Tying up some loose ends

Another update post because there's a few things from last year that are carrying over into this year and I want to provide some closure to them.

1) Etika:

After news broke of Etikas passing a lot of people were shocked. Myself included. On the night it happened I wrote a post saying I would put the patreon funds from that month towards a charity in his name. 

Unfortunately, that never actually happened. 

As I stated a few times 2019 was a year of some pretty rough money issues that required me to put the money towards more important things, they're mostly gone for the most part now but my post back in June was a very reactionary "heat of the moment" deal. In the 7 months since we lost him, Etika's been remembered in some truly awesome ways including a permanent memorial, and whilst I don't know exactly how to transcribe my feelings about it, it feels off to donate so belatedly, as if I'm doing it more out of "well, I said I would" and not have much sincerity to go behind it. Now that there's other incredibly serious situations going on over in Australia and I have extended family there I'd rather put this months patreon donation towards that.

2) Resource poll update:

Before the new year I also did a poll on who to release as a free session pack. Hat Lady won by a significant margin. There's a problem with her that I forgot about in the excitement of both the new decade and 3K followers; she's an incredibly unstable session to work with, with the last session I used her in crashing thrice for reasons I don't know. There's also problems with the way she can be posed. 

You see, scaling down bones in SFM causes issues with IK rigs, meaning that certain poses are harder or outright impossible to do, particularly with the arms and legs. the only solutions are to either bare with it or to pose with the limbs at default scale and paste back in the numbers again. For a resource pack, something that is meant to make things easier, this is really annoying and tedious. If it annoys me, imagine how it'd throw a lot of people who would want to use it and are new to SFM off. 

I did a short tweet thread saying I was likely going to abandon it, but I still got DM's asking when its coming out, so clearly people missed the memo. I also considered just quietly releasing her with a disclaimer that she's hard to use, but I don't know how you "quietly" release something when you have four thousand followers and I can't discount the possibility of someone leaking it without any relevant disclaimers if I gave it out on a per-DM basis. 

TL;DR: Hat Lady is basically unusable and I will not be releasing her. I will also not be doing any further content with her. Sorry if this news disappoints you, and I hope I can offset that in the future. :C

3) Health issues

I vaguely alluded to these when I originally thought I was going to be offline at the tail end of last summer but I can happily say all the relevant visits and sessions have been made and I have been discharged for the time being. Learned a thing or two about CBT (the brain variety you perv) too, but what I apply and do next is entirely up to me now.

4) Old renders

I managed to recover a few old sessions and at some point I'll render them out. With one exception they're all retaining their original lighting and posing and date back as early as mid-2017, long before I even started uploading anything!

Nobody asked for this, but I didn't want them to go to waste either.