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.

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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."

Entering the world of 3D AI

Dozerfleet Studios now has a double-camera setup for shooting backgrounds and video in 3D. The setup doesn't quite have all its bugs worked out yet, but enough of a double image was able to be produced to result in anaglyph experiments demonstrating the strengths and drawbacks of using AI to make post-processing conversions to 3D.

For posters that mostly consist of AI-generated assets in the first place, it's very difficult to combine native and post-processed assets together to make a believable composite. Depth map manipulation to improve Photoshop layer pixel displacement on a flattened copy of a file - with all assets added before flattening of layers - is the most practical way to do it.

This is most evident in the 3D version of the main book cover / official poster for The Tale of Plum Bixie:

However, while post-processing can speed up the editing process, and is usually pretty reasonable, it has nothing on the power of a wisely-chosen setup of native 3D shooting - something not possible with most AI art generators that are equipped to only do so-so with generating 2D assets.

Some 3D glasses are needed to truly see the difference, but here's a sample image of a Christmas village that was post-processed using the app Owl 3D:

By contrast, this is that same village when two different cameras' feeds were overlapped to produce native 3D:

The depth detail is simply amazing; and the depth maps involved with Owl 3D, as good as they are, cannot hope to match the sheer power of a proper parallax reconciliation.

Granted, achieving this latter image took a little more work. The right eye camera was a Canon PowerShot ELPH 135. The left eye camera was a Vivitar Popsnap VEC S124. Stabilizing either camera without a tripod splitter was an exercise in splitting hairs. To make matters worse, macro photography like this pushed the limits of what both cameras could do. When it came to color recognition, the Canon definitely had better chrominance range than the Vivitar.

As a consequence, the resulting composite image is a fraction of what was originally possible. Regardless, the point was made.

This was also demonstrated when The Amazing Spider-Man first hit theaters in RealD 3D, and was shot natively. The result was a far-better-looking world than the MCU, which released The Avengers with post-processed 3D. Native 3D clips of TASM are hard to find now, with most YouTube clips featuring badly-washed-out post-processed 3D that's difficult to watch. Clips of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 suffered for this format, however, as it made more obvious than ever when Andrew was web-swinging against a greenscreen - a similar problem to that which plagued The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.

Viewers of

The Avengers didn't have that issue, since the 3D made available is the original post-processed result, just switched from RealD 3D to anaglyph per the limitations of most home monitors.

What does this mean for Dozerfleet 3D?

• Whenever possible, backgrounds and props that can be shot in native 3D can and should be done so. With a few tweaks, the Vivitar's current limitations may be overcome gradually. A tripod splitter will further aid the two cameras in communicating with each other to achieve an ideal parallax angle.
• If The Mutt Mackley Show ever made a comeback, an upgrade to the SD card setup for the Vivitar would enable Mackley videos to be shot in 3D. A different puppeteer might be needed, since the director / camerman would have to manage two cameras as the same time. This would allow future Mutt Mackley entries to be in native 3D.
• If location doubling is possible, backgrounds for story covers / posters could have 3D equivalents. Some clever blending of post-processed AI-generated foreground assets and native-shot assets would make better-looking 3D possible.
• Where such location doubling isn't possible, post-processing would be necessary to take full advantage of environments that are AI-generated from wholecloth.
• For Blood Over Water 3D for the remake, action shots that are complicated enough would be post-processed. Simpler shots could be done in The Sims 4 with carefully-handled trucking of the in-game camera to the right. The front and back covers, however, would have to be post-processed.
• So far, with regard to the machinomics, only Blood Over Water TS4 is being planned for a release some time in 2025 or 2026 with a 3D release. Readers will be encouraged to have or else order pairs of 3D glasses when reading Blood Over Water TS4 3D. All the other remaining machinomics are being planned for 2D only.
• From there, anaglyph work will be in limited supply, on an as-neede basis. Some anaglyphs are included in the official handbook for The Sims 4: Magic of Movies and Memes Stuff, though these are post-processed.
• Projects that are deemed passionate enough, or where there is enough demand, will then use native 3D as much as possible, and post-processed 3D whenever native 3D capture isn't possible. Most projects, for the sake of time, however, will still be 2D-only releases.

