Nintendo has joined the dark side

By the "logic" of Nintendo's totalitarian lawfare-minded current leadership ^[source], any art that doesn't make Nintendo money, that depends on the existence of literally anything else existing before it existed, "doesn't count" as "real art."

So by that "logic," if God had to create the universe before cavemen could be inspired to paint cave walls depicting the animals they hunted, then any and all art done by those cavemen "doesn't count" as real art - unless Nintendo automatically acquires the rights to it by default, without having to pay a cent! And gets to do a next-of-kin count for every single generation of anyone who made any art ever that was never a Nintendo employee, and then demand legal reparations!

This isn't IP protection. It's extortion and IP robbery. Plain and simple.

Back in the good old days, after Nintendo's first bid to ruin the lives of modders got foiled by courts with common sense, they didn't give up. They got salty, and swore revenge.

What the automotive industry gets right that the gaming industry fails to

Along with the invention of the automobile, came the invention of mods. Custom accessories for cars. Some which might void a warranty, others which were harmless. Some sponsored by the company, others tolerated, some licensed to use company logos, some not.

The automotive industry figured things out. Custom accessory makers could, if they followed good faith practices, even profit from their work. Could sell products.

But somehow, when it came to the world of video games, the industry couldn't seem to wrap its mind around automotive industry best practices, and adapt them.

Thieves poisoned the well

So instead, chaos ensued. Life for modders-for-profit was going great, until one nasty game released. That game was That's Life. Thing is, it violated every ounce of good faith imaginable.

EA allowed mods for The Sims to exist, or even be for profit, as long as modders made clear who they were, that they were not endorsed officially by EA, etc.

However, That's Life changed the game. A group of shameless crapweasels deduced through their predatory logic that if most modders, out of respect, were no getting paid, and doing things as a passion project to better the world of gaming, then they probably didn't have the money to hire good attorneys.

So the predators who made That's Life compiled their giant Sims mod pack, and sold it on store shelves. Except: over 90% of all Sims mod content in the pack...was outright stolen. Full-blown plagairism against actual, competent passion project generators.

Moreover, becoming greedier over time and noting that these mods needed a base game ecosystem to operate, EA became more like Nintendo. It noted that it wasn't making any money off of That's Life. Instead, a third party entity of known and established thieves and con artists were making ALL the money!

So That's Life got pulled from shelves. Its creators sued to oblivion. And EA had a change of heart on mod policy. No one could make any Sims mod for any game, nor release any machinima or machinomic work generated from their product, and release it for profit, without express permission or a licensing deal from EA themselves.

For passion project generators, this was an absolute win. They weren't making money anyway. They were out to better the creativity of the gaming world. Or, use the platform and mods to serve as free advertising for other good, noble, upcoming things.

So EA's change of heart was tolerated. With exception of Rooster Teeth getting licensed to make and sell The Strangerhood, it was established in the Sims modding community as a general principle that profiteering was a no-no. Third party creators could make story packs to market their own IPs that existed outside the game, as is the case with Dozerfleet Labs and DzMD using Sims modding as free advertising for Dozerfleet Comics' current or up-and-coming projects.

And other modders were also free to create. There was a simple rule though: modders couldn't sell the game mod content they made. Except to the company itself. And even then, only if EA wanted to buy it. And in return, EA couldn't seize the work of a third party creator, steal it outright, take full credit for its creation, and profiteer off it.

These boundaries were common sense. And for 21 years, from the arrival of The Sims 2 until 2025 under The Sims 4, this was the established, accepted, understood rule.

Then, along came the new Nintendo.

Nintendo now wants to make it so that any game that exists that uses any mechanic that Nintendo also uses, even if Nintendo weren't the one to invent that mechanic, is now required to give over its entire IP for free to Nintendo, to do with as Nintendo sees fit. Just because Nintendo is salty.

That, in essence, is wholesale theft. And using bribery of courts and patent offices? Violation of RICO statutes!!!

This is racketeering, theft, extortion, and more. But on top of that, they're trying to set a legal precedent that art only counts as "art" if it makes Nintendo money. And under no other circummstances! Hence, Nintendo game mods don't count as "art," because they need a base game to function. And therefore, even if a mod is released FOR FREE, Nintendo now argues it has the "right" (read: thieving want) to steal the mod outright from the creator, compensate nothing to the creator, repackage and sell the mod's content, and claim full authorship of the mod! Thus, turning modders into slave laborers. Replacing community and innovation with exploitation.

And not even treating their slaves well! No. Instead, suing them and ruining their lives for daring to have a dream that wouldn't make Nintendo money!

And if allowed to get away with this RICO-violating aggression? Nintendo sets a legal precedent that then allows other companies, like EA, to not only do the same to modders of its games; but to also steal any IP that the mod refers to that doesn't belong to the company. And it ALL now becomes company property!

This doesn't protect anyone's IP. It's wholesale theft masquerading as protection!

