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Struggling

Despite my best efforts I am still not out of my mental slump. Last night was the worst night I had for a long time. So many dark thoughts which kept seeming increasingly a good idea. I need to get out of this soon otherwise I may have to go back to the doctors. Although the docs will just give me more drugs and put me on a waiting list for counselling (which never comes.) The state of mental health care in the UK is shocking. Not much else to say except that I do not know if I will…
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Finally hitting the button

A few days after saying I was going to stream I finally did it today. Only for just over an hour but I managed to banish my anxiety long enough to hit the "Start stream" button. I started a fresh play through of Planet Crafter as planned. Everything seemed to go ok apart from my headset crackling a little bit. That turned out to be a Windows setting issue. Nobody came to the stream except for one bot trying to get me to buy follows. I won't be trying to stream as a career, more as a curiosity. I mean,…
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Taking the plunge

I've been thinking about streaming for quite some time. Not on a regular basis but just to try it out. The thing is I get quite anxious and the thought of doing it has put me off quite a bit. I have set up OBS and run some local tests although I have not set up a capture card yet. I plan on streaming Planet Crafter for a couple of reasons but mostly because I am familiar with it so if I have stream problems, I can handle it better (it also pauses.) I am not sure that I will…
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