LGR Update! (Patreon)

Greetings! Welcome to one of those personally unfulfilling weeks of making LGR where all content production bottlenecks behind the scenes. This happens frequently but I decided to do a little write-up about it this time.

Lemme just say that I'm not asking for advice, or sympathy, or even complaining exactly. I know what has to be done after a decade of doing it! But yeah, I'm always asked about the YouTube video creation process so I'm gonna spout some words about the current goings-on here since I've got nothing else to post, haha.

Most of the time, I make videos on a week to week basis. Two active projects per week, two videos created per week, one video posted per week. Keeps me slightly ahead and helps me dedicate my productivity to really nailing each project. However, every couple of months this bottleneck seems to happen: a combination of circumstances that means I can't finish any of my videos so I'm sittin' here with some rather uncomfortable content creation blue balls. Multiple Premiere project files that are so close but still so far. Making it even worse: the videos I can finish, I can't actually post!

This week the reason is that I've got a review of the upcoming 3D Realms game Ion Fury. A game I've been excited to cover for going on four years now! It'll be finished this weekend, no problem. Yet due to the review embargo I cannot post it at all until next Wednesday. Mmkay, fine, legal stuff. Though it does slightly annoy me that Wednesday is a day I don't normally post anything so it throws off my mental schedule in (an admittedly minor) way.

What really tosses a wrench into the works is that outta nowhere, next week also happens to be the launch of The Sims 4 SomethingWhoCares Stuff. Folks are already bombaring my inbox with requests to cover it cuz yeah, Sims videos are still super popular on LGR and they're the only videos some subscribers watch. Hooray, my content is wanted! The irritating part of this is that I do not receive early access to these packs so I have to wait for its public launch next week. A week that is already unusual due to Ion Fury launching at the same time by sheer coincidence. So I've gotta delay the pack review even further, and that means another week of "WHERE IS THE VIDEO, LGR?!" And finally, I simply do not like releasing only a Sims 4 stuff pack review as my one video for the week. It's not an audience problem, people like them! But I'm personally never as satisfied by the creation process with those so I sometimes compel myself to post two videos that week. Blarg.

On top of these minor annoyances snowballing into a sphere of angst, I always have a towering pile of retro tech and game-related videos that I've been meaning to do. I've got an upgrade video on my Missile Command Cabinet, a Windows 95 virtual amusement park application to explore, a nifty retro camera video involving homebrew, a rather large donation unboxing, an episode about a car company that may be a Tech Tales, a silly 5.25" drive bay device that amuses me, and a retrospective on some high-end IBM hardware. Not to mention a thousand fascinating items in storage, but that place is scary so I'm actively avoiding it this week. Anyway, despite the pressure to cover these things stemming entirely from my own self-imposed urge to cover personally enjoyable things, they're all still taking up space in mah brain and it bothers me during weeks like this one. I think a vacation is due in September. "I want to get off Mr. Bones Wild Ride.”

All that to say, ah. I've got nothin' other than a fleeting desire to let y'all know that things are constantly happening between videos and I have absolutely nothing of substance to show for it yet. Heh. It'll sort itself out eventually, it always does. And then I'll look back at this post and laugh. Until it randomly happens all over again in about 60 days, WOO!