If Nintendo gets what it wants, and EA begins to follow suit, it will be the end of DzMD. Because if DzMD isn't gutted under those circumstances, then EA will presume the right to steal the ENTIRE Dozerfleet Productions project catalog for itself! Not gonna happen!

The wages of Nintend-overreach

Here's what's at stake if that were to happen:

• If EA went full-tilt Nintendo, then every single DzMD Sims 2 mod that is no longer available anywhere would become EA property.
  • That EA could then sell or else distribute for free at its own discretion.
  • The actual author would get no credit, and no payment. Unacceptable!
  • This wouldn't just apply to actual custom content for the game. It would apply to literally any tool (such as the StretchSkeleton Cheat Calculator and Love Photo Doctor) that exists outside the game but which was made to assist players with understanding how to exploit a game mechanic for storytelling purposes. To steal the Love Photo Doctor and then sell it, especially given it's for a 21-year-old game? DISGUSTING!!!
• Under Nintendo logic, the entire Sims 3 back catalog of mod content made by DzMD to reference any Dozerfleet or non-Dozerfleet property now becomes EA property.
  • Original Dozerfleet content would be shamelessly pilfered, exploiting the weak legal power of Dozerfleet's legal defense.
  • Mods referencing other companies, such as the Doctor Strange mod, which Marvel could contest? EA would simply bury that, since they can't get Marvel to license them to sell it for profit. For a 14-year-old game!
• Under Nintendo logic, EA would be emboldend to steal for themselves literally anything mentioned anywhere in the DzMD catalog of Sims 4 content.
  • They might try to steal Cherinob, even with proof existing in the handbook itself that she existed before The Sims 4, and that she exists in plenty of formats and art styles that aren't from EA!
  • The same goes for the Trapezoid Kids, and anything else that's Dozerfleet-original.
• Nintendo would then swoop in on EA themselves, stating that since they bribed the US patent office to offer Nintendo a bad faith patent on mounting mechanics, that Horse Ranch now belongs to Nintendo. And by extension, the entire EA company. And by extension, the entire fan community's entire ecosystem! And not to celebrate them; but to extort them!

If Nintendo plays hardball, and the courts are that corrupt:

• All entries on IMDB would be removed immediately. Or requests would be made for their removal. This includes the Swappernetters packs, Oughties Big Rapids Living Stuff, The Horrorday Gang, and Magic of Movies and Memes Stuff. Poof! Evidence on IMDB that these packs ever existed? Gone!
• The wiki? Scrubbed of anything that might still give these companies any grounds to steal any Dozerfleet IP!
• The mods themselves? Gone. Archived.
• The cast? Every single one of them still existing as a Sims character would be converted to AI faux live action or a cartoon character, generated outside The Sims. All Sims versions erased.
• The machinomics? Taken offline. Forever.
  • Ciem 2007 would never get re-released.
  • The failed Q-Basic Gorillas machinomic? All canceled project surviving art would have to be destroyed. All of it.
  • Star Flops: Curse of the Medium Side? Gone.
  • Blood Over Water: Dirty Laundry? Remade without Sims before being re-released.
  • Purge-Flare: Stickin' It to Pencil? AI remake. Even the ad for Ciem: Inferno would be remade or removed. Because even though it was made with GTA V, it would still be at risk. What's to stop Rockstar from becoming just as greedy as Nintendo?
  • Corando's "Don't Lose Hope"? Remade with AI. All other projects that were originally going to be made with Sims would also become AI, as is the plan anyway.
• The home blueprints? Only House Flipper 2 versions would still stand. Unless Frozen District were seized in a hostile takeover, and that also became legally radioactive. Then, those renders would go private.

Dozerfleet gaming would be dead. All comics would be remade with AI, or archived permanently. The novels could still function. The music could continue. Videos would hit differently. The trailer for Oughties Big Rapids Living Stuff would be taken down, along with anything else that referenced the Sims franchise. The widgets that are unrelated to gaming? Could remain. But all Dozerfleet gaming would be dead. The wiki would be able to mention that there were plans. But those plans were canceled due to the Nintendo fallout.

Hopefully, courts moving forward will have enough good sense to see what all is happening here for what it is, and stop Nintendo's madness before it sets a dangerous legal precedent.

It's one thing for companies to want to stop pirates. It's another for them to become predatory on the fans that built them, rob smaller IPs into extinction, plagairize the original work of IPs they destroyed, and chill creativity itself out of existence!

DzMD isn't gone yet. But if Nintendo continues to poison the industry against the fandom that it needs to survive, if companies continue to become predatory, then the future of Dozerfleet will be an uphill battle for the right to exist.

Like so many on YouTube right now, no one at Dozerfleet has missed the irony that the lunatic currently ru(i)n(n)ing Nintendo has the last name of Bowser!

Design shifts impending due to Adventure Awaits

The recent patch by EA for Adventure Awaits has ensured that script mods cannot be used in any capacity with The Sims 4, or else lots won't load. This has proven utterly disastrous for fidelity in using The Sims 4 to gather screenshots moving forward.

