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MAY 2022 Newsletter Price Changes and more!
🕑 Added 2022-05-23 07:58:20 +0000 UTCHi everyone!
It’s great to be back. Sorry for the delay since my return from Las Vegas. I had to deal with a lot of life stuff such as going to a dental appointment, taking the car to get smog checked, and catching up with other errands. Working out has been a priority for me lately as it helps me physically and mentally.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Las Vegas
- Price Changes
- Upcoming Collaborations/Inspirations
- Thank You!
- Tangent HDD stories
LAS VEGAS
Las Vegas was one amazing experience. Cirque du Soleil had me awestruck! I never thought a live performance like that would have been as good as it was. Drove an Acura NSX on the race track. Oh boy! Those turns were crazy fun feeling like I was Speed Racer. Had dinner at several very expensive restaurants! Went to go shoot guns at a gun range! But the best night was of course at the strip club. That was a very valuable business investment! Had me smiling cheek to cheek all night long. So many baddies everywhere. I can keep going, but I’ll end that here before I bore you all. I can’t wait to share my experiences through my stories because gawh damn, it was a delicious night!
- (Athena X Honey) Night in Sin City.
PRICE CHANGES
I mentioned I wanted to have a price change. It’s been something that has been on my mind lately. Originally I wanted to update all my prices to $10, $20, and $30. But that’s kinda too much of a jump for now, especially since I haven’t proved that I’ve earned that yet. However, I will be making small price changes to tiers LITE and CORE. PLUS will remain the same.
Here are the updating prices:
- LITE from $1 to $3
- CORE from $5 to $6
- PLUS will remain at $12.
I spoke to some of my supporters and another amazing creator, Nexstat, which has helped me realize a better solution. I will be producing content on a daily render amount production.
- LITE will have 10 renders on Wednesdays.
- CORE will have 10 renders on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
- PLUS will have 15 renders on Mondays and Fridays.
One render means one panel. Since I’ve been switching over to multi-panels instead of my usual one-panel page. One panel means one render. Just wanted to clarify that real quick.
I am opening a Fanbox and Subscribstar as well. I will be opening Gumroad to sell my completed comics there if you prefer to buy completed comics instead.
Below is also a link to places where I'm at.
https://allmylinks.com/astralbot3d
UPCOMING COLLABORATIONS/INSPIRATIONS
I have a lot of collaborations and inspirations I want to do that interest me. I’ll try my best to work on them alongside my tiers. Thank you to the collaborators that have written me the script and other creators that allowed me to use their stories. These are amazing creators that I’ve come into contact with and I want to put my spin on rendering their stories in 3D.
List of future collaborations:
- DocVS - Bewjewled
- M. Wills - Any Story
- Sonia - Empress Rey
- Alex Hopper - Hoppocalypse
- Queen - Bully possession milf
List of inspirations:
MASKS ideas
- Espada1 - Corrupted Fairy’s PG
- Peelr - The Masks
- Seuzz - The Book of Masks
Sonia - Satyre
InfinitySign - Payback Possession (in Iray)
NyxAnthology - The Bully
NyxAnthology - The Detective's Daughter
There are several other more stuff that inspires me, but these are the main stories on my mind. I have a ton of other ideas and inspirations. Those will have to wait or find some way to be implemented into the main series I am working on.
Thank You!
I wouldn’t be here without you guys! I know I haven’t been producing content consistently for a while. I’ve gone through some phases of learning and finding myself throughout life. I’m ready for a change and right now feels good!
I’m at a point where I’ve learned how to do most special effects to be more expressive. (Never stop learning of course!) I know it took a really long time. Thank you for your support and patience. You guys allow me to have a job I enjoy. I will return the favor by creating the best content I can make consistently.
Thank you!
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Tangent HDD storytime. (If you wanna read. It's not important to read at all. Only if you want to read. Like no pressure at all. You really don't need to read it. Don't worry about it. Seriously. You don't need to read it. But only if you really really really want to.)
Do you guys wanna hear some off-topic stories about me almost losing my data multiple times? If so, read below.
I have so many close Hard Drive stories. I don’t think I mentioned most of my stories to you guys before. I recently got two more hard drives as backup and that has been a stressful experience since I thought I was going to lose my data on my main PC. And I thought, why not tell my people what I’ve been struggling with. They might learn a little something about me and my crazy experiences.
