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thedangerbeard

Hi! I'm Dangerbeard. I was a glam metal drum technician that fell into a time vortex while tuning a guitar the wrong way, and now I'm a space wizard lord of garbage fires who makes up songs and sometimes plays video games. A heart of gold inside an ADHD powered chaos gremlin. Come hang! xo

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#What is Cool Brain? Cool Brain started out as just something I used to describe my ADHD / neurodiversity, for example "I spent 7 hours today avoiding doing this simple 5 minute task, ha ha, thanks Cool Brain!" or "I spent 7 hours today avoiding this 5 minute task and instead accidentally made this sick new merch design and also opened a new web store... thanks Cool Brain!" As with everything DB, there's a bit of self deprecation there, but I also like to use it to remind myself of the unique abilities that my Cool Brain give me, like randomly thinking up a crazy idea for a thing I want to make for the stream, disappearing for a couple of days, then coming back with a bunch of new skills and a finished product. ANYWAY. Amazing Cool Brain streamer [@caitelatte](https://www.twitch.tv/caitelatte) went and made this rad as heck Cool Brain pixel emote and I loved it so much I commissioned a BIG VERSION so we could have it on a shirt! Let's celebrate what makes neurodiversity awesome!
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I'm [REDACTED], but most people call me DB. My beard isn't particularly dangerous other than it's wanted for questioning in three (3) galactic sectors, but I'm sure it's fine? I got the nickname when I was playing Starbound and running through the character creator; I'd rolled a monkey character, hit random on the name generator and it gave me something like dangerbaboon which I thought was hilarious, so I adopted it to something... beard. I'm from Sydney, Australia, but my wife, our cats Ellie and Dobby (RIP, we love you and miss you) and I moved to Perth in Western Australia after Christmas in 2019 in search of more chill in life. I quit my high stress IT job of 12 years, which left me with a hefty dose of burnout. Add to that some long undiagnosed depression, a brand new social anxiety disorder, and as of mid 2020 a formal ADHD diagnosis, which I'm now trying to learn how to live with, and yeah. I was pretty toasted. I found twitch just before COVID hit and have been amazed at the pockets of beautiful communities full of caring, generous, genuine and talented people around the place, and I decided that was something I wanted to be a part of. Plus it's been a great way for me to use both my broad technical and creative skills to create cool interactive stuff for y'all to play with! There's plenty of channel redeem buttons for you to press to have stupid things happen! This section used to be about the games I play. Except I honestly rarely play games lately. I used to be a huge sucker for farm sims with RPG elements (stardew, portia, etc) but I think it was mostly because I was very depressed and spending an entire weekend dissociating on pixel cabbages is cool and good. Of course I still have a soft spot for them, but Cool Brain struggles to work up the energy to get ready to perform A Lot Of Tasks when I could instead be scrolling through the app folders on my phone. I've always been huge on any good story based singleplayer games - especially big open world RPGs. I play all sorts of stuff depending on my mood and what's out. On stream though, you're more likely to see me play something silly, or more likely nothing at all and I'll be just chatting or serenading chat with songs I make up on the spot about garlic bread or something. I'm a huge melodic metal nerd and I also love cheesy glam rock and synthwave. I'm a huge 80s tragic. You're likely to hear some of all of this at any point. I might even sing you some songs. But I'm very self conscious, so... maybe not. [lol this was written in 2020, things have VERY CHANGED] I play guitar, drums, and I sing, but I've always been chronically shy (again, ironic that I'm streaming despite this), so you'll hear little bits of music made by me, like my follower alert and the channel theme song that I wrote lyrics for in 20 minutes (and it shows!) It is now the year 2022 and I've finally found myself writing new original music, which I haven't done in probably 15 or more years, because trying to exist in 9-5 hell with undiagnosed ADHD for my entire adult life until recently simply took everything I had. We've also had some new additions - our cat Abby literally appeared in our backyard as a 6 week old kitten in need of a home in January 2021 - you can read the story [here](https://twitter.com/thedangerbeard/status/1368781671470788610). Mrsdangerbeard and I also welcomed into the world our son Benjamin Riker in early 2022. As an early birthday present for him, I decided to make him his very own #trekwave [theme song](https://open.spotify.com/track/0yNkN3987mzmMo7aRfEEvp?si=1562dde240a54db9) and [trailer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkVhcfLWrHo)! Becoming parents for the first time has been A Whole Thing, and we're still finding our feet and our rhythm, but we love him so much and he brings us so much joy every single fricken day. [bot commands](https://streamelements.com/thedangerbeard/commands) If you decide to come hang out on a stream, be sure and say hey! I really enjoy chatting with folks, which is ironic considering the whole social anxiety thing AND the ADHD thing but here we are. I do try my best to keep up with chat but boy concentrating on things when you have ADHD is hard, lol. I'm pretty much an open book about my broken brain experiences and whilst am not in any way a health professional, I'm more than happy to talk about my experiences. Or to just talk shop with you. Hope to see you soon! -DB xox
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If you feel like throwing a couple of dollars to go towards my extensive beardcare regime, that'd be hugely appreciated! Will send virtual beardhugs in return.
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💻 PC: * AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 3.8Ghz 12 Core 24 Thread * ID-COOLING ZoomFlow 240X SNOW Liquid Cooler * Gigabyte X570 Aorus Master ATX Motherboard * Corsair 32GB DDR4 Dominator Platinum RGB 3200Mhz * Samsung 970 EVO Series 500GB M.2 NVMe SSD (OS drive) * Crucial MX500 1TB M.2 2280 SSD (Secondary SSD) * ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX3070 Twin Edge 8GB GDDR6 * Jonsbo U4 White ATX case w/Tempered Glass Side Panel * Gigabyte 850W Fully Modular Gold Power Supply * Deepcool RGB LED Magnetic Strip w/ Remote Control * GamerChief Full System Sleeved Cables 🎛 GEAR: * RØDE NT1-A Cardioid Condenser Microphone * TC-Helicon GO XLR mixer / effects / sampler / sound wizard * elgato Stream Deck * elgato Key Light Air * Neewer LED light wands * Logitech G915 LIGHTSPEED Wireless RGB Mechanical Keyboard * Logitech G502 LIGHTSPEED Wireless Gaming Mouse * Kogan XU9210 75" Smart HDR 4K LED TV * Vissles-M 15.6-inch Portable Touchscreen Monitor * Canon EOS R Mirrorless DSLR
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Come be a part of **Dangerbeard & [CreativeMrsD](https://www.twitch.tv/CreativeMrsD)'s Electric Castle ⚡🏰!** My amazingly talented wife and art streamer (CreativeMrsD/mrsdangerbeard, if that wasn't obvious already) and I have a joint discord for both of our wonderful stream communities to hang out! We have a channel for pretty much everything: games, music, art, PETS OF COURSE, shitposting, ADHD talk, an idleRPG channel, a channel to post your accomplishments, whatever they may be, and my personal favourite: The Rant Room, a place to just get whatever you need off your chest and have someone say "yeah, that sucks". If you're a kind, good hearted person, we'd love to have you. We're a tight knit, compassionate community and we've always got room for you.
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-- BITS ALERTS 10 bits - random sound effect from DB's personally curated collection of heaps good meme sounds 100 bits - FARTY PARTY 200 bits - Dangerbeard THEME SONG 300 bits - roll on up for the BEARD PARADE! -- DO A HUG !hug [username] -- ALERTS !lurk !latch -- INFO !discord !beardparade !toehider !specs !gear !abby !epilepsy / !warning And don't forget to check out what's in channel points!
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Bet you didn't know your life was missing some sweet DB merch. It is. Take me with you everywhere you go!
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I'm extremely proud to be a member of Team OCE! With over 100 members, Team OCE (or Team Oceania) is a professional streaming organisation for the Oceanic territories, featuring a dedicated stream team and an active Discord community.

