You know. I think there needs to be some form of acceptance in all of this.
Life is… difficult. Of course, I'm working towards making it a touch easier but there's always going to be some kind of strife happening, at the very least, in proximity to me. Whether it's the personal storm that swirls in my psyche or my country drop kicking its economy and morals into the nearest trash heap, I fear times are always going to be eventful.
While I'd love to be a machine that runs on spite, sometimes I succumb to the storm. And lately it has been raging but “Heave ho, onwards we row”.
Soooooo to give the tl;dr on the content:
RPG Sunday is fully edited and scheduled, which has been great for progress. I'm at the point where I'm streaming and uploading a VOD almost the same day.
Monday Show has no progress
Retro Tuesday VODs are unedited but waiting
Wednesday Show has no updates
Thought Thursday VODs are unedited and ready
Friday Show has nothing new
Bonus Stage Saturday has scheduled videos including the remainder of New Horizons that I have recorded and Naruto Ninja Storm.
Patchcraft Season 2 has changed from server to single player worlds. Yanzer and myself both produce individual content.
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Yanzer has taken up the streaming mantle a bit, doing what she can when I'm doing my 9 to 5. I attempt to stream when able but sometimes exhaustion takes me. Schedule is now Wednesday-Friday, 6PM EST. I usually go for about 2 hours. Lately, we've been kind of doing whatever catches our fancy, as opposed to a rigid schedule. I would like to focus mainly on Octopath, with Minecraft and some third bonus game following suit.
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Other than this update letter, I've not made any progress.
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It's kind of amazing how such a small amount of anger is enough to motivate you to flip your life around. After another disappointing performance review, which resulted in me losing trust for my teammates and yet another eye roll at the tiny raise, I feel a compulsion to prove myself. Maybe it's masculine rage, but whenever my work ethic is questioned I feel an immense urge to prove myself.
Which did expedite this newsletter’s completion. It's ironic. A part of the performance review is a self-reflection where one is supposed to wonder where they hope to go and what steps are necessary to reach that goal. My boss offered words of advice “Either you make things happen or you wait for things to happen to you”. I agree. I was already planning on doubling my efforts on making my content profitable, but now I have all the more reason to. Hopefully, you'll see a spike in my publications.
Life has been happening. Recently, I was able to send Bruce - a rusted, nearly dead, hunk of metal I called an automobile to the trash heap. I've now acquired a much more reliable car we've yet to name. We're between Sonia - since she's a Chevy Sonic, and Noelle, since the last owner's phone was still paired to it.
So one of life's major stresses and the first step in my rebuild is completed. Now I need to acquire a domicile and if you've not gone through the home buying process…it's a process. I'm still in research mode for the most part but it's a lot of work before anything gets finalized and I'm desperate to make it happen sooner, rather than later. Trust the process.
In happier news, Nintendo Switch 2 pre-orders are about to go live and I am excited. $80 games is yucky, but I feel forgiving towards it. To be clear, I am a bit of a Nintendo fanboy. At the same time, with games and technology endlessly improving and expanding, it's only logical for a price increase. For a product to improve, more work needs to be performed which requires more resources. Now, I'm not such a Nintendo fan to believe all the extra money is going towards the devs and the workers. Remember children, there's no such thing as a good company. However, we all knew a price increase was bound to happen. It is… only logical. I'm also of the mind that the console price of $450(ish) is a fair price. It just feels reasonable. Needless to say, I'll be placing a pre-order when able.
There's so much content that I wanna create. Perhaps it's a product of how my brain works, I tend to daydream a ton, whether that's undiagnosed Maladaptive Daydreaming or not isn't for me to say. I only play a doctor when I play Trauma Center and even then it's questionable.
The biggest project is still A Collector's Wager. I'm in such a weird portion of limbo concerning this book. It's written. It is completed but I want perfection out of it so bad that I need to go over it once again as an editor. Which I do. There are story elements that were changed in the early chapters that will contradict information in later chapters. I also know for a fact that I can make some secondary characters better. I believe I am up to Chapter 3 of the final rewrites, with approximately 20 more to go. I suppose I could publish these on the blog, as was always the plan from the start; Chapters 1 through 3 (Maybe 4, since that’s when the bulk of the pre-story explanations occur) would serve as a free demo of the book.
