General Q&A for Twitch.tv/Luckless

General Q&A for Twitch.tv/Luckless:

Q: When do you stream? I never see you online~
A: If I'm not lazy I will have my schedule panel in my bio updated to tell you exactly but generally right now it's every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

Q: When you do stream, what do you stream?
A: Normally either some sort of Pokemon or Mario game. If it's not that, it will be either Hearthstone, casual Chess or possibly something else random like whatever I have on Steam or browser games etc.

Q: Where are you from?
A: I live in a small town in Northamptonshire, England. I have lived there all my life.

Q: How old are you?
A: Well I was born on the 16th of May 1993. You can go figure.

Q: Where does the name "Luckless" come from?
A: Back when my school friends were active on the Xbox 360, we decided one day to all change our names to "A _____ _____" e.g. one of my friends was "A Jolly Ginger", one was "A Midget Hippy" etc. to make it so that when we killed someone ingame it would say "You were killed by A _____ _____". I decided I'd try to be clever and call myself "A Luckless Coin", suggesting that a coin has no element of luck to it, it's just completely random; and randomness was my favorite kind of humour - being random is something I tried to be. This name stuck with me for a while, becoming my youtube channel URL amongst other things, and was later shorted to just "Luckless".

Q: But why would you call yourself unlucky, isn't that just asking for it?
A: The word "Luckless" doesn't mean unlucky. It refers to the absence of luck, which includes both bad AND good luck. So basically my fate is in my own hands. My tagline for a series I had going on my Youtube channel was "No Luck, Just Skill" which I think says it all for why I think this nickname is a really good name. It's also a nice length and a moderately nice word to say.

Q: What do you use to play Gameboy/GBA games?
A: For Gameboy games I use an emulator called "Gambatte" and for GBA games I use an emulator called "VisualBoyAdvance-M".

Q: What do you use to play Chess?
A: I have 3 websites that I use for chess, the one you will see the most on my stream is http://en.lichess.org/. I also have an account on http://www.chess.com which my friends used to use before they discovered lichess, and http://www.chesscube.com which I use occasionally but none of my friends use it so you wont see it much on-stream.

Q: What do you use to capture Xbox games?
A: I use a "Hauppauge HD PvR" with "Arcsoft TotalMedia Extreme".

Q: What do you use to capture Nintendo Switch games?
A: I'm not exactly sure on the official name of the capture card but it's made by AGPTEK and it was listed on Amazon as "USB 3.0 Game Capture Live Streaming". It's just a small little box with HDMI In/Out and USB port and literally no other features.

Q: What microphone do you use for streaming?
A: "The ZAFFIRO" - https://www.amazon.com/Microphone-Computer-Condenser-Professional-Recording/dp/B07QYQF729?ref_=ast_bbp_dp

Q: What do you use to stream it all?
A: The streaming software I use is "Open Broadcaster Software" or "OBS" for short. Once upon a time I used to use a program called "XSplit" which is just as good if you are willing to pay for it, but the free version is really bad. OBS is free and on-par with XSplit's premium version.

Q: What program do you use for the splits on the side?
A: The splits program I use now is called "LiveSplit". I used to use a program called "WSplit" which I would also recommend if you don't like LiveSplit, but LiveSplit is more actively developed and has some really cool features; including support for Speedrun.com and SpeedRunsLive.com which I may use occasionally to race games with my friends/fellow streamers.

Q: What kind of computer do you use?
A: If you're looking at my past highlights or broadcasts you'll see streams that I did with my old toshiba laptop which is here: http://www.toshiba.co.uk/discontinued-products/satellite-l450d-128/?service=UK&PRODUCT_ID=1078088&DISC_MODEL=1. More recently though I've upgraded to a LENOVO Z50-70 which if they are still being sold can be found here: http://shop.lenovo.com/gb/en/laptops/lenovo/z-series/z50/ let me know if they arn't and I'll change this link.

Q: What is your upload/download speed?
A: I believe it's currently 100 down and 20 up but I generally only get half of that because I connect wirelessly. Here's a link to my results page on speedtest.net: http://www.speedtest.net/results.php?sh=2e9a1831dfc9cb21245b8901ad9fe21d&ria=0

Q: What other streams do you watch?
A: There are a couple of streamers that I am really good friends with and regularly moderate for such as 5upamayne, Cooltrainermichael, Maquina_Azul30, Kush_N_Newports, DarkCEO, Blakest... OK trying to list people here is a bad idea! I already made a list of all of them which you can see here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AswbIDHmqhtldDBtX2s4TnRKS2VPZktBbGJDZy1zWkE&usp=drive_web#gid=0 ...bare in mind I haven't updated this list in a while though.

Q: What do you do other than watching streams/streaming?
A: Really not a lot. I graduated from College toward the end of 2012 with a Diploma and decided not to go to University, I just took a large break from everything because I could. Right now I'm regretting it though because I have never had a job, so getting a job is proving incredibly difficult at the age I am and with no work experience. If you mean hobbies; I am into sports such as football (not handegg), formula one, tennis, snooker and more. In fact I was in a football team for 2 and a half seasons. I go to gaming events like Eurogamer Expo (or EGX as it's now called), GAMEFest, etc. I meet up with friends when they are around but most of them are at University so I don't see them much. Yeah, cool story isn't it bro?

Q: What Consoles do you own?
A: Nintendo; Gameboy Pocket, Gameboy Advanced, Gamecube, DS, Wii, 3DS, Switch. Sony; Playstation, Playstation 2, Playstation Portable. Microsoft; Xbox 360 and PC.

Q: What's your favorite Xbox 360 Game?
A: This is a tough one because I don't really play on my 360 much anymore. I have a vast history with FIFA games ranging from FIFA 2004 all the way up to FIFA 13 (My favorite being FIFA 12), my first 360 game was Gears of War 2 which I spent an insane amount of time on so I love that game, and I also played a stupid amount of Call of Duty which I made a lot of friends through and have been in many "clans" on (My favorite of those was Black Ops 2). So it's probably between those franchises.

Q: What's your favorite Pokemon Game?
A: Casual; Silver/Gold.
Speedrun; Red.

Q: What's your favorite Pokemon and why?
A: Zapdos - because when I first played Pokemon (Red) on my Dark Blue Gameboy Pocket I caught Zapdos and it absolutely obliterated the Elite 4 with Drill Peck and Thunder. Plus I think it has an awesome design with it's feathers that are pointed like Lightening.

Q: What's your favorite Mario Odyssey Kingdom?
A: Casual; Metro.
Speedrun; Lost.

Q: What's your least favorite Mario Odyssey Kingdom?
A: Casual; Lost.
Speedrun; Lake.

Q: I have a question that's not in this pastebin, can you add it?
A: I certainly can! Just ask it in the chat during one of my streams, or in the chat in a stream that I am watching. I will answer it on the spot as well as adding it to this paste when you ask for it to be added :)