 The world wasn't ready for full SimpleShutIn greatness in 2024, but 2025.... Oh, you'd better watch out you piece of s*** New Year! In a pasture somewhere, a cow is yearning to be pet on the head. On a cold wood floor in some suburban home, there are dogs cuddling together and no human around to turn them into a viral sensation. On this day, somewhere in dream world, someone believes for a second that they can ride a rat into battle. The world is full of cold slaps of reality - more specifically, the inescapable, teeth-gritting fact that you can't physically do everything. Mentally, well...  2024(TM) was, without reservation, the most productive year of my "professional" life that didn't involve a corporation. After years of plugging away at things in the background, moving a yard of leaves one at a time, I...basically still did the same thing but it felt better. Better here meaning "Things are actually, nipple-teasingly close to fruition". Call it professional edging, if you must. And that's not an entirely unpleasant reality to be in rumbling into 2025. Using the semi-arbitrary timeline as a guide, everything on there is mightily checked off except two main birds - the web-based game and the Youtube revamp video. Let's start at the back and work forward with the (minimal) excuses. The web-based game will happen, but it's 1. not a profitable venture and 2. not a world-shaker. It's just an idea - a simple little guy that I think would make some people happy to have in their lives. It's the type of thing that would, hilariously, be finished by now if I was doing a 40-hour main job as well because it's a hobby-filler. As is, everyone will be fine without it for another few months. Papa needs himself a larger fish for this big, wide ocean.  The Youtube revival is actually only a few focused days of work away from being ready, but ain't no one got time for that. But I will - probably embarrassingly soon. Videos are simple for me by now, just tedious to put together. Like eating soup with a fork.
For where I under-achieved this year, I think God (any God, I don't care) would agree that my over-achievements fill in those divets nicely. Panoramic has released seven episodes thus far to great reception, my Youtube Short game has gone crazy, and Taco Terror ended up exactly where it needed to be despite SEVERAL back-breaking developments. End The World released on Steam, two movie scripts done, two television season scripts dusted, and a really chonky amount of nodding for projects into 2025 are all progress to be proud of. So yeah, I do feel okay about 2024's output, but in true me form, I want to quadruple it in 2025. I want...well, I'll save all that for the early Jan post of the new timeline. Until then, let's all just remember that things could be worse, and in the grand scheme of infinitude that is all possibilities that have every existed, being alive, relatively healthy, slightly gassy, and pervy on personal time only is pretty alright.
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