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Hello Skelefam!

I'm back from the grave! I live! I swear! Once again on that problem of too many project and not finishing any of them! Exhibit A: this is February's UDUG but it's being released in March! That really sucks and I'm sorry about that! But I guess you'll get two UDUG's this month?? Eh? Because I'm a piece of shit who takes on too many projects hahaha

Anywho, voting for March's UDUG will be tomorrow! And will run all week until Sunday at midnight.

To make up for missing last month's Patreon exclusive video, I have make-good planned, another exclusive video.

And while we're here, some production updates! The Densha de GO! video is being edited right now, and will be 2/3rds done by tonight (hopefully more??). My dreamcast and capture card both dying last month didn't help things, though that's not why this video is coming in March instead of February. The topic kinda fell into my lap right before new years and Japanese train simulators and controllers is such a fun and weird rabbit hole, the video expanded way past just playing Doom and Street Fighter with train controllers! The good news is we have an ad spot for this video and we've already had to push back the release date. Why is that good news? Because they're pissed and not going to give me any more time so it's gonna force me to finish the damn thing, haha!

Big happenings with the big Faceball 2000 16-player Gameboy Multiplayer project. In short, we cracked it. Or really the team cracked it! We had the first successful full 16-player game back in January. It was just with close friends and it was filmed! Then the option to have the first public 16-player game fell into our laps with Midwest Gaming Classic in early-April. This would effectively be the end of the journey! I'm in talks for a potentially screening of the documentary I've been making, and then shooting the ending at the public event! Which is super exciting! But it means I suddenly have to finish that video this month too!! Luckily I've been working on this project off and on for over a year but it's still going to be a lot to get it ready for early April.

Plus I'm going to be doing a podcast with Scott the Woz in a few weeks. Not sure when it'll be going out but I'm pretty excited about that. And then I'm turning 40 a few days after that! A new pb, 40 year streak of not dying! This is the run, can't quit now! There's a lot going on, sorry for the radio silence in February but I didn't want to come back here unless I actually had something for you.

See you tomorrow for the voting!-Uncle Derek

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Ranking Limited Edition Junk| UDUG | SSFF Patreon Exclusive

Edited by @ADAMNATOR

Comments

Sindel

I'm still going to testify that making short-form content every once in a while (between the huge videos) will help with the burnout. Every video doesn't need to be huge.

Chevmatic

Oh dude so jealous you got those train controllers! I saw your post and was really thinking of getting them!

themanwithsauce

Regarding the Duke Nukem Forever graphics card - the GTX 560 is like.... 2/3rds up the model range of that generation of cards. Nvidia made a GTX 570 and 580 which were bigger and better. So looks like Duke's package is a bit....underwhelming ;)

themanwithsauce

Oh, and speaking of the clearance shelf mainstays, Scott the Woz's episode on Animal Crossing Amiibo Festival is a great example of this - there was supposed to be a "limited/collector's" edition that included an extra amiibo that wouldn't be sold seperately. But the game sold so poorly that the only versions printed were the ones with the extra amiibo. And Walmart and Target clearance racks were well stocked from 2015-2019...

Nemhya

As someone who doesn't pay much attention to collector/limited/whatever editions, I didn't know about most of those, some were pretty cool! On the topic of collector editions that don't include the game, I think they're extra scummy (aside from those that are clearly meant as some extra stuff to get after the game came out and you want more) because even if you DO notice that the game is not in it... well if you care enough about the game to buy the collector edition, then you probably want the game itself, right? Which mean you have to buy it separately, i.e full price, instead of the price being incorporated into the bundle. That's an extra 50/60/70 bucks to shell out most of the time.

Dylan Juran

I got the Batman collectors edition with the batarang thing. Tbh it’s what mostly put me off collectors editions. The booklet was neat but clearly so cheap. And the batarang was dumb as hell. Also the cardboard case was inferior to the standard case for the game and that bugged me!

Felix Niland

Yo, Uncle D, my fellow ADHDer, I freakin' FEEL that first paragraph in my bones, man! and I still catch myself saying those sorts of things to/about myself... and sometimes we just gotta let that frustration out... AND, I also know that there would be far, far too many skeletons fighting if not for your endless curiousity and your fun-loving self! I love this channel so much, and it makes me so happy to see so more men out there leaning into joy and fun. It's needed. So thank you (and Producer Grace!), and happy birthday!!!