Now that those cool albums are out of the way: hey! it's been a while.

Sorry for going somewhat silent outside of occasional depression mixed with memes on my social media. To put it briefly, 2025 sucked to a somewhat traumatic degree from a myriad of different angles. However, I'd say basically everyone had it rough last year in some way --and I've probably spent enough time dooming over it already-- so let's move on to the positives!

Thanks to a solid group of friends that believed in me, even when I tried to push everyone away for a bit, I can say I'm in a place and routine that I feel comfortable enough in again. I won't pretend this means I've got anything HUGE in the works (being an adult with responsibilities seriously caught up to me and my motivation) but it's clear to me that the Madness itch comes back a little whenever something cool gets put out.

Speaking of which, how about that Experiment 2, eh? I'm especially proud of Gabe and ShootDaCheese making it to official status, hard to say they haven't earned it after all this time.

In the works right now, I have a nearly-finished part for Kirxee's Madness Cellification 2 collab. I really just have to get off my ass and add the final 10% there is to do. There's also a bunch of unreleased tests and such from the past few years that I've been considering putting into a fifth compilation over on Youtube if there's a demand for it.

As for Rozpierdalation 8? It's complicated.

It's there, but it's not exactly progressing much either. I entered the project back in 2021, nearly half a decade ago. Back then, I only expected it to be a quicker project consisting of a classic style room-to-room romp that would only take around a month to make if I focused (hence that initial "October 2021" release date) but then kRyy's Rozpierdalation 4 dropped and completely changed the game. There was now huge standards to be met in the eyes of me and most others on the project, standards which only seemed to grow over time. By the time I had (barely) gotten to a baseline of skill I considered acceptable to make something like that, it had been years and my IRL situations began to take a lot more of my energy.

The main takeaway of this is that perfectionism sucks, I guess. I still spitball ideas back and fourth with kRyy about how Roz 8 could play out and the timeline's lore jazz going on in the background. Dakedar has also insisted that he'd like me to be the one to make this entry; it came up when I considered handing the movie off to Overtry, since I generally look up to his creative abilities and personally consider him more capable than me for this task as things stand.

All this leaves the movie in slight stasis, one that honestly keeps me from wanting to go all-in on newer, smaller ideas as well. I think about how I could be using that time to work on Roz, then I just get sad thinking about how people might be disappointed that it isn't Roz, and I end up making nothing. I definitely have a desire to put out something less derivative and I can truly call my own as well; I've had a few attempts at that over the years that didn't really get past the concept phase and an unfinished scene here 'n there.

I even tried my hand at making custom sprites for once instead of just blending other stuff.

Say hi to Jaques (Be nice, he's had to deal with being written out of a story.)

I don't mean for all of this to come off too gloomy though. I'm only including this information here to give a more satisfactory explanation as to where Roz 8 is, rather than come up with another joke reason to swat away questions about it.

That's about all bases covered, I suppose. You can expect something new from me at some point if the UK hasn't sunk into the ocean by then.

Major thanks to the besties for keeping my spirit alive;

listen to "The Fat of The Land" by The Prodigy,

and have a good day. ☕