Koshka’s Kingdom Updates Archive

Welcome to the obligatory archive of this website’s past updates, in case anyone is bored enough to actually care about this website’s journey. If you simply want to see how much Koshka’s Kingdom has come from its early days, feel free to look and laugh at the various old versions available on the Internet Archive.

Table of Contents Autumn 2025 Summer 2025 Spring 2025 Autumn 2024 Spring 2024 Winter 2024 Summer 2023

Autumn 2025 29 November 2025 I’ve made the decision to delay my upcoming ZZT game, The Carnival of Nyarlathotep, to 25 December 2025. I really wanted to meet the original release date, but I’d much rather disappoint right now and thrill later, than release something rushed and incomplete. My sincere apologies to anyone who has been waiting. I’ll release another screenshot before then, and try to write another article or something as well.

12 November 2025 Double update this time. Firstly, I put up a new Babel article, The Unspoken Reason the Old Web Was Better, on something that’s been on my mind for a while after realising how relevant it is to the fall of the Old Web, and some hopefully helpful advice on how to personally deal with it.

I also updated the Carnival of Nyarlathotep page with a third promotional screenshot, finally giving a glimpse of what Avenir Avenue (Nyarly’s equivalent of Disneyland’s Tomorrowland) looks like. Enjoy!

29 October 2025 Halloween theme’s up. My sincere apologies for the delay. It totally slipped my mind after I promised in the previous update... multiple times. I think I’ll leave it up until 29 November and put up the Christmas theme with the release of the Carnival of Nyarlathotep.

26 October 2025 Remember the good old days when Macula was still supposed to be something other than the website’s unwitting eldritch mascot? Well, if anyone’s somehow still interested in that, you may be happy to know that the first in a series of three games, two ZZT and the final one the text adventure tentatively called Macula’s Maze, is finally well on its way. Introducing, the official website for the Carnival of Nyarlathotep, ‘next-door’ at the macula subdomain, just to make this place even more of a labyrinth.

The game itself will release on 29 November (entirely because that’s the date I chose for the story), but you can find screenshots and other fun stuff on the site. Additionally, there will be another update before the release date. So far, I think it’s easily my magnum opus, and definitely worth checking out if you enjoy my style of humour and/or have an interest in 90s popular culture. (:

...Oh right, the stinking Halloween theme. I’ll put that up tomorrow. I have to do it entirely manually because I’m an idiot who doesn’t automate anything, and always put it off. as a result.

Summer 2025 30 June 2025 I released a new ZZT toolkit that introduces the first ‘exotic tiles’ discovered for the game in decades - white-on-grey text/ASCII tiles, blinking white-on-black text/ASCII tiles, and blinking white-on-grey text/ASCII tiles! You can download it here directly or from the ZZT section. A detailed explanation of how these tiles were coaxed out of the game is included in the text file. This will not render correctly in KevEdit and likely any other third party tool, but it will appear just fine in vanilla DOS ZZT.

Spring 2025 25 May 2025 Once a month isn’t that bad in terms of updates, I suppose. At least I’m no longer half a year behind on finally doing an update.

Anyhow, I’ve been really meaning to make another old fashioned dark comedy Library of Babel rant, but was waiting for the inspiration to strike. Now finally, I decided to write a scathing takedown of reddit, after coming to the conclusions that it is perhaps the worst of all of the social media sites. Enjoy!

I’m still working on my next ZZT game (there’s a preview in my ZZTcast channel if you missed it). It’s ballooning into a two-file sort of deal due to ZZT’s file size limitations, so expect at least file 1 of 2 sometime later this year, as well as hopefully other updates.

20 April 2025 I’m not dead yet! It took years to finally get it out, but ZZTcast is finally done. This is a ZZT zine mimicking the esteemed ZZTV games from decades past. There wound up being only one contributor (my friend Angel Kitty), but I’d say what’s there is pretty good. Or, I hope it is anyway, given how long this took...

If anyone has wondered if I’m ever going to actually write a Reminiscence article about ZZT... that’s also part of my channel. Enjoy, and happy Easter! (:

Autumn 2024 30 November 2024 I have released a new ZZT game, Iguanamus, an experimental three-games-in-one sort of deal that attempts to take the storied Viovisian genre in new directions. It starts off as a generic psychedelic game before you hit a fork that takes you to the three games. You can read a more detailed description and see some screenshots here or download the game directly from here.

