Rundown (8/10/2025) Goon Out To Your Thoughts, Bro!

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Goon Out To Your Thoughts, Bro!
• Yuke’s Bought Aquaplus! (WWE Developer Buys The Inventors of Modern Visual Novels)
• Natalie Rambles About REAL Online Censorship (Because I was Bored During A Meeting)
• Microsoft Killed Contraband (Because They NEED to Invest More in AI)

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Rundown Preamble Ramble:
Goon Out To Your Thoughts, Bro!

Currently, it is a bad time to be a creator of adult, queer, or otherwise ‘undesirable’ things on the internet. Legal restrictions have been imposed across the United Kingdom and are poised to arrive in other nations, forcing people to send government or facial ID to access a bloody porn site. Or fookin YouTube. Payment processors have declared war on adult, queer, or otherwise ‘undesirable’ creators after a tiny extremist group threw a hissy fit. Meaning I’ve had to make (almost) daily phone calls to tell them to cut that shit out. And with the general rise in fascism, we are in for another dark period for creators of erotic art.

I could talk about how this bodes for creators like me, who host free erotic literature on a website with zero age restrictions. How this could lead to hard times for the dozens of creators who make erotic art that I support via Patreon. How this, and the ongoing rampant wave of transphobia, could brand the entire genre of TSF as obscene and unworthy of legal protection in the US and allied countries. …But I don’t wanna talk about that depressing stuff. I want to talk about how freaking stupid this whole war on porn, erotica, or anything depicting sex or nudity, really is.

So, how should I discuss this? I could talk about how this or that prestigious or mainstream series or movie featured nudity or sex scenes. I could highlight how erotic fiction has been a staple of the publishing industry for decades upon decades. I could talk about how moronic it is that these illiterate puritans are lashing out against sex— a thing that is completely normal, healthy, and the literal nexus of life. Or how these same organizations support the US government’s genocide of the Palestinian race.

Akumako: “Uh, I think you mean the Israeli—”

You are Persian— you know that Israeli is primarily a tool for The West, i.e., American, to exert power over the Middle East and keep Arabs at the bottom of the global social order. The Israeli government is a White Supremacist organization. And most Jews are White before they are Jewish.

However, all of this is in vain because even if it becomes impossible for the average person to access pornography, they are not going to stop jerking off. If you deny a (heterosexual) man porn, he can always get off to lingerie photos, girls in swimsuits, thirst traps, or anything featuring a sexy woman. This is something that elder Millennials and Gen Xers have ample experience with.

Adolescent boys in the 80s and 90s without access to internet porn would just bust out the Sears Wish Book and make mad cummies over the lingerie section. Or they’d or buy a Marvel swimsuit issue, the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated. Or they’d futz with cable or find a music video on TV they could work their penis to. These people did not need porn. Their fathers did not need porn either, and were lucky if they could find some old wet woods porn left out by a pedophile.

Adolescent girls of the 80s and 90s… just needed a boy band poster and a pillow, and they were good-2-go. Or, when they got a bit older, a spicy romance novel was all many needed. No sex required, just some teasing, tender touching, and loving embraces. Shit, back in the Good Times of Dubba-Dubba-Won and Dubba-Dubba-Deux, men were shipped off to war with only a teensy headshot of their sweetie to keep them going every cold and murky night. Just And they made it work! Which is they are the Greatest Genocide Generation!

No matter what sort of crack(er)ing down someone does, the human mind cannot be restricted or refrained. You can try by pushing these stupid cyberpunk dystopian subscription-based brain implants. You could try to censor language à la George Orwell’s Literally 1984 (1949) or the self-selected censoring that numbnuts are trying to push as Newspeak. But people have powerful imaginations. And while one might think that ‘kids these days’ are different, that they were spoiled for choice having unrestricted access to internet porn at age 12, I don’t think so. Why? Well, there is a burgeoning generation who grew up with child-locked access to the internet, who were not able to see things that were NSFW, and trained themselves to get off onto things that are not explicit yet undeniably sexy. And we can see this with the rise of TikTok and gooning culture.

