If anybody's to blame, it's twitch for not giving streamers holiday pay. (I'm mostly joking but also kinda not...point is, it's a busy time and you have a life too!)

I had family Christmas prep so sorry I missed it live. Got the VOD up now, looking forward to the belated CD-i nonsense!

You inspired me to start getting back into Pokemon, with how much fun Legends ZA looks.

Might make Pokemon Yellow my return stream, so don't forget to vote on my rival evolution and suggest nicknames!
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Yup, I know that feeling all too well. Glad he's feeling better.

Feel better, Christian!

Graphics card burned out and caused a short. So I guess figuring out what to do while getting that replaced.

Twitch: Can we offer you a Tomf in these trying times?

All things willing, there will still be a stream on the 14th, and MAYBE I'll find time to stream with Arc somewhere in the next week, but I'm not making any promises.

Anyway, just. Discouraged and worried by what happened today and partially screaming into the void and partially hoping to actually find someone else who's been where I am who might be able to offer advice or help. Or even just some encouraging words cause I was on the verge of quitting. (end)

The only other option I see if twitch becomes unreliable is to go to youtube, but I'm reluctant to do so because a: I had the hardest time figuring out how it worked compared to twitch, and b: I worry about their quality control/checks and balances in terms of moderation.

- that's the right term). All this to say I have NO idea wtf is going on but I'm hoping I have a few things to try. Otherwise....I'm open to advice if anyone can hear this message. And if this doesn't work, I'm wondering about where to go from here. (cont.)

...which I thought I fixed just by reconnecting, but it feels worth mentioning. My family has also complained about connection issues this afternoon, and there's been a little weirdness since our housemate replaced the router, but I'm on ethernet through a powerline adapter (I think- (cont)

I've also been told that bitrate, resolution, and enabling enhanced broadcasting might help, and I've even seen a few people say the error might have been on twitch's end when it happened to them in the past. I also had a weird incident where OBS couldn't connect to my twitch the other day (cont.)