10/3/16 Update

Hey guys. So everything is going rather well for me currently. As many know, I missed a bit of time from work and class last week due to medical reasons. I'm not sure if I told everyone the resolution to this, so I'll go through it for those that weren't around when I said everything.

Basically, I went to the emergency room because I had extreme pain in my lower right abdomen. The cause was not determined. I went to my family doctor, found out I have two hernias from stress and a joint issue in my lower back (which was causing the pain). I also spoke to him about some mental stuff, which is also being addressed accordingly. I got an x-ray done, and bloodwork done multiple times. I called for the test results today and should get them tomorrow.

Basically, I'm doing well now. I feel a lot better, physically and mentally. This was all long overdue and I'm surprised it was only this bad.

I should be back to my normally posted schedule. This brings up another question: what am I going to be streaming?

Forbidden Memories. I know Mergy's time was removed from the leaderboards, and that I now hold the record again. That doesn't make me feel like I did any better than Mergy did. Cheater or not, I want to show it can be done without question of legitimacy. I want to help progress FM into the sub 3 range. I want FM to have a record that starts with a 2 before this year is over, regardless if it is me who does it.

I plan to take better care of my health while staying faithful (mostly) to my stream schedule. Overall, this is a hobby. I do this for fun and fun alone. For a while, I felt otherwise. It isn't that I felt streaming was "work" (as I make basically no money from streaming), but I still felt an obligation to those who do faithfully come around. Obligations are tricky business and can affect your decision-making skills. For me, I chose to overdo it, and it cost me gross negligence to health. I first noticed this during my last 24-hour stream. To put it bluntly, I got sick as a fucking dog around halfway through, but went on. I kept going until 23 hours and I physically had to stop. I was sick for a while after that. That was a wake-up call that I need to take better care of myself.

But I've come a long way from that! Physically, things are MUCH better, and I'm on my way mentally as well. Most importantly, I'm fully enjoying streaming again, WITHOUT giving up my health.

So thanks again to everyone who takes the time to read these, and takes the time to come into streams to hang out. I fully appreciate all of you. I know I've said this before, and it sounds sappy as shit but: I don't consider a lot of you viewers, I consider your friends.

- GFC_


TL;DR: Health was shit, health is getting better, full steam ahead on FM for sub 3, thanks for watching.