testing new stream setup

Interesting.

So I've got this plan.

If I close my MacBook The

stream should still stream. Watch this.

I need to change the Output.

Where is it? USB camera.

No.

Testing, testing.

Hello, hello,

hello.

Testing, testing.

Hello. Oh, hello.

Okay, let me see what this sounds like.

Okay, let me see what this sounds like.

Oh wow, it sounds fucking good.

Okay, so now we shut down the MacBook and

we should still be streaming, should still

have audio. Oh wow, I could do this,

use this outside.

That's so weird because whenever I use

this mic on my phone when I stream, it

makes like a crackling sound.

Use this outside.

Wow, I'm so happy now. I'm like a

professional streamer. Wow, I could put

the MacBook in my backpack.

Wait, so how would text-to-speech work?

I mean, I'd have to get like a speaker, I

guess. I'm not gonna walk around with a

bloody speaker though, like those IRL

streamers used to do.

So I could put the MacBook into my

backpack and then carry the webcam like

this and then

flip it around and stuff.

Walk around with a massive speaker. Yeah,

that's how everyone got banned. Like, uh,

Anything for Views. Sand pepper, all that.

That's how everyone got banned. Like, uh,

anything for views, sand pepper, all that.

And then flip it around and stuff.

What do you think of this stream setup?

What do you think of this stream setup? I

tried using the AI little swivelly camera,

but it keeps swiveling around and it gives

me motion sickness. I think it'll just

make everyone feel sick. I can't turn off

the swivelly gimbal thing.

What would I do? I don't want to do

text-to-speech. I do, but I don't want to

hear it. But I want the viewers to be able

Just thinking. Am I bored enough to do

an IRL stream? Because I'm so freaking

bored these days. Am I bored enough to do

an IRL stream? Because I'm so freaking

bored these days. This actually works

bloody well. Jesus.

Just thinking,

why is there like a weird— there's like a

weird echo. Why is there like a weird—

there's like a weird echo. Yeah, I hear

an echo as well. I don't know where it's

Oh yeah, I hear an echo as well.

Maybe the webcam's microphone is active as

well. Hold on. Maybe the webcam's

microphone is active as well.

Epic programmer mode. How many audio

sources do I have?

Audio input capture.

No, there's just one.

I've still got 5 Twitch subscribers after

like 6 months of not streaming on Twitch.

Whoever still stays stubbed— whoever Still

stays stubbed. Whoever still stayed

subbed, thanks very much for the—it's

like five dollars though. Twitch takes

half of it. No, it's not even five

dollars.

It's like two dollars. Is it? No way.

Two dollars fifty per person. Two

times—it's like ten dollars something. I

don't know. I can't do maths.

Twitch takes half of it. No, it's not even

$5. It's like— yeah,

I don't know why. Fuck's sake,

there's like a weird reverberation.

When did it start doing that?

Device external microphone. Yes.

Device external microphone. I've disabled

the default mic thing. I've disabled

the default mic thing.

How do I fix this?

How do I fix this?

Okay, I switched it back to the MacBook

microphone. How does it sound?

I've got my phone on mute,

so it shouldn't be picking up my phone

sound. Okay, I switched

it back to the MacBook microphone. How

does it sound? Okay, let me switch

back to the plugin.

External. If the MacBook's

in my bag, I wouldn't be able to use the

MacBook microphone. Anyway, if the

MacBook's in my bag, I wouldn't be able to

use the MacBook microphone.

Anyway,

hmm.

I don't know.

Why would it be doing an echo?

Testing, testing, testing.

Testing. Testing. There's no audio coming

out my iPhone. I turn the volume down.

Is it still echoing?

Wait, I could hear like a whisper sound.

Where did that come from?

Maybe my MacBook speakers are making a

sound I can't hear. Okay, I muted

my laptop now. What happened?

Wait, I could hear like a whisper sound.

Where did that come from?

Maybe my MacBook speakers are making a

sound that I can't hear. Okay, I muted

my laptop now. What happened?

Wait, I can I hear like a whisper sound.

Where did that come from?

Maybe my MacBook speakers are making a

sound that I can't hear. Oh, I think I

know why, because I've got the stream

playing in the background on Twitch.

Maybe it was making a bit of sound. Now I

mute it. How about now? Is it still

echoing?

