Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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The most recent Star Citizen Live was a major disappointment. I get into the bad decisions behind it (while trying to avoid individual blame) and talk about what it says about CIG's evolution of the video content it has been creating over the years.

0:00 Introduction
0:45 Painful to watch
1:10 Individual blame
1:44 Two examples
2:53 The first really bad decision
3:06 Expectation Setting
3:55 Audience Relevance
4:28 Their Rationale
5:11 What separates CIG's content from other Twitch Streams
5:38 The second really bad decision
8:06 CIG's long tradition of live demos
9:04 The clumsy ending
10:08 The Outro dropped ball.
11:12 Part 2, the current state of CIG's video content
11:51 The Early Years
12:31 The Middle Years
14:22 Recent Years
15:21 Who does CIG think their Audience is, and am I still it?
16:26 Channel Events
16:46 Give-Aways

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