Fatsack Fails

This Used to be a Person - Fallout Fanfic

2024-02-11T00:00:00Z

The Vault Dweller steps into the hallway of the ancient abandoned science facility. The stab of sharp footsteps sting their ears, echoing throughout the halls and bouncing off grimy scientific apparatuses untouched since before the bombs dropped.

Taking in the scene before them, the Vault Dweller begins to reminisce of stories told to them by their elders: stories before the war. Before the vaults. Before they left home. Before the rad storms, the bullet rationing, the desperate hungry look in someone’s eyes that says this will be a fight to the death.

This was a place of learning. This was a place of science. Where the country’s intellectual elite used the knowledge and technology of those that came before them to edge an inkling further beyond humanity’s limitations. One step away from the primitive, barbaric human nature and one step towards enlightenment. This was a place where pre-war knowledge and progress could have altered history, diverging into a less destructive future.

Now it’s a place to scavenge for supplies and get away from the harsh wasteland sun. One step forward, two steps back. The Vault Dweller searches methodically room by room, checking overturned desks and rotted open lockers for something, ANYTHING, that will help them survive another day. One room at the end of the hallway offers potential respite. Among the trash and debris within lies a pile of human remains. Scraps of cloth hint that these people were once scientists. It appears like they were brought into the room, placed on their knees, and shot in the head execution style. The once sterilized floors still look fairly decent, even after all this time, save for the half dozen large discolored stains surrounding the fractured skulls.

As the scientist’s imagined last moments play out in the Vault Dweller’s mind, there’s a somber moment of stilled silence. A single breath before the sobering reminder that staying in one place for too long is a good way to get shot, or worse. A speck of red from within a pile of scientist catches the Vault Dweller’s eye, far too saturated to be blood. They quickly discover a small red keycard, and remember the sturdy door that locked access further into the facility. This might just be their lucky day, the Vault Dweller thought to themselves.

After checking a few more rooms, the Vault Dweller quickly turns back towards the locked sturdy door. They swipe the keycard and punch a large button on the door. A hiss leaks out of the door as the seal breaks. A final pull of a latch is all it takes to open a door that hasn’t had someone from the outside enter in over 200 years.

What scientific discoveries would be hidden away? What supplies could be stored deep inside? There could be food. There could be medicine. There could be something in here that saves humanity. Best not to daydream, the Vault Dweller reminds themselves. Reality is often disappointing. They’ve been out in the wasteland too long to forget that some things never change.

The lights inside the sealed off science facility flicker to life, the soft humming of the lamps raising in pitch as the Vault Dweller walks past. A burst of static screams out from a speaker box bolted to the wall. “Hello?” a tinny, soft voice produces from the speaker box. The voice sounds innocent, almost like a child.

The Vault Dweller freezes, heart racing. They were not expecting to find someone inside, at least not alive. After a few moments the Vault Dweller responds,

“Uh, hello?”

“I’m sorry, only authorized users are allowed within the facilities. *crackle*”

“I have a keycard.”

“… *crackle* … I see.”

The speaker box cuts out and a door further down the hall slowly creaks open. The Vault Dweller hesitates to move for their weapon, not wanting to scare whoever they just spoke with. That moment of hesitation turns into a full body freeze of shock as the chassis of a robot rolls into the Vault Dweller’s view. Its servomotors and motorized actuators whir and hum beneath its heavily armored chassis, supported by two tracks of treading that allow it to glide smoothly into the hall. At first only one of the robot’s flexible arm-like extenders can be seen until its chassis turns to face the Vault Dweller. The appendages appear to have opposable manipulators formed into precise claws that can use devices made for human hands. Its using those claws to hold a combat shotgun. The feeling of shock turns to horror as the Vault Dweller clocks the glass dome sitting atop the chassis houses the central processing unit: a human brain. This isn’t a robot.

This thing has a human brain shoved into it. This used to be a person. Someone removed this person’s brain and put it into this machine. The country’s intellectual elite had used the knowledge and technology of those that came before them to edge an inkling beyond humanity’s limitations. One step away from our primitive, barbaric human nature and one step towards enlightenment. The pinnacle of pre-war knowledge and progress stands before the Vault Dweller.

“*zzzt* I’m sorry, only authorized users are allowed within the facilities.” Its single eyestalk adjusts focus inside the glass dome as the voice transmits from somewhere inside a speaker inside the chassis.

The Vault Dweller slowly raises their hand, showing the red keycard grabbed from the dead scientists. There’s a moment of pause, as if the robotic creature is giving the Vault Dweller a moment of grace to realize their mistake. Then the moment passes. It adjusts its stance, loading shells into the shotgun.

“Shame. *zzzt*”

One step forward, two steps back.

It's Tough Bein' The Birthday Boi

2023-03-02T22:38:55Z

Fatsack tries to stop in the middle of Hunt: Showdown to celebrate his birthday. The undead have other plans.

How I Improved My Job's Discord Community with Autocode

2022-09-10T00:34:37Z

This blog post is an expanded version of a tweet thread I recently wrote. Both the tweet and this post are companion pieces to a post I wrote for Autocode. Check 'em out if you want!

I’ve been working at Autocode for nearly 8 months now (at time of writing). My job title is ‘Content Producer’, but being a small startup company I wear many hats. The majority of my work surrounds marketing and community management. I spend a lot of time in our community Discord server chatting with folks and answering questions. Our server has almost 40,000 members. That’s a lot of chit chat. 😅 A few months back I began to see an issue crop up in our feedback and bug report channels: they were noisy.

The biggest problems I identified were

lots of messages with no context
no way to track conversations or give updates
people felt like they weren’t being heard

I had an idea of how this could be improved and ran it by my team. I took an afternoon and built a bot using Autocode’s Discord API integration that would track reports and put them in their own channel. After 3 hours of building and testing, we could now track any message on the server using Discord’s Context Menu. Just right click, or hold tap and BAM. Tracked ✨

The way it works is pretty straight forward. The bot copypastas the original message and puts it in its own thread. This lets the conversation remain focused and on topic and it means I can come back to it later without having to scroll up past a bunch of unrelated messages. Best part? The whole thing is just over 100 lines of code 😄 Most of it was filled in
automatically by Autocode as I typed. EZ PZ

This alone made it worth the afternoon spent setting it up, but it keeps getting better. Using embed button interactions, staff can lock down a thread and update the title with one click so everyone can see at a glance when feedback or a report has been RESOLVED 🙌 This is really cool because it allows for small updates and changes to be shared in one place quickly and easily.

The final touch for my feedback bot was to add in a way to acknowledge users when feedback is tracked. it’s important to make sure folks know staff saw their report 👀 The bot replies to the original message when tracked, and tags them in the newly created thread.

This gives 2 opportunities for a user to see that we’ve acknowledged their feedback. It also shows the rest of the server as well meaning no dupe reports FTW

The cherry on top of all of it was we were able to take the work I did and create some Autocode content around it! Scott took my bot code and wrote a technical guide on how to build it yourself. He also built out an example app that you can just add to your project and skip the coding.

Nestor and I worked together on the YouTube version of the guide, walking you through setting up the example app and how it works.

All in all it took about 3 hours or so of building and testing before it was live on the Autocode community server. It’s definitely helped me keep track of feedback and reports better, as well as make sure our community feels like they’re being heard when they reach out 👍

Thanks for reading! Feel free to share this blog or the original tweet thread or signal boost my work as you see fit 😎

I use Autocode to improve my Discord community
You can too.

OBS Studio Nested Scenes Tutorial

2022-07-17T02:01:17Z

This is a follow up from my 2D VTuber video based on a question I received from MomoBerry TV about how to take their 2D Vtuber puppet scene and bring it into the rest of their scenes in OBS quickly and easily.

This video uses the VTuber scenes as a demo, but Nested Scenes work with anything! They let you get real fancy ✨

Save The Children #GamingTuesday 2021 Charity Event

2021-11-23T18:59:52Z

View Campaign Donate to Campaign

# Update! Extended Fundraising Time

Save the Children has announced they’re extending the event an EXTRA WEEK! So you can donate until Dec 15th and still get the rewards and help us meet our milestones!

# Rewards

Donate $50 or more to get access to a limited edition Gaming Tuesday shirt from Design by Humans! All of this is handled by Save the Children and Design by Humans as a way to say thank you for your support.

# Milestones

$1 COMPLETE 11/23/21 - FIRST dollar donated!
$500 COMPLETE 12/7/21 - at 50% of our goal we’ll celebrate with a Batsack stream!
$1000 COMPLETE 12/7/21 - at 100% of our goal we’ll celebrate with a #MorphsuitHype stream!
$1420.69 - FOR THE MEMES

# Minimum Donation

Save the Children has reached out to let everyone know that due to changes in payment processor fees they’ve set the minimum donation amount to $3.

This will be my third year participating in Save The Children’s #GamingTuesday charity event. From November 23 until December 15, I’ll be running charity streams to raise money. Save The Children has been helping children for over 100 years all across the world.

Last year we raised $1000 dollars for the event, over double our original $400 goal. This year I’m hoping we can raise at least $1000 again, so I’ll need your help! Please donate what you can, even if it’s only a few dollars.

According to Save The Children, even just $1 can provide four children with pneumonia treatment, so every little bit helps. Please share this with your friends and family and encourage them to donate as well.

You can donate at any time, but if you do during one of my Twitch livestreams, a special alert will pop up announcing your donation!

If we meet the $1000 goal we’ll celebrate with a special MorphsuitHype stream where I wear a silly hot pink spandex morphsuit for the whole stream! We may even have more special surprises if we surpass the initial goal!

Fatsack's Freebies 05 - FREE Twitch Streamer Assets - Make It Rain Animations

2021-11-09T09:28:37Z

I wanted some Make It Rain style animations for my alerts, so I made these! I thought I’d share them with you so you can use them too. Add them to your alerts, videos, etc. Includes vertical cropped versions too!

# Please Rate on Gumroad

If you like my work, please rate it on Gumroad! This helps get more eyeballs on what I’m doing! Thank you to everyone who already downloaded and rated!

# License and Use

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. You are allowed to remix, transform, or build upon this for any reason including commercially.

