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We plan artpacks quite some time in advance, mostly out of an understanding that people don't want to see Christmas-themed art in January -- OK, stash that stuff away for the following December. Anticipate enough of the year's milestones (Valentine's, April Fool's, Hallowe'en) and to some extent your itinerary gets largely plotted out on autopilot. But from time to time there are openings, where you can indulge other themes or call a thematic amnesty and just share a big pile of odds and ends. This month's collection is partially seasonally themed, and was mostly planned and curated for a June release, but we got overwhelmed by high quality artwork of an unthemed nature. We like to do at least one artpack every summer that celebrates the natural world, as many of us make plans involving going out and indulging in it at its best. The zeitgeist is reflected in our creations! In the case of this collection, it includes plants, animals, landscapes, weather phenomena and various forms of outdoor recreation -- both nostalgically conducted in an absence of social distancing, and critically viewed through a current lens. But then Cthulu's computer, on which he has sweated over every Mistigris artpack release since our 2014 reunion, suddenly died, thrown into a weird variety of Windows 7 kernel panic. Nature abhors a vacuum. But this eventuality had been to some extent anticipated. All Mistigris incoming directories are mirrored on the cloud, in one of the all-time greatest virtual accumulations of "slush", so the artpack release was still possible. But bereft of the usual production environment, more hands were needed on deck, beneath Cthulu's studied guidance -- no one has ever put together an artpack on a smartphone, and we wouldn't be hitting that milestone.. at least, not this time around. But by sharing around the nutty duties Cthulu has convinced himself are required to turn a directory full of random computer art into an artpack, we would still somehow be able to push this one out on schedule! Then Cthulu's cracked filling, which had quietly lurked uneventfully for two months, suddenly revealed itself to be an emergency root canal somehow at once in urgent need of attention and unable to receive proper treatment for a month. At least there had been no pain! Oh, wait a sec.. through Heisenberg's dentistry principle, by observing this state, we had changed it. Actually, it hurt quite a bit! But all the same.. the show must go on! (Really, to Cthulu, nothing hurts quite as bad as being denied the opportunity to write an infofile!) Nature vs. nurture. So even though packaging the artpack has been a solitary affair since our reunion (barring mattmatthew's help in recolouring that collection's infofile on Hallowe'en), for the first time this confluence of complicating factors led to the impromptu emergence of an ad hoc senior staff to help ease the production off the assembly line. So I'd like to devote this paragraph for enormous thanks to the tireless LDA, Picrotoxin, and Mavrik, who not only did the work, but were able to put up with my insufferable "guidance" in so doing. A huge thanks also to Zeus II for immediately rising to the challenge of relieving my hardware failure! And for the work that you can actually see for yourself, and that isn't merely implied -- congrats to The Odd Fire Cat for basically reading Cthulu's mind in the commission of this collection's FILE_ID.DIZ art, and a huge, massive hats off to Malice for deciding, out of the blue, to try her hand at text mode art typography again for the first time in a generation. Our sincere social media congratulations for her efforts translated into the creation of the ANSI art logo you can see and enjoy atop this info file, her first appearance in an artpack this century! (We should also extend some congratulations to CoaXCable for the placing achievements his works made in demoparties this summer.. we would elaborate, but we are limited in just how much we can say about them as he hasn't actually quite gotten around to submitting them yet 8) ) Thanks to mx for giving us an excuse to check up on what Phatal's been up to over the past few years! Our September artpack collection will be revisiting subjects from the world of the silver screen, so if you'd like to send in any art celebrating movies, please hit us up at info@mistigris.org! A big thanks to warpus and Discofunk 1974 for providing the memberlist logo last minute from the most recent Sauna #2 pack. If you can believe it, a memberlist wasn't even on the menu but we've scrounged one up for you folks. See you all next month! SAUCE00MIST0820 Malice & Cthulu Mistigris 20200824^)PnIBM VGA