How this affects workflow

Dozerfleet Labs

• Any absolutely essential shots still needed will involve isolated characters for the Sims 4 packs that don't yet have artwork.
• Far from the complexity of the handbook for Magic of Movies and Memes Stuff, every handbook made after that for Anarteq: Top of the World will be stripped down to fairly minimal artwork features, and focus will be not on the story plot as much as on the technical specs.
• After the Anarteq: Top of the World Story Pack, there will be no new Sims 4 content.
• House Flipper 2 content will be worked on until six homes have been released for tour, three of them from the Anarteq saga. After this, there will be no new home content. DzMD will effectively shut down all production after this.

If layouts are needed for screenshots that must be shot in a game world, and House Flipper 2 can't support it, The Sims 3 will be used instead. Existing Sims 4 blueprints may still be shot as needed, but no new gameplay support will be pursued. Blueprints will be used primarily for purposes of recreating models in other software.

Dozerfleet Comics

All machinomics whose Sims 4 footage has not yet been shot will have their artflow rerouted to other methods, including Krea.

• Corando's "Don't Lose Hope" will be the final pure machinomic.
• Blood Over Water: Dirty Laundry will get a second edition, replacing Sims artwork with AI entries. Data will also be updated to reflect the Sorbet / Volkonir Big Rapids Farewell Tour.

The following machinomics originally set for production in Sims 4 have to now be done with AI instead:

• Ciem / Anarteq: Kahoopiliana
• Sniperbadger: Fall of the Critter Resistance
• Volkonir 2008
• Sorbet
• Blood Over Water
• Blood Over Water 2 (?)
• Path of the Ming-Cho

The following comics will be done with AI automatically, unless a reliable human illustrator can be hired that can do them manually:

• Anarteq: Top of the World: Manga Edition
• Nemara: Ward of the Upper Peninsula
• Ciem: Carnelian Eve

Dozerfleet Literature

• Krea will be used for any illustration absolutely requiring one, in which stock photos owned by Dozerfleet are not available, and included only when illustrations are really essential.
• All non-essential Krea renders will be used only for scenic storyboarding for writing scenes.
• Coloring books will likely be offered on Patreon.
• Novellas will be offered for profit on Patreon in the future.
• Successful Patreon novels / novellas will be offered to Barnes and Noble, or its print affiliates, for consideration for print distribution.

Dozerfleet Records

Krea will be utilized for updating the artwork. All Sims artwork will be retired.

Dozerfleet Studios

No new Sims content released as videos. The trailer for Magic of Movies and Memes has been effectively canceled.

In conclusion

After House Flipper 2, there will be no new game content. After all the remaining Sims 4 content above has been handled, The Sims 4 will effectively be retired from Dozerfleet. The Sims 3 will remain on, along with The Sims 2, for backup when needed. House Flipper 2 will become the default residential home storyboarding tool. Other software for blueprints of homes will also be considered, but no mods for gameplay are going to be made any longer.

Worlds to both entertain and instruct, to clear a path for a the Higher Kingdom, to encourage self-and-world exploration and inquiry, must remain the goal of Dozerfleet. If profitable publications become the means, then that's a bonus.

Troubleshooting software and making mods for dying game franchises has become too much of a distraction from this goal, rather than a boon to it. Therefore, 2026 sees Dozerfleet try to lighten its load.

The early Percolation fanfics have a new home

Percolation: The Early Fanfics and Marvel: Avengers Alliance Crossovers is now officially available for free download. All the early work in Dozerfleet Comics to establish early Percolation mythos, setting the stage for all Percolation Warriors mythos afterward, is now compiled into a carefully-curated compendium of archived fanfics. These works were written from 2013 - 2016, and now have a final home. It can all be downloaded and read from here.

Percolation Encyclopedia canceled

Due to the rate at which the encyclopedia's information became outdated, the original Percolation: The Complete Encyclopedia of Crossover Gerosha and Dozerfleet Crossovers has been canceled as a project. Instead, what is salvageable of it will be broken up into smaller reference books. Artwork for some of these may be updated as well.

When the tower previously operating as Dozerfleet Main became too old and slow to run Windows 10 effectively, it was reformatted as Bezzyca and given away to be a training center for three children in Missouri.

However, this came with several snafus:

