Update 2024-07-16

Hello everyone!

I wanted to give a much needed update on what's going on right now and what's coming up in the near future.

First of all, I want to apologize, again, for how I've been slacking on giving proper updates on production recently. I'm sorry, I let myself lose the habit and procrastination took over. I'll try to be better in the future.

Immediate plans

So, what am I working on next? Well, the answer might disappoint you... nothing. For the next two months, I will be focused on a pretty big personal life move: my girlfriend and I are moving to Spain for a year! She is pursuing a one-year Master's degree at BAU University of Barcelona in stop motion animation. I'll be following her there, which means I will be in Spain from October 2024 to the end of June 2025.

We're very excited about this trip, but also very stressed about all the process around it - visas (that's the biggest hurdle by far), insurance, driver's license, address changes, phone number change, bank accounts, credit cards, and so much more. It's been a whole lot of stressful and tedious paperwork and we aren't anywhere close to done.

I should still keep releasing videos while I'm there, but just know that I'm entering a 2-month period where I will not be focusing on making any new videos.

Next video

That being said, I do have a couple of ideas for my next video, whenever that might be. I have a few games for which I've been considering doing a WR or TAS explained, mostly NES/SNES stuff with a couple of odd PC games, and I have an idea for a second giant Super Mario 64 project that is really tickling me these days. It would be different enough from my existing work on the ABC history series to be quite unique, and the subject matter is an absolute endless pool of cool things to talk about. I don't want to reveal it just yet because I'm still on the fence about taking on such a large project though. I'll make a decision on what I do next in the coming weeks, and maybe start drafting a script before I leave for Spain.

Other plans

So, in the meantime, will I be completely idle for 2 months? No!

I didn't want to take on a full video project while I was preparing for the move, because it would have been very stressful and difficult to focus on both things at once. However, I do have an idea for something that I can do that will be a lighter workload. It's actually something I've been considering doing for 3 years, but never got around to it. Well, I am doing it now! I have created a new channel: Bismuth FR. The name is pretty obvious: I am dubbing my own videos in French!

I know the French public is quite large and tends to consume a lot of content in French over content in English, so I'm hoping that this new channel can take off in France and Québec. I will probably start with 2-3 videos, then slowly work through the backlog, and probably do most of my future releases as well, if the channel is doing well. If it seems like it's going nowhere and it's gathering zero interest, though, I don't intend to keep doing it forever.

Very creative logo.

Music (bad news)

In terms of music, unfortunately, this move is bad news. I don't think I will have a piano to play on while I will be gone. I might be able to convince my brother to play some tunes for me instead, but generally speaking, this means new custom piano music is going to be halted for a year. It would make sense for me to take on that Super Mario 64 megaproject, I guess, since my Mario catalogue is already pretty interesting.

That's it for now! I might give some stray quick updates here and there over on Discord. Other than that, I'm on a short hiatus and I'll see you in two months, from Spain!