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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT
🕑 Added 2016-03-03 02:26:27 +0000 UTCHi guys, Suede here.
Sorry for the lack of an episode this week, it's not because I ran out of ideas or time, I'm actually filming a backlog so that I can film them anytime and still release them on the same day every week. The reason I'm doing that is because I have a new job and the days off from said job change from week to week.
There's another reason for the break, too. So far in this run of selling myself on this system, I've only charged for completed reviews. It seemed fair, considering most people watch me for these. However, there were a couple of problems with this:
1. I only put out full reviews once in a blue moon, and
2. I don't get paid for them.
The latter seems obvious, but before Blip folded I actually did get some money from them from XS, even if it was a small amount. If I want to come close to making some permanent money from what I love and making the content I want, I need to start making some regular money from what I do put out. So, long story short:
STARTING FROM THE NEXT EPISODE (8TH FEB USA), I WILL BE CHARGING FOR SUEDE XS AS WELL AS REVIEWS.
Luckily, because Patreon is awesome like that, this doesn't mean you have to pay 4 times the amount you were currently expecting. remember,
YOU CAN SET THE MAXIMUM AMOUNT PER MONTH YOU WANT (OR CAN AFFORD) TO GIVE ME.
So, be sure to do that, and starting next week we're back to normal. Bonus for those who read to the end, though: Next week I'll be talking about bad character design decisions in Pokemon, such as not making Alomomola an evolution of luvdisc or not having a single badger pokemon outside of linoone. Your ideas?
Comments
Bonus for those who read to the end... you mean bonus for those who SKIPPED to the end :D And then wound up reading it from the top anyway >.>
Devin Brewer
I don't have any complaints about paying for XS. Hard work should be rewarded. As for bad character designs, it always bugged me that muk was just a larger version of grimer, that an octopus evolved from a fish, that when klink evolves one of it's gears just got big and sad, which then apparently got hitched because the only difference between klang and klinklang is that someone put a ring on it (also, combining your pre-evolutions names just seems lazy), and finally the fact that magneton and dugtrio are just their pre-evolutions, but with three of them. Oh the stooge-esque shenanigans they must get into.
I had to downgrade my patronage :( sorry! But it has NOTHING to do with this change. It has everything to do with losing one of my jobs recently. I just wanted you to know it's not you, it's me.
I'd be fine with paying for XS as long as reviews aren't completely shunted away, I want to see the Pokereviews at least started again before I have my own kids, dangit!
Will Herrmann
I find your XS reviews entertaining and think that you should definitely get paid for them. I see a focus on XS being a change in the type of entertainer you want to be. Whereas previously you were primarily entertaining by creating reviews, now you are more entertaining by creating interesting discussion videos. Kind of like how John Oliver has changed from entertaining by riffing the news to entertaining by creating extended discussions on topics, with some humor thrown in.
Trey McGowan
Thanks for letting us know! I know I'm happy and comfortable paying for XS; I'd already planned to do so as I said. :) So what is the new job, anyhow? Hopefully better paying and/or less soul-draining than the old one? (Either one would make me happy to hear; both would be ideal!)
