An Update on Supremacy and the Tribute Show
Feb 6, 2024 21:42:40 GMT -5
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Post by Dave D-Flipz on Feb 6, 2024 21:42:40 GMT -5
Hey everyone, Dave/DT/D-Flipz here (I guess some of you more know me as Aiden ... but whatevs)
I wanted to give everyone an update and be forthcoming with what's going on in my world. Yes. I am the one holding up Supremacy. Everyone else had their shit in by evening on the proper Sunday. I still need to finish the intro to the show and am working on the Main Event. As you know the original delay on the show was for very good reasons and as any of the old XHFers can tell you, we all took the news pretty hard. I didn't have the energy to write ahead of time.
Now I started a new job in August. It has been doing wonders for my mental health and my time at home, but it also means I have less time to set aside for here and I've mainly been writing on the weekends as, thanks to the train ... fucking MBTA, I routinely get home late, have to change and immediately cook dinner then enjoy my evening with my wife. I am usually free at 9-9:30 and I'm too tired by 11 to do much of anything.
This week we have been dealing with an injured/sick pupper and he's REALLY been messing up our sleep schedule. He's a senior citizen, sorry. We also just started a new gym regimen on the weekends and I've been dealing with some extreme back/neck/calf pain. So when this weekend of the show came around, I never got around to getting free time, between errands, family time, and comforting a dog on the couch who would whine so loud I couldn't focus if I DIDN'T sit with him. If you saw on my discord Monday, I also had to leave work early due to a vertigo/migraine combo that hit me quite out of nowhere. I'm still a bit off and I have to stay a half hour late each of the next few days at work to make up time so I don't waste my vacation time I will need this summer for family stuff. (also when I get my wisdom teeth out, we have one PTO bank now so it's all the same). That said, I refuse to rush completion. You all waited on this match and I want it to deliver as I am a perfectionist and take great pride in my matches. I normally would pawn off a match at this point to get the show up but to be PERFECTLY HONEST ... I've put too much work into getting people's strats, building an outline and working out a document with my flow and I want this match to be mine.
I VERY MUCH APOLOGIZE if this slows down any of your fed specific shows. But I feel like I've been this late with a show ONE time before in my 20 years of doing this, a little IRL comes first is owed to me. That said. I am not rushing to finish the match tonight. I am not rushing to put up a weak show intro tonight. I am WORKING on this thing tonight. So to temper anyone's expectations here's my assumed timeline for the show. There is a slim chance I can get it up tomorrow. There is a 50/50 shot it's up Thursday night. However I think everyone should hope for Friday late night at the latest when I can afford to stay up late and just finish the thing without it causing me another migraine from lack of sleep since I can wake up late Saturday.
I again, apologize. If anyone feels slighted... I'm sorry. But this has been a physically draining few weeks and I want to make sure this doesn't become chronic on my end. My neurologist appointment isn't until mid-March.
IN TERMS OF THE STEVE/MIKE TRIBUTE SHOW: If anyone has any ideas or wants to offer help please either message me, Jack, Marty and Mongo on the board, or Private message one of us on discord so we can link it in our admin chat. I am hoping to mock up an idea this weekend for a show the end of February. And I will be in contact with anyone who offers help/ideas Sat and Sun before the Super Bowl, which I need to find a way to watch, my team is actually in it...
So TL/DR:
I apologize for the shitty timing of my personal physical hiccups combining with my perfectionism and refusal to give up a match I have already poured so much time and heart into. I want it to be the best to make up for all the delays, and I want it to be MY match. I'm selfish a bit, so sue me. The show will be up Friday by midnight pacific AT THE LATEST! It will NOT be up tonight (Tues) and almost definitely not Wed. But Thursday if I can get lucky ... sure, maybe. If you want to offer help, ideas, characters for segments/matches etc for the Steve and Mike tribute show, I will be in contact this weekend, with a proposal for a show up before the Super Bowl - PLEASE either message Mongo, Marty, Jack and myself here or one of us on discord. Date is tentatively Feb 29 but maybe March 3 would be a better shot as it's a SUnday, we'll iron out deets this weekend.
I apologize again, I hope you all understand, this isn't like Cruiserfest where I just ... shit the bed. This one has physical and mental reasons but I still hate that I've delayed the show.
