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.

The Gerosha Chronicles now has its own official coloring book

(Copied from Dozerfleet Labs blog post here.)

Click the above image to learn more.

Assembled in only a week, The Gerosha Chronicles: Assorted Heroes and Villains Coloring Book is a mostly-AI-generated coloring book that lets you imagine different characters and scenes from The Gerosha Chronicles, or color those scenes in for yourself! It's made in the same vein as any Marvel or DC coloring book.

Comic afficionados who love coloring, especially tweens, teens, and young adults, may have a blast with this vivid comic book world. Feel free to check it out for yourself.

Titles pushed to next year

In case of the worst

Long-term contigency plannning at Dozerfleet has led to a decision that once the machinomics are complete, it may be a good idea to start utilizing Linux Mint more, and relying less on variations of Windows.

Dozerfleet was founded in Michigan; but has since relocated to Florida. However, Florida is logistically vulnerable. In the event of a doomsday scenario, the state could become uninhabitable, such as if a nuclear attack hit the state.

In case of the worst, North Carolina seems like the most feasible place to escape to.

• It has land high enough from sea level to provide everything necessary for someone seeking shelter from rogue governments and Chinese nukes hitting from the Caribbean.
• The climate is reasonable.
• Off-the-grid living is not beyond the realm of possibility.

However, that will come with the need for some changes when it comes to equipment employed:

• Back-up power items would be a must.
  • Casual access to AC wall electricity would be a luxury, not something to take for granted.
• The TV set currently employed as "DozerfleetTV" would double as a PC monitor.
  • The current main PC monitor would be either sold or abandoned in the event of an on-foot migration. There'd be no practical way to carry it.
  • Failing the ability to safely procure storage for the TV, a smaller screen unit would have to be acquired.
  • This much smaller screen would be the new monitor.
• Once phased out as a necessity, the current Dell Inspiron 3650 operating as Dozerfleet Main would be sold / recycled / abandoned.
• A laptop to be the new Dozerfleet Portable, preferably a gamer-grade unit Mac that can dual-boot with Linux Mint, would be preferred.
  • The Macbook would be EMP-shielded, if possible.
  • MacOS would only be used to run Origin and Origin games, or to run Affinity Publisher, Affinity Designer, or any other software that cannot be replaced with FOSS.
  • Mint and FOSS would be used to handle every single other scenario.
• At some point, the Surface Go 2 operating as Dozerfleet Mega Portable would be phased out.
• The Kindle operating as Dozerfleet Ultra Portable will remain until it physically dies. It is unknown if a replacement Kindle will be available when that day comes. The whole designation may end up being retired.
• The Dozerfleet Database remaining open will be the top online priority of Dozerfleet operations; updating the blogs will be secondary.
  • Otherwise, online activity would be minimal, outside of use of Google Maps.
  • Dozerfleet Mobile, currently operating from a Google Pixel 4A 5G, would continue until that unit goes defunct. If not immediately replaceable, Motorola walkie-talkies would be a prime means of communication with the few connections that would remain.
  • Facebook, Instagram, and DeviantArt may see weeks or even months go by without updates.

Where this has led for 2022

Many projects that were initially pursued highly ambitiously in 2022 found themselves later pushed back, due to scheduling conflicts with prepping. The need to explore possibilities and contingencies, and gather the necessary gear to be able to stage a migration in the future if it becomes necessary, has led to experimentation with and learning of new systems. Learning the basics of modern macOS setups, as well as learning Linux Mint basics, has also meant learning how to use Virtual Box, and the limitations of a virtual machine environment.

This has also led to Dozerfleet Mega Portable abandoning Windows 11 in favor of Mint. The Dozerfleet founder's mother even got on the bandwagon. Her old laptop, having only 4GB of RAM installed, was too old to run Windows 10 efficiently. It found new life with a new battery, plus an installation of Mint.

All of this, combined with hernia surgery in April, caused major setbacks to Dozerfleet projects. Some will still get made in 2022. Others have been rescheduled for 2023 projected release dates.

Projects still slated for a 2022 release date

• Blood Over Water Redux
• Corando's Don't Lose Hope Redux
• Sorbet
• Whatever Happened to Gerosha Prime?
• Whatever Happened to Despair Gerosha?
• Whatever Happened to Classic Gerosha?
• Whatever Happened to Comprehensive Gerosha?

