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There are also some top tier speed runners, professional gamers, and industry people that stream or contribute to streams. I only watch people that can play at an 'A' level or can contribute an interesting dialog. Plus points if you know a tremendous hell of a lot about the game you are streaming, or can discuss trivia, tactics, or sekret info for the game.
The streamers that get popular enough to make meaningful income through streaming are the ones that can manage a show. Meaning you should be spending more time in prep work, set up, and planning than you do putting your stupid looking face on the interweb. If you think you can make money at this because you own a shitty ass webcam, mic, crusty couch, ps4, and Diablo3, well, that shit better be Hardcore.
Some of the Twitch streamers I watch that can occasionally put together a decent show:
CobaltStreak, Richard_Hammer: Nightly deathless Binding of Isaac speed runs. Organized and live streamed a Binding of Isaac competition.
LethalFrag: neckbeard that streams rogue style games - FTL and SotS
Adam_Ak: props for Doom speed runs! but mostly known for GTA speed runs.
DansGaming: The geriatric porn of the game streaming world. Guy spent over 2 weeks going through every mod and texture patch tweaking settings for Skyrim to get the best possible look and performance for that engine before streaming. Something I will never do myself.
Then there are guys like Towellie, that stream WoW raids, that I put on whenever I feel the urge to play an mmo, to remind myself why I don't.
The streamers that get popular enough to make meaningful income through streaming are the ones that can manage a show. Meaning you should be spending more time in prep work, set up, and planning than you do putting your stupid looking face on the interweb. If you think you can make money at this because you own a shitty ass webcam, mic, crusty couch, ps4, and Diablo3, well, that shit better be Hardcore.
Some of the Twitch streamers I watch that can occasionally put together a decent show:
CobaltStreak, Richard_Hammer: Nightly deathless Binding of Isaac speed runs. Organized and live streamed a Binding of Isaac competition.
LethalFrag: neckbeard that streams rogue style games - FTL and SotS
Adam_Ak: props for Doom speed runs! but mostly known for GTA speed runs.
DansGaming: The geriatric porn of the game streaming world. Guy spent over 2 weeks going through every mod and texture patch tweaking settings for Skyrim to get the best possible look and performance for that engine before streaming. Something I will never do myself.
Then there are guys like Towellie, that stream WoW raids, that I put on whenever I feel the urge to play an mmo, to remind myself why I don't.
I watch Hearthstone streamers. While playing Hearthstone in like 99% of cases. Helps me keep up with the meta and all the new deck lists. Actually debating doing a regular stream of my own.
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I bet she will be A level soon enough. 700 people atm just sitting around watching a wannabe camwhore walk around in WoW. I would rather watch paint dry than watch some random dumb girl walk around in Orgimmar while she thanked every neckbeard basement dweller who subscribes to her shitty twitch channel.
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I have no idea why someone would want to watch someone average casually play a casual game, let alone throw money at them. There are plenty of those kind of streamers and others that I have no idea why they are as popular as they are, other than it came from reddit. People like weird shit.
I do enjoy seeing some awesome gameplay, though. There are those kind of streamers as well.
I haven't watched professional Quake since the early 00's. I watched the QuakeCon this year, live on Twitch. For being so long in the tooth, I had forgotten how awesome that game is to watch and play. Perhaps some of the best CTF games ever played. In the final match, the victor was putting up around ~70% railgun accuracy. Which is simply astounding, esp considering he was playing against someone that could put up similar numbers.
Alinity is a rare case of being on Twitch for a long time combined with being one of the few vocal Latin women, so her sub base is mostly that demo.
Sometimes you can just fill a certain niche, and make money.
Sometimes you can just fill a certain niche, and make money.
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All his episodes went onto Youtube late last week. He's called the equivilant of demerol on video. I've read numerous soldiers who went to Iraq and Afghanistan who said they really loved watching him even tho they will never pick up a paint brush.
Happy little trees.
Happy little trees.
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Bob Ross is amazing whether you're into painting or not. Just seeing in 30min him just flopping his brush around go from just some blobs of color to this fantastic painting always fascinated me. I wish I could do that shit. Aside from that, yeah he's just the chillest mother fucker ever. It makes me a little sad seeing how many people on twitch/twitter/etc. just had never heard of him. I got lucky I guess being able to watch the show with my mom when I was young when they still aired reruns. Shame he died so young, but I'm glad they've finally decided to release the videos again.
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And millions of ASMR voices whispered out in calming tones that the proto-ASMR artist had finally come home.
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He retired from the Air Force before doing these painting shows. His wiki page says he painted 30,000 paintings and gave most away.
I remember him from when I was a kid. He comes up real often on a forum I frequent that has a lot of ex and current military. I watch him from time to time. I posted about his youtube videos all being posted on his channel in the what tickles your pickle last week.
If you watch Ebay they have Bob Ross paintings from time to time.
I remember him from when I was a kid. He comes up real often on a forum I frequent that has a lot of ex and current military. I watch him from time to time. I posted about his youtube videos all being posted on his channel in the what tickles your pickle last week.
If you watch Ebay they have Bob Ross paintings from time to time.
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I really like the experiments Twitch are doing such as the Bob Ross marathon, Twitch Plays Pokemon, and Live music. It will be interesting to see how Twitch evolves over the next few years, and how big it actually becomes.
One thing is clear though: Youtube, Netflix, and Twitch are clearly speaking to a new generation of viewers seeking entertainment, the Cable companies are going to have to adapt or die.
One thing is clear though: Youtube, Netflix, and Twitch are clearly speaking to a new generation of viewers seeking entertainment, the Cable companies are going to have to adapt or die.
