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Friday, April 23, 2021

I haven't posted in 6 years. Today is the day to break that.

 Before I begin I just want to say one thing:

You have no reason to be afraid in what I'm uploading on my YouTube channel. These "projects" I do are very casual and do not make me any money. They are primarily created to tailor to a group of people I associate with from a different part of the world (not in my post-Rise life).

After being accepted for Content Creator status in the ToastieLabs Discord (they are the ones that created two titles I've been playing a lot lately) which were Coloring Pixels (most of my recent uploads) and hexceed (future project).

I get what happened so many years ago back when Rise shut down in 2014 was a bad time for us all. It really was. I was a very poor leader in that regard, and I've shaped up to be a better person overall. Prior to what happened in 2020 and 2021, money is, and always will be the root of all evil. I can't let it take it from me... again. You'd all have to agree with me on that part.

On the contrary though, this is the stuff below that would have been implemented should I have continued my leadership (after that 1 year leave I would have been forced to take from 2014-2015)

  • Actual recordings of live Flushed Away events. Sometimes we wanted to see who won them all. I would have done that, to be honest.
  • A bonus round after a champion was crowned. That champion would have to survive up to 4 consecutive rounds for a chance to increase their winnings. If they lost, they would still keep the main prize, but lose out on the bonuses and also get flushed a 2nd time. That's pretty much it... really! But who would have flushed the toilet on that person? It would have been the 2nd place person - they didn't get a chance to flush anyone though!
  • We would have crowned more Gunk Kings/Queens. 
  • I would have reduced the amount of Star/Fishing Points throughout the board, and combined the two into 1 tracking factor: Rise Points. 
  • I would have also introduced the option to reset your level rank so you can go through the levels again for more rewards.
  • Skill-based challenges for rewards - I used to perform this in Skynet Gaming, and I now do these in the current guild I'm the lead event officer for now. This would have been the best way to avoid the whole "I have to always be online mindset" when absolutely needed, since at that time I was pretty horrible at handling people's problems with our products.
Lastly, while some of our memory photos were out there, I should have clarified something: Sure I hosted practically all of the Flushed Away events, but there were a few that ended up allowing people just to drop by the site of that giant toilet just to flush me in. Some were justified, others were just all in good fun, and that was the point I wanted to deliver going into this.

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