Projects moved to 2023

• Volkonir 2008
• Re-release of 90 Has No Secant
• Ciem / Anarteq: Kahoopiliana
• Sniperbadger: Fall of the Critter Resistance
• Path of the Ming-Cho
• Ciem: Inferno
• Anarteq: Guardian of the Soo
• Re-release of Ciem (2007)
• Centipede and Fire Saga Story Pack for Sims 4
• Sodality: Adaptation Story Pack for Sims 4
• Feud of Three Worlds Story Pack for Sims 4
• Experiments and Offspring Story Pack for Sims 4
• The Battle for Gerosha Story Pack for Sims 4
• The Gray Champion: Modern Legends Story Pack for Sims 4
• The Cherinob Saga Story Pack
• Tales of Extirpon Story Pack for Sims 4
• Mukade: Reinvention Story Pack for Sims 4
• Sodality: Determination Story Pack for Sims 4
• Sodality: Augmentation Story Pack for Sims 4
• Sodality: Vindication Story Pack for Sims 4
• Volkonir Story Pack for Sims 4
• Camelorum Adventures Story Pack for Sims 4

Slated for 2024

• Ciem: Ash Cloud
• Anarteq: Tropic Mercenary
• The Horrorday Gang
• Phaemer Village Peacekeepers
• The Tale of Plum Bixie

Slated for 2025

• Ciem: Caldera
• Anarteq: Envoy to Lough Melvin
• Sodality: Instigation
• Volkonir: Season 1

Slated for 2026

• Volkonir: Season 2
• Little Shanghai Hornet
• They Call Him...Black Rat
• Mukade: Reinvention

Slated for 2027

• Volkonir: Rise of Semaphry
• Camelorum Adventures: Season 1
• Cherinob
• The Tragedy of Lord Zeras

Slated for 2028

• Volkonir and the Knights of Cortascius
• Camelorum Adventures: Season 2
• Cherinob 2
• Feud of Three Worlds

Slated for 2029

• Cherinob 3
• Of Angels and Icicles
• Lohtz
• Sodality: Instigation
• Swappernetters: Season 1
• Camelorum Adventures: Season 3 / Percolation Warriors

Slated for 2030

• Experiments and Offspring
• Sodality: Adaptation
• Swappernetters: Season 2
• The Bison
• Grillitan Diner

Slated for 2031

• The Battle for Gerosha
• Of Emeralds and Sapphires
• Sodality: Determination
• The Bison Reborn
• The Trapzezoid Kids

Slated for 2032

• The Gray Champion: Freedom's Apparition
• Extirpon
• Sodality: Augmentation
• The Bison Dilemma
• The Slushy Show

Slated for 2033

• The Bison Aquafied: Rise of the Eel Thing
• The Gray Champion: Chillingworth's Revenge
• Extirpon 2
• Pilltar
• Navyrope

Slated for 2034

• The Gray Champion: Shaken Dust
• Extirpon 3
• Pilltar 2
• Navyrope 2
• Sodality: Battle for Metheel Revisit
• Centipede + 49 Revisit
• Sodality: Vindication

Slated for 2035

• Pilltar 3
• Ciem Tomorrow
• Camp Jellybean

Canceled / abandoned projects

The following projects have been completely abandoned:

• Pekins
• Sodality of Gerosha Founding Elites Character Pack for The Sims 3
• Sodality of Gerosha Support Staff Character Pack for The Sims 3
• Sodality of Gerosha Legends Character Pack for The Sims 3
• Sodality of Florence Character Pack for The Sims 3
• The Hebbleskin Gang Character Pack for The Sims 3
• Agents of SCALLOP Character Pack for The Sims 3
• Task Force Black Rat for The Sims 3
• The Last Legs Character Pack for The Sims 3
• Phaletori Character Pack for The Sims 3
• The Horrorday Gang Character Pack for The Sims 3
• Anarteq Character Pack for The Sims 3
• Society of the Icy Finger Character Pack for The Sims 3

Corando production has begun

Corando's "Don't Lose Hope" redux is now underway. So far, only Darshan and Mahima's story is getting any focus. Daruka has been introduced, but his bringing in the mob to attack the hidden church, as well as any footage of any of the temples near Porbandar, remains to be generated. Also in need of generation are the woods that Darshan and Ketan escape to, the brothel where Daruka holds Mahima prisoner, the Porbandar Airport, and any other locations that Darshan and Mahima run / drive through in their efforts to reunite. To say nothing of their improvised hut after Filforth is done with sending meteors to destroy southern India with!

All the clips happening in India will be shot first, however. The band won't show up in shots until after a semi-coherent story is possible from the India clips. Then, Corando in its studio can be shot. Their two bits of footage can then be intersplied to create the AMV illusion.

How Blood Over Water Classic missed its deadline for IMDB

Clips for the miniseries can now be viewed here. The photocomic can be downloaded here.

The question becomes: if Oughties Big Rapids Living Stuff can qualify for an IMDB page, then why not Blood Over Water? Well, it's technical; but it mostly comes down to nit picks regarding IMDB's specific rules.

