I’m back to content with another stream schedule! Last week was excruciatingly long, but this week is looking more manageable.

So I’m going to try to stream two days this week—Thursday and Saturday.

I’ll be doing some chill Animal Crossing, and trying to design my island for the first time ever on Thursday.

Saturday I’ll finally be continuing my Sims 4 Flower Legacy, and I’m so excited to finally get back to it!

I might stream a bit longer than 3 hours if I really get into it. Which I expect I might.

YouTube is Coming

Speaking of my Sims 4 Flower Legacy, I’m finally going to start uploading episodes for it on my YouTube starting next week!

Getting back to putting some content on YouTube is something I’ve wanted to do for a while.

I miss creating all of those housing videos I made in WildStar, and I figure condensed streams is the next-best-thing I can get into.

One day I’d also like to get back to creating planning videos, but right now it’s a bit too much on top of day job, adult content, and streaming.

Don’t forget to follow me on Twitch, or check my Twitter for updates on when I go live.

How is it December already? I don’t understand. But here we are. And with a new stream schedule for the week.

I really hated missing stream on Saturday, but my depression and lack of spoons got the best of me… followed by a migraine that evening.

So I’m going to try to stream two days this week instead to make up for missing Saturday’s stream.

Since I finally unlocked K.K. in Animal Crossing, I can officially build on my island! So that’ll be the focus of Thursday’s stream… though I have no idea where to begin or what to do. But I’ll figure it out as I go.

On Saturday, I’m going to continue my Flower Legacy Challenge in The Sims 4. I surprisingly missed playing Sims on Saturday more than I thought I would. So I’m looking forward to getting back into it this weekend!

VPN Thoughts

I’m also finally looking into obtaining a VPN. I want to play some DBD on stream, and of course this is the thing to make me finally decide to invest in a personal VPN.

Y’know. Because of the whole doxxing thing that’s happening to DBD streamers?

I really want to play some cozy DBD on stream, so I figured with all the deals on Nord VPN right now, I’d pick it up.

Doing some research it seems to be one of the best out there right now, and seeing a bunch of streamers using Nord is a bonus.

Don’t forget to follow me on Twitch, and keep an eye on my Twitter for any last minute stream schedule updates!

I’m surprised that I’m actually enjoying streaming Sims, as well. So much so, I decided to introduce my founder in a blog post, and start putting my current playthrough on my YouTube in shorter form videos.

This week, though, my stream schedule consists of a single streaming day—what I’m now referring to as Sims Saturday.

I have a bunch of things to attend to this week at work, and add on top of it multiple doctor appointments.

Doctors are draining at the best of times, and going to the doctors at the end of the year is just absolutely draining in a country that has for-profit insurance. (But I will end that rant before I begin it.)

This month I am also going to be setting up the little holiday tree I have in my streaming room! I’m thinking of getting little paper ornaments that I can write on to hang on the tree for every subscriber or gifted subs.

I’ll also be sending out some nifty holiday cards to those who end up getting stickers from sub-goal giveaways, too!

So be sure to follow me on Twitch, and keep an eye on Twitter for any possible stream schedule updates!

I’ve been having a lot of fun on stream as of late playing the Sims 4. As I’ve mentioned before, I love the ideas presented in the typical Legacy Challenge (started by Pinstar).

But the well-known legacy challenge has far too many rules for me to just have fun playing The Sims and enjoying the story my Sims create. I knew that I wanted to get back into playing Sims, but I didn’t know where to start.

So I browsed the extensive list of challenges on the Sims 4 forums, and found the Flower Legacy Challenge.

While it provides a bit more guidance than I am used to on what the goals of each generation are, I’ve not yet found it limiting. I also like that it is a six generation legacy instead of a ten generation legacy—it’s a little more bite-sized than Pinstar’s Legacy Challenge.

I already think there could be some tweaks to make it a bit more inclusive in its wording, but that’s neither here nor there.

All that said, I wanted to do a quick post introducing my Sims 4 Flower Legacy Challenge’s founder: Rose Darling.

Meet Rose Darling

The description given to the first generation of the Sims 4 Flower Legacy Challenge is as follows, though I tweaked it to be a bit more gender-neutral and improve readability.

You’re like fairytale royalty come to life. You’re young, beautiful, and a hopeless romantic. You’ve read every single romantic love story there is, and now that you’re finally an adult living on your own, you want to make your biggest wish come true—find your one true love.

Name: Rose Darling
Traits: Romantic, Bookworm, Jealous
Aspiration: Soulmate
Career: Writer

The name, and the way your Sims look is optional, but the challenge creator asks that Sims look the part. To accomplish this, I’ll give them clothing and living spaces that match the color of flower their generation is related to. For Rose, that color is Red.

Traits, Aspiration, and Career are all determined by the challenge’s generation. Each generation also has specific goals and/or rules that must be followed to “win” the Sims 4 Flower Legacy Challenge for that generation. I’ve once again tweaked these to be a bit more neutral and readable.

• Master the Writer Career
• Complete the Soulmate Aspiration
• Get married as a Young Adult
• Have three (3) children with your Spouse

I did have some confusion figuring out what was meant by the Writer Career. You can be a Freelance Writer in the game, so it took me some time to realize the Sim could actually join a career as a writer.

The career track is not specified, so I’m going to pursue the Author branch for this run through of my Sims 4 Flower Legacy Challenge. But enough chatter, let’s take a look at all of Rose’s chic outfits!

I hope you love all her looks! You can check out my playthrough of the challenge via my Twitch VODs, or subscribe to my YouTube to see the shorter-form videos starting later this week.

IntPiPoMo Counter: 20/50

A new week means a new stream schedule.

I’m really enjoying streaming. I’ve missed it, but I also remember it being much more difficult and draining than it has been. Though it may be less draining due to the fact that I’ve been on antidepressants just about two years, now.

I’m going to be playing some Animal Crossing: New Horizons on stream for the first time ever this week. It’s a weird week for me at work due to the fact that American Thanksgiving is on Thursday, but I should be able to make some chill ACNH happen.

Not only will it be my first time playing ACNH on stream, it will also be my first time ever using the capture card I picked up for myself two years ago. I’m crossing my fingers everything I set up tonight works okay tomorrow!

On Saturday I’ll be going back to the Flower Legacy Challenge I started. I’m having a lot of fun with it, though I feel like it’s dragging a bit because I’m on the first generation, still, and there’s no kids to cause chaos.

YouTube Thoughts

The Flower Legacy has also rekindled my interest in YouTube content. I used to create a bunch of YouTube content around WildStar (and it’s all still available on my YouTube channel for those interested), and I miss creating that kind of content.

What I think I’m going to do for now is not just export my Twitch VODs onto YouTube to archive them, but also create shorter-form videos from my Twitch streams.

One of the pieces of advice I’ve seen for content creators is to repurpose your content in other forms for other media avenues, since everyone has a preference for their content consumption. And honestly, it makes sense as a consumer of content, but it is not something I’d thought of as a creator of content.

So, if you ever miss me, or my stream schedule doesn’t line up with when you can hang out live, you’ll always be able to find it in shorter form on my YouTube channel!

That said however, make sure to follow me on Twitch, and keep an eye on either the blog or Twitter for stream schedule updates!