January Update: Podcasts, Panels, Presentations

Hey team!

I want to let you all know that I'm retiring the video updates. I've noticed that, despite a pretty sizable increase in patronage these last few months - holy butts there are almost 900 of you now!!! - the monthly update videos are only getting about 30-40 views. That's fine! I've made a point of including text in the updates for people who would prefer to read, and it seems that's 99% of you. So we're just gonna go all-text from now on and I'll maybe think of some other perk down the line.

So:

I'm Back

My holiday season is always kind of a nightmare. Between early September and mid-January, I and my immediate polycule have four holidays, three birthdays, and two anniversaries. Throw in travel to visit family, multiple podcast appearances, two conferences, and the usual video schedule, and things get a little... intense.

But the madcap season is officially over. I returned from PAX South at 2am Tuesday morning, and I have nothing major on the horizon except focusing on the videos once more.

But I return with news and gifts!

Podcasts

In the last week, two podcasts I appeared on have been released.

I was on Blast from the Past with Ragnar Ulricson and Michael Saba talking about Riven, one of my all-time favorite adventure games. We went on for almost two hours, and I was the nerd who went into The Canon. [edit: AND APPARENTLY ROBYN FREAKING MILLER LISTENED TO IT]

For something completely different, I was also on Champagne Sharks talking to T about The Alt-Right Playbook. I think it was a pretty good conversation!

Panels & Presentations

I also spoke at two different conferences in the last two weeks, which, let me tell you, was kind of a lot.

I did a 30ish-minute talk at Indivisible Somerville on the larger goals of The Alt-Right Playbook and what some best practices for talking to the Right might be. The following week I went to Texas to do a panel at PAX South on why people choose to game alone.

The Indivisible talk was filmed and I'll be posting the footage to Vimeo once I get it from the tech crew, and we recorded the audio of the PAX panel and I'll send you all the link once JD podcasts it.

Next Video & Future Tasks

The script for the next video is drafted and will go into production after a few revisions. We've got two weeks til the end of the month so I think we're making good time!

Once that video is done, I'm going to spend some of February focusing on Patreon perks and Kickstarter rewards. I have several videos to annotate and some thoughts to throw up on the BTS blog. Thank you all for your patience.

As for the bonus project, I will write a separate message soon with the leading ideas I have, and get folks' thoughts on them. With my life finally quieting down a little bit, I'm kind of hoping to focus on videos for a spell and finally get an idea of just how busy that makes me, so I can gauge just how much extra time there is. But: pitch soon, whatever it going into production in another couple months.

That is all for now, babes!

-I