Obviously, I've opened a Patreon and that helped me resolve a lot of issues. Starting with the issue that I almost never finish my projects properly when and while I can, as I just had to real stimuli to do so. Patreon solved that issue, as well as granted me the superpower of MONEY aside from occasional 5-10$ flying my way once in half a year.
That superpower, as of today, earned me:
- a new SSD and an external hard drive,
- a new drawing tablet to make my life way, way-way-way easier,
- and a data recovery (thanks to Frannie in particular)
Because that happened, too. Unfortunately, I wasn't preaching about hard drive failure in order to make my Patreon seem necessary. My hard drive actually failed, and because of that, I hadn't done anything modding or texture related for almost a month.
Thankfully, the data recovery service has been good.. the second time around. Because the first time around, the first data saving center I've contacted restored around 70% of my data and demanded I'll pay around 250$, in addition to me already paying them $ for just a scan. So instead, I took my drive to a different, smaller center, and in quicker time they restored... more than 100% of my data. They even restored some program files that were on that drive 2-3 years ago. A few bits and pieces are still lost, but mostly just reference pictures.
Thank you, Frannie!
