Well, it doesn't need to be that only the commercial streamers do it like that. I kind of take the job as "generator of content" more seriously than other people, I think. For me it would be included in that, if people pay money to see me doing stuff, I'd need to come up with new ideas here or there to keep them finding their money is good investment on me. They pay, so I need to deliver - that's my duty for taking what they give. That's the way I understand it. How many there are out there which can live from playing video games all the time, I don't know. I can only guess it is a rather small circle, much less a smaller circle which gets rich through their advertsing, sponsoring and product placement contracts. For the latter things to be offered to you, you already need a fair sum of viewers being constantly present at your streams, otherwise the interest of the advertising industry in you is pretty low (very limited potential). Such things I already got to understand through that... (And before Twitch got that big, lots of people did their walkthroughs on YouTube, so the basic business is on for quite a while already.)
Actually, compared to normal TV, I find it's more entertaining. TV, for years, only has stupid and more stupidier show ideas to offer, the state channels here don't produce anything usable in films and series, only the German crime stuff ("Krimis"), or films with typical state and anti-Russia propaganda that makes your ass burst from rage, other stuff rented for airing is just stupid American TV series that have been popping up one after another for years, or stupid blockbuster movies and the same ones over and over again, like there are no elder movies who could also be watched and which even perhaps would be cheaper to air. All in all - boring to no end or you get enraged about political propaganda. Or about the depictured kind of stupidity that tries to sell itself to you as "serious".
Video game streams, compared to that, barely ever try to be really serious. Anything chaotic always happens, sometimes this is even better for the game played to lighten up the atmosphere of them (e. g. stuff like Silent Hill series). Sometimes it's also the people in the chat who does that, people letting all kinds of weird nonsense loose out of their minds. Well... sometimes this also makes up a tip for you of a game you could play yourself. Or it becomes interesting in technical matters, as people also play remade versions for newer platforms, which can also contain obscurities like games which there never originally had existed a PC version or a version for one of those console platforms that still exist today. Saw somebody once play a redone version of Final Fantasy IX, and by looking up in a games data bank I found out it's a newly released PC version of it Originally there was one scheduled to come out back then, but for some reason it didn't came then. It existed only on Sony's console, and just by looking at the graphics shown I noticed this can't be the version that I know. Emulator doesn't revamp it that much, that's textures with a higher resultion... Sometimes they also build in some new content with those remakes - well, I'm not always convinced of that if that really suits it, unless they do bugfixes and erase design errors. FFIX wasn't one of those games, actually it was one of the few that I know that doesn't have any critical mechanic error that I can recall. All things had been programmed that way that you can't trigger anything that you shouldn't see at a point in the game which is reserved for later. Barely recall another game where they managed that so consequently.
Think such stuff happened with quite a bit of stuff that they now design porting for older games for all platforms that still exist. Makes you ask "What's been so difficult about that back then?! One sees you can do it!". Only big hook on all of that often is all is fucking tied to downloading and platforms like Steam. Remote content control for your computer, no thanks.
Anyway - if the you got the subject on your radar in any way, you sometimes get to hear or get to know about one or the other content to deal with yourself. Say - like someone gave you a hint for a good book to read. That's what I wanna say at the end of it.
I would think people who live with their parents might play for 24 hours straight. Otherwise you need to make your living. And audience is always what I wonder about. Sometimes some stupid stuff has millions subscribers and then something decent very few. And content seems to be important but seems like when you get into the top you are there, like with everything: social media, you tube etc.
I don't know know much about video games but agree about tv. Don't find it entertaining. So I guess video games are ok but in moderation. I think lots of people are addicted to them.
Well, streamers, the ones that I have seen, tend to be in a younger age (20s) and, apropriate to that, in professions like younger people are: students, about nestlings I don't know, but it's inside the frame of the possible, but there are also folks among them which talk like they have a normal work schedule. Well, latter admittedly often belongs to that group which declines to do a 24h-stream - or they just do it once in a while, like once a year and then when they're on vacation time.
For the audience - that audience you can perceive through the chat, which requires having an account at Twitch -, it's pretty mixed who watches. You get that through the lines they drop in the chat sometimes. There you can find people all differing kinds of life situations, with children, without - whatever. Well, maybe elder people you don't see much on there, but that's perhaps still due to that fact that the first generation to grow up with computers still is not in that age. I'd expect that to change over time.
Choosing games to play yourself these days seems like it has even gotten more complicated 'cause there's so plenty of fish in the sea, but ever finding anything that's really good or standing out, that's tough. As I said, in that point streams even come in handy as for giving you tips. Also they give you negative tips, like making clear for you what game really isn't your cup of tea.
