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GOOD NEWS EVERYONE! People loved the Croc 2 review, so thanks! Easily one of the best responses to a video I've had in a long while, definitely a Top 10 of all time for me. People loved the B-Movie feel which is what I'm going for, they loved the Crocodile in the lake and want to see more. Don't worry, we're only 2 videos into this 4 part series!

IMPORTANT NOTES) - If you missed the May podcast, CLICK HERE to watch it now!

Croc 3 Review?...) Yes, there are more Croc games I'll be going over. Currently I'm in the middle of production on the next review, had my main shoot yesterday which was a long and painful day BUT, got it done to the best of my ability. Today I've got some pickups to shoot, blue screen shots and voice overs to get done. I'm physically sore after yesterday's shoot so with me luck on that! I would love to have this review out next week, I'm worried that's not going to happen though due to how long some of these things take. The intro to Croc 2 (everything before my actual intro) was a full 6 hours of editing with all the shots, and while that IS possibly the most elaborate part of the entire series, I'm still not done with the chroma key stuff. Episode 3 has plenty of that as well along with a few other effects I'm not really sure how I'm going to accomplish yet. So let it be known: if the review is finished by this Saturday, maybe even Sunday (when you'd normally get Early Access) you may only 24-48 hours of Early Access on this one!

If I'm still editing day before upload then obviously, I'll push it back to the next week. But given the lack of uploads lately, I would like to have it up this next week, skip an upload E3 week and then finish it all off later in June.

Testing Videos) I mentioned in last week's update, I really want a testing video up at the end of next week for my birthday. Haven't had the time to shoot that yet which means it's probably not going to happen. I'll have to wait and see how efficiently production goes with the next Croc episode, I might have the time to shoot but of course, not at the expense of getting this review up in 7 days!

In Other News) It dawned on me recently that we're actually coming up on a huge milestone for the channel: 100 SQUARE EYED JAK EPISODES!!!

Croc 2 is Episode 92, we'll be at 94 once the series is complete. I'm actually devastated right!? Obviously I want to do something really cool for the milestone BUT once Croc is done, everything is supposed to slow down while I start work on this year's Hawktober. Obviously there will be reviews in the meantime but they'll be sparse. I'm kind of concerned, I wouldn't want a 100th episode to land in the middle of Hawktober like "hey this is episode 100 but I'm kind of in the middle of something so we'll just have to ignore it" so yeah. Kind of stumped on that one to be honest. I've got a lot of big plans I'd like to attempt one day, all worthy of that 100th episode size. But none that I'm ready for yet, none that I'll really have the time for when I hit and none that don't require prior episodes building up to it. So I don't know, if I can tweak things to make the Reignited Trilogy episode land on 100 then, that would kind of be ok I guess. A tolerable compromise. It's just not every day I'll hit that milestone and honestly, the first 100 is the biggest number until 500-1000

*passes out thinking about how much work that is*

Closing Thoughts) Never mind, I'll just keep trucking along. I'm sure something will pop up in the end, always does! So to reiterate, sorry if Early Access is short this week, assuming it happens at all. I'm about ready to be done with Croc so I'm keen to get it done so we can move on. But as always, thanks for the continued support, thanks for reading and I hope you have a great fucking day. Cheers guys! :D