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Hello friends.

I don't have the best news. This is another post of "excuses", as I have done periodically before. I also remove such when things get better, but if you've been with me for a long time, you know. Well, I can't stop doing it, because now is another opportune moment.

Lately, my productivity has dropped again. And first of all, I am dissatisfied with myself. So I need to at least create a news post about where I am, where the video is and what's next.

Well, I'm here, and the video is 90% done. It's hard for me to explain why it's so slow, why it's delayed again (should be this week...). Either way, it's not good. Again it turns into a vicious circle that I am sad because of my speed, and the decline in mood makes me even slower.

Although in the fall I did three videos a month, as you can see now - in the winter I screwed up with this schedule. I'm sorry, but I can't. Now I’m definitely not in the right state to quickly return to a similar speed again.

And I'm constantly loaded with a list of plans. I was supposed to clean it up by spring, I couldn't, and it can't go on. Some projects are overdue for years, and it always frustrates me when ideas from polls are delayed for few months - both the authors of the idea and the people who voted for the winners - in fact, do not receive the goods in the right time.

When the deadline came and I saw that it was already too late - it depressed me a little, both mentally and physically. So I made a spontaneous decision: there will be no more polls until I clear my list of projects.

This may sound quite unexpected, as it has become a common practice over the past years and has added some special activity on my patreon. Therefore, it was not easy for me to decide on this.

Since I actually made this decision last week, the next poll - in March (tomorrow) will still be organized as usual. But further - this practice will be interrupted, perhaps until the fall or later. I can't look that far and make promises. All Tier-4 participants will receive letters before final changes. However, since Tier-4 usually has more people than actual authors of ideas - I won't be deleting this tier if there is at least 1 patron left, but all rules will be updated after the end of the current poll.

Tier 2 and Tier 3 will also obviously lose the right to vote in polls for an indefinite period - as there will be no polls.

Tier 1 remains unchanged.

It's not an easy decision to make, but it will give me a lot more energy if my "endless list of debts" stops growing all the time and all I need to do now is finish it.

I don't promise that I'll be able to make 3 videos a month like I promised last time, but I'll also try my best to make more than 1 as it's been happening lately.

Thank you for your attention and support!

(this post will also be deleted later, when I hope things get better than they are now)