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Hey, thanks for shouting this out. I like (trying) to watch runs, but since I don't usually follow any speedrunning I forget when these events are. There's quite a few games I'm interested in seeing, but like you, I'll be at work/sleeping for a few of them. I'll be sure to update if I catch a good one, and I'll be likewise checking back to see suggestions

There's an accessibility option to just put stuff wherever you want. I know once I finish the 'puzzle' run of the game, I'll probably go back through and put stuff wherever.

I'm loving all the demos, so far I've played:

Unpacking (interesting storytelling game where you learn by unpacking boxes through someone's life): 5/5, no bugs I found, short and sweet demo for a game I was super interested in from the trailer.

Bear & Breakfast (a bear builds and runs a bed & breakfast): 3/5, unfortunately riddled with bugs. I did manage to get to the end of the demo where it seems like it's sort of a freeplay thing, but I think guests stopped requesting stays so I only had one guest. The guest often floated around and at one point was just a hat, which was funny. There's also quite a few bugs with the room building. However, I'm still very interested. The art is great and I really like the premise so far. There's lots to unlock in the demo, but with the bugs, I decided to wait and play the full release.

Terra Nil (reverse city builder puzzler): 4/5, interesting, took me a couple retries (one of which I ended up with 2 of the little recycle boat drones and somehow managed to get them both back to the airship to finish). Seems more puzzle than I usually like, but I'm intrigued. Super pretty and the demo is very robust.

Blooming Business Casino (casino tycoon with cute animals): 2/5, It's got a very retro funky style. It was pretty buggy and weird the first time I played it yesterday, but it got patched today and seems to actually have a completion now. Demo is pretty shallow and I had a lot of trouble with placing things. Couldn't fire staff, some of the dialogue boxes talked about hiring people I couldn't hire from the usual menu (figured out bouncer by hiring via entrance, no clue about pit boss though). Camera mode lets you fly around and clip through any and everything. I am unfortunately not that interested anymore. Tycoon/management games are my bread and butter, but the style didn't land as much as the Bear & Breakfast game above.

These next two were technically from the Guerilla Collective, but they're also demos!

Potion Craft (super stylistic alchemy creation/selling): 5/5, I'm pretty excited for this. It's got a great style, the demo was super smooth and I didn't find any bugs. Trying to get to new potions could be frustrating, but they've got some upcoming features they map out when the demo ends that I think will help out. It's got some interesting "choices" you can make: help the guy who wants to poison a person and your rep goes down. Lower rep means more customers looking to do bad things with your potions. Or, don't fulfill his request and your rep goes up. Higher rep means more people looking to do good. I didn't figure this out at first, but I think it's kinda neat. There's no time mechanics, so people will sit around in the shop for ages until you get their potion. The only limit there is ingredients. I ended up putting a couple hours into this.

Despot's Game (pixel rouge-like dungeon crawler where you gear puny humans to kill and be killed for you): 5/5, this looks pretty cool. It definitely has the RNG element where sometimes you get a mob in a room that will annihilate all your humans at once and you have to start a new run. No bugs I found. There's a hunger mechanic which seems a little counter-intuitive to the main game premise of having an army, so I'll be interested to see how that gets balanced. It feels like the kind of game where you have to very carefully balance exploring to get more gear/potentially (always) lose more humans and just plowing through to the next level. The humor is just a tad obnoxious, but I still put 2 hours in playing the same parts over and over. I wish there was a bit more variance in gear, if just for the demo. I seem to get the same stuff quite a lot, while I've only seen the pretzel/other throwers once or twice. There's also a cool mechanic where having variety in a single class (so 3 types of the tank 'class') gives you special abilities. It seems to stack quite a bit, however, this also means you have tons of guys out and have to somehow feed all of them (there is a pit in each room where you can throw humans to get food, as once they hit a rock bottom level, they can't move). Still, I'm interested to see this one when it's done.