My first time losing everything was when I had an apartment fire back in 2017ish. This was the time when I was in the process of learning Daz. I went to work for the summer instead. It was a blessing in disguise since it allowed me to save up for a new PC. I had a 750ti and a 970 originally on my old PC and boy that was hard to render things in DAZ. Worked for the summer and got a 1060 6GB. Okay, but not the best. Went for a 1070 which had 8GB of VRAM. Probably 2018 was when I got the 2080 TI with 11GB of VRAM and that helped so much render speed and VRAM usage. However, in 2020 and 2021 was when I slowly obtained 3090s and that really helps render speed and VRAM usage.
The second time I ALMOST lost all my data was when I just received a new external HDD around 2019. The way I back up my data is not through the cloud since I don’t like that I have to pay monthly and the idea that my data is on someone else’s computer. I like to have local copies of my backup. I had this new external hard drive and I wanted to change the drive letter. I went to “Create and format hard drives partitions” and a stupid popup asked if I wanted to format my drives to something GUI. I thought it was fine and accepted. But the thing was I had all my other 4 or so external HDDs also connected and it basically made all my backup unreadable. My external drives had precious research material (if you know what I mean). At the time I was working on my Fairy comic which I was proud of sharing since that was a breakthrough in my skinsuit studies which were all saved on the external HDD. This data loss was a big setback for me. BUT THERE WAS HOPE! I scourge the internet and Reddit came in clutch! After trying one data recovery software (EaseUS, which didn’t help me fully), I found a working solution (R-Studio). I needed my files in the original folder structure and R-Studio was the right program that helped me recover my data. But it was a painfully slow process since external drives are just overall slower compared to internal drives. (Something I didn’t know before.) After probably a week or more of scanning and copying my data to a new hard drive, I was saved. But of course, the time wasted was morally, mentally, and physically draining. It was a hard-fought battle.
The third time was when I was hot-swapping internal HDDs from my old PC to my new PC. I didn’t really have the budget to buy a new HDD and I need to transfer data from my old PC to my new PC. I assumed it was fine to power off the HDD and swap the drives back and forth which was working great. But apparently, it later resulted in two of my hard drives being unreadable… (I now have one of those external USB C docking hot-swappable things ever since this happened.) So I had to run R-Studio again which came in clutch, but scanning and transferring the data was super long. Luckily I had redundant backups so I just wiped an HDD and transferred things there instead of having to buy a new HDD to transfer to. This wasn’t too bad, but it was a hassle to deal with.
The fourth time was around November last year. My new PC had two new hard drives. One was my main one where I had all my Daz content and asset and comic material saved. That HDD started CLICKING! What sucked was that this was a new HDD and the fact that it failed so soon was soo depressing experience! At this time I didn’t have BitLocker and either had the chance of eating the cost of a dead HDD or sending it in for another HDD. I was scared that they might be able to read the HDD and see my work, but at this point, I needed a working HDD more. The good thing was that I was somewhat ready based on my past experiences. I do regular backups in case this event happened, but I didn’t have everything backed up to the most recent date. Probably missed a few days so I had to figure out what I was missing. This is why I use BitLocker now in case my HDD dies and I need to send it in or if someone tried to steal my HDD, they shouldn’t be able to read anything on the HDD since it is encrypted data.
And the most recent time was recently on last week Thursday. Installed my TPM that came in. Started the full encryption process on BitLocker for my C Drive, where Windows 10 is on. Got impatient that it was taking a long time so I canceled the encryption and turned off BitLocker to try encrypting only what was used instead of full encryption. But somehow this process decrypts my other four internal HDDs that were already encrypted. (They are still decrypting right now…) I was scared as to why my PC was freezing so much, but it seemed like it was only because it was encrypting my C Drive so it froze things. So far things are operational. I’ll just have to encrypt my HDDs again. Hopefully, that won’t slow down my work.
So yes! Backups are important. Two is one. One is none. Having a backup will make your future self stress less.
If you read my full tangent story, you are a real gangsta! XD
I appreciate you taking the time to read my long wall of stressful text. (You seriously didn't need to read my random tangent stories. But thanks if you did. 🥰 )
