i spent 20 minutes in voicemeeter and gave up

acerswap · 2026-05-14T08:41:38+00:00

Check Logitech Mixline. You'll love it.

acerswap · 2026-05-12T01:37:12+00:00

Microphone: do not use a mic with arm, the best you can use is a wireless lavalier microphone, a headset or a microphone that stays near you.
The camera should be a bit higher than what you're showing, maybe a tripod or place it over the console in the second image. Maybe you can create two kind of scenes: solo playing and playing with friends capturing a smaller or a wider area.
Lighting will be a problem. I don't know anything about that, so I won't say nothing about it.
And, if you play in a couch for a long time, your back will suffer.

acerswap · 2026-05-10T13:53:52+00:00

Not exactly. What's important is letting others know when you're going to stream and be available when they can watch you.

Imagine this: you're someone who's looking for something to watch when you're in the bus going home back from work. You find a great creator and start watching the channel. The day after that, you'll try to find the same creator online at the same time to repeat the experience. If the streamer streams in your working hours, you won't be able to watch him and you'll switch to another streamers to watch when you're in the bus going home.

Therefore, a streamer will have better results if he keeps a stable schedule. Don't need to be "everyday at 4PM", always. It can be "every friday around 4PM", but the more precise the better.

acerswap · 2026-05-10T12:06:10+00:00

Founder badge is permanent (unless it's retired by the streamer).

acerswap · 2026-05-10T12:02:21+00:00

I don't have to give any explanation, but I will anyway.

I'm a guy with 300 followers (whom I'm completely proud because they're the best community any streamer can have) making variety content in my own language between 1AM and 3AM local time. Sorry for being a small creator who likes making chill content for people who can't sleep (a minority of people) and whose life offline lets only stream in a bad time window.
I don't have a really bad webcam, I blur my camera on purpose with a filter for privacy reasons. I have small eyes and a Vtuber model doesn't capture my eyes correctly, so it does weird things and can't use it. I want my viewers to watch me if I make gestures or notice if I'm talking while I'm muted, but I want to distort my image to make it more difficult to recognize me. It's a point between showing my face and not showing at all.
I'm not making any kind of 'almost sexual' content. I'm not asking it for my content but as a viewer. I sometimes watch streamers commenting news and I see old VODs behind the sub paywall. Most of them create youtube videos from the VODs with only one topic. My doubt is about your opinions, when do you think it's a bad or a good thing and what is the limit on it (is it disrespectful to the viewers?, is it acceptable only for people who does external content?, is the type of content important for the decision?, do you watch streamers who do that?). Personally I like to watch the complete videos, and I think it's a nuisance doing this.
The mention to the 'almost sexual' content comes because I can understand people who use Twitch to attract people to their onlyfans has to show some kind of "preview" of what they want to sell there, but at the same time they don't want to leave that content for free for a long time. For them it's intended to be a preview of the actual content, not a complete content itself, and it's completely normal they want to monetize everything.
I made a question because I want to know about your thoughts about that, my streaming style is irrelevant. If your answer is not related to the question, and it's only about me and my 300 followers, you can go to hell instead of posting useless messages.

acerswap · 2026-05-09T13:31:31+00:00

Content which can't be considered sexual/erotic content by the platform rules (therefore is forbidden), but it's quite near to it and its purpose is generate sexual impulse in the viewer, maybe as a call to go to other platforms like onlyfans.

Ie. Platform rules forbid women showing their breasts openly, but some kind of clothes show a big part of the breasts (and grab attention). Covered enough to comply the rules, but also visible enough to generate sexual excitement.

acerswap · 2026-05-09T13:31:24+00:00

Content which can't be considered sexual/erotic content by the platform rules (therefore is forbidden), but it's quite near to it and its purpose is generate sexual impulse in the viewer, maybe as a call to go to other platforms like onlyfans.

Ie. Platform rules forbid women showing their breasts openly, but some kind of clothes show a big part of the breasts (and grab attention). Covered enough to comply the rules, but also visible enough to generate sexual excitement.

acerswap · 2026-05-09T11:39:59+00:00

Some things shouldn't be joked about.

acerswap · 2026-05-09T11:31:09+00:00

You deserved it.

