Hi everyone, Jackson here! It's the Patreon Letter! Welcome to the Patreon Letter, take a seat, have a drink, settle down, oh god I'm so busy today that I might collapse. Let's get on with it.
Last time we spoke I was playing Metal Gear Survive, and I talked a little about how fuckin' weird the Kojima auteur worship has become in 2018. Plan was that this time I would actually t...
2018-03-10 20:29:26 +0000 UTC View Post
It is 2018. Most of us have grown up in a state where war has been perpetual and unyielding. The last year America was not at war by conventional definition was 2000. People are nearly able to vote who have never known even that paltry dictionary definition of peace. What does it say about a world view to be born and live and die in perpetual war? To have fighting it be a part of life that interse...
2018-03-06 21:00:29 +0000 UTC View PostHello!
It is Jackson here with this week's Weekly Update, letting you know what is going on in the world of Abnormal Mapping. We're very busy and very stressed; I'm entering the last couple months of uni so I am going to be in dissertation hell for the next seven weeks.
Here has what has come out over the last week!
Hello everyone, Em here today for a bit of a late letter. Apologies all around, it can be difficult to stay on top of absolutely everything right now when I'm going through a lot emotionally, but I'm doing my best. Thanks for your patience.
It's the one year anniversary of the Switch, and so many people...
2018-03-03 22:12:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Nobody knew it was coming. They died in their sleep, in their homes, and in their cars. They died with their children, they died together and alone, at their jobs and in the street, and of course, they died in the saloon. They, however, did not die in the MacDaniel. That is where the money is made, and where hot dogs are sold.
Episode 25: Some Questions of Types Both Old and New
2018-02-28 02:44:09 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone! Em here to tell you about the wide world of pods we've dropped over the past week. It's been a busy time, so let's get right into it.
Hello friends, it is time, we knew this day would come.
I have played about ten hours of Metal Gear Survive, and I have opinions. Just to cut to the chase: I'm having a decent time. It’s not A Masterpiece or anything, but it’s a much more coherent and thoughtful game than I expected considering every single thing Konami have said and done since 2015. It is clear that the team actually ...
2018-02-24 19:29:59 +0000 UTC View Post
The geography of space is limitless. When we are young we look upon this unconstrained and unknowable void and see nothing but potential. When we age we are forged through pain into understanding that limitlessness does not make things easy but instead makes them so hard as to scrape against impossibility. What is possible is paralysis, and the small animal that is humanity flails helplessly in th...
2018-02-20 22:16:28 +0000 UTC View PostHello there, everyone!
It's Jackson here with this week's Weekly Update letting you know just what has been going on in the land of Abnormal Mapping over the past seven days. There is a lot, so let's just get to it!
It's time for another patreon letter! I wish I could say that I'm full to bursting with things to talk about, but honestly I'm not. Things are starting to settle in my life, but now I'm in charge of keeping an apartment tidy and making dinner for everyone every night and just keeping up with podcasts right no...
2018-02-17 15:01:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Factions clash in space. Colonies turn overhead. Lives are ended and dreams crushed under the heels of Titan plots. What does it all mean? Nobody truly knows. All we know is there are too many Gundam, and that Franklin Bidan has a mistress. Are these the tears of time?
Episode 23: Bajeena Lila Bo Billa
2018-02-13 18:38:03 +0000 UTC View PostHey there,
Jackson here with the Sunday weekly update what do you mean it's Monday please stop talking to me.
As we move through February, things are basically back to as normal as they can be. I'm heading into my final few weeks of University so it's my turn to be unreliable as we go forward but for now, here's what has been going on in Abnormal Mapping over the last week
Hey there everyone,
It's Jackson here with the Patreon Letter! Hello! I made a terrible mistake!
Usually what I do when I write these is I sit down and think "what the fuck did i actually do this week?" then try to write something along those lines. Problem is, I, uh, I did that. I did that earlier in the week. I've been thinking about Evangelion non-stop and I wrote a 2018-02-10 19:40:26 +0000 UTC View Post
The earth turns. So do the cylinder habitats. People live and die in space. Seven years have passed, and empires have fallen in this cosmic blink of an eye. Everything may be different, but there will always be a boy and there will always be a Gundam. We will see the tears of time. Newtypes aren't so new anymore.
Episode 22: To Really Hate Cops
2018-02-06 20:08:26 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone, Em here again with your weekly dose of activity! I'm so glad we actually got Abnormal Mapping out in January and continue our record of 0 months ever missed, but it did mean that three podcasts came out on Wednesday which was ... less than ideal. It shouldn't happen again, hopefully! Thanks for your patience as this hell month (for me) comes to a close.
