Weekly Update: Finally some good news (Patreon)

Hey Saucy Ones,

So while the Darkwood video is taking me a little longer than I expected thanks to the game taking me about 23 hour to get from day 1 to the credits. I also ended up recording an addendum to the gameplay discussion since I had more thoughts on things now that I had 1.5 playthroughs under my belt. This beefs up the video's runtime from 22m minutes and change to just over 30 minutes. I've decided as an extra thank-you to everyone here, you all are going to get the Darkwood video as soon as it's done and ready to go instead of a week in advance like the other Halloween in July videos are slated to be. So like a full month and a half in advance just as a big thank you. I'm hoping to get it out to you by Friday.

On the "why does this keep happening I thought I dealt with this" front, my twitch account of all things got hit last Friday but I was able to shut the jerk down so fast they didn't even have time to spend all the bits they purchased before I kicked them out of the account, changed the password, added another layer of 2FA, and filed a ticket with support to get the transaction cancelled. After that I realized that the password breach was worse than I thought as it seems Google only alerted me to case-perfect matches for whatever got leaked. I went and changed literally every password I had, including ones that were considered safe, 10-year-old accounts I used for school back in the day, or just something unlikely to be hit and added 2FA wherever I could. I think I'm finally out of the woods now but I don't want to call it until I've gone a few weeks without a breach. I'd advise everyone here to do a Google password checkup real quick (it takes like a minute) and if you have ANYTHING that's been compromised, go ahead and change all the passwords you have, breached or not. I found out the other day that someone else I know got hit by this breach and it turns out a bunch of their coworkers did too.

And now, some straight-up good news:

So I decided that I was going to get return address labels printed to make the Halloween in July card mailing business go smoother and after shopping around prices I found a local place that was happily willing to give me a price that was a fraction of what Staples or FedEx was asking for. When I went it I saw that they had some 11X8&1/2 sized calendars on display and I asked about how much those would cost. The cheapest place I could find online wanted like $6.50 for the cheapest possible configuration and closer to $10 for something I'd be willing to sell, this local print shop wanted like a buck 50 which means that SAUCY BOY CALENDARS ARE GONNA HAPPEN FOLKS!!! At this price-point I can ask for a much more reasonable price per calendar of about $10-$12 (with the old estimates I was gonna have to ask for $20-$25 per calendar if I wanted to break even) 

How this will work is that I won't start working on the calendars until after Halloween in July is wrapped up (because I also need to move and stuff). Once they're all done and in my possession I'll set up a shopify account or something and they'll be announced to the public at the start of IndieWeen. Extremely Saucy Ones and a yet-to-be-launched tier will get a full two weeks of first dibs plus a discount code.

One last thing, I was able to get the cards done and take advantage of that big print sale over at Walgreens. I was able to get a run of 100 cards instead of 50 like last time and at a fraction of the price that 50 cost me for the PAIN-mass cards. While I'd LOVE IT if I was able to get 100+ new patrons during Halloween in July this year, I know that there's likely going to be a big surplus of cards by the end of July, so since I have all the postage I could need on hand, any extra cards will go out to existing patrons who ask for them starting with the $10 tier on a first come first served basis, then $5, then $2. 

See you all as soon as I get the DarkWood video done!!!