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lozarian
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United Kingdom1043 Posts
September 12 2011 15:53 GMT
#1
So if any of you have been lurking in the teamliquid dota channel on iccup, or in the dota2 subforum, you might have seen I've started streaming dota when I play. Following on from my earlier offerings of voice acting (from which I've done a bit for a fellow tler, which was nice), I've found that streaming engenders the same sort of feeling. Combine that with helping people to get into dota, it feels great.

I just worry that I don't talk enough, it's halfway between getting caught up with playing, and then also it's just WEIRD. I find it so hard to sit there and talk, it's not like I have enough people watching to get instant feedback, as our believed day[9] does.

So, other starting out streamers, how do you get around just feeling like a bit of a dick, sitting in your room and talking to a half dozen people who may or may not be actually watching? I love doing it, the streaming incentive has made me enjoy dota again, and I feel far more involved with a community from it, I just want to make my stream as good as I can, and I don't know how to get over the "sitting in my room talking to myself like a drugged up schitzophrenic" feeling.

<3 Loz

For every battle honour a thousand heroes die alone, unsung, and unremembered.
Skew
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
United States1019 Posts
September 12 2011 16:06 GMT
#2
you get over it after doing it awhile. everybody who's popular started out doing it without many viewers and probably feeling like a weirdo. artosis and idra both sucked more fucking balls than anybody their first times :>
lozarian
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United Kingdom1043 Posts
September 13 2011 08:54 GMT
#3
I guess that's fair. I also just read this: http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=264967 and realised he's right, I think I'll get a new webcam and add that in to my stream, if people can stand seeing my great big hairy face raging when something goes wrong, but it does seem to add a lot of personality. Plus actually tidying up my desk so I can put another monitor on it / at least my laptop will help, and wind up with fewer technical issues when xsplit decides I want to actually stream task manager.

The only problem I have is he talks about music/not having music - I can't have silence when I play, it feels so wrong, would anybody be put off by a bit of classical music in the background?
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