Teeheehee! We tricked you! It was all April's Tricks! The looks on your collective faces were priceless. But now it's Clock Day for REAL! And you must all bear witness to us yet again as we subject you to another glorious round of wading through our endless spam! Rejoice!

Unfortunately though there was some truth to the matter of the previous news post: I was actually put to death. They shoved me off the tallest cliff in Clocktopia and my skull busted open like a mold-fuzzed cantaloupe against the jagged rocks below. I came back, though. Apparently there's a big dispute over which particular heavenly/demonic/purgatorial/astral/eldritch body has claim on my soul. So there was a bit of a custody battle going on for a little while over who that would get distributed to. Supposedly I've promised my very life essence to so many opposing parties that they deemed it would be entirely way too frustrating to sift through and just threw the case out entirely. So I get parole in the realm of the living. It's pretty neat.

Anyway my life story aside, I've created a film for you all to enjoy on our glorious for real Clock Day, on the day it has always and will forever be celebrated. Check it out and vote 5!:

I don't really have much to say on it. Being set back so long barely gave me any time to actually make anything for today, so I opted to recreate one of the worst films I have ever made while trying to preserve the raw angst that embodied it. As such, it's very much unchanged structurally besides, well, looking the way it does now. I promise you I'll have more talky bullshit in the future. I know you love talky bullshit. Hell, I love talky bullshit. I just love to listen to motherfuckers talk.

In other news, I updated the Pink Room Chronicles playlist to include a cover image that I did up in a day in-between runs of Noita.That Flash Flood series still lives rent-free in my mind and I am still enamoured that I actually managed to go through with it. It wouldn't be a news post made by me if I didn't ask you all to give it a look-see if you haven't.

Given that next year also happens to be a leap year, I might have to consider going back to the Flash Flood grind once February rolls around. There's been something I've been wanting to explore, and I think the Flash Flood format would be a fantastic way of doing it...

Fingers crossed!

In other news, our collab is now live! Everyone in the Crew worked really hard in finding old discarded movies from like 15 years ago and putting them in a neat little row for your viewing pleasure, so definitely check it out!

Other than that, please enjoy our Clock Day festivities, as is tradition, and Vote Five on God Damn Everything In Plain Sight.

And of course just like last year, I'd like to extend my sincerest thank yous to everyone who showed up to the Toronto Newgrounds Meetup this year, be they attendees from last year or new faces. It's incredible that this has become a yearly thing, and I'm hoping to meet more of you in the future. You guys rock immensely <3. Thanks for all the stickers.

I would like to formally apologise to Tom for being the only Clock Crew member in attendance on that day. From my recollection, you sounded so disappointed when I told you I was the only one there! Maybe one day we can roll out in droves and exersize a hostile takeover. Not likely though!

With that out of the way, I must return now to my newest and most passionate hobby in life: being incredibly annoying in the chatrooms of various streamers on twitch in a desperate attempt to stave off my soul-crushing loneliness. Because the affections of people that I will never know nor meet are more important to me than establishing myself in the real world. I love vtubers and I give them all of my money.

Happy Clock Day!!

XOXO Phono <3