1. Most new IMDB entries prefer that the film still exist, in its original format, verifiably, with verifiable information ready for its time of original release.
2. If the film (or miniseries) has been banned from public view for any particular reason, then IMDB wants evidence that it was available once upon a time.
3. Moreover, an additional clause in IMDB's rules states that the deceased work had to have been originally intended for release to the box office, a major commercial TV station or cable network, a major streaming platform (like YouTube or Vimeo), or some other venue that is widely publicly available.
4. If that isn't the case, then the work must still exist on a public venue in a form recognizable to its original medium / format at the time the entry to IMDB is made.
5. If the entry is to be made posthumously, then the work must have been originally intended for public broadcast, verifiably.

The specificity of these clauses in site rules, unfortunately, disqualify Blood Over Water from receiving an entry. And for two big reasons:

1. The work was removed from YouTube before an IMDB entry could be made, partially due to Chris' irrationality and TDS on Facebook, and partially due to a copyright dispute over the soundtrack. Therefore, it was defunct as a video online before an entry to IMDB could be submitted.
2. YouTube was not its original intended destination.

Nor was it ever intended in its original form for a box office release, nor to Fox, NBC, ABC, CBS, PBS, nor any of their affiliates. Rather, the miniseries' original target audience was Bulldog Television, the educational access cable channel connected to FerrisState.tv that is specific to Ferris students on campus.

IMDB rules state that PEG channel programming "doesn't count" for its platform. So without a version of the videos still on YouTube, IMDB's official stance is that it "doesn't exist, never happened."

Here at Dozerfleet, we know better. But just because it no longer qualifies for an IMDB page, doesn't mean that information on the old miniseries is lost forever. Because of the photocomic, it now qualifies for a listing on ICDB! And even if somehow failing that, it still has entries on All the Tropes, and of course, the Dozerfleet Database on Miraheze.

Can't get enough of comics that aren't from bigger-name firms? Check out ICDB today!

Purge-Flare: Stickin' It to Pencil has been out for a while. But now, it has an official listing on Tiina Vilu's growing Independent Comics Database. In spite the name similarity, ICDB is not affiliated with IMDB. So what is ICDB?

Tiina's most basic stated goal with the site is one that Dozerfleet seems to agree with: giving creators with online comic works they'd love to get out into the world, to influence readers with for purposes of exchange of thought and discourse; a means of listing their work in a place that will both grant some additional legitimacy to the work's existence and provide visitors of the site with a go-to reference.

Genre categories are limited, and the perversion mafia seems to have had their way with defining some of the top categories. Other creative minds will simply need to write more and better material, and make their submissions, to turn the tide in the culture / spiritual war. But with some TLC from creators like you, Tiina's experiment in providing all indie creators a platform for their ideas can genuinely take off.

Purge-Flare is currently listed under the "assassin" genre, as it seemed the most fitting for this dark antihero. The tale is the first machinomic to be featured on ICDB, the first hybrid comic-storybook to reference in any respect the world of GTA 5 to this capacity, as well as one of the few entries to be in ten different languages on the site! (For comparison, Hyunseok Yun's DICE is listed as being in nine different languages.)

Have a work similar to Purge-Flare that you'd love to share on ICDB? Check it out today, and see if it's the right listing for your work!

Ferris articles getting expanded

In order to better address the history of each major notable location at Ferris State, and to make more room for the remake of Blood Over Water, The Notable on-campus locations and Notable in-town locations articles related to Big Rapids are being heavily expanded upon.

Instead of just a main Big Rapids article and two sub-pages, each major location previously mentioned in segmentations is now getting its own page. This will have an impact on links in every article related to these new article pages. However, the following projects and characters will feel the effects sooner than anyone else:

• Blood Over Water (2009 miniseries)
• Blood Over Water (webcomic)
• Sorbet
• Kozerlen
• Mackley's Wardrobe
• Ferris State Live
• Ferris in Focus (and all episodes)
• Innovative Grafix ad 2010
• Mancino's ad 2010
• Fox 32 ad
• Volkonir 2008
• Volkonir (2008 film)
• Volkonir Meets the Power Rangers
• The Blue Face Film Strips
• Volkonir (character)
• Dereck Tumbline
• Cassie Helm
• Hadley Mint
• Aaron Stefflin
• Mark Stefflin
• Chris Kennal
• Monica Shelly
• Ashley Phillips
• George Lawence
• Kyle Tugrass
• Clyde Spendelworth
• Meredith Celestine
• Wanda Celestine
• Unlisted
• She is Nectar
• Every Ape and His Brother (and all related songs)
• The Sims 4: Oughties Big Rapids Living Stuff
• Vance Lingolin
• Sleet Mountain
• Interview with Polly
• Ciem (2007)
• Ciem 2 (2009)
• Ciem 3 (2009)
• A Witness from Dirbine
• Pursuit of the Facts
• Mutt Mackley
• Gambino Penguin
• Task Delegator
• Mutt Mackley and Gamino Penguin's "Somewhere I Belong"
• Mackley's Wardrobe

Other articles' links will be revised on an as-needed basis.