• Windows 11 updated on the new Dozerfleet Main, a Kamrui mini PC, as well as on the Dell Latitude laptop. With these updates, the drivers were modified, making these devices' versions of Windows 11 officially no longer compatible with Photoshop Elements 2019 - given it relies on some architecture from Internet Explorer 11 to load its installation page - a browser permanently disabled in the new updates. And Photoshop Elements pre-2022 refuses to use Microsoft Edge, or Firefox.
• Access was lost to Microsoft Office 2016, which had served Dozerfleet Productions quite well for many years. This wasn't a big deal for most files. However, any files made in Microsoft Publisher and Microsoft Access were severely affected.
• Only the Surface tablet, Dozerfleet Mega Portable, still has legacy software of Photoshop Elements 2021 and Office 2019.
• Due to this, workflow is being modified across Dozerfleet to minimize dependency on MS Publisher, Photoshop Elements, Premiere Elements, or any other legacy software. On the Linux and Windows sides, Scribus may become the new default for small-level 8.5"x11" desktop publishing. High-end productions will be done on the Windows side, using Affinity Publisher. When access to the Surface tablet for Photoshop Elements is impractical, Photopea will be employed as a last resort. Affinity Photo, Krita, and Gimp are all being learned for alternatives to Photoshop Elements. With the original tower and Windows 10 gone, there's also no more Illustrator CS2. Without Illustrator CS2, Affinity Designer is the de-facto for vector image editing. On the Linux side, or else to convert images to live trace, InkScape is now taking the place of Illustrator CS2. Linux-end video editing alternatives to Premiere are also being considered for exploration.

The Percolation encyclopedia consists of many sections: lore explanations, straight-up fanfics described, a character database, a geography database, several art galleries, and Marvel: Avengers Alliance fanfics featuring Dozerfleet characters.

To prevent this epic volume's epic efforts from being wasted, the following course of action is being undertaken:

• Dozerfleet Mega Portable will be used for conversion of the original Percolation fanfic, Percolation: Legends, and the M:AA fanfics into a compendium on 2013-2016 crossovers between Dozerfleet Comics and Marvel: Avengers Alliance.
• The aforementioned compendium and stories in it will be alluded to in the next volume, but not made a big deal of apart from it being a backstory explanation for latter fanfics. This second publication will include the latter fanfic works' descriptions.
• Information about the Percolation Warriors saga in general will be included, as well as any information on franchies parodied in Camelorum Adventures. Plum x Lemon will be added.
• An overview of the geography of Dozerfleet will become its own compendium.
• A who's who in Earth-G7.2.1 will get its own compendium. There will be no need for replication of this for the cast of Volkonir or the Dromedeverse.
• The art galleries will be given their own compendium.

Of these new compendia, only the text and some images are essential for preservation. Only the M:AA content needs to keep its formatting specific. The other content can possibly be converted into a Scribus file or to Affinity Publisher when ready, which will accellerate production of these.

The other bonus to breaking up the Percolation encyclopedia into these compendia is that, being much shorter, they may not require the complex table of contents that the Percolation encyclopedia required. Nor would they require the complicated index that was bogging down that encyclopedia. Pages and contents would be more straighforward.

Could the upcoming comics be AI?

A Eulogy to Dozerfleet Main

As the until-recent Dozerfleet Main was reaching its end-of-life as a tower, a difficult decision was reached: it was to retire the old dinosaur of a unit. The current Dozerfleet Portable, a Dell Latitude 5490 purchased off of Amazon, is also operating as Dozerfleet Main at the moment. The tower that was until recently Dozerfleet Main was a modified Dell Inspiron 3650 from 2017, with the main hard drive changed over to a 1TB solid state drive, and the original hard drive turned into a backup data drive known as "Ivan's Vault."

The external backup hard drive formerly known as "Dozimax" has inherited the title of "Ivan's Vault." Its sister, "Dozerfleet Backup," has now been re-christened as "Ivan's Vault 2."

The former Dozerfleet Main tower had been modified further since its original purchase, to contain an extra 8 GB of DDR3 RAM, thus putting it at 16 GB total. This made it an absolute powerhouse of a machine. However, it was still unable to run a lot of higher-end software, due to its graphics card limitations. Its elaborate Dell design made it nearly impossible to update the graphics for this device, dooming its future of ever being the advanced gaming machine desired.

Enter Bezzyca

The former Dozerfleet Main has since been given a new life as Bezzyca, a children's art and office learning station running on Kubuntu.

It now has all the basics for three children it's being donated to in order to learn their way around open source software, Linux, Gimp, Krita, and LibreOffice. To learn the ins and outs of the software world in a somewhat-safe environment with minimal parental control oversight, but also allowing them to brainstorm ideas any time of the year - away from the prying eyes of school admins, who might otherwise want to scrutinize their every move.

It also encourages them to get their own USB drives and learn their way around private ownership - something difficult to instill as a value in children when they are dependent on clouds and ChromeBooks.

Adapting to software obsolescence

However, the next stage forward in Dozerfleet progress has come at other costs besides simply donating old hardware. In the time it has taken to come this far, key bits of software that Dozerfleet once relied on have now started to become obsolete. Most notably: Microsoft Access and Microsoft Publisher.

Old Microsoft Access content will be the tricky part, as all that table data must now be converted to LibreOffice Calc. This will require a joint effort between Dozerfleet Portable and Dozerfleet Mega Portable (the Surface Go 2 Tablet). The Microsoft account associated with both doesn't recall Office 2019 being installed on Mega Portable. Therefore, there's no option to go back and reinstall Office 2019 for Portable. Likewise, there's no recollection in the online account of the purchase of Office 2016, which was what was running on Old Main.

