Matthew McGuigan

Anonymous asked:

fan of your streams! was wondering how you do your redeems? (invite gerold, lost in the sauce, etc.) they look super cool!

Oh hey! I’m glad you like ‘em, and I’m planning on getting back to weekly streams in February!

For channel point redeems I use a free program called Touch Portal, which basically turns your smartphone into a lil’ stream deck. It also allows you to program a variety of actions whenever certain events occur, such as redeeming specific channel point rewards! There is a 'Pro’ version you can pay for that gives your more functionality, but I’ve been able to do everything I need with the free version.

I’ve had a lot of fun programming all the silly channel point functions. We’ve developed pretty outspoken pro-Gerold/anti-Gerold camps within the viewer base who battle it out with channel points throughout each stream, which I assume is all in good fun.

We made it

cutebotcalendar:

Hi friends, we did it: we made it through another year! THANK YOU for sharing it with me because it was a DOOZY. Every comment and tag you left helped keep me going day after day, and now it’s time to rest and recharge. 

I’ll be taking a break from regular posting in January, although there may be some secret goodies popping up throughout the month. Things might look different around here as we go into February, but I’ve got to unplug myself long enough to figure out what that difference is. 

I also now have two full years of calendar posts to turn into print editions. I thought I could do this while continuing to update daily, stream weekly, and work full-time at my retail day job, but it’s proven more than I can handle. So a priority will be getting these print editions designed, and figuring out how to produce them (as well as the first edition of the calendar) and make them available for folks to order. This will probably take longer than I think!

Finally, I decided (at the last minute) that I wanted to do something special to send off this year’s calendar, so tonight I’ll be drawing one final robot to ring in the new year while hanging out live on my twitch channel: twitch.tv/mattmcguig. I’ll start streaming around 8PM MDT, and I’d love for you to tune in and say hi if this project has meant something to you in the last few years. We’ll have some hot chocolate, draw a little, and maybe play some video games? I know New Years can feel pretty lonely sometimes, so I wanted to contribute my own little space to see if we can feel just a bit more together.

Thanks again, and see you soon!

-Matthew

Stream’s bootin’ up now!

a big booty bot was requested, and I hope I provided an adequate exploration of the concept

We should really just let them do their thing in peace