Progress update for September

As one can expect to be the case, the increasingly toxicity of woketarded Fandom has caused numerous delays at Dozerfleet. The webcomic release of Volkonir 2008 has been moved to 2022. Wiki rebuilding on Miraheze has caught up on the Comics / Literature division side only insofar as to beginning to revise / edit articles pertaining to Gerosha Prime. Restoring the entire Megaverse to the wiki will take time yet.

However, some projects are being moved ahead of schedule. Purge-Flare: Stickin' It to Pencil will get its ad released before the end of September. This will get the Studios division caught up, and clean the production slate for Blood Over Water.

Getting the old articles back online and revising their contents will have to be done in stages, to make time for Blood Over Water production. This, along with other real-life delays in matters, has moved Ciem: Inferno and other projects that follow Blood Over Water into 2022 at the earliest. However, having a new wiki host means better protection for wiki contents - which may lead to better Plottr organization and vice-versa.

Currently, the slate appears to be that once Blood Over Water is complete, the next thing to get made will be Volkonir 2008. This will then leave behind only Sorbet, Kahoopiliana, Sniperbadger, and Path of the Ming-Cho to be made in 2022, and the Comics division will be caught up.

After this, it will be the Literature division's turn. Ciem: Inferno and Anarteq: Guardian of the Soo will be up next for development in 2022. After they're written, it'll be time to pursue a publisher for them. In the mean time, the rest of the Legacy and Orient volumes will be piecemealed together until finished. It's believed that this will run into 2024 before being completed.

With the Orient and Legacy volumes finished, the Origins and Legends volumes can start being written. Volkonir: Season 1 may follow suit in 2025. In 2026, the two pre-Sodality volumes will continue to be developed, and possibly sent to publishers, while time is made on the side for Volkonir: Season 2 and Camelorum Adventures. The goal is to have the slate cleared by 2030 for Sodality and Swappernetters, and possibly Percolation Warriors. With those in the can, smaller Dromedeverse and Eccentriaverse properties, like Grillitan Diner and The Bison, can be completed. Ideally, everything should be completed in the Literature division by 2046, and in the hands of publishers.

The Labs division intends to publish a few more Sims 4 story packs, before abandoning DzMD Sims 4. These include:

1. A Ciem-themed series of packs for Inferno, Ash Cloud, and Caldera
2. An Anarteq-themed pack
3. Some additional Sodality-themed packs
4. A Gray Champion pack
5. An Extirpon-themed pack
6. A Cherinob-themed pack
7. A Feud of Three Worlds Pack
8. A Battle for Gerosha pack
9. An Experiments and Offspring pack
10. A Camelorum Adventures official story pack
11. An official Volkonir story pack.

In addition to the comics being made in 2022, that will take up a lot of 2022 free time for development, these remaining 16 packs will be emphasized for completion. At any rate, the goal is to complete these packs before The Sims 5 comes out. It is unknown which games DzMD will support in the future. The unfinished Sims 3 pack content for DzMD release has a very uncertain future, as demand is questionable, given the game's age.

Concerning the J. Scott Campbell 'controversy'

Not the dumbest gripe the detergent zombies have ever had; but a decade-old picture of Mary Jane becoming reason to cancel an artist who is usually on their side, lefttardation or otherwise?

Candi weighs in on what Clown World wants to label "Comics-gate," on why she doesn't envy MJ. The price of fame: you attract morons, who go after you for the dumbest "reasons."

The Bison is an ijoju

The term "ijoju," or "ijō-jū" (異常獣,) is the correct term for what the Bison effectively is in the Eccentriaverse. He may have many kaiju traits; but he lacks the enormous size to be considered a proper kaiju. Even the Eel Thing is just barely large enough to be considered a proper kaiju.

Now, if you ask his surviving victims, they'd say the Bison borders on being a yoju (demon beast, 妖獣 ) instead! But...that's just their opinion.

Purge-Flare now available for the Philippines

Puge-Flare: Stickin' It to Pencil is now available in Bisaloglish, a hybrid language of English, Cebuano, and Tagalog, aimed at Cagayan de Oro residents.

Translations for this short story are also being pursued in Portuguese, Korean, and Russian. Blood Over Water, once finished, will likely also get a Spanish translation. Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Korean, Bisaloglish, Portuguese, Polish, etc. are not likely translations for that webcomic. Volkonir 2008 may get a Japanese translation, but there will likely not be any translations made for Volkonir Journals: Attempt #43. 3-13 has been delayed for release until some time in 2021. Future re-releases for Gored By Them Things and other related works are being debated.

Once prepared, Ciem / Anarteq: Kahoopiliana may receive a Spanish translation. However, no other translations will be made in-house. Ciem: Inferno and Anarteq: Guardian of the Soo won't be translated in-house either. But depending on publisher deals, other publishers may be interested in pursuing translation work on their own ends.