Worse, Office 2021 was renamed to Offline Microsoft 365 2021, to create even more confusion for those who just want to run a forever license. Turns out, Microsoft wants 2021 to be the last of these offline-runable office apps. Beyond that, they offer only their online subscription model - a perfect reason to want to switch to LibreOffice for most tasks!

But here's the real kicker: Microsoft 365 2021 does not include Access or Publisher!!!

These relics being gone mean that only Office 2019, running on Mega Portable, can still open these files. And that means that several Dozerfleet works now need to be reformatted.

As mentioned above, a slow-moving conversion can happen to transform the Access documents for use in LibreOffice Calc. However, Publisher documents will need to be re-assessed for long-term retention. Those not deemed worth it, will be discarded. Then, there are those which do have long-term retention value. Alas, they now have to be converted.

From Microsoft to Affinity

The following key documents will need reformatting to Affinity Publisher:

Public

• Every Ape and His Brother lyrics
• The Horrorday Gang: What's Your Straggele Codename?
• Volkonir 2008
• The Official Handbook to The Sims 4: Oughties Big Rapid Living Stuff
• The Official Handbook to The Sims 4: Into the Future Conversions Stuff
• Ciem: Inferno: The Inmates of Madison Juvenile Correctional Facility
• Ciem: Inferno: The Staff of Madison Juvenile Correctional Facility
• Blood Over Water: Dirty Laundry

Private

• A Very Anarteq Tour of the Soo Itinerary
• Arionna Davis' Ciem Info Packet Series (when she initially showed interest in 2019 in portraying Candi Flippo on the wiki, though that arrangement never materialized.)
• Blood Over Water Relational Chart
• Blood Over Water Charts
• Business Card
• Folder Tabs
• C.O.W.
• Old credits for Ciem 2 (2009)
• Old Stationery Voyagers data
• Resume files

Out of that list, the Ciem: Inferno tie-in books won't change much. Meagan Amez's timeline will be re-examined per her expanded role. Otherwise, those books should be the same. Purge-Flare: Stickin' It to Pencil will likely also be re-formatted using Affinity Publisher. It was originally made in Microsoft Word 2016, using a mix of text captions and screenshots edited from a playthrough of GTA V on the PS4.

More changes to Blood Over Water lore

The biggest changes will be to Blood Over Water: Dirty Laundry and Volkonir 2008. With the photos provided, it's plausible that Volkonir 2008 could now be mostly made as an AI-enhanced photocomic. Only the bare minimum content from The Sims 4, such as the Golden Lion Knight armor, Selshon, and the Gwirdons would necessarily have to be machinomic-generated. Everything else could either come from photos or from Krea AI.

In spite of all the readiness for Blood Over Water to be done up in The Sims 4, it could become an AI comic instead of a Sims machinomic. The need to completely re-make Dirty Laundry from the ground up justifies this change, as all the Sims photos can now be swapped out with AI to better match its mock-tabloid format. New photos from the 2024 Sorbet / Blood Over Water / Volkonir Big Rapids Farewell Tour also allow for coverage of regions that were impossible to cover when the first edition of Dirty Laundry was released.

AI: The Future of Dozerfleet Comics?

If Dirty Laundry is re-released as AI, and Blood Over Water's remake is also made AI, then Sorbet will likewise take a hybrid Sims / AI approach. Sims only for elements and scenes that can't be made with AI, and the use of AI and photos for everything else.

This will produce the following results:

Comics by pending format
Title	Visual style	Media format
Anarteq: Top of the World	Cartoon	AI comic
Anarteq: Top of the World Story Pack	Cartoon + Game	Abridged AI comic + Sims 3 mods + Sims 4 mods + InZoi recipes + a House Flipper 2 tour
Blood Over Water: Dirty Laundry, 2nd Edition	Live Action	AI mock tabloid
Blood Over Water	Cartoon	AI machinomic (with Sims and photograph references)
Sorbet	Cartoon	AI machinomic (with Sims and photograph references)
Volkonir 2008	Live Action	AI machinomic (with Sims and photograph references)
Corando's "Don't Lose Hope"	Machinomic	Sims 4 machinomic
Path of the Ming-Cho	Cartoon	AI comic
Ciem / Anarteq: Kahoopiliana	Cartoon	AI comic
Sniperbadger: Fall of the Critter Resistance	Cartoon	AI comic
Nemara: Ward of the Upper Peninsula	Cartoon	AI comic

Handbooks to finish

Work on these comics will resume after the handbooks are finished for Anarteq: Top of the World Story Pack. As well as for the following packs at Dozerfleet Labs still awaiting handbooks:

