When this edition of the newsletter finds your inboxes, I’ll be under the knife. I’m not overly nervous, but I have very little of what will happen during the procedure. Sure, it was (rapidly) explained to me, but quite a bit of unknown remains. Now imagine that you’
Sunday’s Minecraft Hardcore SMP season finale was a massive success. We had to fight the Ender Dragon five separate times, but that pushed us to over $3,500 raised across the group! We cannot thank you enough for your support. Plans are already in the works for season two.
Short update for this one as I’m about to board a plane back home from Salt Lake City! But, today at the usual 2 PM CST start time, we will have the Minecraft Hardcore SMP Season Finale where we will take on the Ender Dragon. Of course, we will
Today, I'll head out to Salt Lake City to participate in the first ever Extra Life Unlocked event. I'll be honest, I don't completely know what I'm in for, but I know it'll be a good time. Make sure to
Cancer decided to rear its ugly head this past weekend, in a way I didn't expect and certainly not at the speed it did. My youngest's teacher, Mrs. Collinsworth, ended up at the hospital last week due to persistent headaches. After multiple tests, doctors found a
Remember that whole tattoo incentive in the last newsletter? Yeah, I'm tossing it. I found out that the tattoos are limited to the ones in the featured images and are only 2" x 2". I figure hitting $100K all-time is more than enough for that. One
Extra Life Unlocked is just a couple weeks away as well! I still have no idea fully what’s in store for me, but one thing I do know is that they have a tattoo artist on site. I've never gotten a tattoo in my life, but an
Now that's quite a subject line for charitable efforts to fight pediatric cancer! Last week, my playthrough of Assassin's Creed II concluded with a total of 1009 kills and 34 desyncs. At a dime per kill and a dollar per desync, that adds up to $134.
As with most projects, this took far longer than I wanted it to. The good news is that it's done. Not only that, I managed to hop on briefly with the Sunday Minecraft Hardcore SMP crew to give everything a test run which helped me iron out a
If you've been following the stream lately, you've seen me complain about more issues (than usual) and have likely seen the stream flat crash multiple times. Long story short, I'm going to suspend streams for the immediate future. Keep an eye on future newsletters
Donate to Extra Life Heroes, we finally made it: college football begins tonight (Thursday, August 28). I hope you celebrate appropriately by dropping in one of three streams I'll have this weekend. No, none of them will be College Football '26. That would make too much sense.
Heroes, this week is a big one as I will be going live three different times this week. Tonight (Thursday) at 9 PM CDT, I'll head back into Renaissance Italy for Ezio to begin his journey of vengance in earnest. Last week, I racked up 58 kills and
Nothing is real. Donations are permitted. Heroes, A friendly reminder that I will stream Assassin's Creed II tonight starting at 9 PM Central. I will keep track of Ezio's kill count and desync count (game overs), pledging a dime per kill and one dollar per desync.
Well, virtually at least. While vacationing with Mrs. Tex the past couple of weeks, I took great personal joy in seeing cities, buildings, and monuments that I’d only experienced through Assassin’s Creed II & Assassin’s Creed II: Brotherhood. For me, those two are still some of my
Donate to Extra Life In the heart of the COVID pandemic, and in the parking lot of the WinStar Casino just north of the Red River, I received the 2020 Hero's Award from the Children's Health Foundation. A few years later, I found myself accepted the
As the screenshot above might imply, the $100K milestone happened on May the Fourth. Yes, it’s taken me almost a month to get this update out there. Not quite how I envisioned hitting the mark that I’ve been eyeing since last year—between baseball season with the kids
From Saturday, April 26 to Monday, April 28th, Mrs. Tex will head out on a road trip to celebrate her life-long friend's 40th birthday. Long-time followers of my Extra Life efforts know what that means: I'm streaming every night she's gone. This time around,
Remember that post last week when I said I was under $300 to go to $100K? Turns out that, somewhere in my hasty attempts to organize my all time fundraising, I forgot to remove $280 (Orange Bowl Auction proceeds) from a cell equation and counted it twice. Oops! Thankfully, I
As I type this, I'm $260.22 away from raising $100,000 for Extra Life in my 10 years of gaming, torturing my taste buds/liver, and other silly stunts (by the way, I didn't forget I still owe a 5k and 10k run too!). I
I knew it would only be a matter of time before Milfy jumped into one of the Sunday Minecraft streams to wreck havoc for our group. The rest of my new friends now have discovered what I've known for years: he's here to create pain (for
Happy Friday, Heroes! Yesterday I got to take part in a call with our Extra Life program directors to get some insight on some rather exciting changes to the program. While the heart of the program, folks like me playing games to raise money (over $130 million raised since 2008
Heroes, I'm about to run off to Houston to hear Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth music live because Mrs. Tex rules and let me sneak this in as a birthday present. Before I drive off, I need to drop a quick update about future streaming plans that will occur
Heroes, I wanted to drop a quick line while I had a free moment before I get to my final set of meetings out here in Vegas. This week has been absolutely bonkers, seeing me go from Atlantic City to Chicago and now to Vegas. I can't wait
I've honestly stared at a blank draft screen trying to think up of some clever intro generate a laugh and morph that into a call for donations. Problem is, I can only dig so deep into a bag of nothing. Perhaps the Mavericks will give me Luka Doncic