Akumako: “Fuck’s sake, not everything is a culture.”

I was italicizing it for a reason. I was being coy, cute, a bit of a li’l shit, ya big shit.

Okay, so, a bit of a definitional clarification. I thought that gooning was merely a new YouthSpeak™ term for edging, à la cuck for cuckhold, rizz for charisma, gyatt for pussy a fine ass, et cetera. But based on how the term is being used nowadays, particularly with people prefixing games or anime or the like with gooner, I realize that the term is really just a 2020s version of fap. It’s just a new euphemism for masturbation. Gooner is just a fancy-dancy term for chronic masturbator, coomer, or what have you. Some greater meaning was probably intended, but the term has been smoothed out over time, because language loves the LCD.

I see how gynesexuals refer to games like Nikke, Zenless Zone Zero, Stellar Blade, and various other Asian live service titles as gooner games. Titles that emphasizing the curvaceous female characters dressed in tight form-fitting clothing, but have varying level of plausible deniability. The games lack explicit content, they have elaborate stories with ample world building and gameplay that has some teeth to it. They are reserved enough to only warrant a T for Teen rating in many instances. …Yet people actively masturbate to them— and maybe passively masturbate to them, which is when you cum with no physical stimulation. They goon to the fan art of the female characters, art often no more lewd than a bikini photo. These games, by all extent, are playing in accordance to the rules, avoid crossing the lines across many cultures and standards.

Then there is TikTok, which is full of a bit of everything, but I know that dance culture—

Akumako: “You’re just doing this to annoy me, aren’t you?”

—that the lascivious gyrations of sultry minor teen-age girls with breasts and behinds of a magnitude uncharacteristic for their age and/or race—

Akumako: “Please tell me you’re quoting that from somewhere…”

—Was and remains a core draw to many people, because just watching a hot woman dance can be enough for someone to get off. Not idol dancing, but street dancing in a style pioneered by Black woman. Because Black people are the epicenter for most good culture, and have been for at least 60 years at this point. This shift towards getting off to more innocuous clearly non-explicit materials, slots nicely with the commonly recited factoid that The Youths are becoming less interested in sex, just in general, as—

Akumako: “Because how can you fuck in your car if you don’t have a car? How can you fuck at school if you’re taking remote classes. How can you fuck in the third space when there are none aside from the woods? Or how can you fuck in your house when your parents are still home and you live in an 8 square meter shoebox?”

…Yeppers! You bonked that Bismark right on the noggin~!

Akumako: “Good, now stay focused!”

So long as people get to post thirst traps of hot people wearing hot clothes, so long as people get to post their saucy fanfics, so long as Amazon sells erotica, and so long as people are allowed to draw anime women, people are gonna have no shortage of things to jerk off to.

Akumako: “You wanna check yourself and make sure that you aren’t misunderstanding reality? …Like you wanton do?”

Huh? Y’all already know how I get off. I don’t actually like looking at nudity— I prefer when things are just mosaiced, and I don’t even like looking at nipples. I mostly get off to photo-based TG Captions— been an enjoyer of Mostly Swap Caps as of late— and my mind. It’s pretty much always been how I get off, and the only time I’ve actively watched proper flesh and jibblies porn was for research purposes.

Akumako: “You expect anyone to buy that?”

Literally the only live action porn I’ve finished (haha) or referenced was RCT-024. A Natalie.TF Canon work that directly inspired TSF Series #013: Delusion Kamera – Poolside Switching and TSF Series #015: JK no Sarariman – A Turnabout of Despair. Two pieces of fine literature.

Akumako: “Fuck you.”

Thank you, ma’am~!

Akumako: “Also, you are a statistical outlier. You don’t represent any group. You even masturbate like a puritan.”

True. I do it with a tissue, keep my pants and underwear on, and like to do it while lying down in my bed. I then rub my vagina with my hand using the tension of the blanket, pants, underwear, and tissue to apply stronger pressure.

