Part 1 of our Extra Life marathon includes action from Tetris 99, Mario Party Superstars, Jackbox 8, Exit: The Game, and opening Pokemon card packs!
View the full post to see the full stream, highlights, and shoutouts!
Together, We Raised $2,000 for Extra Life!
Our 4th annual Extra Life fundraising campaign is complete! With your help, we raised $2,000 USD for the Children’s Miracle Network of Hospitals this year! Since we began fundraising with Extra Life in 2018, we’ve raised $6,820 USD for this incredibly important cause. Can’t even wrap my head around what we’ve been able to achieve to-date and what we’ll achieve in the future!
This is gonna be a short post cause I’m still recovering from the 24-hour gaming marathon, but I wanted to share a few more shoutouts:
- Thank you to everyone who made a donation. You’re the real MVPs!
- Thank you to executive producer Steff who helped out with all of the behind-the-scenes stuff, as well as taking centre stage for multiple segments of the show!
- Thank you to my family and friends who participated in this year’s show, whether you were on mic or just playing games with us. Sharing this experience with you makes the marathon so much better!
- Thank you to Extra Life Toronto and Raw Fury for providing many in the community with game codes to give away as part of the festivities! Congratulations to everyone that won!
- Thank you to anyone who has watched the marathon stream and any of the mini-event streams leading up to Game Day.
- Thank you to everyone who liked and shared any of my content relating to this campaign. You’re helping to raise awareness and inspiring others to join this movement.
I won’t be closing the door on the 2021 campaign quite yet. Hoping to share my thoughts on this year’s campaign in at least one more post. There are many Extra Life rewards I need to prepare and mail off to donors. Also, I have lots of video from the event to edit and share. For now though, I’m gonna get back to recovering from this year’s campaign. Thank you again for everything! Enjoy the week ahead!
And if you’d still like to make a donation, it’s not too late! Link below!
Our Extra Life 24-hour gaming marathon begins NOW!
Our Extra Life 24-hour gaming marathon begins tomorrow!
One more sleep!
Tomorrow at 9am EST, my friends, family, and I will embark on a 24-hour Extra Life marathon! We’re fundraising in support of the Children’s Miracle Network of Hospitals by playing games, eating snacks, opening packs of Pokemon cards, and more!
You can watch the show here: twitch.tv/inthirdperson
The schedule may change once game day occurs, but below is the tentative itinerary. Feel free to drop by at any time. Make sure to say hello to us in the chat!
9am-11am: Tetris 99
11am-1pm: Mario Party Superstars
1pm-3pm: Mario Golf Super Rush
3pm-5pm: Jackbox Party Pack 8
5pm-7pm: Exit: The Game
7pm-7:30pm: Pokemon card pack opening
7:30pm-8pm: Secret snack taste test
8pm-10pm: Mario Kart 8
10pm-12am: Among Us
12am-2am: Pokemon TCG Online (3-hour)
2am-4am: Animal Crossing: New Horizons
4am-5am: Overcooked 2
5am-7am: Nickelodeon All-Stars
7am-9am: Monopoly: Animal Crossing Edition
When you make a donation during the show (donation link here), we’ll fire my trusty money gun in your honour! Better yet, if you donate at one of the three reward tiers, you’ll be eligible to receive spray paint art prints, a signed Pokemon card, and a thank you note from me!
Even your Twitch channel points can make a difference! If you cash in for the Poke Flute and manage to score a Shiny Jett, not only will I do the rest of the marathon in a Snorlax onesie, I’ll also make a $100 donation in your honour AND I’ll send you all of the rewards! If you manage to pull off this feat, send me your mailing address in a Twitch whisper and I’ll hook you up!
Game On!
Can’t wait to get this show on the road! We’ll see you tomorrow and I thank you in advance for your support of the Children’s Miracle Network of Hospitals!
Shocking the Competition with Pikachu V-Union! – Pokemon TCG Online Live Stream
Pikachu V-Union has the ability to paralyze its foes or prevent opposing trainers from playing item cards! But can we manage to piece this four-card army of Pikachu cards together before any of our matches end?
View the full post to see the full stream, highlights, and shoutouts!
Pokemon TCG Theme Deck Spotlight: Venusaur V Battle Deck
Introduced in 2021, Venusaur V and Blastoise V ushered in a new era of theme decks. Most notably, these decks come with a bit of extra firepower thanks to the inclusion of V versions each deck’s featured Pokemon.
For the sake of forward compatibility (and the nifty V Battle card), V Battle decks are generally the way to go these days. Let’s take a look at what the Venusaur V deck has to offer!
Kraid! – Metroid Dread Live Stream
A classic Metroid boss appears more menacing than ever! Do we have what it takes to drop this nightmarish monster?
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My Favourite Cards to Play With in the Pokemon Trading Card Game (At the Moment)
Over the past few months, I have amassed over 1,000 physical cards and thousands of digital cards. Most of them are completely useless in competitive play. I discovered very quickly that if I wanted to compete in Standard or Expanded formats, I was going to need cards that allowed me to compete with the bar set by the community at large.
Some of these cards I was able to randomly pull in booster packs. Most of these I purchased through promo codes off of Potown Store. Nevertheless, when I’m ready to battle, these are the cards I’m taking with me!
The Joy of Deck-Building in the Pokemon Trading Card Game
Building a deck from scratch is the most difficult task that any player of the Pokemon Trading Card Game will face. For the most part, you can skip this step entirely. Newcomers are usually guided through the early stages of their careers with pre-made decks from The Pokemon Company. Once they get familiar with the game, it’s usually best to simply use resources like Limitless TCG and build copies of decks that have performed well in tournaments. If it works for the pros who have done all the legwork, it should work for you too, right?
Nevertheless, the itch to create my own deck grew as I got more comfortable with the game. Most of my earlier efforts to create a deck were trainwrecks. Part of that came from me not having the best cards, but most of my early failures stemmed from not knowing how to truly build a cohesive deck rather than just a collection of cards. My earliest decks were stacked with V and VMAX cards and yet I’d still get destroyed because my decks didn’t have a clear game plan to follow.
After months of fumbling my way through the process, I may have finally turned a corner.
It’s Getting Hot in Here! – Metroid Dread Live Stream
The Cataris zone is teeming with lava! Samus must navigate her way through this hot zone without any tech to help her withstand the heat!
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In Third Person 