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◈ I Stream as a Hobby ◈
Chapter 13: Roulette
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There was something I'd been noticing lately.
“Haven't we been getting more viewers?”
Hadn't my average viewer count gone up a little?
-fr
-Think it has gone up a bit?
-Newbies, keep quiet and learn the ropes first lol
To be fair, it had already been rising little by little.
But my viewers had dropped off sharply after New Year's.
They must've disappeared to work on their New Year's resolutions or whatever.
Well, judging by the current viewer count, most of them seemed to be back.
“I guess it's about time I moved up in the world.”
-??
-You'd think your average had gone up by 500
“What's wrong with 50?”
Lately, my average had increased by about 50 viewers.
Maybe a little more during Just Chatting? Anyway.
It wasn't that noticeable normally, but the difference really showed when I played games.
Besides, wasn't adding 50 to 200 a 125% increase?
“At this rate, becoming a streaming giant is right around the corner.”
People really must be creatures that fed on a sense of achievement. My spirits rose all on their own.
-We bow before streaming giant Wayo...
-Daaaamn lolol
-You can't go big-time
-Please stay my own little VTuber
“I don't think I can stay your own little VTuber. At this size, hmm, wouldn't I count as a mid-sized company?”
Sadly, I'd grown too big to remain a little VTuber shared by just a handful of people.
Oh dear. I'd started streaming as a hobby. What if it ended up becoming my livelihood?
-Look at this fucker showing off lol
-A mid-sized company my ass
-A mid-sized company's where some director gets parachuted into a job through connections, okay
“Anyway, I'm delighted to have more fine gentlemen helping carry the log lately. It must be because I'm doing such a good job.”
-??
-?
-I wanna knock you down a fucking peg
“And to celebrate, I'd like to hold a special event for you all.”
-What are we doing??
-Something big coming??
-What is it?
They'd been insulting me a second ago, but the mention of an event immediately caught their attention.
Smirking at how simple they were, I brought up a window.
“Ta-da.”
Actually, that entire conversation had been a setup for this.
I'd been having trouble deciding what to play lately, so I'd downloaded something online.
[Wheel]
“I've always been the one picking the games, right? Now I'm giving you a chance to choose.”
-You're dumping your job on us you fucker lol
-If you won't even find games to play what are you here for??
-You're gonna put Lel on there anyway so just add it now, okay?
“Oh, sure.”
First, I added Leore to the wheel.
More importantly, how had they figured out I was dumping the work on them?
Haah. They were getting sharper by the day.
-lolol
-At least pretend to refuse for fuck's sake
-This fucker seriously;;
[Thank you, Anon, for the 1,000 won donation!]
Can we add horror games too?
“Of courrrse~”
As I said that, I made a little gesture with my hand.
For the record, I'd invested enough in Wayo's VTuber equipment that it wasn't much different from what the biggest VTubers used.
One of those investments was hand tracking.
My fingers moved smoothly, my thumb and index finger forming a circle while the other three stretched straight out.
-That fucking hand gesture lolol
-This crazy money-hungry bitch;;
-Fine you're in for it today
They could add as many as they wanted.
Wayo smiled brightly on the screen.
-I'm gonna add some truly dogshit games
-Are porn games allowed too??
“If it's a dating sim that allows streaming, okay.”
It was a wheel, after all.
Besides, variety gaming VTuber Wayo could handle any game.
Horror games would be, well, a little difficult, but how scary could some silly game really be?
[Thank you, Anon, for the 1,000 won donation!]
Pizza Place part-time job let's go
[Thank you, HorrorGamesPlease, for the 1,000 won donation!]
Please play Toy Playtime
[Thank you, WayosFuneral, for the 1,000 won donation...]
It has to be White Day
“...That's quite a few horror games.”
-lolol
-You're seriously in for it today
I'd expected it, but the wheel was filling up with all kinds of horror games at a frightening pace.
There were horror games famous enough that even I knew them, as well as strange RPG Maker horror games.
Meanwhile, major games like PUBG and Minecraft were taking up spots too, along with dating sims I'd never played.
...Had they really wanted to watch this many different games?
Now that I was taking suggestions, I felt a little bad about all those times I'd ended up launching Lel no matter how things started.
[Thank you, Anon, for the 2,000 won donation!]
Two more votes for Pizza Place
Horror games let's go lolol
Even now, entries kept piling onto the wheel.
Seeing donations pour in at a rate I could hardly believe belonged to a small-time stream, I wondered if they'd been saving up their money all this time.
“Hmm, should we stop taking entries soon?”
More importantly, it was about time I stopped.
The game list on the wheel had already grown so long that I could barely read the text.
...I wouldn't have to look for games for a while.
I could just pick something playable from this list, couldn't I?
Admiring my brilliant scheme for killing two birds with one stone, I closed donations for now.
-Ah
-One last coin please
-I was topping up;
“We'll do this again later.”
-lolol sweet payday huh?
-Wow how much is all that
“Looks like I'm having steak for dinner tonight.”
I cackled as I looked at the wheel.
That was almost a record amount of donations.
Had I ever received this much before?
The most recent time I'd received anything close was while playing Outwind.
After I died, people had sent me a whole bunch of insults through donations.
But today, the stream had only just begun.
Was this what wealth felt like?
At 1,000 won a vote, the wheel had received a total of 163 votes.
That was only possible because the big spenders had poured in 30,000 or 50,000 won worth of votes at a time.
Well, I was a little worried that over half the wheel consisted of horror games...
