Ah well, now that the charity streams are over it's safe to say that this year has been quite lackluster. Weirdly enough, it felt like Rev, Ima and Hootey put more effort into it than Vinny and Joel this time. Joel's VineWrestle was your usual VineWrestle with amusing tech problems but went to absolute shit once Jerma made a guest appearance, the destruction stream was very inconsistent and nothing entertaining happened other than Joel downloading ROMs live on stream (which I imagine is against the TOS?). As far as Vinny goes, he appeared to be really tired during his Education stream (which I don't blame him for) and his final stream last night was more talk about real life sponges and playing meme levels in Dreams than Corruptions which made me think the ones he has saved up are going to be great since that's usually what happens, but no they were very generic and only 4 games that I can recall (Breath of the Wild, Final Fantasy X, DMC2, Metal Gear Solid 3). However, it's certainly surprising that the trans emote spam barely existed whenever Joel & Vinny streamed but when the others did it was going on full force, even when the hosts were just reading donations. I still have mixed feelings about NorixWolfe, the dude's a hardcore furry and seeing him constantly choose furry/dog skins in G Mod (since you had to watch the stream from his POV) was kinda annoying, however he obviously held himself back this year since there were no OwO posts on the official Twitter or furtalk whenever he got to say something to Vinny and the others. He was very tolerable, surprisingly. The cursed Ralph body pillow made me giggle, it took 3 tries before someone who won it actually wanted it.
But all that doesn't matter, we broke last year's record by a mile, 150K in stream donations excluding the ones for merch and other stuff (which Vinny will probably make public on Twitter today). So all I can say is that hopefully next year's charity stream can be a bit more oldschool-ish again, I don't mind the new format where Joel is destroying the OS in the last second with some virus Leurak made, but compared to him fighting with the Windows cmd back then it doesn't have that special feel to it anymore. And I feel like Vin's really laying off the corruptions lately, which I kind of understand, but chat got really bored during his Sponge games and talk about back pain and which real life kitchen tools are the best. He's getting old.
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I'm too lazy to go back a few pages and read who said it, but whoever mentioned that Vinny's friends are well off is completely right. Two of them donated 10K and 25K, then talked about that's the best they can do before they go on vacation. So Vinny definitely has some mature company in real life, which should certainly be good for him. Hootey also appears to be a great and caring father.
Here's a 2011 picture of Vin that got shown for a brief second as an incentive when we hit 120K on stream, apparently this was from one of his TV appearances.
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We hit $219,420 , but merch sales will continue until the 25th.
This means Joel will have to do all his charity incentives (including facecam, VR, guitar hero Mario Paint and a really "tall jump").