Akumako: “…Yeah. The fuck is up with that?”

Oh, you think that’s weird? Lemme dredge you up an old story! The first time I ever came was on my fifteenth birthday. I was home alone, my mother was working her second job (because recession) reading some Sonic The Hedgehog X Amy Rose body swap fanfic on DeviantArt (it has since been lost media’d). It was vanilla, blasé, and PG at most. But that didn’t stop me from just vigorously cranking my cock to that shit until I started cumming onto the floor, thinking I broke my penis. …I didn’t know what cum and orgasms were, because nobody had told me, alright? They didn’t cover that shit in my Bush-era health classes.

Akumako: “For a trans woman, you described your penis with an awful lot of… reverence there.”

Huh? Dicks are great, they’re fun to play around with and look cool. The part that’s real bad about male genitalia is the balls. Balls are the worst part of any human body ever created. There is no better evidence that God does not exist than having sagging sweaty balls on a hot summer’s day. Because who the fuck would ever design something like that? A pervert, that’s who!

Akumako: “Then why didn’t you just get an orchiectomy?”

Because dicks are gross, they get in the way however possible, look like shit when you’re just trying to piss out of them, and crumple up in this sad little mini hot dog when they’re not being stimulated. It just got in the way. I was committed to this classical idea that being trans meant getting your equipment changed at some point. And if I was going to spend the rest of my life as a woman, I didn’t want this lingering male trait attached to me. I didn’t want to wear a gaff for another eight damn years. I wanted to get rid of my male traits. And now that I’m… 2.5 years into this having a vagina thang, I’m good. No regrets! It’s comfy, convenient, compact, looks nice, and my only complaints are the semi-visible pluckable hairs and occasional urine misfires.

Akumako: “…Wasn’t this supposed to be about masturbation? You locked me into your chaos loop, you bitch!”

That’s what happens! When I get excited about things, my brain goes in a bunch of different directions. It’s why I need to break down reviews into segments and need to do this long-form AT4W like coverage of things for TSF Showcase. And it’s only getting worse as my dayjob becomes increasingly fragmented, I am given oodles of micro-breaks, and I keep on checking websites as a form of stimming. But that’s not really new for me.

Anyways! On with the Fundown, as it’s a fortunately slim showing this week!

…Also, this week’s Rundown header is a mishmash of a To Love Ru Darkness OVA, a panel from I Love Yuri and I Got Bodyswapped with a Fujoshi! by Ajiichi, and a photo of me, pretending to masturbate under a blanket. Because masturbation is better with cloth!

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Yuke’s Bought Aquaplus!
(WWE Developer Buys The Inventors of Modern Visual Novels)

…Well, this is an unexpected development.

So, time to reiterate a history lesson I’ve given a couple times before. The formation of the Japanese adventure game slash visual novel genre is a storied history that I learn bits and pieces of every couple months, but the gist is this. The 80s and 90s were a time or rapid experimentation and iteration in story-driven Japanese video games, with a messy yet deeply fascinating lineage of games that almost exclusively did not come out in English. Thus making them not part of the White American Video Game Canon that I keep yapping about.

There were a handful of really important companies in making visual novels a genre, and one of the most influential was a humble little company called Leaf. A small group of creators that looked at the growing popularity of narratively rich adventure games hitting the Japanese market and desired to refine them. To filter away their more cryptic elements or reflex-based challenges, and instead focus on their story and characters above all else. This began an incredibly influential run of games throughout the late 90s, spanning horror, romance, comedy and genuine adult drama. Though, their biggest one was easily ToHeart (1997), which is debatably where the modern western idea of a ‘quirky, cozy, high school dating sim’ was crystallized, despite having never come out in the Western market until… earlier this summer.