No echo. Yes, we fixed another problem.

The life of a video game dev,

constantly fixing problems. You try and

add something new and then just break

something else, and then you gotta fix

Okay, so we got audio, we've got

visuals, we've got— let me test

a donation. I got one from Vlogfield

10 days ago.

What? Why did Vlogfield donate 10 days ago

on Twitch?

Okay, can you hear that?

I don't think you can. Alert box,

alert box should be coming from— because I

don't have any speakers enabled now.

Hmm, I need it to pick up a

sound from the computer.

I'm hungry. Why am I hungry at 11?

Some troll is pretending to be VlogVilled,

I think. They were pretending to be Cesium

before. I saw Caesium in the chat just

When you gonna drop Pia off again? I

haven't had sex in ages. 2022 might

be the first year in my whole life that I

don't have sex. Can you imagine it?

I have not— not had sex.

Since 2010, I think. Let me think.

2016 and '15 were dry spells, but I had

the Korean ex-girlfriend to fall back on.

Escorts don't count. You can't count

escorts on your score sheet. That's

cheating. That's like playing World of

Warcraft and then just paying for like

gold and then chalking that down as

skill. It's like playing some kind of MOBA

game, and then you just pay for loads of

gold, and then you just crush your

enemies. It doesn't count. The only sex

that counts is the sex when they want to

do it with you, and then you're not like

bribing them or paying them.

Paid-for sex is completely useless.

It doesn't— it doesn't count as anything.

Okay, so yeah, that's the problem. We need

the alert box to play sound, but I've got

all the speakers disabled.

Let me think,

because if I even turn— wait, if I

do turn this— no, wait. I don't want the

speakers going off in my backpack,

but then it should be so quiet that only

the viewers can hear.

It doesn't make any sound now. This is a

test bit alert.

I don't know how to do this.

Maybe this is the beginning of my new

journey as an IRL streamer. I'm hungry

cuz I got a new battery bank coming as

well. It's 26 1,000 milliamp.

Ouch. Okay, let me think.

Da da da da.

Da da da da.

Twenty-six thousand milliamps sounds like

a lot. Yeah, it says it can charge. A

phone 6 or 7 times.

So if your phone battery life expectancy

is a couple hours, then you just times

that by 6. I can get like 10+ hours

battery life. I don't know how much

battery the MacBook would drain. I'm at

75% now and I started around— I've already

lost like 15% and I've

been streaming for 21 minutes.

Follow Asian Andy's setup.

They have really expensive, complicated

setups. Like Andy Milonakis,

he's got like that, that specialist

streamer backpack thing which costs

like $4,000. It's got this special

multi-modem Teradek reading thing.

It's just so advanced. He's got a really

expensive mirrorless camera on a selfie

stick attached to— I don't know what it's

attached to. It's not even a computer. He

doesn't even have a computer in his

backpack. He has like a— it's like a

block, like a router.

I have no idea how it works. You plug the

camera into it and it receives signals

from different SIM cards, and then it's

like remotely connected to a desktop. I

don't know how he operates the desktop

remotely. Maybe has like a moderator.

Too complicated. I remember when Ice

Poseidon was like a pioneer in coming up

with this contraption that would allow him

to stream outside, and I was trying to

figure out how it works for such a long

time. He was first person doing

that stuff. He had

like this massive selfie stick with this

big camera on it, with a phone attached to

it, with a battery bank attached to it.

It was like this weird A techno magical

wand thing. It must look weird seeing him

outside with that.

Because I kind of want to livestream my

journey to Scotland. I think it would be

fun, and I don't really feel like

there'd be a huge risk. Maybe I'm just

overthinking things. Thinking things are

way riskier than they actually are. I

don't know why I've become so paranoid.

Risky in the sense that some weirdo might

show up and make me feel uncomfortable.

Okay, so how do I

get— I can't even hear any sound now.

This is a test bit alert.

Oh, because I've got my microphone plugged

in, it cancels out the speakers.

We hear the alert. I don't hear it. Let me

Oh, it does work.

Yeah, I just muted it because I was

listening to my playback. Oh, it does

work, doesn't it? So is it too loud or too

quiet?

Okay, we got everything sorted. I need to

now put the whole gear setup into my

backpack and see what it's like.

