by nyxiadash
go back home
So, I've been running a local for the past while. While I handle and work in corporate events often, where equipment is almost always kept in wonderful shape in dedicated cases, that is money that I and most local event runners simply don't have the finances to do this. Thankfully, the administrative overhead of two laptops (one for broadcast + one for startgg) fits in a backpack, along with most of the other cables, and bringing a stream setup is not all that hard. However, the second you can't carpool or need to bring more than one setup, there starts to present a challenge. How do I get this equipment here, safely?
I feel that the meager amount of money that has been made running locals is functionally entrusted to me by the community for responsible use, and as such, doing something like carrying a PS4 in the rain unprotected feels like an insult to everyone. As a result, I have put a signifigant amount of thought in recently as to both what to spend money on, and how to keep that equipment in use for as long as possible. The IKEA bag has been deeply useful to me for cables and power strips, but I figure that hard shells are somewhat necessary for monitors, or what I have been doing, which is wrapping monitor cardboard boxes in tape that is water-resistant, which helps most of the time. However, this cardboard will eventually decay, and I am kicking the can down the road.
A large part of why I tend to prefer to prioritize anime games is that the PlayStation 5 is twice the size of the prior console. When I can run everything but Street Fighter 6 and Tekken 8 on a PS4, I would rather dedicate a box and whatnot to about 1.5 PS4s of space for every PS5. However, PS5s, as they are generally purchased new, come in original boxes that are optimized for storage, which is simply not a privilege afforded to me with the decade old PS4 Pro. However, as the console is old, there is a large third party ecosystem for cases and storage for these devices, so it works out in the end.
As someone who dosen't drive and has a streak of hyperindependence, I think often of a picture of WASD (NYC) organizer ImpurestClub looking like a Death Stranding character on the subway, and I can't help but think that that is the natural progression of this project, as equipment procurement causes me to put signifigant effort into thinking about weight, storage, and sizing.