You are free to share, sell, or otherwise redistribute this as long as you credit the original work to me.

If you’re just using this on your stream, a shoutout in your Twitch panels would meet the requirement. Say something like, "Original art by Fatsack Fails at fatsackfails.com" and you’re good!

# Using the Animations

Included are 24 WEBM video files. A set of 12 videos at 720p and a set at 1080p. They’re categorized into folders and labeled. Each set has 6 videos meant for full screen 16:9 aspect play, and 6 videos meant for 9:16 aspect “vertical cam” play.

The animations include raining confetti, gifts, bits, coins, dollar bills, and a combo of coins and dollar bills.

You can add them to OBS directly to play as you see fit, or add them to StreamElements or Streamlabs as part of an alert, or any other use case. Each video is 3 seconds long and transparent.

# Contact and More Info

If you have any questions about anything, or need something clarified, feel free to get in touch!

Make sure to check back for more Twitch assets and streamer resources!

If these are helpful for your channel and you find yourself with extra money to burn from all those sweet subs, consider throwing a few bucks my way!

Make it rain with 6 animations!
Confetti, Bits, Gifts, and Money.

Get FREE Assets

Fatsack Fails at Layers of Fear

2021-10-28T10:16:04Z

You are the Painter. You have returned to your old Victorian home, abandoned and empty, to finish your Magnum Opus. Your masterpiece. Once you finish it, it will all be worth it. The pain, the madness, the loss. But first you must collect your tools from the various rooms of the house and work on your art. Things are not as they seem, with doors closing behind you, hallways disappearing and reappearing before your very eyes, and the cries of anguish and torture of your loved ones echoing through the musty hallways. But you must finish it. Use my affiliate link here to check out the game for yourself.

Fatsack Fails at Dead Space

2021-10-18T00:00:00Z

You are Isaac Clarke aboard the USG Ishimura, a Planetcracker ship that’s having a few problems. One of those problems is the dead crew members are coming back to life as Necromorphs. The other is you’re trapped on the ship with them. Using Isaac’s skills you’ll shoot, punch, and stomp your way through the different areas of the ship, repairing broken systems and clearing hoards of the dead.

Fatsack Fails at Night in the Woods

2021-10-10T00:00:00Z

Mae Borowski returns to her hometown of Possum Springs after dropping out of college suddenly. She’s trying to figure out her life living with her parents, reconnect with old friends, and figure out why she’s having strange dreams.

Fatsack Fails at The Dark Pictures Anthology Man of Medan

2021-10-08T00:00:00Z

The first story in the Dark Pictures Anthology, Man of Medan has you control 5 characters in an interactive horror “choose your own adventure” story. As you decide moral choices for each character, the story twists and turns. Who will survive? That’s up to you.

Easy 2D VTuber with OBS Tutorial

2021-10-03T23:40:24Z

This PNGTuber effect requires Exeldro’s Move Transition Plugin. That means it only works with OBS Studio, and not SLOBS or any other broadcast software.

If you use this effect on your stream I’d love to see it! Tag me on Twitter or Instagram with a clip.

Twitch Affiliate Starter Kit - Emotes, Badges, Flairs, Channel Points

2021-09-27T13:26:27Z

Hitting Affiliate status is a great achievement, but the cost of getting custom artwork can be expensive (sometimes over $100) for emotes, badges, flairs, and channel points. Not to mention the time it’ll take for those designs to be ready to use. My Twitch Affiliate Starter Kit will help you cover the basics as you figure out your next move.

Let your community celebrate right away without the pressure of having to find an artist to commission. Use the designs as placeholders for the time being, or as a base to build on for custom artwork. Over 100+ artwork elements already sized and organized to upload to your Creator Dashboard the moment you download. Pay what you want starting at $10 USD.

# Includes:

Badges up to 5 years of Subs
30 Flairs for Tier 2 and Tier 3 Subs
40+ Emotes
100+ Channel Point designs (can be used as Emotes and Badges too!)
License to modify, remix, and share designs outside of Twitch (no credit needed)
Properly sized, labeled, and organized images for each design
HD sized versions of each design (1080x1080 pixels)
Source files to modify designs in Affinity Designer
Instructions to upload to Twitch

# Convenient Bundling. Lifetime Updates. No Attribution Required.

You can download and use the Emotes, Sub Badges, Badge Flairs, and Channel Point resource packs for free from the Freebies page as long as you include a shoutout and a credit link in your panels.

This Starter Kit contains everything from these streamer resource packs in one convenient bundle with lifetime updates. It also includes a modified license, allowing you to use these designs without having to credit me.

# Contact and More Info

If you have any questions about anything, or need something clarified, feel free to get in touch!

Make sure to check back for more Twitch assets and streamer resources!

If these Emotes are helpful for your channel and you find yourself with extra money to burn from all those sweet subs, consider throwing a few bucks my way!

Hit Those Sub Goals!
Emotes, Badges, Flairs, and Channel Points

Get Starter Kit

Fatsack's Freebies 04 - FREE Twitch Channel Point Designs

2021-08-31T01:16:39Z

Want to spice up your Channel Points? Need a design for that cool Reward you want your chat to spend points on? I GOT YOU COVERED!

I’ve created over 100 different designs for you to use for your Channel Point Icon and Channel Rewards! Many designs include 7 different color variations, as well as a few designs allowing you to add your own symbol or words if needed.

These designs also make for great extra Emotes for your channel! I’ve also included resized versions of these designs to use for Sub Badges if you want as well. These designs go well with my other resources, so be sure to check them out!

Includes the source files to personalize them with brand colors, change out shapes, or just peek under the hood at how you might want to go about making these yourself.

# Please Rate on Gumroad

If you like my work, please rate it on Gumroad! This helps get more eyeballs on what I’m doing! Thank you to everyone who already downloaded and rated!

# License and Use

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

You are allowed to remix, transform, or build upon this for any reason including commercially. You are free to share, sell, or otherwise redistribute this as long as you credit the original work to me. Say something like, "Original art by Fatsack Fails at fatsackfails.com" and you’re good!

If you’re just using the Emotes for your channel and don’t plan on editing them and/or sharing them with others, you don’t have to worry about this. Simply use the Emotes and enjoy!

# Using the Designs

These designs are sized for Channel Point Icons, Channel Point Rewards, Emotes, and Sub Badges. The folder labeled ‘02 Channel Points and Emote Sizes’ are sized 112x112, 56x56, and 28x28. The folder labeled ‘03 Sub Badge Sizes’ are sized 72x72, 36x36, and 18x18.

To set your Channel Point Icon for your Twitch channel, go to your Creator Dashboard and navigate to Viewer Rewards >> Channel Points >> Customize Points Display.

Channel Point Rewards can be customized by going to your Creator Dashboard >> Viewer Rewards >> Channel Points >> Manage Rewards & Challenges.

If you want to use these as Emotes you can upload them to your Emote Library by going to Creator Dashboard >> Emotes and clicking Upload New in the right hand panel.

Finally Sub Badges can be changed in Creator Dashboard >> Settings >> Affiliate >> Subscriber Badges.

From there you can upload the images found in the folders for each image size. I’ve labeled the images in order, as well as labeled the image size for each design. You can either click each design size to find and upload from the file picker, or you can drag and drop each image. Make sure to save your changes and you’re set!

# Editing the Designs

In the ‘04 Source Files’ folder are Affinity Designer (.afdesign) files used to create these designs. You will need Affinity Designer to be able to open and edit them. I’ve set up each design in its own labeled artboard. Make any changes you want, like colors, shapes, etc. and then export the images.

Remember you need to export as PNG for the transparency and you need to export each design three times at the different image sizes (112x112, 56x56, and 28x28 for channel points and emotes, 72x72, 36x36, and 18x18 for badges).

If you can’t or don’t want to use Affinity Designer (you should, it’s great) the ‘01 Previews’ folder has PNGs at 1080x1080 that you can pull into whatever image editor you want to use to make changes. I recommend using Photopea because it’s a free Photoshop alternative that you can use in your browser.

# Contact and More Info

If you have any questions about anything, or need something clarified, feel free to get in touch!

Make sure to check back for more Twitch assets and streamer resources!

If these Emotes are helpful for your channel and you find yourself with extra money to burn from all those sweet subs, consider throwing a few bucks my way!

Over 100 designs!
Channel Points, Rewards, Emotes, and Sub Badges

Get FREE Designs

Fatsack Fails at Beacon Pines Demo

2021-08-26T13:23:26Z

From Beacon Pines’ developers Hiding Spot Games:

Beacon Pines is a cute and creepy adventure game within a magical storybook. You play as both the reader of the book and its main character, Luka. Explore the town to find word charms. Use your charms to change the course of fate!

Kruiz Control Mod Tools

2021-08-25T04:49:49Z

Table of Contents

# Hate Raids on Twitch

Follow botting, chat spam, and hate raids are unfortunately nothing new on Twitch. However, there’s been a recent surge of hate raids, doxxing, and other targeted attacks against creators on Twitch that has brought more attention to its happenings on the platform and elsewhere on the internet. Many BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and other marginalized creators are being specifically targeted, attacked, and harassed by these hate raids. It’s gotten so bad that even mainstream news has started to talk about it.

Twitch itself has mentioned that it is working on better moderation tools, and that they’re coming soon, but that means until that happens we as creators are pretty much on our own when it comes to protecting our channels and protecting our communities. If you or someone you know is worried about hate raids and need info on how to protect your Twitch channel, check out Hate Raid Response. It’s a resource roundup that has tons of good advice, tools, and tips for what to do before, during, and after a hate raid occurs.

The Hate Raid Response community is a hard working group of creators, developers, moderators and more all pooling their knowledge and experience dealing with hate raids and helping others do the same. I want to contribute by sharing these Kruiz Control powered chat commands and filters that can help protect your Twitch channel.

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# Kruiz Control

If you’re not familiar with Kruiz Control at all, it’s an automation tool for Twitch that allows you to create events that can be triggered by chat, by alerts, by channel points, by OBS, and more. It’s powerful enough to be a full fledged Twitch bot by itself, but can also be used to boost the customization and power of other bots you’re using. KC runs locally, which means everything needed to make it work runs on your computer, so KC is only on when your OBS is open.

