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This is a place to share greentexts and witness the confounding life of Anon. If you're new to the Greentext community, think of it as a sort of zoo with Anon as the main attraction.

Be warned:

If you find yourself getting angry (or god forbid, agreeing) with something Anon has said, you might be doing it wrong.

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[–] germtm_@lemmy.world 105 points 6 months ago (2 children)

same but for everything in my life.

i know, that sounds schizo as fuck, my dear chat members.

[–] madjo@feddit.nl 51 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I live alone, I too talk to the imaginary camera to keep sane. At least I think it keeps me sane.

Thanks for the bits, bananaman66764.

[–] TrousersMcPants@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago

Ah see, I talk to my cat when I'm at home. It isn't just me talking to myself, it's enrichment for my little furry buddy!

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 68 points 6 months ago (2 children)

If it helps you focus, it's just another form of rubber ducking

[–] sit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Please. Rubber ducking. Someone?

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago

It's when you talk through a problem with an inanimate object, traditionally a rubber duck. The process of explaining the problem can help you organize your thoughts and identify otherwise elusive problems. It's a common technique used by programmers debugging their code.

[–] Comment105@lemm.ee 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Rubber ducking? Is that when you tape a ducky to your fupa and dry hump something/someone to get the squeaky sound?

[–] Localhorst86@feddit.org 57 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 19 points 6 months ago

Clip that, chat.

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 13 points 6 months ago

My middle-school aged kids explained the difference between cooked and cookin' to me the other day, and now they really get to roll their eyes when I intentionally use them in as corny ways as possible.

Bonus points for coming with other, terrible, slang. You can really get a cringe if you say something like "Chat, we're cookin' now - I'm all rizzed up”

[–] Get_Off_My_WLAN@fedia.io 51 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's fine until the audience starts talking back.

[–] desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 37 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] odium@programming.dev 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] leonine@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago

Chat, are you for real?

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 6 months ago

Isn't that statistically what most twitch streamers do

[–] gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 26 points 6 months ago (1 children)

"Normal"? Probably.

Good? Probably not.

[–] Object@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I don't think it's that bad if you're trying to solve a problem. Still, I would whisper rather than say it out loud.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 22 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I have thought about showing off my gigantic single player creative mode Minecraft map through a live stream for years, I spent most of my free time over a decade of manually just building huge, huge structures.

And pretending to show it off to a live stream, talking about it and explaining it makes it easier to remember what/why/how I built stuff...

[–] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 19 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Anon wants to livestream

You want to livestream

You should both livestream

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I think they'd make a cute couple

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Which could make for a more lucrative live stream if they're into that..

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Twitch doesn't allow porn.

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Give it a few more years

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Other places do, though.

[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago

Two platforms, double the monetisation of the things you enjoy until every single bit of your life has been consumed by capitalism.

[–] Seeders@sh.itjust.works 19 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I used to do this as a kid constantly before streaming ever existed.

Taking a piss outside? Literally competing for the longest piss distance tournament and taking the gold.

[–] ignoble_stigmas@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] Seeders@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago

🤣 😂 😃 😐 🙁 😟 😥 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago

I'd always narrate what I was building with legos.

TitleSome kind of battle scene, inevitably. Sometimes a wall would be involved. Other times a bridge. Often both.

[–] Rednax@lemmy.world 18 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Software engineers call this rubber duck debugging

[–] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 16 points 6 months ago

Old people used to do this too. Back then it was called an internal monologue.

[–] LittleBorat3@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago

Might as well just stream

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

At that point just hit record and decide later if you want to post some parts of it.

Wil help build confidence to start streaming.

[–] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 7 points 6 months ago

I think that's just thinking out loud or talk to yourself. It's another story if OOP overreact on every turn though.

[–] Eiri@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 months ago

I used to do it a lot as a teenager. For everything in my life. Now much less. I wonder why.

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 6 months ago

....we don't all do this?

[–] anothercatgirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 6 months ago

If you learn your ways of speech from streamers and YouTube videos, and all of them talk in 2nd person to their audience, then your learned language will sound very similar to the English you listened to.

[–] nutsack@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I would love for someone to listen to me talk

If you're in the US, the NSA has your back. If you're not, the NSA probably still has your back.

[–] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

When I play wrestling video games at night, I turn off commentary and just do it myself. My daughter walked in on me and was looking at me like I was nuts

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Maybe not normal, but as long as you know that the audience isn't there, it's a harmless kind of weird 🤷

So go for it, fake gay guy!

[–] AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

I sometimes do it while I work, talking like I'm recording a video tutorial.

[–] Matriks404@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

I did that when playing EU4 for some time. I have probably watched too many let's players, lol.

[–] unknown1234_5@kbin.earth 2 points 5 months ago

yeah, I also like to make up a fake portal-esque story when playing something like people playground.