa

9:34 AM

"why cany white people say the n word" vibe from that dude

@maaliktomtom Ah man, I spent 18 months in Asia, mainly trekking in Nepal and India, I'd love to visit Singapore. I mainly do remote software dev but my partner does Ecological surveys so we're tied here for the foreseeable. (edited)

I'm not great at determining character, because I'm in the military, but every blue moon I can smell someones bullshit from a mile away

@GrimmmReapa im the opposite. Im usually a pretty good judge of character. I have nothing on my wife though, she can always tell. Its really cool watching movies or tv shows together, she always can tell whp the bad guy is or who the traitor will be

lmaooo

sounds like you shouldn't do react videos lol

I take it someone got banned?

@Shanecus yeah, I've messaged you

What a wild weekend for r/streaming!

@Shanecus what song was it?

Looks like twitch is having some maintenance jsyk

Howdy folks I hooked up my cmacorder to my capture card and it just works, for streamlabs. Nothing being picked up on discord tho, any ideas?

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also my capture card introduces tesselation

well i downloaded the software for the capture card, which removes the tesselation, only that software appears to be a shitty streamlabs, and I cant select it as an input for obs

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@GrimmmReapa halp

Hello all :)

12:40 PM

catoo

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catto

Just submitted my first assignment for my masters and taught online for 9 hours. My cat sums up how i feel about doing a stream right now haha i think ill do one tomrorow instead

Do you guys think giveaways are worth it when you aren't hitting 3+ viewers consistently yet? Do they attract enough viewers that aren't just trying to collect on free stuff?

I wouldn't just yet

Guess I'll work on a larger following first

That would be ideal

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wouldn't want to try doing something like a giveaway have people show up for a prize and then just leave

Yeah for sure, that's what I was thinking

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I feel like building followers was easy when I streamed like 4 years ago

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followers are entirely worthless

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I have 500

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none of them ever show up

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literally ever.

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fuck followers

Not the best approach to take. Dont get too worked uo about your follower count. Just have fun streaming. I understand though. Sometimes i get down if i have a small viewer stream

I never look at the viewer count because it seems to be inaccurate more often than not anyway... provided, it matters less and less the more viewers you get

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but I try to have the same energy with no one in the stream, so it helps not to check

I don't look at the viewer count either, I know I have zero viewers, or maybe the occasional viewer that chats for a little bit. I stream for myself only really. I know I won't get big so I don't get super upset that I don't get viewers.

Well, statistically it would be impossible to have all 500 followers at once given many factors, but some could show up and lurk instead of actively chatting. It's just the way twitch goes

goddamn, valorant be broke

have any of you looked at RTX voice? Nvidia released it. It handles voice processing

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hey guys! My wife drew something for animal crossing

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should i send it here>?

Heyo

Hey man!

Oh hey there's an #🎨│art channel for drawings and the like

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I think that's what your looking for yeah?

Hi!

Hi sry to say it's a bit quiet around here

Yeah but there are lots of good people here :)

The chat ebbs and flows generally :)

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Are you or do you know someone who primarily streams puzzle games?

I stream rts fps and magic the gathering

That's okay thats how most discords are tbh

Not if it's a dnd server, found that out the hard way

Oh god yeah. Or the Nookazon server. One mention of the word Raymond and your inbox will explode.

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Would you say this is a good place to start networking? I'm new to streaming and I'm bad at finding friends through twitch lmao

Yeah it's a chill place, just drop your link in promotion and post on the subreddit and you can get new people popping in to see you. Also, there are channels for grouping up and networking with people

The other big thing on conversation is we have a lot of different time zones in here

Okay! Thanks! Also yeah I totally get that. I used to live in Alaska with friends in like Massachusetts . Timezones suck.

lol they do. I know we have lots from over seas here I'm in Vegas (edited)

I'm from the UK so generally I wake up and have to catch up a bit

@fruitpunchbb otherwise when it comes to networking there is a lot of movement through here month to month. I have made some good friends and helped some people out through here. A lot of the people in here are streamers of course, so it is more so "Let's help each other out and chat" Viewers from here is a little trickier since a lot of times people will also be streaming. I try and stop in on streams here first, then if no one is one I jump to random twitch finds.

Thank you! I've been popping in on low-viewer streams for a little bit but they usually tend not to acknowledge me at all when I chat haha. I'm gonna keep trying though and definitely gonna stop in on some of y'alls streams too.

Yea I notice as some start it takes a good while to get them going. A camera helps a lot with that as you can visually see them notice the chat lol

Some new streamers run a one monitor set up, so they aren't always able to read chat. In general a lot of people forget about it

That is true. I only have one monitor myself. Use an old tablet as the other one on the side

Use your phone. That's what i used to do

I do that as well sometimes

interacting with chat sometimes takes a while

Yeah if you are playing an fps then you sometimes might take a while to talk

Quick question

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So i started streaming with my friends yesterday

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And we are playting sea of theives

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For us at least it gets boring after a few days to play it

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But i also have heard playing one game helps to get people to watch you.

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Am i thinking wrong about that? Should i just play whatever we want to?

Play whatever thr fuck you want

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I usually start my stream with modern warfare then switch it up half way through to rome total war or civilisation vi

Alright thanks for the advice! Also do you play the orginal Rome? I love Rome 2!

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Propably my favorite Total war game

I play thr original rome. I also downloaded shogun total war but i wasnt a fan. I have the mod for lotr total war

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I tried the parthia campaign but it frustrated the fuck out of me

On the subject of a consistent game, it does help if your audience knows what to expect of you but if your not enjoying a game anymore they can tell immediately and youll lose the numbers anyway. Best way to take early streaming is by playing what you want for as long as you want while still being consistent on the amount of times you stream in a week

@Lonely_Pine always remember that people enjoy watching people have fun. If youre not having fun, people wont stick around

Damn consolidated my whole thing man

Haha im doing a masters. Im getting good at saying things concisely

Lol fair man

Thanks for the advice!

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We are trying to grind in game for right now but we may switch it up next week!

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Thank you!