June 18, 2024

Toaster's Very Very Stupid Dream.

[Editor’s Note: The following is a piece I wrote waaaaay back in 2018 that I’ve touched up, edited, and tweaked so it reads a little better. Enjoy the chaos that’s to follow! ~BallisticToaster]

So I had a weird dream last night. A funny dream.

It’s not often that I have dreams that make me laugh, much less even remember them; the inner-workings of my subconscious conjure dreams so inane, existential, nightmarish, or all of the above that it makes the entertaining and coherent dreams I have stand out even more for having had them to begin with. Least of all because they’re a change of pace from the mundanity of the persisting horrors.

June 18, 2024

Channel & Discord Changelogs - June 18th 2024

Channel Update 3.10

The one that got out of hand

It’s been ten months since the last major update to the stream and now that we’re halfway into Year 2, it was well past time to make changes that are more substantial than “Here are more meme scenes”. The goal with this update is to address a significant portion of technical debt that’s been accumulating over the past two years by addressing long-standing issues and limitations with the way that streams are currently run.

January 24, 2024

An Update to Stream Schedules

In light of imminent travel plans and time zone changes, stream schedules will be temporarily suspended from January 24th to April 15th as the channel adjusts to a new weekly format to account for time zone differences, content creation endeavors, and more.

Streams will occur at a reduced frequency as the channel changes from the usual thrice a week cadence to twice a week. You can expect to see one weekday and one weekend stream with surprise streams that may occur during the week as time permits.

January 13, 2024

This Year At the Crumb Club: A look back at 2023 and Year 1

It’s been a while since we did one of these fireside chats hasn’t it?

Originally this was supposed to be published after my affiliate anniversary stream way back in late September/early October while I was working on while adding things to the channel such as new emotes, schedule formats, meme scenes, and more. I kept writing while I was working on the channel until this post ballooned college essay levels of unwieldy word counts with twice as much self-indulgent bullshit to pad out the pages. When faced with the near six thousand word long monster in front of me, I did what any self-respecting writer does when scope creep sets in:

April 16, 2023

Ballistic Bread Baking with BallisticToaster!

[Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from a text conversation I had with a friend in December 2020 that I decided to spin out into its own post about how I make my own bread. The recipe itself is pulled from various recipes and YouTube videos online, especially from Binging With Babish. Some things have been added, many grammatical mistakes were corrected, and a few sentences have been changed to make it flow better. If you want a bullet-point version of how to make this recipe, look no further than right below this blurb and you’ll find it! God knows no one wants to read War and Peace before they get to the important part of a recipe but if you’d like to witness the chaos that’s about to unfold anyway, look below the bullet points and buckle up. Eid Mubarak, y’all! ~BallisticToaster]

April 10, 2023

This Week at the Crumb Club - April 10th, 2023

Happy Easter everyone! Hope y’all had a wonderful weekend with friends, family, and loved ones. This week at the Crumb Club, we’re settling down a bit. It’s been a hectic week from unleashing the Sinister Six in Spider-Man Remastered to hoarding shines in Super Mario Sunshine, fishing with Del Lago in Resident Evil 4 Remake (with Toasty bait to boot), and booping the snoots of Big Daddies across Rapture in Bioshock not to mention all the stuff that’s been happening behind the scenes when stream isn’t running. As such, this week is going to be a much shorter update ranging from discussing some changes that are being made to meme commands to the future of this series of weekly posts.

April 4, 2023

This Week at the Crumb Club - April 4th, 2023

This Week at the Crumb Club, we’re engaging in a little spring cleaning. With the first Ramadan schedule behind us, we started off on a high note (heh) with Hi-Fi Rush, continuing with another round of Leon’s wacky European adventure in RE4Remake before capping things off with Metroid Prime: Remastered. These late-night streams have been fun, and it feels great to get back to a regular cadence once more! Today we’re going to touch on some things being added to stream audio quality & mixing changes, new channel point rewards & commands, this week’s schedule.

March 27, 2023

This Week at the Crumb Club - March 27th, 2023

Happy Monday and Ramadan Kareem! This week at the Crumb Club, we’re moving fast in more ways than one. With the completion of Dead Space Remake, we also played RE4make on stream and spent some time getting acclimatized to all the changes that have been made to its combat, pacing, and moment-to-moment gameplay. As someone who loved the OG RE4, it’s been an excellent time and I can’t wait to see more of this game!

March 12, 2023

This Week at the Crumb Club - March 12th, 2023

Happy Sunday, you lovely bunch of weird-doughs! This week at the Crumb Club, we’re taking a breather; it’s been a compact week with three back-to-back streams all in a row and we’re slowing down a bit to collect our thoughts in preparation for the week ahead. While these blog posts have always been reflective pieces discussing the state of the stream, this will be a small peek behind the curtain as we explore new features coming to the stream in an effort to refine, refresh, and improve things across the board.

March 12, 2023

This Week at the Crumb Club - March 12th, 2023

This week at the Crumb Club, we’re moving fast and breaking things with exactly the kind of pace you’d expect from yours truly:

Leeroy Jenkins Gif

This week was more laidback state of affairs, starting with a playthrough of A Way Out with CyberGamingX1 and a brief Destiny 2 stream in memory of the late Lance Reddick. For those who were able to attend any of these streams, I wanted to take the time to say thank you. Whether you lurked, chatted, or passed by, it’s always great to see you. Especially because…