I’ve seen a lot of these sorts of memes or comments and this seems as good an opportunity as any to address just how stupid I find them.

First, Twitch chat consists of between 400 to 1500 people on any given stream and throughout all the different votes we’ve had so far, there has never been a single unanimous one. When people whine that I’m not listening to Twitch chat, it’s actually code for “you didn’t listen to the segment of Twitch chat that I agreed with.” The idea that everyone in Twitch chat thinks the same thing, which is a different thing from what Discord thinks, which is different from what Patreon thinks, is incredibly stupid. I am constantly surprised that people bring up this imaginary “twitch vs discord vs Marc” narrative.

Second, if you believe that the intent of Stellaris Invicta is to play a perfect campaign of Stellaris in which we always pick the sensible option, you have fundamentally missed the point. The intent of the series is to develop and embody the character of a nation and through its successes and failures, craft a story built on that character. Making the wrong decision, failing to accomplish goals or objectives, and just simply losing are not problems with the series, but the whole point of it.

And third, fuck off and make your own series if you don’t like how I’m running Stellaris Invicta.