I did some more clearing this weekend. Did bits and pieces all week to get to the point where I could do some major clearing. Moving furniture and the like. The friends I asked were all busy so I did[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for July, 2023
Yes, the cybers let me keep my Privateer. Their Privateer. Ranger. Whatever. She was my home by then. The home I could use to travel anywhere I felt like going. Where Betty wanted to go. Or others. We sometimes followed[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The game AIs did not go home after War’s End. We’d worked together for so long that we were just one big family, filling the mixed virtual and physical space of an armed transport designed to have a lot of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The game AIs and cybers fought with me throughout The War. Sometimes we were purely humanitarian and peacekeeping in nature. On many worlds we never pulled out a gun. Other times we fought Chinese or Shang ground troops for weeks[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One of the ship girls I pulled as a teenager actually did volunteer to serve with me. She was a light carrier in the game she came from. Sometimes she says many of her sisters volunteered and they drew straws.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m indecently proud of my ship girls, and whether I personally pulled them or not, they are absolutely my girls. They volunteered to fight, the Cybernetic Council gave them ships to command, and they went out of their way to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Most of the ship girls I pulled out of games were American warships. I was a little biased in that way. Now most Japanese tended to pull Japanese ship girls, and pulling ship girls was less common in the rest[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The ship girls I pulled were not the only ones of their kind to join the Cybernetic Council navy. I was absolutely NOT the only person who pulled them out of games. The New Japanese always had subcultures that are[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My friends have gone after helping me do a great deal, and Mom’s bedroom has been entirely cleared. It has been vacuumed multiple times by a water vacuum and the carpet shampooed all over. It is now the computer room,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Friends came over last weekend to help me clear my Mom’s bedroom. This weekend other friends are coming over to help me shampoo the carpet and move a very small selection of photo albums and other family stuff back into[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…