Road to Max Damage S4 Ep. 16 - The Calm Before the Stress
103There's so many things going on for me now with music that I'm really starting to worry if I am going to collapse from the sheer amount of what feels like self-imposed work that I have to do. I will be playing my first DJ set live in March out of town, so that will be fun, exciting, and scary for me. This means that the next few weeks will be a struggle to find the right balance between playing Maple, editing RTMD, and preparing my set as I continue making my album and more music. This past month I finally stopped procrastinating and finally published my website, so the cost to keep it up and running is motivating me to try and stream more and release videos more consistently while handling all the practicing, producing, and composing that I'm doing.
Back to RTMD related issues that I see, I still have to find a way to show those hard boss sales that aren't done with meso, otherwise I'll start creating some situations where I will cash out months worth of sales from my friend who's holding my splits and people will be like, "hey, how did he get so much NX all of a sudden?" At this point in the series I'm really not bothered anymore by people asking these sorts of questions or pointing fingers at me accusing me of who knows what. As long as I keep explaining any important plans and processes and showing the relevant footage for it, as well as being transparent about donations, I'm happy because I believe that this is my responsibility as a creator of this type of content.
I've realized over the years of doing RTMD there will always be people who will say my progression is illegitimate or they will continually to move goalposts, and there will be nothing that I can or should do to change their minds. I've seen people accuse me of things that I clearly have not done, such as paying people to donate me stuff or to pretend to be my friends, strong-arming friends (or rather, "friends") to give me free things or discounts, or just really stupid stuff that takes more effort to fake than it is to be honest about it. All I care about now is making sure that I'm making good entertaining videos that show my progress clearly, because why should I be more worried about people who will always try to knock me, or anybody trying to do their own F2P journey down, instead of the people who support and love what I do?
It's really funny too! I used to be quite sensitive about people saying my progression is not legitimate, because of the fact that I receive donations and get freebies from friends or from the fact that I make videos. I'm afraid that people forget that friends help each other. I'm not entitled to any benefits from my friends or my audience, but if people enjoy my content enough to want to support me and help me on my progression, then why not? More recently, the focus is has been more about the sponsored NX from being in Bean Brigade. However, in order to receive the NX that I get monthly, it requires you to have a consistent viewership, and I currently exceed it thanks to all your support and enjoyment of the series. But this is why I started Season 4, because the circumstances around my progression is different than before. I was thinking about starting Season 4 ever since I joined Bean Brigade, but I wanted to do it after I finished flaming my boss-tagged equips to have closure on a chapter of my progression.
I'm a really greedy person, because I want to be able to do all these things in my life without sacrificing any of them, which results in spreading myself thin and stressing out over everything and turning me into a mess. But the importance important thing is that I am as transparent as possible with this, because that's what I value the most. This is my last statement on the matter, I love you all for supporting RTMD and MesoGears, and I appreciate the people that also enjoy the music stuff that I do.
Meanwhile, Victor basically threw himself and asserted a sale onto me to give me an incentive to train. Oh boy.
Road to Max Damage is a series that started in October 2014 where I fund my character as strong as possible without using any of my own money. No hacking, scamming, or exploiting. I am playing in GMS Scania.
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