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ArtichokeLust


Wow. Visiting this site again was like going back to my old neopets page. So much nostalgia.

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  • 384 weeks
    Where art thou, oh Artichoke?

    Sorry, I'm a bit busy. I had two hobbies before I got a job. Writing here, and developing AI. I hit a wall here with the new changeling episode, but in my AI development, I found a highway.

    Look at my AI! My AI is amazing!


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  • 395 weeks
    The New Hive Super Edit

    Just letting you guys know I nearly redid the entire last chapter because of a few complaints I got. (In case re-publishing didn't work.) They were definitely valid, even if I didn't agree 100% with the reasoning behind them, and now I think my story's much better because of the changes I made.

    Keep up the constructive criticism!

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  • 397 weeks
    Testing testers

    Hello guys. Here's part of what I've been doing while I've been rewriting my main story:

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  • 402 weeks
    Would you like a collab?

    I've actually been thinking of adding some collaboration into 'The New Hive' since its inception. I can't really create a realistic representation of humanity all by myself after all.

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  • 403 weeks
    Waiting for editors to compile...

    So, my next chapter's done. Just need to wait for editors to do their thing. And from what I can see from the first editor, I made quite a few mistakes.

    Well, now I have guilt-free free time... What should I do... Hmm...

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Jul
4th
2016

I'm Alive! · 1:42am Jul 4th, 2016

Okay, so you're probably wondering why I was gone for so long. There is the chance you forgot about me and forgot to unfollow, but I hope it's the former.

So, here's what happened: I kind of had to get a job to pay for college, and before I got that job, I started playing DnD, which gave me a bad case of DnD addiction. I finally did get a job after ridding myself of my addiction, but because I was picky, I'm now getting paid to learn about nuclear reactors. I guess it was good I was picky because I got an awesome job, but it's definitely a workaholic's job.

Anyway, I'm going to have pretty low availability from now on. I might write a chapter per month or two on my only really popular story. I'll try to keep it under two months per chapter, but I can't make any promises.

On the bright side, I now have a fresh perspective. I'll be rereading my story, creating diagrams, maps, etc., and I'll hopefully have both some new ways of managing the huge amount of relevant details in my story as well as some new ideas for the story itself.

There's also the fact that I'm still into AI, and I'm studying some interesting new neural network technologies like HTMs, so there could be a few novel ideas that come out of that when combined with a hive mind story. I'll probably be applying ideas from this story to my algorithms, and my algorithms to this story! =D

Now, back to update schedules.

The next chapter will take the most time to update, because I was running into a pretty huge problem with having too many characters and too many important locations, items, etc. to remember. I'll need to draw up things like maps of the areas (possibly 3d solidworks/blender maps), timelines, graphs, personality profiles, etc., to organize everything that's going on. Well, I don't actually need to do all that, but it'll make the story much, much better.

Hmm... I think I might try drawing up the cavern in Tiled.


So uh, yeah... please don't be mad at me? Here's a picture of a cute changeling I found, if it makes you feel any better:

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Comments ( 6 )

Sweet! I liked your story when I first read it, and I'm looking forward to reading more.

Still one of the of the most interesting premises for a changeling fic. Good to have you back. :D

I did forget about this story, a right shame.
A chapter a month is good, one every two is ok, much more time than that and i'll likely forget about this story again.

DnD? omg!!!!!!! much nerd, so wow! :eeyup:

Life happens,
I love games like DnD.
Nice that you're back

Yay for work! :trixieshiftleft:

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