But for as important as Leaf’s games were, we also have to thank them for coining the term visual novel with their initial run of games, the Leaf Visual Novel Series. To be clear, Leaf did not invent visual novels. They just coined the term. In Japan, ‘visual novels’ are just called adventure games, or novel games, but the term visual novel took off in the Anglosphere after an American publisher, Hirameki, used the term visual novel to sell their AnimePlay line of visual novels for PC and DVD players. Frankly, I think it is good that they did that, as I think visual novel sounds is descriptive than novel game. Audiovisual novel would be more accurate, but that’s splitting hairs.

Leaf maintained relevance going into the 2000s, but their tactics as a company began to diverge. The Japanese PC gaming market was on a decline, the console market was on its mythical post-PS2 downturn, and many of their efforts switched from adult games with all-ages versions. And as part of this shift, Leaf fell more into the background and the parent company, Aquaplus, became the main face of many of Leaf’s IPs. This was true as they pumped out sequels such as the cutely dubbed ToHeart 2 (2004). The lauded White Album 2 (2010), oft considered one of the best visual novels of all time by those who can read Japanese. But their biggest fascination, and money-maker, quickly became the Utawarerumono series of visual novel strategy RPGs. The series saw a flurry of expansions throughout the 2010s, leading into Monochrome Mobius: Rights and Wrongs Forgotten (2022), one of the most jank-ass AA RPGs that I have ever seen. And I know jank.

Shortly after the… less than ideal release of Monochrome Mobius— I think the game only sold maybe 50,000 units— Aquaplus was acquired by a company called CREST, a subsidiary of HIKE, who are a subsidiary of Pole to Win Holdings, Inc. This was an understandable sale, as game development is expensive, risky, and managing IP expansion is a lot easier when working with a larger company with broader expertise. Now, has this amounted to much? …No, not really. Aquaplus has only been part of Pole to Win for a little under 3 years, and their only major new release was their 2025 remake of ToHeart.

However, HIKE is selling itself off, separating from Pole to Win, for… reasons that are not relevant. As part of this planned sale, Aquaplus is being sold separately. Now, for as much as I will praise Leaf/Aquaplus as a studio, they are ultimately a very niche entity, and despite a push to localize and port their back catalog in recent years, this fact remains true. So this is either a wise move, or an act of kindness to the company, as it allows them to fall into the hands of someone who appreciates them.

…But I would have never guessed that company would be Yuke’s. Yes, Yuke’s! Developer of WWE games from 2002 to 2018, the blocky bug blaster Earth Defense Force: World Brothers (2020), the terribad looking Double Dragon Revive, and the Simple 2000-ass schoolgirl robot-killing action game Full Metal Schoolgirl. Literally one of the last companies I would guess, mostly because I thought Yuke’s had no money. You don’t snuggle up with D3 if you’re flush with cash!

…Then I looked at their financials, and Yuke’s seems pretty healthy, with the exception of their 2024 financials, where they had an extraordinary loss thanks to DC Dual Force (2023), a collectible card game for PC that existed for less than five months before shutting down. …Why the hell were they making a card game live service? …And why isn’t this linked on their Wikipedia page? (Sajah, could you please fix that?) That was roughly an $11 million loss, but Yuke’s has more than that just sitting in their cash accounts. Their balance sheet is clean, liabilities are pretty slim, excluding almost a million dollars in ‘other liabilities.’ They are a profitable company, and have enough cash on hand to eat a bad project.

Now, does their brand synergize or mesh well with Aquaplus? No. There is precious little overlap. I can only assume this trade went through because of some interpersonal connection rather than a business connection. …Or maybe Yuke’s thinks they could make a good ToHeart action game. Point is, the sale will be enacted later this month, where Yuke’s will pay a trim 783,520,000 yen, or $5.3 million, for this legendary and historically vital studio. Which… seriously? You can buy a studio like this for such little money? That’s terrifying! I know a couple guys who could buy that and not even sweat it!

Okay, that took way long to unpack, as everything does nowadays. If you want to know the full history of Leaf, Bowl of Lentils made a genuinely fantastic video on the subject.

