@SuperMCGamer

Time for a long post about a few things. I received a message today from a long time friend about the way my content has been heading, and a few of those points hit me and I need to address them. I need to make change.

2014 has been a horrible, horrible year for me. From my computer dying, lots of stress at home, family members passing, poor money management for taxes (don't worry, getting an accountant in May, I got this), unexpected injury and lastly my YouTube and Twitch heading in new, scary directions. Because of this, I've had to implement new ways to make a living, that's where you guys come in. I've become far too reliant on the generosity of others due to my YouTube losing steam (Can't talk specifics, but essentially YouTube is by far the lowest of all my incomes) and this is a BAD THING. Donations should be a bonus, alternate thing, and they've become a central part of my streams due to bad times hitting me.

I am supposed to be the charity dude, and I want to be him, but I would think that not my GREED, but my DESPERATION has caused me to lose my focus on helping others. The message from my friend today helped me realize that.

To that effect, I am making changes to hopefully bring us back to where we need to be.

1: Patreon-only streams will be uploaded the day after for ALL to see. The only stream we have that is secret currently is the weekly project update, it will remain the only one.

2: I will be working with 0rganics to possibly combine my ^_^ bar on stream to not only include donations to me, but to the monthly Fun For Freedom charity. My main donation button will be to charity, with only a small link to me.

3: The TwitchAlerts bar on stream will become a "Subscriber" announcer, and not a donor bar. I will have a different method to get alerted and read donations to both myself and FFF that is less annoying and in your face.

4: Skyward Sword will become a series that will come out on every Monday, Wednesday and Friday every week.

5: Orange Wool will remain on an inconsistent schedule, but Mindcrack LPs will come out every Tuesday and Saturday.

6: Pixelmon will release every Thursday.

7: The Temporary Podcast will be uploaded every Monday following release.

8: Hyrule Academy will be uploaded every Sunday afternoon.

9: Mindcrack@Dusk will begin to upload on the YouTube channel every Saturday in two parts.

10: Your Builds will remain Patron-only, because it is NECESSARY for the show to work and exist. It will premiere every Sunday.

11: MCPlz is no longer planned to be uploaded.

12: Minecraft Maps will only be collaborations at my own discretion.

13: Noob to Pro will no longer happen regularly, there isn't enough time to have a hobby. If I do it, it will be on a Ustream channel and tweeted.

14: I need to consult my Patrons, but monthly game night may become a non-streamed event. I want to continue to do it, but some may feel that it is pay-wall style content, and I do not want to become that guy.

15: I hold that I will not do any sponsorships for any product or service that I don't already like.

16: I will begin to run some Twitch advertisments more often. Expect one between ALBW runs, and 4 at the mid-point of my Mindcrack@Dusk streams.

17: I will be doing more Mindcrack streams throughout the week during early-afternoon.

18: My Skyrim series will be a rare thing to release, and considered a treat.

19: TNMC skits such as Mr. Ubiquitous will follow the same path as Skyrim.

20: My stream may not include intros, outros or real talk, I feel my streams have become too overproduced.


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That all being said, I feel like crap, and I apologize for my actions over the past few months. I feel like that I have become a terrible horrible YouTuber or something, and while all donations to me have been voluntary, I have become too centered on them, and will be changing to bring my YouTube more focus, boiling my stream down to bare essentials, returning to a central charity focus. My Patreon page will remain a focus, but only for very nice bonuses for being a cool person, not a one-way pass into awesomeness.

I will remain to be the same wacky guy when I make content, and again I apologize for letting my hard time of a year come through in my content, it is unprofessional and with the exception of this TwitLonger, I will try not to speak of it again.

Wait? No more unprofessional compaliny bits? I'll get it out of the way now then.

Life is really sucky, I've had trouble with friends recently and I hate it so much. I want to be a nice guy, and I think I am, but things get out of hand it it is really hurting me, and making me very stressed. I just want to make funny internet videos.

There. All out of my head.

Lastly, no, I won't change my branding again, I like this one too much, lol.

I love you all, here's to being less stupid.
^_^ MC

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