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I& #39;ve been low-key setting myself up for streaming and content creation over the past couple of months, focusing on a very queer angle and enabling a safe, resilient community. I& #39;ve got Patreon, Discord, Picarto, Twitch, YouTube and this Twitter all mostly set up.
Here& #39;s what& #39;s on the table: TTRPGs using FoundryVTT, digital art, games/vr/modding, YouTube guides/panels & edited streams. SFW streaming to Twitch, but there will be a lot of NSFW streams to Picarto, with NSFW vids going to Patreon.
(for those alarmed by the NSFW stuffâsex work is a valid profession BUT this is not a thing I& #39;m going to be doing. No porn a.k.a. myself or other real people masturbating/fucking on video. That isn& #39;t for me. This is roleplay/art/games onlyâand I& #39;m staying in my lane of very gay)
(I& #39;ve got a group of local gay friends on boardâwe have trust + frank conversations/tools for safety & consentâand for future campaigns/multiplayer I& #39;ll be scouting additional BIMPOCâwe& #39;re mostly white at the moment)
I& #39;ve been poking OBS. Haven& #39;t bought an overlay yet because yesterday I did a Curse of Hearts (by @deathbybadger) session zero. I tried using Skype, sending friends& #39; videos via NDI to OBS, sending via virtual cam to Discord streaming. It was too much though and didn& #39;t work out.
In the future I& #39;ll be running Foundry VTT as well as streaming to Picarto so I really need the technology to work. I guess for Curse of Hearts I& #39;m just going to record my screen and edit videos to be Patreon exclusives, but streaming is a huge opportunity for community.
So this week I am doing whatever I can to see if streaming is possible or practical on my Surface Book 3, and if not I& #39;m looking into building a gaming/VR/streaming rig with the new NVIDIA 3080 graphics card
It is very expensive to build a rig, and my Surface Book 3 was extremely expensive, so I really have to do all I can to get as much value out of it as possible. But I& #39;ve already hit walls I didn& #39;t anticipate.
Aside from the streaming stuff, I also can& #39;t use Oculus Link because their software refuses to work if you don& #39;t have an HDMI port, even if your laptop internals are sufficient. It& #39;s really been a huge disappointment.
So we& #39;ll see... In the meantime, please share any solutions you have, PC parts good with a 3080, and whether you think trying to crowdfund this would be appropriate? Thanks!
Here& #39;s a little preview of how I am doing safe spaces in my discord. Thinking I& #39;ll add more soon. I am staying in my lane with my content BUT I know my audience will include all sorts of folks and intersectionality is so so important for all of us
Here& #39;s how I gatekeep for accepting the rules
Discord has NSFW verification but I also added my own so that mods can monitor it
