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"I'm just curious..."
 
   ... do you, the reader, ever find yourself unconsciously narrating your gameplay aloud, as if to a streaming audience, even though you're alone?

Just me?

--G.
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  Subject     Author     Message Date     ID  
  RE: I'm just curious... drakensis Dec-06-25 1
  RE: I'm just curious... zwol Dec-06-25 2
  RE: I'm just curious... Nova Floresca Dec-06-25 3
  RE: I'm just curious... Peter Eng Dec-06-25 4
     RE: I'm just curious... Peter Eng Dec-15-25 12
  RE: I'm just curious... Spectrum Dec-07-25 5
  RE: I'm just curious... TsukaiStarburst Dec-07-25 6
  RE: I'm just curious... Tzukumori Dec-10-25 7
  RE: I'm just curious... Kendra Kirai Dec-12-25 8
  RE: I'm just curious... SneakyPete Dec-12-25 9
  RE: I'm just curious... DaPatman89 Dec-13-25 10
  RE: I'm just curious... Gryphonadmin Dec-13-25 11
  RE: I'm just curious... Rieverre Dec-24-25 13

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drakensis
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443 posts		 Dec-06-25, 04:03 AM (EST)
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1. "RE: I'm just curious..."
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   LAST EDITED ON Dec-06-25 AT 04:06 AM (EST)
 
Yes.

Also other things. Like assembling a bookcase, which I've been doing a fair bit lately.

D.


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zwol
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323 posts		 Dec-06-25, 12:41 PM (EST)
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2. "RE: I'm just curious..."
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   A couple years ago my dishwasher malfunctioned right before Thanksgiving and I decided to try to fix it myself rather than try to get a repairman to come out that week. Three days* of tinkering later, after the job was completely done, my wife told me that I'd been talking myself through the process, out loud, the entire time. I hadn't been aware I was doing this.


* not counting a week waiting for delivery of the replacement for one crucial O-ring that mysteriously disappeared during disassembly


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Nova Floresca
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3. "RE: I'm just curious..."
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   I've done the game narration thing, mainly to keep focused I think? But when I catch myself doing it, I sometimes wonder if I should consider streaming someday.

The answer of course is "no", especially with small children around to interrupt, but the thought doesn't go away.

"This is probably a stupid question, but . . ."


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Peter Eng
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4. "RE: I'm just curious..."
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   That's more or less my life when nobody else is around.

Peter Eng
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Peter Eng
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12. "RE: I'm just curious..."
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   LAST EDITED ON Dec-15-25 AT 02:25 AM (EST)
 
As an aside, I talk to my opponent when playing Magic: The Gathering Arena, which leads to commentary such as:


  • "Can you at least play a land before the timer starts?"
  • "Well, if you're going to play a Pro Tour winning deck, I suppose I can't complain about getting stomped."
  • "You've got the win! All you have to do is--what the hell?!"
  • "That. Was. Awesome."
  • "You wasted a spell on my Ward and you had the land to pay for it in your hand? Why didn't you play it?!"
  • "Well, that was bad play on my part. I deserve to lose this game. And there we go. Thank you, opponent."


Peter Eng
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Spectrum
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799 posts		 Dec-07-25, 03:09 AM (EST)
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5. "RE: I'm just curious..."
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   No, but it's also true that streaming for awhile or doing long recording sessions makes my voice a little hoarse, so it's chicken-and-egg whether that's because I don't use my voice enough during the day or it's just a limitation I've adapted to deal with by not talking if I don't have to.


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TsukaiStarburst
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6. "RE: I'm just curious..."
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   It must be because you're so much of a writer and you've gone so long without narrating someone's high flying adventures.


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Tzukumori
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7. "RE: I'm just curious..."
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   LAST EDITED ON Dec-10-25 AT 06:10 PM (EST)
 
Yes. Constantly. Especially if I've forgotten what I'm doing, or was interrupted. It's "instant replay" that helps me retrace my steps back to where it all went wrong.

It also amuses my patrons and low-key freaks out my younger co-workers. Whatever. They'll get old soon enough.


-T.Z.

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Kendra Kirai
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8. "RE: I'm just curious..."
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   I tend to find myself narrating anything I'm doing when I'm working out steps. That or talking to what I'm doing. The former helps me to focus, and the latter is kinda me trying to ask the thing nicely to go along, please.


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SneakyPete
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9. "RE: I'm just curious..."
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   I tend to talk to/snarl at the characters in the game, myself.


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DaPatman89
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10. "RE: I'm just curious..."
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   I'm kind of a mix - sometimes I talk about the game I'm playing and how I'm playing it, and sometimes I talk to the game, responding to something a character's said or something that's happened.

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"Things in life aren't always quite what they seem,
There's more than one given angle to any one given scene.
So bear that in mind next time you try to intervene
On any one given angle on any one given scene."
Angles - dan le sac vs. Scroobius Pip


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Gryphonadmin
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11. "RE: I'm just curious..."
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   note: I also quote Freeman's Mind a lot.

--G.
"Now I'll loot your bodies, 'cause that's how I roll, and I think I'm up to 10 or 15 cases of self-defense."
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Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Mod
Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/
zgryphon at that email service Google has
Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.


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Rieverre
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13. "RE: I'm just curious..."
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   ... I've been on a tear recently, cursing out the Vlandians for starting ANOTHER scrap in Bannerlord.

My scruffy band of mercenaries wants to go fight somewhere else for once, but no, the Battanians insist on being pushovers whenever I'm not there for some reason, and I don't want Fake Scotland to fall to the Not Franks.

---
The non-believers climbed for days to confront the master in the mountains. "Where do you get your so-called faith?" they asked.
"You brought it," the master replied. "You've all climbed so high." - The Book of Cataclysm


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