Serious Update (Patreon)

I've been away for a bit because I got hacked. At first my discord account was hacked a couple of times in the course of about 1 month and I didn't think much of it. Just a simple password change was doing the trick, but then all of a sudden, a few days ago I got a text from paypal trying to confirm a suspicious looking charge for $600. Hackers were trying to clean out my paypal and subsequently my linked bank account with transfers and online purchases. Luckily the merchants were wary of the bigger charges. I stopped the $200 and $600 (one small $20 charge got through) and I reported all of the fraudulent charges to the relevant parties. I was refunded the $20 right away but the $200 is in limbo and I haven't gotten it refunded yet as of writing this.

This has caused me serious and significant delays as well as monetary costs even after the refunds. I had to take valuable time wiping my computer. I had to buy legitimate versions of the affected software.

(I suspect) All of this stemmed from piracy. From me not wanting to purchase redundant, full priced versions of software I already own for a scant handful of newer features, but in the end it cost me far more anyway. It was likely side-loaded .dll files. These escape conventional antivirus detection.

This is something I can't share on twitter because bots will comment and try to scam me and other people.

I will do my best to get back to a normal schedule here and to finish commissions I have out.

Thank you for waiting. I'm sorry for the content delays.