What little work we've done was mostly project management, narrative design, combat planning, balancing; not much to show. But we squeezed in some GUI polishing yesterday. Tweaking alignments, icon bar, finalizing the color scheme. I think we're sold on green+black; very X-Files, glow-in-the-dark, simple, classic.

But what a week it's been... NBA, South Park, Blizzard, Epic, Riot, Winnie the Pooh. If China simply invaded Hong Kong and imposed martial law, I don't believe other superpowers would intervene militarily, only with lame sanctions. But when American ball players and cartoonists and GAMERS said a few words in support of Hong Kong independence, the ChiComs revealed their hand in the censorship of Western entertainment -- and they're so sensitive they make Resetera look like 4chan. The fallout has only just begun. As a superchat in Metokur's China Stream said, what if GamerGate 2.0 is World War Three? I love me some dark humor... but those bastards can't take a joke!

Thank God we live in America where we can talk about the CIA's role in the impeachment probe, US elections, MKULTRA, Al Qaeda, 9/11, the Iraq WMDs lie, and the JFK assassination (unless that was a legit Communist plot). And we can talk about Tiananmen Square and Tibet and the subversive globalist totalitarian ideology of "democratic socialism" AKA Communism. All of these 20th-century monsters are withering under the glare of a free internet that they're desperate to shut down BUT THEY CAN'T!!!

Somehow this has been very motivational. All the loose threads in Crusaders suddenly clicked into place and I remembered what's important: good combat, memorable characters, hard choices, very different endings, ok graphics, and having a spine.