Spring 2024 05 June 2024 It took far longer than it should have, but I finally got around to adding a brand new section to the Kingdom - the Kinoteatr (Russian for movie theatre) - dedicated to reviews (and hopefully, eventually more things) for episodes of various 90s television shows I have started watching! As of this writing, Buffy the Vampire Slayer is the only one, largely because I insist on making a unique design from scratch for each page of the section.

I tried to make the new section as authentically 90s as possible and took pains to use only fonts from back then or earlier if at all possible, stuck to pure HTML 4 (minus the background MIDI on the Buffy page) with no CSS, and of course sprinkled a generous amount of 90s clipart all over the place. The plan right now is for Tales From the Crypt to have a comically old school page owing to the age of the show, and Charmed and Sabrina the Teenage Witch to have more 2000s-styled designs, but we’ll see how that goes.

Winter 2024 17 March 2024 It’s been almost 3 years since the last update to the page, and since there’s hardly any shortage of stupid, vexing, or simply odd-sounding popular words and phrases going around these days, I made yet another update to the Words/Phrases I Hate article. I had a long-standing habit of writing those sorts of articles while getting drunk, an activity I have since quit indulging in. Hopefully, however, it still came out at least somewhat entertaining regardless.

I also finally added a few new subsections (complete with snazzy signs) to the Dock to break things up a bit: Build Engine Games/Resources for sites related to any of the Build engine games (Duke Nukem 3D, Ion Fury, Blood, etc) or the engine itself, Jedi Knight/Dark Forces for sites related to the Star Wars Jedi Knight/Dark Forces franchise, and Modern Games, for anything related primarily to games from ~1996 to the current year. If the cutoff for that last category seems unorthodox, rest assured I plan to write an article explaining my rationale behind that in detail one of these days.

06 March 2024 Wow, time sure flies. I knew it had been a while since I had updated the website but it didn’t quite hit me just how long it had been until I went to update the Scratching Post and had to stop and figure out if I lost some update verbiages along the way somehow. o_O

I don’t know if it’s autistic inertia or something else, but I have a tendency to have all of my metaphorical bits flipped one way, and any so-called flip is both extremely challenging to pull off and may as well be permanent. So in this context, it means I’m either regularly working on my website and can’t see myself doing things any other way, or not working on it at all and completely unable to get myself to do anything even despite having plenty of ideas screaming to come out. My sincere apologies to everyone who has been waiting for an update all this time.

Today, I have added 27 new links to the Dock, as detailed in the table below. I can confidently say that there is something for everyone with an interest in 90s first-person shooters, retro computing, The Terminator, and/or pizza here. As usual, all newly added links are at the top of their subsections and feature animated "New!" images next to them. I also updated the links to Morena.rest, Doom2.net (the darn http/non-SSL version has been broken for a while now), and Virtualave’s Bast Page, and updated the verbiage for Mountain King Studios. In far less interesting news, I also added a goofy dream I had recently to the Somnium and did some updates to the Wildcat Den page.

Affiliates	Hugo Landau
Other Computer Resources	MANMRK, x86 ASM Tutorial
Retro Games General	BME/ILMHB’s Bloody Place, Dark Forces Mods and Maps, Duke Nukem Forever Museum, Duke Nukem Repository, ETTiNGRiNDER’s Fortress, JKDF2.NET, Ken Silverman’s Official Home Page, Monkee’s Image World, Old-Games.com, Rednukem, Quake3World, R.T.C.M., Shadow Warrior Central, Standing Stones, The Duke Nukem Forever List, The Hunt: Rise of the Triad, The Massassi Temple, The Wolfenstein 3D Dome, Totally Redneck, Wolfenstein 3D Vault
Miscellaneous	Hope Of The Future, PizzaMaking.com, My 90’s TV!, The Other Pages

I am well-aware that the Retro Games General subsection of the Links page is the latest one to have become grossly overgrown (and inaccurate, now that I am listing links to pages for not-so-retro games such as Quake III and Dark Forces II for lack of a better place to put them). Breaking it up is one of my top short-term priorities along with finally completing the long-delayed ZZT Tutorial and finishing an article I’ve been writing regarding my thoughts on the current state of gaming and my decision to leave Steam. I want to say "coming soon", but I hate myself for the false promises I’ve already made and don’t want to risk digging that pit any deeper...

ZZTcast is still very much in development, and I do not want to propose a new release date until I have completed the tutorial and consulted anyone still interested in participating. If you have any interest in participating, please feel free to contact me!

