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Dispatches from Nowhere

Dispatches from Nowhere

What have you done to wind up here?

War For Rayuba War Map
The OCT warmap
New Year 2026

I did one of these for 2025, so its only fair that 2026 gets one too, though it is a month late.

2025

2025 was a strange year, and I don't think that the times will get any better. It makes it hard to do a retrospective look at it because it is hard to extrapolate any lessons or anything of value from it. It is hard to not think that things are falling apart, and that the music is about to stop and what I'm holding is all there is to hold. This isn't a healthy position to take, but as prices go up and basic things like fucking RAM get priced to oblivion, it does raise the temperature of everything going forward.

Mr.BlackFebruary 7, 2026About 3 minJournalnew yearsmeditationsgoalshonestycreativity
Typing on a Mechanical Typewriter in the Year of Our Lord 2025

I want the font color to be Blue. I currently have a purple ribbon loaded, so that needs to come out. The gloves I wear are wet purple, making it look like I tried to strangle a grape monster with my bare hands after I've wound the stuff in the machine onto the reel.

Mr.BlackDecember 25, 2025About 8 minwritingruminationscreativityhobbieswritingtypewriterrantsfeaturescreativityretrospective
MULE Zine Interest Survey

I am doing a survey to see if anyone is interested in getting a physical copy of Colony Not Included. If you are interested, read on.

Mr.BlackSeptember 3, 2025Less than 1 minuteJournalannouncementzinesmule
M.U.L.E. Zine Released

After something like 7 months of on and off work, it is done. It's been a few days since I've posted it for the world, and the response has been more than I expected (which, historically, is nothing.)

You can read that here:

https://mrblacksbox.net/mule/zine.html

Mr.BlackAugust 5, 2025About 8 minJournalvideo gameszinesartstuffmule
Blender We Gotta Talk

In 2009, I needed to make a lot of sprites, fast.

For what I was doing with my college game dev group, I needed a program that did 3d that I could use to make animation sprites for our XNA game that we were working on. I had been using 3DSMAX (...2009, I think?) but that was not very portable. Most people in my sphere could not open .max files and so it was time to look into what was out there.

This is where my long story with Blender begins. With version 2.39.

Mr.BlackApril 27, 2025About 7 minblenderruminationssoftwareartblenderzbrushrantsfeatures
UNLOVED

I have been playing this game for something like 7 years.  Some players have a toxic relationship with Destiny, others with Call of Duty, but mine is Unloved.

Mr.BlackFebruary 18, 2025About 8 mingamesruminationsarthorrorDoomHorrorIndiePersonal
New Year 2025

I need to post more often, if for no other reason than to get used to it. Here are my thoughts on what I want to do different this year.

Mr.BlackJanuary 14, 2025About 2 minJournalnew yearsmeditationsgoalshonesty
MouthWashing
Mr.BlackOctober 21, 2024About 11 mingamesruminationsarthorrorMouthWashingHorrorNarrativeExperimental
Neocity Deploy Script

Neocities does not use FTP (at least, not in the classic sense), and instead uses a series of apis and libraries to upload files. I wasn't very happy with what was out there, so I made a light-weight-ish script to do this for me. Using Vuepress accelerated the need, as the dist folder that the build process spits out requires I have an automated way to shunt all these files online.

Mr.BlackSeptember 17, 2024About 2 minhow-toscriptsjavascriptnodeneocitieswebsites

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It's gonna be ok, if we try
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