I keep thinking about that bread, and it has occurred to me that the wimpy, crumbly skeletons in castlevania games, instead of throwing their bones at protagonists destined to shatter them in a single attack could try baking nutrient-free bread from the bones, and hiding that bread inside weak pieces of architecture and cause the heroes to bring about their own demises by absorbing it.
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spring must be here because the final halloween decoration came down.

actually that was a few days ago but the usb cords will only agree to transfer pictures off my dumb phone once every two weeks. which is still more frequently than anybody both notices and is willing to climb up to the flag pole this had been hanging off of at the same time.

i have also this day realized that what i thought was a casually discarded kitchen glove outside was actually a wrist and hand from the skeleton. i am accustomed to seeing other people’s bits of garbage and then removing them but since i didn’t know WHY somebody would drop a kitchen glove outside i thought it might have been intentionally placed so i didn’t touch it but after passing by it about 732 times I couldn’t think of a reason why somebody would have placed a glove there and also had not thought to ask any co-resident if they deliberately dropped a glove in the grass and decided it was worth investigating. now that i know what it is i naturally picked it up and dropped it in a wagon still full of leaves from months ago since I only briefly knew how to sew three years ago and don’t know if the rest of the skeleton was put away or disposed of once it was determined to be missing a piece. the arm came off, obviously, since skeletons lack the tendons that ordinarily connect their bones together.

I just want to stop this angry regal skeleton from laughing at me. I can’t be thinking about how things are spelled with that going on. go laugh at a dentist, weirdo.

i haven’t felt this intimidated since a mythical fire-spewing dinosaur quizzed me on nations that resemble footwear while i was plainly not dressed to ponder what gaijin barbarian nations are shaped like or that africa is actually a continent or even officially a separate land mass.

I presume zhang liao is addressing the skeleton. Alluding to the grinding of bones to make bread in 200ad 1500 years before the Jack-and-the-Beanstalk giant is just another example of how advanced chinese technology was compared to europe. unfortunately zhang liao was consequently also not aware that when bones actually were ground to make bread to avert starvation, nobody who ate it survived due the lack of nutritive content in bones and the difficulty of digesting them. Hopefully Mr. Zhang will add some raisins or at least fresh cartilage to the mix. It is rich in protein.

liu feng ought to be aware that even new bones will have the same problem, though they are effective plant fertilizer.

with that in mind i now know that “fertilizer factory” isn’t just a euphemism for laxative.

i was trying to avoid saying “bowel movement” but yes for that.
also this was addressed to somebody who has a legitimate psychological disorder that has also manifested as an eating disorder who obviously did not sign up for it. predatory capitalism is glorious.

shining farce: the lunacy of reprobate intervention
i mostly made and personalized this in 2015 for someone that i don’t think cared so i de-personalized it except for the parts that would seem functionally surreal if not removed
but then over thinking it was too sparse i crammed it full of details that are somehow both vague AND distracting. and that is what i have this week.

now that i have put it somewhere where it counts as essentially finalized, i cannot make sense of how the laser eye could shoot out the ground beneath someone without also shooting whoever fell following that happening with a blast of the same power level that was strong enough to destroy something strong enough to have supported whoever fell.

does anybody sincerely consider wheat thins “awesome?” the factory process through which the ingredients are formed into innumerable little squares and dumped into packages in set amounts, packages which are then sealed and boxed and distributed to markets around the world IS impressive but it is fairly standard in 2026. wheat thins are no more or less awesome than oreos or dinty moore beef stew or anything else with a TM on it.methods which can break down or effectively repurpose the mass amounts of plastic waste from the packaging would be more awesome and have less sodium. i wrote another “awesome” branding related gripe in 2014 and acknowledged i was by then outside the target demographic. What am i outside of now? it occurs to me that wheat thins are not a snack that kids generally request. maybe kids don’t even say “awesome” anymore. maybe awesome is following me as i age and applying itself to gradually more elderly-related things. maybe prostate examinations, sneezing so hard that you hurt yourself and tennis balls instead of wheels will be “awesome” by 2030. erectile dysfunction pills of course have been already for some time, ESPECIALLY if you start a garage band to perform songs about how you need those pills. can anything be AS awesome?

I have no recollection of what this was in the context of and i cannot imagine any way that it might be good. which is a pleasant change having that not be related to government policy.

ha ha eh I am ill this week. I could never have come up with that line about hurting myself sneezing without having just now done it.

i do not know what sort of chemical reaction would cause your body to turn to dust without harming your presumably flimsier clothing but it is far from the only science violation going on
now that my replacement computer is MOSTLY sorted out and not suffering like the previous one was i can perhaps get back to actually implementing some of these sprites and the programming for them and maybe even actual game areas for them to exist within. i really have no need to keep trying to think of new things to have monsters be doing when so much of what is already there is broken or incomplete.
but these are easier to make into website updates. otherwise i need to have something to say, and nothing stupid or worth complaining about happens anymore.

oh OH what’s THIS?

if kittens win do puppies get exiled? if puppies win do kittens need to become puppies? what are the stakes for this contest? Were the circumstances of this combat determined by a neutral party? Or is the point that war isn’t fair and is generally caused by an aggressor who simply wishes to destroy and steal property from a target they do not understand, and do not want to understand, since greater understanding may complicate the perceived morality of depriving another person whom you invented a reason to condemn to death in order to enrich yourself, even when you are already adequately enriched? this seems rather heavy a topic for an ostensibly child-directed company like scholastic