Weekly Update #3 (Patreon)

This last week got all funky with video making for me. For the Hunter X Hunter video, I had originally thought that I would make a video just talking about why I like the first arc, but as I wrote my notes and rewatched the whole arc, I realized that I had little of interest to say in that regard. So, instead of pushing out a video that would be a half-assed, "Yay, I like a thing," I decided to scrap that idea and use my notes as the basis for a different video on the show.

I plan to release that Hunter X Hunter video this coming Sunday, and it will be about the relationship between Gon and Hisoka, which is one of my favourite parts of the series. That isn't to say, of course, that that video will necessarily end up being made. I mean, I believe it will be and I hope that it will be, but the script could end up being sub-par. All of this is just to say that this Hunter X Hunter video is the one that I plan to release this coming Sunday and that it is the video I will spend the rest of this week working on.

Now, about the podcast...

I know that most of you, if not all of you, aren't too worried about the podcast thing, but I do want to apologize. I stated in a previous update that I would start uploading it June 6 (so, today, I guess), but the first podcast just hasn't turned out and I want to focus on the main thing that you all become patrons for in the first place: the Youtube videos. I do plan to do the podcast eventually, and I do plan to have it be based on Patreon suggestions, but when I do start releasing it I want it to be at a point when I'll be able to do it on a consistent basis, when it won't negatively impact my video-making schedule, and most importantly when it will be of high enough quality that I can be proud of it. But I am sorry that it isn't out today. I don't like to go off of schedule or to say I'll do something and not be able to do it; however, it still happens.

Which is also what happened with videos in general, actually, and something that I'm thinking about now. The schedule of uploading every Sunday was always kind of tentative and more-so a goal for me to reach rather than a rule, but I realized that I had never adequately communicated that fact. So I will shoot for weekly uploads, but I still always want to prioritize quality over quantity. If I feel that a video isn't good enough or that an idea just isn't panning out, I won't force it. I want the video to be as good as they can be and I want you all to feel that they were worth your money. 

In fact, due to your donations, I've been feeling particularly motivated to do this Youtube stuff lately. I mean, I've always been motivated to do it (I wouldn't have kept doing it this long if I wasn't), but knowing how much you care about them fires me up. So thank you. You're the best. I've got some projects in the works that are more ambitious than anything else I've ever done and I'm so excited to show them to you once they're finally complete :)