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Re: Lessons from my first year of live coding on Twitch

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Post by ikurei » Sun, Jul 09, 2017, 9:35 PM UTC

HiroshiSan wrote: post #55

Steeeve wrote: post #29

So my kids watch people streaming non-stop. At first I had no opinion. Then it seemed like they did it way too much and I fought it. Then I started paying attention and found it interesting as well. For them it's gaming, game discovery, and seeing personalities they enjoy regularly. Something like this... I would really enjoy. Bookmarking this page so I can have a look at all your streams. I would like to do this mys…

I wanted to see what imaqtpie's hype was all about and he ended up being my morning coffee routine. That man is wholesome.

I'm curious. Please, what's so "wholesome" about him?

I like him, he's fine. But I'm curious what converted you to stream-watching in him.

Re: Lessons from my first year of live coding on Twitch

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Post by sebtoast » Mon, Jul 10, 2017, 6:56 PM UTC

stablemap wrote: post #56

rctay89 wrote: post #48

I wonder if you could include all keystrokes like Ctrl-x in the screencast, maybe even a timeline of the keystrokes; I imagined it to be "running" along the screen like in Guitar hero. Nevertheless this is a great effort in distributing latent/implicit knowledge, which I think coding to be heavy on; for example, how would a terminal user know that Ctrl-R is reverse-search? (don't get me started on finding out about g…

I've seen keyboard cameras.

Game streamers often do this or have some kind of overlay with highlights of the keys pressed.

Re: Lessons from my first year of live coding on Twitch

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Post by HiroshiSan » Mon, Jul 10, 2017, 7:55 PM UTC

ikurei wrote: post #101

HiroshiSan wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wanted to see what imaqtpie's hype was all about and he ended up being my morning coffee routine. That man is wholesome.

I'm curious. Please, what's so "wholesome" about him? I like him, he's fine. But I'm curious what converted you to stream-watching in him.

Few reasons off the top of my head:

He works incredibly hard, is one of the best LoL players on the planet, he loves his cat (SMOL CAT WHAT YOU WANT!?) & gf, I enjoy his wit, love when he reads his new subscribers list, and so forth.

I like his personality, plain and simple. Couldn't care less about league of legends.