There’s a quick setup guide and a full settings walkthrough for getting Kruiz Control running on your channel. There’s also a friendly support Discord if you have any questions. I hang out there a lot answering questions and sharing fun things you can do with KC.

All of these Kruiz Control events can be placed in the triggers.txt file so that they fire as soon as needed and won’t queue up.

# Panic Button

This KC event is a simple command that can be used by you and your mods to quickly shutdown chat in the case of a hate raid. It’ll make a wall of emotes to push out anything in chat you don’t want to see right away, purge and clear chat out, activate Follower mode so only followers of a certain age can chat, and activate Slow mode so messages can only be sent out every few seconds and can’t be spammed further. There’s also a command to revert back to regular chat mode if and when things calm down.

OnCommand bm 0 !lock
# time is in minutes 1440 = 1 day
Chat Send "/followers 1440"
Chat Send "/slow 5"
Chat Send "/clear"
Loop 1 10
Chat Send "TransgenderPride PansexualPride NonbinaryPride LesbianPride IntersexPride GenderFluidPride GayPride BisexualPride AsexualPride TwitchUnity TransgenderPride PansexualPride NonbinaryPride LesbianPride IntersexPride GenderFluidPride GayPride BisexualPride AsexualPride TwitchUnity TransgenderPride PansexualPride NonbinaryPride LesbianPride IntersexPride GenderFluidPride GayPride BisexualPride AsexualPride TwitchUnity TransgenderPride PansexualPride NonbinaryPride LesbianPride IntersexPride"

OnCommand bm 0 !unlock
Chat Send "/followersoff"
Chat Send "/slowoff"

This lockdown command can be further modified to also turn off browser sources in OBS so names don’t display in alerts, chat doesn’t appear on stream, and any other number of things that you might not want up on stream during a hate raid. You can also swap out /followers 1440 for /subscribers 1440 to filter down even further and only allow subs to chat. (Note that mods and VIPs are not affected by any of these chat restrictions and can still chat freely)

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# Account Age Filter

The next KC event fires the first time anyone speaks and times out the user if their account was created within the last 48 hours. You can change how old the account needs to be by changing 48 to any other age in hours. The user is timed out until their account is older than age restriction set.

# KC event provided by Kruiser8
OnSpeak *
API GET "https://decapi.me/twitch/creation/{user}?format=c&tz=UTC"
Function "const userDate = Date.parse([api_data]); const diff = (new Date().getTime() - userDate) / 3600000; return { hourDiff: Math.abs(Math.round(diff)) };"
if hourDiff < 48
Function "return { timeout: (48 - {hourDiff}) * 3600 };"
Chat Send "/timeout {user} {timeout} Account Age Restriction"

If you want to instead ban any account that is under the threshold you set, you can delete the Function "return { timeout: (48 - {hourDiff}) * 3600 };" line and change the Chat Send action to Chat Send "/ban {user} Account Age Restriction"

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# Phone Number Filter

This final Kruiz Control event is a filter that will purge messages sent in chat that may contain phone numbers. By default this will NOT purge messages sent by the broadcaster, mods, founders, subs, or VIPs.

# KC event provided by Kruiser8
OnEveryChatMessage
Function "const data = [data]; return { user: [user].toLowerCase(), ...data.flags };"
# Possible values to check: broadcaster, mod, founder, subscriber, vip
if {broadcaster} == false and {mod} == false and {founder} == false and {subscriber} == false and {vip} = false
Function "const phoneRe = new RegExp(/(\+\d{1,2}\s)?\(?\d{3}\)?[\s.-]\d{3}[\s.-]\d{4}/, 'gi'); const result = [message].match(phoneRe); return { continue: !!result }"
Chat Send "/timeout {user} 1 Phone Number Protection"

You could just as easily change it to ban users instead, or add a message to warn users to not put phone numbers in chat. The RegEx should catch most ways of writing a phone number, but there may be ways around the filter.

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# Final Thoughts

At the end of the day, these moderation tools and filters are not enough to completely protect Twitch streamers, as Kruiz Control can only do so much given the limitations Twitch has with its own moderation tools. This is true for all the third party tools, chat bots, and services that have been absolutely slammed as they work as hard as possible cobbling together solutions that can help curb the vitriol and hate that has targeted marginalized creators on Twitch, and in particular BIPOC and LGBTQ+ creators.

If we want Twitch to do something about this, we need to keep making noise about it and keep bringing it up. One thing you can do right now is vote for better moderation tools Twitch on their UserVoice feature requests page. There’s a curated list called Twitch #NotFinishedYet that has many ideas of how Twitch can start making the platform safer for all creators. I highly suggest going there, voting on the features you want implemented, and sharing with others.

Thank you again to Kruiser8 for taking the time looking over my KC events and improving on them so that they can protect everyone’s chat better. Kruiz Control is a fantastic tool that allows for so many cool, useful, and powerful options in your Twitch channel, and I recommend it to any and every creator wanting to take their stream to the next level.

Are you a BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and any other marginalized creator who’s worried about hate raids, but doesn’t know how to get Kruiz Control setup or any of the other tools? I’m here to help! Contact me and I will help you setup KC or any other mod tools for free.

Ganymede Games Drops 7,500 RPG Player Survey Results

2021-03-30T20:52:35Z

Over 7,500 players took part in a survey late last year for Ganymede Games, myself included! The topic? Preferences in turn-based RPG games. The answers helped to inform the development for Ganymede’s debut title Xenotheria, a sci-fi RPG which was announced alongside the results.

Here are some of the highlights from the survey:

Divinity Original Sin: 2 was the top ranked turn-based RPG across all ranked categories.
Final Fantasy 10 and Persona 5 also appeared at the top of the ranking list for most played and best combat systems.
84% of turn-based RPG players prefer to play solo
65% of turn-based RPG players are over 25 years old
70% of players agreed that combat systems in turn-based RPGs can quickly become formulaic
Four out of five players believed that compelling characters are very important
Most preferred platforms were PC at 53%, Playstation at 18%, Switch at 17%, and Xbox at 4%

For me seeing the results was very interesting. It’s great to see some of my favorite games like Fallout 2 get included in the top turn-based RPGs. It also makes me REALLY want to check out Divinity Original Sin 2. There’s still a huge demand for single player RPG experiences that respect your time, have meaningful choices and mechanics, and are PC focused first. Looking forward to seeing what Xenotheria has to offer in this respect.

The entire survey results, including features, preferences and other details can be found on Ganymede’s website. They’ve also started a second wave of this survey, which means you can participate as well!

#BirthdayWeek 2021

2021-02-23T00:50:55Z

# Birthday Shots

Anytime when I’m not streaming you can tip the channel $2 or more to buy me a Birthday Shot! I’ll stop what I’m doing and take a shot. I’ll even post a video on my Instagram Stories and tag you in it as proof.

# #MorphsuitHype Challenge

Update: The #MorphsuitHype Challenge has been completed! Tune in on Saturday, February 27th!

Come together as a community and pool your Nuggets to make me wear a pink spandex morph suit! You can buy #MorphsuitHype Tokens in the channel rewards using your channel points or contribute to the community point challenge to earn a token.

Once the community has collected 31 tokens, we’ll have a #MorphsuitHype stream! I’ll have to wear the pink suit on my birthday, February 27th, for the whole stream. If the community can collect 62 tokens in total, I’ll play Dark Souls with Crowd Control during that stream. You’ll be able to interact with my game, helping or hindering me as I play through it.

# Slots for Shots

Any Tips, Subs, or Bit Cheers over 100 during #BirthdayWeek streams will activate the Slots for Shots mini-game! Match 3 emotes, and we celebrate with a Birthday Shot! If you’re able to match up the elusive MorphsuitHype emote, the community earns #MorphsuitHype Tokens equal to the amount given to activate the alert! (1 token per $1 or 100 Bits, 5 tokens per Sub Tier)

Goodbye Horses

2021-02-09T11:11:04Z

Shoutout to Crowd Control for helping establish Riverwood’s finest stables right in the heart of (checks notes) Lucan Valerius’ home and business.

Save The Children #GamingTuesday 2020 Charity Event

2020-11-22T22:37:28Z

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Here we go again! Once more I’m helping the Save The Children’s #GamingTuesday charity event. That means from November 24th until December 8th, I’ll be fundraising and running charity streams on the channel to raise money. 2020 has been a rough year for many people across the globe, and Save The Children is working to provide COVID relief and many other benefits to children all across the world.

Last year we raised $400 dollars for the event, doubling our original goal. This year I’m hoping we can raise at least $400 again, so I’ll need your help! Please donate what you can, even if it’s only a few dollars.

You can donate at any time, but if you do during one of my Twitch livestreams, a special alert will pop up announcing your donation!

If we meet the $400 goal before the Giving Tuesday holiday, December 1st, we’ll celebrate with a special MorphsuitHype stream where I wear a silly hot pink spandex morphsuit for the whole stream! We may even have more special surprises if we surpass the initial goal!

Stretch Goals!

We met the $400 goal on the first night! So here are some new stretch goals:

$800 Fatsack Fails at Phasmophobia - PhasMORPHobia Stream
$1200 Fatsack Fails at Dark Souls w/ Crowd Control - Prepare to Die

Swedish Poltergeist

2020-10-22T13:13:17Z

I want to make something clear: I love Sweden and its beautiful, colorful language.

Do not look at this Phasmophobia clip as a representation of my thoughts or opinions on this magnificent, underappreciated country.

Brave Investigators

2020-10-13T19:59:45Z

Go into house. Find ghost. Identify ghost. Leave house. What could go wrong?

Frights and Friendship

2020-10-13T19:52:46Z

It’s not all spooks and scares in Phasmophobia. Sometimes it’s friendship.

Phasmophobia w/ Friends - 2 Stooges

2020-10-13T19:39:01Z

Ghosticus and DailyEraser bumble their way through a professional difficulty mission in Phasmophobia after Fatsack dies early on.

