September update (at last)

Hi everyone!

As you all know the last couple months have been way more tumultuous than I anticipated. However, after an extended period of recuperation, I’m happy to report that my vision is back to near pre-op levels, and it feels really, really great. Which means I’m ready to get back to making videos.

Now, hopefully I’ll be able to do a video where I talk more about exactly what’s been happening this past year- I think you guys deserve a better understanding of how much has been going on and the effect it’s had - but the truth is there’s a lot of leftover stuff I’ve been working on that I need to re-adress. So much has changed between my last updates and now, many of my plans now need to be re-organised and ultimate I have to decide on a different strategy with some of my videos moving forward, and while a bunch of stuff I had planned is still ongoing, a couple things I can now go back to with ‘fresh eyes’. No pun intended. Maybe.

- The previous update where I mentioned planned videos are still ones I want to make, but some of them need to be radically re-thought. The Mandolorian one I think needs the least amount of changes, though I was struggling to pull it together at the last hurdle, but the Spyro one now makes very little sense in light of the changes that have been happening at Activision, and the Wandavision one found a different place in my mind as the MCU unfolded again on the big and small screens. This is why I don’t normally make these kinds of promises and, even though I’ll be trying to salvage that video to make something else, I wouldn’t expect them in any particular order. Very much going by a ‘it’s done when it’s done’ basis on those projects now. I even came up with a new one in the hospital as my kidney was jumpin so that's a thing.

- My major Marvel project is still being worked on and is still in the writing phase. I don’t think I realised quite how ambitious I’d made this and I’m still very excited to reveal it, but it’s absolutely not going to be ready until 2022. That said, I still plan to have the writing done by the end of the year and I also, as was always planned, want to get a second teaser trailer out before it debuts, so we’ll see if I can push that into the end of this year. Don’t think I’m pulling a spoony on you with this one, I am desperate to tell this story.

- I’m so incredibly grateful that I was able to heal up in time for Psychonauts 2. I played the game through once in full, then ran through a second time to catch anything I missed, and am currently matching it up with parts of the original to make some final assessments and test some connections. By the time my first play though was finished I had pages of notes, and now I’m entering a full script. It’ll take some time to untangle but I have a lot to say, none of which I want to give away, but enough is there that I can say yes, I’m making a video. Yes, I want it out as soon as I’m able.

- Here’s the latest big announcement- I’m moving. London is wonderful but way too expensive and I need to go where I can focus on my videos full time again. The papers are being finalised as we speak, and the plan is to get out there, make lots of videos, and try to get far enough with it to come back to London at a later date. This could very well blow up in my face, but it’s been that kind of year for me, so why not one last radical change to my life. I can also tell you about the job that I quit which is, well, a story for another time.

That’s all for now. I know it’s not easy following a creator who makes promises that aren’t fulfilled and I understand all the folks who had to drop out after following me as long as they did, no offence is ever taken as I know you’ve all got to make those payments elsewhere so whatever is paid is appreciated regardless. It kills me that I dropped the ball this year and couldn’t commit on my promises, and I’m dreading the thought of that continuing in the coming months. I am so keen to make more content and I won’t be stopping work, so thank you all for supporting me as long as you have, and please hang on if you can for a little longer.

Because I HAVE to make that Alf video.

-B