Stream Types

Wait... Jon streams?!
Did you know that long-time-running content creator ProtonJon streams on Twitch? I hope you do, or else you wouldn't have known about this Wiki. If not, well... welcome! Whenever Jon isn't on YouTube, you can find him streaming on Twitch. Perhaps you saw his VOD channel or his Twitter clips and want to catch the action live? Look no further.

Jon is a variety streamer, so he likes to play many types of games from all the consoles he owns, spanning multiple decades of gaming. He may also surface bugs and glitches without even trying... but he can't help that. Turning the increasingly difficult and competitive hobby of video game collecting into a job, he welcomes viewers to seek his wares on stream for amusement and... whatever chaos comes of it.

His signature (but not exclusive) stream type is the Fortune Cookie, powered in part by video game cataloguing site Backloggery. There is a "Fortune Cookie" puller on the site that picks a random game (based on parameters chosen by the user) out of your game catalog. Pulling a few games out of what comes up is the basis of a poll that is then run by chat to see what plays next. Outside of that and its variations, you may see him working on clearing one game (or more than one fast-to-clear games), doing a podcast, racing his mods on specific games, and more!

List of Stream Types
''Part of this text comes from Jon's About section on Twitch. Such text is accurate as of June 30, 2023.''


 * Fortune Cookie - Chat votes on what game we play based on a randomized list & viewer suggestions we pull every 45 minutes. Typically the stream type with the most creative traffic. Drawpile canvases are uploaded onto the Booru these nights, if they occur.
 * Game Clearing - We try to finish a game that I've never beaten before, either picked by myself, mods, or subs.
 * Power Trip - We run raffles, and whoever wins them gets to pick the next game we play on stream.
 * Race Night - Myself and the mods race against each other in different retro games.
 * High Risk Fortune Cookie - We run the cookie, and the first game that comes up, we play it.
 * Whatever -day - I just pick whatever I wanna play, sometimes do polls.
 * Community Night/Sub Night - Community-focused streams playing one or more games. Sometimes, Twitch subs are the only ones who can join. If Jon pulls an open multiplayer game on Fortune Cookie and it wins, or if it wins Cookie Jar or Power Trip, Jon may open up a room for viewers as if it were a community night even on those streams.
 * Tournament Streams - An extension to community nights where Jon or his mods (or his community, as of late) organizes tournaments for the stream at large to see. Lately these have exclusively been of Jon's community leagues, the most prominent being the Proton Splat League which was made in response to a Splatoon 2 Turf War tournament that was done near the end of Splatoon 2's content cycle.
 * Disc Only - A monthly meme-turned-podcast hosted by Jon alongside Jerod, Tom, and Stephen. Typically airs live on Twitch on the first Tuesday of a month unless something comes up. Audio-only versions come soon after thanks to the producer, MotionDan.
 * Charity Events - Jon and his friends/mods often use their platform to do good for the greater world. While Jon rarely does self-hosted charity streams, his channel hosts an annual event with TRG called The Runaway Guys Colosseum, which was established in 2018.

Schedule
All days of the week are in reference to Mountain Time, Jon's time zone.

Jon's stream types vary wildly, but the dates of his streams are pretty consistent. His "standard" stream schedule for a week is Monday (Game Clearing or Whatever Monday), Wednesday (Viewer Choices, Races, or Game Clearing), and Saturday (Fortune Cookie). He has said he plans to shift his schedule entirely towards the weekend (Friday, Saturday, and Sunday). Fortune Cookie will almost always be Saturday on his schedule, and the consistency of this has brought viewers back every week for more shenanigans. All streams start AROUND 6-7PM Mountain Time. As of mid-2023, Jon has started inching his stream times earlier in the evening in this way to adjust his sleep schedule.

As of 2023, Jon has been consistently posting a weekly schedule graphic on Twitter and the Egg Farm Discord (which is cross-posted to the Egg PAC) on Sunday or Monday. The template was created by CanadianChili, the webmaster of the TRG website. It has a feature spot for community art related to Jon or the streams. All Egg PAC members are eligible to submit existing art for this (the submission form is pinned in #announcements). Jon had experimented with this in 2021 and 2022 before making it regular starting January 2023.