And no I didn't clear this with Mongo first, I want to make sure he doesn't steal the match from me as I've put in a lot of work. SO suck it Mongo you need me! *hides*
-Dave D-Flipz
I wanted to give everyone an update and be forthcoming with what's going on in my world. Yes. I am the one holding up Supremacy. Everyone else had their shit in by evening on the proper Sunday. I still need to finish the intro to the show and am working on the Main Event. As you know the original delay on the show was for very good reasons and as any of the old XHFers can tell you, we all took the news pretty hard. I didn't have the energy to write ahead of time.
Now I started a new job in August. It has been doing wonders for my mental health and my time at home, but it also means I have less time to set aside for here and I've mainly been writing on the weekends as, thanks to the train ... fucking MBTA, I routinely get home late, have to change and immediately cook dinner then enjoy my evening with my wife. I am usually free at 9-9:30 and I'm too tired by 11 to do much of anything.
This week we have been dealing with an injured/sick pupper and he's REALLY been messing up our sleep schedule. He's a senior citizen, sorry. We also just started a new gym regimen on the weekends and I've been dealing with some extreme back/neck/calf pain. So when this weekend of the show came around, I never got around to getting free time, between errands, family time, and comforting a dog on the couch who would whine so loud I couldn't focus if I DIDN'T sit with him. If you saw on my discord Monday, I also had to leave work early due to a vertigo/migraine combo that hit me quite out of nowhere. I'm still a bit off and I have to stay a half hour late each of the next few days at work to make up time so I don't waste my vacation time I will need this summer for family stuff. (also when I get my wisdom teeth out, we have one PTO bank now so it's all the same). That said, I refuse to rush completion. You all waited on this match and I want it to deliver as I am a perfectionist and take great pride in my matches. I normally would pawn off a match at this point to get the show up but to be PERFECTLY HONEST ... I've put too much work into getting people's strats, building an outline and working out a document with my flow and I want this match to be mine.
I VERY MUCH APOLOGIZE if this slows down any of your fed specific shows. But I feel like I've been this late with a show ONE time before in my 20 years of doing this, a little IRL comes first is owed to me. That said. I am not rushing to finish the match tonight. I am not rushing to put up a weak show intro tonight. I am WORKING on this thing tonight. So to temper anyone's expectations here's my assumed timeline for the show. There is a slim chance I can get it up tomorrow. There is a 50/50 shot it's up Thursday night. However I think everyone should hope for Friday late night at the latest when I can afford to stay up late and just finish the thing without it causing me another migraine from lack of sleep since I can wake up late Saturday.
I again, apologize. If anyone feels slighted... I'm sorry. But this has been a physically draining few weeks and I want to make sure this doesn't become chronic on my end. My neurologist appointment isn't until mid-March.
IN TERMS OF THE STEVE/MIKE TRIBUTE SHOW: If anyone has any ideas or wants to offer help please either message me, Jack, Marty and Mongo on the board, or Private message one of us on discord so we can link it in our admin chat. I am hoping to mock up an idea this weekend for a show the end of February. And I will be in contact with anyone who offers help/ideas Sat and Sun before the Super Bowl, which I need to find a way to watch, my team is actually in it...
So TL/DR:
I apologize for the shitty timing of my personal physical hiccups combining with my perfectionism and refusal to give up a match I have already poured so much time and heart into. I want it to be the best to make up for all the delays, and I want it to be MY match. I'm selfish a bit, so sue me. The show will be up Friday by midnight pacific AT THE LATEST! It will NOT be up tonight (Tues) and almost definitely not Wed. But Thursday if I can get lucky ... sure, maybe. If you want to offer help, ideas, characters for segments/matches etc for the Steve and Mike tribute show, I will be in contact this weekend, with a proposal for a show up before the Super Bowl - PLEASE either message Mongo, Marty, Jack and myself here or one of us on discord. Date is tentatively Feb 29 but maybe March 3 would be a better shot as it's a SUnday, we'll iron out deets this weekend.
I apologize again, I hope you all understand, this isn't like Cruiserfest where I just ... shit the bed. This one has physical and mental reasons but I still hate that I've delayed the show.
And no I didn't clear this with Mongo first, I want to make sure he doesn't steal the match from me as I've put in a lot of work. SO suck it Mongo you need me! *hides*
-Dave D-Flipz