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I love to find games that look really stupid and horrible and then just play them on stream and be like, well, I don't know what this is, but we're gonna find out together.
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And sometimes they're absolutely horrible and you can't even play them.
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But occasionally you will find just a gold nugget of like, this is the worst game I've ever seen, but it's hilarious.
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Hey, thanks for joining us for this episode of Gamer Tagged.
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A very nice gal.
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Appreciate you coming on tonight.
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Yeah, thanks for having me.
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I'm excited to be here, talk with you guys.
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For sure.
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Also on the show tonight is Martha Maple, of course.
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Hello, hello.
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So a very nice gal.
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Why don't we start with you as like you as a person?
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So not with a tag, but with you.
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What kind of kid were you growing up?
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I was uh painfully shy and awkward.
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That was part probably my defining of my youth.
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Shy people unite.
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I grew up yeah in Texas, just a quiet kid, an observer for most of my life.
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And uh yeah.
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Dude, you have such a big personality, like online.
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So I think that's awesome.
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Like you get to live all of these different styles.
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And I know we're gonna talk about that in a little bit, but yeah, yeah, that's super cool.
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It's being online and creating content has given me an outlet for what I think I've been my whole life, but never uh been outwardly that way.
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It's been fun and just like being in front of a microphone.
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And maybe if I was just talked a little louder and had a mic, maybe people were stuff funny a long time ago.
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I don't know.
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But yeah, no.
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Content creations.
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It's a very fun creative outlet for me.
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Okay, so you describe yourself as being an observer and being like painfully shy and stuff.
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When you were growing up, what kind of people did you hang out?
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Where could you be found?
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I was an art kid, so I found like the fine arts in high school, and that was my thing.
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I was the like shy art person, and I loved painting and being creative and like visually creative in that way.
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That was my crowd.
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And then what kind of stuff did you paint?
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I did acrylics.
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My grandmother both of my grandmothers were oil painters, so I've done wonderful painting.
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Oh, that's cool.
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Oil paintings a lot of work, so I didn't dabble into that too much, but I did have artists on both sides of my family.
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Really got into watercolors, I did some stuff with like cardboard and doing like reliefs with cardboard.
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I don't paint or draw much anymore, but I do make my own graphics and stuff.
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So I did some graphic design work professionally in my career, so that was another sort of visual creative outlet for me.
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But yeah.
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That's freaking cool, man.
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So when you're doing digital, like digital artwork, digital design, is that kind of where you get into like the digital space, or is there like another entry point for you?
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Like where you're like, hey, I'm into like a certain I'm into certain music where I'm into certain art.
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Because you're talking, you're describing a time where you're like super creative.
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What kind of got you into digital stuff?
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Like digital artwork or like becoming a streamer content creator?
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Sorry, like you maybe there was a time like in this time period where you're playing games or you're listening to certain music.
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How did that your introduction to the internet?
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Yeah.
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I've been on the internet since how did I stop giving away how old I'm gonna do it.
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Since Y2Ks.
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Since a while.
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I played RuneScape with my brother, that was a big game for me.
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Yeah, nice.
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Haba Hotel.
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What other we played Age of Empires.
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And growing up watching him and being horrible at the games, but him making me play with him.
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And I didn't really touch video games for a while.
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Like after I was like 10 or 12.
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Didn't really play them.
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I wasn't a huge gamer.
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And then I think when the Switch came out and Breath of the Wild, I played that with my best friend, and I was like, holy shit, this is really fun, and that kind of got me into gaming, and then streaming came randomly.
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My ex-boyfriend actually wanted to stream and I was looking into everything on his behalf.
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And then I kept thinking like, this would be I want to do this.
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And I didn't start doing it for another year after that, but fell into it in a way.
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But yeah.
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Yeah.
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So besides like gaming and stuff in those early years, were there other digital spaces that you found comfort in?
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I know back in my early days, I was very into YouTube.
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I don't know.
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Have you ever heard of Lonely Girl 15?
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I'm really dating myself on that one.
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Maybe I would never been a huge YouTube.
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That's not true.
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I did watch some YouTubers.
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I've always been into like memes and stuff like that.
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I think my first sort of like home online was Imager.
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Okay.
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And I'd post there sometimes, but mostly just like ingesting crazy amounts of memes.
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And I became friends with this girl at work who's a lot younger than me, and I was like, you don't know, you don't know the whole you gotta know 10 years of meme history to understand this joke.
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But that was definitely a big online space for me for a long time.
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Dude, imagery is like where everything originated back then back in the day where it was all of the memes were born out of imagery.
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Yeah, exactly.
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Or I guess Reddit too, but I just I just give me the pictures.