The Purge-Flare's projected viable reader markets by country

Purge-Flare: Stickin' It to Pencil has only so many markets worldwide that it can hit. If it takes off, and demand can be generated for Blood Over Water and Ciem: Inferno this way, then it improves the odds of success for Ciem: Inferno to get a professional publisher release once written and ready.

If Ciem: Inferno enjoys massive domestic success, and there is international demand, then the publisher would most likely be willing to pay for international translations.

However, this is the current projection of markets worth targeting, versus ignoring.

Markets already covered by Purge-Flare native English or by already-existing foreign translations

• USA
• China
• Myanmar (the Chinese portion)
• Spain
• Malawi (the English portion of it)
• Mexico
• Japan
• India (English-speaking portions)
• Poland
• Gambia (the English-speaking portions)
• Most nations of South America (sans Brazil)
• Mann
• Barbados
• Ireland
• Marshall Islands
• New Zealand
• UK
• Jamaica (somewhat, though native dialects not considered)
• Israel (English-speaking portions)
• Australia
• Bermuda
• Nauru
• Virgin Islands
• St. Vincent and the Grenadines
• Dominica
• Palau
• Anguilla
• Guam
• Grenada
• Guyana
• Canada
• Philippines (Cagayan de Oro, primarily)
• Portugal
• Brazil
• France
• Ivory Coast
• Quebec
• DR Congo
• Madagascar
• Niger
• Burkina Faso
• Mali
• Senegal
• Chad
• Belgium (French)
• Haiti
• Switzerland
• Seychelles
• any other French-speaking African country

Essentially, any nation that has a large portion of its population that already speak or know how to read English. Or any region where a translation already exists for that region's native language.

Markets for readership being pursued

• South Korea
• Russia

Markets that may be viable in the future

• Germany (although most Germans know English)
• France

Markets not deemed viable, or else no interest in making a translation for

• Greece (the portions that only speak Greek)
• Iran
• Iraq
• Saudi Arabia
• Morocco
• Any nation that speaks Swahili (including Uganda. Dat is not de wae!)
• Any nation speaking Swazi
• India (Hindi-speaking portions)
• Israel (the minority that speak only Hebrew)
• Bangladesh
• Turkey
• Rwanda

Bear in mind, this does not mean that someone from these lands is not allowed to enjoy it in their native language. It only means that Dozerfleet Labs won't take the painful effort to perform the translation directly and personally. However, anyone scholarly enough from these lands who desires an unofficial translation of Purge-Flare, is free to make one, and pass it on to their friends.

Translations for Purge-Flare: Stickin' It to Pencil

More transitions are happening, and Dozerfleet's main office may be moving soon. There were efforts in 2019 to relocate; but these fell through.

The chaotic election cycle of 2020, and worse Michigan politics, have made business in Michigan dangerous - and the cultural climate very unstable!

Moving to another state seems to be the only way around this. In the mean time, Purge-Flare: Stickin' It to Pencil may only get one more translation this year: to Japanese. It has already been successfully translated into Chinese, Spanish, and Polish. After the Japanese version is finished, Dozerfleet Main may be going offline for some time. Dozerfleet Portable will be in operation if this happens.

There are three other languages being considered for translating the story into: Korean, Russian, and Cebuano. Any other language translations will need to be by request.

While Dozerfleet Main is down, future machinomics will also be shelved. Blood Over Water, for example, won't be able to go into production until some office location issues are resolved. Sniperbadger: Fall of the Critter Resistance and Ciem / Anarteq: Kahoopiliana will similarly need to wait. Ciem: Inferno can technically be written from the laptop; but will be a much slower process.

Dozerfleet is not going away. But it may be found in another state soon. Stay tuned.

Purge-Flare: Stickin' It to Pencil now available for download

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A year in the making, this short story can now be downloaded and read for free, as a PDF file on your PC or Kindle device!

Set a month before Ciem: Inferno, three years after Extirpon, and six years after Blood Over Water, Chris "the Purge-Flare" Kennal's fate is revealed. Part of the Legacy volume of The Gerosha Chronicles!

In this short tale, the Purge-Flare needs to assassinate loathe Gleeful-N'-Young pedophile racket middle manager Mike "Pencil" Javelin at the Cincinnati Airport - in the hopes of sabotaging Clyde Spendelworth's evil plans for Gerosha, Indiana.

Yet, as he and his trusty sidekick "Module" quickly learn; anything can and will go wrong when you cross paths with a racket owned by the Triumvirate! Team Purge-Flare's ability to secure the cybernetic side of their operation dangles by a thread, protected by the benevolent hacktivist Sniperbadger.

