TGIReaper

Hi again! Sorry for the silence the last few months, but a lot has been happening in my life that's stopped me from posting anything.

The aforementioned gallstones problem ended up being something slightly different, albeit still requiring me to get my gallbladder taken out (the tract was bent like a kinked hose, apparently). For about a week or two, I was recovering from that surgery, but at the beginning of July I ALSO got all my wisdom teeth taken out. I'm still partially recovering from the teeth extraction funnily enough, since on one side they had to cut into bone to get a tooth out. Point is, I've been out of it the last two months, and haven't been doing a whole lot because of it. But I'm finally getting back into things, at least a little bit.

If you want to know the current plan, I'm going to likely finish editing the Year 3 video sometime within the next two months. College is already starting back up again, but I have a feeling this year will go way better than last year, so I might be able to actually get things done reasonably and my gallbladder isn't going to suddenly take me out for several days.

After that, I have a plan to do a video on Lobotomy Corporation, given I've never played it fully and I'm a huge fan of management simulators AND I play Limbus Company a lot. I already have some videos recorded on that, they just need to be edited down. The third and final video I currently have planned will actually be what takes me a little while.

You see, I'm studying game development, and I don't really have anything to show for that on a portfolio or anything since I'm mostly an artist and haven't spent a lot of time programming. So I've actually started making my own game! Granted, it's going to be a Roblox game since I feel like I understand Roblox's physics and engines a lot better than other mediums just from being on it for so long, but I'm still making one nonetheless! I think I'm going to record some of the progress in making the game and make that into a video, if possible. I might trash the idea and opt for something else if that takes too long, which it might, but we'll see.

I have some other ideas on the backburner that we'll see if they come around, but we'll see. I'm making this post more since I just went through a lot the last year between my gallbladder, the hardest classes I've ever taken, and technical issues that required me to make up months of work.

Hopefully the worst of it is behind me, though, and I can FINALLY get back into making videos. Thanks for reading!

TL;DR: Got gallbladder and wisdom teeth taken out, haven't posted since I've been recovering from those surgeries, plans resuming soon.

1 month ago | [YT] | 3

TGIReaper

Back with another update: progress stunted once again due to college. Like usual. (Taking calculus and physics in the same year is just... yikes.)

Although, this time I had an idea and is half the reason progress has been stunted. Considering the whole YouTube partner thing I posted about earlier, I think I'm going to actually wait to upload the Year 3 video until I've got the next two videos mostly finished. Reason I want to do this is because I do not trust my ADHD brain to get 3 videos done within a month and the revenue from videos will probably actually incentivize me to post more frequently, so I'm just going to prepare all three videos for the requirement and upload them pretty close to each other.

I'm not insane, though. I'm not going to post all 3 at once, don't worry.

Anyway, figured I'd give some sort of update again since it's been a month or so. I totally understand if this wait's been entirely unreasonable, but as usual, my life's just been a bit too busy. On the bright side, I at least know what the severe stomach pains were now and have plans to get it fixed during the summer so that won't be causing me any stress issues anymore.

If you're curious, it's gallstones. Yippee.

6 months ago | [YT] | 5

TGIReaper

You know, this came to mind while I was editing-

Deepwoken really hasn't changed much since I did Year 2, honestly. Like. Impressively little has changed since I did that video. At least between Year 1 and Year 2 we had Layer 2 to explore as well as a huge amount of content, but this year? The fact that I had to sort of make my own fun with the game is somewhat... telling.

Reason I bring this up- I don't really know how easy it will be to do any more Deepwoken videos until Layer 3 is released. Sure, they released Saintsworn which is sick as hell, but outside of that there just hasn't been a whole lot of interesting stuff to explore. World events don't seem too interesting, nor does that carnival thing they added a few weeks ago- at this point I feel like I give the devs of the game too much credit.

I'll finish the Year 3 video since it's recorded and all, but I'm probably gonna put something at the end reiterating some of this and say that I'm going to do some other content in the future. Got a lot of things I could do outside of just doing Deepwoken that have been on the backburner, so I'll probably work on those after this next video is done.

Also, side note, I'm *really* close to being able to getting paid for videos! I can guarantee that once I meet the requirements, I'll 100% be making videos way more frequently. I just need to reach the "three videos within a month" requirement, because you got me bent if you think I'm doing Shorts this early.

Anyway, just a small update since I felt like I should mention it- nothing that important! The video is being cut down as we speak as the original recording is extremely long-

7 months ago | [YT] | 3

TGIReaper

I hate to have to do this, but I gotta delay the video release. Again.

Some medical problems I’ve been having for a while are finally diagnosed, and the past few weeks I’ve just been getting thrown back and forth between doctors- I’m actually so drained from all the insurance talk and boring adult stuff that I have been going to sleep early and am spending no time actually working on the video.

I thought I’d have a more productive break, but this is what happens when you need to get stuff done crammed into a short time frame-

I will try to get the video out before classes get too involved for the next semester, but it will take longer than I thought… sorry!

7 months ago | [YT] | 2

TGIReaper

Hey everyone, back with a quick update-

I'm finally on my winter break, which is great because this has been the worst semester of schooling I've ever experienced. I've been having medical issues on top of having one of the worst classes I've ever had the misfortune of taking- sucks, since it's a requirement for my major.

ANYWAY- I have the next video recorded at the very least, so I'll be editing it over the break. I'm hoping once I cut it I'll have something like a 10 minute video... I hope. It was a very chaotic recording, I don't know exactly how much I'm gonna keep!