Fatsack Fails at Button City Demo

2020-10-08T05:14:22Z

From Button City’s Steam page:

Button City is a colorful low poly adventure game about cute animals and an arcade. Play as Fennel the fox as you explore a diorama world, play exciting arcade games, and meet cute animal friends. Explore a high-jinks story to save the arcade from a greedy fat cat who threatens to tear it down.

Just Keep Jumping!

2020-08-21T01:45:28Z

Golf With Your Friends is a test of wits. For Daily Eraser it’s also an exercise in his golf ball jumping skills.

Fatsack Fails at Lovingly Evil

2020-08-19T01:31:39Z

You are a villain and you’re attending the Villain Conference! Looking for a romantic partner, or a partner in crime? (or both?)

Use my Humble partner link to get Lovingly Evil, and you’ll support me as well at no extra cost!

Fatsack Fails at Frog Fractions

2020-08-15T01:15:37Z

Frog Fractions by Twinbeard. If you haven’t played this game before, I highly suggest checking it out before watching. It’s free to download on Steam.

Giant Spider Menagerie

2020-07-29T21:58:40Z

Spiders in Grounded are awful and I hate them all.

Tank Assassination

2020-07-27T06:19:15Z

In Halo: CE, it’s kill or be killed. Even the tanks play by these rules.

Setting Up Windows 10 to Learn Eleventy

2020-07-22T14:40:35Z

I recently signed up for the online course Learn Eleventy From Scratch by Andy Bell. It’s been a great source of knowledge not only for how to use the static site generator, but also some super advanced design techniques and web developer best practices. Here’s how I got my Windows 10 PC set up to be able to go through the course, and how you can do something similar for front end web development.

# Enabling WSL 2 and Installing Linux

I’m on PC, so to avoid issues with the course work it’s suggested I look into setting up Windows Subsystem Linux (WSL 2 to be specific). This will let me use Linux in my Windows operating system and therefore let me go through the course without a hitch. The future is now, folks.

Getting WSL 2 set up took way longer than it should have due to my Windows not wanting to update properly. WSL 2 requires Windows 10 to be version 2004, Build 19041 or higher. You can check your version by pressing Windows key + R to open the Run program, typing in winver.exe, and selecting OK. If you need to update, I suggest downloading and using the Windows Update Assistant. This resolved my issues of the update not sticking.

Once Windows is updated to the correct version, we can enable WSL 2 as described by Microsoft’s help docs. Make sure you open PowerShell as an Admin or the commands won’t go through.

# Enable Windows Subsystem for Linux
dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux /all /norestart

# Enable the 'Virtual Machine Platform' component
dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:VirtualMachinePlatform /all /norestart

# Set WSL 2 as your default version
wsl --set-default-version 2

You’ll probably see a message after running that command: WSL 2 requires an update to its kernel component. For information please visit https://aka.ms/wsl2kernel. Follow the link, install the MSI and after it’s finished run the command again.

# Run this again after installing the kernel component.
wsl --set-default-version 2

Once that’s all done, WSL 2 is enabled on your PC! Now you can install Linux. Go to the Microsoft Store and head to the WSL section and get whichever flavor of Linux you want to use. I picked Ubuntu as that’s the one I’m most familiar with. Launch it once it’s installed, and then you can set up the user name and password.

If there’s any issues with launching Linux at this point, make sure your CPU has Virtualization set to Enabled by opening the Task Manager and looking at the CPU in the Performance tab. If it’s disabled, you’ll have to enable it inside the BIOS. The BIOS can look different depending on your motherboard, processor type, chipset and OEM, so you might have to do a little research. For my set up I had to enable Intel Virtualization Technology and Intel VT-D.

# Setting Up Hyper and VS Code

With WSL 2 enabled and Linux installed, we can now get our tools installed and configured properly to use our unique set up. Andy suggests Microsoft Visual Studio Code and Hyper as the code editor and terminal emulator to use for the online course. We’ll be able to set them up to integrate with WSL 2, which is just peachy. Download and install Hyper and VS Code.

Open Hyper and navigate to Edit >> Preferences. This will open the hyper.js settings file in Notepad so you can make changes. Find the line that reads shell: '', and change it to shell: 'C:\\Windows\\System32\\bash.exe', You can now save and close the file. This change makes it so when you open Hyper it will use your WSL 2 instance of Linux instead of your PC’s command prompt.

Once you’ve swapped to use your Linux command line in Hyper, type in code . and press enter. Hyper will then open VS Code with the path set to your virtual Linux path. VS Code should then display a notification asking you if you want to install the Remote - WSL extension. This extension makes it easier for WSL 2 and VS Code to play nice, so definitely do that. After that you’re all set and ready to start!

# Final Touches

From here you’ll want to download all the different packages you’ll need for whatever projects you’re working on. Any dependencies that you may have installed on your PC will need to be installed again in your virtual Linux before they can be used.

For my online course I first needed to install Node.js with npm init -y, but I had to install curl and nvm before I could run that command.

# Install curl
sudo apt install curl

# Install nvm
curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.35.3/install.sh | bash

It took me some time getting WSL 2, Linux, Hyper, and VS Code up and running, but once I did I was able to jump into the course work and start learning!

I highly recommend checking out Learn Eleventy From Scratch if you want an in depth look at Eleventy, great design practices, and a lot of practical knowledge of creating accessible web content.

If you want to get the basics of what Eleventy can do, Tatiana Mac has a great blog series: Beginner’s Guide to Eleventy.

I hope my words here help you in getting Windows 10 ready for front end web development! Let me know if you find something that would make this setup more useful! If you want to see what I’m doing with Eleventy, you can check out my site’s repo.

Fatsack's Freebies 03 - FREE Twitch Sub Badge Flairs

2020-07-17T00:22:31Z

Let your Tier 2 and Tier 3 Subs stand out with these Badge Flairs! Your choice of 5 different shapes in 7 different colors!

Use the source file to personalize them with brand colors, change out shapes, or just peek under the hood at how you might want to go about making Badge Flairs yourself. If you like these flairs, please rate them! This helps get more eyeballs on my work. Thank you everyone for downloading and rating!

# License and Use

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

You are allowed to remix, transform, or build upon this for any reason including commercially. You are free to share, sell, or otherwise redistribute this as long as you credit the original work to me. Say something like, “Original art by Fatsack Fails at fatsackfails.com” and you’re good!

If you’re just using these Badge Flairs for your channel and don’t plan on editing them and/or sharing them with others, you don’t have to worry about this. Simply use the flairs and enjoy!

# Using the Flairs

To use these Sub Badge Flairs for your Twitch channel, go to your Creator Dashboard and navigate to Settings >> Affiliate >> Loyalty Badges >> Upload Custom Flair. From there you can upload the images found in the ‘Badge Flair’ folder for each image size.

I’ve labeled image size for the size for each flair. You can either click each the upload button and use the file picker, or you can drag and drop each image. Make sure to save your changes and you’re set! Enjoy the new Sub Badge Flairs.

# Editing the Flairs

In the ‘Source and Previews’ folder is an Affinity Designer (.afdesign) file used to create these Flairs. You will need Affinity Designer to be able to open and edit this file. I’ve set up each Flair in its own labeled artboard, as well as labeled each piece of the badge in the layers. Make any changes you want, like colors, shapes, etc. and then export the images.

Remember you need to export as PNG for the transparency and you need to export each Flair three times at the different image sizes (72x72, 36x36, and 18x18).

If you can’t or don’t want to use Affinity Designer (you should, it’s great) the preview images are PNG format at 1080x1080 that you can pull into whatever image editor you want to use to make changes. I recommend using Photopea because it’s a free Photoshop alternative that you can use in your browser.

# Contact and More Info

If you have any questions about anything, or need something clarified, feel free to get in touch!

If these Badge Flairs are helpful for your channel and you find yourself with extra money to burn from all those sweet subs, consider throwing a few bucks my way!

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New Design and Features for FatsackFails.com

2020-07-09T06:31:46Z

M2Creates has been working on updating Stream Sites for some time now, and it’s received enough updates to do a big overhaul for my website. You’ll see a new design that’s hopefully pleasing to look at along with a bunch of cool new features!

There’s a Light/Dark Mode toggle now! I like Dark Mode for most things I use on my devices, but now you have the choice when browsing FatsackFails.com, which is awesome. You can now also search through website to find what you’re looking for.

There’s even more smaller features like estimated read time for blog posts, easy share buttons for pages, and a bunch of fixes behind the scenes that make using the website for both me and you easier and more pleasant.

I’m the guinea pig for Stream Sites’s features and updates, so expect to hear more as M2 and I continue to improve the platform. We want Stream Sites to be easy, fast, and useful for anyone wanting to establish their online presence.

Free Resources Every Twitch Streamer Needs to Know About

2020-07-06T08:42:45Z

Some links in this article are affiliate or referral links, meaning if you click them you help support me in one way or another. I'll make sure to let you know every time one of these links show up, as well as explain what you can expect from using them.

I've been streaming for over 5 years on Twitch and throughout that time I've learned one important lesson: creating quality content takes time and effort. There's so many things you have to keep track of: creating graphics, picking out the right music to play, posting to social media, setting up your overlays, and that's before you even go live!

Whenever I find a way to make my job easier or faster to do, I make note of it because that’s important to me. If that’s important to you too, here’s a selection of free tools and resources for Twitch streamers that I think you need to know about.

I’ve done my best to describe each resource in detail, as well as explain why I use it myself. If there’s a way to support the creators, or if there are extra features you can get for using the paid premium version I’ll let you know.

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At the time of writing, the conversation of music licensing and Twitch streaming is a heated one. I’m certain this will continue to be an important topic for content creators for quite some time. These free music providers allow me to stream music on Twitch without worrying about annoying muted VODs or dreaded DMCA takedowns.

# Pretzel Rocks

Pretzel Rocks gives me a 100% stream friendly music player that guarantees I never have to worry about muted VODs. This free web app has a ton of different music genres to choose from (I’m a big fan of the synthwave channel), and you can even filter music to only play instrumental songs if you don’t want lyrics. Pretzel Rocks has a Twitch extension to display Now Playing and gives chat the ability to request songs using Bits. There’s also a desktop version available.