And since I haven’t said it here for nearly a full year, and it’s never not worth saying, GET ON IRC (irc.koshka.love, #)! Ɑ:

Summer 2023 17 July 2023 Added a grand total of 21 new links to the Dock, as outlined below. There should hopefully be a little something for everyone. The Miscellaneous subsection has gotten ludicrously overgrown once again, and I plan to add a number of additional subsections, alphabetise all of the links, and see if there’s any other things I can do to make it easier to navigate. For now, all of the newly added links are at the top of their subsections and have an animated "New!" gif to the side of them to make them easier to locate.

I finally also added a new page for the upcoming ZZTV revival project (now officially named ZZTcast after a vote was held on the name). Please let me know via either E-mail or IRC (irc.koshka.love, #zzt) if you are interested in creating a channel for ZZTcast! As mentioned on the page, I should have a tutorial page up for anyone who is interested but unfamiliar with ZZT, in around a week.

Finally, I decided to clean up the main ZZT section, which was becoming an increasingly messy dump that I just haphazardly dumped new information on top of. Exciting times, these are.

Affiliates	Blauheim’s Realm
Web 1.0 General	Marginalia Search
Retro Windows	Windows Update Restored
Doom	Doom Humor, DoomGate.de, Lee Killough’s Website, Soulsphere.org
Retro Games General	Blake Stone Maps, Dman’s Game Programming Domain, Maze War Retrospective at Digibarn Computer Museum, The Spriters Resource
Comedy & Oddities	At Home with English - Oblivion NPCs, Malbolge, MY SUMMER CAR Official Site
Miscellaneous	Badmovies.org, The Cutting Room Floor, DragonBear, First Versions, icefairy.org, Omniglot, The Visual Novels Database,

08 July 2023 Well that was a long hiatus. It seems like it is taking me longer and longer to get anything done website-wise. But I did finally break the cycle of staring an article, hitting writer’s block, and refusing to move on to anything else for months by writing a new reminiscence article on the revolutionary but now largely forgotten 1997 FPS game Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II. This is a game I had played for a while as a child but largely forgot about until I was lucky enough to run into it again during my first-person shooter genre history research, and is one that is more than worth it to go back to even after all these years.

I did not realise until a friend helpfully pointed it out to me, but my previous update contained a broken link. The issue stemmed from the link to the Words/Phrases I Hate article. Apparently I fixed the capitalisation in the actual filename a while ago and forgot about it, then typed the link out the old way, and did not notice because I only tested the link out while it was on my computer instead of the server, the latter of which handles links in a case-sensitive fashion. I am sorry for anyone who tried to access the link through the incorrect URL. ;A;

In no less important news, I also added a new Affiliate link to the website of my friend Corvid: Corvid’s Pages, and updated the link to the website of my friend Anthony2: Emerald Coast, which is now hosted on this server!

Expect a new ZZT update very soon, and... we’ll see what inspiration strikes for after that. I am still working on doing research for a future new section dedicated to the history of the FPS genre, but am not yet even close to the point where I am confident enough to start posting content on it. At some point, I am hopeful to have a detailed enough mental map of the topology of the genre’s evolution that I can determine how exactly I want to organise that section, after which I can start populating it with content.

Spring 2023 15 May 2023 I finally got around to adding a link to the illustrious imageboard Heyuri to the Links page. Also finally got around to doing a minor update to the classic Words/Phrases I Hate article (I can’t believe it’s been nearly 2 years...). ALSO added a relatively amusing new dream to the Somnium, and did a few minor updates to the Wildcat Den page. That is all.

27 April 2023 Has it actually been this long since the last update? The ever-accelerating pace of time is frightening. It’s a good thing immortality isn’t actually possible. If this is how fast time moves at my age, I shudder to imagine what it would feel like at a thousand or million years of age.

Anyway, I added yet another Halloween page to the Haunted House: a retelling of the abysmal Halloween Ends movie, based largely on my speculation on what would happen based on the previous movies in the franchise, but also incorporating a rebooted Corey Cunningham, as well as a (very) rebooted Cult of Thorn and Man in Black from the retconned Cult of Thorn timeline, in the interests of bringing closure to as many plot points as possible. I want to say this is the final Halloween-related page I will be adding, but that would be what I thought the last three times, so...

In more interesting news, I finally added links to the personal websites of my good friends Morena (Morena’s Space) and Reptid (Lunatic Phantasy), both of which are more than worth checking out. I also updated the button for lolwut’s website.

As always, my apologies to anyone waiting all this time for an update. ;A; I swear I am still working on a variety of projects, but I do not want to put out any more deadlines that I may not be able to meet.

