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If ever asked, I'll deny myself as a feminist or a liberal or any of that bulls***. There's only one label that I feel fits me best; "Egalitarian". I've spent months trying to understand the word and its connotations, but I've come to the realisation that I knew what it meant all along, because it's exactly how I live my life. Allow me to explain; I grew up in a sort-of-Religious family in Australia. As in, we'd sometimes go to Church, I went to Church camps (mostly just for the camp bit), I went to Catholic schools and all that jazz. I'm not here to discuss my beliefs on the Church or their beliefs, but rather to discuss the one thing that stuck with me through the ages; "Love thy neighbour as you love thy self." Think about how f****ing powerful that message is. Hell, it's the entire basis for Australian life. My life in Australia has been beautiful because there were no limits and no wrong-doing. I could call anybody anything, and they'd laugh with me, shoot a joke insult back, and we'd laugh even harder. I never cared if somebody was female, black or handicapped, and it never mattered. What did matter was the standards you held, and the things you were wiling to sacrifice in order to achieve. Hell, for most people I didn't even (and still don't) bother remembering their names, since I remembered them through their key characteristics, and they would always do the same. That's the life I want my children to have. That's the life I want everybody I know to have. I grew up in a family of funeral directors. We're surrounded by death constantly, and the thing that keeps us sane is the humour. Death doesn't mean anything to me because life is one big jolly when you think about it. And as I grew up, humour became more than a coping mechanism; it was a way that my friends and I expressed our views. It didn't matter how stupid, stereotypical or insulting it sounded; every joke was there to let us know that it was okay to be open about the horrible realities that life presents us. Jew jokes, blond jokes, retard jokes, nerd jokes. That old phrase "We call our mates 'cunts' and cunts our 'mates'" rang true in my circles. Depression wasn't fixed by being gentle; it was fixed by getting people to live a life better than what they had been. I still remember all the conversations I had that helped rehabilitate people, and without humour, I doubt those people would be in the incredible state of living they're in now. In about 10 rewrites of this blog entry, I wanted to cover how my views relate to common social media trending issues, but I've decided not to. The thing is that I do my best not be offended by anything except the most inane stuff that I can write off as comedy (such as getting angry at the s***ty chairs in my local RSL). I refuse to be sensitive or fragile, because in the end that (in my view) makes me a weaker individual towards my end goals of creating high quality works or to become a mentor-like teacher. If I allow myself to get offended every time somebody pronounces somebody's name wrong, makes a joke or overall acts in an "uncivil" way, I don't know how I'd cope with the life I lead. I certainly don't have any German in me, but I believe I have a lot of German qualities in the harshness of my critiques and my adherence to standards (most of the time, when I'm not being a lazy dickhead). That's where we need to be. If we don't keep pushing each other, how will any of us learn to do the great things ahead of us? Thankfully, most of my German critique is embedded in the form of humour, which sometimes makes it easier to swallow. Anyway, this blog has been all over the place and it's mostly because I got really tired half way through, went to get a coffee, came back confused and wanted to wrap this up. The point I guess I'm trying to make is that what may come off as me being an arsehole really is me being an arsehole...because that's how I express deeper, honest opinions. I'm not going to hold back because somebody will get their feelings hurt in the process; the truth and the freedom to speak is the most important thing we hold as humans, as that is what enabled us to get to where we are today. I will embrace my right to speak, and my right to treat everybody exactly the same; all as the glorious cunts who keep this world spinning.

Oh. Hi. So…. Yea. What happened? This is out of character for me. What happened? I really do not know. I asked to narrate this round because I wanted to narrate. My story, as you saw, was something I was excited about. I was excited to have a chance to narrate Mafia, excited about my story, excited about the events to come! I was looking forward to the debates and twists and fun we were going to have this week! I posted the backstory and alerted all the players to their roles, then waited for the Mafia to respond. I began working further on my story and was excited about it. So… what happened? I really do not know. Suddenly, like an unexpected setback in a project, I… dropped. I suddenly wanted to do nothing, interact with anyone, write, or code. All week I have felt… not down, depressed, sad, just… meh, drained. I began intentionally neglecting all online activities and not wanting to interact with anyone. I stopped posting, getting on chat, anything. And I am not sure why. I instead started binge watching cartoons all day, and I never binge watch (I do not care to do it and I never have time to do it anyway). I cannot describe how I have felt, nor can I explain why. I have never felt this way before. I tried to get out of this… weirdness by trying to code, write, Tweet, and say a few things to a few people, but I have been unable to break it. As I said, I cannot explain the trigger. Tomorrow (Monday) I begin my summer activities, during which I will be super busy and not do much else until July, and naturally (probably like everyone else) I am nervous, but that usually only starts the day before and ends soon after whatever is happening starts. For me to start feeling… however I have felt because of something I want to do and know will be fun and have a good time doing an entire week before it starts... I… do not know. All that said, I am deeply sorry for what I have done (or rather, not done) here. Do you think I wanted my week to go this way? Uh, no. Not in a million years. I wanted this to go well. My excitement fueled me. Then suddenly, poof, it all went away. I should have said something sooner. I should have not kept everyone waiting. I should have already written this post and passed the baton to someone else. Those who know me well know that I do what I say. Sure, I forget things and not do something because of whatever, but I am not a super hero, I am only human. The deal is I make it a rule to always honor my word. If I said something, I hold myself to it, and if I do not, I want the other party (parties) to hold me to it. I am a young man of integrity, honesty, upright, fair, trustworthy and honest, doing what people ask and constantly working to better others and make others look good. Yet I have intentionally failed to do what I said, and I am (metaphorically speaking) kicking myself for failing my own, personal standards. I am working to get this game started... somehow. Someone else may take over, but if not... do as Ben says and celebrate (as well as what aiden says and vote off the last person to post). I am sorry. I apologize. I did not want to… I…

Quick-ish update, I've added an additional slot for both Crystals and Ore, so now you can always carry two of each. I felt like this has vastly improved the gameplay flow and doesn't feel like a massive grind now, but still not too power as to forgo vehicles. I've also added a teleport vehicle to player function, that also leads into a vehicle ownership mechanic; so once implemented, each player will be limited to a single vehicle that's tied to them (I might include player lock feature one day). I've thought about it a bit and I feel like I can continue on this project for at least a while longer, I still got 0.4 Alpha to complete which makes this game more feature complete (Though still buggy), so look forward to that coming whenever I get the time. Overall the game is really open, you can see all the code I've written by just opening the cs files in notepad. So if worse comes around someone else could continue my work. Lastly, I'll be looking at mod support for a future update (Likely a version after 0.4). How that will work will take some time to put together and explain, if time permits, sooner than later.

Sturdy and good tire grip for a desert dragway.

​Valve is not attending E3 at all this year. It was a joke supposed to trip up people.

​Don't test me, Mael. I have the skills and abilities to give you a real epileptic seizure that will make your head hurt all day long. Oh howdy Allen Cubed. It has been a long while since I've spoken to you. I think the last time we spoke was back on the LNA chat and we got in a religious debate that escalated into name calling. Hopefully there's no hard feelings. I've... um, made it a point to avoid internet debates, and that happened quite a few years ago. How have you been, man? I see you're a coder. I more I see older LU players, the more I think LU helped many people (myself included) get into/revive their coding, not to mention art and many other areas. ​Hey le717! It has been a while. Yeah, the shut down of LU inspired a lot of us to pursue game design even if it's just a hobby. Which is great. (It's all a conspiracy by LEGO.)

Haha, I sound like a sector now. Report to Sector A27.