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I don't want to read, just I don't listen to the pictures.
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So that was a big one for sure.
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Yeah.
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When did so you know you were you're also a DJ, so like looking back, when did music come into your life?
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Was there a certain soundtrack in this early part of your life or a certain album or song that like you would think describes you best in this time period?
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In that my imager days, I was definitely more into like indie rock and folk music, and that was my high school music experience.
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The DJing thing came really only three or four years ago when I was my like I said, my ex-boyfriend was trying to stream, and I was ended up watching uh a bigger name DJ stream and became friends with his community, and he stopped streaming, and then I just randomly found this other DJ, his name's Kobe Lack, and it was just so cool to watch someone like mix music together, and his community was so much fun.
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I made so many friends through his community, and he was like, You have good taste in music, you should try to do this.
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And he actually sent me a little controller that I still have.
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That's cool.
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I was like, I really like this, I think I'm gonna get a big old controller, and now I'm doing it.
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So it was a big full circle moment for my for streaming, because that's the whole how I started watching streamers with DJs.
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That's dope.
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I was just gonna ask so music never showed up like in your early years then.
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You were an artist and you were creative, but but music and being performative with music was like not part of your not at all, and not even on my radar at all.
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I took piano lessons when I was like nine or ten and I couldn't read the music and I just memorized the song or whatever.
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And I think I was okay at it, but I wasn't like in love with it by any means.
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And I played a few other instruments, but like really wanting to be creative with music didn't come till a few years ago.
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I've always loved music, listening to it, manipulating it and playing with it.
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Yeah, creating is different than like consuming, right?
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For sure.
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So let's uh let's talk about your name.
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A very nice gal.
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Where did that come from?
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Was it the first one that you landed on?
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Did you go through some iterations before you found that one and it stuck?
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My first username was Texas Girl39.
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So that didn't stick, and that probably was silly.
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And then my online name, I wasn't really creating content, but like my username was all day aircat, like all day every day, but all day every cat, because I love cats.
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And it made sense to me, but I don't think it read well.
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And then I was like trying to think of a name when I was gonna start streaming, and I was like, my name is a very how can I like add to that and make myself a very something?
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And it's like a very cool gal, a very a lot of them were.
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I think I had to find one that wasn't taken, and then I landed on a very nice gal and it got stuck, and now that's me everywhere.
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That and a very nice DJ, but a very nice something.
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Yeah, I thought it was so cool how you played on your name.
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Yeah, I love that.
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It's like you you baked it in and you now it's like a sentence, right?
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It's a description.
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So when you when people come in, that's what you want them to take away.
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It's like you're a very nice gal.
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And it makes branding super easy.
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Like my Discord server is a very nice server, my point channel is a very nice points.
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Like everything's just a very nice something.
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So in that respect, it's nice.
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It's also fun when I like raid somebody or someone's like a very nice girl, what do I call you?
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And I'm like, My name's Avery.
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They're like, it's part of your name.
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I'm like, Yeah, yeah.
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So, how long have you been a very nice gal?
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I think I've been streaming for three years, and I started thinking about streaming like a year before that.
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So, I think around four years.
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So, if we go back to Texas Girl39, like where did that come out of a name generator?
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Was that like something you picked out of your head?
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That was my RuneScape username.
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I don't know if I used anyone else.
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I think it was just my RuneScape username.
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But I was living in California at the time and I'm a Texas girl, and I missed Texas, and I don't know where the 39 came from, but yeah, I wanted everyone to know that I'm a girl from Texas.
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Yeah, no, yeah, yeah.
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I always think like the names we choose are like representations of this emotion we have or this feeling we have, or yeah.
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So, like when you're talking about missing home, like you just wanted people to know where you were from.
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That's super cool.
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I thank RuneScape for teaching me how to type.
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I did typing classes in school, but if you're gonna trade people on RuneScape, you gotta type out really fast.
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And so thank you, RuneScape, for teaching me how to type.
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Okay, Texas Girl36.
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Was that it?
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39.
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39.
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Okay, sorry.
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Did you shed that when you came back to Texas?
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Were you like, okay, I don't miss it anymore, so I'm good.
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I think I I may have had it in a few other things after RuneScape days, and then all day aircat was like when social media was kind of becoming a thing, and I needed a name, and it it then it bec I became that.
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I think.
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I don't remember using it.
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Yeah, how did all day air cat come to be?
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Like I know you you described like you just like the thing you thought about and you're like, this sounds cool.
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There's a song, I think a song that's like all people say all day every day, you know what I mean?
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Or like and I just like cats, and I don't know why I spelled it like that.
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And I feel like people would spell it wrong because I used two R's and it was just like, Why did I name myself?