Hello everyone, Em here today to bring to you another letter. Sorry for the brevity of this one, I'm still juggling a dozen things as my life is up in the air and time is a little more precious than I'd like. Soon, soon I can actually chill out and begin enjoying things again, hopefully.
Without a whole...
2018-02-03 15:53:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Here, after a whole year of fighting, two men stand facing on the edge of history, so close yet so far in their tragic fight against special boys in special robots becoming the totality of human existence. How little they know there are four decades of this yet to come. But there is yet hope, in the dying of the war, in the flames of battle, there is one yet brave enough to proclaim the trut...
2018-01-30 22:51:39 +0000 UTC View PostGood day, friends!
It is Jackson here, with the ol' Weekly Update as we continue pushing through this hell month and getting back to something resembling stability! Today we recorded an hour long episode of Gundam for the finale of 0079 and our very first Patreon episode of Abnormal Mapping! Both went well, and will be out next Wednesday.
Okay, here's what happened this week...
2018-01-28 23:32:50 +0000 UTC View Post
It's still fucking January? God damn. Alright. This year will be longer than we could ever know.
Hello everyone, it's Jackson here with this week's Patreon Letter, and as ever, I don't really know what to talk about. I don't feel like talking about The Media I've Been Enjoying, but I also don't just wanna bust out some kinda personal essay either. I loved Em's 2018-01-27 22:56:27 +0000 UTC View Post
What is fate in the great sea of stars? What is destiny when all of humanity shrinks its focus to a single point in time along the great waves of history? As all forces are marshalled for the battle to decide the fate of the whole of us, we look to two children adrift between the moon and the earth, our hope and our fears, our future rushing towards us.
Episode 20: The Question Never Occured to ...
2018-01-23 19:28:26 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone, sorry for the delay on this, things are busy busy with my life right now. So let's get into what went on on Abnormal Mapping this week!
Content warning: death, grieving.
I really don't want to write about the obvious but I'm not sure anything else makes sense to write about.
It's been two weeks to the day since my father died and everything is still very much in disarray. Jackson outlined some of my troubles two weeks ago in a letter (2018-01-20 21:48:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone,
It’s Jackson here, with one of those Patreon letters you’ve heard so much about. Thank you to everyone for being patient with us this month, things are still incredibly tough but we’re moving through it. Em’s busy dealing with the logistics of the death of their father, cleaning out the apartment and various other tasks that are hard enough without losing a loved one. Thank...
2018-01-13 13:59:52 +0000 UTC View PostHi, everyone, it's Jackson here, with some incredibly sad news.
Em's dad is currently at home on hospice care. He's been suffering from terminal cancer for a while, and nurses say that he has less than a week. Understandably, that means we won't be able to record this weekend, and possibly for a few weekends more.
This would be heartbreaking under the best of circumstances, but we live in ...
2018-01-06 19:49:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Newtype (n(y)o͞o taɪp)
noun
1. A hypothetical evolutionary subcategory of human brought to light under immense pressures, defined by extra-natural mental or physical performance.
"We studied the newtypes until our computers could no longer measure their results."
Verb
1. (Slang) When you get a new phone and it doesn't know how to correct your mistakes. ...
2018-01-02 23:14:33 +0000 UTC View PostWhat do you mean this post is a day late I don't know what on earth you're talking about. It's Sunday. Look. It sure feels like a Sunday over here, all the banks are closed, so that's what we're going with.
Happy New Year folks, 2017 sucked, 2018 shows no signs of getting better, so hold your loved ones close and summon all your spite to make them smile. I am not going to let this stop ...
2018-01-01 19:07:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey there everyone, it's Jackson with the final patreon letter of 2017! The year is done, 2017 has released us from its grasp, and things can only get better from here. That's not true. The last bit of that sentence was a little joke. A funny funny joke. What I'm saying is: things are really bad these days.
The upshot of that is: I don't really know what to talk about. This isn't a matt...
2017-12-30 22:21:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Endless twilight had spread this blight
Deep in the heart of texas.
The clouded sky all our crops die
Deep in the heart of texas.
The oncoming doom as the cannons boom
Deep in the heart of texas.
Reminds me of - the one I love
Deep in the heart of texas.
The engine scream and children dream
Deep in the heart of texas.
The bison roam we lose our home
Deep in the hea...
Hey everyone, Em here. It's Christmas, so you know I fucked up and forgot yesterday was Sunday and so this update is a day late. Sorry about that! Anyway here's some stuff from this week:
Hello everyone, Em here for the final letter of this hell year. I was considering doing some sort of larger recap for you all, but we already did that in the upcoming Game of the Year Abnormal Mapping dropping on Tuesday, so please look forward to that for our reflections about how we feel about this year. If...
2017-12-23 18:04:41 +0000 UTC View Post