Charem the Shadox

Hey Everyone! I, Tucker will now continue the tradition that Charem has done every year for a long while! SAGE: the Sonic Amateur Games Expo, has had its 25th event, and this will be our, eighth year in a row of showcasing a robust selection of games from it, over at www.twitch.tv/charemplaysgames !

This is a non-profit event put together yearly by the folks at Sonic Fan Games HQ and partners to support, promote, and celebrate the indie community's creative efforts! As the name implies, this originally started as an event for Sega-related fan games, but SAGE has evolved into sharing many original projects as well as fan works across multiple series.

As such, there's always tons of cool original & fan games, mods, and demos to check out, and we've downloaded a good deal of them to check out over the course of multiple streams. This is our SAGE 2025 Showcase!

4 days ago | [YT] | 39

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Oops! Twitch's new Upload to YouTube setting defaults uploads to releasing as Public, not Private, so a little handful of you guys may have caught a PBTP episode early before it was all ready for release! I've fixed the issue now, I have to remember to always switch off the default for each and every video...so annoying!

PBTP was done for tonight's stream, and so these PBTP videos will release in around 3-4 days...properly, this time! XD

4 months ago | [YT] | 81

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**UPDATE** The Donation Drive (spoken about in a previous post, this is something we opened to facilitate a very important move) is going very well! We're at $729.24 / $1000 USD already! Thank you guys! Let's push this the rest of the way!

If you want to help, you can donate at any of the following links:
Streamlabs: streamlabs.com/charemplaysgames
Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/charem
Paypal: www.paypal.me/charem

...There's no direct reward for this Drive's completion, since it is being done due to necessity. But, that doesn't mean I can't steer the current stream content into things people might consider a treat~ Sooo... You know, there's a little series we haven't done in a little while... I think we'll stream something tomorrow that a lot of people will like...~ Stay tuned!

4 months ago (edited) | [YT] | 326

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We're doing a Moving Donation Drive! A lot of big and good stuff is happening, but we need your help to do it!


We're gonna move from Canada to live with Essler, who Charem is dating! Charem has been unwell for many reasons, and a good deal is due to her physical isolation, which is why she is currently mentally away. She needs the move to improve and heal. Essler and Charem will be improving each others' lives to live together. But, we need donations to make this move happen.


If you want to help, you can donate at any of the following links:
Streamlabs: streamlabs.com/charemplaysgames
Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/charem
Paypal: www.paypal.me/charem
Note that spreading the word also helps as well!


(More details will be explained in the official Drive thread, which you can visit in our Discord server here: discord.com/channels/419205023336235018/1366476163… I've already put down a Q&A with all the questions I could think you guys might have, and I'm happy to answer more questions and let you guys talk about this further there.)


Essentially, we need an injection of money so that Essler can prove he has several months of rent in advance to apply to a very nice property we're looking at that is up for grabs. We have a main goal of reaching $1000 USD in donations, with a backup goal of $500 USD. If we reach $500 USD, then Essler can pursue renting before the end of May happens. If we reach $1000 USD, then the apartment can be applied for practically-immediately.


The need for speed is simple: We applied for our two-months' notice to leave our Canadian apartment some time ago, and the date of leave is at the end of May. The process of setting up this move has taken much longer than we all expected, so we need some help!


I will be using our Streamlabs donation bar to publicly track the progress of this Drive! You can see this on our streams and videos (videos will be 3 days behind in progress). Streamlabs donations will automatically show up on it, and donations from other sources I will update manually to it once a day. I will also give a daily announcement in our Discord server to give a quick update on the current donations.


Thank you for any help you can give! I really hope we can complete this goal.


(Art by @crisovs! <3)

5 months ago (edited) | [YT] | 172

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Hello folks, it's Nikki here at the moment. I know a lot of you have been wondering where Charem is, and/or how Charem is doing. In short, she's been on break for her mental health, but that break has been extended a lot further than expected. She'll be coming back to do content likely sometime following our big move back down to the States, which is expected to happen once Winter ends and the weather fully clears up as well. More updates will come on this as it happens, and we appreciate your patience, concerns, and well-wishes.

If you want a bigger update on the current situation, you can read the announcement post on our official Discord server here: discord.com/channels/419205023336235018/5040948474…

6 months ago | [YT] | 79

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Nikki here. We have some bad news... Purrhaps you've heard, but Twitch has suddenly rolled out a policy where they demand all Twitch streamers keep less than 100 hours of Highlights stored. This is quite an upset for Charem's Twitch account, as she has spent YEARS trimming each and every stream VOD into a highlight, before then also uploading 99% of them here to YouTube.

As such, we aren't losing MUCH, but, we must now manually and painstakingly delete these years of history from Twitch. Until we drop the bar below 100 hrs, the Highlight function actually ceases to work, meaning we cannot cut new Highlights to upload content to YouTube until we drop that bar. You can see here just how many hours of content we have to delete to get there. (This is across 3065 highlights.)

There was practically no warning about this system being rolled out, aside from a tweet merely hours before it was enacted. Twitch is destroying history, and they don't care.

Whether you use Twitch or YouTube, please be aware of these changes. We are at least lucky to have had almost everything on YouTube already; there are many streamers who do not, and who are now uploading hundreds of hours of VODs to YouTube to save them. I suspect both of these platforms may suffer in the next few days or weeks due to this outflux/influx, so it's good to be aware. (I have already broken the video page on Twitch; it error's when I do certain things, and I have to do a weird workaround to be able to continue deleting highlights.)

7 months ago | [YT] | 78

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Sorry for the lack of content lately, been taking a break, hanging with a good friend and sorting out both some health and mental stuff! We're getting back into streaming today though.

Also I wanted to say a very hearty thank-you for getting me to 45k subscribers! I'm so glad people still enjoy my content. And yes, I am always aware of the interest in more Playing by the Pound content...that actually ties into some of my mental stress, why I haven't done it in a while. But fear not, it won't go away, I just need my time for it to return en masse.

1 year ago | [YT] | 80

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Well don't ya know, it's a new Changed merch video coming out in two hours! I put some real work into make this one a fun watch, so go stake out the Premiere! As usual with Premieres, I'll be there too when it releases. :3

1 year ago | [YT] | 58

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Happy new year all! ^^ I hope you all look forward to what I have cooking for 2024, and thanks for sticking around to see it. This new year is a year of potential; my living situation may vastly improve in the latter half of it, life willing. I'm gonna pace things out and escalate my activities more the better I feel. I do have a lot of plans though, so I hope you'll stay tuned!

Relatedly, have a New Year's Tucker from Reececav~

1 year ago | [YT] | 307

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Bonus Picture 3 of 4 of the WG Drive is complete! These bonus images were earned by the amazing participation and contributions by donators to the drive! These bonus images (for the most part) also continue the story from the main Drive images! Once again, thank you to artist Fluffs for his amazing work on all of the Drive's images!

Head over to the #⁠contests-and-events channel in the discord if you wanna talk about this update, or to read the accompanying story to this image!
Or alternatively, please check out the drive's official webpage at sites.google.com/view/feed-the-puppo-2023 for all of the images and stories! The site will continue to receive updates until the final bonus picture is done.

There is also new merch for this new image! As well as some merch updates besides. Check out streamlabs.com/charemplaysgames/merch if you want to just check out the merch for yourself, or ⁠merch-woofing to get some more-detailed updates.

Once more, thank you all again for the previous support in this event! Expect to see Bonus Picture 4, the FINAL Bonus Picture, in early 2024!

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