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No Charge This Month!
🕑 Added 2018-05-31 02:39:14 +0000 UTC Hey all,The short version: I’m turning off donations for this month, and you shouldn’t be charged by my account for the end of May/beginning of June cycle. Nothing serious, just a lot of life stuff has happened and while I’m working on a video right this moment it won’t make the deadline for this month even in rough draft format. I’m not comfortable collecting on a month where nothing was made.
The long version: I’m working on a script that requires a little bit more care than usual which has slowed things down some, but I was on track to get it done over the holiday weekend… until most everyone at my office was laid off and I got sick. That one-two punch of job hunt panic and medicine-head-ness has sort of knocked me off my game enough that the episode probably won’t be out till this weekend at the earliest. As ever, it’s important to me that you trust your money is going to make a great show, so given that nothing got made it didn’t make sense to charge this month. We’ll be right back on schedule ASAP, and I apologize for the inconvenience.
As a consolation prize, though, I’ll link to the pilot of a show I’m still experimenting with. The reception to it by my test audience was, uh, mixed (I believe the most cutting and apt criticism was that I improvised the parts I should have scripted and scripted the parts I should have improvised). So it’s been shelved while I figure out how to make it work properly. I still want to figure out how to cover the small, weird, broken, glitchy, beautiful games out there in a way that isn’t driven by cynicism, so I’ll keep futzing with it until it works as a side thing. For now, though, enjoy this stilted half-hour of me playing some literally random games: https://youtu.be/reIdE6qO-Y4
Anyways, sorry again - hope to get more content out to you soon! And as always, thank you for supporting the show!
Chris
Comments
M Young
I appreciate your integrity, but really, just take my money. I think most people recognise that there is a lot of work that goes on behind the scenes to make content. Anyway, looking forward to the next one.
Artem Gordin
The new format is great!
The new format is a good one. You would have been fine to have charged for it this month. Looking forward to more.
Having seen this cycle with other creators before, I'm pretty sure most of the comments (and mine would be one of them) are going to echo this one. Good luck, Chris!
FWIW, I'd be perfectly fine with supporting you even without video for a month. Sometimes things take a while longer than expected, that's not a problem.
PC Escobar
Sorry to hear about the IRL one-two punch, that's gotta suck. Your integrity with respect to value for donations is admirable, but, putting this as gently as possible, perhaps the decision over whether or not to donate should be left to patrons? If it were up to me, I'd want my donation to go through this month, as an "IRL should suck a little less" contribution. I realize that is categorically not what you were asking for by mentioning your IRL bump in the road, so instead, take this as a freely given offer of help. We talk a lot about player agency in games, should there not be patron agency in times of need?
larry82
No worries! RL comes first!
Sam Tjahjono
Hope you get that life stuff all figured out soon! We'll miss the regularly scheduled content, but it's worth it for you to take the time you need to get back on track. Take care.
