Homelessness Update (Yes, Still Nowhere) | State of Things #10

Hi there,

Firstly: I've kept up with reading your messages and making shoutout/names list changes and all of that type of thing, BUT I haven't had much chance to reply/keep conversations going, so if you have sent a message and you wanted a reply (no matter how minor or casual it was) send me a follow up and I'll get back to you over the next couple of days!

Above is an update video attached explaining house, channel, and other woes, listen to that if you'd like, but I'll do a more prose and parsable write up here.

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Housing update:

Massive apologies for my absence over the past weeks, going into months. We still have no meaningful update with regards to the housing situation.

The concern about the homelessness in the previous big video I made was well founded, but through some very questionable arrangements, well-placed words, and feining incompetence, all of which I will go into at a later date, we still have access to our previously contracted property to live in at an increased cost and other risks, but that's a conversation for the future.

However, we found out a few days ago that the house we are currently technically renting has been sold, and we still have absolutely no update with regards to buying/renting another place. We spent a good few hours very rapidly packing the last of our stuff into boxes yesterday - I have nothing left but clothes and my PC.

We have plans in motion, but the wheels are stuck spinning due to a whole heap of unfortunate events like bank holidays, the queen dying and the country suddenly shutting down, multiple postal strikes, summer holidays, general bureaucracy and other people being incompetent, etc and all of that apparently means estate agents take weeks off work. They’re people too, I fully understand taking time off, but we didn’t get any communication despite numerous emails and phone calls for nearly a solid month.

Suffice to say, no contracts have been signed, no money has changed hands, no window for a move in date, and not all paperwork has been finalised, so even with my clever machiavellian contract dodging, we could still end up without anywhere to live for a good few weeks. Haha, I’m fine, it’s fine.

I would like to stress, very much, that I massively appreciated all the extra patreon/ko-fi supporters and tips that came through in response to the previous update I posted, HOWEVER, this isn’t an issue that can be fixed by throwing cash at it, unless you want to bribe a mortgage provider out there to convince them I’m a cool, trustworthy guy, and they should buy me a house. Though the support is very much appreciated, please only support if you believe the channel content is worth it, irrespective of my current situation. I’m sure there are many other content creators with much more on their plate than myself, producing far better content, but chose to compartmentalise that part of their life away from their audience.

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With regards to Patreon:

I’m going to shift a fair degree of my focus from side projects and other hobbies into Patreon, to make up for the less time I have due to the housing stuff. When this all began I knew I’d have to make compromises in my schedule to fit it all in, and readjust from night time recording to daytime recording, hence some scheduling conflicts.

I sacrificed a lot of time both for Patreon, and the Discord Patreon channels (along with the Discord as a whole), because I couldn’t fit in every aspect of the job along with the now heaps of paperwork, meetings, and phone calls. Not to mention the people viewing the house we’re renting and other things occurring simultaneously.

Starting alongside the next series, I’m going to focus just on main channel content, and Patreon, that’s it. Second channel content takes 30 minutes of my day, so that’s pretty much on autopilot, but the Elise and Sam channel is effectively cancelled seeing as our camera is packed. The Discord I’m leaving in the hands of the old moderators, and the new moderation staff I’m bringing in to help keep order and fill the gap in my absence.
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As for general channel content and quality:

I strongly believe that channel content has been its weakest for sometime, mainly because of the amount of other things that have been on my plate over the past couple of months. Views have been more or less the same but I get a feeling of general discontent from the comments and discord - maybe it's just negativity bias, but it would make sense that the content is worse given everything else. My brain is at max capacity juggling all of the other things, but hopefully it won’t last much longer and I can get back to focusing on just the channels. If it’s still bad after that I’m going to do something drastic, like tiktok reaction shorts. Then we’ll see who does bad content. I’ll teach you all a lesson. You won’t be complaining about Chainsaw Hands when I’m exhaling out my nose at a 30 second short of a dog wearing a silly hat.

I have big plans, I always have big plans, but I have no way to execute them currently. I have some fantastic video ideas that I think are hilarious but when I explain them to other people they look at me like I’m a madman. Even Elise didn’t understand one video outline I showed her. And I’m choosing to take that as a sign of its genius.

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Short-term future content:

With the main channel being the sole focus until everything is back to a semblance of normal, next month is October and that means only one thing - spooky month. It has been a year since Anne and the vampires were around, and those are quite big shoes to fill for a series. I have a few ideas that I’m going to test out, but I’m not going to rush out a half-baked modpack.

I’ve recently announced on the Discord that I want to put together a separate, invite-only, discord server for people to criticise, fix, and contribute to modpacks, but also to help coordinate mod projects, and hopefully commission some ideas of my own in the near future. I’ll be helping out where I can with whatever tools I can offer to them, but as a way to coordinate projects, network with modders, and hopefully get some good content out there one way or another, it could be a nice quality boost!

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As always, thanks for bearing with me. I’d love to say there’s a light at the end of the tunnel, and we’ve been assured in hushed tones that there is something lined up for us, but I’m so cynical at this stage that unless I’ve been living somewhere else for a good few years, I won’t believe it’s true.

Tales of your misdeeds are told from Grignr’s Farm to General Painsaw Hands,

Sam
Mr Samuel Streamer
Formerly Roll1D2 Games
Currently Fine. It’s all fine. We’re fine.