... well, technically not me.

Someone actually plumped for the top tier of my Patreon, partly to get a particular cameo in CSP, but mostly to get CSP moving again.

So, Haycartes' Pluperfect Method will skip at least one day per week. Tuesdays, at least for the time being, will be set aside for work on CSP. Those of you who are Patreon supporters will see a post tomorrow with a link to Tuesday livewriting on Google Docs.

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I don't think I've laughed...or cried...as much as I have during a My Little Pony episode as I did with this one. My God, it was the perfect balance of hilariousness and seriousness. This could have been a disaster of an episode, but holy fuck it was the exact opposite. It was AMAZING.

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I've been kicking this around for the past year in my head, and six weeks ago I began taking notes for it. If I do this I'd do it as a post-per-day challenge and see how long I could keep that up. That, of course, assumes there's interest, and that I can continue CSP and work on this too. Bad show to have a sequel to a never-finished fic, right?

Anyway...

Chapter One

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There's a week left in the contest... but a surprising number of people seemed to have missed the memo on the thing in the first place. Seriously, this turned out to be a Wallflower-grade announcement. Given how many people I've seen come in from links on entrants, I'm strongly considering extending the deadline to either the 15th or the 22nd to give everyone an extra weekend or two. Which would

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... yes, I bought the Jackbox Party Pack 6. It was on sale on Steam.

So I'll be streaming that tonight beginning at 6 PM Central until at least 8, longer if people show up.

Anybody with a Twitch login can play. You don't need to own the game: just go to http://jackbox.tv, check the menu icon (three horizontal lines, upper left corner), log in to your Twitch account there, and then you can enter a code on the jackbox.tv page to join the game(s)!

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And here 'tis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIzr-ALwhxA&list=PLjK6u7OCkMCegwEr92NA-ZTSGP5FkXnrU&index=3&t=0s

Considering the file I uploaded was in 1280 X 720, this turned out pretty grainy- only a bit better than the 538-wide screen I stream out live.

And, yes, the recording glitched a lot. This was the best I could do. I've fixed settings since to improve things.

Reminder: 3 PM Central time, CSP Mission 23 flies. Come watch and bring your questions if you have 'em!

After a couple months, my first ever programming project is complete!
I present to you, the Pony Prompt Generator!

Between the show and the comics, there are a lot of characters and locations yet to be explored in a fanon capacity.
In an effort to remedy this, I've put together a generator that randomly picks from roughly 1500 characters, 400 scenarios, and 80 locations.

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Those Patreon supporters who have the link to my livewriting Google doc might already know I've been working on a new project. As of tonight's session, I'm now 8,000 words into it, or about a chapter and a quarter- the introduction.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOXe1ZDM8sM

This literally took me ALL DAY yesterday to edit (in no small part due to frequent Adobe Premiere crashes). But here it is.

Tonight we (mostly) leave off the Mun miner, because it's time for our Eve flyby (including satellite launch)!

https://twitch.tv/redneckgaijin

Just sat down and wrote 3,400 words in three hours. Words flowed freely (mostly).

Unfortunately, I'm at least a thousand more words from end of chapter, so no post tonight. Definitely post tomorrow, though.

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Several of you have pointed my attention to the trailer for Kerbal Space Program 2. It was the final straw, so to speak, in getting me to buy a gaming-optimized laptop- the cheapest I could get, mind you, but it still set me back over seven hundred bucks.

And I just now tested out streaming with it... and, well, it's grainy, since 1 MB outbound is all the bandwidth I'll ever have, but the framerate is actually decent.

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Well, it happened my old laptop could no longer take it, between the b, v, and n keys no longer working it decided to just start to slow down as molasses whenever I had the work around of the onscreen keyboard, that was why I put Princess exchange program on hold. Now though I have a BRAND new windows 10 laptop with all the keys working and I can start to put what I have written down already onto the site as new chapters, you can expect at least 4 of them to be up on Christmas day, I will be

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Well, the writing first. Those of you who are on my Patreon know I'm well behind my personal daily writing goal, but I've begun work on the next Changeling Space Program chapter plus work on a contest entry and another project I've hinted at before. All of those will continue, at least until I get around the writer block I have on Haycartes.

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About two hours edited down to one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdCWYTI2-gM

And making this took me TEN HOURS of editing (less meal breaks). And I'm still learning how to do this.

Anyway, enjoy me pretending to coach ponies across an obstacle course parked on a spaceplane runway.

I shouldn't have wasted time today on it with so much to do, but I just went into Kerbal Space Program and flew the missions and grabbed the screen-caps for the next chapter of Changeling Space Program.

I'll try to work on the thing tonight, but tomorrow is loading the van for my next dealer's booth at a convention, so the odds are good the chapter won't be posted until next week at least.

So, here are a few hints for what you can expect.

Rainbow Dash is 20% more astronauty.

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You know about my spell-check program, right?

You should if you care about the quality of your stories.

Feel free to download or edit the TextSeparatorSpellChecker project here:
https://github.com/BadDragor/TextSeparatorSpellChecker

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Based on the feedback I received here, the overwhelming desire of FimFiction readers is that I write more Changeling Space Program and go ahead with The Maretian. I'll officially post the first chapter of that in a bit. EDIT FIRST CHAPTER IS LIVE NOW.

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I've had five live-writing sessions since starting that, all on CSP.

In those five sessions, I've written 12,542 first-draft words.

Two sequences to go, and the chapter will be done, and I can begin editing.

Just thought you'd like to know... and if you'd like to see the first draft material, you ought to join my Patreon...

hint, hint.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XC9lQpbM9Y3jmJG27QHVXnGEJnKaYW2XoE6WkMlsLQc/

Writing begins at the top of the hour (7 PM Central) and goes until I get too cold to write or until I complete the chapter. I'm not -too- far from done.

There will be more live-writing the rest of this week, involving non-pony projects, although if people come by on Friday and ask for pony stuff they might get it..

... on my Patreon, for what my main February game will be. I'll be posting it after tonight's XCOM stream on Twitch.

Which will likely be the last, since nobody's watching that.

I may go back to KSP- it'll be among the options, one of those options being "Career Hard Mode", another being "Do Silly Kerbal Things."

So my question is: what ideas do you have for silly things I can do in Kerbal? I can think of one immediately, but I'd like your ideas.