Dealing with the security leaks, the threats to Module's life, dealing with Module's pregnant wife, and locating Pencil proves to be only half the battle. When Chris' getaway plan is ruined, he must resort to some very desperate measures to escape the airport after Pencil's assassination - if he wishes to remain the Man That the Law Can Never Catch!

Most Dozerfleet free-for-view machinomics are made with Sims software. This 2020 piece of art marks a milestone in Dozerfleet Comics' history: the first short-length multi-panel machinomic ever released, to be made with Grand Theft Auto V!

Update: This story is, as of 11/25/2020, now also available in Chinese and in Spanish.

New download home for Volkonir Meets the Power Rangers

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After three years, the proper download page has been established for anyone wishing to access this work. It remains in syndication (for now) on Mod the Sims; but this PDF download gives the comedy work a more permanent home - just in case.

Originally written as a way to promote the 2017 Power Rangers movie while also promoting Dozerfleet in general, this short story quickly veered off in numerous other, mostly humorus directions.

Relive all the laughs for free, now brought to you by Dozerfleet Comics!

Replox: Abstract Foundations downloads get a new home

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The novella that helped get Dozerfleet Literature off the ground has finally come to its new home. This 2002 classic was an ambitious work in the making, since before Dozerfleet Comics ever made its first machinomic with any version of The Sims! The machine used for its concept art and creation was so old, in fact, that it ran Windows 98 and Microsoft Word 2000!

Concept art panels back then had to be done with SimCity 2000 - and MSPaint 98!

Release on this blog is significant: it helps mark the separation of the Dozerfleet Database in function. Instead of being both the entirety of Dozerfleet plus the about, the Database can now be repurposed toward its more meta nature, while the blog functions as the main content's home!

Implementation of this blog as a new home for Dozerfleet Literature free publications, and Dozerfleet Comics free publications, as well as a link hub for any for-profit releases elsewhere, only beings with Replox. Once all the old content that is safe for re-publication is online, this blog will become the go-to for information about new releases; free or for-profit.

What if Danny hadn't dumped Candi after her conviction?

Canon

Canonically, at the end of Ciem: Inferno, under pressure, Richard and Megan convince Danny that the best thing for him to do would be to break up with Candi. Candi is terrified to let anyone know that she's pregnant - including Danny! She admits it at one point to Imaki; but that leaves Imaki as the only party outside of Madison that knows the truth.

Appalled that he would be so quick to throw in the towel, simply because her conviction - and his family moving westward - made life difficult; Candi concedes to the breakup - tearfully. The couple part ways, and don't see each other again for several years. She vows that if she can't win him back, then she'll make certain that the next guy she gives herself to is fully committed to her - no matter what insane persecution Darius Philippine throws at her next!

Danny seemed like the dream to her. But when the going got tough; he ran away. She knew she couldn't afford to make that mistake again!

The stress of being a fall girl, a juvenile inmate, an orphan, a single mother, and an exposed superhero whose sins were catching up to her proved to be too much; and Candi found herself going into labor in late January of 2016 - only a month into serving her sentence!

Grateful for all she'd done to save Madison Juvenile from Drop-In (and tame Flintirah,) Superintendent Bruce Almin offered to pay for Candi's trip to the hospital. She was determined to save her child's life. However, doctors were only able to do so much, and no more.

Angie Flippo was not given more than a few hours to live. Candi made sure to have her child baptized in that time; then spent several tender moments with the daughter she was doomed to lose. It took until early March for Candi to recover from the crushing depression that ensued - made worse by Darius instigating TPR proceedings against Erin and Imaki, in breach of his deal with Candi!

Madison was cutting back, and that meant inadequate personal support to address Candi's specific problems. The class she most needed, Healthy Relationships; was denied to her - partially on account of outside pressure from Darius.

When some of Candi's unresolved issues years later would come back to bite her, and Donte would be similarly emotionally and morally compromised by the stressful circumstances they were in; it became dangerously easy for Candi to slip back into her old behavior patterns.

There could have been another way

But what if Danny weren't a coward? What if he'd sworn to Candi that he would do anything to get back to her after she got out of prison; even if he lived in another state by then?

For starters, the odds would have been significantly higher that Angie would have arrived on a more reasonable timetable and due date, and not been super-premature.

Darius would have written Candi off as useless, and not prolonged her suffering beyond the initial 7 months of incarceration she'd agreed to. Candi would have been unable to participate in the events in Ash Cloud, as Angie would have been born in late April. Candi would have been released in June, on her original schedule. The Loffin family would come and vouch for her, as they'd also be the ones receiving custody of Angie. Imaki would coordinate matters this way.

In Candi's 5-year future, things would have turned out worse for her - and the remnants of America in general - had this happened. Canonically, in December of 2019, when she and Dolly arrive at the Texas border, Candi has a renewed supply of Remotach. She and Dolly find themselves dependent on it to survive, after they are captured and drugged at the border.

