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The Future, Livestreams, and the anatomy of Wombats.
2 years ago
My Future Going Forward And Why Others Might Care:
TL;DR: I am starting Livestreaming again on October 1 with a lot of support and help. However, there are now new rules of engagement.
Short and sweet, repeated: I had something go snap in my brain and I’ve slowly been making a recovery. Doing groups has been hard but getting better. My ability to create and make things has been extremely curtailed. My recovery has been slow but steady.
To make things worse, it is likely that I will be unemployed starting in November. Not a certainty and the layoffs are essentially random. If I am targeted, I’m taking a bit of downtime before looking for new professional work again but while I’m down, I’m gonna press hard on RPG creation and arts. And, in many ways, being unemployed and on severance is not the worst thing in the world for one big reason: I have not really had a career break of any significant length in ... 15 years. I need a rest. With the time, however, I'm going to make products that I’ve wanted to for a long time. Do more VR. I’m still not solid on the idea that VRC is the solution as it has a tons of design flaw level problems that cause me grief, but the technology is not going away. I may accept some commissions but with heavy restrictions on the what, where, and how. And making things that I hope people will like. I don’t think I can make a living off of this, but this is probably the last time in my life that I’ll actually have an opportunity to try.
Now the part that most of you may care about.
I am ready to do public streaming again. To get this far, this required work on myself and with the efforts of therapy. I am pleased to announce that I will be starting again on October 1. However, that said, it comes with some caveats and rules. I have patreons and they’ll get priorty (or exclusive) seats at times. No offense to anyone but … I gotta do what I gotta do. These are not finalized, but, the rules I am going to have are are looking like this:
1. This time is for the artists of the stream to shine and to demonstrate their skills. Those that are broadcasting, via Picarto, Piczel, or Tikke.art have priority. The stream is for them.
2. Be respectful to each other.
3. No RL politics. Saying the Rshast suck is fine.
4. The theme of the streams are whatever the artists are streaming at that moment – try to stay on topic.
5. No means no. If an artist or moderator asks for a behavior to stop, stop doing it.
6. No RP or narration please unless it is explicitly stated that the stream that night is themed around this activity. This is very distracting to the artists who are trying to focus. This applies to both text and voice chat, at least in channels that are not meant for such. Doing them in channels dedicated to this is okay.
7. A voice chat is not a guarantee for every stream. Artists also reserve the right to cap the number of voice attendees per session or to only include Patreons as needed.
8. Priority for features will be granted to streaming artists first, then Patreons, then everyone else.
9. The artists can leave the voice chat at any time should they require focus and concentration. Please don’t take it personally, we’re just trying our best to get things done.
10. The streaming artists and the moderators have final say as far as the implementation of these rules and have final say. Argument will change a temporary ban into a permanent one – quickly!
11. We’re a supportive group but we’re also not therapy. Please leave your baggage at the door. We understand that not every day is a great day but please try to leave the environment a positive one and keep venting to a minimum.
Those with access to the voice chat will have to agree to these rules before joining.
Although we’re still in the business to have fun and to enjoy ourselves, make no mistake that the streams are slowly going to become more and more geared towards the idea of generating revenue and to give the artists a streaming platform to shine. This means anything from patreon awards to very silly things can be expected.
Make no mistake, I'm still very nervous about this and not sure if this is the right thing to do. But apparently the streams have been missed and I'll give it a try.
TL;DR: I am starting Livestreaming again on October 1 with a lot of support and help. However, there are now new rules of engagement.
Short and sweet, repeated: I had something go snap in my brain and I’ve slowly been making a recovery. Doing groups has been hard but getting better. My ability to create and make things has been extremely curtailed. My recovery has been slow but steady.
To make things worse, it is likely that I will be unemployed starting in November. Not a certainty and the layoffs are essentially random. If I am targeted, I’m taking a bit of downtime before looking for new professional work again but while I’m down, I’m gonna press hard on RPG creation and arts. And, in many ways, being unemployed and on severance is not the worst thing in the world for one big reason: I have not really had a career break of any significant length in ... 15 years. I need a rest. With the time, however, I'm going to make products that I’ve wanted to for a long time. Do more VR. I’m still not solid on the idea that VRC is the solution as it has a tons of design flaw level problems that cause me grief, but the technology is not going away. I may accept some commissions but with heavy restrictions on the what, where, and how. And making things that I hope people will like. I don’t think I can make a living off of this, but this is probably the last time in my life that I’ll actually have an opportunity to try.
Now the part that most of you may care about.
I am ready to do public streaming again. To get this far, this required work on myself and with the efforts of therapy. I am pleased to announce that I will be starting again on October 1. However, that said, it comes with some caveats and rules. I have patreons and they’ll get priorty (or exclusive) seats at times. No offense to anyone but … I gotta do what I gotta do. These are not finalized, but, the rules I am going to have are are looking like this:
1. This time is for the artists of the stream to shine and to demonstrate their skills. Those that are broadcasting, via Picarto, Piczel, or Tikke.art have priority. The stream is for them.
2. Be respectful to each other.
3. No RL politics. Saying the Rshast suck is fine.
4. The theme of the streams are whatever the artists are streaming at that moment – try to stay on topic.
5. No means no. If an artist or moderator asks for a behavior to stop, stop doing it.
6. No RP or narration please unless it is explicitly stated that the stream that night is themed around this activity. This is very distracting to the artists who are trying to focus. This applies to both text and voice chat, at least in channels that are not meant for such. Doing them in channels dedicated to this is okay.
7. A voice chat is not a guarantee for every stream. Artists also reserve the right to cap the number of voice attendees per session or to only include Patreons as needed.
8. Priority for features will be granted to streaming artists first, then Patreons, then everyone else.
9. The artists can leave the voice chat at any time should they require focus and concentration. Please don’t take it personally, we’re just trying our best to get things done.
10. The streaming artists and the moderators have final say as far as the implementation of these rules and have final say. Argument will change a temporary ban into a permanent one – quickly!
11. We’re a supportive group but we’re also not therapy. Please leave your baggage at the door. We understand that not every day is a great day but please try to leave the environment a positive one and keep venting to a minimum.
Those with access to the voice chat will have to agree to these rules before joining.
Although we’re still in the business to have fun and to enjoy ourselves, make no mistake that the streams are slowly going to become more and more geared towards the idea of generating revenue and to give the artists a streaming platform to shine. This means anything from patreon awards to very silly things can be expected.
Make no mistake, I'm still very nervous about this and not sure if this is the right thing to do. But apparently the streams have been missed and I'll give it a try.
"3. No RL politics. "
"... Please don’t take it personally, ..."
"... please try to leave the environment a positive one and keep venting to a minimum"
🤔
in other words... no Twitter mood allowed
😁
Do what you want to do, the way you want to do it, and be damned to anyone who tries to tell you otherwise.
But what about the wombats?
Thanks for the words of encouragement. I hate that I have to be strict but this is in the attempt to increase focus.