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When I first started watching Twitch regularly, I thought I was watching people playing games. Then I started paying attention to the people watching them. For almost a year now, I’ve spent a ridiculous amount of time on Twitch. I spent months watching streams before...

For a long time, I thought healing required an apology. Not because I wanted revenge or validation, but because I wanted acknowledgment. A moment of honesty. A simple recognition that what happened wasn’t okay. But life doesn’t always hand us closure in neat...

INFJs have a reputation for something called the "door slam." If you've spent any amount of time around personality type discussions, you've probably seen the memes. One of my favorites goes something like this: "Pardon me, but I do not play games. I detach,...

When I was in school, I used to tease the studious kids. You know, the ones who spent most of their time buried in books while the rest of us were busy hanging out, playing games, or finding creative ways to avoid homework. “Get a life,” we’d say. At the time, it...

Photo by Anthony Tran on Unsplash There’s a kind of attachment that can feel thrilling, consuming, and almost impossible to explain. It starts innocently enough: a message that makes your heart race, a little attention that feels bigger than it should, a moment that...

A practical guide for new streamers on narrating gameplay, filling the silence, and keeping your stream engaging even when chat is quiet. Photo by ELLA DON on Unsplash So, you’ve fired up your stream, you’re pumped, and… crickets. The chat is dead. When I first...