So did that idea of a read-along or whatever on /co/ get anywhere, I was a bit interested in tuning in to a stream if someone put one up but I can't ass myself to read by myself something that I'm hearing crashed and burned and was supposedly the Woodstock of the 2000s

If you don't have new AI options and you are playing with mods and you think it's a Mixer mod fault, it's not. You probably have Immortal Empires Extended enabled.