If it helps you focus, it’s just another form of rubber ducking
Anon plays pretend
Submitted 5 months ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to greentext@sh.itjust.works
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agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Comment105@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Rubber ducking? Is that when you tape a ducky to your fupa and dry hump something/someone to get the squeaky sound?
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
No.
sit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Please. Rubber ducking. Someone?
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
It’s when you talk through a problem with an inanimate object, traditionally a rubber duck. The process of explaining the problem can help you organize your thoughts and identify otherwise elusive problems. It’s a common technique used by programmers debugging their code.
Localhorst86@feddit.org 5 months ago
Chat, am I cooked?
Agent641@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Clip that, chat.
jballs@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
My middle-school aged kids explained the difference between cooked and cookin’ to me the other day, and now they really get to roll their eyes when I intentionally use them in as corny ways as possible.
Bonus points for coming with other, terrible, slang. You can really get a cringe if you say something like "Chat, we’re cookin’ now - I’m all rizzed up”
OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
I tried streaming for the first time over the weekend. Damn is it hard to keep talking for multiple hours straight. Especially when there’s zero messages in the chat. Streamers make it look normal but damn is it not
dustyData@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Get a producer or anyone with you and talk to them. That’s how radio and TV broadcasters used to do it. They would talk to the console or camera operator. Eventually it becomes natural to talk by yourself. It does look like unhinged behavior without the context.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
But why? If you don’t enjoy it, why try to get into streaming? The chances that it’ll pay back for itself are incredibly small and it takes years of consistent streaming to get any kind of consistent audience.
If you do enjoy it, then by all means, practice a bit so it gets more natural (and more enjoyable).
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 5 months ago
do it for fun. I dabbled a little to no audiece, I just liked putting on a show. No one’s watching, well, no one listens to my music either.
leonine@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Share your twitch, I’ll follow u
OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Lmao sure ♥️ twitch.tv/dginovker
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Isn’t that statistically what most twitch streamers do
gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 5 months ago
“Normal”? Probably.
Good? Probably not.
Object@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
I don’t think it’s that bad if you’re trying to solve a problem
AngryishHumanoid@lemmynsfw.com 5 months ago
It’s probably fairly normal now, lots of people think about being a streamer.
stoy@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
I have thought about showing off my gigantic single player creative mode Minecraft map through a live stream for years, I spent most of my free time over a decade of manually just building huge, huge structures.
And pretending to show it off to a live stream, talking about it and explaining it makes it easier to remember what/why/how I built stuff…
jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
Anon wants to livestream
You want to livestream
You should both livestream
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I think they’d make a cute couple
Seeders@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
I used to do this as a kid constantly before streaming ever existed.
Taking a piss outside? Literally competing for the longest piss distance tournament and taking the gold.
ignoble_stigmas@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Are you still winning?
Seeders@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
🤣 😂 😃 😐 🙁 😟 😥 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭
ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
I’d always narrate what I was building with legos.
Title
Some kind of battle scene, inevitably. Sometimes a wall would be involved. Other times a bridge. Often both.
Rednax@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Software engineers call this rubber duck programming
dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 5 months ago
Old people used to do this too. Back then it was called an internal monologue.
LittleBorat3@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Might as well just stream
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
At that point just hit record and decide later if you want to post some parts of it.
Wil l help build confidence to start streaming.
anothercatgirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
If you learn your ways of speech from streamers and YouTube videos, and all of them talk in 2nd person to their audience, then your learned language will sound very similar to the English you listened to.
Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 5 months ago
I think that’s just thinking out loud or talk to yourself. It’s another story if OOP overreact on every turn though.
IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Anon should just do a stream and do their best and hope one of the popular streamers/youtubers pity them and give them a donation and a shoutout to a massive audience.
Pity views better than no views.
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 5 months ago
…we don’t all do this?
Eiri@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
I used to do it a lot as a teenager. For everything in my life. Now much less. I wonder why.
OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Your body adapted after realizing it was a total waste of energy?
A less cynacle (however you spell that) theory might be it’s useful for language learning/practicing.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Talking to myself helps me remember stuff and figure out stuff faster.
It’s your game, role-play how you want. Wage slaving tends to beat the ability to plat out of some of us. Have fun your way.
I certainly wouldnt want to play pretend being a streamer. It looks like the world’s most exhausting job ever. Having to constantly have a web presence everywhere, talking to Randoms 24/7, being unable to switch what game you’re playing because your fan base is the most niche interest group possible. He’ll no, not for me. My basement, my games.
Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 5 months ago
When I play wrestling video games at night, I turn off commentary and just do it myself. My daughter walked in on me and was looking at me like I was nuts
nutsack@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I would love for someone to listen to me talk
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
If you’re in the US, the NSA has your back. If you’re not, the NSA probably still has your back.
AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I sometimes do it while I work, talking like I’m recording a video tutorial.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Maybe not normal, but as long as you know that the audience isn’t there, it’s a harmless kind of weird 🤷
So go for it, fake gay guy!
Matriks404@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I did that when playing EU4 for some time. I have probably watched too many let’s players, lol.
germtm_@lemmy.world 5 months ago
same but for everything in my life.
i know, that sounds schizo as fuck, my dear chat members.
madjo@feddit.nl 5 months ago
I live alone, I too talk to the imaginary camera to keep sane. At least I think it keeps me sane.
Thanks for the bits, bananaman66764.
TrousersMcPants@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Ah see, I talk to my cat when I’m at home. It isn’t just me talking to myself, it’s enrichment for my little furry buddy!