There’s something about every like, 5th sci-fi Mech ttrpg character being a streamer. It makes perfect sense. The livestream is, like the Mech, technology that mediates an experience. Streamers are always caught up in drama. Streamers are organized as entrepreneurs so of course their attitude fits in well with the Mech mercenary company.
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yea I think a lot of people suddenly realised this all at once abt 8 years ago when d.va was a streamer LOL
Oh god I thought she was some kind of Power Ranger and a gamer. She’s a streamer too?
HAHA YEAH she IS a gamer iirc but she also streams herself fighting kaiju in her mech or something??
Streamers as Side Gig to pay for Insurance.
Living that double Independent Contractor life.
‘War crimes livestream’ feels like a natural sociopolitical extrapolation, actually