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Cooked Schedule Update + Delays Part 1: Explanation Hey everybody, I know a lot of you are disappointed over the delays, so I'll be a little more transparent with why things are the way they are this month. I figured I could get out some quick WIP before I left for LA on the 7th (20 pages), but that ended up not being the case as I started to get really picky aboutt he story-telling so I kept adding to it. I ended up working through the con to try and not let it affect the release schedule this month but I still wasn't able to get it out until the day AFTER I got back; so Cooked ended up losing a day in the process. Once again, I wasn't planning on working during the con anyways so it wasn't much time taken away from Cooked overall. I figured the 35 pages short stories/WIP was worth the wait, but as it wasn't on the original schedule I can see why you guys would be disappointed. After that, I was just fatigued from con and I had a lot of stuff I needed to deal with irl so I spent another day not working on Cooked, but I was still hopeful I get it out by the 20th (4 days from then.) I sent a message out about the delay and kept chugging along. From there though, things just did not seem to go my way with the generations, and progress was extremely slow. Lots of group shots being annoyingly stubborn and I've been having a lot of time with the NovelAI backend (especially today.) I sent a message that the 20th was probably a no-go but I admittedly sent it out very late on the 19th. I can understand why many of you are upset and that's my bad.

Published: January 21st 2025, 7:17:55 am

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Cooked Schedule Update + Delays Part 1: Explanation Hey everybody, I know a lot of you are disappointed over the delays, so I'll be a little more transparent with why things are the way they are this month. I figured I could get out some quick WIP before I left for LA on the 7th (20 pages), but that ended up not being the case as I started to get really picky aboutt he story-telling so I kept adding to it. I ended up working through the con to try and not let it affect the release schedule this month but I still wasn't able to get it out until the day AFTER I got back; so Cooked ended up losing a day in the process. Once again, I wasn't planning on working during the con anyways so it wasn't much time taken away from Cooked overall. I figured the 35 pages short stories/WIP was worth the wait, but as it wasn't on the original schedule I can see why you guys would be disappointed. After that, I was just fatigued from con and I had a lot of stuff I needed to deal with irl so I spent another day not working on Cooked, but I was still hopeful I get it out by the 20th (4 days from then.) I sent a message out about the delay and kept chugging along. From there though, things just did not seem to go my way with the generations, and progress was extremely slow. Lots of group shots being annoyingly stubborn and I've been having a lot of time with the NovelAI backend (especially today.) I sent a message that the 20th was probably a no-go but I admittedly sent it out very late on the 19th. I can understand why many of you are upset and that's my bad.

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Cooked Schedule Update + Delays Part 2: Apology + Nonapology But now that it's the end of the 20th and I'm reviewing what I've done, I'm doubtful I'll be able to release cooked in full on the 21st. I'm thinking that I'll work through the day and try and have 20 pages ready to go by 5pm PST with the rest going up late Wednesday. I know it's frustrating that the schedule keeps being changed, but I want you all to know that it's not from a lack of trying. I normally go at a rate of one chapter per week because it's tougher for me to go any faster. So far this month we were still on pace for a release every 7 days, and only now with CC's full release being pushed back to the 22nd is there really a "content delay." My issue is that I shouldn't have promised the 17th or 20th in the first place so I could account for delays and problems on my end- that's my bad and I apologize. But the schedule overpromising is the only thing I'm apologizing for this month. I have been working my ass off this month even through getting sick off of LA air quality, and I've posted both a larger monthly release and a larger weekly release in the span of 14 days. I treat this like my full-time job and have been putting in waaay more than 40 hours each week over here, constantly pulling all-nighters, and I hate these insinuations that I'm being lazy or faking an illness to get out of work. Everyone has a demanding job, I'm not trying to farm sympathy here and I'm sure many of you work way harder than I do; but I'm trying my best and grinding to get you content so I'd appreciate it if you at least waited until the end of the month to evaluate the volume of chapters/releases. So far, I think this month has been fine enough personally.

Cooked Schedule Update + Delays Part 2: Apology + Nonapology But now that it's the end of the 20th and I'm reviewing what I've done, I'm doubtful I'll be able to release cooked in full on the 21st. I'm thinking that I'll work through the day and try and have 20 pages ready to go by 5pm PST with the rest going up late Wednesday. I know it's frustrating that the schedule keeps being changed, but I want you all to know that it's not from a lack of trying. I normally go at a rate of one chapter per week because it's tougher for me to go any faster. So far this month we were still on pace for a release every 7 days, and only now with CC's full release being pushed back to the 22nd is there really a "content delay." My issue is that I shouldn't have promised the 17th or 20th in the first place so I could account for delays and problems on my end- that's my bad and I apologize. But the schedule overpromising is the only thing I'm apologizing for this month. I have been working my ass off this month even through getting sick off of LA air quality, and I've posted both a larger monthly release and a larger weekly release in the span of 14 days. I treat this like my full-time job and have been putting in waaay more than 40 hours each week over here, constantly pulling all-nighters, and I hate these insinuations that I'm being lazy or faking an illness to get out of work. Everyone has a demanding job, I'm not trying to farm sympathy here and I'm sure many of you work way harder than I do; but I'm trying my best and grinding to get you content so I'd appreciate it if you at least waited until the end of the month to evaluate the volume of chapters/releases. So far, I think this month has been fine enough personally.

