100 PATRONS! 🥳 (Blog) (Patreon)

G'day legends, hope you're all doing well because we've hit a major milestone in the past week. I have to give a HUGE thank you to all of you for helping us surpass 100 total Patrons, HOLY SHIT! Thank you all so much people, that is absolutely insane!
Never when I was debating even launching this platform back in 2016 did I think we'd reach anything close to this, so it's been so powerfully motivating for me to see it continue growing through these last few years!

I'll get into that a bit more below but just a quick note: FINAL CALL for Podcast Questions for the September episode! Chances are given how busy I am that the episode will be a little later than normal but I do want to try and have it recorded ASAP! So drop some topics down below!

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Original Patreon Goals) When I initially launched this thing was at the time when content was shifting towards more crazy stuff: Sly Cooper, Bad Wrestling Games and the first Hawktober. All projects that I couldn't really achieve on my own that Patreon was able to allow me the freedom to do. That continued with Croc and Ty of course, but that was where I was at with making this thing and we hit that goal incredibly quickly!
Obviously it's all dreaming big but one of my stretch goals was always to make this thing strong enough so that I could move out and gain as much freedom as I needed to create, though it always seemed unrealistic to hit the required numbers to hit that. Thankfully this year, Patreon combined with the channel performing significantly better than prior years somehow just found a perfect balance and... we actually made that happen. So seriously, thank you all so much. I can't say that enough! 😘

What Am I Working on Right Now?) So the next video to hit the channel will be the THPS Remake review as I want that as close to release as possible, just in the event Crash 4 royally fucks up the Hawktober schedule this year.

The thing is with that project though... well...

...I may or may not already be getting some ideas together! 😉

Upgrading Stuff) With the Crash 4 and THPS Warehouse demo videos, there was A LOT of discussion about the quality of my recording setup that extended beyond just the comment sections of those videos. Like my stuff sparked legit debate on whether or not these games would run at 60fps or whatever. I own a Slim PS4 which to my knowledge, caps at 30fps but in some cases can do 60fps. I don't have a great eye for it myself while playing but I'd say both of those were running at 60fps on my TV.
The problem is my capture card, the AverMedia LGP is old and can only record 60fps at 720p so for these videos, I decided to record at 1080p 30fps just so things looked nice... which unfortunately, the capture was slightly choppy BEFORE it hit YouTube, but actually appeared a lot worse on upload which really... REALLY sucked!

I should have ordered a new card the moment I realised that a few weeks ago but I didn't so I've been forced with a tough decision that means I'm actually restarting the current game I'm playing to record at 720p 60fps because I feel that the smoother framerate is far more important than resolution on this one, given it looks choppy as hell capped at 1080p 30fps. It sucks but the good news is that I've finally ordered a new capture card that can do 1080p 60fps which will be here in time for Crash 4 in October. Given I haven't been doing a lot of crazy projects that needed a budget or anything this year, I'll be dipping into the Patreon balance for that since this is gonna improve the quality of videos moving forward, but just thought it was important to let you all know! 🙂

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Closing Thoughts) Anyway, that's all I'm really allowed to talk about right now... so just remember to drop some Q&A questions below for the podcast and until next time, I hope you have a great fucking day. Cheers guys and thank so much again for over 100 Patrons!