Only one more day 'till America's birthday!

This one I'm definitely looking forward to. Call me jingostic if you's must,
but though I know the USA's a flawed gem, when it shines, it shines like no 
other place in the world! There may be a few cracks, a few scuff marks here and
there, and there might be a chunk of it missing worst-case, but I'm still proud
to be an American, and if you don't like it, neener neener, go cry in a corner.
(Halloween's still the best holiday, though.)

Other than that... still not a lot going on around here. Still a pretty boring
life over at the family home 'till I'm back at the academic grindstone... eh, 
I don't mind it. Sure as hell beats the dumpster fire going on in NYC or worse,
California. And even then, at least they don't gotta worry about being the poor
sods having to live in the UK: One wrong opinion, and off to jail you go. Thank
god for the Constitution, I'll tell you that much.

As for the goings-on and the ons-going... mostly just Doom/Heretic mapping, and
a new release of wepon.pk3, which hopefully should be included in a related 
linksoon. However, I've also been dipping my toes in DOS programming! Thanks to
good 'ol OpenWatcom, no longer does DOSBox, 86Box, and other related emulators
have to be glorified nostalgia programs: Homebrew's totally possible, and I 
really hope to have a game up and running on an 8088-based platform soon! 
Nothing too ambitious yet, probably a text-based game and a simple raycaster 
after that.

But, if I'm beinh honest, my procrastination and my lack of focus at the moment
is really not doing me any favors right now. I don't know if it's due to a full
-blown ADHD, ADD, or if I'm just simply lazy, but I really need to focus on my
hobbies. Scrolling Twitter does not help. I don't really participate in any-
thing overly poltiical, but the allure of anime titties is not helping me kick
the habit any. Bluesky isn't better, of course, but that just comes with the 
territory.

Problem-O Number-O Two-O: It's way too easy to fall into the rabbit hole of 
asking Large Language models over and over again for help. They might work as 
productivity multipliers, but it's too eas to become codepenent on the things,
and that's when vibe coding, and all the problems that come with it, start.
I already feel kinda dirty asking Claude/Gemini for help on what functions do,
or what some errors mean in certain contexts, I don't need me to make my 
problem worse!

I do wanna see about maybe releasing a commerical DOS game someday, but that's
gonna have to come later down the road, when I'm not a complete idiot on how 
rendering and code works. Or at the very least, try to find someone willing to
help me when I'm having the dumbest problems with code, and/or to find somone
willing to help keep my focus razor sharp, or even help me advertise and sell 
the game(s). And, y'know, totally not just sucker someone into doing my dirty 
bidding. Not that I'd EVER do THAT, of course!

Life in Linux world is still as unchanged as before, but at least most of the 
XLibre-related controversies over there died down. The fellas over at Alpine 
and Chimera aren't so lucky though, but at least there's a third party solution
out there so at least they's aint shit outta luck.

...and oh yeah the internet's also yelling at Sony a lot about shutting down 
physical releases. Reduced disc production sucks, but I never bought a Sony in
my life, so I don't care too much. I'm glad to have a PC. Might wanna consider
picking up the slack Sony's gonna leave behind though, disc manufacturers.

Anyways, U! S! A!
U! S! A!
U! S! A!