I'm Back Motherfuckers! (Blog) (Patreon)

YEAH, G'day people, hope you're all feeling amazing! Shit has been rough, there is no hiding from that anymore BUT I'm starting to finally get back to being myself again thanks to a few reasons I'll get into shortly, as well as an update on the progress of upcoming videos.

PLEASE LEAVE SOME QUESTIONS AND DISCUSSION TOPICS for the December episode of the Patreon podcast! Hopes are to get that up by the end of next week so whatever you want me to talk about, drop a comment below!

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JUST IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: There are 2 blog posts available right now that have more behind the scenes details on Hawktober 2019, available to Patrons pledging $2+ so if you can see Part One AND Part Two by clicking these links!

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Back Out of the Hole) 2019 has been one of the most cunted years of the 23 I've had and honestly, in retrospect, I actually have no idea how Hawktober even got finished through all of that. The amount of fuckery going on behind the scenes has been through the roof and I can only imagine, it was the mere mindset of "this just has to get finished" that is the only reason I was able to get these things done. SO once Hawktober was finished, I was left far past fucked!
All of a sudden, even though there were still big projects like Ty to get finished, there was not immediate deadline in sight. It's like when you finally finish school and there is no "next year" to fall back on, it leaves you feeling very directionless, which was the title for one of these weekly posts last month. And I couldn't think of a better way to describe it. A planned holiday is one thing, but feeling directionless is really difficult as you just don't end up doing anything and can't bring yourself to make a start.

So long story short, I'm really glad that has started to pass now. One of the big factors to that was how I was spending my time. Instead of sitting around wishing I had the motivation to work, I instead adopted the mindset of "ok, if I'm not doing anything. I may as well try to not do anything by planning some unproductive tasks... like playing some games for ME" and I feel that has really helped! I've played a few things since finishing Hawktober: the original Crackdown was a good start but then I fell out of it again. But just this past week, I returned to some PS1 classics from my childhood: Disney's Hercules, Hot Wheels Extreme Racing and Destruction Derby 2 and I had a lot of fun with all of them. All super simple games I can knock out in an afternoon, but that was enough to make me feel less shit about how I was spending my time. Now I'm looking to keep that going by replaying some others on my list for re-capture with the Framemeister.

It's such a little thing but in a way, it is still productive to some extent.

Ty the Tasmanian Tiger Reviews) On top of that, I finally had the proper mindset needed to revise my next Ty script and make some rewrites... AGAIN. And I'm super stoked to announce that production on that is finally underway! I've already had one big filming session and I've got a few more left that are scheduled to be done by the end of next week. That will give me Christmas to get the episode edited in time for a 31st release date (subject to change).

It felt really good to be back out there filming again, though my body is sore from how physical it was. And I've done my best to retool to script to be as fluid and functional as possible, to make things easier on my secondary actor and on myself, co-ordinating the entire thing. But more importantly, I'm also back to being focussed on Ty again. The finale of the series is something I'm about to get into revising and retooling where needed as well, along with getting the last few logo jobs finished. AND ON TOP OF THAT, my next Every Level Ranked episode to follow the Ty projects, is also something I'm in the mood for right now. So I'll be revising and hopefully filming that on the side, while mainly focussing on Ty so that when the series is finished, I'll be ready to get that pumped out efficiently in the new year!

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Closing Thoughts) That will do it for this week people, I'm just keen to stay stuck into Ty again without neglecting time for myself either, continuing to play some games. Remember to leave some questions for the December podcast with a comment below! And hopefully things will come together as 2019 comes to an end. I'll have a CTR GP episode out for the Christmas special and that's about it, hopefully a couple more streams here and there, though I really want to get Twitch happening before I get too far into doing that regularly again, so we'll see.

But until next time anyway, I hope you have a great fucking day. Cheers! :D