Eric Morino, known online as PointCrow, is a glutton for punishment. On his Twitch streams or on his over two million subscriber YouTube channel, subscribers watch the 25-year-old physically, mentally, and emotionally push himself—and the video games he plays—to their absolute limit.
He’s beaten “Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild” blindfolded, watched ice melt for 10 hours, live-streamed himself for 564 hours, and even recreated “Mario Party” in a monstrous real-life set. Sometimes he likes to bring others into the madness: He’s had a goldfish play the complicated “Elden Ring,” made his fans’ terrible Pokemon ideas into reality, and even let his viewers control a surgery robot.
But watching his videos or streams, all you’d see is a guy truly happy to play and break the rules, a loving hospitality that welcomes you into his content to explore something you never would have seen otherwise. …