(buy me things and tell me I'm pretty)

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Daddy needs new shinies to keep his stream running all nice. [Amazon Wishlist](https://www.amazon.com.au/hz/wishlist/ls/28K76TJZENKJ9?ref_=wl_share) [Steam Wishlist](https://steamcommunity.com/id/thedangerbeard/wishlist)
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My "enchanted beard guy" emotes are made by Salty! Go check out his art streams!
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Just to make things more confusing, I now also have a [Threadless](https://dangerbeard.threadless.com/) merch store, where you can get even more stuff, like... shower... curtains??? I'll likely be putting all my new designs here, so be sure to follow!
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21/04/2020 - DB's first "real" stream! 07/05/2020 - reached twitch affiliate 07/07/2020 - hit the minimum amount for a twitch payout! Yay money! Thanks you guys! x 10/10/2020 - 500 followers! 14/11/2020 - invited to join the awesome [Team OCE](https://www.twitch.tv/team/teamoce)! 15/11/2020 - invited to join [RASKO RANGERS](https://www.twitch.tv/team/raskorangers)! 18/01/2021 - joined [Team HyperFocus](https://www.twitch.tv/team/hyperfocus)! 28/04/2021 - One year streamaversary! (Which had to be rescheduled due to unexpected hospital) A year of streaming! Thanks so much to you weirdos who keep encouraging me <3 10/08/2021 - ONE THOUSAND FOLLOWERS HOLY CRAP