Extralife 2015:: The Stream
8I said I'd post it... I'm messing with the stream to make sure it looks good tonight, may stop by on the way home from one of the gaming events to pick up a webcam so I can do it all in one stream (I figure the Sohmacam is the one that people would find funny at times, but also annoying most of the time.
Twitch:
http://www.twitch.tv/sohmageek
This is my Extra life page http://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.participant&participantID=146331 to check to see if I've updated the stream/schedule or anything else. :) Just wanted to share to see if anyone wanted to check it out! :)
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So, you're gaming for charity this weekend? You're a good guy, @sohmageek.
@KDemo I am gaming for charity... It's going to be a long weekend... With a break unfortunately, but I'll make up for it (and pay in the long run)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClZ68DA16vIketgje9eP-Bg/live is my head cam... for now... until I get a webcam to put into the stream. :)
and I'm mostly live! :)
We have an Extra Life event here at our house, too. Hubby and 6 of his friends are gaming. The cats and I are holed up in the bedroom, away from the noise and gamer funk.
@Pony Gamer Funk? I showered this morning... I should soon again too... my back is really killing me however. I need a real seat here.
@sohmageek A few of my hubby's gaming buddies are... less than perfectly hygienic. Being in a room with them for more than a few minutes can actually make my asthma start acting up. Whoof.
@Pony sounds like a prerelease day. I can totally understand your pain.
You are so quiet that I had your stream open in a background tab and heard typing and wondered what the heck was going on... it was you.
and mechanical keyboards rule....
and those are not meh headphones are they? what's up with that?
@thismyusername They are not meh headphones, I have the meh headphones here... but not USB input.... Yeah... I kind of forget that the webcam on my face is there some times... No it's not mechanical keyboard :( Thank you very much for the donation! There is someone else that donated, Not sure the username but it says their name, which I won't say as I don't know if people are worried about that! So thank you guys! also a bit surprised that I've had almost 3K people stop by and see the profile...I think it's twitch, but I can't be sure...
@thismyusername I have a funky audio set up as my monitor is HDMI and doesn't like to give up the audio... so I could use the output from the monitor, but then I'd lose speaker... I have buy 3.5 mm extension on my list of things for next year... then I can use good meh headphones! also quiet as there is a sleeping baby 2 rooms over. :) I need to get my mechanical keyboard fixed/replaced (I think the board is toast... but the cherry blues are still good... very good actually.
@sohmageek that sure is loud for a non mechanical! have a good one,
@thismyusername I'm a loud Typer I actually get quieter with mechanical
First I want to thank everyone that helped contribute to Extra Life, Not only in my name but everyone that has helped out. It is for the kids, so if you donated, played, or even the SO's that picked up the slack while you were busy (I think they had it the hardest.) Thank you.
Secondly I wanted to share information for anyone thinking of gaming that I learned, some may be specific to what I want to do but it may help you in a bit... So what to do and the reason I didn't/didn't think of it...
I think this one is pretty easy but the most important. The night prior my son had a rough night and consequently I had 4 hours of sleep going into a 24 hour marathon. Despite that. I got 8 hours of uninterrupted sleep once I got to bed this morning. No I didn't make it the full 24 hours. I still have 3 hours to make up, Hoping to get to it very soon.
While it worked setting up the Mac and using it as a dedicated streaming my face. I couldn't get the stream to be one single stream.
For me it means get a 3.5mm extension cord or usb sound card--my meh headphones I love have 3.5mm outputs (headphone not usb only) which is great. But my gaming setup doesn't like to give the PC sound card audio out yet audio in is still a thing (I'm sure I could mess with it. But then the monitor goes out and it screws up again. Or I end up getting some things on headset and some on tv. It gets really messy.)
I'm going to work on this about a month out next time. Stock up on some kind of energy drink and soda (aka gaming fuel in my house) if I decide to drink a beer or a few. I need to remember to get caffeine to balance out the alcohol. But a) craft beer for gaming would be awesome. And b) drunk gaming isn't that great for gaming but is fun sometimes. I don't think I want to do it however.
I'm going to call some businesses. Sometime between Jan-April or maybe April-may. I want to start the donations earlier so I can then coast rather than scramble for donations. One great idea I saw someone else do is they get donations from businesses for a raffle. It's $1 a ticket or 25 for $20 and the basket they raffled off this year was probably worth close to $1000 in retail value (some was even gift cards) it had some really cool tabletop/card gaming things and gift cards for local game shops that could be used for more product or tournament entries. I'd love to get a gamers box together something like bawls (who wouldn't sponsor me either in product for the stream or product to give away... That may come out of my pocket or I may see if red bull or some other company will help out.) some games/product, some gift cards. Maybe some con admissions to Vt comic-con. (Oh I didn't think of that till now) I wonder how the laws are if I wanted to do beer in one and make sure they are 21+... Anyway. Do some kind of physical raffle to see if I can make it better.
I say this mostly as Diablo 3 almost had me asleep at one point last night. So I had to switch it up. And the demo of mighty #9 makes me feel like mega man with new difficulty is back! (Also helped me stay up from 2-4 am where I couldn't find anything good to play and promptly crashed. However if I have people that are committed to help play game x/y/z at 9-1 then 1-5 or whatever I can get the time in and have someone holding me accountable for time management also. (Helps when someone else is keeping you up with them) have backup games if they are starting to make you drowsey.
Schedule breaks... just a few minutes every hour to stand up walk around a little, maybe grab a cold drink, and/or bathroom. Also meals... Make sure whatever food you plan on eating, get it ready in advance.
IF you are using something with batteries required, have a good supply :) I didn't.
Chair With Back
I ended the night a little early, mostly because of my back, and tired... but the tired I would have powered
Misc Item:
I know really long... but if other people can think of anything to give suggestions... please do, I plan on a dry run to test my ideas, and also doing it!
Guess what???? I signed up again... November 5th looks like the day... I apparently am currently scheduled to work it, but I'll swap things around. :) So... Who's interested in doing it this year?
@sohmageek If you're planning to do it again, and you'd like to do some retro games on the stream, check out the cool stuff at http://www.dragonbox.de.
@dashcloud I'm thinking of getting the Retrode but it will depend. I may just play what I have so I can donate what I would have spent on that