If Dozerfleet had its own version of Deadpool and Wolverine

Due to the nature of the Percolation Warriors saga, it's entirely possible for a Dozerfleet equivalent of Deadpool and Wolverine to exist - without ever using either Marvel character.

Sure, the Deadpool part of the equation would prove difficult, given Percolation Warriors is set after the death of MODM. However, MODM also was at one point going to be in a story called MODM: Reckoning, which had a similar plot to Thor: Ragnorak. In that story, MODM had to save MascotWorld from the Ultimate Meme Destroyer, an evil clone of Rick Astley, who had employed Insanity Wolf, Lucky Leprechaun, and the Jollibee as his minions. MODM was aided by Leonidas, Tide Pod Chan, Tay Zonday, Eduard Khil, Ugandan Knuckles, Overly Manly Man, Dat Boi, and (oddly enough) AoStH Robotnik. While Leonidas being helpful was no surprise, the surprise best backup warrior was Tide Pod Chan - desperate to be known for something other than getting eaten by morons.

So who could possibly replace MODM? Ideally, like with Deadpool and Wolverine, it'd have to be someone who can't die easily. Cornert Mindoche would be a little young. However, with some borrowed Remotach from Earth-G7.2.1, Candace "Lemon Witch" Mason could fill in the role of being the goofy world-hopper on such an adventure. She certainly wouldn't be as invincible as Deadpool, nor as vulgar. Give her some bladed weapons, and she could perform some of Wolverine's role as well. She could work in a pinch.

As for the serious teammate? The nearest equivalent to Deadpool in gunplay would be Plum Bixie, who would also be the closest personality match for Wolverine. Selling it as a female-led story would be tricky; but Percolation Warriors: Plum x Lemon could theoretically work as a Deadpool and Wolverine knockoff. If they can't defeat the new enemy with just the two of them, it could be made a trio. Maddening Rod could join them. To make sure all three of the Big Three universe families are represented, Kayla Tarington from the Knights of Cortascius could tag along - making them a core team of four.

Candace would be struggling with the fact that she gets bored easily. Zize? With the fact that she's afraid springing into action could lead to Inner Fox taking over her mind again. She doesn't want to undergo yet another exorcism, with Cherinob inside her head, ever again.

Who would be the villain?

As usual, licensing would be key. However, it's possible that a mishap with the Multiversal Triumvirate could lead to the Percolation Wave cloning Cerato right before he died, leading to an ascended Cerato. This rogue Cerato, desperate for a chance at relevance, would steal an entire transport vessel from under the Triumvirate, and use it to create his own separate universe - the Backlot (similar to the Void.)

Inside the Backlot, Cerato would use his stolen Triumvirate tech to make himself a veritable demigod among the residents. It wouldn't be paradise; but it wouldn't be a Mad Max-style wasteland either. He'd gather random Ice Chimps, Gwirdon Treaders, and others he'd captured and enslaved to become his servants. This would also include bringing Miscarriage the Stork back from the dead, resurrecting Oxymoron the Bull, resurrecting Shakesbear, resurrecting Uwchfiol, and resurrecting the Christina Wade version of Microwave Mouth. Anyone who puts up too much of a struggle gets fed to a clone of Salt the Raging Hamster.

In time, his plan would be to build his machine up so that he could start pruning from within the Divergency any timeline that he felt he could absorb energy from in order to grow his own power. He especially wanted to delete Earth-G7.2.9, to get revenge on the ascended Tanya Woven for having the nerve to humiliate his variant.

After careful analysis, Plum Bixie would be chosen to go after him - with help from Lemon Witch. Zize's being very hard to kill, combined with Candace's general unpredictability and remarkable talents, would make them a formidable duo for distracting Cerato long enough to sabotage the machine - leading to Cerato destroying himself.

