@riostarwind: Thanks for the support. I try not to let the donations (or lack thereof) bug me too much. And you're right, most of it happens on the day itself. And I did ask some more people personally if they'll donate. They said they will so here's hoping they're true to their word.
As far as the camera and headset is concerned, I did get my girlfriend and my friend to agree to it in the end. They just want the option to turn it off every once in a while. And with some OBS fiddling I think I've found a pretty good way of splitting on Webcam into multiple smaller views, letting me add and remove other people from the stream at will. It still needs to be thoroughly tested but it's looking good. All I need now is to get multiple headset feeds into one stream without a mixer.
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