I just feel like if I streamed everything,

I could squeeze out so much content and

then just clip it, highlight, edit

highlights, and put it onto the second

channel. And then I could like double

profit off of the same experience.

My new videos are just bombing so hard. I

don't know what's happened. It's like my

level has just dropped enough— another

level in viewership. I'm struggling

to even get 5K views in the first day now.

I need to change something. I need to do

something new. I can't just keep

regurgitating these same stories.

Yeah, I need new stories. I've already

told every other story a billion times.

I noticed even the haters are gone. Yeah,

I even get barely any haters, even calling

Tomoko old and ugly. I have still like

2 haters that are quite persistent.

There's that princess exclamation mark

But I used to just get loads of hate

comments. Most of them are gone now,

which is kind of sad because part of the

fun I had was, um, provoking them and

egging them on.

Is this the end of hate, Chima?

2022 could be the final nail. Now I lost

my haters as well.

Do you think it's because of YouTube

getting rid of dislike buttons and being

really strict on the comments? Because you

can't even leave a hate comment these

days. I actually do see a lot of hate

comments, but they get automatically

removed. So I feel like people are

realizing their comments are getting

removed if they write a toxic comment,

and then they're just kind of getting fed

up and giving up. My channel kind of

thrived off negativity, and now YouTube

are implementing all these things to get

rid of negativity, and it's kind of— I

think it's damaging my channel.

So I'm not the one deleting comments,

they get automatically removed if you say

stuff like, fuck you, Daniel, hope you

I thought I'd be happy if the haters went

away, but then now I realize the haters

made up such a big part of the viewership.

There's still that guy who donates like

$1, $1, $1, $1 just to insult me.

So a few of them might still be around.

It's not that drama stuff is lowering the

algo, it's just that I don't have any

drama. There's been literally no drama

apart from the pier thing, which happened

over a year ago. Not— it was like March

last year, cuz I've just kept

my mouth shut about certain things.

Are there black bars at the bottom of the

screen? Okay, let me put the laptop

in my backpack.

This could be fun. Manchester is boring?

It's not Manchester that's boring, it's

just my life has become boring because

there's no people in it.

There's no people willing to like create a

bit of drama with me.

It's all tangled up. Okay, let me get my

bag. I think

the difference is back then I didn't have

people willing to make drama with me

either. It's just I kind of forced them

into it. Drama by talking shit about

everyone, including my wife, which created

a lot of drama. But then I kind of got—

because the stupid Mina thing happened,

didn't it?

Bloody mean, I've ruined my whole life.

Okay, let's close this down.

How am I gonna put it in the backpack?

The USB cable's gonna bend around like

this.

And then be

careful of the cables. Oh,

I just told you, be careful of the fucking

cables. Oh, hopefully this webcam cable's

long enough. Oh,

there's so many.

It's not very long.

I feel like a weirdo now.

I feel so weird.

Wait, have I broken it?

Testing.

I feel like I'm

in the Ghostbusters with a backpack and

the weird gun thing.

The internet? I'll just use my phone as a

I need to cut my hair, it looks so weird

at the back.

I feel like I'm in the Ghostbusters with

that bang. What do you think? And then I

can look at the chat using my phone like

I've got this stupid wire here.

We're gonna go up Ben Nevis. I want to go

up this mountain in Scotland called Ben

Nevis. I think I am losing weight.

My trousers are kind of falling down.

I've been looking up this mountain in

Scotland called Ben Nevis. And apparently

it takes about 6 hours to walk up and

down, and there's different trails.

They've got this tourist

track which is supposed to be very easy to

go up. It's just like a steep incline.

This feels so funny. I have to sort out

the cables so it's a bit more tidy.

Tourist track, which is supposed to be

very easy to go on.

The thing I don't like about this webcam

is it's kind of fishbowl-y. It kind of

makes the edges round, and I've got to be

in the center, otherwise it makes my head

look like a banana.

I can't believe how good this is. I

thought there'd be all these different

problems, but actually the MacBook Air Am

I still eating hule? Yeah, sometimes. I'm

running out of food. I don't think I have

enough food to last me until the day I

leave. I might have to go and get more.

