Software changes moving forward

Long-term planning has been going on regarding the future of Dozerfleet hardware. As Microsoft is making dual-booting more difficult, and the future of Big Tech and respect for user privacy remains questionable, Dozerfleet has been researching heavily the merits of moving operations to a Linux setup.

The best dual-booting feature for the future appears to be to get a gamer-quality MacBook Pro, then set up the partitions to allow Linux Mint to be the secondary operating system.

With such a setup as that, the MacBook could then run macOS Monterey (or whichever OS replaces it in the future) to run Office 2019, Origin, The Sims 4, and the Affinity suite - Photo, Designer, and Publisher.

These would be for instances in which using high-end proprietary software is a must. At present, the only time that Photoshop Elements would still be used, is for making anaglyph images. Test results show that channel blending for this purpose in Photoshop still works thousands of times better than the most popular methods for Affinity Photo.

Premiere Elements is still top-notch for video editing; but a dual-boot Linux Mint Cinnamon session of OpenShot could work for video editing in a pinch.

For times when Office 2019 isn't imperative, and when LibreOffice apps would suffice, Linux Mint comes with those already installed. With a little tweaking, LibreOffice is at least on par with Office 2007.

For times when Affinity Photo, Affinity Publisher, Affinity Designer, etc. aren't imperative, Krita makes for an adequate subsitute. As a bonus, Krita can do anaglyphs just as well as Photoshop - through a channel blending checkbox feature that Affinity Photo is woefully lacking. Darktable, likewise, makes for a nice replacement for Lightroom on any machine. Blender works natively in Linux.

All things considered, the only reason to keep Mac or Windows around at Dozerfleet, is for games and game modding (such as for The Sims 4), character modeling, and improvised CAD. All other operations are Linux-ready. So if the need to abandon Windows in the future becomes imperative, the full transition to Linux Mint would require minimal growing pains.

On bench tests, Linux Mint Cinnamon beats out Windows 11 in almost every important category. This is not to say it's a perfect OS. Getting WINE and Lutris to run particularly well is still at times difficult. Dozerfleet Mega Portable now runs Mint, as opposed to Windows 11. However, given the small size of its solid state drive, the file storage space gains have proven insignificant. The next Dozerfleet Main / Portable will need to be a slightly larger, and much more horsepower-heavy machine.

In the mean time, Dozerfleet Main can continue running a supported Windows 10 until about 2024 or 2025. From there, it can run an unsupported Windows 10 until about 2030. After that, it may be able to upgrade to a Linux distro, assuming the hardware doesn't die. This should be long enough to complete the remaining projects in Dozerfleet Comics' main comics division lineup. After that, Dozerfleet Literature will become the main focus - and Literature uses far fewer overall system resources.

Considering monetization options, and why Patreon is not an option

Most Dozerfleet content that isn't a novel set in the Dozerfleet Megaverse, on the Dozerfleet Literature end, is free content. As such, Dozerfleet Labs is also intent on issuing 99.9999% free content. Until more practical means exist to make something worth charging over, Dozerfleet Labs will likely stay a mostly if not entirely free content provider.

That being said, donation options are not out of the question. While one has yet to be decided on, PayPal is in consideration. Dozerfleet is not planning, however, at any point in time, on getting a Patreon account, and here's why:

1. Patreon in run by Tide Pod zombies

If you dare question any part of the narrative of life that BlackRock and the corporations it controls want you to believe about life, if you so much as express doubt about action taken in the name of some radical political cause that Patreon likes, etc., then your failure to cheerlead that cause enough, puts you in the same category in their twisted mind(less) as being a "Trump supporter," a "white supremacist," and all the other insane, overused slurs they can think of.

Long story short, they will deplatform you for "wrongthink." You don't even need to outright oppose a particular cause in general. But if you question if a particular action taken by an activist in the name of that cause is logical, let alone ethical, then that's the "same thing" as literally being Dylan Roof!

"Yet, they hated the light, and hated transparency, and loved darkness, for their deeds were evil." - paraphrased form John 3:19

2. Patreon is a social credit trap

Being run by Tide zombies, the platform is all about luring users into a trap that is a backdoor to America adopting Chinese social credit, where anyone's wrongthink, or even failure to express "correct"think to the preferred degree, can be met with disproportionately harsh punishments, as well as hefty persecution in areas of life where it is absurd and unjust!

This is demonic, and the demons need to be sent back to Hell! Chinese social credit is not a system that deserves to exist in any spec of any universe, let alone in China itself, let alone in America! For Patreon to be in favor of it, is the site damning itself.