I'll be working on the video off and on, but it should hopefully come out this month, and at the latest mid January!

If I want to I might post some stupid drawings from the editing process, since not all of them tend to make it in

(also I may or may not be changing my icon and banner, I had a cool idea for em)

8 months ago | [YT] | 3

TGIReaper

Alright, given the results of the last poll, I'm gonna be doing Year 3 next!

Though, my idea requires a big amount of people. Like. A chunk. Enough to nearly fill an entire Deepwoken server, actually, so recording that video will actually take some time just so schedules align. I may end up getting it done in November if I'm lucky, December seems a lot more likely though due to my winter break- point is, Year 3 video it is!

After Year 3, I think I'll probably do something a little different for a video. I've had a few ideas for another type of video that I want to do, so I'm going to do one of those, then maybe after that I'll start the W Rank series.

Don't know, though. Calculus has been whooping me in terms of schooling, so time's become shortened for me. I think next semester I'll be free from this nonsense subject (if I pass, GOD I hope I pass) so I will probably have some extra time to do some more video work!

Sorry if I disappear again after this message, I tend to forget stuff a lot and this community tab is one of those things-

10 months ago | [YT] | 6

TGIReaper

Okay, it's been... forever since I posted anything. I'll give a quick update really quick.

Still in college, still having my time siphoned by it, yada yada- it's just really hard to make a video nowadays since I'm always so busy!

But... it's been over a year now since the year 2 video. That technically means I'm due to make the Year 3 video... but I had a few other video ideas lined up since I last updated you, so I'm a bit a torn between them.

I have two ideas I want to see: I could do the Year 3 video, where I have a super fun idea in mind for that, OR I could start the other mini series I wanted to make: Journey to W Rank. Year 3 would be a lot more just me messing around in the game and doing random stuff, where the W Rank video will be me trying to get past the first hurdle on the way to W Rank: S Rank!

I think both are interesting, but I wanted to ask you guys what you'd rather see!

TL;DR, I'm torn between two ideas for the next video and both will be interesting for different reasons

11 months ago | [YT] | 4

TGIReaper

Hello again, back with another update since it's been a month-

I had finals all last week and I was preparing for the semester to end at college, which pretty much siphoned all of my time for the last month. I knew college was going to take up a lot of time in the grand scheme of things, so this isn't really all that surprising honestly, but it definitely has put a damper on my ability to record videos. I've certainly been trying to find time for it, though!

I am back home for about a month, so I actually do have the proper time to be able to record and all of that now. Recording has really been the only issue with the next video just due to my time, so I'm hoping I can record everything I need to record before I head back to campus again. I think I should be able to do that at the very least, and I can always draw for the video whenever even if I'm at college- so here's to hoping!

That being said, if I go silent for a while again it's probably because I'm doing some other things regarding school. Finals were hectic, to say the least, and I'm being pulled here and there, so my schedule is just swamped. Just know that silence doesn't necessarily mean I'm not working on things!

The last thing I wanted to say is that, surprisingly, those last two videos got me to 900 subscribers, and the last video I made hit 21k views, which is absolutely BONKERS to me- I didn't think I'd gain this traction just from two videos, so thank you so much for all the support! I promise I'll get a video out, college has just been annoying-

Oh, and I wanted to point this out, but someone commented that the GTA 6 trailer came out before I made a new video, and that made me laugh really hard, so thank you to whoever said that because that certainly made my day LOL

1 year ago | [YT] | 8

TGIReaper

Hello again! Been about a month since my last post, so I wanted to give a bit of an update-

I have to do a lot of different things for my next video and I really wanted to be done recording this week, but one of my friends has somewhat disappeared on us and I was going to have her help out with a specific part that I want to record before building the other two characters in the video, so I've been somewhat halted in terms of progress unfortunately.

In other news though, one build for the video is recorded! So we're already on the way there- just know progress HAS started on the next video. The video is likely going to be a decent chunk longer than my other videos, just because of how much I'm going to be doing for it. The build I already have done is only going to make up about two minutes of the video though (the goal for that build was reached very quickly), so I really want to get recording on the other parts of the video to make sure I can make something that's actually of decent length.

I'm thinking it's going to be closer to 20 minutes with how much I do plan on doing this time! Which means editing and drawing for the video is likely going to take a bit longer, so I'm not going to expect to upload until next year, but if I crack down on the video between college work it might be possible to get it in before the end of December. So, as I always say, here's to hoping!

1 year ago | [YT] | 11

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I’ve been a bit bored of Deepwoken lately- I have to make a whole 10 unique builds just to even begin to have an idea of where the next few videos are going, which has been draining to say the least- but hey, I’m done building 3 of them, and I just need one more to make a reasonable length video out of them, so that’ll be funky!

Also no, I am not already doing a progression video when I have such little skill- not technically, anyway. It’s a more long term plan that somewhat requires me to have a bunch of different slots with different builds (cost me 1200 Robux for the slots so RIP) and it’s going to be me mostly exploring just about every different aspect of the game I can to eventually get to a final goal: achieving W rank.

It’s lofty, I know- but hey, you gotta start somewhere! In the meantime with my Deepwoken boredom though, I started playing All The Mods 8 to try and distract me from it and I’ve been kind of cruising through it, so I just drew this given it’s been on my mind- maybe I’ll record videos of some other modpack later on, we’ll have to see! (This girl’s named Caramel, if you were wondering)

Anyway, just letting you know I’m not dead! Hope you have a great day/night!

1 year ago | [YT] | 8