The Update on 2020 Goals (Blog) (Patreon)

G'day gamers and lamers, apologies for no update post last week. Had a few too many things going up clogging the feed and also a lot going on with me that it was just easier to save it all for this week!

If you missed it: Any pledged $2 or more can take a look at the Behind the Scenes blogs for both the Ty GBA Episode AND Ty 4 Review by clicking these links. A post for the Making-of Every Crash Bandicoot Level Ranked will be available within in the next week or so!

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FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: Please Read!
Without going into too much detail, I have been approached about doing some sponsored ad reads in future Every Level Ranked episodes. Now I'm personally not a fan of this type of thing, but doing this is my job so I would REALLY appreciate your opinion and feelings on me potentially doing something like this in the future. What do you think?
You all know me by now, I'm a tough critic and my integrity in that regard is incredibly important to me, so I would only promote something that I was very confident in the quality of AND only if it fit with my audience. NO RAID SHADOW LEGENDS!!! No other bullshit ad reads either, only stuff I'd be willing to put my hard stamp of approval on.

Your honest thoughts on this are something I'd really like to hear, as full transparency and discussion with this type of thing is really important to me. Cheers!

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Moving Out Progress) Things haven't changed a whole lot, however solid progress is being made. I've been in application for an additional flow of money from the government to be able to afford to move, it's been a process gathering all the necessary paperwork to prove things as usual. However I needed to have an assessment to be eligible for one of the perks that comes with that. Well when I went in to have that assessment with a human being, they took one look at my file and advised that I apply for a different payment type, as they're more than confident that I'm eligible.
It's obviously still up in the air and I need to provide even more evidence of my current condition and living circumstances, but if I could get this, it would literally be life saving. So fingers crossed on that one.

I can't really look into anywhere to live until I know exactly how much I'm going to have, but it's still a work in progress and I'm remaining optimistic. Sorry for being so vague, there is a lot involved with this I don't feel comfortable disclosing at the current time. But one way or the other, I'll be covering everything publically once things are officially under control there.

In the meantime...) Right now I'm just trying to stay focussed on getting videos happening. Currently the schedule has a new video coming out every 2 weeks. I'd really like to push into weekly videos but that is all really dependant on how much good working time I'm able to squeeze out of each day. Plus with everything else going on, it is incredibly exhausting which doesn't help. BUT the good news: there will be a Skylanders: Trap Team review in a couple of days AND the final CTR Grand Prix episode next week. Hopefully... I can have the next Skylanders episode ready for the following week, but I doubt it right now.

Skylanders Progress) Here is how things are looking:

• Trap Team is 100% finished
• Superchargers needs to be written and filmed
• I need to start playing Imaginators

Recent Milestones for the Channel) The channel has been in serious celebration the past week or so. Every Crash Level Ranked SIGNIFICANTLY outperformed Every Tony Hawk Level Ranked which is absolutely mind blowing, while also bringing the latter back into strong numbers for a video from 4 months ago. So that's REALLY awesome! These are a 2-3 per year type of project, but I'm keen to start on the next one already!

Within its first week, Crash surpassed 100,000 views while Tony Hawk surpassed 150,000, making these the 2 most successful videos in the channel's history!

On top of that, we finally hit 30,000 subscribers on the channel (already jumped to 30,200 at this point) !!! 😁 

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Closing Thoughts) So that's where everything is at right now; good times but things are still taking some time to get under control this year. As you can see with my moving situation, the concept of potentially earning some extra money via sponsorship opportunities has kind of fallen into my lap a bit, which is exactly the reason I'm being extra hesitant to make sure I'm not jumping into something for short term benefit. So please, thoughts on that would mean a lot.

Anyway, thank you all so much for reading. If you've got further questions about anything, don't be shy. And until next time, I hope you have a great fucking day. Take it easy!