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In September 2021, I left the Twitch Affiliate Program for good. It is super easy to do. It took me less than an hour to complete the process.
If you are close to a payout and planning to leave, I advise waiting for the payout and leaving after the money is in your bank.
If you leave before a payout, you forfeit the money.
Continue reading “How to Leave Twitch Affiliate”I returned to making Let’s Play videos this week. Thank you to the developer and Keymailer for providing a code for Costa Verde Transport Department. I hope you enjoy me fumbling through a few rounds of the game, which I enjoyed quite a bit. The puzzle aspect is right up my alley. And please subscribe over on YouTube if you haven’t done so yet.
A new city is emerging on the vibrant shores of Costa Verde, but the citizens need help: someone must build the roads for them! Luckily, they have you: the head of the city’s Transport Department. The growing city expands in all directions. People drive from home to work and back, industrial trucks transport resources between manufacturers, and you have to plan the road network for the city carefully!
The main gameplay consists of planning & building a road network for the growing city. You have to carefully plan the roads to balance the city traffic and obtain valuable resources that help you progress. Sooner or later, your roads won’t be enough: you’ll have to build detours, roundabouts, bridges, and use some magic!
I lost my way when it comes to creating things for video. TikTok, Reels, and YouTube have all distracted me from what I enjoy creating – 300-word blog posts.
The pace of YouTube content I made in June was too much. I can’t keep that up. My goal was a video a week. I ended up with 14 streams, five videos, and eight shorts. It is too much. With my office in shambles due to a home renovation project, the downtime allows me to evaluate much of what I have been doing around gaming, content, and how I want to show up on the internet.
I am old. I have been doing this internet thing for too long. Everything is too fractured, and I am tired. I am settling on some changes and will go with what is easy. My time is limited. I need to respect this limitation.
Blogging returns because I prefer words. YouTube content (at a greatly reduced schedule) is on a break until my office situation is resolved in August. My social media presence is Mastodon and Instagram.
This is it. It is all I can do right now. It is time to stop trying to be everywhere and do a few things to the best of my ability.
It is Steam Next Fest, and thanks to Frozen District, I had the chance to play the House Flipper 2 Demo early. Check out the video below for my first look impressions of the game.
Disclosure: I received a free review copy of this product from https://keymailer.co
Hi. I am attempting to restart content creation.
My desire to create things is high, but my focus remains scattered. The choice of what to play and the types of videos to create remains uncertain. The games I have played in the past and what I became “known for” (I use this loosely) are MMOs which I don’t have much time to play.
Do I go back to making short Let’s Play videos?
Record playthroughs?
Do simple reaction videos?
Finding the time to do any of it properly is so tricky. I do not do it for money, so I can not sink too many resources into the endeavor. I have been a sucker for the sunk cost fallacy before. I need to be mindful of this with any decision.
There is a way forward, and maybe I need to give myself a challenge as motivation. Something simple to test the muscles. Perhaps I will start with a YouTube video a week in June.
Hold me accountable, ok?
Deal.
Ahead of the release of The Elder Scrolls Online: Necrom release in early June, I recorded my playthrough of the prologue quest line. I found it to be shorter than prologue quests of the past, but it does a good job of holding the player’s attention and setting up the story of the next expansion.
The Elder Scrolls Online Necrom releases June 5th on PC and June 20th for Consoles.