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This post is written in solidarity with workers worldwide who face oppressive capitalist enterprises, locking hands with the government charged with protecting them and being an ally. In truth, government and business work together to harm the citizenry. It's an affront to everything decent to rob a man of his usefulness and then discard him like trash. Moreso to be in a position of power and let it happen, against your own professed allegiance. This is another story of labor abuse to add to the pile.

In this post, I am specifically naming Mountain Shadow Nursery as the party who harmed me in the course of labor, and the State of Washington as the governing party abdicating its responsibility to help me, a tax-paying and L&I-contributing resident of Washington since 2014, get back to proper working health.

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In the days leading up to the end of 2023, zlg.space's primary hard drive began having errors and locking up the entire server. It began with simple unresponsiveness, and ended in a replacement drive, new OS, and a bumpy road of /opt self-compiled madness to bring the backup to the modern ages of PHP. The server is now on bigger, faster storage and an OS that won't get in the way if/when it breaks again, but it didn't come without an arduous test of patience.

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What's up guys? It's time for my FOURTH 12-in-12, the initiative to beat twelve games in twelve months and take out the backlog! Newbies to this concept can check out my maiden post on the subject; then you'll get what's up here. Also check out last year's 12-in-12.

As always, here's the successful hit list for 2024:

• TMNT III: Radical Rescue [GB]
• Sonic CD [Sega CD]
• Factorio [Steam]
• Final Fantasy Adventure [GB]
• MagiCat [Switch]
• Yoku's Island Express [Switch]
• Hades [Switch]
• The Misadventures of Tron Bonne [PS1]
• Persona 5 [PS3]
• Resident Evil 2 Remake [Steam]
• Narita Boy [Switch]

That makes for eleven games this year! Not quite hitting the mark, but we're still on track to clear this backlog! There are some stats at the end of the post, if you're into that sorta thing.

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I woke up to a huge gut punch this morning: Bram Moolenaar, legendary author of the Vim text editor, has passed away. Given the occasion, I want to express some thoughts regarding both Bram and his software. Without his work, I'm not sure I would be the same person.

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What's up guys? It's time for yet another 12-in-12, the initiative to beat twelve games in twelve months and take out the backlog! Newbies to this concept can check out my maiden post on the subject; then you'll get what's up here. Also check out last year's 12-in-12.

As always, here's the successful hit list for 2023:

• Dark Souls [PS3]
• Marble it Up [Switch]
• FAST rmx [Switch]
• Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom [Switch]
• Terraria [Steam]
• TMNT: Shredder's Revenge [Switch]
• BIT.TRIP RUNNER [Steam/PC]
• Cogs [Steam/PC]
• Furi [Switch]
• Geometry Wars 3 [PS3]
• Symphony [Steam]
• Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night [Switch]
• Super Mario Bros. Wonder [Switch]
• Castlevania: Dracula X [SNES]
• TMNT: Tournament Fighters [NES]
• TMNT: Tournament Fighters [SNES]
• TMNT: Tournament Fighters [Genesis]
• TMNT 2: Back From the Sewers [GB]

(yep, those TMNT games are each different!)

That's a total of eighteen games beaten this year! Huzzah!

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