I Keep Underestimating This Project... (Patreon)

...because Yet Again I think I will have to cut the Final Finale into 2 parts :/

I think I will just keep cutting the remaining material in half each episode, so we'll have infinitely many episodes to come lol... The only strange thing is, the remaining episoded don't seem to get shorter every time...

But no really, THIS time I'm certain, as I am fully done with scripting and voice recording, so there's not that much more uncertainty to the final length of the remaining parts. The main "problem" with the finale is, that there are plenty of long scenes which are not really "jump cuttable", as that would break the flow and make it too hard to follow for the seconds it would save. I mostly opted for selective speeding up footage with small well-timed jump cuts which cut out inventory stuff and imprecise overscrolling and such, keeping even the position of the mouse cursor in mind between cuts whenever possible, as that's one of the things your eyes would follow. Anyway, getting sidetracked again lol.

So, I have recorded about 130 voice fragments for the final finale (a normal 30 min ep. has about 80 fragments). I'm about 20 minutes in the video, with only 40 fragments being "used up", so there's another 90 fragments to go. A good breakpoint lies at 60 fragments in, which is why I'm not uploading what I have today, I will upload the fully finished episode this weekend, 12-36 hours from the moment of this post. The remaining 70 voice fragments will then become the really final final finale, I expect I'll have that done by next friday as I don't have to review the material, write a script, and record the script anymore. I've already done all of that, I just need to edit it together.

The aftermath with the most interesting Q&A will be 2 weeks after the series ends, I think. The poll is exactly 50/50 at the moment, but as per the most upvoted and very  well written comments I think I won't do a more personal Patreon exclusive Q&A then. I will wait until I'm ready to "fully step out of the shadows" and attach a face to the voice. This may take a while, as my current life situation is still too irregular to be able to commit to a single/stable location from where to "operate" (but I have a view on it becoming stable, which is why I'm able to start thinking about building a real gaming/editing pc instead of my current laptop).

Just to clarify, I wasn't planning on "hiding" extra content on patreon, it's that I feel it's less of a "risk" to share some more personal subjects with a few 100 people, who have "hand-picked" themselves as "high-quality-viewers" who have at the very least proven they like what I do, and disclosing personal details to 10.000s of random strangers who could have any morals and motives. (sorry about my choice of wording, it sounds a little strange when I read it back but IDK how to improve it, hope it comes across the right way with some imagination).

By the way, all of youtube has YOU to thank for the current "level" of my content. If you look back at the early episodes, they were usually 15-20 minutes, where now we're up to enjoy-with-a-drink-and-a-snack 25-35 minutes! I noticed I've been sneakily reducing day job hours and responsibilities for a while now, which I can afford to do thanks to all of you :). It hasn't been a concious decision to do this, but my deep mind usually doesn't negotiate with my active mind when it comes to important life choices, it usually does what needs to be done. And if I'm honest, I can't wait to get into this full-time, from a stable location with a dedicated PC. Now, I wouldn't call script writing, recording and video editing as fun activities, but they're brain-and-soul-intense projects which bring results with a high degree of personal satisfaction (and often even pride) when they're done (I actively enjoy watching back my own episodes, which after seeing every detail 50 times when editing, is a good benchmark to determine if the episode is any good). That, and the fact that my videos seem to bring joy to tens of thousands of people, and in a few cases even actively help people get through a dark time in their life (I can relate), makes all this work a very meaningful and satisfying job to do. I feel I'm contributing way more to "society" than by mindlessly typing machine-translatable product descriptions for who-needs-them-products for the mass consumer market.

Thank you all, for this opportunity.

Michael