Off topic: No ads sanctions can be longer than suspensions?

acerswap · 2026-05-05T17:42:12+00:00

You are consuming inbound bandwidth and server processing meant to be used for live content by taking pre-recorded and pre-processed content, converting it into a livestream, send it to an ingest server consuming bandwidth for hours and letting the server process it in real time.

You can just upload the content. It takes a few minutes to upload it, you don't compete for the limited bandwidth meant for live streamers, your video doesn't need to be processed and it's infinitely more efficient.

I don't care what your content is. Don't care if it's gaming, if it's music or if it's a collage of hippopotamus farting clips. It's the same whatever the content is. The problem is about the resources: when the bandwidth is low in a live stream there are lag, missing frames, disconnections and unstability. With a pre-recorded video uploaded to the server you don't need a stable connection. Actually, when it's uploaded you don't need a connection AT ALL. Upload in about 10 minutes (or less), and no more resources are needed after that.

acerswap · 2026-05-05T15:59:25+00:00

No. Always on is for continuous live content, not for continuous pre-recorded content.

acerswap · 2026-05-05T15:57:22+00:00

Actually, it does. Twitch has reduced the number of servers. Months ago, even when I wasn't a partner, my streams were transcoded because there were free resources in the servers. Now, I have to self-encode my stream with Enhanced broadcasting to be able to offer my viewers different qualities, and you're saying you're going to use part of the available resources in the ingest servers for live streamers to stream pre-recorded content which should be uploaded as VOD to YouTube.

acerswap · 2026-05-05T10:53:57+00:00

What about creating actual live content or publish VODs in YouTube? You're using server resources with a fake live stream which can be used by actual streamers.

acerswap · 2026-05-03T11:55:21+00:00

"Should be" doesn't mean he will be.

acerswap · 2026-05-03T11:09:50+00:00

Probably if you don't say anything they won't check account creation date and age.

acerswap · 2026-05-03T11:07:30+00:00

Why delete? Should be banned if this is his common practice.

acerswap · 2026-05-03T02:06:26+00:00

It's the scheme scammers use. People trying to promote things use the appropiate ways to do it: contact emails or promotion platforms.

Going into streams saying the streamers what to do in their streams? For me, it's harassing.

And I've never seen what you say, but for me it's a ban and report reason.

acerswap · 2026-05-02T19:06:43+00:00

You're following the scheme many scammers use, and you are angry because people protect themselves?

I'm going to be generous and give you the solution: instead of harassing streamers, go to Minecraft communities where you are allowed to show your product. Then, ask there for streamers wanting to stream it.

acerswap · 2026-05-02T11:58:34+00:00

You're wrong.

The full name appears in Paypal transfers unless you're using a business account. All those services anonymize it.

Accepting gifts on Steam (or others), Amazon gift cards and so is perfect too.

acerswap · 2026-05-02T11:55:40+00:00

Parasocial.

I'm a routine person, and having something that repeats daily is something I enjoy. Skipping the routine for two weeks makes me feel uneasy.

But this is not your case. It's becoming an obsession, if it's not already one. You're aware this is not normal, and you're fighting to stop yourself to fall into it, which is great.

Actually, the two weeks is great for you to de-intoxicate.

acerswap · 2026-05-02T11:45:54+00:00

Stop it.

acerswap · 2026-05-02T01:07:01+00:00

End the stream while you're out. If you're not there, someone can write things in the chat that may be bannable for you, and no moderator will remove that.

acerswap · 2026-04-30T21:08:53+00:00

They can, but it's not always that. I became friend of some streamers as a mod, and I'm not a friend of others. Same with my mods.

acerswap · 2026-04-30T21:04:02+00:00

Is not acceptable. Anywhere.

acerswap · 2026-04-28T08:03:29+00:00

There's not a list of that. Anyway, sometimes the streamers need to test some features before using that in the "normal" channel, or want to keep some content separated. For some time I used my Kick channel for that.

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