The lights are glaring at me as I set up my equipment. PC streaming today means adjusting the brightness of my triple monitor set-up, doing some color-correcting, and making sure my streamer window doesn’t cover up anything that could be important to the gameplay. What am I playing today? Something light, something that doesn’t take too much attention from my chat and monitoring my equipment, but most importantly, something solo. I’m a female streamer and I’m already braced to deal with harassment from randos in the chat- I don’t want to also deal with it in-game. I don’t want to deal with toxic gamers attacking me on two fronts, trying to break me and, if I show any negative emotion to their attacks, declaring, “it’s just a joke- you aren’t a real gamer if you can’t deal with this. It’s just a joke.”
It’s just a joke.
