Dear Insane Children, 

Alright! I think we have everything set up, tested, and ready to go with Twitch. 

We are scheduled for tomorrow morning (Shanghai time). Here’s the time info: 

And my Twitch Channel can be found HERE. 

I’m too new to Twitch to know if there’s any sort of Schedule Notification… but I think that if you subscribe to my channel you will receive a notification when I go live. So… give that a try? 

And if you know a thing or two about Twitch (more than I do, for sure!) then please join and provide some feedback on this first stream. 

I’m nervous! 

Sunflowers

Omri produced a re-make of one of our more popular prints, Sunflowers. Joey did the original version of this for the Otherlands project. (Technically, Van Gogh did the original version of this). This print will probably be added to our art collection. Should it be a Patreon reward? I don’t know! 

Speaking of Patreon and Art Prints – I will work with Font Lord to create another one of those monthly Art Print Guides… and fill that in as best as we’re able. So you can see what’s come before and what’s coming up. 

Lucky is TOO COOL for this world. Sorry… just had to share. Yan bought him little sunglasses and I’ve never laughed so hard in my life. 

Ok, will share all the latest art, design, story stuff on the Twitch stream tomorrow. See you there!

From Shanghai with a Twitch, 

-American

Dear Insane Children, 

After several frustrating days and multiple Truly Dumb(tm) interactions with YouTube support, I’ve decided to throw in the towel. YouTube Studio is so broken that it won’t schedule an upcoming live stream properly. Kinda looks like this… 

See the date mismatch? Yeah, well that’s what makes it impossible for me to know what time I’m actually scheduling for – and what time zone is that? Why are the dates different? Why can’t YouTube Support see that this is a problem we can’t fix by “rebooting, updating to the latest Chrome, and trying a different encoder.” FFS, YouTube! 

And, no, I can’t test/edit the time/date after the fact because that interface in YouTube Studio Live Room looks like this: 

Note the lack of “cancel” and “confirm” buttons at the bottom of that UI panel. Yeah.

ANYWAY…

Tomorrow’s YouTube Live Stream is CANCELED.

I am moving to Twitch! 

Here’s the new home:  https://www.twitch.tv/americanmcgee 

Am I supposed to ask you to follow me over there? Subscribe? Hit Like? SMASH A FRIKKEN BUTTON!?!? I have no idea! Just DO THE THING! 

And please allow me a few more days to finish getting everything set up over there. 

I had hoped to get it done today but Yan’s mom went back to their hometown after many months stuck in Shanghai. And I am at home alone taking care of Lucky… Need more time!

In Closing

YouTube sucks. 

We’re moving to twitch:  https://www.twitch.tv/americanmcgee  

Do THE THING. 

I’ll announce a time/date for a Twitch stream soon. 

Lucky says “thptptptpptpt” (I taught him how to do that. Yay!)

PS: Enjoy a beautiful wallpaper (top image) from Dario. For Hatter’s Domain. Here are his social media accounts if you’d like to follow him and check out his other work: 

https://www.facebook.com/marzaillustration/ 

https://www.instagram.com/marza_illustrations/ 

@marza_illustrations on Twitter

REALLY happy to have him creating illustrations for Asylum. Amazing stuff!
 

From Not YouTube,

-American

Dear Insane Children, 

Martin and I seem to have worked out the dark voodoo of Zoom + YouTube + Defeating The Great Firewall and are ready to bring you a Live Stream. 

BUT as I have mentioned previously once or twice: YOUTUBE SUCKS

They got rid of the Classic (functional) interface and replaced it with a New (non-functional) interface which no one asked for! What does that mean for us? Well, I can’t schedule a live stream for any day in the future because… 

I put in 4/4 as the date… but the TIME selection is stuck on 4/2. And, no, there’s no amount of scrolling that moves the time/date forward to 4/4. It just loops back around to the start of 4/2. 

In short, it’s shite. 

I don’t even know what’s going to happen with it now… 

Anyway, I hate YouTube. 

Here’s THE LINK if you want to try to set a reminder. 

The idea is to stream at 10AM on April 4th (Hong Kong Time) which is April 3rd at 7PM PDT. No idea if it’s going to work. Probably not. 

Did I mention that I hate YouTube? 

From Shanghai with Grrr,

-American

Dear Insane Children

Font Lord here with a reminder of what’s going to happen now that April has rolled around in regards to the Enamel Pin Goal you’ve all been so excited about.

Firstly, you may all know from THIS POST that your tier no longer matters, so there’s no need to write in, all in a tizzy and panicking that you might have missed out on the pins.
All Patrons charged in April will be emailed about the pins, it’s just that those who pledged under $35 will have to make up the difference over on Backerkit.

So, talking about Backerkit, on April 7th, we will be doing a ‘smoke test’ which is basically a test to make sure the new system is working with a small sample of Patrons. And once that’s confirmed to be ok, we will then do a mass email to everyone else on the 10th.
So please keep an eye on your inboxes during that time and be sure to look in your spam or promotions folders. (You can even do a text search for Backerkit)

Then in Backerkit, you basically add your address and/or add payment details and you’re done.
We’ll send the pins out with tracking in the coming weeks. But of course, please expect some nonsense COVID19 shipping delays   🙁

There’s also an exit shop on Backerkit too where we added a few items from Mysterious at bargainful Patron prices if you’re interested in that  🙂
(Including extra Pin sets)

Also, just a quick quickie about the next print (for those Patrons charged in May), we will be doing the latest Omri sensation FALLING APART !!
Nice !!!

So there you have it.

Hope you’re all doing well and staying safe and socially distant if possible.

– Cheers