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Natalie Rambles About REAL Online Censorship
(Because I was Bored During A Meeting)

The past week— or two weeks since these Rundowns exist in a slight temporal delay— people have noted the wildly aggressive push that tech companies, governments, and the powerful have been attempting to clamp down on the internet. On locking it down from being a public forum, town square, or place for people to anonymously interact with a rise in legally mandated ID verification. This is something I am naturally against as it is, well, stupid.

What these powerful entities are doing is they are mandating ID verification, or trying to, on access to the basic and broader internet. Not just to access hot sex and hotter violence, but every advertisement driven platform where companies are able to sell user data in order to make money. Or, in other words, most social media platforms and many, many other similarly aligned sites. Any website that is considered ‘an app’ in common parlance is vulnerable to this, any of the colorful SVGs that people like to use to represent the modern internet. At this rate, eventually, things like creating a new Google account, free email address, or a new social media account with Facebook will require photo ID verification. You already cannot really access Facebook without making a Facebook account, so why not do the same for Facebook Photos (Instagram) or Facebook Twitter (Threads). Why not go all out?

Now, one might be asking… why do this? Well, the core answer is simple. Because these companies, and many governments in the western world, are openly lusting towards authoritarianism. They want control above all else. Because control is power. Because data is power. Because their business models involve exploiting their users in whatever way possible. So, of course they will want to know what their users look like, where they live, what their ID number is, what their SSN is, what they like, and what they are feeling.

The secondary answer is monetization. Tech companies sell users’ data, use it as a way to feed them targeted, more lucrative, advertisements, and use it to siphon money from them. Both to perpetuate the fantasy of infinite growth and also to keep the working class in the working class by preventing them from accruing wealth, because they keep buying consumer goods. They will continue to strap people of their meager savings, line their own coffers, and also sell new ID verification services, such as Peter “The Reptile” Thiel’s Persona, currently scanning children’s faces so they can play Roblox. …Scans that The Reptile, or one of his friends, will use to create AI generated child porn. Mo’ problems means mo’ money for big tech companies.

While the second secondary answer is good old government control. Governments want as much information on their citizens as possible so they can police them more effectively. They want to scare any who think of opposing their increasingly authoritarian regimes. And for those who cross the line, the governments of the West have proven themselves to be enthusiastic when it comes to murdering, enslaving, or systematically discriminating against undesirables. Mostly marginalized groups, but also the bad Whites. Not pedophiles or serial killers though. Those (dis)honorable chaps are merely manifesting their destiny, just as Jesus of Nazareth III intended.

What is the end game? Growth for the sake of growth, power for the sake of power, and cruelty for the sake of feeling like a BIG MAN with a dick that kills. Beyond that? Who knows! Maybe they will just make digital AI-powered simulacrums of people so they can steal all the money in the world. That would be hella illegal, but corporations legally can’t be held accountable for their actions. (At least that’s what would happen under the current SCOTUS if they had their way.)

They are just hoping people will roll over and let this happen, but there is at least one good way to get these people to stop such heinous acts. Be really fucking annoying about it. Protest, call your representatives, mail them letters, and be a damn nuisance. Waste their time, waste their money, and make your hatred know and rampant to hurt their feelings. Because all billionaires are fickle egotistical pissbabies who hate seeing their popularity polls drop.

Or, if that does not work, there is always the alternative method that has been sadly absent over the past 8 months. Unfortunately, I cannot recommend alcohol, masonry, and fire under the current burgeoning surveillance state, and the American People have continued to disappoint me with their passive nature. Nobody wants to be a Waluigi, Wario, LHO VII, or even Daisy.

While the third thing one can do is just… divest from whatever big online service you can. Stop using Gmail and buy a new email address. Stop giving Microsoft money. Cancel your Game Pass and just buy games at deep discounts. Switch your search engine from Google to DuckDuckGo or something saucier. Stop using Chrome or Edge as your browser, even if ‘it’s fine.’ Firefox is easy and there are de-Googled Chrome variants you can find if you need certain extension. And… I guess sites like Reddit are going to fall off a cliff in usability. I’m in Chicago, and they blocked me from visiting majors-only Subreddits. Thanks. I only use Reddit once a week, but I guess that’ll drop down to zero now. No more Subreddit RSSes for me!

