Ready or Not video - Early access (Patreon)

Greetings all!

Since I am mainly done with it, I'm going to post here the very-nearly-finished Ready or Not video that I've been working on the past couple of months. You guys will get early access to the video for a couple of days, I plan on releasing it to the public on Sunday. The "final" version will have two or three fixes, I have to re-photoshop the mask and gun for the homogeneous shooter, and I want to replace audio near the middle of the video, changing "drastic AI rebalance" to something softer "some AI rebalance". Those changes are minor, but will slow down the edit/upload cycle by a day or so, leaving no time for me to have an early access period before the weekend when I can dedicate a full day or so to the changes, upload, attributions for the full youtube upload, etc.

A big part of returning to the channel for me has been figuring out a good work schedule. I've had to increase my working hours consistently during 2023, leaving only one good "edit day" in the week. This edit day would inevitably be taken up with more entertaining activities, since I couldn't really do them either during the week. There must be a good balance, I thought, I should be able to do all of these things at once, there is functionally -time-, but it never ends up getting done. I've known for just a little while that I get more work done if I start the tasks that are less relaxing right when I get up in the morning. If I start the day with anything entertaining, the day is shot, or at least there's a lot less of a chance of getting anything done. So, the answer must be to get up a couple of hours before work every day to get edits done. It was a challenging proposition: get up EARLY? Before work? And get work done before work? Madness. But, so far, this has been working out spectacularly; I get about an hour and a half of editing/channel work done every day, ending out the week with about 7 hours of edit done. This may not seem like much, but it is, on some weeks, 7 more hours than would have gotten done otherwise. Edits for me used to be sprints, trying to get them done in a weekend or two. The sprint doesn't work for me anymore, at least with my current dayjob schedule, so now it must be a marathon. I'm pretty proud of this: despite working more dayjob hours than I have for most of my life, I'm consistently getting editing done. And even if it's not as much as I would like every day, I'm getting it done.

Anyhow, I thought this insight would be interesting to you. The process of figuring it out has been interesting as well, and surprisingly satisfying. I didn't think I would be so proud of a scheduling breakthrough, but here we are: this edit schedule is what has allowed me to make this video, so it has legs. Enjoy the video, and let me know on Discord or here if you have any questions.