Not only playing long hours but having some effect on your conciseness, like I heard some people have seizures from kind of being in 3d space like it's you. I mean when you see your character and play as a third person is one thing and another as if it is you. I would think it would freak your brain.
No, I heard just from playing video games without glasses or whatever they are called. If it is long enough some people freak out from acting like a first person in a game.
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Date: 7 May 2017 09:59 pm (UTC)I kind of take the job as "generator of content" more seriously than other people, I think. For me it would be included in that, if people pay money to see me doing stuff, I'd need to come up with new ideas here or there to keep them finding their money is good investment on me. They pay, so I need to deliver - that's my duty for taking what they give. That's the way I understand it.
How many there are out there which can live from playing video games all the time, I don't know. I can only guess it is a rather small circle, much less a smaller circle which gets rich through their advertsing, sponsoring and product placement contracts.
For the latter things to be offered to you, you already need a fair sum of viewers being constantly present at your streams, otherwise the interest of the advertising industry in you is pretty low (very limited potential). Such things I already got to understand through that... (And before Twitch got that big, lots of people did their walkthroughs on YouTube, so the basic business is on for quite a while already.)
Actually, compared to normal TV, I find it's more entertaining.
TV, for years, only has stupid and more stupidier show ideas to offer, the state channels here don't produce anything usable in films and series, only the German crime stuff ("Krimis"), or films with typical state and anti-Russia propaganda that makes your ass burst from rage, other stuff rented for airing is just stupid American TV series that have been popping up one after another for years, or stupid blockbuster movies and the same ones over and over again, like there are no elder movies who could also be watched and which even perhaps would be cheaper to air.
All in all - boring to no end or you get enraged about political propaganda. Or about the depictured kind of stupidity that tries to sell itself to you as "serious".
Video game streams, compared to that, barely ever try to be really serious. Anything chaotic always happens, sometimes this is even better for the game played to lighten up the atmosphere of them (e. g. stuff like Silent Hill series). Sometimes it's also the people in the chat who does that, people letting all kinds of weird nonsense loose out of their minds.
Well... sometimes this also makes up a tip for you of a game you could play yourself.
Or it becomes interesting in technical matters, as people also play remade versions for newer platforms, which can also contain obscurities like games which there never originally had existed a PC version or a version for one of those console platforms that still exist today.
Saw somebody once play a redone version of Final Fantasy IX, and by looking up in a games data bank I found out it's a newly released PC version of it Originally there was one scheduled to come out back then, but for some reason it didn't came then. It existed only on Sony's console, and just by looking at the graphics shown I noticed this can't be the version that I know. Emulator doesn't revamp it that much, that's textures with a higher resultion...
Sometimes they also build in some new content with those remakes - well, I'm not always convinced of that if that really suits it, unless they do bugfixes and erase design errors.
FFIX wasn't one of those games, actually it was one of the few that I know that doesn't have any critical mechanic error that I can recall. All things had been programmed that way that you can't trigger anything that you shouldn't see at a point in the game which is reserved for later. Barely recall another game where they managed that so consequently.
Think such stuff happened with quite a bit of stuff that they now design porting for older games for all platforms that still exist. Makes you ask "What's been so difficult about that back then?! One sees you can do it!".
Only big hook on all of that often is all is fucking tied to downloading and platforms like Steam. Remote content control for your computer, no thanks.
Anyway - if the you got the subject on your radar in any way, you sometimes get to hear or get to know about one or the other content to deal with yourself. Say - like someone gave you a hint for a good book to read. That's what I wanna say at the end of it.
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Date: 8 May 2017 03:26 am (UTC)I don't know know much about video games but agree about tv. Don't find it entertaining. So I guess video games are ok but in moderation. I think lots of people are addicted to them.
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Date: 8 May 2017 07:40 am (UTC)Well, latter admittedly often belongs to that group which declines to do a 24h-stream - or they just do it once in a while, like once a year and then when they're on vacation time.
For the audience - that audience you can perceive through the chat, which requires having an account at Twitch -, it's pretty mixed who watches. You get that through the lines they drop in the chat sometimes. There you can find people all differing kinds of life situations, with children, without - whatever.
Well, maybe elder people you don't see much on there, but that's perhaps still due to that fact that the first generation to grow up with computers still is not in that age. I'd expect that to change over time.
Choosing games to play yourself these days seems like it has even gotten more complicated 'cause there's so plenty of fish in the sea, but ever finding anything that's really good or standing out, that's tough. As I said, in that point streams even come in handy as for giving you tips. Also they give you negative tips, like making clear for you what game really isn't your cup of tea.
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