If sites start forcing this ID verification, DO NOT give them anything. I regularly use a small collection of online sites and services. YouTube, Nebula, WordPress, Wikipedia, Bluesky, DeviantArt, Pixiv, ResetEra, Patreon, Discord, and various blogs and news sites I follow via RSS. But if ANY of them dare that I must verify my ID before I can use them, I will simply stop using them.

YouTube is my most used site by far due to the deluge of video content. But if is forces me to scan my face, guess I’m just not going to watch hundreds of creators, and guess I’ll need to cancel my Premium subscription. If Discord requires me to scan my face to talk to my friends, I guess I’ll just stop talking to my friends! if Patreon does this shit? Well, guess they lose out on a damn whale putting up over $1,400 a year. If WordPress has the AUDACITY to demand that I verify who I am with my 13-year-old account, then… guess I’ll need to move my site! That’s sure to be FUN! Oh, and I’ll do the same if WordPress forces you, my readers, to scan your faces to view my site.

Now, I don’t think I need to worry about any site I give money to— they already have my credit card info. And I also feel that this venture is ultimately doomed to fail (eventually). It is literally impossible to implement ID verification across the entire internet, as nobody knows the true scope and magnitude of the internet. There are always going to be niches, communities that are not monitored or locked down from government eyes, and places that skirt around content restrictions by delisting it within a few hours or days. Websites will always be able to impose different restrictions on different nations. And while VPN crackdowns might seem to work, it is only a matter of time before a new alternative is found.

That being said, under these rules, it will be drastically harder for people to be anonymous on the internet. Some people like to use pseudonyms, never share their face, location, or personal details, and exist as a ghost online, keeping their head down. They like to pop an incognito window just to avoid getting tracked and keep their browser history svelte. Which is vitally important. They might have nothing to hide, but that is not a justification for surveillance.

Online privacy something I highly value… while not at all practicing myself. My legal name is my main alias online. Video of me and my voice can easily be found on YouTube, and Natalie.TF is lousy with a girthing excess of personal information that you could probably feed it to an LLM and create a decently convincing Natalie Neumann chatbot. I ain’t got shit to hide, but that does not mean I’m going to let the government boss me around like I’m some damn criminal. Motherfucker, I’m a tax accountant.

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Microsoft Killed Contraband
(Because They NEED to Invest More in AI)

Huh. Took a month to get to this point, and that’s the real surprise here.

Contraband was announced at E3 2021 as a Microsoft published game from the Swedish Just Cause developer, Avalanche Studios. It was only given a brief CG trailer, and scant details about it being an open world co-op smuggler game, with no gameplay or additional, tangible, details revealed in the past four years. The game was likely announced early to curb leaks, strengthen recruiting, and bolster a line-up with a new logo, but that’s not strictly a bad thing. …However, when a game like this goes four years without a second trailer, there is reason to grow concerned. …And after Xbox ‘officially died’ last month, I’m expecting them to slash down dozens of projects, just for the sake of freeing up cash. Because Microsoft believes in AI more than anything else.

Avalanche, via their official website, announced that Contraband is no longer in active development, which sure sounds like the game is canceled, or at least has lost its publisher.

This sucks for Avalanche, sucks for the developers, and shows Microsoft to be an unreliable publisher who all development studios should avoid. They have shown themselves to be willing to cancel contracts and leave developers with half-finished games that need tens of millions of dollars to put out. And they have shown the broader public that any game they announced could easily be canceled after years of anticipation.

…That’s about it. We done, yo!

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Progress Report 2025-08-10

…To cap things off by reprising a prior topic, I think it finally clicked for me why people use Spotify and those dumb wireless earbuds. Because modern phones just make everything else too much of a pain in the ass. Spotify is a terrible blight on the realm of audio, but it is on everything, has everything, and just works well enough. It lets people listen to something regardless of where they are, and maintain continuity. Phone companies want this, because streaming music uses more data, using a phone as a music player uses more data. And phone manufacturers want this, because they don’t want you to feel like a phone is anything more than a gateway to apps, not software.

