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I want to lead off this mornings post with a little bit of exciting news. So over the last few weeks you have no doubt noticed the Twitch madness I have been involved in. That is probably a tale for a different day, but I am trying to stream significantly more often than I used to. I even have a lot of proper streaming infrastructure set up now including MrAggroBot my fearless chat bot who is getting an adorable avatar that the amazing AmmostArt is currently working on. I have no clue what is going on but I think partially it is due to the fact that I have a super supportive community of folks from various sources that occasionally pop their heads in and say hi. One of the main reasons why I don’t play a ton of single player titles is that they end up feeling like solitary experiences. Sure when I am in super turtle mode that works, but most of the time I want to share my nonsense with someone out there. In the MMORPG world… that is my guild and when I stream a single player game… twitch chat starts to feel a bit like guildchat.

For awhile now I have been a member of the Moogle’s Pom Tavern Discord, largely because it already had a significant number of my friends collected in one place. I knew it was home, much in the same way as the AggroChat slack because I found myself saying good morning to everyone there each day. Now I mostly knew of the Moogle’s Pom Tavern because of their official/unofficial stream team. Official in the sense that it is a fixed thing and invite only, but unofficial as I believe none of the members are Partners and cannot actually create an official team in the eyes of Twitch. With my increase in streaming focus and frequency, I am pleased to announce that I have been invited to the team and now have a banner on my twitch profile talking about it. I am super happy about this revelation because it truly is an amazing group of people and that I am exceedingly happy to be part of.

For those unfamiliar, a lot of the names are ones you have already seen me talk about or host on Twitch… but here goes a full listing (alphabetized because it would have bugged me otherwise).

I highly suggest you check out all of these fine folks and give them a follow. I’ve got them all in my Auto-Hosting rotation so chances are you might see them if you are checking my twitch page with any frequency. The above image is of course not connected to this at all… but since we don’t have an official banner image for the team I decided to find a “Moogle” image to use instead. If you are so inclined you can also check out the Moogle’s Pom Tavern wordpress which should in theory be getting bios for the last few of us shortly (because we need to write them). However the page is current except for me and Visse who were the last few adds to the team.

All of this said I will probably continue to use the BelStreamTime discord when it comes to me going live and chatting with folks because it feels really weird to muscle my way in and take over a discord I am not intimately responsible for. Also it gives me a nice place to integration with twitch and carry over roles and permissions as well as my emoticon. Speaking of which I really need to set up the next few ranks worth of emoticons even though currently I am the only one who could use them. That is another thing that happened over the weekend that seems a bit hard to take. For awhile now the AggroChat crew has been parking their Amazon Prime subsciptions on me because they knew it made me feel super awkward about it… and it is apparently fun to pick on the Bel. Sunday however during my stream I had a long time friend throw a legitimate subscription and some bits my way and I have this weird mix of “I am incredibly grateful” and “no don’t do that! I am not worth your money!”.

I am still not entirely sure how I feel about this whole subscription thing. I feel happy that my friends want to support me, but I also feel super awkward taking any of their money. I could reconcile them giving me a prime sub… because it was a thing they got for free that wasn’t being used anyways. Now that I am getting some actual subs I just want to push the money back into their pockets and tell them “no no no you don’t understand, you are throwing your money away!”. I am weird at accepting recognition in any form… like when it happens at work I want nothing more than to crawl under my desk and hide until no one notices me. The problem there is that now I am a manager over three teams… and I can’t exactly do that anymore. I think maybe my recent foray into Twitch mirrors the transformation I have had to make in the real world, where I am publicly “on” more than I used to be.

I’ve been partaking in some serious nonsense of late, not the least of which has been Dragon Quest Builders… and streaming me playing Dragon Quest Builders. I figured I would lead off with this screenshot because it is absolutely amazing. My townsfolk decided to build me a bath tub… which I immediately installed in my private master suite. So the funny thing about Twitch in its most modern incarnation is… it makes it silly easy to be an Affiliate. From the moment you start streaming it starts ticking off little achievements, which in some bizarro world way made me want to get them. One of them is called “Path to Affiliate” and it shows up as a little quest of sorts in the sidebar of the achievements page. It includes…

Stream 8 hours in the last 30 days
Stream for 7 unique days in the last 30 days
Reach 3 average viewers in the last 30 days
Reach 50 followers

The last one was easy because I have had my account so damned long that I have more than 50 pity follows at this point if nothing else. In theory once you qualify and get that achievement checkmark… you are done. Lately I have been dabbling around with streaming, and one by one each of the boxes got checked… and now I am apparently an affiliate. I am not entirely certain why I did this thing, but it happened. Now I actually sorta want to try and come up with a proper schedule, which is super difficult because with my managerial duties my arrive home time is super variable, as is whether or not I feel like playing any games in “live” mode.

This did force me to contemplate what would happen if someone actually subbed to me. As a result I named them appropriately to attempt to encourage people that this is not a thing that they should actually do. I keep expecting Twitch to lower some hammer on me for discouraging people from giving them money. Basically I would feel super awkward to actually take any money from anyone. This is mostly a thing I did for myself… and in part because it will allow me to create a spiffy twitch emojii if I so choose. I am not even sure what else Affiliate includes otherwise, mostly it was just… a thing I felt like doing because it was available.

Now however I find myself involved in all sorts of other nonsense as a result. I talked yesterday a bit about StreamLabs OBS… or SLOBS as apparently people are calling it… why people why. I’ve also been dabbling with their custom Chatbot that is apparently what happened when they gobbled up Ankhbot. As a result I now have the beginnings of a custom channel bot named MrAggroBot that will do some of the basic functionality you see in chat bots… and at least in theory also works on Discord.

Similarly I have set up a “BelStreamTime” Discord with the sole purpose of joining it while streaming, and as a result allowing anyone else who cares to hang out with me join as well. I realize no one actually needs a new discord to join… but I also did not want to dirty up any of the other discords I am part of with my streaming nonsense. The highlight of the night had to be getting everything actually working so that the Chatbot joined my quickie Twitch test stream, accepted commands and also announced that I went live through the Discord. It was more proof of concept than anything useful but I sorta felt like Doctor Frankenstein bringing life into the world… if that life was complete and utter nonsense.

As far as doing actual gaming stuff… I grouped up with Grace and took down some low rank monsters. I never really reached the point where I farmed Low Rank content the way I now do High Rank, and as a result I am missing a ton of parts to make lower level items required to make the higher level versions. I’ve been working slowly on building a Tobi Kadachi Longsword for its lightning damage, and we wound up farming Tobi a bunch of times for parts. From there we started doing more esoteric hunts, like an Anjanath and a Pukei Pukei with a 30 minute timer in which I tried to hammer. I am not exactly completely effective as hammer, but it was a lot of fun. Unfortunately I apparently completely phased out the fact that Tam was trying to invite me to a party and wound up heading to bed around 9:20. It was a fun night, but also one where I did a bunch of silly things with minimal use to anyone. So yeah… I am apparently a Twitch Affiliate now and am starting to build up the infrastructure needed to do “stuff and things” on that platform.

Go Team Moogle’s Pom!

Bathtubs and Nonsense