The only requirement for using the free music player in your stream is allowing the Pretzel Rocks chatbot to shoutout the artist of the song that’s currently playing with a link in your chat. They do have a paid premium version to remove the chat attribution requirement, and your money directly supports the artist’s whose music you’re playing. I’ve been using Pretzel Rocks since it came out, and I highly recommend it to any streamer wanting to play music while broadcasting.

# Stream Beats by Harris Heller

Stream Beats by Harris Heller is a growing collection of music that’s cleared by nearly every content ID system out there to use as background music on your Twitch stream. Stream Beats stands out from other streamer friendly music because you can play the songs on Twitch from any music streaming platform of your choice, or download the tracks and use them as background music for YouTube content and you don’t have to jump through any legal licensing hoops to do so. Harris gets paid for the music played from the music streaming platforms, and you don’t have to worry about it one bit. EZ.

As for the type of music you can expect to hear, Stream Beats fits mostly in the chill lofi hip-hop genre. Harris has said he’s working on releasing more music for Stream Beats, including other genres. I like listening to Stream Beats while I’m writing (I’m listening to Lavender Tower as I write this) as it helps me focus. Definitely look into Stream Beats if you’re looking for music you want use on stream and in video content.

# Free Music Archive

Hundreds of artists from around the world submit free music of every genre on Free Music Archive that you can listen to and download. FMA has been my go-to resource to find new interesting music that can play a more active role in my stream, not just background music. Using the search filters, you can filter the archive to show music that’s not only stream friendly, but music that’s licensed to edit, remix, or build upon yourself.

This allows me to easily personalize my stream with custom music that can’t be found anywhere else. During the streams surrounding my birthday (#BirthdayWeek FTW), I have sound effects, alerts, and musical cues based off of It’s Your Birthday! by Monk Turner + Fascinoma and its Instrumental Version. I can do that since these tracks are licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY 3.0) and there are so many more musical tracks that allow that kind of use on FMA.

Recently purchased by Tribe of Noise in September 2019, Free Music Archive is currently in the middle of a major upgrade at the time of writing. That means navigating the website can be a little difficult, so it’s easiest to just go straight to the search page with the filters already in place and search for music there.

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For a lot of Twitch streamers making posts and creating content for social media can be a second job in and of itself. These are a few resources I’ve used that help me speed up my social media posting without draining my funds.

# Unsplash

Taking the perfect photo yourself for your blog posts or social media can be difficult and sometimes you need to find a stock image to use instead. Unfortunately, stock photography can be expensive, with different priced licenses for every aspect of the photo (its size, its use, if you’re editing it, etc). Unsplash offers a different approach with an entire database of free high quality user submitted photography that you can use for any project. Every picture on Unsplash is licensed to use freely. That means you can download, edit, and use every picture for pretty much anything you want.

I use Unsplash all the time for my blog and social media posts. The selection is always growing, so I can always find the perfect photo for what I need. You don’t have to credit a photo from Unsplash when you use it, but I try to do so. It’s my way of saying thank you to the photographer who’s made my job easier. If you want to credit a photo, Unsplash has a quick copy-paste widget to share the photographer’s info and Unsplash portfolio.

# Canva

Often times I’m in need image that will look good as both an Instagram post and a tweet. That usually means creating two images with different sizes and aspect ratios. Canva’s web app (they also released a desktop app recently) provides two important features for my situation.

Great looking design templates to start as a base for both my Instagram and Twitter posts.
Reminders for the 1000th time of what image size to use for both my Instagram and Twitter posts.

Canva is easy to use, and allows you to create attractive looking graphics in little to no time at all. You could easily use Canva to make graphics for your entire streamer brand, from profile banners to Twitch panels to business cards and more.

The paid premium version unlocks additional features like uploading your own fonts and adds more photos and design elements to use. If you sign up for a free account with my referral link, we both earn 1 Canva Credit to use for our designs.

# Tweet Photo

I use Instagram and Twitter as my main social media platforms. Sometimes I’ll take a cool picture with Instagram and want to share it on Twitter as well. Instagram’s built-in Twitter repost feature is garbage and doesn’t share the image in the tweet, which is an annoying problem. Tweet Photo fixes that. Any photo you post on Instagram can be posted to Twitter either automatically or with the use of a special hashtag. The service can also remove hashtags in your tweet that were in your Insta post, so they don’t clutter up your tweet. It’s quick, it’s simple, and it’s free.

The paid premium version removes branding from your tweets and allows for unlimited posts. If you want you can use my referral link to sign up for Tweet Photo’s free service. Should you then decide to upgrade to premium within 30 days, I make a commission from the sale at no extra cost to you.

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Over the years I’ve made a lot of assets for my stream. Alert overlays, panels, sound effects, etc. Sometimes they’re created from scratch, other times they’re edited together from multiple sources. These tools have helped me immensely in creating the different sounds and graphics I need without breaking the bank.

# Photopea

Adobe Photoshop is probably the most popular option for streamers who want to create their own graphics. If you’re familiar with Adobe’s photo editing software, but don’t want to pay a monthly subscription, then Photopea is a great Photoshop alternative. Photopea is a free web app photo editor that works with both raster and vector graphics. You can use it to edit photos, tweak colors, create illustrations, and add text effects. Photopea has a similar workflow and layout as Photoshop. That means any knowledge you already have (or gain from Photoshop tutorials you can find on YouTube) can transfer over to Photopea.

It can also open PSD files, so you can customize templates and source files from stream design packages if you have them. Photopea is completely free to use without any features locked behind a paywall. You can support the project by upgrading to a paid premium account, which also removes ads.

While I am currently an Affinity user (Affinity Photo and Designer are not free, but they are my jam) I previously used Photoshop to edit and touch up photos. Photopea was super useful for my awkward phase of dropping Photoshop but not knowing how to do something in Affinity. Having the power and functionality of photo editing software I’m used to without having the price attached to it is extremely handy.

# Audacity

I have sound effects and musical cues that my chat can use on my stream using channel points. They’ve become a big part of my community as it allows my chat to interact with me on stream in fun, interesting ways. There’s a sound effect to celebrate victory, a sound effect to troll me when I die in game, and my chat can request to add more sound effects for any occasion using their points. I wouldn’t be able to keep up with the demand my chat has for sound effects if I hadn’t found Audacity.

Audacity is a free open source multi-track audio editor and recorder that’s available on multiple operating systems. Being able to record silly voices, slow down or speed up sound bites, and edit together sound clips and music are easy to do using Audacity’s easy to use interface. It’s simple enough for new users to quickly make something that’s good, and advanced enough for experienced users to get their hands dirty creating more in depth audio projects.

# DaVinci Resolve

I’m slowly learning how to make motion graphics for my stream with cool animations. (If you want you can check out my thread of live tweets where I create my own stinger transition.) DaVinci Resolve is the program I use to create motion graphics without having to spend any money and still do everything I need it to. Resolve combines professional level video editing, color correction, visual effects and audio post-production all in one piece of software. That means you click between editing, color, effects, and audio all without jumping into another program.

The fact that Resolve can do all of this in one program and render the final video out completely free is worth the learning pains that come from using professional level software. Resolve doesn’t hold your hand, but there are some great tutorials on how to use it and create cool things with it. (I suggest checking out JayAreTV’s YouTube if you want to learn cool things you can make with Resolve.)

When you go to download DaVinci Resolve, you’ll have to scroll past all the many features that Resolve has to get to the download button at the very bottom of the page. You’ll have to register an account to download the program to your computer. It’s a bit of a hassle, but you’ll never need another program to do any kind of video editing. And if you ever want to take your editing to the next level, there’s professional level hardware to speed up your workflow when using Resolve.

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This category is more of a catchall for different resources that I’ve found useful for making both my stream and my Twitch channel better that don’t necessarily fit into the other sections. I still want to include them, however, because they’re very good and very free.

# Stinger Transition Pack by Gael LEVEL

Stinger transitions are a great way to make your stream stand out with flashy graphics. These 6 stinger transitions by Gael LEVEL are high quality and will make your stream look better immediately. Gael even made a video showing you how to download and use them in your stream. I downloaded and studied these stingers when creating my own transitions. These were super helpful for me. I watched them on repeat to better understand how I wanted my own stinger transition to animate.

This transition pack is ‘Pay What You Want’, meaning you can get it for free now and then pay for it later if you want to support Gael and his work. The rest of Gael’s Gumroad shop has even more resources that you should check out if you like this one.

# Emote Tester

This handy web app lets you quickly see what your emotes will look like in Twitch chat before you have to upload them. I use this tool when designing emotes all the time. It helps me make sure my emotes look good in chat with both light and dark mode. This is another simple, easy to use tool.

I don’t have much info about this useful tool other than that, (if you do, let me know) but the creator has stated that they may work on creating more tools like this one in the future. If those tools are even half as good as this one, I’m all for it.

# FrankerFaceZ Twitch Extension

Twitch’s website has gone under plenty of redesigns, and they’re constantly updating and improving the look and feel of the platform overall. FrankerFaceZ (or FFZ) is a browser extension that adds extra functionality that makes it a breeze for someone like me who spends a lot of time on the website to adjust it to my liking. It’s also good for my viewers too, as any viewer who uses FFZ gets access to extra emotes I’ve uploaded to use in my chat. If you don’t have your own emotes to upload, you can add emotes that streamers can make public or from the user submitted public wall to your channel as well. These emotes can be used by anyone in your chat, but will only display to those who have FFZ installed.

The FFZ browser extension is free to download and use, and if you want to support the project you can donate to the developers. Donating $5 USD or more will double your emote limit from 25 to 50 emotes total for your channel. It also allows you to set a custom mod badge for your channel, and you’ll get a supporter badge next to your name in all channels for anyone who has FFZ installed to see.

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Most of the knowledge I have about streaming on Twitch came first hand through trial and error. There’s been many occasions where I’ve messed up and didn’t fully understand what I was doing and my stream suffered from it. Thankfully, there are people out there sharing their experience and advice for streamers like me. These cool content creators will teach you how to approach live streaming as a career, content strategy to consider, and advanced techniques that you can use to improve your stream in every way.