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It's not hard to remember.
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Made it super complicated to interact with people on the internet.
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Yeah, I like the cleanness of a very nice gal much better.
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Oh yeah, it's dope, it's super dope.
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Okay, so we're gonna switch gears a little bit and talk about like your evolution, right?
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How did you turn a very nice gal into an identity, right?
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Because you wear many hats, and what we're gonna do because you wear so many different hats, is we're gonna talk through them like one at a time.
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And and so maybe what we'll do is we'll start with gaming.
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Okay.
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So when did gaming on Twitch start?
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And what made you want to start sharing that side of yourself?
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That started, that was the first thing I did ever.
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It was just I'm just gonna stream and I'm gonna play silly games and just see what happens.
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I had some encouragement from the friends that I had made from Kobe Lax's community and had been gearing up to do it in one random Saturday.
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I was like, I'm just gonna do it.
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I'm gonna get out there and just play.
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I think the first game I played was what the golf on my switch is.
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What the golf?
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Yeah, which is a very silly, silly game where you are golfing, but then it gets silly because then you start golfing with the ball and hitting the club or whatever and it descends into chaos.
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But I started with gaming just because I thought I mean I'd play games with my good friend, and I was like, I think we're like funny doing this.
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I think it would be fun to just try to do it in front of people.
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And so I just started doing that three years ago and was pretty much just a gaming channel for the first year or so.
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I don't know, it gets blurry.
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I can't believe it's been three years.
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But played a lot of horror games.
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I don't know how I got into horror games because I used to be terrified of horror movies growing up.
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But fell in love with them with my friend and would play them before I started streaming, and that was my bread and butter, and it still is, but I've been branching out more recently, but yeah, love me a good jump scare.
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I was gonna say, looking at your VOD history on Twitch, you are like the truest of variety streamers, it seems.
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Yeah, you're playing all kinds of stuff.
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Was that always the plan, or did you want to focus on just one game or one genre and then it just became something else?
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I think I went I went into it knowing that I'm ADHD and there's no way I'm gonna be like a one game streamer.
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Also, I'm like not great at video games, so to pick one, I don't know.
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I I knew that I would get bored with playing one game.
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So I always knew it was gonna be a variety streamer situation.
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And I would just find games that I that looked fun and try them out.
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What's one of those games for you?
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I remember one called I think it was Mimetic Love.
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It was like a visual novel.
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And you were like trying to find your love or make them fall in love with you, and it was just the worst graphics and the dialogue was just horrible, but it was just laugh out loud, horrible.
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I know there's some other ones I can't think of on off the top of my head.
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I saw you playing one that was like you were a nightclub owner.
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Oh yes, I've been very into simulator games recently, and the nightclub simulator was fun.
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I don't understand why the whole first club you're at, everyone's a construction worker.
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Who decided that?
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I don't know.
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But I love like stupid details like that, where it's like, why did they make this?
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But I love it.
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So if you had to pick, maybe maybe not that you're streaming one game all the time, but what is your what game do you and do you enjoy streaming the most?
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Maybe it could just be a genre of games, but what are you like, man?
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This is it it could just be right now, like you said, like some things are just a vibe that you're chasing today.
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I think my favorite style of game, whether it's horror or not, is like a story-based, choice-driven game.
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I don't really like shooting because I'm really bad at that.
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I don't really like running and hiding.
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I love a good story and like commentating on the story and playing through it and poking fun at it, like Detroit Become Human or Heavy Rain.
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Heavy Rain was a huge favorite of mine.
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Fahrenheit, Indigo Prophecy was one of my favorite games to stream of all time.
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That game is just the dated graphics, and just it's it was so good.
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I have it in the oh, you gotta play it.
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If you don't like quick time events, you might not like it because you gotta do like time buttons and stuff, but but it's really fun.
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I think you'll enjoy it.
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So heavy rain was like like super quick time, and it was also like really reactive to if I remember right.
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It was really reactive to the dual shock, like you you had to move it a certain direction or whatever when I played it on PlayStation 4 or whatever.
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I played it on PC, so I didn't have that part, but I'm sure they I don't remember exactly how the gameplay was.
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Yeah, all the Qt.
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But there was definitely like yeah, all the QTs required you to like if you're gonna turn the wheel, move the dual shock to the left like as fast as possible.
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Like it was pretty wild, but it was a really cool game and like really like oppressive.
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Yeah, it gave you that vibe about being suffocated almost.
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It was a great story, and I didn't know anything about it.
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I know it's got an iconic Jason, you know, thing with a balloon.
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And everyone was saying that when I was at that part of the game, I was like, What are you guys talking about?