3. Patreon presumes the right to spy on you

If it could get away with it, the site would hire secret police to stalk / spy on platform users in their everyday offline lives. Why? To find so much as even one single example of "wrongthink" being expressed, as an excuse to deplatform said individual! Alas, the site doesn't yet have the blessing of courts to stalk its users offline to look for excuses to punish them offline. But it does the next-worst thing: spying on every single damned thing you do while online. Looking for anything you say, and putting the worst imaginable construction on it. And then punishing you, often without a meaningful chance to appeal the decision.

After all, when woketards decide what you meant, and you don't get to say you didn't mean what they say you mean, even when plain evidence is on your side, then they win. Because it's about what they want, truth be damned!

The site affirmed its position in this diabolical deed when it banned Sidney Watson. What was her crime? They wouldn't even tell her! Alas, she has posted videos questioning modern feminist logic, and questioning the modern chromosome significance defilement mafia's agenda to create "pregnant men." She posted NONE of this activity on Patreon. Yet, Patreon saw fit to act outside its jurisdiction, and punish her for having the "wrong" position on hot button issues, on sites that were not Patreon.

Likewise, even as the gene rape jabs were killing those who got them left and right, creating orange blood and weird nanoparasites that actually grow larger in formaldehyde, rather than dying in it, Patreon also went on a crusade to ban anyone critical of the jabs!

The only thing here that needs to be banned, are Patreon themselves. And the jabs. And the demonic "trans" movement, run by lying sociopaths preying on the mentally ill.

Patreon also ree'd up a storm when she pointed out how silly it is to call math "racist." So either agree with Clown World, and hasten the anti-science lunacy and degeneracy of the most degenerate of America's lowest common denominator, or not be allowed to make money? A company with that attitude doesn't deserve to even exist!!!

So what's the point of ever using Patreon at all? There are only two reasons Dozerfleet has to even visit that wretched site:

• TwistedMexi's T.O.O.L. Mod (until they ban him for having an "offensive" username, because they're flaming idiots.)
• Weerbesu's UI Cheat Options mod

The Sims 4 needs those to be truly useful for machinomics. That's it.

Dozerfleet has been putting off the financial side as long as possible, because content with influence and purpose has always been the goal, regardless the dollar signs. A time may come when placing price tags on certain future items grows inevitable; yet there is always going to be a longing for a free section to occur.

Progress on Mac-side development

Now that Dozerfleet Labs has a successful virtual machine to run macOS Mojave, the Mac-side development of Dozerfleet can commense. However, early releases will be fan folder icon packs primarily. Hardware limitations prevent upgrades to a newer version, such as Big Sur or Monterey. This means that Dozerfleet Studios will still have to develop videos on the Windows side, using Premiere Elements. Final Cut is not available at this time for Dozerfleet Studios.

Dozerfleet Literature and Dozerfleet Comics will get new ICNS files for those wishing to have icon art on the Mac side for their favorite Dozerfleet projects. These, along with finally decoding the Albums Master to resurrect its icon libraries, has led to some chances for improved wiki artas well. Otherwise, all significant development of actual content will remain being done on the Windows side.

Dozerfleet Records may consider using GarageBand or similar Mac software in the future. But for the time being, little activity is occurring in this division.

Once icon packages have been completed, further Mac development will be halted, to get back to completing the remake of "Corando's Don't Lose Hope," along with the anthologies, etc. These will be followed by Volkonir 2008, and then with Blood Over Water, which will likely finish out the year.

Changes to productions, based on recent events

While they will still be free releases, and under the Dozerfleet Comics banner, the following works are undergoing some format changes:

• Ciem / Anarteq: Kahoopiliana
• Sniperbadger: Fall of the Critter Resistance
• Path of the Ming-Cho
• Sorbet

Instead of being full-blown machinomics, these works are being downgraded to illustrated short stories. The Sims 4 will still be used on them; but they will have fewer screenshots in them. Also, instead of the narration/dialog duality, they will use quotes and other adverbs to describe dialog in a more traditional novel narrative formatting.

These changes are being made for two reasons: 1) to hurry up their production process and 2) to hasten an end to the era of reliance on The Sims 4. Character Creator 3, MakeHuman, and other venues for character wiki art are being pursued. This move itself is happening for two different reasons: 1) objection to EA's continued sociopathic entertaining of and pandering to the demonic delusions of the mentally ill and 2) the fact that their aforementioned pandering is only hastening making the game unplayable on the station that, at the time of this writing, operates as Dozerfleet Main.

