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My New Owner Told Me to Write This

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So that's what it took. I had to get a man to tell me to do it. Oh sure, when my friend Monica encourages me to journal I feel interested enough, sure. But she's a woman, she can't tell me what to do (she can very much and has  very much told me what to do)! I'm knot explaining absences or lack of things I said I'd write because the answers are obvious and boring and I have other things to say. Anwyas, so here's the deal: I finally found an owner. It just  happened and it probably happened maybe a little too fast, still pretty scared, but we both knew pretty quickly that I belonged to him and the question was never aboot desire or really even compatibility. There are technical things to resolve, sure, and other things like protocol, priorities, etc. I've always lived my life for other people but I've never before really lived it for, like... y'know... someone who wanted me. I'ma put a pin in that. That needs context. Meta context, second pin. The

Playing Every Doom Game in a Weird Order

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  After having recently lost everything, a friend of mine has started helping my put back together my digitally distributed games. This, unfortunately, includes the two newest DOOM games, as well as the DOOM 64 expansion. However, with these back, it kinda... y'know, makes me wanna play the things.     But now that I have EVERYTHING, I wanted to do it in this weird way I did back when DOOM 4 was new. I kinda sorta celebrated that a DOOM 4 existed by not just playing the new one, but all of them at once. Well, 1, 2, 3, and 4 at least. The way I did this is split them into sections, because they don't have an equal number of levels. The first has 3 episodes of 9 levels each, making 27, 2 and 3 have whole campaigns instead of episodes, 2 being 32 levels and 3 also being 27. 4 was the shortest of them at only 13 levels. But the kicker is, DOOM 4's levels are long and involved, and like the original Banjo-Kazooie can be 100%'d in one sitting. So by chopping the other three i

Godzilla Movie Thematic Taxonomy

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Deathiversary is coming up, a household tradition where over the course of 8 days we watch every Godzilla movie as a way of celebrating the fact that I've survived yet another year. I have ambitious plans this year and I've been putting in a lot of effort to make sure everything will be ready, but while I was taking a break, still with Godzilla firmly entrenched in my brain, I found myself playing around with those little tier maker things. You know, this one here:      The original Godzilla  lost its place as automatic first back in 2013 when a national vote figured out what we already knew but had been keeping a secret for a long time, that the actual greatest work of the human species is Godzilla vs. Biollante . Subsequent votes after the release of Shin Godzilla , which, it should be noted, was very new, and opened up an enormous new audience and "resurgence" of interest in the series, found that one to be #1 with Biollante  something like 3rd place was pretty tel

Dragons & Dragons #1: The Missing Missing Dragons Intro

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     I like the dragons from Dungeons & Dragons, like, a LOT. They're a thing where it's multiple versions of the same base thing with different colors and with each color having its own special properties, there's multiple groups of them with different themes that are roughly comparable, they fill out an alignment chart for the sake of filling out a chart... they're god damned DRAGONS... it's just all the best, most effective, and frankly kind of cheap ways of tickling my brain in that way that never fails to get me obsessed with something.     For a basic run down of like the bare minimum D&D dragons 101 class, and the stuff most are likely to already know, there's 15 main core dragons that anyone knows or cares about unless you're a completely hopeless dork like me. These 15 are neatly split into 3 septs of 5 dragons each based on their color scheme and alignment. You have the 5 evil chromatic dragons, who are red, blue, green, black, and white in