Should have snow up there. Yeah, I was

looking at it and they said they usually

have snow until around March. Winter in

Scotland ends around March,

so either I have to go up the mountain in

the winter when it's freezing cold and

snow, or I wait in Scotland until the end

of March, but then I'm in Scotland for

quite a long time. I want to go to Loch

Ness as well and maybe stay in some remote

towns. Just want to be a bit more

adventurous, I guess, this year instead of

just sitting in one apartment the whole

time.

Be in

Scotland until end of March, then I'm in

Scotland for quite a long time. I want to

go to Loch Ness as well. So what do

you think of this stream setup? Not bad,

eh? Not bad, eh? I never said eh before,

don't know where that came from. I

remember my dad used to say that all the

time, it was really annoying. You would

say something to him and he wouldn't

really catch it and he'll go, eh?

Sometimes my dad used to have like weird

northern, northern slang in his,

in his speaking. Like he would say graff

instead of graph.

I don't know why he used to say graff. He

must have had like a northern teacher,

maybe.

Yeah, this is pretty good. Might be able

to like transition into being a streamer

again, like back in the old days. Oh,

this is like a really flexible system as

well. I got the camera separate,

microphone's always attached to me, so it

should sound good all the time. It's just

this— I don't know if I feel good about

this This mic— I mean, this webcam looks a

bit funny. What do you think?

Be nice to have a smaller selfie stick.

Oh, oh, oh, I could get like a strap.

I could attach the webcam to my chest like

this, like that.

Look, I can like attach it to my chest.

Damn, the whole fisheye fishbowl thing is

really weird. Should I buy another webcam?

Oh, I don't

know if I should buy another webcam. I'm

wasting so much money on these bloody

webcams. Now I've got that one over here

which is kind of not usable because it,

it's so— it keeps like swaying around.

Look, I could— I can zip up my hoodie and

then kind of rest it.

Freaking pro streamer next to Ice

Oh my God, oh my God, this, this is

freaking good. Look at this,

hands-free.

Guys, look at this. I got it tucked in.

You can barely even see the camera.

Look, you can barely see it. No one would

even know I'm streaming.

Look, you can barely see it. No one would

even know I'm streaming.

It's just this stupid webcam is so wide.

If I could hide these bits like this—

look, watch this.

Look at this.

Look at that, you could barely see it now.

Oh my God, this is like the best secret

streaming setup.

And then I don't even have to talk loudly

because I've got the mic right here. I

could be like, hey guys, I'm in, I'm in

McDonald's now. Call backup.

People won't even be able to hear if I'm

wearing a mask. People won't even know I'm

talking. I'm just like mumbling like this.

You can hear me pretty well, can't you?

I'm gonna have to talk loudly because I've

got a microphone right here. Hey guys,

I'm in McDonald's now. Oh.

Oh, this is good.

Okay, what other— what other problems

could there be from this? We got to do

problem solving. We got to try and iron

out any potential problems that might

happen when I actually do this.

I'm so gonna stream like this when I go to

Scotland. Research Scottish

recording streaming law. Oh yeah, didn't

Ice Poseidon nearly get arrested because

he was streaming in Switzerland or

someplace? Yeah, you gotta be a bit

careful with the filming stuff.

If I want to quickly hide the stream, I

can just zip up like that and then just

hide what I'm filming and then When it's

safe, I can reopen like that. But this,

I don't know, it's kind of feels like it's

gonna fall out my jacket.

Interesting. This— I don't know, it's kind

of— damn, the audio sounds so damn good.

Jesus Christ, doesn't the audio sound

amazing? And this is just like a cheap

shitty £10 clip-on mic. I don't

even need that stupid— I'm gonna put that

in the bin. I'm putting this £80 Rode

microphone in the bin because it doesn't

even sound better than this and it weighs

It weighs like a brick.

I need a better way of having this webcam

on my chest.

Any ideas?

Because it doesn't even sound better than

this, and it weighs— it weighs like a

brick.

I need a better way of having this webcam.

It does sound better. Really? I don't

really notice any difference because I

don't have specialist earphones that could

really pick up the difference. Anyway, I

can't use that outside. It's like carrying

a brick around.

It does sound better. Really? Have you

noticed any difference? Because I don't

have specialist earphones that can really

pick up— Oh, I'm so happy. I can't believe

this streaming setup is working so well.

It's like counterproof. Because in my mind

I had this idea everything's going to go

wrong. The MacBook's going to glitch. The

sockets in the bag might unplug itself.

