Sigh... Another Twitch streamer?!

YEP!

As many other members of my generation, I grew up in a household with one parent and multiple kids. My parent worked many jobs, so naturally, I developed a severe need for more attention! Entering adulthood near the dawn of the content creation craze meant there were healthy ways to ask for it!

I started streaming casually in 2011 with League of Legends, right around the same time I built my first PC. Streaming was still kind of in its infancy with Twitch having just separated into a gaming platform from Justin.tv. I lived in a house with several roommates, and we all played League at the time. One of them had a great idea — because I could never shut up and stop thinking out loud — that I should probably just start streaming on this new platform, Twitch.

Years of off-and-on streaming and several rebrands later, I invented and settled on the username Bowborne in 2014, highlighting both my skills in two-syllable marketing and my love for archery. Sadly, several months later, tragedy struck in life (you're not getting details, nice try), and with a few exceptions, the stream was put on hiatus for many years.

2017 marked the first big boom in the stream when, as a still-baby streamer, I was raided by a development company while playing their awesome space combat game, Dreadnought. From that point on, I was hooked. The chat was moving so fast I couldn't keep up, and finally, I had the attention I so desperately craved from people who were giving it to me willingly for being a sneaky little shit in a nimble, fragile little stealth spaceship!

Fast forward to 2018. I had been streaming for a while when I decided that I finally wanted to spend some real time and effort getting good at PVP in one of my favorite MMOs of all time, Guild Wars 2. It turns out that Guild Wars 2 has quite the loyal PVP viewership, and through a mixture of my silly antics, knack for tomfoolery, and no-nonsense kindness, we developed quite the tiny community in the Guild Wars 2 PVP scene. Skyrocketing from a little over 100 followers to well over 2000 in just a few months! It turns out all that scene needed was someone who was willing to learn the ranked system quickly while keeping a positive attitude and not being a jerk to players who were better than me. We mainly stuck with Guild Wars 2, sprinkling in other games and some community events, through the end of 2019, having finally achieved a top 100 NA ranking in the game.

Sadly, at the beginning of 2020, I lost the job I had at the time due to "corporate restructuring" like so many others during the pandemic, which meant we'd (we're a community now!) have to take another reluctant break from the stream.

Fortunately, I bounced back pretty quickly by getting an awesome IT job in the fancy city of Denver. So, we popped back onto the scene with some World of Warcraft PVP, more Guild Wars 2 PVP, and a silly-stoner talk show called "Sunday Tea with Bowborne and the Archers" in 2021. We did 30 episodes of the talk show for the first half of the year, with topics ranging from aliens to theology to whether or not cats all collectively have Stockholm Syndrome. Near the middle of 2022, things got heavy at the IT job, so it's been an off-and-on stream schedule ever since!

We're back now, though, with a few series in the works, such as Movie Mondays, where we showcase a single-player game played primarily with a bow and arrows, and Games With My Girlfriend, where I post all the times my girlfriend proves she's a better gamer than I am. You can catch all of this and more live over on Twitch or now we're also putting stuff on YouTube!

Thanks so much for sitting through this history of the stream, and make sure to stop by while we're live to say hi!