When I play wrestling video games at night, I turn off commentary and just do it myself. My daughter walked in on me and was looking at me like I was nuts
I sometimes do it while I work, talking like I’m recording a video tutorial.
Might as well just stream
If you learn your ways of speech from streamers and YouTube videos, and all of them talk in 2nd person to their audience, then your learned language will sound very similar to the English you listened to.
Old people used to do this too. Back then it was called an internal monologue.
Software engineers call this rubber duck debugging
Isn’t that statistically what most twitch streamers do
Chat, am I cooked?
My middle-school aged kids explained the difference between cooked and cookin’ to me the other day, and now they really get to roll their eyes when I intentionally use them in as corny ways as possible.
Bonus points for coming with other, terrible, slang. You can really get a cringe if you say something like "Chat, we’re cookin’ now - I’m all rizzed up”
Clip that, chat.
It’s fine until the audience starts talking back.
chat is this real?
chat, are you real?
I tried streaming for the first time over the weekend. Damn is it hard to keep talking for multiple hours straight. Especially when there’s zero messages in the chat. Streamers make it look normal but damn is it not
Get a producer or anyone with you and talk to them. That’s how radio and TV broadcasters used to do it. They would talk to the console or camera operator. Eventually it becomes natural to talk by yourself. It does look like unhinged behavior without the context. But it is an old skill, as old as radio broadcast. Try acting monologues to yourself, it also helps.
But why? If you don’t enjoy it, why try to get into streaming? The chances that it’ll pay back for itself are incredibly small and it takes years of consistent streaming to get any kind of consistent audience.
If you do enjoy it, then by all means, practice a bit so it gets more natural (and more enjoyable).
OP left no indication of whether they enjoy or not. Just that it is hard. And it is hard. Broadcasters are trained formally to do it. It requires improvisation skills, acting and physical and mental stamina. But, it can also be very rewarding. Like most things in life, there’s some level of initial discomfort and hardship involved in getting to do or experience cool things. You get to choose what you want to face or not.
Oh for sure. I know some people who really enjoy it, and it is work.
That said, there seems to be some weird fascination w/ streaming/YouTubing, so I feel like people feel some pressure to get into it. How it’s presented is very different from the work that goes into it, so I’m just pointing out that if it’s not enjoyable, it’s probably not a you problem.
do it for fun. I dabbled a little to no audiece, I just liked putting on a show. No one’s watching, well, no one listens to my music either.
same but for everything in my life.
i know, that sounds schizo as fuck, my dear chat members.
I watch you all the time, keep going FeelsStrongMan
I live alone, I too talk to the imaginary camera to keep sane. At least I think it keeps me sane.
Thanks for the bits, bananaman66764.
Ah see, I talk to my cat when I’m at home. It isn’t just me talking to myself, it’s enrichment for my little furry buddy!
If it helps you focus, it’s just another form of rubber ducking
Rubber ducking? Is that when you tape a ducky to your fupa and dry hump something/someone to get the squeaky sound?
No.
“Normal”? Probably.
Good? Probably not.
I don’t think it’s that bad if you’re trying to solve a problem. Still, I would whisper rather than say it out loud.
I did that when playing EU4 for some time. I have probably watched too many let’s players, lol.
I used to do this as a kid constantly before streaming ever existed.
Taking a piss outside? Literally competing for the longest piss distance tournament and taking the gold.
I’d always narrate what I was building with legos.
Title
Some kind of battle scene, inevitably. Sometimes a wall would be involved. Other times a bridge. Often both.
Are you still winning?