# Alpha Gaming

Harris Heller and Sam Woodhall share useful, informative, and entertaining videos for savvy content creators on the Alpha Gaming YouTube channel. It’s a resource for me to find nearly anything I need ranging from streaming tech reviews to channel overlay widgets to social media strategy. Both Harris and Sam share their knowledge and experience freely. Harris created Stream Beats, which I talked about earlier. Sam has his own YouTube channel, with an emphasis on video editing tips and advice. You can learn a lot from both of these guys and the community of streamers they’ve gathered around them. I know I have.

# Ashnichrist

As both a stream coach and Twitch partner for some time, Ashnichrist recontextualizes entrepreneurial business advice to fit the livestreaming perspective. Her YouTube channel offers hours of advice and tips covering many topics such as growing an audience, creating engaging content, building a community, and earning a living on Twitch. A lot of these I still struggle with, and Ashni’s videos give me a clear goal to shoot for, or a new way to approach a problem.

Ashni provides all of this advice for free on her YouTube. If you want to support her and her work, as well as gain an even deeper insight into what it takes to make your Twitch stream a career, you can buy Ashnichrist’s e-book Building your Dream Stream.

# nutty

Despite being a newcomer into the educational streamer resources YouTube sphere of influence at the time of writing this, nutty has made a positive impression with me in his video series of advanced techniques for OBS. He showcases various plugins, settings, and setups to make your stream more engaging and entertaining to watch. They’re educational, straight forward, and funny. If you want to learn how to take OBS to next level, nutty will show you how.

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This last section is a shameless plug for the free resources that I’ve created or had a hand in creating. These are things that I wanted to have when I first started out. I hope they’re useful for you or another streamer you know who could use them.

# Sub Loyalty Badges

This pack of free Sub Badges allows new Twitch Affiliates to immediately have great looking channel art that’s better than the default Badges Twitch provides. Everything’s labeled and arranged for you, and I’ve included a source file as well. All the artwork is licensed under Creative Commons 4.0 so you know exactly how you can use this artwork on Twitch and anywhere else you want.

# Sub Emotes Pack

After creating the Sub Badges, I wanted to create a set of Twitch Emotes for new Affiliates to be able to use for free while they looked into creating or finding their own. As a result this pack of 25 emotes is available to use for everyone and has the same treatment as my Sub Badges. That means everything is labeled and arranged, includes a source file to edit the emotes as you see fit, and is released under CC 4.0.

# Stream Sites

Stream Sites attempts to solve a very specific problem for content creators: all of your content is spread out on different platforms and you want a website to collect and curate that content in one place. This website you’re on right now is built with Stream Sites, and it lets me easily curate my Twitch clips, write blog posts, and have a platform that I control to let the internet know all about me.

The project is in very early testing, (I’m the only user currently) but there’s a form to sign up for early access once we’re ready to share it with others. You can also help us better understand what you need from Stream Sites by answering our anonymous surveys. Stream Sites will be open source, so you can contribute to making it better for everyone!

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I hope this list of free resources improves your Twitch stream and makes it easier to run, nicer to look at, and more engaging for your audience. Do you know about a cool free resource for Twitch streamers that I may have missed? Or even better, have you created a free tool or resource that could help Twitch streamers and want to get more eyeballs on it? Get in touch! Let’s all help each other succeed.

First Impressions: Deep Sky Derelicts

2020-07-02T11:11:58Z

I want to disclose that I was provided with a free copy of the game by the publisher. This review also has an affiliate link to buy the game at the end of the article, where I will earn a small commission from the sale at no extra cost to you.

Right away I’m intrigued with what Deep Sky Derelicts presents to me as I create my crew and play through the first Derelict. A rogue-like dungeon crawler? Turn based card battle system? Pulp sci-fi comic book aesthetic and art style? Hell yeah! That sounds like a really cool combo.

The dungeon crawling is a lot of fun to interact with. I like searching for goodies in every nook and cranny of a derelict ship while keeping my crew’s energy and health maintained. It’s fun to seek out other scavengers on a ship to trade with or enemies to fight.

The card based combat mechanics have a really cool tactical feel to them. I like being able to find new equipment or mods for equipment that add new cards to my crew’s battle deck. It feels like there’s a lot of different paths to success and I get to mix and match what works best for my crew’s specialties.

My favorite thing so far with Deep Sky Derelicts is the overall aesthetic and art style it presents. The first thing I thought of when I saw the dark line art with bright colors was Darkest Dungeon. However, the science fiction setting mixed with the comic book feel and presentation really makes the game stand out on its own. The writing also does a great job of painting the world in a wacky science dark futuristic way. Reading through logs, engaging dialogue with NPCs, even the battle chatter of enemies between rounds make me want to learn more about the world.

Really I have no negatives to say about the game. Even when I completely botched the main missions for a particular Derelict and was locked out of the rewards for it, the game expects you to occasionally fail and the story continues onward. Any failures in the game were really failures on my part to think ahead and properly prepare.

Snowhound Games has put together something that’s fun and exciting right from the start. Both a cool exploration mode and engaging combat mode make me want to play more. The story is interesting and just the right amount of dark silly for my liking. The artwork is just plain awesome. I’m very interested in going back and continuing my play through of Deep Sky Derelicts to discover what happens next.

Deep Sky Derelicts Definitive Edition is available on Steam, Xbox One, PS4, and Switch. If you want to help me out, you can buy the Steam version on Humble Bundle with my affiliate link. I’ll get a little money from the sale as commission at no extra cost to you.

Fatsack's Freebies 02 - FREE Twitch Affiliate Sub Emotes

2020-04-26T22:23:58Z

Finally unlocked Twitch Affiliate status and need some sweet Sub Emotes for your channel? Want to spice up your Discord, Guilded, or Slack channels? You came to the right place! This FREE Sub Emote pack comes with 41 different Emotes for you to immediately upload to your channel today! These Emotes are designed to fit nicely with my Sub Loyalty Badges as well as my Sub Badge Flairs I made.

There’s enough variety to have an Emote for every Sub Tier plus some variants for the Bits Tier Emotes Twitch rolled out. Use these awesome Emotes temporarily while you work on your own, or use them forever!

Includes the source file to personalize them with brand colors, change out shapes, or just peek under the hood at how you might want to go about making Emotes yourself.

# Updated! New Emotes!

I’ve updated this pack with 16 new emotes! Just redownload to get them. These new emotes are still CC By 4.0 and still include a source file so you can make your own adjustments. If you like these emotes, please rate them! This helps get more eyeballs on my work. Thank you everyone for downloading and rating!

# License and Use

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

If you’re just using the Emotes for your channel and don’t plan on editing them and/or sharing them with others, you don’t have to worry about this. Simply use the Emotes and enjoy!

# Using the Emotes

To upload these Emotes to your Twitch channel, go to your Creator Dashboard and navigate to Viewer Rewards >> Emotes. From there you can upload the images found in the ‘Sub Emotes’ folder for each image size (or just use the largest image if using the auto-resize option.)

I’ve labeled the images in order, as well as labeled the image size for each Emote. You can either click each Emote size to find and upload from the file picker, or you can drag and drop each image. Make sure to save your changes and you’re set! Enjoy the new Sub Emotes.

Discord and Guilded need to navigate to Server Settings >> Emojis or Settings >> Emotes respectively. Slack can add emojis using the Add Emoji button in the emoji picker.

# Editing the Emotes

In the ‘Source and Previews’ folder is an Affinity Designer (.afdesign) file used to create these Emotes. You will need Affinity Designer to be able to open and edit this file. I’ve set up each Emote in its own labeled artboard. Make any changes you want, like colors, shapes, etc. and then export the images.

Remember you need to export as PNG for the transparency and you need to export each Emote three times at the different image sizes (112x112, 56x56, and 28x28) if you’re not using the auto-resize option in Twitch’s Emote uploader tool.

# Contact and More Info

If you have any questions about anything, or need something clarified, feel free to get in touch!

Make sure to check back for more Twitch assets and streamer resources!

If these Emotes are helpful for your channel and you find yourself with extra money to burn from all those sweet subs, consider throwing a few bucks my way!

Over 40 emotes to choose from
Covering every streamer's needs

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Fatsack's Freebies 01 - FREE Twitch Affiliate Sub Loyalty Badges

2020-04-17T07:13:59Z

Just hit Twitch Affiliate and need to set up your Sub Badges? I got you covered! Use these free Sub Loyalty Badges to start hyping up your community. Use them as a temporary stand-in, or forever!

# Update!

Twitch recently updated Sub Badges to go up to 5 years for Affiliates! I’ve updated the pack to include these extra years. Everything’s still free, and still licensed CC BY 4.0!

This bundle includes badges for: Base Subscriber, 2 Months, 3 Months, 6 Months, 9 Months, 1 Year, 2 Years, 3 Years, 4 Years, and 5 Years.

Use the source file to personalize them with brand colors, change out shapes, or just peek under the hood at how you might want to go about making Badges yourself.

Make sure to also check out my free Sub Badge Flairs and Sub Emotes to go along with these! If you like these badges, please rate them! This helps get more eyeballs on my work. Thank you everyone for downloading and rating!

# License and Use

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

You are allowed to remix, transform, or build upon this for any reason including commercially. You are free to share, sell, or otherwise redistribute this as long as you credit the original work to me. Say something like, “Original art by Fatsack Fails at fatsackfails.com” and you’re good!

If you’re just using the Badges for your channel and don’t plan on editing them and/or sharing them with others, you don’t have to worry about this. Simply use the badges and enjoy!

# Using the Badges

To use these Sub Loyalty Badges for your Twitch channel, go to your Creator Dashboard and navigate to Settings >> Affiliate >> Subscriber Badges. From there you can upload the images found in the ‘Badges’ folder for each image size.

I’ve labeled the images in order, as well as labeled the image size for each badge. You can either click each Badge size to find and upload from the file picker, or you can drag and drop each image. Make sure to save your changes and you’re set! Enjoy the new Sub Loyalty Badges.

