2025

Working on archiving everything I can get my hands on for FFCCCB is tedious and not so fun. I'm rewarded for my efforts in the end, but right now I'm staring down this absolute behemoth of a task and wondering what on earth I'm going to actually do about it. Reverse engineering a Wii game sounds super cool until you sit down and look at what's in front of you with the lense of someone who have never reverse engineered fucking anything ever. The absolute audacity and drive to learn, just so I can do it, goes crazy, though. I'm going to have to reinstall Linux, which is its own mess of issues. My drawing tablet hates Linux, several of my favorite games hate Linux, and the cosmos love to watch me fight to make them work regardless. But it would be easier. Life would be so much easier if I could ax Windows and jump to a operating system with whimsy in my heart and joy in my soul. As I'm looking into reverse engineering this nightmare, I've picked up on small stuff that sorta hit me like a somewhat fantastic idea. Like how, if I really wanted to, I could make these things work with my growing knowledge of programming and fucking with computers. Even if I brute force it, working is working. Duct tape for the soul.

Then there is the Complete Guide which should be here when the processing centers nearby have all had their turns holding it for like a day or two. I plan to debind it once I get appropriately sized page protectors, a binder big enough to handle it, and enough sticky notes to make my head spin. I want to translate it and even have a small pocket dictionary for common Japanese phrases and words. The sticky notes will be easy to place on the page protectors and replace as needed. I want to release the information in sections so that no one is waiting forever for me to get the entire book translated before they can get that one little piece of information they might be curious about. On top of that I have to go through the FFCCN website and translate articles, but that's so boring. It's not really as fun once I get the information I want. Sharing is caring but it's also really tedious in this case.

Then there is this website which I rebranded. This thing I had to redo from scratch because I think I got too comfortable with my old layout. I'd been so unwilling to mix up the formula because eEeEeEEuUuUuUgH hard work. I used a lot more JavaScript this time around, forcing myself to rely on it more, even if I could have gotten away with my usual CSS tricks. I want to expand out further into JavaScript without relying on too many premade chunks of code floating out in the wild. I spent thirty minutes fighting a line of code, wondering why it worked for someone else and not for me, when I realized fucking AI wrote it. The AI answer was confidently correct and pissed me off so bad I wrote most of my clock's script on my own by slapping together individual functions until something worked the way I wanted it to. Mindex, the script I made for this entire site to function with the phone on the left, is built off of the clock script. With nothing but pure hate and spitefulness against AI, I think I made something pretty cool for someone who's just winging it.

The rebranding is complete-ish. There are some loose ends to tie up, issues to iron out, and whatever else, but it is mostly done. I'm not worried about people tying this account to my old name, but I did have concerns about being Googled. Believe it or not, this is enough to distance myself from Asp.

With that being said, some things are off the table. I'm forgiving but I am no saint. Misgender me once, whatever. Misgender me twice, shame on you. Misgender me thrice, get blocked. I am a guy who likes cuter, softer themes. My favorite typing in Pokemon is fairy. I am gay. The jokes all write themselves and while I can take a good ribbing, I can dish them out, too. If you come at me with an insensitive joke, don't cry when I swing back with the same energy.

I'm also going to be a lot more open about a lot of things. Being 26 means some of these thoughts might be wildly inappropriate, but I'll bury them behind warnings that you should absolutely heed. I'll do my bit to help you curate your internet experience, but I won't baby you. I don't have the energy to run a pure SFW version of this site and even if I did I don't owe anyone that much effort.