Because production is already so far along, the following machinomics will continue in their current format:

• Pursuit of a reformat of Lo-Mun's Cooking Adventure (for re-release of the original, though not a proper remake)
• Ciem 2007 (a reformatted, slightly revised re-release, not a remake)
• Blood Over Water
• Volkonir 2008
• Corando's Don't Lose Hope (remake)

The above-mentioned are too far along in development to back out. However, Kahoopiliana was initially intended to be a short story with no illustrations. Going from that to a full-blown machinomic to a short story with limited illustrations would be no major feat. Changing the nature of Sniperbadger, Path of the Ming-Cho, and Sorbet as stories means they can be written faster. The goal is to finish the Corando remake this year, as well as finish Volkonir 2008 and Blood Over Water. Everything else, production-wise, can then be made next year. Re-releases can be the focus of the remainder of 2022.

In addition to these changes for Dozerfleet Comics / Literature, Dozerfleet Labs is pursuing the means to either get a Big Sur-running Mac laptop for Mac-end product development and environment exploration, or to get a virtual machine to accomplish this feat without having to spend money. A successful Linux virtual machine has already been tested, though app development for Linux to make Dozerfleet apps in that environment structure remains an elusive pursuit.

Meanwhile, The Sims 4 (and EA in general) is falling out of favor at Dozerfleet. Changes that will make the game even slower are being implemented, all because of the spiritually depraved and their obsession with subjective pronouns. The game is now more obsessed with appeasing the feelz of those with feculent genitals, than they are with efficiency and with good storytelling. Pandering to this new base has left many in the old base not only out in the cold; but afraid to even speak up about it, as the gay mafia will tolerate no criticism or backlash whatsoever against anything they make corporations do!

With machinomics done, Sims 4 will be used on an as-needed basis for character wiki art, until it is no longer needed for that purpose, successfully superceded by another program that is capable of doing better. MakeHuman...has a ways to go yet.

After this, the novel releases upcoming will seek to do away with the era of The Sims as much as possible. The goal will no longer be to try to impress the world of Sims storytellers with the wonderful world of storytelling possibilities. The community's mediocrity with storytelling is now self-sustaining, and resists correction at all times. If Blood Over Water and Volkonir 2008 cannot win over anyone, then it is doubtful any other Dozerfleet works released in machinomic format will do so either.

Instead, the goal will shift to getting Dozerfleet's message, and works, released as quickly as possible into the world, to empty out the queue and work on publicity.

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.

Can 2005 be redeemed entirely?

With Star Flops having been successfully remade, there are many lingering questions regarding how much else of the 2005 and 2006 era are even capable of being brought back. Moreso: if they're even worthwhile to bring back! Corando's "Don't Lose Hope" is currently under investigation for a drastic remake, one that will rewrite the lyrics to be less clunky, and involve new background story characters. The setting might be moved to India, to further demonstrate that the song wishes to invoke a message that is universal - a far cry from the rather small-minded love song it was originally decked up to be.

After that, there's Lo-Mun's Cooking Adventure. This tale will also require a dramatic rewrite. Instead of its bland setup, it could go for a parody of Hell's Kitchen, Master Chef, or some other modern cooking contest show. With more recipes available in Sims 4, a decent rewrite could be possible.

With a Cataclysmic Gerosha rewrite pending for The Battle for Gerosha, there's little interest in a straight re-release of the original. Instead, clips from it will feature in an anthology book, compiling its old artwork and themes with those of Ciem 1, 2, and 3 from that era. Otherwise, Gerosha Prime isn't coming back. With a few tweaks, 90 Has No Secant can be re-released, giving Uber-Proto-Gerosha a last stand.

A final anthology book is pending as well for all that has survived from Despair Gerosha. Another one is for all Classic Gerosha works that were never finished. A book re-release of Ciem from 2007 is also pending. Also, a compilation anthology book of all that has survived from Comprehensive Gerosha is under consideration. After that, nothing else Gerosha-related is coming back that pre-dates Cataclysmic Gerosha. It will be Earth-G7 and beyond from there on out.

As for literature: only a handful of publications remain to be released that pre-date 2010. After that, Dozerfleet's focus will be on emptying out the queue from the 2010s of ideas and projects that were never completed / published.

Corando will be attempted. Beyond that, there's no guarantee that much else from before 2010 can hope to get re-released, that hasn't already been given one. Anything else from 2005 or before, is also facing an uncertain future.

Star Flops: Curse of the Medium Side now available for free download!

After spending over a decade and a half in Ivan's Vault, Star Flops: Curse of the Medium Side has finally been remade, and is ready for you to download, read, and enjoy!

This short work may not break any significant new ground in the world of Star Wars spoofs / fanfics; but rest assured that it may just tickle your fancy enough to wonder when we'll be seeing lightsaw videos on YouTube! Be the coin's edge, and download this story today, only from Dozerfleet Comics!