# Editing the Badges

In the ‘Source and Previews’ folder is an Affinity Designer (.afdesign) file used to create these Badges. You will need Affinity Designer to be able to open and edit this file. I’ve set up each Badge in its own labeled artboard, as well as labeled each piece of the badge in the layers. Make any changes you want, like colors, shapes, etc. and then export the images.

Remember you need to export as PNG for the transparency and you need to export each Badge three times at the different image sizes (72x72, 36x36, and 18x18).

# Contact and More Info

If you have any questions about anything, or need something clarified, feel free to get in touch!

Make sure to check back for more Twitch assets and streamer resources!

If these Badges are helpful for your channel and you find yourself with extra money to burn from all those sweet subs, consider throwing a few bucks my way!

Celebrate your subscribers
Show off 5 years of badges

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So Many Space Buddies

2020-04-07T07:55:35Z

Fatsack accidentally broke both time and space in Breathedge by duplicating Space Buddy, a corpse found earlier in the game, dozen of times which proceeded to ravage Fatsack’s computer and drop the FPS to single digits. This is why we can’t have nice things.

Making It Rain

2020-03-28T19:38:27Z

IgorIsland and I try to survive the storm in World War Z. Today’s forecast: zombies with a slight chance of death.

Diablo Stream Overlay Showcase

2020-03-18T19:01:32Z

A quick showcase of the overlay used for the Diablo II Median XL streams. Lots of photoshopping in-game UI elements, sourcing old promo pictures and stitching them together, and recreating textures to fit the screen resolution. Then tracking down fonts that are both licensed free to use and close to the ones used in game. The alerts are sourced from the in game audio files I pulled and edited with Audacity. Finally stock fire footage was edited in DaVinci Resolve and everything was layered together in SLOBS for what you see here!

Lord of Destruction: Harbinger of Hamsters

2020-03-14T18:54:22Z

IgorIsland and I reminiscence about the end cinematic for Diablo II and mistake an insect for a house pet.

Maybe Knock First Next Time

2020-03-10T19:23:17Z

I got stuck walking through this doorway earlier in the game and made a big deal about it. Karma answers the door this time.

M2 Makes it Rain for #BirthdayWeek

2020-02-22T20:06:29Z

M2creates comin’ in hot with those dollar, dollar bills y’all! She certainly knows how to make #BirthdayWeek special.

#BirthdayWeek 2020 is Here!

2020-02-21T04:58:32Z

It’s my favorite time of year, #BirthdayWeek! This year we’re continuing the week long drinking game Birthday Shots! You can make me take a Birthday Shot at any time during the week, even when I’m not streaming.

We also have The Ultimate Challenge, where everyone has to pool their resources together to raise ten million Nuggets! If you do, we’ll have a #MorphsuitHype stream! You can earn extra Nuggets by hanging out in chat, helping the channel reach certain Milestones, or playing mini-games!

Finally we have Slots for Shots! Your monetary support during #BirthdayWeek streams activates a slot machine alert! Match 3 emotes and win a prize! Different combos of emotes also have different bonus prizes.

Check out the #BirthdayWeek page and read all the details!

Fatsack's Stardew Valley Modlist

2020-01-27T07:01:12Z

As of writing my Stardew Valley is version 1.4.5 for the Steam PC edition so, depending on when you're reading this, some or even all of these may be broken, outdated, or made obsolete. Be sure to check the latest updates, read the update notes, and poke around in the mod comment sections to get a feel if these mods still work. For multiplayer, both M2 and I have these mods installed.

Table of Contents

# Core Dependency Mods

SMAPI - Stardew Modding API

Content Patcher

Farm Type Manager

# Quality of Life Improvement Mods

Skip Intro

Zoom Level Keybinding

BetterHitboxStardew

Fix for the Fish Pond

Multiplayer Time

# Enhanced Gameplay Mods

Canon-Friendly Dialogue Expansion for All Friend-able Characters

Better Garbage Cans

Better Panning

NPC Map Locations^[2]

Tractor Mod

Better Balanced Crafting Recipes

Better Workbenches

CJB Item Spawner^[3]

CJB Show Item Sell Price

Chests Anywhere^[4]

Convenient Chests

Activate Sprinklers

Dragon’s Advancing Sprinklers (Content Patcher)

# Graphic Enhancement Mods

Most of these mods can be configured in a number of ways based on your own personal taste, so feel free to pick the options in the config however you’d like.

New Colors of the Valley for Content Patcher

Leyalluna’s Portraits (Content Patcher)

Slightly Cuter Character Sprites (now Content Patcher and v1.4 ready)

Elle’s New Barn Animals (Content Patcher)

Elle’s New Coop Animals (Content Patcher)

Elle’s Cat Replacements (Content Patcher)

Elle’s Critter and Butterfly Replacements (Content Patcher)

Elle’s Dog Replacements (Content Patcher)

Elle’s Seasonal Buildings (Content Patcher)

Farm Extended uses an outdated version of Farm Type Manager that comes bundled with the download. Thankfully, there’s an unofficial patch to the newer version on FTM’s Nexus page in the Option Files section that will enable the Farm Extended map to work properly. ↩︎
NPC Map Locations has an extra file to make the farm on the map match the farm used in Extended Farm in the Optional Files section. ↩︎
CJB Item Spawner was used when one of the quests to fetch specific items for NPCs bugged out and we needed another quest item. Otherwise it’s not needed unless you’re a filthy cheat. ↩︎
Chests Anywhere has a Balanced version that we use. ↩︎

#MorphsuitHype

2019-12-06T11:39:02Z

Thanks to the generous donations from everyone for Fatsack’s Save the Children’s #GamingTuesday charity fundraiser, Fatsack had to wear this pink spandex morphsuit during the stream. You can really tell Fatsack loves the #MorphsuitHype.

Dez the Philanthropist

2019-11-27T11:24:06Z

Ugly Sweaters Are Here

2019-11-24T07:09:26Z

Ugly Sweater Merch

The holidays are imminent and the cold weather approaches! Get comfy and warm with some Fatsack Fails Ugly Sweater designs in the merch shop! The design uses a knitted sweater pattern featuring the FAIL logo surrounded by festive shapes as well as the classic Sexy Chicken. It's available as an all white version, as well as a colorized version for all your holidays needs. Get it on a sweater, a t-shirt, a mug, whatever you want!

I'll Sing, You Paddle!

2019-11-21T04:10:00Z

Ghosticus let me row the boat in Human: Fall Flat. It — it did not go well.

Well, RIP Drifter

2019-11-21T04:01:00Z

You’re in a better place now, Resonant Drifter 👼 Human: Fall Flat is a fickle mistress.

Fatsack's #GamingTuesday2019 Charity Event

2019-11-19T16:48:17Z

The campaign goal is $200, but if we’re able to raise $100 before December 2nd I’ll celebrate with a MorphsuitHype stream where I’ll wear a full body pink spandex morph suit.

View Campaign Donate to Campaign

This month I've decided to join Save The Children's StreamTeam #GamingTuesday2019 charity event. From November 26th until December 10th, I'll be fundraising and running charity streams on the channel to do my part to help. My goal is to raise $200, but even if I only raise $1, it helps to raise awareness and goes to helping children in need all over the world. What exactly does that mean? Well according to Save The Children themselves:

#GamingTuesday is an initiative for gamers to give back on the global day of giving #GivingTuesday, on Tuesday December 3. You can activate to help children in need in 120 countries around the world by choosing to PLAY, STREAM or VLOG and support the mission of Save the Children.

For 100 years, we have worked worldwide to give children a future. We work in 120 countries including the U.S, and in 2017, reached 155 million children through our comprehensive programming and emergency response. Save the Children responds to natural disasters, conflicts and other humanitarian emergencies across the globe with health, education and protection programs that address the unique needs of children in crisis.

I’m very excited to do what I can to help, and I hope you’ll join me and give what you can to help as well. And just to sweeten the deal a little bit more, if we’re able to reach $100 before December 2nd, we celebrate with a MorphsuitHype where I will once again wear a stupid full body pink spandex morph suit. This is usually only for the Birthday Week celebration, but I figured if making myself look like an idiot on the internet can help children then I’m for it.

For every $10 we raise, the channel earns 1 MorphsuitHype Token! If 10 Tokens are collected before Monday December 2nd, we'll have a MorphsuitHype stream!

If we're not able to get the Tokens in time, there's still a chance for a MorphsuitHype stream the next week, Monday December 9th.

Stretch Goals!

We met the $200 goal on the first night! So here are some new stretch goals:

$300 Fatsack Fails at Batman - Batsack Stream
$400 Fatsack Fails at Bloodborne - Bring popcorn
$500 Fatsack Fails at Bloodborne in a Morph Suit - aka Morphborne

Fatsack Fails at Visage

2019-11-04T00:00:00Z

Psychological horror awaits you in Visage. You are Dwayne Anderson. As you explore a house in the 1980’s, you learn about the backstories of the previous people who lived there. The more you learn, the angrier the spirits who reside there become. Find the keys to unlock the rooms you need access to escape, while dealing with your own sanity and the violent spirits lurking through the house.

Blair Witch Full Play Through

2019-10-30T22:33:38Z

Fatsack Fails at Blair Witch by Bloober Team. This play through contains Jump Scare Alerts!

Fallout 1st Needs to be a Win for Fallout 76, but isn't Right Now

2019-10-25T02:38:22Z

This is one of the many answers I’ve given to different people asking my thoughts on Bethesda’s announcement for Fallout 76’s new subscription service Fallout 1st. I’ve always been on the more forgiving side to Fallout 76’s many past transgressions, so when I first heard about the service, my initial thought was “Great! They can release this for Fallout 76 and get some positive karma out of this.” My hope was a service that works as intended and added in some features that not only had the community been asking for, but would be willing to pay for to get extra goodies.

Bethesda has been on the back foot since before the game released, and has yet to dissuade anger and complaints. This is partly because the game launched a buggy mess and lacked game features and partly because Bethesda has seemingly ignored fan response and pushed forward with further buggy patch updates. The stable releases and updates they have put out are either paid features the community asked to be included in the base game or seemingly out of touch trend chasing features like the Battle Royale mode. It just seemed like Bethesda couldn’t or wouldn’t get major positive traction with the internet and community at large.

