I’m terrible with titles, but I think it says it all. It’s time I calm down on talking shit on streamers and do my own thing. I want to do a weekly panel stream on gaming news and calling out gaming news publications for their useless articles that are constantly posted.
I’m already streaming on Rumble and Kick, but I’ve been mostly streaming Diablo IV. I want to add more to it. My idea is to have new faces on the stream because that will bring in new takes or new ideas. Probably differing opinions.
I’m getting tired of our hobby being tainted by bullshit journalists. We have very few people that does gaming podcasts or streams that call any of this out on the regular. We need more voices out there and I think it’s time that I throw my hat in the ring.
I’m posting this because I’m trying to look for a couple of people that would want to join me in this. Making a weekly panel show. I get panel shows can be cringe sometimes, but I think it’s only if you’re going to fill it up with 9 different people. I’m not looking for that. I just want 3 people and possibly a guest. So if anyone is interested and you live in the US (due to time zone issues) then reply to this or DM me. I’m hoping to get this started soon.
EDIT: If anyone is interested in seeing the content I post so far then here’s my channel.
rumble.com/user/Vebent
All I can do is wish you luck. I'm not good with live discussion. And the "live panel talking heads" I'm familiar with do that sort of stuff for a living.
Thanks. It would be nice to make a living, but right now that’s not my main focus. My main focus is being consistent with the stream and building up a following. I’m hoping it’ll get big enough to show that there are voices like ours in the gaming space.
Another thing you have to consider when entering that ring: if you want to be taken seriously, you are obligated to put in serious effort in partaking in a significant range of the media of choice, whether you think it'll be good or not. As I said, these people do it for a living, they've got a lot more time as media critics to do all that crap, while a guy like me is a full-time laborer who tends to only get a couple of hours per day and mostly ends up in repetitive grinds with the same games. Even if people around here might WANT to, they may already have enough responsibilities on their plate.
I would but I know my limitations and I can't stand my voice when I hear it back so it kills my interest in that. I'd probably do a god emperor text to speech than anything else if I had an interest in it.
My advice as I watch a lot of them, have a structure of planned topics but allow yourself to just go off on tangents. It means when you go off and lose yourself on a random topic, you have something to come back to so you're not left with dead air.
Dead air is the one thing I hate when doing this myself. This is another reason why I want to get a couple of people in on the action. I also get not liking your voice. I have that problem also, but I’m looking at the benefit behind it. That doing this helps me stay more focused and on task rather than jumping back and forth and then forgetting what I was talking about.
Just looked up your Rumble channel.
How do you have so many views (dozens to over a hundred) but only 4 Followers?
I have no clue. When I first saw that I thought the same thing. Where are the followers when there are that many views? The only conclusion I can come to is people looking up new streamers, watching for a few minutes, and then closing the video. Maybe there’s something I’m missing that will get people to follow. I don’t know.
It's likely one of:
I noticed that too, and it makes me want to start posting to Rumble. Well, I was already thinking of it. Alt-tech is often pretty good for discoverability.
I'll think about it. I'm not the most outgoing, although I do stream occasionally, and I think generally make it work, in my own way.
As someone else said, I don't know you, and that does make it a little weird. As I said, I'll think on it, and if I did do it it would be on a trial basis. I think that's the best way to do it in general, actually. If you don't click with someone, you don't click. You can't really force it.
Best of luck, either way!
Feel free to use my long posts for sources.
My cousin and I have been looking into getting some streaming going. Maybe once we've gotten something going we can network with you. Right now, I'm trying not to count my chickens before they hatch.
That’s cool. There’s already one guy on board. Discussing with him right now on how we should go about everything. Once you guys get everything going then keep us in mind.
Honestly, I'd like to do this, but I don't know you enough to really jump on it.
It’s all good. It would be better if I had friends join, but the people I know aren’t into video games like I am or streaming.
I'll join but not Diablo because I'm not giving Activision blizzard my money
I already have 2 people. If one of them ends up dropping out then I’ll hit you up. As for Diablo, this is going to be my last Activision game. I only bought this because they went back to their dark and gritty roots. None of this cartoon bullshit from Diablo III.