Farewell Geralt! Hello Geralt! Jammie Points!

Last Wednesday was an emotional stream. I finished Witcher 1. So many people told me to not even play it and it turned out to be one of my favorite games. I am one of those empathetic types that cries at stories - movies, books, games. I easily get immersed in the fictional universe and attached to the characters. I never want the stories to end and so always feel a sense of sadness at finales. This happened with the Witcher - even though I know there are two more games in the series for me to play.

As it happens, the ending of Witcher 1 also got more intense than earlier parts of the game and so I was displaying emotions other than sadness as well - as seen in the clip below.

Testing Boundaries Part 1: A post on Streaming

This is normally where a Witcher Wednesday post goes, but this week I am going to focus on streaming rather than the game I was streaming. Furthermore, this post is going to be short because I have final grades to enter. Also, I suspect I will gather more data on boundary testing as I slowly grow my community and therefore will have more to say on it later. In other words, this will probably become another series of posts. 

What do I mean by boundary testing? I mean knowing the limits of what people can say about me, my stream, or what kind of humor is acceptable in this space. That this occurred was of no surprise to me at all. I expected this to happen eventually, and as it happened, the first 2 times were in the same week. This was also, maybe a little bit my fault since I have not yet posted chat rules on my channel - and these are common enough in Twitch at this point as to be expected. Also unsurprising was that both of these cases involved men.

We Are Playing Witcher: Pronoun Usage (Part 2)

Last month I made a post about the various pronouns I use while playing or talking about games in I am Geralt: Pronoun Usage (Part 1). This is the 2nd installment of that series in which I will be focusing on my use of "we" - when meaning me and chat - in terms of Irving Goffman's The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life which I also mentioned in the 1st post. In particular, I will be looking at the performative nature of this use and how this performance seems to fail just as often as not. And in case the phrase "everyday life" in the title here didn't tip you off, I will be taking some liberties - or more accurately, I will be using this work in an unconventional manner. Of course, it was published in the 1950s so it's not like it was written for analysis of Twitch or The Witcher.

OK, enough with the heavy intro. I mentioned talking about failure, so let's start the death counter!

How I feel after silent streams.