Wednesday, March 20, 2019


"I'm gonna start streaming!"

Holy hell. I'm staring at Discord and thinking "There should be rules or something for my server". I usually never use Discord, ok.

Speaking of, I've opped on IRC (on a political channel with up to 2,000 people all screaming at each other in real time), modded for a large (enormous) band, and just looking at setting up this Discord channel, all I can think of is "fuuuuuuu". Not that it's complicated (the opposite), but do I want to have to moderate people again? I hate modding. I'll be grabbing bots of course both for my stream and Discord , but honestly, it's not like the internet has become kinder.  So there's that. Hopefully this is a really slow start and I can find some mods eventually.

Meanwhile I'm building two systems for my stream, then I have to get Discord, Twitch, and likely OBS in there, learn those with a quickness, set up the cameras, mic, lighting, then test stream, and I gave myself April 15th as a start date. (What was I THINKING??)

Also, because we're in the middle of nowhere, I've pulled in a new provider just for that bandwidth, and I'll still be streaming at 480p most likely according to the ISP.  Since it's not a gaming stream hopefully that'll do. We'll see. I can hear it now - "SCUFFED!". Well yeah, I'm in the woods here, people. You're getting streaming via satellite. Hopefully just being IN the woods with lots of stuff to show about that and trying to calm people down will enable forgiveness on people's parts. Gentle stream, lower bandwidth. Forgiveness will be required.

Growing up in the Bay Area and having access to top tier technology and bandwidth for years spoiled me, but we're not in the Bay anymore (thankfully). I mean we moved up here to the woods for good reasons, but still, I'm starting to feel a little bit overwhelmed. I want to start streaming with things already set in place so IF the stream grows, the parts are already in place to make everything smooth. Well, as smooth as possible. When they get FIOS to our door in '21 or '22 (that's what's promised), I'd like to be ready for that also, so I'll be waiting to buy two better systems at that point and upgrade my mic to a Shure or something, have a mic deck, all of that. Right now I'm starting out as a basic tiny streamer and I have to remember that. 

Scripting "segments" is happening also. It's light scripting, but I want to have content from the time the stream starts until it ends. Working on that also.

As I said, overwhelmed a little. But if just family and a few friends end up enjoying the stream, that'll be fine also. I'll keep in mind that that's where I'm starting out, and just keep plodding along.

If the back of my mind is screaming like this though, well...  that happens with every new adventure for everyone, right? ;)


   

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