Woke up before noon and got into the daily workout after brushing my teeth. Because I hit the halfway mark, now I’m doing the rest of the workouts in the program at lvl III. Still haven’t done a deep clean on the bathroom, but did manage to reorganize and trash a bunch of documents ranging from useless to important. That resulted in a slight domino effect of my room being cleaner. That and the trash I took out yesterday. The operation, all in all, was a few hours long. I had ‘Craig Of The Creek’ the whole time(great kids show). My room is the kind of mess that looks more disorganized than filthy. An assortment of papers, books, tools, components, and toiletries(lotion, hand sanitizer, etc.). One half of my bed I sleep on, the other half is storage.
Did a stream. Was Tuesday, so it was Melodics practice. After an hour I went AFK for a quick bio break then proceeded to edit my scenes like I did live last Wednesday. Made some tweaks, then jumped back into practice for about another 45 mins. I closed out the stream talking about Hacker Boxes and giving props to DJ_Silenze for the work he’s done with his channel and brand. About 30mins. before and shortly after my stream, I was reading Twitch For Dummies. There’s enough information on Twitch’s site about things you want to consider and do when running a channel, the book is just a nice on-hand reference guide for things I haven’t got around to working on yet and finer points about stuff I thought I knew. So far it seems like I’m doing a few things right; scheduling, auto-hosting, punching up my scenes. But there’s always room for improvement. The bare minimum suggested for streaming time is 3 – 5 hours. With the exception of special occasions/situations, my streams have been primarily 2 hours. I think next week I’ll start earlier so I can hit that mark. I’m also going to try and mess around with OBS to see if my options for how my stream looks are any better for me. I still want to design a logo and a banner but have no idea where to start. For now, I’ll just fill in more info in the about me sections of all the media. I kee[ thing about how I got to put together a reel of some kind as an opener. A few streamers do more than a till ‘standby’ image with some music. Some have openers like an actual show. They’re spliced pulls from other games or moments from their stream. Which made me think of how I messed up by not saving any of the footage from my first playthrough of Detroit: Become Human(shit was pure gold).
Then I realized a lot of the highlightable moments I’ve had on stream were from games I either haven’t played before or were very intense in terms of action. Lately, it’s been kind of aimless. Tuesdays are great for talking music and practicing, but what about the ‘just chatting’ days? I still have a back catalog of games to run on the PS4, but really don’t want to stream off the PlayStation unless I get a capture card(which is a whole different issue). My steam library isn’t dead, but it isn’t exactly packed with anything I think will hold an audience’s attention. Star Wars: Squadrons is a great game, with tones of cool moments. But is the fandom there for the dogfights as much as they are the lightsabers? The Hotline Miami games are fun, but are they still relevant? C&C? I did it once and DJ thought it was cool, but as a ‘turtle player’, I don’t want to subject viewers to that. This leaves; Aim Lab(the same issue as Melodics, it’s all about practice), Apex Legends(I have to be in the mood), Hacknet(which actually has potential as using it as a way to talk about computer network concepts), PC Building Simulator(fun for the tech geeks and cathartic), and Death Stranding. While DS might sound like the game that’s gonna be worth running on stream, the general word around the campfire is that the game doesn’t really get good after a significant amount of playtime. This is not going to stop me from playing this because Hideo Kojima. But I could understand that watching someone play spooky FedEx simulator for 4 hours might not be everyone’s cup of tea. I’ve been drinking a lot of tea lately.
Tip of the day: Whenever, possible always make sure you have a first aid kit in your house and/or car.
Monopoly On Distractions 