I did not get to your message until now. I had a phone call pull me away and it was a pretty intense one, entirely unrelated and more immediately pressing at the time. Sorry you are hurting. I get being busy, and I get your priorities being about survival. I've spent the last three weeks holding back on the reminder about the emotes, and then that was a few days ago so I thought I'd get your attention by reminding you that for me this is the tip of an iceberg for a bigger project. For my little community, the emotes + multistreaming are my two big stated reasons for wanting to quit affiliate and make this move, so it's something people ask about and that comes up from time to time, "We get to have the freedom to do whatever emotes we want." Yeah, but if I keep saying that while talking up your epic build, it kind of gets awkward eventually when they aren't coming through.
You're right, it shouldn't hold me back from fleshing out that proof of concept. Also, you're right, Jeremy could probably do the stuff for the modules. But those modules aren't even going up until I've done a polished course, and I wanted to already have my overall general new aesthetic and flare in place with the defined tiers before launching a rigorous schedule for a philosophy 101 course, to really show off what we're doing and have fun. So this has felt like a creativity block. Now, it's likely that this is some stupid psychological projection or scapegoating, and there are other factors playing into my creativity block--in fact, I know this to be true. Nevertheless, I feel like the last couple of weeks were spent either depressed or preparing for the direction I'm about to go with this course development. Now that I'm finally there, the emotes feel like the last thing besides a couple pieces of hardware in the mail.