this would be a good way to re-purpose old gear for one last revenue stream before disposal. Plus, if youre an owner, particularly if your a dickhead owner, you can have your techs who are high stressed and want to break your stuff anyway bring the gear to the room during down time, then charge them to break it, they essentially just give their paychecks back to you to do shit they were going to do anyway
On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 12:00 PM, Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> wrote: > For a business venture, I liked the article about “anger rooms”: > > > > http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/26/business/anger-rooms-a- > smashing-new-way-to-relieve-stress.html > > > > You rent some warehouse space, obtain a bunch of stuff people can smash, > and charge by the hour. I wonder if this is just a post-election fad. It > kind of seems timeless. They mention the scene in Office Space. > > > > > > *From:* Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] *On Behalf Of *Josh Reynolds > *Sent:* Sunday, December 4, 2016 11:40 AM > *To:* af@afmug.com > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] explain Twitch > > > > Fun, fame, and profit. > > > > Some of these YouTube streamers bring in over 150k a year in advertising > revenue. Most of these are young kids (preteen), some actually teenagers. > > > > Twitch streamers can bring in several hundreds of thousands a year in > stream donations. > > > > My oldest (17/m) doesn't watch traditional TV. He's unfamiliar, largely, > with commercials. Sports on TV? No way. He watches Hulu, Netflix, but > mainly YouTube/twitch. > > > > There's a new eSports bar going up here in KC. I bet they end up with more > net profit in the first year than the local Buffalo Wild Wings. Mix of bar > w/ pub food, TVs streaming games/championships, and actual PCs/gaming > (half-hourly charges). > > > > On Dec 4, 2016 10:39 AM, "Ken Hohhof" <af...@kwisp.com> wrote: > > I was born without the gaming gene, so can someone explain Twitch to me? > > > > I have a customer spending a lot of money (now that harvest is over) for a > speed tier with 5 Mbps of upstream so he can broadcast. Which I see he > does for 12 hours straight. > > > > What is the appeal? Fun? Fame? Or profit? Does this bring in > advertising money? Enough to make it worthwhile? > > > > And how does someone stream their game play for 12 hours straight? > Astronaut diapers? Lots of Mountain Dew and Doritos? Or do they get > breaks? > > -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team.
