Raydio: It's probably not even Kaz's fault for the hiatus. As he has said multiple times: he's not the greatest at programming, so he has other people help him with it. This upcoming flash keeps getting brought up on terms like "this rain rendering is taking forever" or "the curser isn't working correctly". This is stuff that other people do and probably not kaz. I think. Idk, I'm just a reader! And could be completely wrong. I'm just tootin for an update soon, since kaz actually seems to be believing it will be coming shortly.

Skoon: @Makkon: I think you might misunderstand my position.

As I said, I am also a content creator. So I understand what that entails. I understand things falling through based on other schedules.

I have also been very supportive of Kaz. I have sent a few messages his way and have come to his defense on more than one occasion.

However, one major flaw in his execution is that whatever is holding this up is not being communicated to the fanbase. If something has gone wrong, we'd like to know.

Toryu-Mau: @Makkon: Agreed. As a meat person, Kaz requires adoration from fellow meat people to motivate progress.

Tam_Lin: @Streetwind: That is very kind of you to say! Now I'm glad I put in the effort, thank you so much for noticing :)

Makkon: @Tam_Lin: You might be right, I don't know Kaz that well and you guys have been in this fandom for much longer than me. I still hold the opinion that just because someone can take it doesn't mean it's an open invitation. Maybe your familiarity affords you some teasing.

@Skoon: I did misunderstand, sorry for the wall of text. It ended up being a brain-dump at everyone in general.

@Toryu-Mau: all meat-kind require sustenance. But also money, probably.

Tam_Lin: @Makkon: Never thought of it this way. I guess I mistook his lack of protest as permission to pick on him. He always struck me as the type who values unbridled honesty over social niceties but I see now that's not a reason to abandon manners altogether. Honest bullying is still bullying after all... I admit I have stepped out of line and apologize for any hurt feelings I might have caused.

Dawoc: The fact that there hasn't been an updated for 1,5 years doesn't really upset me, it's not like I don't have other things to sink my time into. At this point, I think a lot of fans (myself included) just want some semblance of transparency into what's actually keeping it, and if those answers were given, I believe it'd help a lot in calming the "fan-snark" down.

realbboy: @Dawoc: There already is a fair amount of transparency. One of the major things was that one of his collaborator's grandparents took a long time to die, and then after that they flaked out after Kaz manned up and gave them a deadline (Which was 6 months, I think), which forced him to hire a professional artist which he could have done from the start.
I think said background were shared over skype on stream, and Kaz has made the information public (if you stalk him like I do :P (Honestly he does need to do something to inform people outside of random disqus replies and unrecorded streams.)
A more recent issue was the rain rendering and cursor bug, although I think Kobal said he (Kobalstomo is a update programmer who hangs out in picarto stream chat like 16hr/7days) fixed the problem where the cursor blinks by applying Kaz's suggestion (Kaz actually told him to do it on stream) of just drawing it as a sprite and hiding the normal cursor.

There were probably a couple things I forgot, and I missed some streams as well as everything before like 2 months ago.

Dawoc: @realbboy: Fair enough, that makes sense. But yeah, might be a good idea to put stuff like this up on the site somewhere, rather than rely on hearsay. Not everyone hangs out on his streams or on Discord, after all.

PermanentFace: Whether its his fault or not, Kaz has to realize that this disaster of an update has irreversibly impacted the hearts and minds of his readers. I can't even imagine updates being regular things anymore.

realbboy: This was a reference to problem sleuth, where some artists were similarly merged together in a statue.

forestOverlord: http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=4&p=001033

fastolaf: The most feared of busts: Katirra Managrid.

Millie: That was a fun stream. The expressions are perfect

Raydio: Reminds me of the Wabbajack

Armored-Struggle-Wagon: Reminds me more of this.

Raydio: Have no idea where thats from, but I hate it.

Millie: the thing ASW reminds me of The Thing, actually

Millie: things ASW posted*

madmanransom: Kaz, pls.
(Just kidding. I'll be patient.)

PermanentFace: @madmanransom: You'll be patient, you say? You don't know the meaning of the word! I was there, ye, even when updates were semi-weekly! To fall so far...

Kazerad: I'm almost finished hiatusing, I swear. I didn't shoot her.

madmanransom: @Kazerad: Hey man, like I said, I have faith in you.
I did it for the memes.
Shit's funny, as much as I disagree with the message it sends.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Don't worry, I'm just fuckin' around.

Geravind:

Kazerad said:
I didn't shoot her.

Pronin said:
Don't worry... he was missing

He shot the nerd.