Cooked Schedule Update + Delays Part 3: Going Forward If anything needs to change (other than my overly optimistic schedules) it's the rate at which content is released. I am literally making myself sick with how much I work and I make very little time for hobbies anymore because I always feel like I'm behind schedule (which I usually am.) I really don't want to abandon the "one chapter per week" mentality but it's getting harder and harder for me as I start to get more anal with the post-editing and greedy with the base image generations. I'm burning probably hundreds of dollars in Anlas each month for generatons and it might be better to switch to a "3 chapters + random fun stuff" monthly format for mental, physical, and financial reasons. However, I'm sticking to the weekly format for now and I'll try to find some level of consistency going forward. Cooked will be out soon, and I'll work my ass off to have OP and possibly-but-not-likely Tsunade out by the end of the month. I'm always thinking of you guys and how I can deliver the best content to you. I don't blame anyone for being mad as I understand the frustration of looking forward to something only to have it pushed back at the last second, and I really don't want to shut down discussion as I try and welcome everyone's opinions/suggestions here, but this perceived image many of you have of me being a lazy liar is just not true and I'm sick of seeing it. I am still very much working towards the day where I'm an AI wizard and can guarantee a release on the same day every week. I'll eventually make time for my Stable Diffusion training and I've already begun to poke around with more of the complex stuff and other models. I'll keep trying to get at least four 30 page releases out every month (and maybe even the mythical 5th release,) so I do hope you all stick around for the content and I'll also put some more work into branching out to other places with a better revenue-split so I can afford to lower the sub cost. (Fansly would still be my main though)

Cooked Schedule Update + Delays Part 3: Going Forward If anything needs to change (other than my overly optimistic schedules) it's the rate at which content is released. I am literally making myself sick with how much I work and I make very little time for hobbies anymore because I always feel like I'm behind schedule (which I usually am.) I really don't want to abandon the "one chapter per week" mentality but it's getting harder and harder for me as I start to get more anal with the post-editing and greedy with the base image generations. I'm burning probably hundreds of dollars in Anlas each month for generatons and it might be better to switch to a "3 chapters + random fun stuff" monthly format for mental, physical, and financial reasons. However, I'm sticking to the weekly format for now and I'll try to find some level of consistency going forward. Cooked will be out soon, and I'll work my ass off to have OP and possibly-but-not-likely Tsunade out by the end of the month. I'm always thinking of you guys and how I can deliver the best content to you. I don't blame anyone for being mad as I understand the frustration of looking forward to something only to have it pushed back at the last second, and I really don't want to shut down discussion as I try and welcome everyone's opinions/suggestions here, but this perceived image many of you have of me being a lazy liar is just not true and I'm sick of seeing it. I am still very much working towards the day where I'm an AI wizard and can guarantee a release on the same day every week. I'll eventually make time for my Stable Diffusion training and I've already begun to poke around with more of the complex stuff and other models. I'll keep trying to get at least four 30 page releases out every month (and maybe even the mythical 5th release,) so I do hope you all stick around for the content and I'll also put some more work into branching out to other places with a better revenue-split so I can afford to lower the sub cost. (Fansly would still be my main though)

Schedule Update for May/June Continued: I know the releases have been a bit slow lately and I apologize once again for that. The sex scene for Certifiably Cooked 8 was really technical and I ended up falling four days behind. I learned some new tricks as a result, but 4 days was just too much. The other releases ended up being delayed by a day or two each as well so the schedule ended up being about 9 days off- way too much even considering my usual delays. Idk what to say though tbh. Sure I took a couple days off for my mental, but I worked pretty hard all month yet the delay was still that big. Sure, the new model was partly to blame, but I'll try and explore different techniques for getting content out faster. I learned a lot about the v4 (and now the v5) model and I think I should be able to get these next chapters out faster than last month. Although, as we move into a higher amount of "action" in all the stories, delays like these might become more commonplace. Therefore, I gave myself an extra day between releases for this month. (Also I have family in town and another convention, but that shouldn't impact things as much as ALA since it's local this time.)

Schedule Update for May/June Continued: I know the releases have been a bit slow lately and I apologize once again for that. The sex scene for Certifiably Cooked 8 was really technical and I ended up falling four days behind. I learned some new tricks as a result, but 4 days was just too much. The other releases ended up being delayed by a day or two each as well so the schedule ended up being about 9 days off- way too much even considering my usual delays. Idk what to say though tbh. Sure I took a couple days off for my mental, but I worked pretty hard all month yet the delay was still that big. Sure, the new model was partly to blame, but I'll try and explore different techniques for getting content out faster. I learned a lot about the v4 (and now the v5) model and I think I should be able to get these next chapters out faster than last month. Although, as we move into a higher amount of "action" in all the stories, delays like these might become more commonplace. Therefore, I gave myself an extra day between releases for this month. (Also I have family in town and another convention, but that shouldn't impact things as much as ALA since it's local this time.)

Certifiably Cooked Schedule Update EDIT: Working through the night to get this done. I probably won't finish until after midnight on Tuesday, but I'll post the first 20ish sometime around 6pm. I'll update this post Sunday night, but it's looking like a Tuesday release for Cooked. Trying some stuff I haven't done before and it's not going super well, but I'll work it out I'm sure. Starting out this monthly schedule strong haha. We'll see if I can't make up the time with a quicker Tsunade release. (My vision is very strong for this coming chapter so I'm pretty sure I can save a day on it.)

Certifiably Cooked Schedule Update EDIT: Working through the night to get this done. I probably won't finish until after midnight on Tuesday, but I'll post the first 20ish sometime around 6pm. I'll update this post Sunday night, but it's looking like a Tuesday release for Cooked. Trying some stuff I haven't done before and it's not going super well, but I'll work it out I'm sure. Starting out this monthly schedule strong haha. We'll see if I can't make up the time with a quicker Tsunade release. (My vision is very strong for this coming chapter so I'm pretty sure I can save a day on it.)