The Current Sitch

So here's the sitch.

-Every 2 Weeks-
First of all, the thing that has garnered the most attention lately: I've made a decision to stop doing TP KTANE and Jackbox Night *every single week*, instead doing these things every *2* weeks.  I did this in order to free up alternating weekends for doing whatever I feel like doing, so I don't have to deal with the stress of "oh God this is coming up I have to be ready for it" every single weekend.  Mostly, this has been met with understanding, for which I'm thankful.  However, some people are very unhappy about it.  Which was inevitable.  And they're going to have to get over it, because  I was already kinda losing my own mind having 2 days out of *every* week accounted for before I even started thinking about what I wanted to do with my week, so it was either change things, or Ace goes nuts.

-Short-Term-
Speaking of what I'm going to do, there hasn't been a whole lot of structure to my content lately.  I've not seemed to make up my mind on doing anything a bunch of days in a row, or anything like that.  So that's gonna change.  Firstly, night streams will consist of Eiyuu Senki: The World Conquest for a while.  So that will give me a reason to stream on nights I'm awake.  Secondly, days will continue to consist of speedruns.  I still want the sub-hour on NSMB DS, I still want the sub-2 on New Blood, and I want to do some Everything I Speedrun specials between now and Christmas.  After Eiyuu Senki is done, I'll see what I can do about moving on to Wild Arms 4 for some chill nights.

-Attention and AGDQ-
With that brought up, it's mid-November, and I'm not even 1/10 of the way to funded for AGDQ 2018.  To say that's "not much progress" is an understatement.  I need to kick it into high gear in the next month and a half if I have any hope of getting to the event.  While we're on that subject, I still don't have roomies/a room, nor transportation.  Nobody's contacted me yet.  This is a ridiculous situation, because everyone seems to want me to go, and yet nobody wants to actually help make it happen.  It cannot happen without a considerable amount of help.

With that said, I'll be trying to stream a lot in the next 45 days.  I'll do whatever specials I can squeeze in whenever I'm comfortable doing one, and I'll continue trying to learn Mario 3 on dance pad, since that is still a motivation that I have.  And, of course, every 2 weeks, TP KTANE and Jackbox Night.

Then, of course, there's also the 12 Days of ChristmAce.  12 days straight of streaming a bunch of different themed content, which is going to include me playing StepMania in a blue female Santa suit.

My focus is going toward getting as much attention as possible before Christmas, as that's where it *needs* to go if I have any hope of attending everyone's favorite speedrunning event.

-No More Incentives After AGDQ-
In any event, whether I get funded for AGDQ or not, once the year is over, there will not be any donation goal bars on my stream anymore for a while.  I've been offering donation incentives for over 2 years.  Nevermind for a few moments the fact that my incentives rarely seem to get met, let's mention this for a moment: it just doesn't seem like I've had any real time *without* a donation goal bar; for the most part, there's just essentially always been a goal bar somewhere on my layout.  I'm tired of it, and I'd rather just stream without constantly pushing some incentive.

I know the Impulse Dance Pad is slated for release in February or March of 2018, but that's an estimate, and I honestly don't think a donation goal for that would do any good whatsoever (and, even though it's better than the PDP that I already have, it isn't totally necessary since I do have the PDP), so that's also going to go in the "no more goal bars" pot.

-Plan Summary-
So the general plan for the next few months is:
> Till Year End: Speedruns, Marathons, 12 Days of ChristmAce, other efforts to get attention
> Early January: AGDQ 2018 if a miracle happens, otherwise I guess not
> After AGDQ Time: No more incentives, just be chill and work with whatever I've got