
*wums in fierce*
the blog of a disabled mother who likes to game, and "get in the pit"

*wums in fierce*
The person that I turned in to their (okay, his) local police precinct for publicly posting revenge porn of an ex of his with enough identifying details to make it possible to Google her has a show cause hearing coming up for a shoplifting charge coming out of that county. Given… who this person is — it’s probably becoming obvious who this person is at this point — he will not attend the hearing, and then that county will find out that the address on the form of identification he had that allowed them to positively identify him (a passport, and one that might be expired at that) is not good and has not been good for awhile. However, his police precinct made it clear to me in their correspondences with me that they researched the information in the tip that I gave them, found it to be valid, were beginning to investigate it, and would contact me through the tip portal if they needed any additional information about him that I could provide them. I told them that he has family members in that area and that he is only in that area because of those family members and a substantial criminal history coming out of his home state, although I also let them know that he routinely burns people using them for as much as they are willing to do for him or provide him and that these family members may no longer actively be assisting him with anything (although they may or may not know his present location, which is why I mentioned them to the precinct, which they were thankful for me doing).
It is incredibly likely that he knows that this county is aggressively coming after him or that they will, though. He deleted everything of his that came up in Google searches at this time, and the very first Facebook account that he ever made has been deactivated, although that might have been because he was foolish enough to post the very same revenge porn on it that he posted on this porn site and Facebook themselves deactivated the account. All other accounts that he has made on the site have long since been abandoned.
Over the years, he has become more aggressive, and he has become more dangerous (this is the person who fled the country over one child support payment, who was deported from this country when they found out that he lied on visitor’s visas to get over there, issuing him a lifetime ban against returning to the country, which means that he can not even settle parentage over the child of his that he had while over there). He also has a lot less people who are able or willing — my guess on this point is slightly more willing than able because he might have burned the very last of the people that he had to go through when they did help him out — to help him out, which explains why he did not leave the area he was living in when he was taken to court by a landlord for formal eviction due to failure to pay rent, damages to the place that he was renting, and him inviting “unauthorized, unknown residents” to come stay there with him before he formally fled it.
I’m afraid that if he isn’t found for the things that he has done that he’s eventually going to get angry enough at a woman for “wronging him” that he murders her, makes the news for it, and then it comes out that so many people dropped the ball intentionally enabling him along the way that it was how he got to that point.
For some reason, I continue to have dropped frames and slow frames when attempting to stream on the desktop with Twitch Studio. (Thanks, Manchin… my tax refund literally funded this because we didn’t have a desktop.) I’m going to remedy this in the coming months with a desktop that is, at the very least, marginally better than the desktop that I’ve been attempting to stream on, because if it can not consistently or reliably stream, there’s probably other things that it can’t do as well. This perplexes me because this desktop is seriously only one year old, was advertised as gaming friendly, and has consistently begun to fall short of the things that I would like it to do. If it has significant trouble streaming, we are bound to run into other things that it can’t do as well, and I’m just now finding out that some of the games that I’ve gotten for free off of Epic Games (or downloaded from Origin or Steam) are going to have difficulty playing because of the graphics card in it — namely the type, as the drivers tell me that it’s an Intel… something something… 530.
Yeah, this is going to be fun. I shouldn’t be tremendously surprised by the outcome of this though.
Okay, so I have the microphone set up in a really good position, and I’ve confirmed that it is picking up sounds at the volume that I want it to. The webcam is also in an optimal position on the desktop, being the one that I can move around a bit as needed. It picks up the images that I want it to pick up. They look crisp.
The only thing that I think I need to do is to make sure that frames aren’t dropped — or slow — although my current Internet speed indicates that I shouldn’t have to worry about that (29.1 Mbps download, 11.4 Mbps upload). I’ve been using Twitch Studio for the streams that I’ve done so far, although I am open to switching to a new program as long as it has the same ease of use and lets me install the overlays that I’ve been using.
Now all I think I have to do is fix the alerts (or wait for Twitch to fix them in Twitch Studio) and I’ll be good for awhile! This, of course, supposes that I decide to stay with Twitch Studio for the long haul. It is easy to work.
I now have the mic on our desktop set up the way it should be (and, at that, a really nice setup that doesn’t get in the way of anything else… man, I’m loving this right now). The ring light should also be in a position to where it doesn’t look like it’s flickering on the webcam overlay of my streams even though nothing looks like it’s actually flickering in my room. Good times. (I suppose there’s a bit of a learning curve to this. I don’t mind.)
I’m also finding out that some peripherals have to be plugged directly into the computer via USB, not put on one of those splitter things. That’s a bit of a shame because now I’m going to have to juggle things on the peripheral splitters, but it’s nothing that’s completely unmanageable. It’s not as unwieldy as our television currently is. I’ve often made the joke that I don’t want to have to switch our television from gaming to satellite unless I absolutely have to (and I will for Doctor Who… just not anything from The CW, and I mean that). I’m not going to be one of the ones who “comes back” to The CW because Misha Collins is working on a pilot for Gotham Knights for it and Jensen Ackles has secured a script commitment for The Winchesters.
I would just love to be able to stream games and do that as a thing.
It would work around my disabilities and our schedules in that I would be able to set my own hours. If migraines prevented me from streaming one day, I could do it on a day where they were more tolerable (or, better yet, mostly ameliorated by medication… I mean, you can dream, can’t you?), or if Bub and Monster needed more of my attention on any given day due to appointments that we would have to make our way to and back from, or even just because, the same principle would apply. Right now, I’m waiting for my arm to heal up more from the Staph infection that became cellulitis due to Bub’s pinching that broke skin, but only because it is my dominant arm and I don’t want to have to make clothing choices based on how the bandage would best be covered up to avoid people attempting to discuss it in stream chat. So we’ll see.
In the interim though, I have been setting Twitch up on our desktop and laptop! I’m thinking that I’m going to give Twitch Studio a go first because it does nearly everything that I would want something like this to do, and the one thing that I’ve been having issues with — setting Alerts in specific places — may be able to be remedied since an admin on a Discord server that I am a member of told me that they can reach out to Twitch themselves to see if it’s possible to fix this within the Twitch Studio program. I continue to hold out hope that it is and will be, but I also have a really sweet gameplay overlay that I got for this particular purpose that having the Alerts properly set in all of their places would make the most major difference with.