The scariest plot twist? The girls must also visit every world Cerato has visited, and de-fuse a bomb of his from going off. If it goes off, it's set to target the Bootes Void. Cerato believes that if the Bootes Void in enough universes gets attacked, the feedback could unlock Earth-G7.0.0 - allowing Cerato to locate Pele and free her from the Bootes Void. A revived Pele would automatically create a multiversal crisis that would require Cherinob, Radjuatt, Soetera, and the rest of the Angelic Army to fix. Cerato would get mocked for having a similar evil plan to that of the Spot in Across the Spiderverse - until he points out how his intention to negotiate with Pele would actually make everything even worse.

Not wishing for a repeat of Cherinob 3; Zize, Candace, Kayla, and Carly would wish to fight back against Cerato and his army. However, they'd need allies. And that's when they discover the resistance in the Backlot:

The Resistance

While they were mostly there as a joke in Deadpool and Wolverine, fans rejoiced heavily to see Elektra, Human Torch, and especially Blade return to the silver screen after over a decade of irrelevance. A Dozerfleet version of that resistance could look like the following, and would really sell this story:

• A clone of Replox: Created when Cerato unsuccessfully attacked the world of Replox: Abstract Foundations. He was bounced back out by the Wave, but not before creating a clone of Kevin Mend. The clone lives in constant pain, as he and the original Kevin share the same Abstri-Matrix. He's willing to die for the cause of dethroning Cerato. Not only because he feels it's the right thing to do; but also because he wants to be set free from the fact that two versions of Kevin on the same Abstri-Matrix bond are not supposed to exist.
• Pollo Dehielo: Nearly everything about him has been forgotten, except for the fact that he's man in a chicken suit that makes ice. He gets a little tired of being called "Cold Chicken Batman."
• Cyberpunk Volkonir: A clone of the prince that first got displaced into a cyberpunk world, then got abducted into the Backlot by Cerato. In spite the progress his upgraded cyberpunk Golden Lion Knight armor helped him achieve in the cyberpunk world, he was unable to make much progress against the upgraded Cerato.
• A clone of Earth-G4 Ciem: Transported to a world where only shreds of her original Ciem suit from Imaki remained. A strange Zeranite pocket dimension she's connected to allows her to hide her 32 absurdly-long tentacle centilegs inside her body, which confuse the Percolation Warriors due to the fact that the Ciem they're familiar with has ten tiny centilegs and relies more heavily on Zeran teleportation to get around.
  
  This Candi never got to marry Donte, never got to save Denny Levens, barely managed to save her world from the Hebbleskin Gang and Arfaas' Doomsday Ship, struggled to get over the death of her daughter Angie, had no idea if her sister Miriam were okay, and generally felt like a failure at everything. Before finding the others, she felt very alone inside the forested and mountainous Purgatory-like Backlot. She especially feared Cerato, as Cerato seemed particularly intent on showing malice toward all versions of Ciem. She's aware that many consider the Earth-G7.2.1 version of her to be markedly superior, making her feel that much more like a failure.
• Redundant Man: Not afraid to die for the cause anymore, Redundant Man after stopping Professor Jargon's Duckzilla monster plan soon found himself and Detective Red Herring trapped in the Backlot. Red was among the first to be killed by Cerato, though he dreams of the day he can avenge his friend.
• Mutt Mackley: Desperate to get home once more, he remembers the time he lived inside Charlotte Duvarin's dorm wardrobe at Ferris State. He struggles with the fact that no one takes him seriously, given he's the size of a hand puppet - and somewhat resembles one.
• Jessie Morcin: The cancellation of Kozerlen saw her quickly fade out of relevance. However, she returns in this story looking for redemption. Even after getting past Corvin the Caller, and dismantling much of the Kozerlen conspiracy, she was no closer to learning the truth about her husband's disappearance than when she started. And after a decade, she was ready to give up. However, she knew she'd never finish the job if she couldn't escape the Backlot. The Percolation Warriors get confused by her appearance at first, noting that she bears an eerie resemblance to Monica Shelly.

