{"id":4017,"date":"2020-12-07T16:45:17","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T16:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tokuti.me\/?p=4017"},"modified":"2020-12-07T16:45:17","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T16:45:17","slug":"toku-time-sitrep-12-7-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tokuti.me\/?p=4017","title":{"rendered":"Toku Time SITREP 12-7-20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey Toku Faithful. I know it&#8217;s been awhile since I gave an update so here&#8217;s what is going on and I&#8217;m here to give some A&#8217;s to the Q&#8217;s I&#8217;m sure you have.<\/p>\n<h3><!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>WHAT&#8217;S HOLDING UP THE NEXT REVIEW?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Aside from COVID, which I&#8217;ve done pretty good at avoiding, I&#8217;ve developed some recent health issues that I don&#8217;t feel comfortable going into detail about here. If you paid attention to my social media you may remember I was taken to the hospital recently. Now you know why. Let&#8217;s just say I&#8217;m paying the price for watching over 12 years of toku non-stop. It&#8217;s taken a toll on my brain and I can&#8217;t watch a series the way I used to. I can&#8217;t even watch it on my PC\/Laptop without developing bad headaches, lightheadedness, and shaking. It&#8217;s something that may never go away and I&#8217;ll probably have to live with for the rest of my life. Normally I would set aside a whole day to watch 20+ episodes of a show to take notes and form a script, I can&#8217;t do that anymore. Not to mention editing is one giant headache in and of itself. I&#8217;m having to see some more doctors about this so I&#8217;ll try and keep you updated on the situation.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>DOES THIS MEAN RETIREMENT?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know. The next three reviews are still on the table, a Kamen Rider trilogy culminating in the 100th episode. After that I&#8217;ll be taking some time off to get my life and health in order and to see if the world can recover from this COVID fiasco. I&#8217;ll still do Toku Riffs Live and Ranger Recap. Those aren&#8217;t going anywhere. I&#8217;m also feeling a tad inadequate given the rise of V-Tubers, i.e they are the future and people like me who sit in front of cameras are going the way of the VHS but we won&#8217;t dwell on that. So for right now I&#8217;m unsure about the future of Toku Time.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>WHAT ABOUT PATREON?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t done anything for my patrons in months and for that I&#8217;m exceedingly sorry. Currently I&#8217;m looking for a way to disable my Patreon without deleting it entirely so I can stop taking money I didn&#8217;t really earn. I&#8217;ve only been using the money to pay for my Vimeo (to keep videos up) and my Dropbox (for certain fans to download episodes to keep). If you&#8217;re a current Patron feel free to cancel your payments as of now. If you still want to donate to me I have a <a href=\"https:\/\/paypal.me\/TokuRiffsAL?locale.x=en_US\">PayPal button <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/hz\/wishlist\/ls\/1089Y8F2YJ9V6?ref_=wl_share\">my Amazon Wish List<\/a>. You can find them on the right panel of this website. Christmas is coming so I&#8217;d greatly appreciate some gifts if you&#8217;ve enjoyed my work in the past.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>WHAT HAPPENED TO THE TOKU TIME DISCORD?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>It&#8217;s gone. I&#8217;m still not sure what happened. I think I got hacked or someone somehow changed the settings but I decided to pull the plug on it myself. In the end it was for the best. Running the server and having to babysit a few rowdy members (I won&#8217;t name names here) was stressing me out big time so again, the hacker did me a favor in the end. Will I make another one? Maybe but I&#8217;ll be a lot more selective on who gets in. Once bitten, twice shy as the saying goes. You can still join the <a href=\"https:\/\/discord.gg\/5Y5gKSuNyW\">RVT Discord<\/a> of which I am part of and am usually on. I used to hold a weekly chat with fans but the aforementioned health problems have put a stop to that for the time being.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>100TH EPISODE FILMING<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>There&#8217;s still some filming I have to do for the storyline. I&#8217;m also doing some casting for some roles and I&#8217;m trying to get a cameo from a certain someone I know to be in the episode too but I don&#8217;t wanna give it away here. Speaking of roles, my good friend Mike (who plays Dr. Precisely) recently got married and I won&#8217;t even try to pull him away from his new wife. There&#8217;s several scenes I want to reshoot with him and given how cold it is right now that will have to wait. This time instead of filming as I go for storyline I want to film EVERYTHING in advance and edit it all together to release in a schedule. I&#8217;m still looking for cameos from you the fans. If you want to be in the 100th episode you can. Follow the link to learn how. <a href=\"http:\/\/tokuti.me\/100th-episode-cameo-rules\/\">http:\/\/tokuti.me\/100th-episode-cameo-rules\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the meantime I have acquired this sweet Kotaro Minami jacket which I plan to wear in a future review. Huge shout-out to ZeltraxMillenium for finding the website that made it for me.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4020\" src=\"https:\/\/moonwolf.site\/toku\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/EZ-RX.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"761\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tokuti.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/EZ-RX.jpg 1432w, https:\/\/tokuti.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/EZ-RX-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tokuti.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/EZ-RX-1024x616.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tokuti.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/EZ-RX-768x462.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 761px) 100vw, 761px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>A FRIEND IN NEED<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>And now to do a good deed for someone else. My good friend Dustin a.k.a Buck, whom you may know as TheNextDecade on Twitter, is in a very bad situation involving his house. He currently has a<a href=\"https:\/\/gf.me\/u\/za7cyd\"> GoFundMe<\/a> up and he&#8217;s about 2\/3rds of the way to his goal. It would mean a great deal to the both of us if you the Toku Faithful could send some coin his way. I thank you and he thanks you. Tell him the Rider sent you.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Well that&#8217;s all I&#8217;ve got for now. Remember you can find out anything and everything I&#8217;m doing by following me on Twitter. That&#8217;s usually where I post the most. Except Fridays when I&#8217;m livetweeting The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs. Things tend to get freaky then. Until we meet again, keep watching tokusatsu (responsibly).<\/p>\n<p>Later<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey Toku Faithful. I know it&#8217;s been awhile since I gave an update so here&#8217;s what is going on and I&#8217;m here to give some A&#8217;s to the Q&#8217;s I&#8217;m sure you have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sitrep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokuti.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokuti.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokuti.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokuti.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokuti.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tokuti.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokuti.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokuti.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokuti.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokuti.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}