(IMPORTANT POLL) Screw It, We're Doing It Live - Suede Of The Union 27/08/22 (Patreon)

Hey all, got a lot to get through so let's start!

PAPERMON REVELATION

Thanks so much for your great response to Introspectrum, it gives me a great sense of accomplishment and it feels like I'm helping people too, so I'll definitely stick with it.

That being said I also want to continue with Pokemon as it's my bread and butter and I genuinely enjoy making you guys laugh. That being said, I'm noticing some problems.

I mentioned this on twitter but for those who have well-adjusted lives here's what I came to realise: I love Papermon, I think it's unique and different from what's usually out there and a good, hilarious workaround for copyrighted content. But the more I work on it, the more I come to realise that it's definitely more work than old-school journey. With practise I'll get faster and heck, if I win the algorithm lottery and blow up I could even hire staff and get back to 4 a month, but that's not going to happen at this point. I'm only able to do 1 a month at most.

This isn't fair to all of you who have followed me all the way up to 194, only to have to start all over again at 1 video a month. If I keep this pace it will take 16 YEARS to catch up. SIXTEEN YEARS.

Even with new gags in each episode, that's just exhausting and disheartening. So I've come up with a compromise, if you'll indulge me:

I will do the first 5 episodes of Papermon, and then I'm most definitely NOT going to leak a folder with all the finished episodes of Old Pokemon Journey onto torrent sites. Now in the UNLIKELY EVENT that such a folder shows up on torrent sites anyway, I will put up a video expressing my UTTER SHOCK at the horrendous turn of events and make sure to tell my subscribers exactly where to find said torrent so they know EXACTLY WHERE NOT TO GO for my previously lost content.

If this happens, even though I'd be APPALLED IF IT DID, since the episodes would be readily available I would be able to jump Papermon to 194 and continue from there. Fresh content for long term viewers and no loss for new ones. I'd also do the Papermon treatment for fan favorite classic episodes, to be decided by poll.

Speaking of polls, this is where you guys come in. I feel this would be the best direction going forward but though I have power of veto it comes down to those who finance me to let me know which way the wind is blowing and open the floor to pushback. Please make your voice heard in the poll below.

COMPLETING THE JOURNEYDEX 

While I wait for that, there's also another thing I need to ask.

First, Good news! I found out I do actually have access to every single episode of Journey! Bad news, a huge chunk of it is only in 360p. As most of you know, my own collection of HD journey episodes is incomplete due to a hard drive malfunction.

My episodes only available in 360p are:

- Everything up to episode 80

- Episode 87

- Episodes 100 & 101

- Episode 109

- Episodes 119-121

- Episodes 127-128

- Episode 130

- Episodes 132-133

- Episodes 135-141

- Episode 161 for some reason

- Mewtwo Strikes back (Journey version) & Evolution

If you have any of these episodes in 1080p, message me and I will credit you in a readme file that ONLY I WILL READ AND DEFINITELY WON'T END UP IN THE FOLDER 

Oh, and one final thing: I'm really struggling with editing lately, my autism and anxiety has been flaring up a lot and I'm freezing up in the same way I used to freeze up when writing scripts. The only thing I haven't tried, bizarrely, is the thing that helped me get my scripts done. Yeah, I've been putting it off way too long but joining Watch Me Script will be Watch Me Edit, starting tomorrow at twitch.tv/suedeblade (the times will be on the channel's schedule page). Come hang out and as we go on we'll find more ways to make it fun!

You are all amazing, keep being you and I will continue to keep pushing forward.

All the best going forward,

Suede