Not aware of Remotach, Arfaas' men waste no time taking a weakened Candi and Dolly, and fulfilling Arfaas' demands for the girls.

Due to Candi's Remotach, quick thinking, and the Navyropes' intervention, the girls are able to reattach their heads in time, and survive the encounter. The Navyropes take them to a secret underground bunker, doubling as a hospital. The girls are fully recovered from all but their psychological trauma - a week later. After all: they were inches from death!

Imaki even had Candi and Danny do practice runs with a fake ax and block, to get Candi used to the idea that her enemies were serious about their obsession to fulfill Arfaas' demands: that all of Shalia's daughters' heads be made into his trophies!

But with no Candi to confront Korsicht at Madison in June of 2016? None of the others would have survived. Nancy would never have come up with the Carbonica. Quoll and Duzerit would have succeeded at the full VEI-8 eruption of Yellowstone plan! The Hebbleskins would have eventually found all of Shalia's daughters, and decapitated them. None would have Remotach, and Candi would have been utterly defeated.

Is all hope lost?

At first, this may seem so. Dolly would have died at the South Bend Death Camp. There would be no Ciem to confront Musaran. Donte would have died, and a lot sooner. No Exodus Agenda would arrive in Texas at all; and Jackrabbit's team in Houston would have had a much harder time making the Sodality of Gerosha a reality.

However, the Loffins would have fled to California sooner. Danny would have had Candi in his life; and would have married her as soon as he lawfully could.

Right up until the moment of her capture and execution; Candi would have been happier. She would've had the boy she wanted: her high school sweetheart. She'd miss Miriam and Imaki, and even miss Marina and Erin too. She wouldn't miss much else.

While Candi herself would have been doomed to die; the case for Angie would have been another story. Angie would have escaped, along with the rest of the Loffins. She'd develop the same abilities as what her mother had; and would grow up to one day avenge her mother and destroy the Hebbleskins.

It's debatable if the Swappernetters and Plum Bixie would be around to assist her in this. If the Icy Finger stuck it to the Loffins as revenge against the Angie Loffin version of Ciem; then Angie would have needed to go underground within Arkonia - as a Swappernetter Student.

Angie's Centhuen Prototype abilities would come in handy; allowing her to become a Frontliner a year ahead of her peers. She may have even been able to join Tabitha Pang's team; given that she would only be about 2-1/2 years younger than Tabby. This would be strange for Tabitha; as she'd now be the mentor to the daughter of her own childhood idol!

In conclusion

While Angie's premature birth and death, and Danny's abandoning Candi may seem cruel; it was a strange sort of blessing in disguise. Having the Remotach refill allowed Candi to later survive two beheadings from her enemies! Battling Korsicht saved dozens of lives. Yellowstone didn't go full VEI-8. The world didn't end - just yet. The Sodality of Gerosha became legendary heroes.

Sure, relentless politics would see to it that Candi's Madison affair wouldn't be the only time she would spend her life as a political prisoner. With the totality of her life under parole / probation and incarceration time total tallied up, she winds up spending nearly 13 years' worth of her life either behind bars, or under house arrest, or else monitored in some way!

Yet, Candi's patience and longsuffering are not in vain. She and Donte are able to build the McArthur Estate that would never have been possible under Danny Loffin. They are able to have three children of their own: Frank, John, and Dana. The Ciem of Tomorrow, which the Phaletori remnants and Icy Finger revivalists fear most in Indiana, is not some mere offspring of Candi's that has the same abilities and suit tech.

Instead, it's a much-updated futuristic Ciem, with all of Candi's powers PLUS all of Emeraldon's! Dana may not have been as special a birth to Candi as Angie was; but the long haul makes Candi grateful that God put Dana in her life long-term instead of Angie.

There's sometimes no telling what sort of divine blessing and providence one can hope to expect; even coming from the most seemingly senseless of one's current pains and struggles.

Plum Bixie vs. 2020 Mulan: How do they compare?

Which female Chinese protagonist is better-written, in your view? Please leave a comment below, to pick your preferred Chinese action heroine.