Raydio: Yes.

madmanransom: Here it is, without any stuff in the right margin.
http://imgur.com/a/mo3a2

madmanransom: Let's try this again:
I'll just post the damn image, then:

Glorious_Chairman_Meow: Truly, the finest example of graciously receiving criticism in the history of art. May this serve as an example to all future artists drawing satiricaly charged khajiit murders.

makimb0: fixed

madmanransom: @Glorious_Chairman_Meow: Are you implying I got my walters waddled?
Because I didn't really.
I fixed it because I wanted, not just the ones Pronin pointed out.
Hell, I still want to fix Kaz's face. Looks fucking nothing like him.

madmanransom: @madmanransom: forgive this broken reply,
The second sentence should read:
"I fixed it because I wanted to, not just because Pronin pointed out flaws."

Toryu-Mau: @Pronin: Looks like adding salt to salt results in... Progress? Great Success!

Enheldor: Relevant:

Maroc: I'm disappointed that there's no images about perpotionatly correct tails :o

tronn: I like this and I like you!

Triskelion: Woah, thank you guys

realbboy: @Enheldor: Can confirm, super-secret plan to re-write xkcd entirely in prequel is go.

picartosux: @realbboy: I'm not sure you grasp how massive XKCD is.

realbboy: @picartosux: https://xkcd.com/1110/
(Also it was a joke :P)

Toryu-Mau: Correction - Everyone is wrong on the internet.
Except the ones with an actual degree in what they are talking about.
No, Google is not a degree.

realbboy: @Toryu-Mau: 1+1=2
I don't have a degree in math.
What happens now? D: Does the universe explode or something?

Toryu-Mau: @realbboy: Nah, 1+1=Windows11

ITS: KAZERAD! AND THE NICE JEWISH LADY! DRAW A BURRITO PAINTING OF KATIA AND QUILL KISSING!

OMG!

Raydio: WHat

mesmatch: YES! Thats me! I feel honored to have made it into Kaz's art commissions. If you're not convinced its me, check the art I've uploaded.

Kazerad: Between the huge eyes and tiny hands, I feel like I had to have been very intoxicated when drawing this. Like, the more I drink the more my artwork looks like something ran through Photoshop's content aware scaling.

protofun: One month ago you made yourself a promise: you were going to turn your life around. You were going to get a real job, stay out of trouble, and not get into any more trouble with cults. Nobody thought you could do it; they said your questionable reputation, lack of any useful skills, and flagrant alcoholism would always hold you down.

But you had a plan.

You were going to start over, far from home. You pawned off your belongings, withdrew the rest of your inheritance, and narrowly managed to buy your way onto a bus straight to Kansas city.

And now you have arrived, alone and penniless in a completely alien town. Rounding up to the nearest week, you’ve been sober for an entire seven days. This is your chance to be whatever you want to be. Whoever you want to be.

You even bought yourself a fake passport with a new name. Something less ethnic, maybe suitably more central, to fit in in your new home.

protofun: I decided to make my own turn on a modern day Katia.
My first legit time animating something, it was fun, but hard as hell. It would be fun to re-make all the prequel like this, but I'm not a madman to do it.

Makkon: This... actually kinda works. I like it.

realbboy: @protofun: The nose flashes. :P
(Seriously though great job)

protofun: @realbboy: That damn nose. Only now I see it. Well, I dont think that I could handle my first try animating something without errors. Now she looks like a fine xmas tree.

Rick2tails: impressive work here even with the nose

Toryu-Mau: So this new town she migrated to is... "Mud Crab Springs"?
Yeah... stay away from the wells, and the mines.
Especially the mines.

Lykozze: Very good! I always wondered if we will one day have an Elder Scrolls set in modern times. If I could give you one advice it would be to keep the background a lot more simple. The .gif might have too many colors to deal with, resulting in these flashes (I think).

MikeyTheFox: Did this while the SAI binary livestream thingy.

Come on, we all know if you read Dragons Burn that when we saw Tig "Greg" for the first time we though "THATS KATIA"

Hell Tig did steal a pineapple and ended up in jail :V

MikeyTheFox: Also I am sad to see the lack of crossover of these three

Nefel: Oh man I need to reread/catch up on Dragon's Burn.

and of course we said "that's katia" mikey, it was clearly a prequel joke D:

MikeyTheFox: @Nefel: Oh I know, the references are uncanny. And thus why I love Tig

POMA: Btw why does Dink call her Greg? Is this some kind of slang/reference or just a random name?

Itriedmanitried: So maybe this is a weird place to post this but it is slightly relevant because of furry and crossover...anyways. JUST REALIZED that Markiplier is the brother of the dude who is the author of twokinds...WHAT!

Itriedmanitried: any ways are there any comment rules here?

Nefel: I'd go with the basic etiquette. Keep it PG-13

Maroc: Yes! I've been waiting for art like this heh

Dugar: "yes"

Ahan1899: Unbelievably, it took about three hours to draw this :(

madmanransom: @Ahan1899
Keep at it, lil' homie.
I believe in u.

mr_cat: 3 hours? hmm well it took ya 3 hours for the detail witch there is no problem with that the more detail the better butt it all depends on your skill and dedication on your drawing really other wise nice drawing!

Ahan1899: Yeah, my drawing skill sucks :/
It still need some work