Subathon ended yesterday (well technically today, especially in Armenia since it was past 3am). 7.5 days of gaming done, thank you everyone who contributed to the timer staying alive and everyone who was just tuning in to hang out, especially during 36 hours marathon!
Returning to normal streams tomorrow after chilling today.
I do want to try longer streams though at least for some time, because I do really enjoy our WoW guild activities, also want to continue my playthroughs/trying new games and I do need more time for that. More evening time for dungeons and such activities required too. I think I’ll try extra 3 hours this weekend and then we’ll see how it goes, during subathon evenings until 7-8pm CET actually had pretty stable viewership and if it will stay that way I’ll do more longer streams on Twitch. Maybe even during workdays sometimes, not going full Hobothon mode, because I need to do some off stream things too, but some overtime, maybe tied to a little sub goal, like 5 per day (should get 3 on average already normally).
Unlocked all the incentives up until 170 hours, including it (check the list here). Most of the IRL content with travels will be scheduled for January, second half when holidays around are over, friend has a vacation and there is snow in Dilijan. Another country for travels and IRLs will depend on ticket prices and vibes, will be checking some good offers from Yerevan, local lowcoster is bombing me with ads about their destinations and currently potential options are Turkiye, Serbia and Moldova. Istanbul is a massive hub and most likely will appear during my travels naturally anyway, so maybe other destinations if prices will be nice.
Planning to keep the exercises going at least once per stream, since I wasn’t doing enough during the Subathon, more Golf with your Friends on Saturday and Armenian food will transform from deliveries to grocery store stuff that you can find here being “reviewed” around coffee break.
Money will go to my savings, preparing for massive travels next autumn and dentist expenses that I plan to optimize by doing it in Vietnam. Some stream upgrades on the list too, since my current wireless RODE mics are slowly degrading battery-wise due to being quite old and being used a lot in a past couple of years. Will probably get some DJI mics to combine with my other DJI devices that I use in IRL streams (already 1 DJI Mic 2 that was combo’d with my Pocket 3 and works really good).
Next Subathon might happen in early Spring already, because after I return home in early April it will be a bit tricky to do it there, but there might be one option. Autumn will have travels resumed and it will be only possible when I settle in Vietnam (quite far away to plan everything yet), but only if there will be some really dog weather season to just sit at home.
Since the incentive about TwitchCon didn’t happen (tbh I did put it there kinda yolo way), I think I’ll just abandon plans to go next year, unless there will be some massive changes in the visa and travels situation. Want to, but it’s a lot of bureaucracy, complications, and massive expenses, while I don’t see any excitement among community and fellow streamers about the event. If something changes I might still try, otherwise for now I’m just trying to forget about it and ease my mind with less early planning already brewing in my head.