Searching for transportation, they find Hilo, Ackro, and Colly from When Bikes Argue inside the Backlot. However, Ackro's rear axle snaps, rendering him useless. Colly gets sacrificed to shield Jessie from an attack by Miscarriage. Hilo survives, but proves to be of little use to the team. Barry the Car proves unusable, given his brake lines being corroded to uselessness.

Dozerfleet Turns 30

With completion nearing on the articles needed to make the official handbooks for the Anarteq Saga Story Pack Series for The Sims 4, Dozerfleet officially celebrates turning 30 years old today.

No special cake this time. Pumpkin pie will suffice. Things have come a very long way since that 5th grade classroom in Wyoming, Michigan. With power restored to the neighborhoods just a few hours before this post, central Florida is quickly springing back to life. Other areas are still reeling after Milton and Helene.

Rumble back-up channel for Dozerfleet Studios seems more likely

On the eve of the Air Force admitting that things like DEW lasers and chemtrails are, in fact, a reality, YouTube seems more determined than ever to label admitted facts as "conspiracy theories," knowingly lying, in order for its CEO to craft her own "reality."

On May 17th of 2024, the video for the song "Gates Demi!" was falsely accused of "trying to incite [current] violence," by referencing "a conspiracy theory." Online chat bots suggested that Dozerfleet Records contact a criminal lawyer to go after YouTube for this. That option is being considered.

The Dozerfleet Studios Channel was issued a warning, with a strike pending, over the video in question. The video was deleted. What were the butthurt and triggered so upset over?

In 2020, there were confirmed sightings of Air Force DEW laser drones over California, immediately before several "wildfires" broke out across the state. Left-wing TV rags blamed it on "climate change," while right-wing rags like Fox News blamed the fires on Antifa.

The song, released in 2021, was a parody of "Chop Suey!" by System of a Down. It made fun of the "wildfires" claim, by outright stating the DEW lasers were to blame, as they were. The song speculated that Bill Gates and his globalist allies were involved, and that they had intentions to continue starting fires this way. This speculation appears to have been confirmed by none other than Russel Brand, who published video of DEW lasers being used to commit arson and genocide in Hawaii in 2023.

The same bridge to the song later went on to reference disenfranchisement in Michigan, with well-documented cases of mail-in fraud. On top of that, it mocked the state of New York for law enforcement's failure to take action against hospitals and mobs for crimes against the elderly. It also made fun of Oregon, over the whole "Summer of Love" debacle.

The parody song was deemed acceptable at the time of its upload; but was suddenly deemed "not okay" out of nowhere, three years later. Given that many other videos have gone into far more detail on this subject, and in venues that don't involve comedy or entertainment which should fall under key protections, without that content being deleted, it would seem as this particular music video was unfairly targeted.

The decision by YouTube to ban the video was contested with an appeal; but the video was deleted forever anyway.

If any further mischaracterization or undue harassment by YouTube continues against Dozerfleet properties, then as many videos as possible will be moved to another platform. The YouTube channel may very well shut itself down. This blog will then link to the new platform. And if this blog's rights to reference the existence of a parody song are infringed, then Dozerfleet may relocate entirely to a new website. Legal options are also being considered, as censoring comedians just for mentioning truths that the admins don't like due to it being politically inexpedient is an unlawful form of censorship.

Claims of "it's just a private company" fall flat, when it has stock trade value! And when they get their advice to censor that specific content specifically from Congress and the FBI, then that means it's collaboration with a criminal enterprise that is explicitly violating the First Amendment, over the very specific main reason the Amendment was created!

That is unacceptable.

As such, all individual song lyric listings for Every Ape and His Brother have been taken down from this blog. The lyrics will be compiled into song books, and then republished as downlodable e-books by album. Any soyboy who still tries to "report" inconvenient truths in a work of art, is asking for trouble!