Beta Progress & Pitfalls (Patreon)

Happy holidays, Backloggers!  
I'm still polishing up the remake for a closed beta test for patrons. I've found a great many bugs, but most of them have been fairly easy to sort out. I'm also finding a fair bit of older Vue code to streamline as I've grown much more comfortable with the framework since I started.  Once the beta is good enough to unleash on you, I'll still need to setup a server to host it, which hopefully shouldn't take long.
I'll also need to work out how to give access to patrons. I was originally going to use the Patreon API, but it looks like they deprecated it in June. Probably still fine to use it for a short beta test though. Or I could just use the honor system and trust you all to not share your access details around. We'll see.
Just as a reminder: the test won't be feature complete and won't retain any data for the actual launch of the remake. It's purely to give you some hands-on time with the remake and get more useful feedback than you can give from video and images.

On a rather distressing note, my PC has started to shut down randomly. I'm still in the diagnostic phase, blowing out dust from the case and monitoring temperatures, so I'm not sure what the cause is yet. But my PC is around a decade old so I'm fearing the worse. I was hoping to make it another year or two for the new raytracing cards to come down in price (or, you know, be available at all).  
If it is a hardware problem, hopefully it's just something minor like the power supply. Either way, if things break bad the beta might be pushed back a few weeks while I order new parts/build a new PC. Or maybe it was just dusty! We can hope....
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go make sure all my backups are up-to-date.
Till next time, thanks for your continued support!

Update: blowing out the dust did not help
Update 2: my CPU fan seems to be dead. Hopefully my CPU hasn't fried and a simple fan replacement will do the trick. 😬