Blade Hacksaw has escaped containment. Finally! Huzzah! I am no longer in the land of heat and sand. Still getting things back to normal. Expecting to be stateside in a couple days. Gonna try to do some cool stuff soon!

Remember that curry I was eating In Korea? About 1.5 years back. I ordered some out here and was slowly working through it. I had 8 of 'em and figured if I ate 1 a week, it'd run out at about the time when I was leaving. But that was about 100 days ago. I've been sitting on my last one.

Okay! I've muted 'dogs' and 'died'. Now I can finally be free'd of this constant string of pet death notifications! INSTANTLY "Last week, Muffins the cat passed away." I just have to mute it all then! I'll fix the algo myself! I don't cute animal pictures anyway now that we're in AI slop hell

Oh. Huh. Just noticed the date. Happy 6/7 day to those that celebrate, I guess. Is that a thing? That feels like a thing.

Looking over the stuff I wrote a month ago (a month! How has it been a month?) and I'm smiling and laughing at the prose. I remember being very put off by the stuff I wrote for the MC but I'm quite pleased with the supporting cast.

Still kicking. The days are just dragging. Trapped in sand hell with no projected out date. We're a little over a week away fromnthe 8 month mark. So that's devastating. Fantasizing about what to do when I get back. I want to do really low-effort self-improvement/co-work streams. And JRPGs. Someday

So. No longer feeling optimistic about leaving here. I think the gameplan is to keep us until the war is resolved. And I do not believe that is something this administration is capable of accomplishing. I think it's very possible I spend a full year here. Sure hope I'm wrong

Ruh roh, fell into a Yugioh hole and let it devour my attentions for a week. Iiiiiiii should get back to writing

7 months down. Very much hoping that there is not an 8th, but who knows

Huh! Just saw a bigass CREATURE. Looked like a face hugger spider mantis thing. Uhhh, don't watch this if you have arachnophobia, but otherwise look at this cool dude!

So, things are kind of normalizing. Just bought a fresh razor, the first I've had in a little over a month. I ran out during the time of troubles and we finally got a restock in. Shaving has been roooough. Less shaving and more pulling the hairs out my face with a dull blade.

Mama Hacksaw suddenly messaged me to talk about the Kentucky Derby. We have never spoken about horses ever. Apparently it was a miraculous from nowhere victory by Gold... Tempo. Huh. Interesting. Umamusume has influenced me in dangerous ways. Instantly checked the lineage and backstory. Cool face

More PS1 classic Granstream Saga. Laramee is ready to kill Eon but relents. She offers safety if he can bring her a bigass jewel. But this is a trap. The pirate treasure is rigged by a pressure weight. Korky the spirit beast helps by staging it all as a prank and Laramee decides to help out.

Right. So Valos gets a sidequest to rescue a child and teleports to an underground dungeon that was unearthed during the island chopping. Eon joins because he's a meddler. Various tropey things occur, essentially pegging Eon as a destined MC. Valos teleports the kids to town but stays to do stuff.

Okay. So, we've got MC Eon and mentor Valos here and they're chopping up this island. In the sky. Sky island. But why?

Still dealing with some stuff. I got a tooth pulled, did I mention that? It has been a great excuse to not do anything. Continuing that streak with Granstream saga, another classic PS1 title. This one is a little weird, start to finish. But hey, more 90s anime screenshots incoming.

Okay! And Thousand Arms is done. Final 2 dungeons were much faster and straight forward, no conplaints there. I liked thesr silly Magatama enemies. They just chill till they're injured. So, uh, yeah, winning strategy was to run away. Also, secret 6th flame and ghost master. Hey Jyabil.

Getting very close to the end of Thousand Arms. Disc 2 hit and they said, "Time to wrap this up!" Schmidt is done, Shaft is done, the enemy fortress is bested (after an extremely long dungeon crawl). Now we're pulling an FF4 and going to the moon. Need a break though. That dungeon was sooooo long

Doing a design doc for Zell on the protagonist, finally. Was thinking of doing a create a character/multiple choice thing, but I'm settling on one. But now I've got to figure out a design for the boooooy! I'm so bad at character design and I'm really struggling to put this one together. Buh

Muza out here about to drop machine slurs. Chill out man. And then the affinity up sound effect plays as Wyna says his name. That's what did it? Dang lady.

WOAH! That was so many frames of animation, holy crap! The 90s were built different! Meis over here sees a giant sword ship charging him, which we just saw destroy a city, and just blocks it. Yeah, casually block that.

Still Thousand Arms posting. 2 sacred flames and 2 evil mecha left. Did some poking around. Read that there was a girl in the ship that I missed, she's cute. Nelsha's been fun to have on the crew. Kyleen though... that coulda been Ratchet, all i'm saying. Her blush face is super cute tho

Oh helllll yeah, Ratchet encounter 2 and she's not working for the evil guys? She's just hanging out and goofing off? Surely we become friends after this! Right?

