Boonslayer

New update to the computer story:

So the motherboard is cooked, more or less. It's also apparently a particularly old model? Not too surprising, when having bought a refurbished one, but that unfortunately means that getting a new mobo isn't really a fiscally viable option. So...new computer again it is.

I've picked out one that's a refurbished as well, but from a different refurbish seller, a different original maker, and actually has somewhat better specs. The issue, of course, is that I won't be able to order it until March 18th, at the soonest with the finances. We're working on what to do to accelerate that timeline, and your help could be part of that, either by sharing around videos I already have up to get more ad revenue coming in or through direct support. I'll see about setting up memberships and/or redoing the Patreon as well, but part of the reason I don't want to do that is because I don't currently have anything to offer until the situation is fixed, and I don't want people paying to get something from me that could still take a month or two.

Which brings me to the real reason behind this update: Boon Cannon 62. The video was originally intended to come out on Super Bowl Sunday because of that date's relevance to the subject matter. That, obviously, is very likely to no longer happen. I actually did consider canceling the video altogether because at that point it would no longer be either timely *or* done in a time period relevant to the subject...

But I reread the script and realized there was a bunch in there that I really wanted to make sure I brought up, and there was really no other place to put these things. It'll put this commentary at close to a year in development without having the gall to be 8 hours long to make up for it, but I think it should still work. The extra time after the new computer comes in should also account for any lost progress on the project that may come about, as I had with switching computers last time during the making of Boon Cannon 61.

I may still decide to go in different routes with this, but that's where my mindset is right now. And most of this is not necessarily the worst case scenario per se, but more of the worst *realistic* case. And hopefully this worse realistic case isn't what winds up being *the* case, but that's up to other people on if it is or not.

2 months ago | [YT] | 5

Boonslayer

Well, another major bout of bad news from me. Here's the Bluesky thread on this:

bsky.app/profile/boonslayer.bsky.social/post/3lgei…

Basically, a few months ago when I needed to get a replacement computer, the long story made short is that I wound up being functionally scammed. 90 day return policy, and the dawn thing stopped working about a month after that. So the video I just put out is gonna be the last one I make for a good while.

Without assistance, I would hopefully be able to afford a new system at the end of March. And one that, fingers crossed, doesn't break in 4 months this time. I'm salvaging pretty much every part I can from this one, too, since part of the good news is that this computer didn't die at least partially of old age like the last one did. I'm also doing what I can to accelerate that timeline as much as possible.

But only one thing is going to make that acceleration happen, and that's money. The ways this can happen is through direct donations through the PayPal link at the end of this post or even as simple as watching the video on my channel either without an ad blocker or with YouTube Premium, commenting and liking to help spread the videos I've got around. Don't feel obligated to help; it sucks for me to be gone that long, but like I did after last time this happened, I plan to come back swinging no matter what happens. Boon Cannon in particular will need a separate update tomorrow morning while I work on arranging what I can. I'll be sure to keep you posted, and if it becomes viable to do so, I may see about uploads from my phone that I might be able to do as well, but I don't want to do that if it's not going to be of good enough quality.

If you wish to, here's the PayPal link: www.paypal.me/boonslayer

2 months ago | [YT] | 3

Boonslayer

I've updated my profile to first and foremost list my BlueSky, which I'm going to work on being more active on. I've basically been completely off Twitter save for a couple of things here and there, and to be honest may stop using it completely if I see more of my audience over on BlueSky.

Oh, and by the way? People who have a problem with me are more than welcome to bring it to my attention directly. I may not necessarily agree with you, but I'll listen. I know that should go without saying for a lot of you, but...well, I think someone knows I'm talking to them when I say that.

5 months ago | [YT] | 6

Boonslayer

Right, OK. So I really don't like doing this, but basically everything that I do is on pause until I can get a new computer. I woke up in the middle of the night this morning to find out that it wouldn't turn on, and my financial situation just plain isn't good enough to be able to make a $1k+ purchase out of the blue like that. I normally don't like saying I need your help, but this time I really do.

