We were both LPers on SA during the same era. Obviously she got alot more traction than I ever did, but I think i'm interpreting this as "a slight against one is a slight against all"
It feels like a dream living through the Viddler days. Back when youtube had the 10 minute time limit (which in practice was 10:59) and the only way around that was to have registered a "Director" account several years prior.
In the early 2010s capture hardware was atrocious. Back then if you split a composite signal to go to your TV and your capture card, then the brightness was severely reduced and you had to fix it on the edit, but you had no idea what was right because it was fucked up on the TV too. Or because your S-Video cables for your PS3 were cheap & shitty so you had to figure out how to fix the checkerboarding with some obscure avisynth plugin. And if virtualdub crashed while you were capturing, well you were just fucked and had to start over, so it was common to juggle save files or keep more than one ready to go just in case
And god help you if you wanted to stream back then! Your best bet was fucking Adobe Flash Media Live Encoder connected up to Justin.tv because twitch hadn't been invented yet. Or worse, Ustream, which is now an IBM product, or Livestream (which might've still been called Mogulus at the time?)
I can't help but feel a sense of camaraderie even if we never really talked to eachother. Out here in the forum id 191 posting trenches.