Donald Trump making statements about landgrabbing, invasions, deportations, and trying his best to eradicate queer people from the USA. Elon Musk, a Trump-appointed official, throwing nazi salutes with gusto. None of this bodes well for the next 4 years.

I'm not feeling too optimistic about things, but... please, please, PLEASE. If you see someone getting mistreated or made to feel unwelcome for who they are, step up and stand up for them. I don't want these heartless monsters to get their way.

Newgrounds' policy on AI-generated content doesn't go far enough. If there's even a single asset created by a glorified chatbot and not a human artist, that should be enough to get it removed.

I'll be real, I thought it was going to take a lot longer to get from the gold whistle rank to the deity whistle rank. Imagine my surprise when I checked my user page and saw my whistle rank had gone up!

Y'know, they really need to make the deity whistle rank icon more distinct from the gold one. I have no idea if it just changed now or if it did a couple days ago and I didn't notice.

After so long, I finally have it: the coveted B/P rank of Supreme Commander! I have 30,000 B/P points right now, and all that grinding to get here was worth it.

I'd like to give special thanks to @modnaryug for inspiring me to dust off this account and start this journey in the first place. A couple years back, he had a respectable presence on YouTube before the moderation decided furry inflation was too hot for the platform, so his account got banned. He decided to set up shop on Newgrounds, and a lot of his audience were willing to support him on that site, myself included. Admittedly, I was driven by anxiety about his future on the site at first, given the whole "hostility towards furries" thing... I was relieved to find out it wasn't that big a deal nowadays, even if he still got hate reviews for making furry inflation. I dunno, I just feel like furry and fetish content should be treated with respect and not like the cheese touch.

All of that aside, I feel proud of getting this far. It's one item off the bucket list.

I'm pretty sure I'm the 322nd Newgrounder to achieve Supreme Commander rank.

As of writing this, I'm 972 B/P points away from achieving the rank of Supreme Commander.

God it's so close. It's so tantalizing. I can practically taste it.

Finally, I've reached the rank of Commander! All I have left to reach now is the Supreme Commander rank, which is 4,500 B/P points away. If I keep up at least 22 successful blams/protects a day, I'll have it done by the end of the year, though I'll probably be there sooner than that.

Would you believe I got this while I was out vacationing in California? Really, it's mostly my Dad visiting some relatives in California. Old men oldmanning oldmannily. Not as glamorous as I expected, but I'm staying sane.

Yep, I got another rank up!

In other news, I'm graduating on the 13th of May.

I have finally completed my capstone. All that remains is a paper, and after that, graduation.

I feel... accomplished. Me and 150+ others have made their mark on the world with their own unique projects.

Today is a good day. 

Good news: I'm finished with my college internship capstone, and all I have left is a presentation I have to give next week, and a paper summarizing my internship.

Bad News: I feel really really reeeeeeeeally tired. I probably won't be able to grind B/P points hardcore like I have, but I'll get to that sweet sweet Supreme Commander rank someday, even if it's not gonna happen within this year.

I'm a Lieutenant General now! Somewhat less pathetic than being a Brigadier General.

...Woah. I can hardly believe I'm in the B/P Top 500. I would've thought there'd be more people up here.