Winter 2023

18 March 2023 I updated the Markovka page on the KoshkaIRC section to reflect the new "!quote search" command that I recently added, added a small satirical Halloween-themed prayer to the Haunted House, and added five more links to the Dock (‘Re-version Utility’ under ‘Retro Windows’, ‘eXoDOS’ under ‘Retro Games General’, and ‘Home page of Jarkko Oikarinen’, ‘SpaceHey’, and ‘FriendProject’ under ‘Miscellaneous’).

In more important news, the 1 year anniversary of KoshkaIRC is coming up in a little over a week (the network came up on March 28 and was publicly announced on the 30th). As both of those dates fall on weekdays, Anthony2 and I have proposed some online festivities on the weekend after, notably a big Comic Chat Caturday event on Saturday, 01 April, and at least one KTV movie stream on Sunday (time to be determined). Other possible events (e.g., Doomsday) may also be held. If you are interested or want to propose anything, please get on IRC and speak up! (:

In website news, my release schedule unfortunately fell apart both due to being too busy, and also due to going down the deep rabbit hole of First Person Shooter gaming history in my free time, a subject that I do not feel has been adequately addressed anywhere online. I am slowly doing research in the hopes of writing an article chronicling this (at least from 1973 to ~2007), but this will likely be a long-term project given how my knowledge of FPS games from before 1991 and after maybe 1996 is currently shamefully lacking.

I am also working on a detailed tutorial on how to create worlds in ZZT, for people who are interested in participating in the ZZTcast project but are not familiar with ZZT. Do feel free to yell at me about this if you are one such person.

26 February 2023 It has been far too long, but I finally updated the UFO with another new article: Symbols for Autism, which covers the various symbols that I have seen proposed for autism. I have at least four other autism articles that have been stuck in development hell for a long time that I hope to complete one of these days. In the shorter term, expect to see a few smaller Babel articles/updates as well as some new ZZT content.

22 February 2023 Well, so far the plan to stick to a schedule is working. I updated the Creepypasta Reviews with reviews of six new tasty pastas: I Found a Letter From My Stalker (an absolute 5/5 in the Feelspasta category), Big Green Tree (5 stars), Pale Luna (4 stars), and My Dead Girlfriend Keeps Messaging Me on Facebook, My Husband Insists on Keeping This One Painting of a Woman, and the The Haaf Netters (all 3 stars). I also made a little creepy-ish "New" sign to help returning readers find newly-added additions more easily.

19 February 2023 I went through my historical dream log from the late-90s to the mid-2010s and added that seemed interesting to the Somnium with some editing done to improve the writing. Also added a new link, Parappa.Party, to the Dock.

I also wound up going through the backlog of pages that I have either been working on or was thinking of creating and evaluated that and put together a release schedule that I will be trying to force myself to stick to. If all goes well, I am hoping to have a slew of interesting new updates done in the coming weeks/months, including to the UFO, Library of Babel, Haunted House, Town of ZZT, Mount Paozu, Per-Bast, and Mystery Mansion sections, along with the creation of one or two new main sections.

In the meantime, don’t forget to stop by the IRC network for fun conversations, movie/anime streaming, and multiplayer Doom games!

09 February 2023 Updated the KoshkaIRC section with two new pages: a network/channel rules page, and a mostly complete guide on getting started with and using IRC for people who are new to it. The MOTD on the main page has also been streamlined and updated to reflect the creation of a new main channel specifically for KTV streaming. The update was actually done at the end of January but I did not have time to put this update up until now.

Also, since the big holidays are over and done with and Valentine’s Day is around the corner, I finally reverted the main page to have the classic pink theme, my personal favourite of the current four existing ones. ^-

I apologise once again for any returning visitors seeking more articles on subjects such as Autism, old DOS games, and other subjects I have previously covered with far more frequency. I actually have around a dozen articles and pages that I have started working on but haven’t been able to finish. My time has been occupied more than it used to be both due to various real life duties as well as other projects such as KoshkaIRC and now ZZTcast (described in the previous update), but I do plan to finish all of those articles and write more in the future. The only question is when I will be able to do so.

06 February 2023 I am excited to formally announce a group project that my good friend Mr. Sillysticks (no personal website) has proposed and that I am helping him organise. A sort of resurrection of the classic ZZTV series of games for the venerable ZZT game engine. The finalised name for the project is pending because I don’t want to step on the toes of anyone who may have put together a new ZZTV after z2 stopped cataloguing releases, and am thinking of a brand new name. For now, it is to be called ZZTcast (pun on Owncast) until I or someone else comes up with a better name. I am holding off on making a permanent page for the project until a name is finalised.

