Hey guys, look, it's Paul Rudd... · 11:22am Aug 21st, 2022
The Dog Days of summer. Damn these are depressing times that we live in currently. The days will become shorter. The light becomes lighter. The heat will become cool. And the green leaves will turn into some kind of minority color. Such dark times that we live in these days. What went wrong I ask!? What happened!? Where did the time go!? We had some hot, cool summer months. We could go to the pool and splash water on each other. We could go on vacation somewhere maybe. We could eat ice cream and watch all of those big blockbuster movies that just end up wasting our time yet we do it anyways. The friends that we made along the way! And it's all coming to an end. Where did it all go so wrong? Well... I'm not having it I'm telling you... I'M NOT HAVING IT AT ALL!!! DAMN THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER I SAY! DAMN IT ALL TO HELL! Who cares about the month of September? No body loves it. No body even remembers it! It's a filler month to fill the void in between summer and Halloween and put filler thing into it. It is useless to us humans! So I'd say, if you vote for me this November, I will go to the World Bank and tell them to change September to August 2! We can not let this crime against humanity go on any longer! We must all gather and unite against this coming threat! We must all fight back for the sake of our children's children's future! DOWN WITH SEPTEMBER! DOWN WITH THE FALSE MONTH! HI, I'M THE 21ST OF THE MONTH AGAIN, HOW ARE YOU DOING!?
Hello, it is me once again... and yeah... let's get to the updates...
Once again, still working on those quick re-edits, but getting kind of close to finishing Episode 23-1 with that stuff. But let's just say it's sort of a good thing that I'm still on those "quick" re-edits... I'll explain later.
I currently have a lot to do in my personal life and this past month did not help that so of course things continue to be slow.
For starters, someone that I know had to get surgery done on their neck. And I needed to be there for them to kind of help them recover sort of speak. And they still are by the way and that eats up a lot of time in the day so that comes first obviously.
Second, remember the whole PFA thing that I told you all from last month?
Well I've got good news for you guys and had bad news for me. The good news for you guys is that I actually got a reply back from RBDash47. And I can confirm Universal Magic will be archived, at least a version of it that is. Not sure when, probably a long fucking time from now. But yeah... UM will live on forever in a way. I did email him again with more questions about it, but he never got back to me, but oh well.
The bad news for me is that... well... I was told the PFA forums are still up, just moved to a different link because someone kept trying to basically DDOS it I guess and it was costing him money. BUT... it will not be archived and he didn't give me an exact date he was going to take it down. So I went ahead and personally archived every post on the Pony Fiction Archive Forum myself.
And that took about like a week... or 2 to do.. I think 2 weeks, from this past month. And I have archived 26,537 posts, plus took some screen shots and did a 21 minute recording of it. I can maybe get it up for you guys to look at, but I haven't had the time to put it all on a drive. Plus I need to crop out the screen shots and maybe even split up the files for the posts so it's smaller since it all totals up to over 200MB. I do have the posts up on a Proton drive, but I don't think I can share that. So I'll probably put it on a Dropbox or a google drive or something later on... or whenever I get around to it. But for now it's all saved and archived. Sure, not many know about its existence by this point, but in case someone does, it's saved by me personally. Originally I was only going to save my stuff, but I said fuck it, if no one was going to save it, I was. So yeah... took a long ass time for me to do it though.
Also thirdly... well... this is bad news kind of for you guys...
So when writing Universal Magic, I keep all the files on a USB and work off of that so it's easier to swap between my laptop and PC. And the thing is I didn't back up those files in a long while and... well...
If you can't tell, the USB head is broken. And all of the files that I work off of is on that USB stick and like I said... I didn't update the backups in a while. And I rather not talk about the damage that has been done. I don't want to remember right now. What happened was that it was in my laptop, I put the laptop down, sort of near an edge... and then the laptop kind of fell and broke the USB stick. I can still recover the data from it, but I would need to send it to one of those processing labs and I would need to look into it. Along with the money I would need to spend on it plus the time to get it back... I'm pretty sure it's more efficient if I just move on. So, the plan for this is that I'll just focus on getting the quick re-edits done for now... and then we'll move on from there. I'm just glad that I put the Plans / Outline on here or else I'd be screwed.
Other than that I'm doing ok, still kind of working on that floor bit. It's coming together nicely.
That's about it for the update I guess.
Anyways, here's what I updated in the Plans / Outline, have yourself a good one. See you all next month. And remember, we are never promised tomorrow...
WHAT WAS UPDATED:
- Added more random stuff to Random Stuff for Later in Mane in Random
- Added another sub plot to the sub plot section in Random in Stuff for Later in Mane, mostly about getting a lone from a bank that requires for somepony to go through some deadly trails first before qualifying for the loan plus a new possible character for the future… a background one mostly…
- Added some IMPORTANT details to the episode The Cool Place in Season 30, part 2, mostly outlining the episode for the most part.
- Added a new episode in Season 30, part 2 titled The Element of Copycats, might give it a better title though later. Total of episode now is 67… 2 more till 69…
- Added some slight detail to the 3rd super powers episode in Season 30, part 2
- Added IMPORTANT details to Episode 58: Timeloop, Season 3, ACT I. Also basically gave the outline for this one, and personally, I had a little fun with this one coming up with it. I think it really works the more I think of it… for now anyways…
- Added some slight detail to Episode 123: The Return of Protection Part 2, Season 6, ACT I
- Added some slight details to Episode 235: Second Discord episode (Working title) in Season 10 (part 2 / continues here), ACT I
- Added some slight detail to Episode 618: Power Thirst! Now with 500% more Crack!, Season 25, ACT IV
- Kind of realized I fucked up the ending a bit and have to fix it later in a tough decision. It’s for Episode 340: CIA Glow in the Dark Bronies, Season 14, ACT III
- Added some slight detail, technically, to Episode 370: Pivot Pony 08, Season 15, ACT III. I’m technically scrapping an old idea and replacing it… with something…
- Added some slight detail to Episode 433: Pivot Pony 08 Returns, Season 18, ACT III
- Added some slight detail to Arrell’s past in Episode 67: The Chronicles of a Friendship, Season 4, ACT I
- Added some slight detail to Episode 79: Arrell's adventuring past comes to haunt him (Working title), Season 4, ACT I
- Added some details to the Episode 70: Owl Puns are Horrible, Season 4, ACT I
- Added some slight detail to Episode 72: The Worst Night Ever, Season 4, ACT I
- Added some details to Episode 81: I have a GTA V moment (Working title), Season 4, ACT I
- Added some slight detail to The Lost Episodes Chronicles Saga in Alternate
- Added some slight detail to the The End Times short in the Discord Saga Shorts section in Shorts
