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Talking to myself helps me remember stuff and figure out stuff faster.

It's your game, role-play how you want. Wage slaving tends to beat the ability to plat out of some of us. Have fun your way.

I certainly wouldnt want to play pretend being a streamer. It looks like the world's most exhausting job ever. Having to constantly have a web presence everywhere, talking to Randoms 24/7, being unable to switch what game you're playing because your fan base is the most niche interest group possible.

Hell no, not for me. My basement, my games.

same but for everything in my life.

i know, that sounds schizo as fuck, my dear chat members.

If it helps you focus, it's just another form of rubber ducking

Chat, am I cooked?

It's fine until the audience starts talking back.

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

Isn't that statistically what most twitch streamers do

"Normal"? Probably.

Good? Probably not.

It's probably fairly normal now, lots of people think about being a streamer.

I have thought about showing off my gigantic single player creative mode Minecraft map through a live stream for years, I spent most of my free time over a decade of manually just building huge, huge structures.

And pretending to show it off to a live stream, talking about it and explaining it makes it easier to remember what/why/how I built stuff...

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.

Software engineers call this rubber duck debugging

Old people used to do this too. Back then it was called an internal monologue.

Might as well just stream

At that point just hit record and decide later if you want to post some parts of it.

Wil help build confidence to start streaming.

Anon should just do a stream and do their best and hope one of the popular streamers/youtubers pity them and give them a donation and a shoutout to a massive audience.

Pity views better than no views.

I think that's just thinking out loud or talk to yourself. It's another story if OOP overreact on every turn though.

I used to do it a lot as a teenager. For everything in my life. Now much less. I wonder why.

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.

....we don't all do this?

I would love for someone to listen to me talk

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

Maybe not normal, but as long as you know that the audience isn't there, it's a harmless kind of weird 🤷

So go for it, fake gay guy!