I agree with Relkin, I only ended up getting Afterbirth but I love it. There's a lot of time you can sink in and the DLC will (most likely) always be there if you'd like after you spend a bunch of time on it.

I don't usually, I did try watching a youtuber's videos slightly sped up because she talked so damn slow but in the end I just unsubscribed and stopped watching her.

A streamer also has to be interested in it to want to stream it. Especially variety streamers who have a big enough audience they don't necessarily need to be playing the newest thing.

I'm in my early 20's but I don't really get the streaming thing. I really realized this when vtubers became super popular and I was super confused about why. After some thinking, I think it's because I don't like streaming/watching streams/thinking about streaming myself and vtubers are that but the 'personality', if you will, doesn't have to show their real face, which I'm actually all for. Granted, I have not delved super deep into Twitch so there's probably a stream or two out there I'd enjoy, but I just don't like how most streams go. One person, who spends more time talking to/thanking chat than actually playing the game. I never have chat open, I haven't been around as long as JustinTV, but even when I started watching, I quickly realized chat was usually not a great place and went way too fast for me to keep up with anyway. 9 times out of 10, whatever I'm watching is background noise to either some mindless FFXIV stuff or cross stitch, where I can keep some attention on it, but not on a stream and chat.

I think I've really found what I do like, which is usually smaller groups of people playing typically single player games. Giant Bomb, Super Beard Bros, Scary Game Squad on Jesse Cox's channel. I do watch some gaming channels with just one person, but I really like the smaller groups. Streaming isn't built around that and I just really don't have any interest in it. I also agree with how the thanking for tips really just feels like a pavlovian response. Maybe I'm just too shy, but I don't want to be called out anyway. If I'm going to donate or something, I'm going to do it in a way that doesn't involve my name being called out.

I really don't play many video games, since I play FFXIV and that consumes most of my gaming time, and I'm not super interested in a lot of bigger games, but I love hearing people just talk about games. Podcasts are also a favorite of mine because I can be doing something else while I listen. I do miss the Holiday Specialtacular stuff, especially Hitsmas, but as we all know, 2020 was a thing and I wasn't really expecting anything like that this year.

I have a 2015 Razer Blade laptop which is absolute trash on the best of days. I've had so many problems with this thing over the years and I just need it to hold out until I finish the next year and a half of college so if I ever go back on campus, I have a laptop. I use it right now as an overpriced webcam and Teams machine. It gets plugged into my second monitor so I can have Teams up on a bigger screen.

Within the first week of this semester starting, it decided it's now going to have weird screen problems. Sometimes on boot, the display will sort of tile itself and flip half the screen and invert the colours. It still works, but it's impossible to really see anything on it. I can plug it into a second monitor I have, which I do anyway for class and it works fine.

It doesn't do this every time it boots or even half the time. After it decides it's going to freak out, it'll do it consistently through reboots for a while. It started during a Windows update but I rolled that back and it kept doing it. At some point I thought if it was left plugged in overnight it was doing it, but that's not entirely true (this thing has had so many battery/charging problems over the years).

Honestly the weirdest part was after I set it to second monitor only when it was freaking out one time, if it does freak out, it'll set itself to second monitor only, even though the rest of the time I extend the displays. The last time it happened it didn't go back to extend, even though it did the 5 or so times before that.

It's weird, it's essentially made the laptop useless as a laptop because there's a good chance the display won't work on boot, but at least I'm stuck at home and don't have to take it anywhere right now. Depending on how this virus goes I might actually still be at home next (school) year so I guess I'll worry about it then.

@bonbonetti: If you want to play with a wheel-set you will also need some form of eye/head-tracing device (about $200).

Definitely don't need eye tracking for a wheel. My dad was using a wheel for a while before we got him the Track IR thing as a gift. He used keyboard/mouse before that and when he added the wheel, I believe he kept the keyboard close and set up hotkeys for different camera positions. His desk is set up so the wheel is mounted to the keyboard tray and the keyboard is up on the desk.