About a week ago, I received an e-mail from Tumblr telling me @ignis-scientia-estrogen-brigade turne
About a week ago, I received an e-mail from Tumblr telling me @ignis-scientia-estrogen-brigade turned three years old! Which was fitting timing, since a few days prior the highest of all heights this blog could have ever reached happened: I had streamed myself playing FFXV with English Ignis himself, Adam Croasdell.I regret not making a post about Adam vs. ISEB: An Ignis Scientia Charity Stream sooner while the details of the experience were still fresh in my mind, but between mailing out all of the donation rewards, releasing March’s merch club items, and finally getting around to IRL work that had been sitting on the back burner the entire month of February, I am only just now finding the time to reflect on what an incredible time we had and how our initial fundraising goal of $2250 was completely obliterated in the process:I can’t even wrap my head around how we arrived at $5,621.00 in the span of a few hours, but I will say this: It was 100000% thanks to the insane generosity of 150+ donors, as well as the awesome artists who pulled together at the last minute to create some incredibly stellar reward bundles. Adam and I may have been the hosts of the event, but without the viewers pitching in and steamrolling through that donation bar, it would have simply been a sad and lonely episode of the “Adam Roasts ISEB” show haha.You can view the entire stream ~right here~ on my Twitch channel, but here’s a few selected highlights from the stream below the cut:The moment Adam learned what ISEB stands for:The moment I burned the stew:The moment I lost to Ignis despite being ahead of him by a mile:The moment Adam witnessed my Ignis daki:There are so many good moments that are too long to list here (Adam’s rendition of Oric’s Culinary Chronicles and his attempt at landing the Regalia Type-F come to mind), but the whole stream is worth a watch if you have a couple of hours to kill. As for the experience of hanging out with Ignis himself, it was as surreal as you might expect—Adam’s normal speaking voice isn’t quite the same as the master tactician’s, but every once in a while he’d slip into that familiar Oxford/Cambridge accent and suddenly it would feel like Ignis was sitting right next to me! If I could accurately convey one particular takeaway I had from this whole experience, however, it is that Adam is a gem of a human being who is using his platform to do a lot of good in this world.Besides Adam, who graciously donated his weekend to hang out in front of a green screen with me, there are many other people I owe thanks to for making Adam vs. ISEB the overwhelming success that it was—the folks over at @worldofignis were instrumental in the marketing and moderation of this event, and my dear friend @skhali managed almost everything happening behind the scenes while the stream was live. The FFXV Subreddit and Discord Server also deserve a shoutout for boosting the signal and helping to direct viewers to our stream. And of course, the artists, donors, and viewers who supported us in every way—you guys truly are the best. ♡♡♡ -- source link
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