here clicking in the mouse there's Adam hey Adam
oh you remember that project we started last summer that involved me and twitch
and maybe learning how to stream to twitch yeah you were gonna be a twitch
start right uh well if you want to call it that sure I wouldn't you guys like to
talk about that a couple of things I wanted to ask you about yeah let's go to
the table cool all right what'd you want to talk about uh so I thought about it
and I realized I don't actually know what goes into a set up for twitch I'm
assuming it's more than just the software and I could have spent time
researching it but I decided to take the easy way out and just ask you uh well
that's assuming that I know
no I do everything everything so yeah you're gonna need to figure out a couple
things hardware and software related camera you know with a lot of these
actually you're gonna be talking about like the camera that's live-streaming me
are we yes yes so I'm talking about anything like related to like you're
gonna have to you're gonna have to be on camera
yes yeah sorry I know you got the little tape over your webcam here but poor for
streaming people want to see your face so I don't need any fancy right I can
just do like I mean with all this stuff you can go really fancy and really
high-end or you can be like hey you know I'm person of the people all right well
I mean you can you know easily go with a webcam you know a Logitech c920 is like
okay I got one of those thing everyone does if you wanted to step it up there
are definitely things you can do we fight mount this thing yeah yeah like a
like a nice mirrorless and do like a no go
comlink like I said it depends on how high quality you want to go I think I'd
still rather do the logitech stuff just because if I actually ever wanted to
stream from home I'm not going to have crazy mirrorless setup okay and then the
next thing which is definitely more important is audio because you want
people hear you talking because yes you have to talk you're going to either have
to interact with your audience or they're gonna hear you just breathing
awkwardly sure that whatever you can go with a headset you know with a headset
with a mic you can go like a little desktop mic that's either USB based or
you can go like really high-end with like really nice microphones like we use
for for the full nerd so is it the headset just for the microphone or do I
also need a headset no hardly no I mean you're gonna need a headset regardless
because you got to hear the game yeah I think the difference between a headset
with a microphone built-in and one without it is probably just the quality
it's usually the the ones that are here a little bit more like a you know radio
chatter you know you know I mean it's not bad it's not bad but you know
usually nice desktop microphones like a blue Yeti or we even have a hyper X oh
the new one that new thing yeah oh about that yeah hey and the lights up you got
our GP right you know so the next thing I would say this to be lighting I have
to worry about lighting you don't have to but I would recommend you think about
it okay you know there's obviously
artificial light I mean we use really nice studio lighting in here and you
can't use any of that that'd be cheating so I would recommend wait how is it
cheating well because I mean this is very expensive lady but we're talking
more than just having like me dragging over like an extra lamp right I don't
only about like softbox type things right yes but there's ways to do it like
like like a person of the people right I mean if you borrow one of our right if
you borrow one of our you know really expensive lights that's that's not you
know okay no I don't mean that I just mean I just mean that I didn't
know that I had you more than turn on like a lamp I mean you could actually I
have a oh man I'm gonna blink Gordon and I've reviewed this like desktop lamp
that sits at the top of your monitor it's like LED based it's actually really
cool so I mean you can use a desk lamp if you really want but you're probably
gonna want to step it up yeah once again oh god oh I know I keep saying it but
they they have a thing called key light I think it's what it's called it's like
LED based solution they have like little stands that go on to a desk they're USB
based you can control the lighting from your computer so what's the purpose of
it like are we trying to get my best angles kind of thing here or is it just
a heart like soften any harsh lighting that might be coming from the like
ambient surroundings or both and also especially if you're gonna go with a
webcam yeah usually those needs a lot more light pumped in to have a good
quality so if it's too dark it's gonna be really grainy it kind of drops the
exposure and then just it's not pretty so you are gonna want a lot of light
with a webcam so how much are we talking about I were to get some base
but decent lights well I mean you can get bald based lighting like real basic
lighting kit on Amazon for like 40 dollars or something I mean I've looked
exactly but it's it's essentially just a really crappy stand with a couple bulbs
in a softbox er not a softbox put an umbrella yeah usually you can get two of
those but also it depends also where you're gonna do it which you know we can
talk about a little bit or we can talk about now uh the you can't do in here
yeah that's cheating yeah it's just so much yeah how about your desk no no no I
