MistareFusion
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Gonna Have to Call It
🕑 Added 2025-09-13 17:59:07 +0000 UTCHi, everyone! As you may or may not know, my next video is the Donkey Kong Dissection episode on Donkey Kong Country Returns. I've been working on it for a while. I was collecting gameplay footage for it several months ago. Over the summer I enlisted a friend to help me get multiplayer footage. Around the same time, I organized and timestamped the many hours of footage I had compiled. Over the last three weeks I have been frantically writing, recording, and editing. And I do mean frantically. I try to keep a firm work/life balance for my own sanity. I keep to set working hours during the week, and I take the weekends off. However, I did break my own rule and worked a few hours last weekend, hoping it might give me just enough of an extra push so I could cross the finish line in time for the planned Patreon release this coming Monday. This week, work/life balance went entirely out the window. From rising to sleeping, all I've done this week is edit. I've continued to edit all morning today. And you can now see the results in the accompanying image: an editing timeline that I'm extremely proud of but which is still incomplete.
I need to stop.
If I continue working this weekend, I'm sure I can fill in that last 3-minute gap. And I might do that. But I still wouldn't be done. Do you see all those little blue shapes scattered across various clips? Those are my remaining "To-Do List" items. Believe it or not, there used to be twice as many of them as there are now! Each of those represents a line I need to re-record, an error I need to correct, an addition I want to make.
I don't think that I can or should try to squeeze all of that in what remains of the weekend while running on the fumes of energy I currently have left. As such, I'm going to call it right now. Donkey Kong Dissection is not going to be out for patrons on Monday. In fact, I'm going to say that the entire release schedule is moving forward a week. Yes, I could take a few days next week to really polish this video and get it out to you, say, Wednesday or Thursday. I doubt most of you would mind that you were getting to see it only a few days earlier than everyone else instead of a full week. But then I'd be having to rush into the next Jaco video to make up for lost time.
Frankly, it's a cycle I feel I've been stuck in all year. There hasn't been a moment this year that I have felt comfortable with how far ahead of schedule I am. There hasn't been a moment where I haven't been stressed out about creeping deadlines and the constant worry that I'm not going to make them. Up until now, I've always managed to squeak by just in the nick of time so that none of you would notice, and so that I could immediately begin the cycle of stress anew with the next video. But I can't make it this time. I tried. I really did. I'm sorry. I need an extra week. I hope all of you understand.
Here's what I will do, though, and I hope it makes up for the delay. On Monday, I will upload a segment of the new video for Early Access patrons. I'm not sure right now which section or how long said segment will be. Be aware that it might not be entirely finished and could be different in the final release. But while there is still a lot of work to do, there is far more that is actually done, and I want to share it with you!
With that, I'm going to go rest now. Thanks so much for your patience and for your support. Have a great weekend!
Comments
Tales from the Nuzlocke
Yeah 100% take this at whatever pace works for you and don’t hurt yourself for your art/work. Your health is most important and not even the greatest media ever is worth it if the creators suffered to make it
SilBee
Thanks for the transparency and please take care of yourself! Remember, a perk of running your own business is the ability to change your own schedule if you need it <3