You can help me out directly at paypal.me/boonslayer. I would greatly appreciate any assistance you might be able to give, including even just spreading the word. If every subscriber were to even to part with $2, I'd be able to do this with no worries about a margin for error, in addition to other things I may wish to do for the channel. Thank you so much for any support you might be willing to give.

7 months ago | [YT] | 11

Boonslayer

There's some people on here who want to continue to drag my name through the mud over what, by this point, equates to nothing. I'm not going to say who it is, because the only reason I'm even mentioning it at all is because of the fact that one of them in particular keeps bringing it up in spite of the fact that we both publicly agreed to go our separate ways and not speak on it after I apologized. But they know who they are, and no, this isn't anyone linked to Corey Margera, at least not to my knowledge. And unlike you, I'm going to stand on business; even if you're forcing me to talk about it, I will go into as little detail as possible unless my hand is forced, which as Boon Cannon 60 proves, I'm more than capable of doing.

There's some truth to how harsh I was, but...well, as usual, a number of lies. Lies that are so easy to prove wrong that they were proven wrong before you even said them by the very thing you're criticizing. You apologized to me for the way you behaved, but your behavior since has shown that apology to be insincere, while what I've done since apologizing for what I did wrong has been to do exactly what I said we should do, and *avoid* talking about you. As I said, I'm standing on business.

You will probably see this at some point in the future, and have something to say about it. Might not be immediately. Probably a few months, when you think you can just reset the narrative into the way you want people to see it. All you're doing is proving why I said what I said in the first place. Learn to stand on business. Even if it means you have to sit down and shut up to do it.

7 months ago | [YT] | 6

Boonslayer

So, as many of you have seen, Boon Cannon 51 has released, and it is not a co-op. I announced on Twitter that #BC51 was not going to be the planned co-op, so I'm going to explain a bit more here.

Myself and my co-op partner are waiting on some stills before they start recording, and I already had this idea and script done fairly quickly, so I decided to get this out. I've got 2 other scripts in the work, which brings me to what I have to say.

I am not, at this time, assigning the co-op a number, because simply put, I do not know which number it's going to be. It depends on how quickly we have everything ready to start editing, so for now it will be referred to as Boon Cannon X, or #BCX. There is also a commentary planned for after #BCX, which will be numbered, for now, Boon Cannon X2, or #BCX2. When these commentaries are able to be given official numbers, then I'll remove the X and X2 labels when talking about them.

In the coming weeks, I'm also going to have more info about what I'm doing in 2023, because I plan for there to be more than just Boon Cannon coming out next year. Stay tuned for that, and thank you everyone for your patience and understanding. Much love.

2 years ago | [YT] | 14

Boonslayer

All right, I apologize for having to make an announcement like this, but sadly, Boon Cannon 50 Episode IX (and, in turn, the Director's Cut) is going to see a delay. The video will come out on October 12th instead of the 5th.

Due to personal issues as well as my computer seeming to slow down quite a bit during these last few stages of editing (it's almost like the project file has like 8 hours of commentary on it or something), I will wind up needing to put it out on the 12th instead of the 5th. I've tried to get more things done, but I have basically an hour to edit over the next 2 days, and I don't see that happening unless I focus on only getting this done.

I do have some news about future plans as well! I'm going to be making TCG Encyclopedia again, starting with my episode on the Chaotic TCG. I also have a series about D&D and MTG that I want to do, but I've determined it would be better to do so after the conclusion of the Ravnica: Trail of Dragons campaign I'm running over on SpiffyNeedleGeeks, so it'll be a good while before I get to that. I'm also going to do more reviews in the future; I'm revamping the script I have for Neo Yokio Pink Christmas to fit my current style, and I've had people express interest in seeing me do a full review of the Star Wars sequel trilogy, so I might do that as well. I'm also open to further suggestions, although I do have some other ideas of my own as well.

As for future Boon Cannon plans, 51 is entirely written and pretty much just waiting for Boon Cannon 50 to be done in order to get in production. 52, in turn, has a video selected for it, and although that might change if something else comes out, I can honestly say that this is one of those materials that doesn't have a time limit concern as far as I'm concerned, because it's something people will be more than ready to talk about any time it comes up, but interestingly aren't talking about the aspects I intend to talk about and instead just cling to some headlines about it. I don't want to plan too far ahead beyond that, though.