don't think my supervisor would appreciate me streaming okay well cuz
the other idea is to do like a green screen and kind of cut yourself out so
that you when you place yourself in the in the software yeah I don't like it I
personally like feeling like you're gonna place in a space I mean I guess we
could use the Macworld set the living room set I mean that would make it
easier also because the lighting we get a lot of natural light in there and I
seems like it's a lot of room acceptable and then I guess that's probably mostly
it for hardware obviously other than computer in the monitor right yeah well
actually unless you want to talk about props yeah Gordon Gordon mentioned you
know you can't be a real streamer unless you have a gaming chair so we do have
that secret lab Omega that I was sitting in but I think you'd be less of me
sitting in it and more of me being enveloped by yeah cuz that one's not
built for somebody - oh and gunner optics you need some Gunners you know I
mean streamers you should use Gunners are we talking glasses yeah yeah you
don't know Gunners yeah they're the ones with the yellow tint
they're like gamer glasses most I would do so we have I don't know if y'all saw
this and one of a videos I put in those in the peel one
twitch promotional yeah yeah just plastic or it just says twitching the
story perforated I will wear those okay yeah it's not gonna be hard to see the
game actually wanted well then I have an excuse why I'm sucking so bad yeah okay
so on the software side you're gonna you're planning on running everything on
that one box right you're not doing like yeah so I mean you can use things like
Nvidia like the GeForce experience you can I mean almost everything streams out
personally I like I'm gonna say a legato again this is not sponsored by a god oh
but the I know right geez there's stream deck software is is pretty powerful
especially because last year they updated it to have like different scenes
you could switch to meaning a scene is when you have a game with you small or
you switch to a second scene which is you big in the game small or like I had
things like your twitch handle you know graphic overlay and stuff like it or I
mean you can go if you're a person of the people you can go OBS there you go
you know everybody loves OBS and it's really powerful the problem is that it's
very obtuse you know and it's it's easy for somebody like me to go in there and
muck around with settings but to the average user it's it's a little harder
so I think it just depends on what you want to do wait so do I actually need to
have different scenes I can't just have one fixed I mean you don't need to but I
would say that's a that's the bare minimum is probably two scenes I mean
it's way more involved I thought I was gonna be hey you know what it takes a
lot to be a star I know I'm not even trying to be a star I just wanted to see
what it was like and now mm-hmm yeah too late too late every
documented so and then I guess the bigger thing to think about is game what
game you want to play because you can go you can go with a game that you know and
love and you're just sharing your experiences with everybody or you can go
with a brand new game that you've never played before and maybe other people
know like a Dark Souls you know and it's like really hard and you're trying to
figure it out and people like seeing you figure it out but they can also like
helping you get through it or you can go you know just whatever is the new
hotness I don't know what the new hotness is right now a division to
probably do you have an idea on what gaming on the play um I think I'm on the
fence still between playing a game that I know and really love and trying a new
one because there's so many games my backlog but I would like to play at some
point hmm but at the same time there's games like like Ori and the blind forest
I never went back and I played and played the definitive version
okay well platformers then are you planning on playing a mouse and keyboard
or I haven't told Gordon yet um well before we do this we should probably
tell Gordon because it's nice probably gonna have night someone to say button
we can talk to him but I am NOT seeking his blessing I am gonna tell him I was
blessing so he's not shocked he'll be appalled but at least that way who won't
be shocked let's see what he says I I think he's at his desk right now let's
go see what he says
hey Gordon Adam tells me that I have to tell you something for my twitch stream
I'm not gonna be using mouse and keyboard not sure why he thinks I have
to tell you this in advance but here I am confessing my sins apparently I did
wonder if you're gonna use a controller so that may be why he mentioned that
because I don't his reaction seems very subdued Adam I
think he's he's being pretty nice about it I think there's some times I mean if
you're playing a fighting game you definitely should be using a controller
I might be doing a platformer what's your feeling about that oh well sure
that's the same thing right I mean it's only limited to first-person shooters I
have to worry yeah hey so that means you'll join us on the stream and then
play some controller resist no but I'm saying it's I understand it there are
times right tool for the right job not yelling about the right tool being the
right job for all jobs I want it to be known then I have rules keep on camera
yep all right controllers controllers are good says
good Gordon lon yeah interviews over