Oh no. She can't be a bad guy! Look at that face! This is a crime! Please give the option to fix her. The game has introduced a genius mechanic, puhleeeze let us be friends with the evil robot girl!

I can't believe: 1. DBFZ got another update and character. 2. That it's ANOTHER GOKU. There's, like, 13. That might not be an exaggeration. SSJ, Blue, Base, Gogeta Blue, SS4 Gogeta, Black, Kid, UI, Vegitto. That's 9. 10 if we count Fused Zanmasu, which still has a Goku in there. Add one more now

Eyyy, Happy Backdown Day! Indefinite ceasefire, that sounds nice. Now get me the hell out of here, si vous plait.

Hey Balde, you did some writing today, right? You didn't get diacouraged and say screw it? Yeah, sure, sure, shut up. I gotta answer this right or the cool pirate girl is gonna hate me

Been doing more thinking and writing. Think I'm restarting this thing again. I like one of the characters WAY too much, which is a new reason to restart. Predicting issues from them though. Trying again, take 3 for this story, this year. This is, like, take 7 overall, jeez

Im gonna do writing! Im gonna do character design docs to collaborate with artists! I've been doing so good lately! The foolish Blade, realizing his phone can emulate Playstation games:

Man. My backlog is insane. I still haven't played RE7 and 9 is out. Armored Core 6 and Nightrein are untouched. Wha hapu? Release me from the horrid grasp of the sands, I beg! This wasteland prison has overstayed itself! I'm throwing a tantrum right now, but in a very manly and cool way, promise.

Got a little writing done today. Wrote 700 words, realized I was bludgeoning the reader with exposition. Restarted, got another 500 out that was all character dynamics. Much better. I'll see if I can keep it up. Ready to get this thing started!

I was gonna make a 'still alive' post but it's ceasefire time still. Huh. I guess I'll post anyway. Hello. Happy time zone. Did some work on my writing thing. Zell showed me some more cool drafts. Now gonna take a 4 hour sleep and go to work.

Oh, you guys should see what Zell is cooking! She's the best! Very excited to show what's she's working on. Puhlease chech her out if you haven't. That's ZellisArt. Sadly, she is not in the Blue Skies and I can't convince her to abandon Twitter, but she's really cool!

I can't believe there's more Look Outside. The dev is a madman. Please buy and play the game of you haven't, or at least give it a peak. Deserves every ounce of recognition and more

Remember when Jules in Pulp Fiction had his moment of clarity, realizing that he was the villain and it was time for him to turn away from his path of violence? And he then successfully de-escalated a stupid, unnecessary conflict? That was cool. Talking about this for no particular reason, of course

I think my Mom just learned how to meme. Free Boots update. He smells ice cream

Ive been putting life on hold because im uncomfortable in THE DESERT. Gonna try to push past that. About 2 years ago, I was working on a little something I was calling EC. Back on it now. Doing some work with Zell on getting art made. She finished Greed here a ways back.

Well. Today was my original departure date. 180 days done. Alas, the situation is what it is. Guess I'll just keep working in the sand till this thing gets figured out. ...Yo, but these guys are NOT figuring this out. The administration lacks all traits needed to exit. We are in quagmire time.

You know, one of the really frustrating parts of this whole thing is I can't spend the money I'm getting. I can invest in my house, and that's smart and I'm doing it, but there are no longer little treats for me.

Blade_Sicksaw Please let me wake up and feel better pleasepleqseplease

Happy ceasefire day. Uh, yesterday. Would be nice to get out of here but I dont see that happening just yet, sadly

Been reading a lot of romance lately. Been having a good time. But man, something about what I'm reading now hits waaaaay too close to home. Been spending a lot of time pacing and thinking about HER. Broooooo, I thought I was over it. I thought I was gooood! Its been years!

Ive been bad about the updatea. Very distracted. Life is doing life things, of course, but my headspace is pretty good. Obsessed with this Dukerino guys work. Consuming it at a breakneck pace

Buhhh still alive post.

I have been absolutely obsessed with this work over the past few days. www.scribblehub.com/series/11556... A little smutty, but I'm in it for the characters. This guy NAILS it. Love his dialog, and I am just overwhelmed by how frequently and successfully the work makes emotional appeals

So! I thought this author retired 8 years ago! I have just discovered he returned to the internet 2 years ago under another handle. I stayed up WAY too late yesterday reading some of his new stuff. Did a lot of laughing, a lot of smiling, a little crying. I love this guy.

They shout, "Be humbled!" My pride screams in wild protest Staggered, unbalanced

Weird day today. Elbow macaroni MRE, the vegetarian option. Hmm

Menu 7, beef strips. Lets see how it goes

So, people have been very naughty and have been taking pictures and posting battle damage. Thats no beuno! And now leadership is threatening to eliminate internet access. So thats bad. Potentially full comm out from me in the future. So if i go silent, theres only the potential that its bad