And then when I'm feeling confident, I

could whip out the webcam.

This— just the wire of the webcam's a

little bit— maybe it's just stuck in my

It extends far enough. To hold it out.

It's just a bit, bit tight.

I'm not sure what battery the MacBook will

Hopefully that battery bank powers it

quite well. I don't know if the battery

bank is powerful enough to power a

MacBook. The MacBook isn't really an

energy-consuming thingamajig.

It's basically just like a mobile device

that has an operating system on it.

Buy a longer cable. The cable's attached

into the webcam. I'd have to get like an

extension thing.

If you bought the right battery, it should

power the MacBook. Let me see what one I

It's a PX Waxpy power

bank for smartphone, tablet, and more.

Hopefully the more is including laptops.

High-speed charging external battery comes

with one 5-volt 2.1A input

port. 5-volt. Is that enough to charge a

MacBook? It might not be,

because I bought this with the, my, the

idea of streaming on my phone in mind,

not using my MacBook.

Oh no, did I get the wrong one? MacBook

Air portable charger.

Jeez, it's £260.

210-watt laptop external battery.

I have to go down and test it, I guess.

Should I go down now? No, I don't want to

film downstairs because the guys at the

reception have been very nice to me. I'd

feel like it'd be wrong if I just secretly

filmed them, put it on my channel.

Uh, I just dread to think the kind of

stuff trolls have sent to them. I bet you

anything some stupid troll has sent them

my OnlyFans. It feels

kind of weird thinking that the reception

guys have seen me naked and like jerking

off and stuff. I don't know if they opened

but they never said anything about it.

There was one time when— what happened?

Yeah, when they told me off about the fire

alarm, I thought this is a good

opportunity to kind of tell them what's

going on. So I said to him, to the guy, I

said, by the way, there's something I need

to talk to you about. And then this big

grin came up on his face and he was like,

oh yeah, what's that? He had like this

massive grin on his face and I was like,

um, just in case you get any weird emails

from people pretending to be me or talking

about me. That's not me.

My god, it's so embarrassing. And he said

something like his father used

to work in law enforcement, so he knows

about— he knows how to suss out when

someone's being suspicious. And he said he

saw my stream and stuff.

Oh wait, I got a sub. Let's test out this

sub alert. So to do the text-to-speech, I

need Streamlabs open.

I haven't logged in. I need to log into

Streamlabs on my Twitch account.

So I had to put all this stuff in place,

otherwise that person keeps spamming the

Let's get— come on,

here's Manchester.

Final views, my special Twitch viewers

only will be able to see the final days.

Where, where am I going? Recent events.

It would be nice if

Twitch had all this stuff built in without

having to use a third-party website,

maybe. Okay, let's see

what that sounds like. Also, the other

problem with Twitch is you can't like

rewind the stream 10 seconds.

Hopefully there's a sound. It would be

nice if Twitch had all this stuff built in

without having to use a third-party

website. Maybe see

what that sounds like. Also, the other

problem is— oh, it sounds good! Maybe a

bit louder would be good. Wow,

everything's working perfectly! We've got,

got the audio, we've got the visuals,

we've got the alert system working, all

powered by my MacBook M1 in my backpack.

Now all we need is a power supply to keep

this juice, keep the juice flowing.

You can rewind in Twitch? How? I don't see

any. All I see is a pause button.

Am I going straight to Scotland when my

lease ends? Yeah, my— I'm actually leaving

a few days before my lease ends because I

don't really see the point in hanging

around a few extra days.

I just wish the camera was a bit further

away. I don't want to be so close to the

camera, but then I've got to hold my hand

out unless I extend the selfie stick by

The selfie stick's pretty good, it's just

a bit bulky.

Hmm, I might have to flip the MacBook

around the other way so the webcam USB is

facing upwards, not downwards, so then

that'll give me more cable space.

Why, why would I go home though? If I was

gonna go to Scotland, it wouldn't make any

sense to go all the way back down home and

then come all the way back up north.

Okay, now, now how do I ban people?

Duncan Construction. You can have the

first ban.

First ban of 2022 goes to Duncan. How dare

you call me old? I'm gonna be 33 soon, so

yeah, expect me to start aging in

the coming years.

