What up?! (Patreon)

Hey everyone! Time for a "what's up!" update. 

Also, since it's been a while since I added a link to the hubpost with some other/older things. Here you go. If you've haven't yet, consider trying "spookytimes".

Okay, so what have I done, what am I doing and what will I be doing? Since I released a new 18Titans build about two weeks ago I've been replaying parts of FET in order to jumpstart my memory. I write stuff which I want to remember later on down (on paper and in txt files) ...and promptly lose those. I knew there was something I still needed to included in the upcoming FET build for August but I just couldn't remember what it was and the notes I DID find didn't contain what I knew I had forgotten. It's funny how that works... you don't know what it is but you know it wasn't THAT.

While I was doing that I encountered some things I wanted to change in earlier books, like for example the volleyball game during book 2. I wanted to make it feel more fluid and easier... and less of it! There were a few too many times were you were asked to win a volleyball game. Then there was the whole knife throwing part etc.  I also added some more tattoos on Jinora wherever I forgot and a lot of other small things. I can get severely lost when stepping back into older books. Eventually I ran into what I intended to find and then it was back to working on the next FET build. 

Like I said before I intend to make it the last one for the love route epilogue. You won't be seeing a "The End" message. For anyone what wants that, there's the end of book 4 where you got to choose between Nagina or the Spirit.  I'll try to make the upcoming build feel slightly more important than a usual build, but in essence you can keep sleeping and progressing to a new day forever. Once that's done I'll go and return to the slave route epilogue(after another 18Titans build). I'm not going to say anything about that though. That's for much later.

By the way, I was tempted to just keep working on the 18Titans build for this month and reset my monthly schedule that way, BUUUT because the next FET build will be slightly more special I figured it would be a smarter decision to reserve that time for FET. In essence I'd like to release the new FET build halfway through August, but I'm giving myself the entirety of August if it turns out I need that. Though I also would like to take a break and if I can have it ready halfway of August I could take some off time... maybe baby... who knows, we'll see.

That was the on-topic stuff now let's go off-topic! 

18Titans was made for a significant part on my mini-pc rocking Linux Mint. I've really come to love the little bugger. There's something really nice about having such a small -no bigger than a book- pc which takes up no space at all. And I've come to really appreciate Linux too. Updating the system has become a fun thing to do instead of a bother. I still haven't found proper alternatives for all the software I used on my windows machine, but I'm for 90% there and for anything I can't do without and no Linux alternative I used some emulation. I read Linux usage has recently passed 3% on "normal user" hardware. That's not a lot, but it used to be 2% for a long time. When looking at how easy it was to get Linux Mint to do what I wanted it to do, I can see why.

Also since my mini-pc's casing had poorly place air vents I... made one out of cardboard. I'll refrain from showing you pictures because I don't want you to point and laugh at me.

My mouse troubles are pretty much over since I bought and adapted the last one, but my keyboard decided it was time to give me shit. The kind where you sometimes have to repeatedly press down on a key before it wants to register. That's especially fun when you try to punch in a password and forget some keys don't register!

I tried to open the keyboard and see if I could fix it myself, but that wasn't a success. As I've mentioned plenty of times before I have a graveyard's worth of old pc's and peripherals(including keyboards), but their ps/2 connections are none existent on my mini-pc. I didn't want to buy a new one while I have plenty working ones so I got one of those  PS/2 Keyboard/Mouse to USB Converters and that works great.

I started using a really old(but looks like new) keyboard which weighs a ton! I love it! At first I thought it was stuck to the shelve when I tried to lift it, but no it was just THAT heavy. It feels really good to type on and I swear to god it can double as a dumbbell  (which reminds me of this video  -  I laughed so hard)

Other than that I started watching deep space nine. I tried getting into it earlier but couldn't, so this time I just started watching from season 3, which helps. Maybe if I go back to season 1 and 2 later I'll be better able to appreciate it. That's also why you could see a certain  space station (Terok nor) passing by after launching the space ship in 18Titans.

And that's what has been going on in Marty land. Nothing else to see here people(unless you open the attachment) Talk to you again in August! Marty out!