I’ve also reached the point of procrastination where I’m making content about the book, rather than making the book itself. Specifically, I started a forever world in Minecraft. Like I said above, Patchcraft Season 2 has taken a slight shift from being on a multiplayer world to more single player content. All the players, myself included, took less of an interest in the server - which is fine! It has given me the opportunity to be a crazy person and try to make an entire fantasy world in Minecraft, somewhat to scale. So, instead of editing A Collector’s Wager, I’ve started putting work into a Minecraft build from the same universe. Trust the process. Like I said though, my efforts are renewed and my vigor has been reloaded.
And moreso, this rambling is supposed to be about accepting that and I guess, forgiving - although that seems odd since that would suggest a transgression, to myself for not constantly turning the content mill. That being said, I really do need to finish LoveSeat. I was, unfortunately, delayed enough by life’s happenings that I was unable to do the Easter series I wanted to do. I think I’ll give myself more of a fresh start, planning far in advance to ensure I don’t miss the deadlines. Self-imposed deadlines are just so very easy to ignore. I don’t think I ever fully mentioned the holiday events, so why not bring them up here.
Obviously we have LoveSeat for Valentine’s Days, a fourteen episode series featuring dating sims and silly naughty games. Bradical’s Basket (Originally named Hidden Baskets but I like the alliteration) for Easter, of course. This would be a Collect-A-Thon let’s play that runs for about 25 to 30 episodes. Pillow Fort of Horror is 30 episodes of a horror game let’s play. Ragdoll Stuffing is likely the most involved, being 20 to 25 episodes of a cooking show where I will eat on camera many times. And lastly, Marble Bauble, is the 25 days of Christmas, featuring party games and cozy / chill vibes.
I’m very tempted to let the rest of the year be defaulted while next year will feature every Holiday Event, but to be fair, Halloween is still a ways off and I have plenty of time to get it completed before the deadline. I suppose we’ll have to see how things progress.
Speaking of horror games, I am very nearly ready to bring back Promotion - kinda. For those unaware, Promotion is an extension, that eventually just became the show entirely, of Tour Of Duty - a series where a young bab like myself played through first person shooters. Promotion specifically was a challenge series, of sorts, where I would attempt to reach the highest possible rank. For those who have played Call of Duty online, typically you are able to the highest level before prestiging and having to go from 1 to 50 (or whatever the top level was) before doing it all over again, with the prestige level eventually plateauing. Well, recently I found a way to record a certain horror themed online game, and I’ve been wanting to go through it the same way as Promotion. But, seeing as this wouldn’t be a first person shooter, a name change is necessary. A lot of the pre-planning is already completed, leaving just the actual filming of the series left. So. Soon. Maybe.
Outside of the special events, I’ve not done much else Youtube wise. VODs from Twitch are always easy to produce and upload, so those haven’t stopped. My Let’s Plays - the actual BradicalRadical Show - has not fared well. In part, I can excuse the lack of progress because of how hard I was working on LoveSeat. Truly, I need to hurry up and finish LoveSeat so I can comfortably start recording everything else again. I may have mentioned it in a previous ramblings, but I have been working through Earthbound on the Switch’s online virtual console. Before I was emulating it, but since I went from one PC to another, I feel more at ease keeping it on an actual console, as opposed to taking up HDD space. And I want to continue it so badly. I’ve always had some big plans for the Monday show and the only way to enact said plans is to actually work on things.
And less important, but still fun to do, are the Wednesday and Friday shows, which is more featured around me working through the very long list of games I have. Their time to shine approachesth.
I suppose I’ll end this rambling on a fun note, seeing as the time I am allowing myself to dedicate to this is running up. Currently, Yanzer and I are playing through Blue Prince. Fun game that I was told has a similar vibe to Outer Wilds which… yes and no. It is a puzzle game but it lacks the thing that made Outer Wilds special, character. I am interested in the mystery of Blue Prince and am curious about the characters’ outcomes and fate but certainly not to the degree as Outer Wilds. That game was something special and I would love for another game to capture the same feeling it gave me but I am almost certain nothing else will. Still, Blue Prince is great and we’re having a ton of fun it.
Other than just the Switch 2 existing, super excited for more Deltarune. Those familiar with Bradical lore, know that I played Chapter 2 for 8 hours straight on stream and I am likely to do that with the newest chapters we are getting in just over a month. There’s so much to be excited for, both with what I want to create and play and experience. I think I’ll go do some of that, so once again I am thanking you so very much for reading my, possibly incoherent, ramblings. Please check out the socials listed below, especially my Youtube and Twitch where you can view my content. Many thanks and many loves. <3
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