Can't really hide it, can I? There's no

point hiding it because if I put on all

these filters and stuff to make myself

look young and then girls see it and

they're like, oh, Daniel's cute, I want to

meet him, then they meet me in real life

and they're like, oh, he actually looks

older, I don't like him anymore.

Because then I'll just be a massive

hypocrite. I'd be like Tomoko, won't I?

Catfishing. With a billion filters,

billion beauty filters.

I thought you had some stuff to store at

home. No, I'm gonna get rid of everything.

I'm gonna get rid of this microphone as

well. That one.

Okay, so what do we do now?

I kind of want to test out my IRL

capabilities.

I've got to clean everything. I don't know

why there's like pink stains appearing on

the corner of the bathtub.

I've got to wash down the whole bath

because it's probably all greasy and

gross. I've got to clean all the floors.

I've got to clean all these edges where

the windows are. I've got to wipe down all

the floors because it's covered in a layer

of dust. Um, I've got to wash down

the skirting boards. I got a lot to do.

I thought you wanted the haters to come

back. No, I want genuine haters, not these

stupid trolls who just try and get a

reaction out of me, because the trolls are

not genuine haters. They're just trying to

insult me to try and get a reaction, and I

can see it. It's so obvious. I want like

actual outrage and disgust.

You can't, you can't troll me, guys. I'm

like the master troll. Are you trying to

troll a troll? I can see that you're

trolling. I'm not stupid because I do the

same stuff.

Go to Piccadilly Gardens. Apparently that

complaining channel guy can see me from

his roof because I watched his stream and

he was filming my building from his roof.

So his roof must be like right down that

street, one of those buildings that's

probably in view. I can't see it because

my eyes are really bad.

Okay, let me see if this donation

works.

Does text-to-speech work? Has Chi-Chi ever

pegged you in the behind, and did you

enjoy it?

So delayed on the Twitch playback thing.

Has Chi Chi ever begged you in the behind

and did you enjoy it? Yeah, it's pretty

good. Not too loud, not too quiet. So

that's one thing that's

good.

I don't know if I have the confidence to

carry this like this outside. It still

feels a bit weird.

I watched a few of the complaining channel

streams and I didn't expect him to sound

so camp. For some reason I was expecting

like this— I don't know,

cuz most of these channels, there's always

like these little very tiny small channels

that used to like to, um, make videos

and stuff roasting me.

Why is like Why is the video playback so

slappy? I mean laggy.

What have I done?

I just kind of expect him to sound Low

class, maybe. Like that unreal man.

Remember that unreal man? He was so

annoying.

Thinking he's so funny. Oh, Daniel has to

move in back with his mum. Ha ha ha ha ha!

He would laugh at everything he said, as

if he thinks he's so hilarious, and then

he has the nerve to say I'm not

entertaining. You're not very entertaining

either. Barely get any views.

So basically he's saying I'm more

entertaining than you are, so you just

insulted yourself, idiot.

But the complaining guy, he's like quite

well-spoken and he's not rude, and he's

quite funny actually, some of the stuff he

said. Wasn't expecting that.

But then all these stupid trolls keep

trying to stir stuff up between us.

They'll say Did you know the complaining

channel said he's going to wait outside

your apartment? And then they'll say to

him, oh, did you know Daniel, Daniel is

warning you to stop copying him? These

stupid trolls are doing the same thing

that caused me so much trouble with other

people. Like, they'd say to Chihiro, did

you know Daniel said this?

And then they'll come to me and say, did

you know Chihiro said this,

using the same tactic to stir up drama.

And then all of us idiots fell for it.

Me, Chihiro, Hong Kong Guy, we all

just fell for this shit-stirring— it's

just kind of annoying.

Because yeah, I did actually believe it

when they said stuff like that. I thought,

just based off of what people were telling

me, this complaining channel guy sounds a

bit scary.

But when I watched his stream for myself,

I didn't really get any of those vibes.

Hey, Waz.

The wire starts getting tangled up.

Hmm, let me see.

Oh, it's such a mess when I take the

backpack off.

Oh wow, it's hot.

This might not be good. This thing is

really hot. See how much battery that

used?

This thing's gonna explode and catch fire.

Oh, it's at 53% now.

God, I can feel the heat coming out of it.

Imagine this thing catches on fire in my

Laptops need ventilation. Yeah, it's

probably not good that it's in my bag and

it's closed because the heat dissipation