Jameskii

YUGO update & sum cool extras

Added 2024-12-06 04:00:03 +0000 UTC

What's good everybody? Here's the current state of the YUGO -

Here's the current state of the YUGO, too -

Badass, right?

So, here are some updates on the YUGO (spoiler free-ish).

We got YUGO fully running, as in - it starts, idles and revs up rather nicely (especially with the bar being so low).

Jokes aside I'm extremely optimistic. Currently it's stuck in gear, meaning that we have to take out the entire gearbox out to fix it, which is going to take hours.

My reaction :

I don't want to start pointing fingers yet but we are 99.9% confident the issue was caused by incompatible parts sent by a certain European shop.

The majority of crucial & performance parts were sourced from 2 places, one in the US and one in Europe. The European place has sent us multiple parts in the past which ended up being incompatible and cost us hundreds of dollars, it might be the case here as well. At first I kind of excused it because a lot of parts should be interchangeable with some non-yugo cars but now I'm leaning more towards feeling upset at them not doing proper search themselves or at worst misleading us with incorrect specs & information.

If the store says the custom aftermarket part WILL work then we expect it to work. Once a misfortune, twice a coincidence, 3+ times and it's now a pattern.

We will be able to fully confirm the situation once we rebuild the gearbox with US store sourced alternative parts.

(rant over, pic unrelated)

I can't give ETAs on the next YUGO video but I'm heavily aiming to getting it all done before the end of the month. Assuming we will be able to fix the issue this weekend, I think I'll be able to finish the video in the following week or two, as I've been working on it with the footage we already have. I'm super excited and I won't spoil you right now with information about some of the things that happened to YUGO in the recent weeks.

(pic related)

I was going to bring more info about YUGO and some charity event we participated in by bringing our YUGO there but I think it will be more exciting if I can share it all in the video, rather than tease with incomplete bits and pieces, if that makes sense?

On a side note, we did actually go to the fallout event in goodspings, it was packed but seeing everyone was awesome! Here's a fellow ranger with "Petoria" faction flag that was cut from the beta release of Fallout New Vegas.

In the other news, I'm currently working on the following videos as top priority (in mostly non-particular order) -

Skyrim VR with 500+ mods -

It took a few days to get it working. Turns out the majority of crashes were caused by some batman mod. I'm not even joking. Don't ask.

Weirdest Album Covers Part 2 -

I actually had about 40+ mins of cut down content but the video would be an hour long if I didn't split it in 2 parts. The second part has incredible moments but the set up with 1st part was necessary for it. You will see.

Side note - now that we gather more frequently again, I plan to invite more of my full-time music artist friends to join us, I think it'd be super fun. If there's someone you want to see as a guest - feel free to let me know!

Believe it not - the pic below is very related to the upcoming album covers vid.

YUGO Drum & Bass song -

YUGO Slow & YUGO Fast (+surprise version) will be available on spotify with a fitting silly music video / visualizer published on YouTube around same time. Just gotta bring my massive CRT TV in a middle of nowhere for that...

YUGO VIDEO (duh) -

Assuming everything goes according to the plan, the video will come out a few days after the YUGO music video.

GTA RP video (Banned from GTA series) -

Some themes are xmas related, so I'll most likely try to get that video finished around xmas week.

My Summer Car Online Finale -

Featuring Martincheetopant- I mean Martinshityopants-

I mean martincheekypant- Martin. Featuring Martin.

Additionally there are 2 separate Roblox Videos in the works (main channel), GMOD video and some other stuff...

Technically I'm also working on some VRChat stuff here and there but the VR folder keeps growing bigger and bigger, which leaves me wondering if the next VR video is going to be 30-90 minutes long? There's a chance and it's pretty solid one too. No release dates in mind yet. I'm terrified by the project's timeline every time I open it though :(

I might also release a little silly dance animation for BIG MONEY. I finished it a while back but forgot to post it. Now I feel stupid...

I will be able to provide better behind the scenes & technical stuff to do with the YUGO once the video goes live, as I don't want my patreon posts to have spoilers in them. If you have any questions - you can always ask them on our Discord tho. Additionally, that's where I share some exclusive stuff, including clips and pictures. It's much easier to post it there than make a dedicated patreon post every time.

On a side note, once I have more time to finish the little webfishing video for JameskiiLive channel - make sure to not miss it. I will probably include some interesting lore and obscure silly facts there, like that one time Yogscast accidentally face revealed lol.

Overall I've been alright, just busy with taking care of my health and a bunch of other stuff. I built a new PC workstation, so I can start working on videos again which may explain an increase in uploads. I've been extremely motivated and excited to edit & publish more videos and I'm going to dedicate even more time to it once the YUGO issue is resolved. In 2025 I'm planning to start posting more on all channels in general and possibly launch an IRL channel of sorts. We will see!