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"I hope you know I'm butt-ass naked while watching your stream LoL."
"Okay chat, who sent that one? You're banned. Literally banned, no one needs to know that shit bro."
Today was a free day, a day where you could just sit back and relax a little before the storm that was coming the day after. It's become your weekly routine to watch a stream from some of your favorite streamers, right now your all time favorite is Kodzuken. In fact he's streaming right now.
"I have to go now, hope your stream goes well." A random chatter says through a 1500 yen donation. Kodzuken says thank you and carries on with his game. You had him in the background as you wrote down an essay on how the rankings of Pro Heros from My Hero Academia reflects on society and their favoritism towards those who are considered to be attractive by society and why this is relevant in our time today.
College is… definitely not what you thought it was going to be. You thought it was going to be serious, much more serious than what you were doing right now but here you were, writing about one of your favorite shows for class. Never in your life would you have thought that something you had interest in would ever be approved as an essay to be done for class, and it sure as hell is one heck of a ride.
Not many would approve of the course you decided to go for. I mean, sure there's lots of people who go to college to do arts as their major but its always arts as in drawing and sculpting and doing all those things art students do. You on the other hand, chose to major in writing.
First year was hella disappointing, not much writing to be done. It was only when you started second year when things started to ramp up a bit. You're getting to learn more about theology and deepening your knowledge on different structures, it was a bit hard at first but you were starting to ease up on it some more.
Your fingers typed across the keyboard with fervor, your mind was brewing with ideas as to what to add onto this paper. This paper is literally going to be the peak of your existence if you play it all right. All you need to do is to organize your thoughts into this paper and boom! A 4.0 right then and there.
You were breezing through the paper until you heard Kodzuken start saying his goodbyes to chat, you quickly switched tabs and typed out a goodbye message before closing the stream.
You sigh, muttering to yourself. "His streams have been getting shorter and shorter lately." You chuckle a little, "maybe he's busy irl?"
But who could know? You weren't some psycho who stalks their favorite streamer, hell you didn't even know if your streamer had a socmed!
You decided to take a small break from your paper, opening discord you find a message from one of your close friends from highschool wondering whether you saw the new MMORPG that was releasing in a few days. You quickly type out a response.
"Hey, no I haven't actually. What's it even about?"
"Oh, you know how MMORPGs are like! this one however has an insane amount of skills and hidden skills that you can only gain through further experience. I was in the beta testing and it was legit fun."
You tapped your chin in wonder, you weren't really the type of person who plays MMORPG. Co-op games that you enjoyed were far and few in between and when you did like a Co-op game you usually only played with friends.
"Won't you at least give it a try? I promise you that It'll be so much fun you'll forget to even put down your controller." Your friend pleaded as hard as they could in text form. After a few seconds of you not responding they sent out a voice message of themself pleading in the most desperate voice that they could attain.
You sigh. You send a meme picture of the "What the hell, sure." meme in response. Immediately after you were sent another voice message of them going 'yippee!!'
You chuckle to yourself, you could never say no to your friend you swear, it always ended up with you saying yes. Not because of peer pressure(or so you say) but because you do just love your friend that much that it was so hard to say no.
You send another text message. "If I don't enjoy it I'll just refund it."
They immediately type back, "I promise you, you'll enjoy it so much 2 hours will pass in a flash!"
After that response you closed discord in favor of google, you needed to see what exactly this game was and what its all about. Sure your friend could hype it up all they want but you never know. Like, okay you trust your friend that this would be a good financial decision but you really wanted to know what the reviews are like before you even buy the game.
Scrolling through reddit and other sources for people who have played the beta test and it seemed to be an overwhelmingly positive first impression. You smile to yourself as you scroll through the different reactions. None of them really stuck out to you since a lot of them say a lot of the same thing. They say things like "Oh yeah, its really beginner friendly. If you've never played an MMORPG this is a good place to start." or things like "Ts is so peak."
Okay, the reviews have spoken. You will buy the game.
Opening up steam you type in the game's name and soon you were face to face with its store page. You look through all the videos and pictures that they have on display before scrolling down to the wishlist button. Pressing it quickly you make your escape, closing steam right after.
Now, it's back to writing your essay which was 2/4th of the way done. You'll be needing to skim through the manga again before continuing to write this down. Writing has never been harder than ever. You never thought that something so mundane could have so much to unpack and uncover, and this was only a paper your professor would see.
So much work just for one class… now imagine starting work and being a professional.
Hmm… Maybe there would be less work since its just one thing at a time. Idk I'm not a professional just yet. I'm already working on my first novel though!
Writing is so much fun.
As you reminisce about your course and where you are now your phone lit up with a notification from a school friend of your on viber. You quickly open it and find that they're asking you for if you've already read the assigned reading for tomorrow's class. Confused, you respond: "No? What reading?"
They respond a few minutes later giving the details to the readings. Seeing this you panicked and immediately went on Canvas to look through the class modules in search of this class reading. God, you must be the most air-headed person in the room. That is to say, you're the only person in the room!
After searching through every single tab in that course you realized only after that that you were supposed to be the one to provide the material for yourself. You mentally facepalmed as you googled it and immediately got the result.
To be completely honest, you wanted to do a live stream tonight. You always did livestreams every Wednesday night Japanese time but you might have to break it to your 30 viewers that you wont be able to make it tonight because of this reading.
Yes, that's right. You have 30 consecutive viewers! A while back you got a raid from someone that had around 250 something viewers and some of them liked you enough to stick around which is absolutely fire on your end. You just started streaming a few months back too, back then you only had around 7 viewers. Most of which were irl friends, with the raid however you were able to go from a nobody to a Twitch affiliate! It's so freaking awesome.
You pressed on Discord on your phone and quickly typed an announcement in your little discord channel to inform your viewers of your sudden cancellation. Some of them immediately sent support and love in the general chat. you reacted to each and every one of them. You love your small little community so much they've always been so kind and patient with you even when you were struggling with a game.
You've never been all that great with games in general, whether it be physical or video game. You were a casual gamer, basically. Very different from the streamers you liked to watch like Kodzuken or Derapchu or Jumperwho but its always so fun to play games when others are enjoying it with you.
You and your community have also recently started doing weekend game nights! Most of the time you would all play Gartic Phone or Minecraft or something else that was Co-op that everyone could play and… if all goes well during your first impression in the MMORPG your friend is making you play, maybe you'll play it with your viewers too!
Anyways, you still need to read that one school reading for tomorrow. You open up a vod of Kodzuken that you haven't gotten around to watching and put it on play in the background. Now, for a night full of nothing but words.