It's a weird balance at first. You want to read the chat because you want to know people like watching you and want you to succeed. It takes a really long time for that novelty to wear off and you're willing to shut it out. It also kind of drives you to keep going. Grinding speedruns in your basement with no acclaim is not glorious. Having 10000 people going "OMG TEH URN Kreygasm" is glorious.

You want the chat to be positive and be giving you good feeback... which *can* happen. But when it doesn't, it's hard to deal with. And takes a lot of time and experience to learn just how to deal with it.

It's also just hard to stream runs and not look at chat. You are always wondering what's going on. It's just human nature.

Yeah, that makes sense of course. I just mean rather than letting it tilt you to the point where you feel it effects your play then I'd lean on ignoring it. Another possibility would be to just ignore the chat once he's lost a great run etc or had a bad stretch. Like you know it's prob toxic or people trolling etc. Just shrug it off and bounce back and play your A game. It's kinda like poker cause you'll obviously have swings but if you know you're playing well then just keep doing whatever you're doing.

Yeah, that's prob quite a different experience to have 1-3k people all being shocked at a choke or whatever. But that's the time to not read it though as I said before. I think having an overall positive atmosphere/attitude will allow that to shine through. Like when I watch your stream everyone just seems chill, no ones trolling or spamming molly etc. Lethalfrag is another stream that seems generally pretty friendly in general. Which obv Frag seems like one of the nicest guy's in the world lol. Never raises his voice or gets mad.

Yeah, the not knowing factor is def strong lol. I used to hate when people would call and I didn't know the number. I always had to call them back.

TB is an arrogant sack of **** but I think his popularity stems mostly from people being extremely dissapointed by general gaming journalism, where average games would still get 7/8's and TB was one of the first populair guys who actually discussed things critically. That's what he's made his career on so that's what he keeps doing. I agree he has become a bit of a egomaniac but he still makes some valid points most of the time.

Like a lot of people, TB is smart but just gets in his own way basically all the time

these Rainbow Road chokes, goddamn

So much pain.

MLB14 Road to the Show

twitch.tv/professormike

Thanks, I might watch that. How is the game? I'm a non- PS user since the beginning and have never had the joys of a good MLB game

If I'm gonna stream some ****

A) will my ****ty dell laptop with Windows 8 and an i5 and an AMD Radeon 7730M work okay and
B) what kind of capture card should i get, I want capability for hdmi, component, and composite all in one

A) I was streaming on a computer with Windows XP, 1.86 GHz i2 and 2GB RAM until a month ago, so your laptop is fine. OBS and XSplit aren't *that* memory intensive.

B) http://www.amazon.com/Elgato-Capture.../dp/B00840353W

That's considered the best quality & value capture card for HD stuff. I'm sure you can find something cheaper which will probably work.

Thanks, I'll check it out. I think I've messed around with OBS before and i think it worked fine? Gonna have to do some testing

PSA: YOLO 420 #blazeit night on Goose's stream

Someone viewbotted me an hour ago. I'm not complaining because it shot me up the list and got me a bunch of new followers, but why do people do this?

To be jerks and try and get people's channels shut down.

I've gotten a fair few messages from "viewbot companies." Here I'll paste one:

Bolded might be why random people get viewbotted. Someone with comparable followers & viewers asks for a demo on your channel and boom.

viewbotting is evil

http://www.twitch.tv/belg_owner/


Newbie streamer playing some league (diamond III in series to DII)

DDRJake went AWOL until June, so sad. Such an elite EU4 streamer.

Goose, how much do you estimate Cosmo makes from streaming?

Saw this on Goose's twitter: http://blog.twitch.tv/2014/05/speedr...ity-spotlight/

Twitch is highlighting a speedrunner each day for the next couple weeks, Goose gets his big day next Thursday at 8:30 Pacific!

Just got home in time!

DA GOOSE IS LOOSE!

blegh, I'm not really looking forward to it. I don't have a good stream situation at those hours (everyone will be awake causing noise) and don't like having to stream for a bunch of irrel noobs who know nothing. It's not AGDQ where I can make up some fake category like "co-op agent" and claim I got WR either.

It's summertime. I haven't even really been motivated to stream at all lately and this will just cause me to continue streaming in the following weeks to continue growing from the exposure.



It's not *that* much. It's just a normal job. My estimates could be really far off on either side too. I know there are some dudes who have like 4000+ subs so they are making a ton. I'm pretty jealous of those like the TSM guys who can have 30k viewers with no personalities, but I'm sure they're so beta that the manager of those teams takes a good chunk.

The money isn't as glorious as a lot of viewers want to believe. We're not living in penthouses in Vegas and cruising around in yachts... yet.

Syndicate/TheSyndicateProject apparently just bought and built like a $3M GBP house (a tour of the construction is on his YT,) but if you're so big you can switch from Youtube to Twitch and get 500k followers in only a few months, then yeah...

so i finally finished a run just now, jfc my time is awful, couldn't even manage sub-3 hours (wr is 1:27 for comparison), should easily cut off at least 30 minutes by not ****ing up pretty much everything in the second half of the game

bomb clip is hard, turns out

dug up my n64 and found oot, mm, mario tennis, madden '99, mischief makers, ken griffey jr. 1 and the first bomberman. currently on the lookout for mario, mario golf, and mario kart.