DzMD Handbooks to be Made
Title	Game	Inception Year
A Tour of The Gerosha Chronicles	House Flipper 2	2025
The Blood Over Water Character Recipe Book	InZoi	2024
The Ciem: Inferno Character Recipe Book	InZoi	2024
The Ciem: Ash Cloud Character Recipe Book	InZoi	2024
The Ciem: Caldera Character Recipe Book	InZoi	2024
The Anarteq: Guardian of the Soo Character Recipe Book	InZoi	2024
The Anarteq: Tropic Mercenary Character Recipe Book	InZoi	2024
The Anarteq: Envoy to Lough Melvin Character Recipe Book	InZoi	2024
The Corando Character Recipe Book	InZoi	2024
The Extirpon Trilogy Character Recipe Book	InZoi	2024
The Navyrope Duology Character Recipe Book	InZoi	2024
The Horrorday Gang Character Recipe Book	InZoi	2024
The Path of the Ming-Cho Character Recipe Book	InZoi	2024
The Phaemer Village Peacekeepers Character Recipe Book	InZoi	2024
The Pilltar Character Recipe Book	InZoi	2024
The Sodality Character Recipe Book	InZoi	2024
The Swappernetters Character Recipe Book	InZoi	2024
The Gray Champion: Modern Legends Character Recipe Book	InZoi	2024
The Horrorday Gang Character Recipe Book	InZoi	2024
The Volkonir Character Recipe Book	InZoi	2024
Anarteq: Guardian of the Soo Story Pack	The Sims 4	2024
Anarteq: Tropic Mercenary Story Pack	The Sims 4	2024
Anarteq: Envoy to Lough Melvin Story Pack	The Sims 4	2024
Ciem: Inferno Story Pack	The Sims 4	2024
Ciem: Ash Cloud Story Pack	The Sims 4	2024
Ciem: Caldera Story Pack	The Sims 4	2024
Swappernetters: Frontliner Story Pack	The Sims 4	2020
Swappernetters: Chrome Kite Story Pack	The Sims 4	2020
Swappernetters: Supporting Cast Story Pack	The Sims 4	2020
Swappernetters: Screwworms and Other Villains Story Pack	The Sims 4	2020
Sodality: Instigation Story Pack	The Sims 4	2020
Sodality: Adaptation and Determination Story Pack	The Sims 4	2024
The Horrorday Gang Story Pack	The Sims 4	2020

Completion of these handbooks, and of the comics aforementioned, will beget work opening up for the for-profit novels across the Megaverse.

Percolation Encyclopedia's uncertain future

Another work, this one with an uncertain future, is Percolation: The Complete Encyclopedia of Crossover Gerosha and Dozerfleet Crossovers. It was drafted at a time when Miraheze underwent a change of leadership, and was in danger of being shut down. That threat has passed. The artwork contained inside the encyclopedia has since become obsolete. To make matters worse, the work itself was all made in Microsoft Publisher, and then never finished. So it would need a massive overhaul to be added to Affinity Publisher, and be scaled down of unnecessary features.

Progress has started coming. But alas, some things needed to be sacrificed in the process.

Iqaluk Cafe Menu Update

The most recent version of the Iqaluk Cafe's menu is now available. It can be found here.

The Psychology of Megaverse Heroes, According to an AI

As of earlier today, Perplexity AI was tasked with trying to identify the psychological makeup of some major Dozerfleet characters, and analyze likely diagnoses. The results were not entirely surprising; yet insightful all the same. The following characters were sampled, with the following results:

Extirwraith

Diagnosis: Psychopath, with impulsivity issues

Poor Anda Hirano! She landed Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASPD) right off the bat!

The AI noted the following about her:

• Lack of empathy: In her activities as Extirwraith, she all too often shows little to no remorse for her violent actions.
• Impulsivity and sensation-seeking: According to Perplexity, her "constant search for amusement, and chaotic behavior," are indicative of "a high level of impulsivity, and a need for stimulation."
• Disregard for social norms and laws: Her methodology as an anti-hero clearly demonstrates that she has very little sense of obligation to conform to key social norms. Her attempt to seduce Black Rat into a one night stand, even when he was uncomfortable with it and doubted she was of legal age, and her few other one night stands, also suggest a total disregard for propriety.
• Manipulative behavior: She uses a grudge ghost impersonation to both physically and psychologically torment her targets. However deserving of some form of punishment they are, she does it just as much for her own amusement as out of a misguided sense of justice.
• Boredom and emptiness: In her early years, Anda had a "constant need for amusement, to stave off feeling 'empty'." According to Perplexity, this is "a characteristic often associated with ASPD."
• Lack of long-term goals: She wandered the Earth directionless for years, often "without a clear purpose beyond seeking amusement." This "indicates a lack of realistic, long-term goals."
• Recklessness: Trying to stop a Brazilian serial killer from killing again by killing him first may be an extreme vigilante act, but it was her willingness to do it by turning his legs into gummi worms that truly illustrated her total disregard. She laughed at the truck that hit the man as he was struggling to carry himself after she turned his legs into gummi candy. Showing a lack of concern for the driver's safety.
• Childhood trauma: Loss of family is a textbook factor in her condition's development.

The AI also believes she's a psychopath due to "her calculated and manipulative behavior, as well as her apparent lack of emotional depth beyond seeking amusement." It went on to say that: "Her willingness to be captured by police for the sake of novelty suggests a bold and fearless personality, which is also associated with psychopathy."

