The Musings Of The Consensus

 It's now 2021, and now the madness of 2020 is behind me, I wanted to share some resolutions I made for this year. 1. I am DONE with drama. I have severed any ties I had to communities that revolve around drama, except insofar as it occurs outside of my control. I quit the Kiwi Farms last year and intend to never return, nor join any successor. I intend to live as quiet a life as I am able and it's my solemn hope that my pledge to fade into the background for the foreseeable future means I am free of drama. In other sources of avoiding drama, i refuse to get worked up over social crap or politics. My life is too short to obsess over those things, and that's time better spent doing other things. In short, I seek to live quietly. My passion for social activism is DONE. I have settled on the communities, real-world and online, that I like, my choices are settled in that regard, mostly because they promise the least drama. 2. Seek to further learn new tech skills I've alway...

 On November 4th, people in the US still had not gotten decisive confirmation as the confirmed electoral votes for the election contest between Democrat candidate Joe Biden and Republican incumbent Donald Trump. The reason for this is accusations of fraud, that Biden was given a bunch of votes via ballot box stuffing and other similar illegal acts that artificially gave him more votes than he received, and even benefited from actions that disenfranchised those that voted for Trump in good faith. As a result of this, the fate of the electoral votes is now in limbo until we see if the claims of fraud have any legal substance or not via recounts and legal proceedings, much like how there was a similar question of legal concern settled in the 2000 elections over similar accusations of electoral foul play. This all said, below is my advice to both sides. I wanted Trump to win, but if Biden is the legitimate winner after the legal issues are settled, then I will accept that result. Anywa...

 This is something of a followup to my last post. First off, by my own admission on the Drunkard's Walk Forums, I'm not planning to ask for my mop and bucket on the Miraheze Branch back before Christmas at least. I pulled rank, made an ass of myself, and pissed off a lot of people. My cause may have been just, but the way I went about it was more emotional and reasoned and I broke the rules in doing so, so I elected to accept blame for that and am going to stick to maintaining the Wikia fork for now since it's kinda been playing second fiddle to the main branch for a long time. It's on that subject I'm releasing a few notes concerning how that has gone: 1. First off, I decided I was going to swing a huge ax and cut a ton of stupid crap like half-rotted pages with poor markup, spam, shitposts, and other garbage. That has been a success so far. 2. Second, I have attempted to modernize the look and feel and provide features comparable to our Miraheze branch, insofar as...

 One of my loves is the study of history, and George Washington, keenly aware of the responsibility he held as the first American President, remarked in regards to that responsibility that "the eyes of Argus are upon me", referring to the Grecian myth of a being with a hundred eyes. It was being aware of this prompted me to make a decision around September 11, 2020, to preemptively prevent the page "Cuties" from being created on All The Tropes. It was argued this was poorly considered, I should have asked for a vote on this, my fears were overblown, the substance of my fears was not a legal concern, and so on. I shall address those points and why I took the actions I did. 1. I won't lie, this was a decision made with a fair bit of moral indignation, but in my defense, if you AREN'T morally repulsed by child pornography, you are someone I don't want near the children in my family or anyone else's for that matter. That said, emotions aside, it was a sa...

 I write this because I have some friends who disagree on doctrine, theology, and so forth concerning Christianity. Some are Protestant, some are Catholic, some don't identify as anything in particular, but you can't swing a Bible without hitting half a dozen different Christians who all have a different perspective on the contents of the book in question. Fine, fair enough, we all have our own minds, expecting uniformity of opinion without mutual consensus is just not happening. However, where I facepalm to the point my hand has permanently creased my face are the types who are all "my way is the only way to properly honor God". Now, looking through the Bible, it seems there were many ways to glorify God, all of them praised by the Man Himself as valid. A craftsman was given approval by God for making the articles for the Tabernacle mentioned in the Books of the Law. God was immortalized in song and poetry by David, who, his faults aside, God was pleased with. David ...

 It's been a while since I've written anything, and the still ongoing riots are still tearing up various cities where useless, incompetent, and often outright corrupt political figures are simping for the lawless. Given how long they've been going on and how they now exist to simply give people an excuse to keep burning, looting, and in some cases even murdering (I could care less about BLM's alleged legitimate stances, they don't care about the lives of blacks from where I'm sitting, all they do is burn, loot, and murder while cynically claiming black lives matter) That said, it's quite obvious any legitimate, moderate, civil, and most of all actually honestly interested in seeking civil redress individuals are NOT part of BLM and their joined at the hip lunatic brethren in ANTIFA. Not at this point, assuming they did exist originally. All that's left are the dregs of society, scum who want an excuse to be savages, and worst of all, the politicians and ...

I've been following the news of late that RPG Maker MZ will release this summer, and while I'm mostly happy, as I had a few projects in RPG Maker MV I backburnered due to issues with it I hope MZ will address, the news so far is generally good, here are the highlights. 1. Codebase is still Javascript, but apparently, they rewrote the backend code quite a bit. Given JS could drool on good computers due to bad optimization, hopefully, this will ameliorate that. 2. Ships with a crapload of resources and are generally compatible with MV stuff out of the box. I can live with that. 3. Includes a lot of features to make it easier on noobs and lots of shortcuts for things like pathfinding for cutscenes, Good stuff here. 4. LAYERS. As in XP style stuff so you don't have to do complicated hacks to do things like being able to walk under bridges. Definitely a good thing. 5. Now added Active Time Battle as a default battle engine. Good deal. 6. Effeskeer powered particle-ba...