September Update.

Hello you, exceptionally exceptional Patreon people!

I hope that all of you are having a wonderful week and that all of you find some money below the cushion you didn’t know you had!

The Celeste video is out and I’m super happy with how it turned out - this one was one of the hardest to write so far - so many rewrites! - but in the end I think it was worth it.

I don’t really have anything newsworthy to share this month, so I thought I’ll just waffle a bit about some stuff that happened in the background while producing the video, that you otherwise would never get to hear me waffle about.

So first: computer catastrophes!

A while ago I mentioned that my old PC broke down and that it was finally time for me to replace the old lady.

As is tradition the new computer arrived broken.

It was a really strange and hard to track down problem - basically the computer would just lose electricity for a moment after a random amount of time - meaning that the PC just rebooted out of the blue about once an hour which made it pretty much unusable.

So no big deal, I got in touch with the seller and we started this long and intimate email friendship.

So after writing about two dozen mails with my new pen-pals and doing all sorts of testing they come to the conclusion that the power adapter is faulty - and thus they decide to send me a new one.

A week later it arrives - I swap the parts and, zawang there goes my PC rebooting itself again.

Turns out the power adaptor wasn’t the problem.

So back to pen-paling with my newly gained friends and trying to figure out what is going on.

They come to the conclusion that they need to see the patient themselves and that I should send it to their PC-clinic.

And thus I sent the PC back to the seller so that they could take care of it in a good session of PC-quantum healing. (At least that’s what I believe they did.)

In the clinic the crystal pendulum told them that it was probably the motherboard that was faulty so they investigated it, did some Liu Zi Jue to get its Theta back in line with the universe, and - just to be sure - also replaced it.

(Again - that’s what I assume they did.)

Anyway, the PC just returned and I’m hoping that now everything runs with it being all new mother-boarded and stuff. 

I don’t know yet if the PC is working as intended now but I can already feel that its aura is much cleansed, so that’s something!

Why am I telling you all about the adventurous adventures of my PC?

Well, because all of this meant that the Celeste video was once again edited on the PC equivalent of a vegetable.

Additionally I had to attend a funeral about two weeks ago (not a person particularly close to me). Attending a funeral always sucks, but it sucks even more if the funeral is on the other side of the country and takes place during the biggest flooding catastrophe in the history of your country.

If anyone wants to spice up their next train ride - I can absolutely recommend doing it during a flooding catastrophe!
Much water, less train!

To round the month up I also caught covid - and even though it was a pretty mild course of the disease, my lunge still feels like someone poked a hole or two into it and none of all those things are even the most annoying thing that happened all month.

The most annoying thing has to do with … taxes.

Of course.

You see, most people watching my YouTube videos are in the US, yet I am here in Austria.
Meaning I’m kinda earning money in the states but I’m also kinda earning money in Austria.
So both the United States and Austria want to tax my income.

To prevent this Austria and the US have signed a double taxation agreement.

So far all of this is no big deal - I had to confirm my Austrian taxation number once to Google and everything worked as intended. (I’m being taxed by the Austrian government.)

Until recently.

You see, I married a while ago and took on the surname of my wife additionally to my own surname (which is quite common in Austria).

Recently I realized that I had not yet changed my name in the Google set-up, so I decided to do so to make sure that I don’t run into any problems with it along the line.
What I did not realize however, was that changing my name in the settings also deletes my taxation document.

So fixing this is not terribly difficult, I just need a signed document from my government - but getting this takes a while and until I have this document I am being taxed by the US and my home country at once.

We are not talking about any significant amounts of money here, but it is still something that I need to take care of, and something surprisingly tedious to fix.

That’s the bad side of this story, there is however a good side to it as well.

You see, the next time I read a story about how a US police department used all their public funding to buy a margarita machine I legitimately get to be upset at how wasteful the US government is spending my hard earned tax money - which is something at least!

I’m not really complaining by the way, stuff like that just is part of working self employed, I’m just gossiping a bit.

So what’s next?

Well, next we will try a smaller video for once.

I’m not entirely sure how to structure those yet and it might take me a couple of tries to figure out the format, but I’m cautiously optimistic.

The first thing I want to take a look at, is the question why 3D platformers fell out of grace and afterwards I want to take a look at Echos of the Kingdom, which I find exceptionally mediocre so far.

I hope to have the next video out within roughly three weeks, though there could always be something that slows me down.

You never know, if you don’t have to attend a surprise wedding while severe forest fires are going on afterall.

As always a huge and gigantic thank you to each and every single one of you!

Your support really makes a difference!