Lemon Witch

Diagnosis: Borderline Personality Disorder, comorbid with sociopathic tendencies and impulse control issues

Candace had quite a few red flags, even before she got Xomified!

• Impulsivity: Candace didn't even hesitate to use her abilities to foil a robbery, when she had little idea of the consequences.
• Intense and unstable relationships: Her willingness to fistfight bullies in order to protect her brother suggests that her interpersonal relationships can be rather intense.
• Emotional instability: She's not nearly as happy and bubbly inside as she often pretends to be on the outside.
• Identity disturbance: Her reliance on fruit puns after being labeled "Lemon Witch" by others.
• Inappropriate anger: Her lack of empathy for either the store robbers or for the school bullies that threatened her brother is common in BPD.
• Disregard for social norms: Her willingness to turn victims into fruits, unconcerned about the pain and embarrassment it causes, shows a slight antisocial element to her.
• Lack of remorse: The fact that she's more concerned about turning someone by accident that may not have deserved it, rather than the pain she can cause someone when turning them intentionally, and even greater fear of not being able to change them back later, suggests a certain anti-social self-centeredness.
• Use of humor as a defense mechanism: This is her primary means of coping with and hiding emotional pain. Not always a healthy method.
• Ethical ambiguity: She spares Barry and Carly's future relationship potential by turning Barry into a fruit before he can embarrass himself by prematurely proposing to Carly. In spite her good intentions, her method of saving Barry from himself is highly questionable, suggesting she has highly flexible morals.

Plum Bixie

Diagnosis: C-PTSD, co-morbid with Dissociative Identity Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder

Zize has so many issues, each one gets its own list!

Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

• Prolonged exposure to traumatic events: She was abducted by Kai Yun's men at an early age, sexually abused, and exploited in many different ways.
• Difficulty with emotional regulation: Her intense anger and resentment all but consume her at times.
• Negative self-perception: When she begins to see herself as a monster.
• Distorted perceptions: She sees the Hebbleskins almost as extensions of Yun's evil will for her life, and that she needs to kill them by the hundreds to undermine him.

Dissociative Identity Disorder

• Presence of other: Inner Fox
• Gaps in memory or consciousness: Her selectively mute episodes.
• Identity confusion: Why she wears the fox mask later on, especially when Inner Fox assumes control of her body.

Borderline Personality Disorder

• Intense and unstable relationships
• Impulsivity and risk-taking behavior
• Chronic feelings of emptiness
• Difficulty controlling anger

Additional considerations:

• Trauma bonding: Her choosing Gary after he rescued her, her feeling closer to him after rescuing him back, their mutual longing to escape the Hebbleskins, and her need to prove that she isn't who her abusive previous boss made her out to be demonstrates that trauma has informed her decision-making process.
• Survivor's guilt: She doesn't feel that everyone who has died on account of her or her former superiors entirely deserved it. She is bothered by how many the Hebbleskins killed before she was there to do anything about it. And by how many she failed to save in the end.
• Hypervigilance: She is constantly on guard, perceiving endless threats to herself and her loved ones.

Perplexity recommended the following treatments for her:

• Trauma-focused therapy: Perplexity recommended EMDR and cognitive behavior therapy to deal with her C-PTSD.
• Dialectical Behavior Therapy: Her issues with emotion regulation and interpersonal effectiveness suggest that this treatment could benefit her greatly.
• Specialized treatment: Integration therapy was recommended to erase Inner Fox from existing. That a Kritchaboloid Biroot then tried to seize the opportunity to assume Inner Fox's identity, and prey on Zize's religious doubts to keep Inner Fox alive as a separate identity within Zize's mind, led to a possession dilemma. Yet, this proved to be that biroot's Achilles Heel, as this move made Inner Fox vulnerable to Cherinob. Much to the dismay of Gum Arabic doctors, allowing Cherinob and Inner Fox to fight each other on another plane for the fate of Zize's soul proved to be exactly the medicine she needed to complete her integration therapy.
• Psycho-education: Relating to the effects of childhood trauma and exploitation.
• Supportive therapy: Her self-esteem is ruined. This is necessary to address, so that she can learn how to develop healthy coping mechanisms.

Inner Fox, the literal demonic possession angle notwithstanding, is fueled in dark ambiance by all of Zize's underlying psychological sources of distress. Multiple cultural and clinical perspectives come into play:

• Dissociative Identity Disorder: Inner Fox first got in because Zize needed an alternate in order to cope with her trauma. Fear of losing control to the alternate is consistent with this pattern.
• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Auditory hallucinations of Inner Fox whispering suggestions to her can be an extreme PTSD symptom. Her unresolved hatred for Kai Yun fuels the argument.
• Cultural influence: In spite her field codename of "Plum Bixie," with a bixie spirit in Chinese folklore being known to viciously attack impure spirits, Kai infused in her mind association with the huli jing - an impure fox spirit. Leading to a strong sense of moral confusion within her. The fox mask she finds is more Japanese than Chinese in structure, but this is in keeping with the kitsune. Kitsune possession, called kitsunetsuki, was traditionally ascribed as a way to describe erratic behavior and personality changes. According to Perplexity, these cultural influences would taint Zize's perspective of reality, and inform her auditory hallucinations.
• Symbolic representation: Inner Fox is a symbolic manifestation of Zize's repressed anger, resentment, and desire for revenge against her abusers. It also represents parts of herself that she struggles to integrate.
• Psychotic feature: In severe cases, the hallucinations are possibly stress-induced psychotic episodes.

