alright, i wasn't gonna say anything, but there's really some stuff you have to know about these players before you try and join this team, and I think this lfp is being disingenuous by not really giving people a good idea as to what they'd be getting themselves into.

yams: can't even spell his own name
entropy: thinks he's good at pyro??
trux: stack of 25 frogs in a trench coat
dave2: has never taken a shit before
mak: honestly i've never actually met him, i've been sitting on mid for 15 minutes and he still hasn't finished rolling out.
pizza_fart: dead

try out at your own risk i guess, but to be honest i'm not sure how these people manage to regularly feed themselves let alone play a videogame at a competitive level.

Is it? I can't find any specific figures for twitch in any capacity since all revenue is reported by Amazon which isn't very specific about where it all came from. I genuinely cannot imagine that Twitch is operating in the red, since 1) they basically print their own money with bits and subscriptions and since 2) they were bought out by the company that operates the largest cloud computing platform, which I would assume would allow them to utilize aws without paying a premium to expand their shit.

These were the only two things I could find about twitch revenue, both are secondary sources since the primary is locked behind either a paywall or account creation:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattperez/2020/01/08/report-amazons-twitch-not-meeting-ad-revenue-expectations/
https://www.theloadout.com/twitch/youtube-revenue

which basically says:

waahhh da company i bought only made $230m in pure ad revenue in 2018 and was on course to only make $300m in 2019 but I wanted it to make $600m D:< i can't believe the company only made $1.54b in 2019 when I wanted it to make $2b ;~: I, emmett shear, CEO of Twitch, told daddy bezos we would get to $1b in pure ad revenue and by golly im gonna do it!!!!

holy crap

been following this for a little bit now, super excited to be able to grind jump maps on it when it comes out. youre doin da lords work, fellas.

https://i.imgur.com/belGWwg.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/cnkJ1V3.jpg

me n trux @ da beach

https://i.imgur.com/5Rju2bg.jpg

if u think ur as cool as us, ur not, but i admire your confidence, why don't you come play pocket for us, champ?

https://i.imgur.com/XDg9DFa.jpg

massive

nerd essay inc:

https://i.imgur.com/JsEoweY.gif

all copuntry least based in comparde to albania

https://i.imgur.com/6bYct1F.png

albania hgiest based per,capita, leastm based serbia, serbia n swine

https://i.imgur.com/bMW8itt.png

If you want a long-lasting setup this is 100% the way to go. I bought some Sennheiser HD 598's 5 years ago on sale and have used them pretty much daily. The only thing I've had to do is replace the foam ear cups like a week ago which was about $16 on Amazon.

If you don't want like a blue yeti or whatever sitting on your desk or want to have a mic arm in the way, you can get a mod mic for like $50 - $70 and just attach them to your headphones. I haven't used them before, but I've heard they're pretty good.

The first video being perceived as smoother is mostly because of motion blur, yes. In some instances (honestly way too many in my experience) the "quality" of the demo can also be a factor. By that I mean, sometimes if your connection is a bit iffy your POV demos might look kinda shit and stuttery, and if the server you were playing on hasn't been restarted in a while or anything like that the STV demos might be kinda shit and stuttery. Those you can't help too much from my experience.The best I've been able to do to minimize it is to set your interp to 0.1 and set cl_smooth to 1 when watching demos. Change it back before you actually play though if it isn't already in your autoexec.

In the first video you linked, if you go to 1:14 you can see that snakewater demo looks buttery, and the process clip right after looks pretty stuttery. Sometimes it be like that.

If you want to be a true chad and go whole hog, I'm 99% sure there's a way to convert STV demos into SFM scenes and record from there, but I haven't looked into that too much because I absolutely cannot be fucked.

Also on motion blur really quick: I stan motion blur in frag videos if done right, because it really can make your shit look clean. Using the in-game motion blur is a hard no for me though, and if I ever add any motion blur I do it in post with RSMB in After Effects. It's kind of a pain, but at the very least this might be able to help alleviate the fuckign dog shit inconsistent demo experience in this god forsaken piece of shit fucking game.