-All right horror games let's go lolol
-Horror games let's gooo lol
-Let's make history and get her crying today lolol
But that wouldn't matter if the wheel didn't land on one.
“Who said we're getting a horror game? You're all getting ahead of yourselves...”
I, Wayo, was chosen by God.
'Though I've never been to church.'
Still hoping God would answer me, I spun the wheel.
Rrrrrrrrr!
The wheel began spinning merrily.
-Please horror game
-Pizza Place let's go lolol
-Time to escape the toy company right?
“Please, Lel...!”
-??
-?
-This fucking bitch lol
As the chat grew more restless, the wheel gradually slowed.
Rr, rrrr.
And by the time it had slowed enough for me to make out the previously unreadable text, the wheel was edging to a stop on the largest horror game section, which took up 20% of its area.
-Ooh lololol
-Are we going?
-Let's go to Pizza Place lololol
It was a famous game.
A horror game where you worked security at a pizza place and ran away from toys.
...I remembered it being pretty scary.
Should I tell Aseong to buy me some calming pills?
No, would Aseong be asleep by now?
...So what? Aseong was done growing. I could just wake them up.
While I entertained thoughts that would've horrified the sleeping Aseong, the wheel gradually came to a stop.
And then...
“Huh?”
-Uh
-Huh?
It passed the horror game section and just barely reached the next one.
-What the fuck is that
-???
Everyone had filled this wheel hoping I'd play a horror game, a dating sim, or some legendary piece of garbage...
But there were other games on it too.
[Pawnworld]
-??
-?
-Ah fuck, Professor Pawn...
“What kind of game was this again?”
Of all things, it had landed on a somewhat unfamiliar game.
* * *
Pawnworld.
I'd thought it sounded unfamiliar, but when I looked it up, I recognized it.
“Oh, this one. I know what it is, at least.”
The premise was that you'd crash-landed on a planet during a space voyage.
You had to overcome all kinds of unfair bullshit, develop technology, gather resources, and climb the tech tree until you could build a spaceship from scratch and escape.
Hadn't it even been pretty popular on CHZZK for a while?
It had already had a pretty devoted following before that, too.
-It is famous;
-Wow we actually got this lolol
-Can we spin again??
Come to think of it, people had occasionally asked me to play it. Heaven must've helped them out today.
Its section hadn't even taken up one percent of the wheel.
-Please a horror game;;
-Fuck if I give you a few tens of thousands of won can we vote again?
“Life's full of unexpected turns. Things don't always go the way you want, do they?”
Honestly, I was incredibly relieved that I didn't have to play a horror game...
But wasn't this a pretty big game? I wasn't sure how long a playthrough would take.
I only needed to give it a casual first run, though.
“Should I buy all the DLC too?”
-Nah just play vanilla first
-It'd be good to buy a couple
-There is some essential DLC
“Really?”
Hmm, DLC.
Should I just buy all of it while it was on sale?
It was even 50% off, which was seriously tempting.
“I made a lot of money today, so I'll buy everything.”
-Daaaamn lololol
-Buy horror games for fuck's sake
-Lady Wayo isn't even hiding it anymore
-Truly a wealthy lady
“I can just make it back through donations~”
-??
-lolololol
-This shameless bitch...
Swipe, swipe, swish.
And just like that, I swiped my card and bought the game with all its DLC in an instant.
Then I took a quick look at what kind of game it was.
-You're studying beforehand??
-Not going in blind?
“Oh, I heard this game's full of unfair bullshit.”
There were games that basically told you, “If you don't know, you deserve what's coming.”
The Pawnworld I knew belonged in that category.
-It's fine if you lower the difficulty
-Try it on the default difficulty?
Of course, as chat said, if I lowered the difficulty, I could take the hits and learn even when the game threw unfair things at me.
But what kind of Taejin-like thinking was that?
I quietly looked away from chat.
-Oh come on lolol
-Lower the fucking difficulty
-Stubborn bitch;;
Nope, don't wanna~ I was absolutely going to crank up the difficulty, beat it, and brag about it~
So I quickly crammed the basic mechanics into my head and polished off the whole tutorial, nice and clean.
-Only reads the whole manual at times like this...
-Try doing this normally
-Ugh fuck she's really setting us up
“Oh, should I open predictions?”
-Do we look like gambling addicts to you? Anyway open it
-What the fuck do you take us for;; I'm so offended I'm betting on the favorite
-After that much SSEN Math prep you should be able to beat it right??
Before starting the game, I opened the betting.
“You all have quite a few points, huh?”
Some of them must've lost everything betting on my recent Lel winning streak.
Yet here they were, somehow placing bets with crumpled-up points they'd scraped together from somewhere.
-Shut up
-Fuck;;;
-Upvote if betting on the underdog paid out big lolol
Anyway, only after taking their bets did I finally click the button to start the game.
After I fiddled with various starting settings, the character creation window appeared.
“Hmm.”
In Pawnworld, you started by randomly rolling three characters who would land on the planet.
Their abilities were one thing, but I also had to give them names.
Coming up with good names was part of a streamer's lot in life.
That was why most streamers struggled quite a bit at this point.
-All right Seongwon let's go lolol
-Seongwon hype lol
-About time we saw big bro Seongwon
Fortunately, that wasn't a problem on our stream.
“Yeah, well, let's go with Seongwon.”
Time to put Seongwon in a game again.
Footnotes:
The circle made with the thumb and index finger can signify money in Korea, giving Wayo's apparently agreeable gesture a greedy second meaning.
SSEN Math is a Korean math workbook series. Chat compares Wayo's careful study of the game to intensive exam preparation.
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