Honey Season 1 is starting April 2nd. For the month of April, save up your honey and whoever is in the top spot at the end of the month will win a special prize! Previous honey will be going bye-bye, so everyone will start on an even playing field. Earn honey by hanging out and chatting in my channel, or playing the “Objection game”. The prize will vary from season to season, it could be the chance to pick a Finisher Friday game, a custom postcard from me, or something else cool!

Honey Seasons Marathon – April 1st
To celebrate the start of the first Honey Season and revel in just how much honey we have, we are going to do a marathon! Every hour there will be a bidding war with honey, with the winner choosing the game. You can only win the bid once, so feel free to spend all your honey, it will be gone soon anyway!

BOTW Collectors Guide Giveaway
To make this even more exciting, I am giving away a beautiful Breath of the Wild Complete Guide collectors edition hardcover. This book is gorgeous, I have been sorely tempted to unwrap it and look inside, but I’ve resisted (so far). See below for how you can enter!

For each follower special, I’ve tried to do something a little different. Since 5,000 is such a milestone, I want it to be extra memorable. So here’s what I’ve decided to do:

I want you to mail me a postcard from your hometown or state (or country).

I just got a PO Box, so I would love to get some messages and collect some postcards from my Twitch friends around the country and world. If you write a game you would like me to play on the back, then I will play that game for at least an hour during the marathon and show off the front of your postcard on stream. See the game list below if you are wondering which games I own.

I’m going to plan to do the marathon sometime towards the end of August, just to give international postcards time to arrive. I look forward to hearing from all of you!

Saturday, May 14th, 9am – 9pm
This 4K marathon is dedicated to all the people that come and hang out with me on stream. You guys are awesome.

How this will go (hopefully).
I am planning on having a bidding war using Honey, every hour, with the winner picking the game for the next hour. Type “!honey” to see how much you have. Currently my bot does not support bidding, so I think I will just have people call out bids in chat by typing “bid XXX”. I will announce the starting bid, and the bids will go until I post a countdown in chat. Whoever wins will have the honey they bid subtracted from their account. They will then pick the game for the next hour. You can only win a bid once. If the winning bidder does not have enough honey to cover the bid, then it will go to the next highest bidder, and so on.

Picking a game
You can choose a game from the game list above, but feel free to also choose a category if it’s a speedgame, or just add a silly restriction just for fun.

Extra grand prize – $20 steam card!
At the end of the stream, I will raffle off a $20 Steam card as an extra “thank you” to everyone! You must be present to win, it will be a live raffle. The person who wins will be responsible for providing their address so I can mail the card to them.

Game suggestions
If you don’t know which game to pick, here are a few ideas:
Games I’m partway through already: Twilight Princess, Banjo Tooie, Undertale, Super Mario Galaxy 2, Paper Mario: TTYD
Games I’m really into right now: Super Mario World, Enter the Gungeon, Mario Maker
Games to make me suffer: Batman Forever, Amnesia, Emmitt Smith Football, The Lion King

Extra tidbits about honey and ranking
Your rank in stream is defined by hours spent in stream, not your amount of honey, so you will maintain your rank, even if you spend all your honey. I have added a new command !rank, so that people can request their rank and have it visible to others. I have also upped the honey follow bonus to 50 for the marathon.

We have a few fun things coming up soon, so I thought I would write a quick post detailing what’s on the agenda. I usually go to Twitter with these things, but until they extend their character limit to 20,000 or so, I guess this will have to do.

Honey-a-thon Recap

Honey-a-thon was a great success! We had a great group of people who enjoyed the motley assortment of games I was privileged to play, including ToeJam and Earl, Banjo Tooie, Splatoon, Donkey Kong 2 & 3 and many more! I sang “Under the Sea” (mostly in the correct key) and Pixel received many tasty snacks. We raised $456 towards my hotel fees at SGDQ! While I am fortunate to be very close to the event itself (within driving distance), I am also fortunate to be a married lady, which cuts down on roommate possibilites. This money will greatly help me to stay for as long as I can in my own room. Thank you so much to all who participated!

4K Follower Special

This has been on the horizon for a while. Some may think I’ve forgotten about it, but really I got to about 1390 followers and stalled there for a while. I didn’t really mind this, but it’s hard to have a follower special without the followers! Now we are much closer, so hopefully the 4K marathon will be right around the corner.

The plan is to do a Honey-a-thon style marathon, but intead of having people donate real money, there will be a bidding war with honey each hour, with the winner choosing the game. I think this will be a fun way to reward the regulars on my channel for hanging out in the channel so often, yet still fun for new people to watch.

Bros Before Rogues

I’ve invited my brother, the inestimable Json_Brown to come and play some coop rogue-likes with me. We’ve had an entertaining time in the past playing Spelunky, but I would like to try some of the newer offerings, such as Enter the Gungeon. Look forward to lots of yelling, cheering, crying and indigestion as we grow closer together and/or tear our relationship apart through the wonderful experience that is rogue-likes.