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Ik I've been super busy with work/training, also the archive, but I finally took this evening to do some coding and it was very nice. I am doing fun things with the code. I will also finally have the time during the weekend to, you know. Either sit down a solid 10 hours for the archive or do some coding. I really didn't have the mind to do anything after work this week, I had a bunch of other adult things to take care of beforehand. But now I'm technically pretty free this weekend. I really missed coding and writing.

Yes the archive is still under construction. There really is no way around it beyond sitting down and just doing it manually. I'll see if I can bully some friends into helping me out on it some more.

Anyway, my meds are doing good things to my brain tho, it forces me to sleep at a pretty set time BCS they just fucking knock me out. And I also actually sleep pretty well finally. I mean, the nightmares are still there but at least it's restful sleep. They also help to support my anti depressants, so I actually feel a boost in just. I wouldn't say motivation, more so just like. Life. Being able to get up, doing things I don't enjoy, paying attention, enjoying things. I mean, I went outside after work 4/5 days this week, you couldn't even get me out of bed once for a week when things were bad. But I guess I'm drifting off topic, aren't I?

All this to say is just. I'm doing better mentally, a lot. Even tho I have way more on my plate, I don't feel overwhelmed to continue on the archive and my game.

Thanks, genuinely. I know I can get pretty quiet, heated or moody on here, and it means a lot still having ppl care about me and what I do. I could yap forever, but I also took my meds so I would end up asleep on my keyboard til my battery runs out in 30-60min.

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Y'all... Working in finance... That's my villain origin story. The things I've seen today. I need a treat.

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Started at my new job, I'm in a 6 week learning/ training phase. I keep being called nerd by everyone, including my trainer/teacher... I can't help myself I am a nerd at heart

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Hi yes I'm still alive and working on both the archive and port I promise I'm just on a cool new thing called California rocket fuel which is not a street drug per se but a mix of prescriptions that make me sleep like 16 hours a day which is above the recommended amount I know but yeah sorta alive and starting work in a few days and I will return with the archive I promise that bitch just takes forever I'm so sorry goodnight i now go back to sleep

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horrible news: in order for you to finish a wip, you have to work on that wip and not the 2543524 other wips you were brainrotting over instead of that one. more investigations at 7.

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Sex scenes should be cut out of all movies but they should be replaced by a series of strange avant- garde shots of industrial machines and objects grinding and rubbing and spinning and vibrating and whining and entering each other that implies some freak shit is going on

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remember kids

Artist 🎨: @vhsdogs

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Links incoming!

Patreon

Ko-fi

Tiers (USD): Tip Jar - ($2), Tier 1 - early access/extras ($4), Tier 2 - tier 1 plus nsfw extras - ($6)

February features Oswin in both Tiers 1 & 2. Tier 1 has a cute 6k word lightly interactive piece that is part of a little series about being snowed in with each of the ROs. Tier 2 will get a 10k word interactive nsfw moment with Oswin (takes place in the future of course).

We'll be running some polls probably this week about what we'd like to read for March as well!

If you have any questions, feel free to ask me here or on either platform! ^_^

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Not the original commenter, but that's not Dan Fabulich from Choice of Games. The Choice of Mods admins mock the official COG ones by using their names. If you try to post that link on the official COG forum or the COG subs on Reddit the mods (including OG Dan) will delete it.

For example, all the posts removed in this topic for "Links to hacked games or advocation of piracy" were links to that directory : reddit(dot)com/r/hostedgames/comments/1i7lskq/im_sick_at_home_and_have_time_are_there_any/

If you're going to make your own archive available at some point, then there's no need to advertise the pirated one.

Oh wow! I was not aware that it wasn't actually Dan. I've removed the Link and will make sure the Archive will get done sooner rather than later. Thanks for letting me know!

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Hello! I am here to remind to change the intro post and link at the end of the month.

Have a nice day! Thank you for sharing your story and for your archiving efforts!

On it boss!

Thanks for the reminder! I had already forgotten about it. But I just changed it and it should be working.

