The STRUGGLE-Verse gets inescapable!

Won't you help a dude out?

In outside-of-efed-kayfabe news, I finally got off my ass and did all the pre-recording and production value-ing necessary for the next pre-planned non-house show stream.  It's janky as all hell as usual, but I'm this close to the WAR PARTY 2021 card fully falling into place. (and I'm pretty excited for that, because COOL ZONE #5 is only going to require one promo/pre-recorded production thingy as far as I can tell, and the "pay per view" show is just going to be wrestling matches, meaning I may not put it off for six months)  So unless something unexpected happens, (and there's a near-certainty that I'm going to have to be away from a computer for about a week sometime soon, so the unexpected here is at least semi-expected) expect the next show to drop either Friday, Saturday, or Sunday night. (probably Saturday) 

(also, I did pre-record a few matches to avoid technical glitches, but I still let the RNG determine the outcome, and I'm gonna say right now that one of them ended up ruling, one of them ended up being abso-goddamn-lutely insane, and one was pretty okay)

Quick 'n Dirty RESULTS!

quick 'n dirty RESULTS~!  for house show #30, maybe the best night in the history of STRUGGLE, as far as matches being fvkkin bangers goes, I mean, check the match ratings

Been a damn near a month and a half, which is a big gap lately even for me, so CURRENT STATUS REPORT:

The big delays were from a handful of personal bummers of varying levels of bummerdom that had me out-of-state for a couple of weeks, and I won't get into any of that, because bummers. This was followed followed by (or ran concurrently with, really) the delays caused by the sordid saga of my attempt to buy a new computer. Basically, I found a crazy-ass pre-built deal that was allegedly in-stock and shipping within one business day, went for it, then kind of went "well, I don't want to get too deep in any pre-production type nonsense, seeing as how I'll have to move crap between desktops soon," and stopped doing any sort of video editing or whatnot for upcoming shows.  This was immediately followed by waiting over a month for something that was supposed to be here by the end of the week, followed by my wife finally pretty much verbally beating some poor call center person into kinda-sorta admitting that it was never actually in stock, so they faked a shipping label to keep me from cancelling, and that it would probably remain backordered until freaking July.  Anyway, got a refund, found another deal from somewhere else, (which was a less-modernized CPU/GPU combo, but more powerful on both counts, so it all worked out, I guess?) ordered it on a Friday, and got it here last Tuesday, so now I've got all my relevant shit transferred over to this fully armed and operational battle station, and dumb screwings-around with my digital paper dolls can resume.

SO:

The next big deal type show (Cool Zone #5, last stop on the "tour") has all the pre-recorded promo-type production values type stuff done except one part that I'm going to try and hammer out Saturday-ish.  If things move quickly, that show will be either Saturday or Sunday night, and if I fail, I'm still going to try and at least do a "house show" stream, just to make sure everything still works like it's supposed to. Oddly enough, I still haven't fully finalized the CZ5 undercard.

After that, there's the big "pay per view" style event, War Party 2021, and it shouldn't take too long to put together, because it's going to just be wrestling matches with no other tomfoolery (still going to have my famous commercial breaks, though) so all the stuff I'll need to pre-record is of the "match types that don't have entrances, where I wanna splice some entrances in" variety, and I should be able to handle most of that in one sitting, and the rest of the show should just be actual live streaming. (fuck it, we'll do it live)

And after that, probably a little hiatus from anything other than the occasional lo-fi house show, while I do some behind-the-scenes Fire Pro maintenance. Mostly mod-related stuff, like how I never rebuilt all my movelists after the switch from modded custom moves to MoveCraft moves took place, and I kinda want to start cleaning and polishing things up, so I can start slowly releasing ModPack edit exports of these idiots on the workshop, for the people. You'll still be shit outta luck for a modernized version of Skip Legday if you run a fully-vanilla game, but at least some of you might know his glory, I dunno.

Anyway, TL;DR: more than likely something happening this weekend.

Going live in about 30 minutes, (9:30ish central time) which is to say probably earlier than that, but with just dark matches and whatnot.  Also, Jezebel Grim & Toshiyo Nakano vs. Virginia Slams & Velveeta Dream has been added to the card, which is to say I meant to have it happen all along, but forgot to put on the poster. Also, this is the first show on the new PC, so expect some wildly bonkers technical difficulties, in all likelihood. I'm very good at this.