Tuesday, April 2, 2019

Monthly Progress Report For My Twitch Channel FuzzyJCats, October 25 Through November 24

Twitch Channel FuzzyJCats

Finally knowing and feeling that I want to stream for my community, and enjoying the process and challenges of improving stream content, as opposed to numbers grasping, I had a wonderful month streaming.

The first day back after my hiatus was rocky and rusty, but I felt the same joy I did the first month of streaming.

I wasn't upset about the drop in numbers (50% drop) as it was fun talking and socializing with chat. It also reignited my desire to improve which can be rather challenging. Being challenged and rising to the challenge makes me happy.

I set up a better schedule for myself, as discussed in the last monthly progress report, and streamed between 1 to 2 hours in the morning after exercise and chores, which worked extremely well for my lifestyle and well-being.

At first even 1 hour was difficult, so I don't know how I was able to stream 4 hrs starting out! But because of my new plan of stating only 1 hr, I can go over if I want to.

At any rate, the interesting thing about not caring about "success" in terms of viewers to the road of Partnership is that I felt more free and daring. I wasn't afraid of making mistakes so I can be more spontaneous.

There was a couple of moments during streaming near the end of November that I felt natural and effortless, though most of the time, I had to really focus and concentrate.

In terms of improvement, I would like to see myself typing less and incorporating ways to support my viewers who are streamers instead of "shouting out" which means typing their link in chat, causing the eyesore that is clutter.

I've noticed when watching streams, when chat gets clogged with auto-messages of auto-bots, it's harder to read what others are saying, as you have to scroll down. It's not aesthetically pleasing to see a block of text. That's the precise reason why I got rid of hydratebot, who reminds you to drink water.


Of course if someone raids and brings their viewers over, you must shout-out and thank the person. I think it's also kosher to shout out your team members. As a member of both Midnight Saloon and Pallet Town, as well as a participant of RoyaleStreamers, I'll have to be cognizant to use the shout-out commands.

Because I was more free, I noticed some of the "bad habits" slipping in, mainly filler words. Therefore, I want to be able to stream content by getting rid of filler words ("so", "now", "like", etc), and replacing them with more meaningful descriptive words. That will definitely improve my content.

Progress made:
  • Improved schedule with less expectations in amount of streaming hours, which helps to reduce burnout
  • Not caring about viewer numbers.
  • Had moments of feeling spontaneous and free during streaming
  • Reinvigorated my wanting to improve stream
Improvements:
  • Getting rid of filler words
  • Decrease typing in chat drastically, which will reduce chat clutter

Math Explorables

There are times when I'm on YouTube watching a math video that I think, "oh, that would be fun to play with!" What I should do is recreate the diagram in Desmos or Geogebra. But instead I just move on to another video. Recently I decided I should try making some diagrams, in part to improve my Javascript/web skills, but in part because it seemed like it'd be fun! So I did this for two math videos:

Mathologer multiplication on a circle
3Blue1Brown Feynman's Last Lecture

Both of these were quick, under an hour (mostly fiddling with colors, line widths, transparency, etc): an ellipse from line segments, multiplication with modulo on a circle.

Monday, April 1, 2019

Teaser: Weeburg Day 2

With reinforcements having arrived over night and more on the way, the battle has resumed.

The action began with a heavy bombardment by the Rebels' massed batteries which has cleared the opposing artillery from the ridge.

Already the Dominion's field hospital is busy. 

More tomorrow!