I read the announcement along with the rest of the internet. Private worlds, bonus Atoms, extra cosmetic items, exclusive ‘utility’ items, emotes and more for just 12.99 a month or 99.99 a year. I’m on the side that most of these ‘utility’ items are things that should be available through play, not with your wallet, and only 8 people on a Private World is kinda lame compared to the 24 on a regular server but all in all the service sounds solid in theory. The price is a bit much for me right now with the current state of the game and how often I play it, but after the big Wastelanders DLC that adds in another main quest and human NPCs it’d definitely be more valuable to me. All in all I was looking forward to it. So of course the service launched broken, with private worlds and the extra items not working correctly, and the internet is absolutely shitting on Bethesda right now.

People have every right to be upset with the way it’s been handled, and unfortunately it’s just another thing to hold against Bethesda and Fallout 76. Until Bethesda can do something to truly dispel all the earned negative criticism lobbed their way with a good solid win, they’re going to continue to get dog piled by the internet even when it’s not deserved because it’s low hanging fruit.

I think had Bethesda launched the Fallout 1st service and instead made the private world feature a free part of the base game, this announcement would have gone over way better even with the service launching in its broken state. Giving the community a feature they’ve been requesting since launch, and saying that in the future private worlds would add in mod support, the ability to change the world rules and persistent world stuff added to a paid version later, could have cooled some angry fans and garnered some good faith.

As it stands currently from these angry fans, this Fallout 1st launch tells players “pay for these features you wanted in the base game, a bunch of stuff you don’t care about, and maybe we improve in the future if we feel like it.” It then doesn’t even have the decency to do what it says as intended.

Personally I’m a bit on the ‘sad, but not surprised’ side of all this. I love the Fallout franchise as a whole, new and old games alike, but it’s clear the business side of Bethesda has messed with the magic of the game developing side of Bethesda and it’s hard to keep coming up with reasons to give them the benefit of the doubt that they’ll follow through. I’m still looking forward to getting a Fallout 1st subscription, although now I’m definitely waiting till later. This new exciting feature for a game that needed a win just isn’t that right now.

Fatsack Fails at Resident Evil 2

2019-10-24T00:00:00Z

Raccoon City, September 1998. 2 months after Umbrella Corporation’s T-Virus has ravaged the city, almost everyone is a mindless flesh eating zombie. Follow Leon S. Kennedy and Claire Redfield navigate the zombie infested city and try not to get eaten. Oh and they also need to avoid an unstoppable killing machine, codename “Tyrant”, that is hunting them. Good luck.

New Merch Shop

2019-10-23T15:31:10Z

Spreadshirt Merch Shop

I've made the move over to Spreadshirt! Fatsack Fails Merch can now be found here. Spreadshirt has a bunch of cool options available to both me as a creator, and to you as a customer in terms of product available, customizing, sizes, and cost.

I’ve retired most of the designs from the old shop, and will be adding new ones in the time coming. Some of these will be updated versions of the former designs, but a lot of these will be new designs!

If you have suggestions for designs, or ideas for different merch, let me know! The other cool thing about Spreadshirt’s services is if you have a design you want to print out on a product, you can use my shop to do it and it still supports the channel! Upload your own designs, modify one of mine, add text whatever you want. Super cool, and super useful!

Clone Hero Drinking Game

2019-10-21T20:28:49Z

I’ve been Clone Hero on the stream lately, and I’ve come up with some rules for a Drinking Game on nights when I just want to chill and hang out. I’m writing them down here so I don’t forget, and so you can play along if you choose!

Remember: You don't have to play this game with alcohol. Any beverage is fine! If you do imbibe, always be responsible with your drinking. This game is meant to be something fun to do with friends, not ruin your night.

# Drinking Game Rules

Drink

When using Random Song Select, and choosing to skip the song chosen
For every Difficulty Level below Expert you choose to play a chosen song
For every star earned below 4 stars at the end of a song

Shot or Big Drink

When you earn 4 stars or more at the end of a song
When you miss the last note of a song

Fatsack Explains the Birds and the... Xenomorphs?

2019-10-20T06:10:23Z

I very poorly explain how babies are made after chat asks about it. This is a very educational clip.

New Site, Who Dis?

2019-10-18T14:43:06Z

Huzzah! If you’re reading this that means I’ve made the move to Stream Sites! (or you hacked into my shit. GG2EZ) I’ve used a number of different website platforms in the past to put all of my Twitch stuff somewhere where folks can see info and updates. The issue with these other platforms was either the cost was too high for my poor streamer allowance to afford (#TimesIsHard) or there were limitations that restricted what I could put on my website or how I wanted it to look.

This lead me to try and build my website on my own. Like most things I attempt, I failed at it. Turns out making a website from scratch can be difficult! Who knew. The amount of time and knowledge required was a bit beyond me.

Eventually M2 heard my cries of anguish (and high pitched whining) and together we created Stream Sites. Instead of building one website for me to put my stream stuff on, we’ve built a whole platform for anyone to be able to put their stream stuff on. You should check it out if you haven’t already. Stream Sites is easy to use, simple to set up, and lets you get your hands dirty if you want to really trick out your site for a unique look or feature.

So yeah, I’ll be putting all my stuff here! Get comfy, this is home now.

Fatsack Fails at SOMA

2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The year is 2015 and Simon Jarret has a tough day ahead of him. He’s recently been in a car accident, and although he survived, he’s suffering from brain damage and cranial bleed. There aren’t a lot options long term for him, so he decides to participate in an experimental brain scan with the hopes that the data can be used to help restore his brain functions at a later date. Let’s just say the scan didn’t go exactly according to plan.

Leap of Faith

2018-10-18T00:00:00Z

I almost had the timing right. If I’d timed it 2 seconds earlier.

Double Dead

2018-10-18T00:00:00Z

Fell off the ledge once. Wait, make that twice.

We were friends, Ethan!

2018-07-15T00:00:00Z

I ate my fish friend in Subnautica. RIP Hoverfish, you were a true homie.

Fatsack Fails at Alien Isolation

2017-10-26T00:00:00Z

Pony Island Full Play Through

2017-10-14T02:22:47Z

Fatsack fails at Pony Island by Daniel Mullins Games.

Fatsack Fails at Layers of Fear Inheritance

2017-10-14T00:00:00Z

Set 30 years after the main story, play from the point of view of the Daughter and revisit the nightmare that is Layers of Fear. Use my affiliate link here to check out the game for yourself.

Until Dawn Full Play Through

2017-10-12T02:38:21Z

Fatsack fails at Until Dawn by Supermassive Games.

Stories Untold Full Play Through

2017-10-11T22:46:32Z

Fatsack fails at Stories Untold by No Code.

Fatsack Fails

This Used to be a Person - Fallout Fanfic

It's Tough Bein' The Birthday Boi

How I Improved My Job's Discord Community with Autocode

I use Autocode to improve my Discord community You can too.

OBS Studio Nested Scenes Tutorial

Save The Children #GamingTuesday 2021 Charity Event

# Update! Extended Fundraising Time

# Rewards

# Milestones

# Minimum Donation

Fatsack's Freebies 05 - FREE Twitch Streamer Assets - Make It Rain Animations

# Please Rate on Gumroad

# License and Use

# Using the Animations

# Contact and More Info

Make it rain with 6 animations! Confetti, Bits, Gifts, and Money.

Fatsack Fails at Layers of Fear

Fatsack Fails at Dead Space

Fatsack Fails at Night in the Woods

Fatsack Fails at The Dark Pictures Anthology Man of Medan

Easy 2D VTuber with OBS Tutorial

Twitch Affiliate Starter Kit - Emotes, Badges, Flairs, Channel Points

# Includes:

# Convenient Bundling. Lifetime Updates. No Attribution Required.

# Contact and More Info

Hit Those Sub Goals! Emotes, Badges, Flairs, and Channel Points

Fatsack's Freebies 04 - FREE Twitch Channel Point Designs

# Please Rate on Gumroad

# License and Use

# Using the Designs

# Editing the Designs

# Contact and More Info

Over 100 designs! Channel Points, Rewards, Emotes, and Sub Badges

Fatsack Fails at Beacon Pines Demo

Kruiz Control Mod Tools

# Hate Raids on Twitch

# Kruiz Control

# Panic Button

# Account Age Filter

# Phone Number Filter

# Final Thoughts

Ganymede Games Drops 7,500 RPG Player Survey Results

#BirthdayWeek 2021

# Birthday Shots

# #MorphsuitHype Challenge

# Slots for Shots

Goodbye Horses

Save The Children #GamingTuesday 2020 Charity Event

Stretch Goals!

Swedish Poltergeist

Brave Investigators

Frights and Friendship

Phasmophobia w/ Friends - 2 Stooges

Fatsack Fails at Button City Demo

Just Keep Jumping!

Fatsack Fails at Lovingly Evil

Fatsack Fails at Frog Fractions

Giant Spider Menagerie

Tank Assassination

Setting Up Windows 10 to Learn Eleventy

# Enabling WSL 2 and Installing Linux

# Setting Up Hyper and VS Code

# Final Touches

Fatsack's Freebies 03 - FREE Twitch Sub Badge Flairs

# License and Use

# Using the Flairs

# Editing the Flairs

# Contact and More Info

Top tier Badge Flairs for your top tier subscribers

New Design and Features for FatsackFails.com

Free Resources Every Twitch Streamer Needs to Know About

First Impressions: Deep Sky Derelicts

Fatsack's Freebies 02 - FREE Twitch Affiliate Sub Emotes

# Updated! New Emotes!

# License and Use

# Using the Emotes

# Editing the Emotes

# Contact and More Info

Over 40 emotes to choose from Covering every streamer's needs

I use Autocode to improve my Discord community
You can too.

Make it rain with 6 animations!
Confetti, Bits, Gifts, and Money.

Hit Those Sub Goals!
Emotes, Badges, Flairs, and Channel Points

Over 100 designs!
Channel Points, Rewards, Emotes, and Sub Badges

Top tier Badge Flairs
for your top tier subscribers

Over 40 emotes to choose from
Covering every streamer's needs

Celebrate your subscribers
Show off 5 years of badges