Howdy! I haven't been playing games or watching movies as much this week, so I don't really have anything entertainment-related to talk about. But since I'm here, and I have time, I suppose there's never been a better opportunity to just talk about myself.
Hi, my name is Kanah Belflower. It's pronounced like cane-uh, but smoother than however you just said it in your head. I'm a 21 year old guy, living in the dead center of the State of Georgia - which is already the heart of the American South. I take three classes per semester at a nearby technical college and I'm on my third year of that right now. It's taking longer than I would have liked, but I prefer the three-class structure because working 45 hours a week at a furniture store takes a good chunk of my time anyhow. I'm primarily a warehouse grunt, but on Wednesdays they'll have me schedule delivery trucks, and on Saturdays they've got me supervising the warehouse. And I happen to be the sole arbiter of one of our brands in inventory; a weird additional job but one I have nonetheless.
I'm working on my Associates Degree in Computer Programming. It looks better than a Creative Writing or Philosophy degree, and I figured that it was the most fitting for my interests. I am really into computers, and software, and making these hunks of metal work for me, so a career in developing their code seemed like an interesting path to take. Not to say that finding a career prospect in this field is easy in the South, but I would very much like my prospects to be better than what they are now.
If you've seen the last few weeks of content on the site, I've been on a bit of an Assassin's Creed kick. I have always loved these games, but this is the first time I'm coming back to some of these games in over a decade. Some, like Unity and Syndicate, had never graced my eyeballs before this month. Now don't get me wrong, I knew all the story stuff about these games years ago - I never expected to actually play them so I just learned everything I wanted to. But now that I'm giving them a whirl, unburdened by plot twists or expectations, I'm having a good time regardless. I actually want to take this time to highlight a project that I am really interested in and one that really calls to my love of the franchise. It's titled Tribute: An Assassin's Creed Fan Game, being developed in Unreal Engine 5 and set in Malta a few years after AC: Unity. If you're wondering "how does Ubisoft feel about this" then have no fear; the team has been in contact with Ubisoft and following their guidelines to ensure that no toes are getting stepped on and no legal problems are poking their heads out. Check out their Discord for more details; this is a really cool project, and I think more people should see it.
On the discussion of games, I love Bethesda games. I've long been a Fallout fan, and even longer an Elder Scrolls fan, but the modding scenes are where my heart truly lies. These games invite some of the most talented, wholesome, sometimes depraved (but always interesting) individuals that you may ever meet, and I love every second of it. I have also tried my hands at modding, incorporating some of my existing short stories into Skyrim as notes in the world and working on a (still unreleased) version of this for Fallout 4 as a holotape. Shoutout to #almightygizmo on Discord for helping me get my bearings in the Fallout 4 modding setup, which is remarkably different from Skyrim's. But outside of my own works, here is a project that I've held dearly for many years: Dawn of America. This is a mod project for Fallout 4 that began in the time between Otellino's America Rising and the sequel / reboot America Rising 2, focused on bringing the Enclave into Fallout 4 in a new way. The team is wonderful, and I can't express how nice it has been to watch this community grow over time. I think you're going to like what Dawn of America has in store; check out the Discord for more info.
Aside from computers, creeds, colleges and communities, I have some news about the website itself. I've recently purchased the domain name "kbelflower.com". In the coming days and weeks, I'll be turning Chronical into Kanah Belflower to better reflect the ways that I use the site. When I started this website, it was specifically to release an episodic web novel called "The Adventurous Age of Phillip Madison". I got through about 23 episodes of daily, then weekly, then monthly posts before I stopped altogether. The site remained dormant for a while, until I rebranded to "Chronicalus" as part of another story I planned to tell with the site. This one never truly began, but the name stuck - the domain was catchy, being "chronical.us" so I reverted the title to just Chronical and moved forward from there. But four and a half years after starting this Blogspot website, I've gotten tired of hiding my work behind a brand name. I've always used brands and monikers to pretend like I'm someone else, someone I'm not, and I'm not feeling that anymore. I want to be proud of me, Kanah Belflower - not the names I hide behind on the internet. I've already changed my Discord names, and I plan to change a lot more of my usernames and contacts going forward. Manhattan and Chronical will be no more, and I'll just fill the void. It feels...nice.
If anyone reads this or no one reads this, I'm still proud of who I am. I'm still proud of where I'm going, and I'm proud of the road I walked to get here. It wasn't the high road, but it was worth every mile. Have a great day.
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