The following post is snippet of a longer post on Paid Patreon and Ko-fi users, released on 6th Febuary 2026.
Done in January:
YouTube Channel news: As stated in December, I’ve started the process to rebrand and create YouTube channels. The existing Channel got renamed to Mike’s Holodeck on 21st November. This was to bring in to line to reflect the focus of the channel. An new “Mike Sharpe, Writer” channel is was planned to online some time in January, but this has been delayed to Febuary.
As Stated in January, On 16 December, Mass Effect 2 Episode went live on YouTube, and I’ve chosen to make a longer lead time. As expected it was a messy time over Christmas. I am hoping to keep at least few weeks buffer going. But this is going to be tricky with the January’s Mike Sharpe Writer extra videos going on.
As for why the Mike Sharpe Writer Channel hasn’t appeared. Let’s just say I want take advantage of a few tricks that MatPat suggested for a new Channel, and a few pieces of kit that I got back in the middle of January. It’s actually my old Mic and some other required gear for it.
To spread my content out more, I’ve chosen to make a Peertube channel at Spectra Video. Peartube is alternative Video sharing platform, based on some the same ActivityPub system that Mastodon and this blog uses. Yes, you can follow this blog via Mastodon!
Anyway, I’ve started by uploading my yearly videos that effectively died on Mike’s Holodeck channel. For a while, I’ll be uploading other certain parts when I can find the video files. As part of an experiment, the Peertube version of the video my go live a few days before the Youtube version.
Moving on to the books: Solen Masters Book 1: Acacia’s Silence had longer delay: Chapter 19 is where Acacia and Niu first meet, and it got posted to in to Paid early Access, and expected to go Public on the 9th.