It's Halloween, it's cold as balls and what do I have to show for it? A hastily scribbled meme picture about how cold it's been and how I've been playing Pizza Tower instead of making something special for the holiday, better luck next year I suppose.

So if you've looked through some of my uploads, you'll find out that I tend to make pieces involving oddities within the Super Mario series, mainly supporting characters and enemies that don't get a lot of representation in the series if at all. Y'know, just rare or under utilized faces I've seen throughout this series after 20-some years of playing these games and faces I didn't even know about, I mean this franchise has a lot of goofy lads and lasses you just don't see in the current mainline titles for whatever reason. But then it dawned on me that there has to be one of these oddballs who can be considered the most obscure, the most underutilized character in the whole series, and so I ask: Who truly is the most obscure character in the history of the Super Mario series?

In fact, this one is so good that I'm gonna put it in my news posts as to not lump it in with all the inferior ones I made before it. You may now bow before the greatest thing ever conceived in this artstyle.

Hope you enjoyed this obligatory April Fools post.

Starting next month in 2022, there is going to be some changes done to the "branding" of all my current accounts including NG to better reflect the direction of which my content is heading. As you know I've spent these last few years branching out from the usual FNaF model renders and into other interests such as the Paper Mario customs that have sort-of become the main feature of both my NG and DA accounts as I've slowly over the years ran out of FNaF model ideas. I would also like to take a crack at uploading more original content and more risque (Or "edgy" as the cool kids call it) shit that better reflects my interests and overall sense of humor, some of which may not be suitable for younger audiences but as I've said numerous times before: I am not your free babysitter.

Now, as for the upcoming Paper Mario customs, I've compiled a bit of a list of baddies I'd like to try in the TTYD/SPM artstyle:

Toadie (Yoshi's Island) - TTYD borrows quite heavily from YI and already has Magikoopas, so why not?

Milde (Yoshi's Island) - Those white Kirby-looking lads that pop like balloons when you jump on them, the concept of an enemy splitting into smaller ones upon being defeated would work wonders in an RPG setting.

Spike (SMB3) - While it appears in the newer games, I'd like to see what he'd look like in the old style to be more in-line with his variants like Clubba or Grubba.

Buster Beetle (SMB3) - That annoying fucker who would throw bricks at you, he's got RPG battle potential

Bully (SM64) - The original ball-design of Bully from 64, perhaps he'd be a bit redundant since Cleft is a similar enemy.

Amp (SM64) - A bit of a stretch in the context of an RPG battle, but I like the concept of an electric clown ball.

That's all I currently have planned without spoiling the Christmas special. If you'd like to see specific Mario enemies reimagined in the TTYD style, feel free to suggest some and you might just see it in the future.

G'day there lads, lasses and stalkers alike, by now you may have noticed that my Twitter account (@BIO_LF) is filled to the brim with nonsense and shitposts rather than actual, genuine content. Why is this? Well sit your asses down, crack open a nice cold beer and listen to ol' uncle BiO bitch about a dumb bird app as though that hasn't been done a billion times by other people.

-AHEM-

So back when DeviantArt or uhh, WiX teased and announced that they were essentially going to Hiroshima their entire website UI with Eclipse, much of the talent (and talentless) ended up putting more focus into or just flat out moving entirely to this website called Twitter. At this time, I figured I would do the same to maintain relevancy and even upload some behind-the-scenes and exclusive content. It didn't take long until it hit me like a brick to the crotch; Twitter is a horrid shithole with no redeeming qualities and on top of that, it is NOT an art site. Look, I don't care what you say, Twitter is not an art site and even if it was, it would be the absolute worst. By 2020, I could no longer tolerate Twitter. I'm both too afraid and feel it's a waste of time to post anything meaningful on this miserable site. The only way you can get seen in the algorithm is by bitching and whining about whatever is on the trending tab, which is 70% politics, 20% e-celeb "drama" and 10% sports or blockbuster movie gossip (usually Marvel). I hate political discussion on the internet, especially when majority of the people participating in it are raging militant puritans who never seem to want to shut the fuck up for five-fucking-minutes. Okay, how about e-celeb drama, or just drama in general? I don't fucking care about the personal lives of strangers on the internet nor do I care to sit on my ass and talk about some guy cheating on his girlfriend with a mop or some shit. Half the allegations I see tend to be false or overblown most of the time and when it is real, the fuck do you want me to do about it? Call the cops? OH WAIT Twitter hates the police... Except when they're arresting people they don't like. (Haha, I love double-standards too!) Spread awareness? How can I do that when EVERYONE IS AWARE. Alright, that's politics and drama covered, how about the sports and movies... Well I'm not much of a sports guy, and I'm kinda just tired of superhero stuff at this point so uhh, yeah. As a result, nothing I post is gonna get seen. However at this point, I probably don't want to be noticed on Twitter, given how absolutely in-fucking-sane the userbase is. The userbase of Twitter genuinely frightens me, it really does. Every time I post anything, I do it under the fear that I'm going to piss people off and I'll never hear the end of it. I'm afraid some psycho is going to go as far as to track me down and fucking shoot me over having a bloody opinion on the internet, because all it takes to set someone off is a literally who saying something they don't like. I have plenty of gripes with the userbase that has pushed me further and further away from even the concept of contact with other human beings. Believe me, I could go on an on and on about how much I despite Twitter and it's Chernobyl-level toxic userbase. I could bring up how these people are practically destroying the reputation of marginalized groups by fighting prejudice and supremacy with prejudice and supremacy, making us look like assholes. Or by obnoxiously speaking up for people who aren't remotely offended by something, making us look like we're weak and overly-sensitive as a result. I could talk about how Twitter as a whole seems completely oblivious to the concept of forgiveness and how the tiniest mistake can have you viewed as being worse than some of the most vile monsters to walk this earth. I could even talk about how the people on this site can start a massive smear campaign to destroy both your career and even your life simply because they're jealous of you or because they want their precious clout. But I won't, you get the idea by now. Oh yeah and this is all without mentioning how shit Twitter is for finding art, the website is simply not structured for it. Unless you use oddly specific hashtags, good luck even finding your own shit. At least Tumblr had the archive feature, for as messy and clunky as it was. Then there's the compression, hoo-boy. If your image is too big, then it'll be resized and maybe as an added "fuck you", it gets converted to jpeg. Oh, you want transparency? Nahh son, jpeg time, fuck you!

All of this said is why I refuse to use Twitter as an "art site", it's why I refuse to post anything remotely genuine on it anymore and have resorted to dumb shitposting. At this point I'll probably just junk my account there or simply abandon it, Twitter sucks balls and I can't fathom how anyone can tolerate browsing that dump for longer than five minutes. Well, I think I've said all I needed to say, see you next time I have something to upload or until I decide to COMPLAiN about something again.