Anyway, I'm sorry for the delay, but this one is also longer than the previous episodes. Getting it done in 2 weeks was something I was hoping to accomplish, but sadly, life had other plans for me.

2 years ago | [YT] | 19

Boonslayer

So this is a post about delays upcoming in the schedule of my videos. First, I want to link to a Twitter thread where I basically said everything I can currently confirm about it:

twitter.com/Boonslayer/status/1558855235241664520

I'll give a more summarized version here. Boon Cannon 50 Episode VII is coming out on August 24, which is a one week delay. The other two parts will come out three weeks after each other, which is an extra one week gap for each over the original plan. Finally, that will place the Director's Cut (all of the parts in a single video) on October 7th, as putting that together will be a lot faster than the initial editing of each part.

I don't have a full vision of what's coming after or how long it's going to take for it to come after. There's a nonzero chance that the content on this platform will undergo a slight hiatus while I get some things put together and organized, but I can promise you for certain that more is coming even after Boon Cannon 50, and I want to thank everybody for their patience. I want to balance the quality of what I'm giving you with the quantity I produce, rather than rushing out half-baked content that isn't very good or only being able to post twice a year. I'll have more succinct news on the future beyond BC50 when we're closer to the date of the Director's Cut.

And I'm hoping it's more than just Boon Cannon, because some of you seem to really want some of what that will mean.

2 years ago | [YT] | 7

Boonslayer

So I'm sure some of you guys have noticed this, but I have a new logo! The current one that is showing now is the version with transparency, and I'm likely to replace this one with one with a background in the next couple of days.

As I posted on my Twitter, Boon Cannon 50 Episode V will be delayed until July 20th. I recently had an injury to my thumb that was making it very difficult to edit for a few days. To be quite honest, I still have some pain, but it's more in the wrist area and it's way better than it was before. This wasn't my only issue, though; part of the episode wouldn't render right in my test, and I had no idea what was happening at the time, but several attempts to fix it resulted in losing more productivity, which meant I had no choice but to delay. I'm taking the full extra week so that I have plenty of time, and because I was already planning things out with a slowed-down editing schedule, I am likely to still be able to get out Episode VI on the 27th. This is subject to change, and I'll make sure to update people across both Twitter and YouTube as much as possible what the new schedule is.

Scripting for Boon Cannon 51 has been slow, and not just because I'm doing it while still working on editing Boon Cannon 50. To not give too much away, Boon Cannon 50 is a co-op and at times there have been some challenges getting me and my co-op partner together to finish up the script, which is probably about 2/3rds of the way done at the moment, give or take.

I've got other projects in the works as well. I'm reworking the scripts for my Boon Cannon-based series, which currently goes by the name Fracture. I'm also going to have a Patreon rework, which I should put live hopefully by the beginning of 2023, but preferably before then. In addition to both of those, I've got a secondary channel I'm working on for music that I've worked on, both for my videos and fully original works. In the future, if I have a musical number in a video or some backing track that I actually created, it will be released there.

In addition, I've been involved in several livestreams. There isn't really a schedule for when I'm on other people's Twitch streams, but I'll probably have a listing of people that I tend to pop in on from time to time. For now, I'll focus on certain YouTube livestreams, which I do have a set schedule for. Namely, you can catch me every other Saturday over on ‪@spiffyneedlegeeks135‬ for D&D. We've been playing Curse of Strahd, as run by ‪@thekookyceltic2579‬, and we're adding a second game to run alongside it; Ravnica: Trail of Dragons, as run by yours truly! So for the few of you that watched Ard Mandelio and missed it, come on out this Saturday and show some love!

I really appreciate all of your support thus far over the years, especially in the case of 2019-2021, where things were particularly hard for me going forward on this platform. I'm hoping to continue with the pace I've been setting for 2022 and then some! More updates to come, but other issues notwithstanding, I'll see you guys on the 20th for Boon Cannon 50 Episode V!

2 years ago | [YT] | 15