Progress Update: August 2025

Greetings all,

As you likely noticed, Project A, "Unofficial Skyrim Patch," launched earlier this month. Despite it essentially being a retelling of forum arguments, it was extremely laborious to research due to the fact that the Bethesda forums only exist as archives on the Wayback Machine and the very scattered nature of the controversies, as well as some information about certain events being buried.

The completion of this video places us in an interesting position: we now have four videos that all are in the early research phase. While our pipeline means that overall efficiency has been greatly increased (as evidenced by the more frequent uploads), it can't increase the speed of any individual video being produced, since it still needs to go through all of the steps of production at the same rate, and the only video beyond the early research phase of production is bottlenecked.

We would like to have another video out by the end of the year, and we will work hard to try to make it happen, but depending on how research goes, we may end up with four videos in various stages of production come January.

Either way, we would like our next video to be a historical topic; we're all a bit burnt out on gaming topics. Ergo, the next video that we would like to focus on will likely be either Project D or E. I personally am most interested in Project E, but if Project D proves to be simpler to produce, then we may prioritize that one in order to maintain a more level release pace. Ryan is investigating a possible avenue to add some more visual flair to Project D, which he'll be testing soon.

While a more contemporary topic, DESR will take time soon to begin looking into Project C, as well, gathering and archiving relevant information to prepare for its eventual production sometime next year.

I am also scheduling a time to speak with my contacts about the Power Rangers video so that early planning work on that video can begin. We have a lot of irons in the fire at the moment.

All of this will begin next week, however; I intended to take a one or two week long vacation after the release of the Unofficial Skyrim Patch video, but my time has largely been occupied with other work, specifically my retirement from regular streaming. Quite simply, working full-time on Down the Rabbit Hole and maintaining a regular stream presence proved far too overwhelming, and so I'm making a decision that will at least give me some amount of time to rest in my weekly schedule. I've been hosting some final streams to say farewell to my audience there.

Ryan is currently editing through the new Warrens episode, which we would like to release in early September on The Other Channel. We always have a lot of fun recording them, and it's been nice to return to it. I hope you all enjoy.

Next month, we should have a more solid idea of our immediate direction for Down the Rabbit Hole, and I'm looking forward to sharing what we find with all of you.

-Fredrik

Project Breakdowns:

Project A:

Released, revealed to be "Unofficial Skyrim Patch"

Project C:

• Awaiting resources for preliminary research

Project D:

• Awaiting resources for preliminary research

Project E:

• Research has begun, investigating new paths of inquiry

Foxhole:

• Script completed

• Music completed

• B-roll collected

• First half of animation completed

• All assets completed

Power Rangers:

• Scheduling initial discussion with research contacts