REPOSTING from ZSC blog
I mentioned it on twitter and discord, but I've spent all this month knocked on my ass with covid (Third time, how about you?).
Had a week of exhaustion. Then several days of full body pain. Pressure in my head so bad that my teeth hurt. Bad headache for the next week. Then another week slowly recovering.
I also lost my sense of taste and smell. Was down to like, I'd guess, 10% capacity for both. I noticed it when i opened a can of tuna, and smelled nothing. Thought maybe something was weirdly wrong with the tuna. Then i asked my GF and she could smell it, and so i was like "OH! It's just brain damage. Fun."
Spent the week before now recovering. Catching up on sleep (because of the cough messing with sleep). Sense of taste and smell are mostly back but some things just don't taste right. Maybe that will recover? Hopefully?
As a result the patch notes for this update are... not girthy.
MMM:
Losing three whole months of brain power is not a fun experience. But i have some writing here for you.

I drew the hand for this implementation.
I also found out that for some reason like 8 of Myre's images have a height that 1 1 pixel taller than the others!? That's why there is the little jitter in the gif. WTF! I exported all the poses at the same time, with the same parameters from the same document to avoid exactly that kind of thing.
It's an easy fix but not an urgent one. Just an annoyance.
But i drew the hand after practicing several only tangentially related skills (daz for posing, comic stuff, and dnd stuff using illustrator-like programs) along with using a huge hand ref sheet of Clinko's stuff.
The animation only shows up in one place via the path:
bring up feeding on the porch > offer Myre a drink > drunk? no good time! > order two appetizers to mix and match > talk about belly > any of the options in that event > challenge steak for myre > have room for dessert?
That will get you to max size. I'll have to do different hands for smaller sizes before i can do the animations for them.
Oh and about the near panic attack i had yesterday! I realized that none of the stuff i did this month was visible. There was no way to get to the max size + belly talk variant of the 'want more dessert' conversation option. So i would have had nothing to show.
To avoid that existential dread, i removed the need for the [flirt] tag on the first belly talk conversation option. You just need Myre to have a bit of a belly at all to bring it up now. I will probably shift that around in later polishing stages.
And then last minute testing, I found/remembered that the some of the steak dinner options were bugged due to the rewrite of the feeding animation stuff. So i fixed the bug that was causing no fullness to be added. Visually, they are messed up but you can get the fullness from them to actually get to the largest size via them.
Thanks for your support!
Changes:
1000 new words for the belly talk follow up portion of the 'have room for dessert' after dinner conversation option. All the belly talk follow up rough draft writing is done.
The start of the largest size variant of that belly talk follow up portion includes a new short little belly rub animation. Gif above. I drew the hand for it!
Fixed a long time bug that stopped the steak based meals from giving fullness. They are still visually bugged, but now at least give fullness.
For the time being, downloads will be done through itch.io. You will need an account but it's free and easy to set up. No need to put in payment details there. There are several reason for this change that are mostly technical but boring.
Download here: https://juxtaterrestrial.itch.io/mymyres-massive-mealtime-indev-0-606/patreon-access
MMM announcement page is here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/myres-massive-v0-65305072