Tag: Love and Happiness

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Day 3 of 5 | PS4 Offline…Talent management

A top-down look at Game Streaming is fascinating.

Why watch streamers anyway?  Well, as a veteran gamer it’s always good to watch gamers do things I don’t have the time or talent to do.  Right now, my PS4 is off-line and boxed up so naturally, I’ll just watch my favourite streamers.

Gamers voice and talent

The layer of talent management is a brilliant niche offering streamers services like event management, sponsorship negations, channel staffing, PR, career management, legal and finance.

This is a true recognition of the massive variety of streamers representing an actual legitimate career path and free channel of expression.  An interesting detailed article appeared in The New Yorker this week featuring Online Performers Group…….Read the full article here

According to Twitch.TV FAQs there are 17,000 Partners globally, so this is still very much something the Marketing people have not figured out how to truly monetise.

I’m guessing Streamer fall into 
these broad categories

Skill-based
Variety
Casual
Full-time
Sponsored
Fan-based
Broadcaster
Journalist 
...the list goes on

Seems to me the market is still trying to figure out the ‘Path of a Streamer’ but when a free-flowing arena gets formalised the community just morphs into something else.

Remember when you could say anything on mainstream social media channels?

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Shutting down for the Year

2017 was good to me in terms of recovering from my self-created 2015 personal austerity.   I paid attention to lessons learned and didn’t repeat my mistakes.

I found Love and Lost money, I stayed healthy and thrived professionally.

It’s all still very fragile and I’m not where I need to be but…

2018 is all about grinding one foot ahead at a time.  Most of all it’s about working on my true Dreams and Hope first, after all, I can’t make others happy if I’m not happy.

 

Academia in Vienna
Driving in Florida
Living in London

Avoiding the Fool’s Gold Door for 2018

In the meantime, Horizon Zero Dawn’s DLC  dropped and Star Wars Battlefront II is here next week for most of us.

Be Happy Johnson

My 2018 Top  Game PlayList (New and titles to complete)

Annual software budget $500 | Annual Hardware budget $400

Current Library 
Fall Out 4 - (Level 30 right now)
Alien: Isolation
Life is Strange (Episodes 2-5)
Until Dawn
Tom Clancy's The Division - UN Mission 

Wish List 
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
Far Cry 5
Horizon Zero Dawn - The Frozen Wilds
Star Wars Battlefront 2
Detroit: Become Human
Days Gone
OVERKILL’s The Walking Dead
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The Comfort of Denial

One of the easiest emotions to embrace is pure denial, It’s like a warm duvet on a cold winter night.

Gaming is the ultimate denial of the real world. Feeling broke? Go out and find some loot. Feeling alone? Dive into a multiplayer session.

I think I can, I think I can, I think I can

Denial clouds the mind leading to lack of action in the futile hope that things will just get better on their own. Taking actions means risk. Risk of losing everything but also carries the real possibility that thing will improve.

Here are some great countermeasures:

Step 1  – Look at the cold hard facts
Step 2 – Look at your real options including the Hail Mary plays.
Step 3 – Take a single step forward

Christmas flight booked

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Unbreakable @ 51

My week-long birthday celebrations ended in London entertained by Rare Grove and Soul legends Don E, London’s Omar and Eric Benét (51).

Absolutely fabulous being in Brixton at this time, good people, great food and just an all-around nice time.  I haven’t done this for the longest time.

Most of all, I was around the people I Love.

 

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Thank You

Hi everyone,

I am truly thankful for your friendship during my 51st Party.

You all made me feel really special and actual human.  Friends and family gatherings are a rare precious luxury in my life and I do not take any of it for granted, especially as I appreciate you all have busy London lives.

Reasons to be Cheerful Part 51

Special Thanks goes out to the Hosts, Music entertainment, The Daughters, prezzie givers and The Lady in my Life.

Bye for now and don’t you dare Facebook me.

“I’m just a simple man trying to make my way in the universe.” — Jango Fett