Sunday Digest ~ Vol XXX ~ The Big Week Maybe

I hope Patreon doesn't flag me for having "30" in the title, haha

[1 new Swords episode, 1 new Stars episode]

Swords just celebrated its 7th anniversary! Thanks for the ride.

Cut the Deck Stuff:

I haven't had a very productive week because I've been waiting for cards to arrive in New Zealand. I was told to expect it on Thursday and still haven't heard anything, so I'll chase it up tomorrow. To the best of my understanding, they've been sitting in a warehouse 30 minutes away.

I had to pay for Customs to do a bio-scan of all the product, that's kinda fun.

I'm trying to make the most of the void its left behind this weekend by cleaning my home office in preparation.

New Zealanders, Australians, if you want the Deluxe Edition of Cut the Deck on launch week, I have 15 left available for preorder. If we run out I'll have to get more sent from the American shipment.

We got hit with some massive new tariffs on the stock coming into America. We'll deal with it, but if the card game had arrived just a week or two earlier it wouldn't have happened at all. That's quite frustrating.

Other Stuff::

There are two days left to get Momma Sprout or Quest Sprout on Makeship

89 patrons unsubbed this week. My two leading theories are:

1) Trump's tariff war is making people consider their finances more carefully.

or

2) When I did that Live Audio on Patreon chat, everyone got 99+ messages on their phone and that annoyed some people. Or what we talked about annoyed some people.

I'm not kicking myself over it. Since I can't actually tell what the cause was, I'm just not going to use that chat feature again any time soon. I can change what I do and cannot change Trump, after all.

I am sorry if using Patreon's features was disruptive to anyone. Let's learn from it and move on. When I say everyone left because they hate my voice, I am just joking and not being self-disparaging. Just some classic, dry Kiwi humour.

With that out of the way, thank you to everyone who is still here!! And the new people who joined to help out!

Some things I watched:
Conclave, Pokémon Concierge, the first Konosuba OVA, continuing with Dr. Stone 

Weekly webcomic tip:
Most people care more about your upload routine than any small mistakes, so don't sweat the small stuff if it will help you make a better backlog.

Gratitude Journal:
Strangely, I'm grateful to one of my enemies this week for being so careless. It's given me a lot more clarity on our situation.

On that cryptic note, let's have a fun, productive week where everything gets done and all our email inboxes return to 0!

See you in No-Emails Valhalla!