⚒Dave Houghton⚒

I cannot put into words how happy, proud and fulfilled I am with how it all went! Yesterday was one of the craziest days of my life. I released the pack, and unlike earlier releases we had no big issues or problems. It was phenomenal. We had a 12 hour live stream (which crashed after 11 and a half hours) but we finished it off. 3.0 to me has been my "life project" at least so far. When I hear people say that 3.0 has literally felt like a release of a new game, I kind of question it, but seeing the response yesterday, the messages... I've not even been able to see them all, let alone reply. It's been tremendously wholesome and honestly, a refreshing piece of social media. The pack has now in total surpassed 500k downloads. HALF A MILLION DOWNLOADS! When I started this journey back 8 months ago, I never could foresee this happening. Maybe it's not time to get sentimental, or maybe it IS the time. But looking back, I might've had lymph cancer. Went under the knife and during recovery I managed to get started with Unity modding. It grew. Version 1.0 was a sick proof of concept. The channel grew to 3k subs. Twitter grew to 10k followers. Ousmane Dembéle was in my DM's. It was a wild ride, literally. From recovering, sleepless nights, trying to do what was right when suddenly the spotlight is bright. People calling you all sorts of big words you don't see in yourself... I struggled a lot with what I perceived to be "needless criticism" and the "Why are people reporting the same stuff 5 times?" It was all very new. Didn't really know how to deal with it. I became a bit frustrated, but managed to shoot past it. I probably moaned a lot more to my family about it than they deserved hahahaha! Then I bunkered down, worked on it some more. 18 hours per day. To unhealthy levels. Neglected people I care for... Not sure why... Just drive? I released version 2.0. To me it was massive, I felt like I was really close to my ceiling. I wasn't ha! 2.0 was at least stable, but had a host of issues. I ran into burnout issues just before 2.0... Took a break post 2.0 which made me reconsider certain things. At the end of the day I became a bit bitter... Not what I wanted to do. I hence temporarily halted content creation. After 2.4 I decided to go Patreon to filter the feedback from the feedback. It was frustrating for me when I believe mods should be free... But I needed to do it. The April Fools joke about retiring was very close to not being one. A few things in my life had just happened, and I wanted to see for myself what my own value was. It was planned as an April Fools, but could've gone the other way. It doesn't by the way, I am not retiring. 3.0 became a bit of a burden here or there. When you do the substitute bench for the 140th time you think a paint drying competition is more fun, but I pushed through it. Found out new things, and suddenly the ceiling for 3.0 had been so much higher than 2.0... What is 4.0 going to look like? I guess time will tell. For now... I'll celebrate what I have, and that is a phenomenal community we've built up together. TLDR; we cooking, pack was poopy, now it is better. Thank you to every one of you who's been part of this. Who's been a force in what we've been able to achieve. For allowing me to add value in my own way. From the bottom of my heart. Take care, Bassy

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