And, as everybody knows, the headphone jack was removed so Apple could sell their dumb earbuds that only last a few years and let you walk around like a jackass, saying you’re on the phone. Yes, yes, they do have a benefit of not having a wire dangling down so you can listen to them while gardening or cleaning or whatever. But I am strongly against paying $50 for something when you can get good quality earbuds that last 2+ years for $12. It used to be $10, but The Bad Man decided that he wanted to implement an egregious Federal sales on foreign goods so he can afford to pay violent (self-described Caucasoid) thugs to be his goon squad.

I don’t think The Children actually want Spotify or to pay these high prices for hardware designed to die. They just have been denied the option for something different through the power of pain-in-the-assery. Because on a modern phone, it’s either that… or playing audio from your speakers. Which is a valid option for audio aside from music, but only if you are alone. Nobody wants to hear someone else’s shit. It’s why I prefer doing the dishes when my mother’s out of the house, so I can play a video on my phone as I engage in tedium.

Also, I tend to be pretty bad at actually listening to music, if only due to the prevalence of online videos (YouTube and Nebula). I tend to mostly listen to it while writing, reading, working, and the like.

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2025-08-03: Woke up, did some Doukyuusei, watched Higurashi with the girls, then did a bunch of work for a crypto client, then more Doukyuusei. Very boring day, and progress on Doukyuusei was slow, because the game’s just so damn complicated. I thought this game would be 25 hours tops, but this is easily going to be 40 hours for me because of all of this walkthrough bullshit.

2025-08-04: Wrote 1,800 word ramble to do some venting and indulging. Wrote 1,000 word Yuke’s bit, which is a great example of how long it takes me to write things that should be routine, as I changed the framing twice, had to look up financial reports for multiple companies, and do some Wikipedia refreshes. I learned all of this stuff, but I need the Wikipedias to help me remember, and mister Moby Games. Also, I had BIG PLANS to just buy a Switch 2 when a credit card of mine was having this big extra cashback deal, 15.6% cashback on purchases, but it turns out that it does not work on buying video game hardware. THANKS FOR LETTING ME KNOW AHEAD OF TIME! Not like I was planning this for over a week! Then I spent so much time trying to see if other deals applies that the bloody thing went out of stock again. GREAT! Should’ve bought it in July! Fuck these stupid cashback bonuses, dude.

2025-08-05: Welp! Started work at 10:30 AM, stopped working at 02:10 AM. Took maybe 90 minutes off to do dishes, exercise, and my shower. So I got jack shit done regarding Natalie.TF today, but I made my boss $2,000! …Also, a banking sign-on bonus for $450 just cleared and my gold buying ventures have given me $400 in cashback rewards. You know what that means? Imma buy a Switch 2 with no regrets! …Now to wait for when/if they come back in stock.

2025-08-06: Wrote the 1,300 word online censorship bit and made some header images. Then went back to Doukyuusei. Another worky-work day, nothing special to say.

2025-08-07: Added quick Contraband bit, edited the Fundown, got it ret-2-go. Finished the main playthrough of Doukyuusei. Game is very good, but fffuuuucccckkkk the life sim elements. They are WAY too complicated.

2025-08-08: Got distracted by work and chatting with friends, but I managed to wrap up Doukyuusei at a trim… 49.6 hours. Which is over 50 considering I also played around with the JAST release of the game. And even more when considering I was cleaning up the walkthrough outside of the game. …But like 5 hours less, because I checked Discord, my sites, and grabbed food while playing. Great game, shitty navigation, really glad that I played it, if only so I could make a walkthrough that I can share with others. I am an accessibility feature!

2025-08-09: Wrote the draft for the Doukyuusei review, 4,600 words. Reviewed the walkthrough, and will post it tomorrow because I don’t feel like doing it today.

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