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Hi Everyone!

It's Monday! There are new builds on the server!

Here's the video where I talk about everything! 

So what's new this week? A bunch of stuff, but let's talk about that in a minute. I have stuff I want to talk about, first.

First up: with Whinny City and (probably) BABScon delayed, there are some very good pony fandom artists that are in a bad way. Many artists in the vendor halls at conventions depend on the convention cycle as their only means of income. I'd encourage you to check out this Google Doc  by Foalpapers  and see if someone on there makes something you love, and get something from them to offset this a little bit for them if you want to and can. I know at least for me there isn't a convention I've been to in the last 8 years or so where I haven't purchased some little thing from Ardail and Rat of Drawn, and I think I've either had lunch/dinner with, or been to a party with, about 1/4 of the rest of the people on that list. Some people I know personally on there and I know they're really struggling right now. They're good people and would love to sell you something cool if you're buying. If you're a convention artist I encourage you to join that list.

Also, and I know this is a big ask: consider letting your convention admission ride if you can. Barring the state stepping in and offering assistance, a mass call of refund could kill the convention. Everyone, of course, has their own situation so please do not feel guilt if you're not comfortable with that. I'm just throwing it out there <3 The airlines will get a bailout from the government: Babs and Whinny City probably won't.

Second: with most of the planet presently under some kind of "social distancing" quarantine to protect the elderly and those with medical conditions, I'm betting that your anxiety level is elevated just like mine is. Since we can't fix the problem, let's do stuff to fix how we feel about that. Here's what I propose:

I think I should make some new compelling NSFW Pony/maybe Furry content using the Besti X engine instead of doing deeper development stuff for a few weeks. Besti X right now is a solid content-production platform on 2D, VR, and on Oculus Quest, and I think with us trapped in our homes, some new NSFW content would be nice. 

For real though, here's what's left on my list for the first 10.0 release:

So I can make stuff in there without all that done, for sure. Really, creating stuff is easy when it doesn't tie into a larger system, so taking a bit of time off back-end development to produce new NSFW stuff with what's done right now would be a good response to the present situation we're all in. I'm thinking stand-alone sexy activities based on the Besti X system, and I have a few ideas that I think you'll like. Doing this slows down overall X development a bit, but not too badly as the stuff I'll program to make the standalone experiences work will backport into X by creating new Besti X tools that you will be able to use to make similar content. It's still forward progress, and I suspect 2 of the 7 days a week I work on it will translate directly into Besti X capabilities, with the remaining 5 focused on content creation.

As far as Besti-related stuff this week: Tons of stuff done but it was slower than normal due to the school closures and me watching the news and being nervous. I did lots of programming (see the changelog) and internal project-related stuff. I'm working with a new actress to make a new voice pack, and thank you for replying to the poll if you're a VR patron on what we should ask her to do. VR Patrons voted for BLUE FAST AWESOME HORSE so I'll send the script off to her today <3 The builds containing the new changes are up on the server, now, and there's a new chapter of the Besti Historical series, too, if you like those. <3

TL/DR: Stand by I'm cooking up lewd content for you to play while you're locked in your house for quarantine. Slight reduction in hours spent on the Besti X toolkit, but you'll get fun NSFW activities to do in exchange for that time. New X builds and Besti Historical stuff on the server today.

Here's a full changelog!