Complex holistic treatment is needed when dealing with her. She has a traumatic backstory, a cultural background requiring special research and consideration, and other worrisome symptoms.

Volkonir

Diagnosis: PTSD, Social Communication Disorder, Adjustment Disorder, and arrested development

• PTSD: Vinny has numerous intrusive thoughts and ruminations about past failures. He experienced severe trauma over the loss of his kingdom, coupled with 400 years of feeling largely isolated. He illustrates hypervigilance with and preoccupation over the need to prevent future harm. Living alone and avoiding neighbors can also be seen as symptoms, along with any other avoidance behaviors he may exhibit.
• Social Communication Disorder: His struggle to understand certain social cues, struggles with appropriate social sharing, and occasional misinterpretation of others' intentions (like Kayla's flirting) are all textbook symptoms.
• Adjustment Disorder: Earth culture and societal norms confuse him sometimes. He also shows emotional and behavioral symptoms in response to identifiable sources of stress.
• C-PTSD: He spent 400 years as an enchanted toy. He has extreme bitterness toward the Gwirdons, even if most of it is justified. He also suffers relationship problems, and struggles with forming healthy connections with others.

Perplexity noted that his being from another world, and suffering from a magical transformation, "make it challenging to apply standard diagnostic criteria fully." His social impairments are believed to be due to his prolonged isolation. A psychologist, it notes, "would likely focus on addressing Vinny's PTSD symptoms." HanomCorp giving him social skills training would also go a long way toward helping him integrate better with society.

A multidisciplinary approach involving traditional psychologists and social workers may be needed to truly aid his journey.

The AI speculated that his prolonged isolation could lead to eating disorders in a more realistic setting. It was also concerned with his "bizarre emotional outbursts," particularly his threatening to rip out Hiktomoph's eyes. It also correctly predicted he might talk to himself to an abnormal degree in toy form, also as a symptom of isolation.

In summary, magical transformation plus 400 years of loneliness have made it hard for him to adapt to new settings.

Ciem

Diagnosis: C-PTSD, comorbid with severe depression and borderline personality disorder

• C-PTSD: The loss of her parents, the sexual harassment she got constantly in school, sexual abuse she endured as a child, and a general lack of emotional support are believed to have layered upon each other to produce her melancholy state. Her emotional irregularity as a symptom is also concerning, which includes her rage outbursts and constant self-doubt. Her negative self-concept (questioning her value) is also noteworthy. Likewise, it noted the disconcerting reality of the fact that she would compare Cincinnati to Hell, and question if that's what she deserved. This expressed that, if it hadn't been turned into a literal war zone, she could be seen as holding distorted views.
• Depression: Perplexity noted her "persistent feelings of sadness and worthlessness." Her willingness to be incarcerated at the end of Ciem: Inferno also doesn't seem to be solely done out of selfless sacrifice to protect Imaki, but out of a selfish surrender due to loss of interest in activities. Her difficulty coping with miscarriage was also noted as a concern.
• Borderline Personality Disorder: She holds intense and unstable relationships, such as how quickly she became attached to Danny Loffin. She also illustrates impulsivity, given her ignoring house rules and engaging in risky behavior. Her longing to start a replacement family also betrays "cronic feelings of emptiness." This could all go double for Miriam, who in spite not having the same level of ambition to start a replacement family, is even more prone than Candi to risky behavior.

Perplexity noted additional considerations:

• Attachment issues: Candi can't trusting others easily. And when she tries, she doesn't seem capable of forming very many secure relationships.
• Hypervigilance: Her vigilante activities indicate being conditioned to a constant state of high alert.
• Survivor's guilt: She survived. Much of her family didn't. And those who died the minute she got even a little distracted? That weighs heavily on her.

If Madison is serious about treating her in-universe, a multi-faceted approach was recommended:

• Trauma-focused therapy (e.g., EMDR, CBT) to address her C-PTSD.
• Dialectical behavior therapy to help her with emotion regulation and interpersonal effectiveness.
• Cognitive processing therapy to address negative self-perceptions and guilt.
• Supportive therapy to rebuild self-esteem and develop healthy coping mechanisms.
• Antidepressants(?)

Perplexity noted that her superhero activities make her psychological profile even more nuanced. The extraordinary circumstances she endures would make her trauma and mental health symptoms worse: "Her tendency to self-sacrifice and take on excessive responsibility might be addressed as part of her treatment plan."