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you're aware that choice of mods is the piracy site that leaks people's paid games and Patreon work, right?

Well hello to you too.

The link that I had provided of the choice of mods was from DanFabulich himself, it's a backup of all wips on dashingdon before it went down. If you click it, it takes you to his own archive of the wips.

I don't know if he had excluded any patreon content, private wips, etc in his archive. The morality of that archive and his choice where to host it, is something to take up to him, not me.

I am fully aware of the choice of mods site, but it's not in my hands where Dan wants to host his archive.

Hope that helps

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Update on the Archive:

We r currently doing the last few uploads to the drive, afterwards we will continue with the catalog.

Any private games will not be published with the archive. And we have taken note of many games where the Author has said they'd prefer their games not to be archived.

If we did somehow miss your game; or you afterwards would rather yours not to be included, there will be a submission form to reach out to us so we can resolve the problem quickly. (That is a maintenance thing that I'll be doing alone, so please be kind when it takes time to respond.)

I'm aware that this is sort of a pretty controversial topic whether or not it is okay to archive every game. I'm not trying to persuade anyone's opinion on the matter, but I'd like to explain why our Team decided to do it. All of us care a lot a lot about all the games and don't want to see any of them go.

Personally, I care a lot about art, regardless of if I've read or seen it, art is a right imo, art is humanity. I've not read most of the games in the archive, and most of them are dead games, but allowing them to die and be forgotten, is allowing a part of humanity to die and be forgotten. Even if there is only one person who cares about a game, that is enough to try to save it, even if that person may never see the archive or forgot about that game. Someone sat down and wrote and cared enough to create something, and that is worth preserving, regardless if it's "good" or "bad" or "abandoned". It was important enough to create, so it's important enough to preserve.

We are trying our best to listen to everyone's reasons and opinions on this matter, to find solutions and compromises for this archive so everyone can be satisfied with it in the end. But we're also a very small team and if we end up overlooking something or mess up somehow in the end, please inform us and have patience while we correct the archive.

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Listen. LISTEN. Y'all know I have 0 ZEROOOO tolerance for shit like that. And I'm not afraid to voice it for my friends.

First of all. The only major game with the detective + supernatural trope I can think of RN is wayhaven. And if u don't like wayhaven, yeah same. But do I go to the author of it and start whining about her game not appealing TO ME PERSONALLY? No. BCS I'm a fucking adult and if I wanna complain about a game, I do it quietly to my friends or tell myself "honestly, not that serious."

Second of all. The page LITERALLY has nothing so far but the intro post. Like bitch? You don't even know anything besides the intro post, you don't know the plot or characters, so why u already complaining? U don't even know if you could like the game BCS of the interesting characters, the plot, the mystery, anything. So why u whining to a completely new page that they're not catering to you specifically???

U r lucky briar is my friend and she has written stories beforehand, BCS shit like this can make a new author just drop writing entirely. And I will not sit here while anyone's being a bitch for no reason to my friends.

If u don't vibe with the game, just move on. It's literally EASIER to just keep scrolling than to write an ANON ask. Only on anon BCS u r afraid of being known, I know what u r. There's tons of content you won't enjoy in your lifetime, and either u grow up and just continue with ur life, or wither away as you only read one fucking trope and never evolve past ur comfort zone.

So either shut the fuck up or kys.

Another detective MC in small town and paranormal shit? 🤦 There have been thousands of these already....

Anon, it's your opinion and everyone's opinion is different, but just because it's "detective mc in small town and paranormal shit" does not mean that it will be the same story.

I am not saying this in the way that my game will be different and better than all the other ones out there, but rather that each and every story is unique and different from the other. Every story has its own charm. Just like how every book having "enemies to lovers" as its main thing isn't the same.

My story came into being because I read too much Sherlock Holmes and watch a lot of horror shows. I have always wanted to write something that includes all of these genres (mystery, horror, etc.), and now I am doing it, and I am incredibly happy.

If you think that you can create something original and far more unique, anon, then please go ahead. I will clap for you when you do. I am saying this on a light-hearted note <3

Keep creating, guys!