As I type this, I've just lost count of how deep I am into my annual booze trip and Top Gear marathon. Oh well.

If you log into the Red Sun website today (Dec 25 UTC time) you'll get one free crate redemption token. Use it, and open a free crate. Or don't. I forget if you can even trade them, that's how long it's been.

2023 was an uncertain year, and really not a year I'd be fond of repeating.
Yes, I did have free time. More than I needed, because of what I can only describe as in-house nepotism at my last job leading to a rather long draught of money and a rather large surplus of time.

I haven't had all that much time to actually play games, though. Job hunting, work itself, and various other miscellaneous stuff really does eat through time when you're doing stuff.

Red Sun had the Eggo-location event around easter time, back when I was off relaxing at insomnia70. Fun times. People hunted for eggs and redeemed for prizes. Turns out, that was quite well received and something I wanted to do again because it led to a much less stressful environment for everyone involved. It's something I want to do again because nice and easy. If it works of course...

I was also down in person at Hugs 2023 this year as technical support. Granted, I asked not to have my name included in the credits and kept well out of the way of cameras, but if you look hard in the pictures you'll see my desk with various views of the internal workings of the whole operation. Interesting, if you like that sort of thing. But most people don't, which is fine too.

The annual gather-up at insomnia71 this year I think was the largest one I've done so far, with over 40(?) people over two hotels done at nearly the last second, along with a free room upgrade to the best room in the hotel and a pretty good room party (minus the noise complaint and the hour or so I spent cleaning shit because the elevators were down. If you know, you know.)
Insomnia71 was also where I had the reins for No Bright Shadows, doing the logistics for their first game showcase.
While due to a severe case of being a broke-ass bitch I couldn't fly out to DreamHack Atlanta to help there, I am happy for them getting 3rd in Best Production there. Good job. Maybe I'll be less of a broke-ass bitch come next year? Who knows?

As for what's coming up:

• I'm still working on the "project" as I'm calling it. I'm waiting for a video to go live from a certain person before announcing anything, as this is what's been agreed between all parties involved. Can't say anything before then.
  
• Red Sun will be 9 years old in March 2024. That's... very strange to think about.
  
• I'm going to start organising for insomnia73 in August of 2024 (hopefully). More info as that comes available, but ideally if you just want a small group, I might do something for insomnia72 in March (which I'm also going to.) Contact info at the bottom of this post for the zero (0) people interested.
  
• who knows lmao, probably mikusch overthrows me completely and this becomes the cult of worshipping the germans or some shit i dunno lole

but anyway, throw me an email at tohru@redsun.tf or say below if you want to add me on Steam because I keep my profile private. I'll try and add people and speak on this very rare occasion, but depends how far in I am to the stash.

but anyway
have a christmas
now I go back to my turbo alcoholic shitposting