Sonic, Dropsy, and Housekeeping

Hey team,

First up: It's Not Easy Being Blue is now public, so you can shout it to the heavens.

Second: I wrote up my thoughts on Dropsy. No spoilers, but suffice it to say the game is kind of wonderful.

Third: some housekeeping - we've been playing catch-up with videos all year. I missed January and February due to health issues. Story Beats came out in March and April and collectively took care of January and February's videos. The Artist is Absent came out in July and took care of March and April's. Now It's Not Easy Being Blue catches us up to May. It's now August and I still owe you June and July.

In short: six months since Story Beats and I'm still two videos behind. I've never not been two videos behind!

Going forward, we're going to talk about those two videos differently. I've been operating on the hope that I would be caught up "in a month or two" all year. My greatest hope was to get ourselves squared away before the end of the summer, because once school starts I'll be spread thinner. That's clearly not how things have turned out! So, instead, I'm going to consider those two videos a debt that I owe you, to be paid whenever paying it is feasible. Somewhere down the line I will release two videos in the same month, and then, sometime after that, I'll do it again.

That's just the way it's going to have to be. Knowing you folks, I'm thinking you'll probably be cool with it, but I'm going to stress that I take this seriously, and those videos will remain a priority.

I just have to go with whatever script is coming out well, and sometimes that's a goofy short like this Sonic video and sometimes it's a three-month behemoth like The Artist is Absent. Turns out that makes it hard to predict where the extras will come in.

But they're coming. Promise.

Cheers,

-I