Over the past.. while I’ve accumulated a large backlog of various articles, videos, and other projects. I’ll be trying to track these here, including formally removing some of these from the “actually still trying to do it” pile.
If there’s something I’ve previously said I’d do but haven’t yet, please let me know and I can add it to the list so that it can be tracked.
Project statuses:
- Released: a few things in this list will hopefully end up as this.
- In progress: actively being worked on.
- In the pile: amongst the pile of things I’ll look through when I have time to work on another thing.
- Shelved: I’m not working on it but I’m not ready to drop it yet either, so am putting off evaluating it until sometime in the future.
- Indefinitely shelved : I’d be willing to work on it, but the circumstances for doing so don’t line up and may not anytime soon.
- Dropped: these have been killed off, with no intention to return to them.
| Category | Item | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alien Swarm | Weapons and Equipment (loadouts) | Indefinitely shelved | Relies on friends playing |
| LoL | Olaf guide | Dropped | No longer playing LoL competitively |
| LoL | Regular videos (e.g. matchup VoDs) | Dropped | No longer playing LoL competitively |
| LoL | Article: HP Itemisation for Tanks and Fighters | Dropped | No longer playing LoL competitively |
| LoL | Article: Good Now, Bad Later: Why Some Item Purchases Actually Suck | Dropped | No longer playing LoL competitively |
| LoL | Article: HP or Armor/MR - When to Buy What | Dropped | No longer playing LoL competitively |
| LoL | Article: ARAM Tips [WIP title] | Dropped | A lot of ARAM insight comes from being good in general, but I'm just "okay" now |
| LoL | Article: The ARAM Varus Build | Dropped | Amusingly, was 90%+ complete. Will now go to document cache (Patreon reward). |
| LoL | Article/video series: Fact Check | Dropped | No longer playing LoL competitively |
| R6 Siege | Article: My Experience in Siege | Dropped | This was mostly written for me and to solidify my own learning; imo it wasn't that useful for the reader |
| R6 Siege | Article: Switching to Secondary Weapons in CQC | Dropped | No longer playing Siege semi-competitively |
| R6 Siege | Article: Safely Clearing Rooms / Pushing | Dropped | No longer playing Siege semi-competitively |
| R6 Siege | Article: How Angles Work | Dropped | No longer playing Siege semi-competitively |
| RoN | CBP | RIP | The state of RoN and its community continues to break my heart and soul |
| RoN | Fall of Nations: [undecided subtitle] | Indefinitely shelved | I previously reallocated FoN dev time to CBP, and now it feels like I can never go back to having the time do make FoN |
| RoN | X2 Mod Format | In progress | |
| RoN | Fall of Nations: Rise of Maya (X2 mod) | In the pile | Similar in purpose to the original FoN, but massively scaled back and now as a multiplayer-compatible tech demo for X2 instead of a singleplayer campaign focus |
| RoN | Video: Decision-making process (for Don) | Dropped | (sorry ;_;) |
| RoN | Article: Scouts and Spies: Everything You Need to Know | Indefinitely shelved | |
| RoN | Article: Partisans Have Stealth [WIP title] | Indefinitely shelved | This was going to be a short fun article for Partisan cheese strats |
| RoN | Article: How Exactly are Cities Captured? | Indefinitely shelved | Think the Caravans article, but for city capture |
| RoN | Article: Exploring Anti-Aircraft Options in RoN | Indefinitely shelved | |
| RoN | Article: Cavalry Flanking Damage | Indefinitely shelved | |
| RoN | Article: Nomad: Build with 3 Citizens, or 2 + 1 Scouting? | Dropped | One-sentence answer: build with 3 (even a short article would be low value beyond that) |
| RoN | Article: Addressing CBP Criticism | Indefinitely shelved | I felt that even when written politely, this would come across as combative and regardless would not lead to CBP being better |
| RoN | Article: Fighters vs AA Scaling | Indefinitely shelved | |
| RoN | Econ 101 part 5 | In the pile | |
| RoN | Article: Economy Growth and Military Production (WIP title) | In the pile | Econ 101 part 5 is a prerequisite |
| RoN | Article series: army compositions, formations, unit roles etc | Shelved | Related to previously-published article |
| RoN | Article: A New Paradigm for Age V Combat | Completed | Followup from previously-published article |
| RoN | New World campaign playthrough | Dropped | I tried it and didn't like the gameplay much after playing ~2 hours or so; |
| RoN | Video: Reverse Engineering RoN | In the pile | |
| RoN | Video/article: demoing some unused FoN stuff | In the pile | (low priority) |
| Tech | Article series: parts / system guides | Dropped | These take a lot of time to write well (i.e. not short SEO-optimised bullshit), but they get outdated quickly so are only worthwhile with lots of readers; can put old versions in document cache (Patreon reward) |
| Tech | Article: 80,000 Hours in Hell: The Week I Wrestled My New System Into Stability | Dropped | I would've needed to finish writing this within a few weeks of it originally happening (end of 2018?) |
| Tech/Misc | Article: Some Loosely Structured Thoughts on Software Licenses | Dropped | Written as part of the Alpha 9 patch notes; decided the extra detail wasn't worth the time so I just summarised key points in the patch notes themselves |
| Tech/Misc | Article: My Process for /r/Babylon5Gifs | Shelved | I reallocated giffing time to helping with RoN modding, then with FoN, then with CBP; may return in future |
| Tech/Misc | Article: Setting Up ProtonMail on a Custom Domain with a Webhost | Dropped | This was another very early article that I was writing |
| Misc | Article: Red vs Blue YouTube vs Netflix vs Roosterteeth Quality Comparison | Shelved | This would've been one of the first few articles on my site! I felt a little awkward working on it because it was unrelated to what I was known for |
| Misc | Article: Superannuation Comparison [WIP title] | Shelved | I feel uncomfortable writing publicly about finance, politics, etc, even though I actually had a lot of research on-hand |
| Misc | Article: Australia Federal Election 2022: Victorian Senate Overview | Dropped | Mostly finished, but wasn't comfortable publicly releasing an explicitly political article, even when I didn't specifically endorse anyone; (election is over) |
| Misc | Wild Rift for Don | Dropped | Requested by Don (patron), then later un-requested |
| Misc | TFT for Fiber | In the pile | Requested by Fiber (former patron) |
| Misc | Article: Vegas 13/14 Stuttery MP4 Playback (compoundplug.dll) | Shelved | The problem was just broad enough to spend some time writing about it, but too niche to follow through and finish it |
| Misc | Article: Resources I Wish I Had Earlier | Shelved | I'll revisit doing this at a later time |
| Personal | 8 Months in Review / etc | In the pile | This is overdue as fuck; I've spent a lot of time on it but it's a real clusterfuck and I alternate between wanting to be very personal and being too scared of oversharing etc |
| Gameplay | XCOM 2 playthrough VoDs | In the pile | (nobody watches these, so they're really low priority for me) |
| Gameplay | Shadowrun: Dragonfall playthrough VoDs | In the pile | (nobody watches these, so they're really low priority for me) |
| Gameplay | Other gameplays | Shelved | Not sure if it's worth doing right now - obviously it was never popular content but now I'm not even playing games as much anymore |
| Gameplay | "Part 0" for existing VoDs | Shelved | I like the idea of an introductory video, but it's kinda not really worth the time? |