I find myself asking: what’s different? What isn’t? What’d I miss? What’s New These are the kinds of things I find myself thinking about more after taking some time off.

All of this was by accident: I thought streaming would be fun, and no one was doing it, so I did it. I was privileged to host many players regularly who are now among the best in the world, like bloom and canadianbacon. And the community was small enough that I was streaming earlier and more often than anyone, which gave me more influence on the game and the community than I had expected ( Kraz圜aley first found the game watching my streams, and lthummus was introduced to higher level strategy through them). Without trying to sound pretentious (as if I need to try to sound pretentious), I started playing around the same time as many great, highly influential players: virifaux, KCMmmmm, zeroTKA, and slappydavis to name a few. I think I’m in a unique position to comment on the evolution of the community, for a few reasons.

Now, I find myself drawn back to both the game and its still-welcoming community. It’s been over a year since I posted this message and took a leave of absence from the SpyParty community.

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