BPLTEX

Post Warhammer Shaky

Added 2022-04-25 04:57:09 +0000 UTC

Howdy there folks. If you want to hear what we were thinking like right 2-3 days right before the Warhammer - > https://anchor.fm/dashboard/episode/e1hk1mc We recorded a podcast

My voice was shot, I was operating on 2-3 hours of sleep for the third day in a row. We're cranking hard at this point and you can see our mindset - where we sit ourselves mentally - what we think. At this point Mike and I are running on fumes and thinking about knife fight city.

Btw, some mad lad made a wiki here - https://knife-fight-city.fandom.com/wiki/Knife_fight_city_Wiki and you can join the talk on the wiki here - https://knife-fight-city.fandom.com/f

You ever wanted to like, join the ground floor of a wiki project and control it and make it yours? Now's your chance. That appeals to like 3 in 100 people, but, just thought I'd put that out there to show somebody else's really great art.

I want to extend to all of you the thanks. I more or less got beat to hell every year up to this point on this production and decided to never take from it because, hell, I felt priveleged just being able to have a tiny pixel to express myself from. It's a small thing, really, having that in an otherwise hard life, but it means a lot to me. I've not ever had much of my own, I gave much away and still do, but I'm approaching the age where I have to start thinking at the future just a little bit.

When I asked you guys if it was okay after 11 years to take a check, you guys were pretty surprised/mad I didn't. Well, not surprised I guess. The guy who slaps down for good causes and gives away all his profits on battletech to charity is probably an okay guy. For the most part. On weekdays anyways.

The road head will be tough, but the intermission was not a lie. I approached my staff and editors and asked if I could draw the same pay as they did. No more. They insisted, and I agreed. I am now equal to them in payment and labor. It is appreciated.

Going forward I treat this as a side-business instead of a side-hobby. Some have told me they feel that this makes me now a corporate overlord and abandoning all principles I have held. Some have even pointed out WBPL-76 on twitch runs against my personally held idea of taking donations for streaming (I dislike putting money on just, having fun with friends - it twists things quick and I don't want to ever monetize my time on that basis. I prefer work for wages, that's just me.)

Also WBPL-76 is not something I profit from, nor hold the keys to. Its my community building a mad thing. I just do drive-bys. In fact, I've not asked for a single timeslot. I just, like watching people do their thing and it pleases me. I watch it. I did break in last night and read poetry mid Rob's stream. I like being weird. It pleases me.

So this guy who doesn't like putting his face on cheap stuff and doesn't want to sell you links or do ads is weird. Its okay. We'll figure it out together.

Suggestions I have heard from the fanbase at large are:

1. Jesus Christ Tex just put a special patreon tier for bigger money because people like throwing it and they could like, just be part of the credits forever if the ever do it once.
(Amusing but like, this could just be a tax-hell, also I don't like taking advantage of somebody just because they have a bit more disposable income. I think they should probably invest that in something serious. Or like a charity. Or just, like, a random act of kindness?)

2. Make a physical Goob and or Van Zandt Militia Challenge Coin, in America, with American Labor, in high quality. I'm not an American Exceptionalism advocate, nor believer that my nation universally makes the finest goods regardless of end intent. I just like empowering the small businesses in this world

3. People who are "Gearheads" want patches, morale patches. In bulk. They are offering money. I would only want to do this if it were high quality, and again, I like the idea of empowering local workers, the small guy or gal just tryin' to get their shit going in these strange times. It makes me happy to see people succeed by their own hands, and own means.

I know I'm strangely principled in these times but, I don't feel good taking the idea of ever making something that was bad, or cheap, so I could massively inflate a profit margin to buy things I don't need or even really want. The last large gift to me took the person in question a lot, and I mean, a lot, of teeth pulling to get it to even happen. It turned into a philosophical and ethical argument on even accepting that gift in question. I'm a hard person to get to give things to. Most people know that. Well, those who know me.

Its why even taking anything was really hard for me, but, I guess when you come from dirt you don't much ever consider yourself much above it. Some have called this Red-Dirt-Buddhism or ZenTexanism or many other things. I just call it growing up poor as shit and having a fairly rough life. When the zenith of your academic career is Detroit, plan A is not your life plan. Plan B has left town as well.

Where we're going from here, I said I'll have something. I got some ideas. I want to show people some good. I want to show people why I like what I like. I'm not an expert, but, in time I'll dig myself out of the hole I made in production and we'll get things moving.

It was no exaggeration that this was a year's worth of work for a very small team. Near the end we were working in shifts. It isn't for the money. Again. This is a charitable endeavor. As far as why we create, we're driven.

Its, just, what we do.

I cannot explain our madness, but, the podcast is probably a good way to hear our thoughts. It's been fun.

As far as where we go next. I'll give an audio update soon enough. I'm also going to oversee mastering the Magistratum Mundanus after delays of trying to do 90 things at once.

Give me your thoughts below, and I PROMISE on Friday to actually read and respond to them all, in voice.

I am however, going to do only a few things between now and then:

House maintenance and

Probably chores

Gunsmithing

Gunsmithing

Gunsmithing

Gunsmithing

Gunsmithing

Writing draft II of the Charger Jesus Christ I already started it.

But little work.

-Tex-