Zize Choi, from Dozerfleet's The Tale of Plum Bixie (2018)	Mulan Fa, from Disney's Mulan (2020)
Origin Lowly sex slave / honeypot / assassin, working as a spy for a government she hates, and ideology that disgusts her.	Origin Started off loving a similarly-oppressive regime, in spite being a victim of that oppression herself.
Reaction to origin Rebels and pursues freedom and a new life, identity, etc., at the first given opportunity. Joins a liberty-loving band of hillbillies. Libertarian.	Reaction to origin Becomes a willing stooge of said regime later, to spread more of that oppression to others. Fascist.
Views on individualism Believes in the individual as something of value, and that without that, a collective is not worth having.	Views on individualism Views the collective's leaders as more important than anything or anyone else, and otherwise, values the collective above the individual (except for herself), until the individual is nothing (unless they're part of the elite.)
Emotional state Initially motivated by jealousy, pain, resentment, victimhood, and an insatiable bloodlust. Later motivated by love, and even later motivated by pain and guilt. The Implacable Woman.	Emotional state Initially motivated by pride, arrogance, resentment, jealousy, and insatiable bloodlust. Later motivated by pride. The Mary Sue.
Arrogance Becomes arrogant at one point, faces heavy consequences.	Arrogance Is constantly arrogant. Rarely faces any serious personal consequences.
Empathy Witnessing the loss of everyone she grew to care about, as she proves helpless to stop the onslaught, filling her with survivor's guilt.	Empathy Her becoming the emperor's eager stooge, feeling nothing about the hundreds of her own men she killed with her own recklessness.
Preferred weaponry Guns, knives, arrows, bazookas, any modern weapon.	Preferred weaponry Swords, spears.
Phlebotinum Wolverine-like healing	Pheblotinum Magic kung-fu that runs on Chinese Midichlorians
Meta origin Injected against her will.	Meta origin Born awesome.
Experience and training Trained for years to be a honeypot / asssassin under MSS tutelage, in spite being the butt monkey for her boss. Was given no choice. Only friend for years was Mingmei, who was also being given credit for most of her kills. Thrust into the Idaho situation against her will. But chooses to side with the locals. While a quick learner, she still has some weapons taught to her by locals.	Experience and training Joins the military with almost zero prior training, is already better than everyone else at everything. Everything cool was her choice.
Inspiration The Deputy / Judge from Far Cry 5 and Far Cry New Dawn.	Inspiration Skin swap of Brie Larson's Captain Marvel.
Peers A fellow spy, one of the few that isn't a total jerk to her. They get separated, and this friend gets assigned to other adventures.	Peers A witch, who envies her for being accepted for the same reasons the witch was made an outcast from society. Who has a change of heart and dies to help Mulan.
Call to adventure Resigned to the call. Didn't ask for it; but accepted it, begrudgingly.	Call to adventure Jumped at the call.
Inner moral conflict Am I doing the right thing for the right reason? Am I really a hero, or just a bitter mass murderer? Yes, they had it coming. But did that justify me being the executioner? Is being a violent killing machine really all I'm worth? Is this really my only way to prove to the world that I'm not just some stupid whore, like my supervisor tried to paint me? That asshole!	Inner moral conflict Why can't everyone already see how awesome I am?
Mental health PTSD, PTED, selective mutism, develops split personality / schizophrenia.	Mental health Narccissist
Huli Jing Gets a mask of one, but keeps her "Plum Bixie" spy alias, in spite the bixie and huli jing being two very different mythological animals. In spite this, she develops a mindset when on missions more in common with that of a nu gui, similar to the Japanese onryo. However, she doesn't dress the part of one. She leaves that to the onryo impersonator Anda Hirano, known in the west as the "Extirwraith," the female counterpart to Extirpon. Who, while less powerful overall, is Tug-immune, something Extirpon cannot claim.	Huli Jing Would more likely have been called one of these, rather than a "witch," if locals wished to demonize her. Gets an unexplained phoenix spirit familiar out of nowhere, without concrete explanation, presumably as a stand-in for Mushu the Dragon.
Christianity Converts eventually. Becomes more serious about it after marrying Amado Marcones. Is healed emotionally by devotion, but still struggles with guilt over her history of murder sprees.	Christianity Lived in a time when missionaries to China were almost unheard of. Would've had little chance to exposure to much outside Confuscianism. Played by an actress that celebrates the CCP's sadistic mistreatment of ethnic and religious minorities.
Outcome Lives tolerably ever after, some time after having to be hospitalized for her deteriorating mental state.	Outcome Lives happily ever after, logic be damned.

3-13 back in the system

In a desperate saving throw earlier this year, the last surviving copy of any version of the original script for 2008's 3-13 was finally recovered. It has recently been scanned back into existence within digital media, meaning that work on the film's editing can soon resume. Once this and Kings in the Corner are both on YouTube, the Dozerfleet Studios division can finally have its blog section fleshed out properly - with actual content to display!

Getting the Dozerfleet Studios tab fully online has moved higher up on the priorities list for this year, along with finishing the Chrome Kite and other Swappernetters Sims 4 packs for DzMD, as noted on the Labs blog. With Dozerfleet Studios back online, work can resume on the timelines for The Gerosha Chronicles, leading to resumption of Purge-Flare: Stickin' It to Pencil. From there, Blood Over Water can be written, and pave the way for the long-anticipated Ciem: Inferno.

The Journey to Batuu Sims 4 game pack released this year has indicated that a Tiemess the Jithy Knord short is possible in the near future for 2021. It would be a total continuity reboot from 2005's Star Flops: Curse of the Medium Side, but would likewise also be a short story.