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PC Woes, and a question
11 years ago
Well, it was about due time for this hunker to start breaking down on me. From having to overclock it's Feeble CPU and GPU to keep up with most games and media nowadays, towards the sudden flash humid days making everything wet this year, I guess my PC's starting to at last kick the bucket. It's started running a bit more sluggish in this week, till today when it suddenly felt like rapid blue screen on me. I...seem to have it now a little more under control, but I can't say these turn of events make me happy by the slightest. It's about that time I start investing in a new PC looks like, but here in lies the first, yet only, problem:
Money.
I've gone from a job fair with
kirisha, hunting jobs around my locations since the move, knocking on every door for the odd job for just a few more bucks and the like...and I gotta admit it's not working. None of this is working. I did get shot one idea thought, and I wanted to hear from you guys if it's something worth doing, but if I do, it would have to be 'soon' and hopefully done in a way that doesn't kill my PC outright:
Streaming Games.
Not just any games mind you, but shmups. I seem to be above average skilled at them, enough to be able to 1 credit clear a few of them here and there, and they are a style of gameplay that I think can be exciting for the viewer, while still an obvious display of skill on the players end. The problem becomes on the fact of asking for donations and the like while streaming such. Said friend had suggested I try using twitch with it's subscription modle with adverts and the like, and that kinda rubbed me all sort of wrong ways, but I'm asking you guys if such an idea would even be valid towards you? Could you see yourself willing to support me if I worked in such a way?
I did have one other idea, streaming me working on my game projects, but I fear these would be so painfully slow, dull, and hard to keep going on ether persons end that it might not even be worth the effort. But then again, I've never acually asked you guys if watching someone click on a lot of things and typing text into boxes and lines would come off as 'fun' ether! So I'm doing that as well I guess!
So, bottom line: I'm trying to figure out a way to present my skills in a way to get some money in turn to nab a better PC. 2 ideas, streaming shmups, and streaming my working habits, exsit as of now that 'might' work. Out of these two, what would you suggest I do? Or do you have perhaps another idea I could work on?
Money.
I've gone from a job fair with
kirisha, hunting jobs around my locations since the move, knocking on every door for the odd job for just a few more bucks and the like...and I gotta admit it's not working. None of this is working. I did get shot one idea thought, and I wanted to hear from you guys if it's something worth doing, but if I do, it would have to be 'soon' and hopefully done in a way that doesn't kill my PC outright:Streaming Games.
Not just any games mind you, but shmups. I seem to be above average skilled at them, enough to be able to 1 credit clear a few of them here and there, and they are a style of gameplay that I think can be exciting for the viewer, while still an obvious display of skill on the players end. The problem becomes on the fact of asking for donations and the like while streaming such. Said friend had suggested I try using twitch with it's subscription modle with adverts and the like, and that kinda rubbed me all sort of wrong ways, but I'm asking you guys if such an idea would even be valid towards you? Could you see yourself willing to support me if I worked in such a way?
I did have one other idea, streaming me working on my game projects, but I fear these would be so painfully slow, dull, and hard to keep going on ether persons end that it might not even be worth the effort. But then again, I've never acually asked you guys if watching someone click on a lot of things and typing text into boxes and lines would come off as 'fun' ether! So I'm doing that as well I guess!
So, bottom line: I'm trying to figure out a way to present my skills in a way to get some money in turn to nab a better PC. 2 ideas, streaming shmups, and streaming my working habits, exsit as of now that 'might' work. Out of these two, what would you suggest I do? Or do you have perhaps another idea I could work on?
Patreon seems to work well for people in the US, but may give tax issues to people outside of it as far as I've gathered from following other artists.
I guess I could do the youtube thing as well, if only because I just don't...use youtube much, if at all anymore for video uploads. Only stuff on my account is some old Pokemon and Brawl videos I doubt anyone even watches in passing fancy.
If what I'm doing isn't entertainment enough, the best I can do is be in detail about everything in turn, thought doing a stream that's...a bit tricky. I would need a better set up then what I already have, as my voice by itself is pretty blah, and my PC's fan has been on maximum for a few now.