ZZTV is a ZZT "magazine" that ran from 1998 to 2005, which consisted of a hub of "channels" created by various people with whatever content they wished to put out to the word. Rants/articles, stories, interviews, quotes, pixel artwork, mini-games, reviews of other ZZT games, and so on and so forth. Essentially a neat little time capsule and also an opportunity to create something cool in ZZT even if you don’t have the time, energy, or motivation for a full-fledged game.

An obscure 1991 DOS game engine can seem like an odd medium to start a group project around in this day and age, but ZZT is a deceptively perfect choice for such an endeavour for a number of reasons that are not immediately clear.

The first thing that needs to be mentioned is that ZZT has an exquisitely tiny learning curve for what it allows to do. Its level editor and (bare bones) scripting language can be fully learned by anyone in no time at all, yet it has been used to create genuinely beautiful artwork, riveting RPG adventures, randomly generated dungeons, and so much more. In addition to its microscopic learning curve and powerful capabilities, every ZZT game is open source, so if you spot something incredible in a game that you have no idea how to replicate, you can simply open it up in the editor and see exactly how it works. Some ZZT games are "locked" but this is very trivial to break with an unlocker program.

While the ZZT community has been moribund for quite a while, this is more of a reflection on the consequences of the unpleasant state of affairs in the community in the early 2000s than a reflection on the game, which had dozens of timeless games produced for it before all the strife sealed its fanbase’s fate. While it’s not much, ZZT does have a following to this very day and is well deserving of a new renaissance.

Most importantly, of course, creating things in ZZT is just plain fun, which is the main reason I still make the occasional game using it in spite of everything. I also never really saw age as a reason to not use something. IRC is 35 years old and obscure compared to most of its competitors, yet is still the only chat standard that is worth using, after all.

On top of all of this it’s also worth mentioning that ZZT is a DOS game, and thus will run perfectly on just about any system with an emulator such as DOSBox (or natively in old Windows).

If you are interested, you can visit the #zzt IRC channel on irc.koshka.love, or E-mail me to sign-up. If you need any help at all getting ZZT running or doing anything in ZZT, I would be delighted to assist via either IRC or E-mail also.

21 January 2023 新年好/Happy Chinese New Year’s Eve!! I have created and put up a brand new Chinese New Year’s theme for the front page. I wanted to get this up sooner, but unfortunately I have been quite limited on both time and energy lately. My sincere apologies. Luckily, this celebration lasts for 16 days, so it will at least be up for some time yet. Wishing a very happy Year of the Rabbit for everyone in China and everyone of Chinese descent around the world! (:

11 January 2023 I added a quite lengthy and amusingly candid reminiscence of Doom, one of the two first games that I have ever played, and the tremendous impact it had on me as a child along with my evolving sentiments towards it over the decades, to the Mystery Mansion’s Reminiscences page. One of my longer pages, but hopefully still entertaining!

30 December 2022 I am very excited to announce a grand Comic Chat event on this Caturday, 31 December 2022, to see off the old year and bring people together for some old-fashioned Comic Chat silliness and fun: Comic Chat Countdown. This is an all day (come whenever works best for you, in other words!) New Year’s event to accommodate many timezones and countries.

For anyone unfamiliar, Comic Chat is a very unique IRC client from Microsoft’s golden age in the 90s, which transforms IRC channels into ongoing comic strips where participants choose an avatar, and everything they say is displayed comic dialogue from said character, punctuated with whichever emote the user chooses to utilise.

Comic Chat comes with some oddball preset avatars and backgrounds, although you can find vastly more on Mermaid Elizabeth’s website and my friend Cidoku’s Comic Chat page. Mermaid Elizabeth’s site also contains installation files for Comic Chat in 24 different languages. If you use Linux, you can still easily install Comic Chat using my friend ShadowM00n’s useful guide on installing Comic Chat in WINE. I also have an entire page dedicated to this Comic Chat that contains a list of tricks/tips, as well as an assortment of humourous screenshots for anyone wondering what the appeal of this ancient client is.

28 December 2022 So to put a long story short, I had a major and unexpected crisis occur in my personal life and was unable to tend to the website or the KoshkaIRC network for approximately a month and a half. While I am still busy, I am trying to get back into the swing of things and hopefully put together some new updates (I certainly have plenty of ideas and motivation!) soon. I’ve added a number of new links to the Dock, but first an important announcement regarding KoshkaIRC.

My prolonged hiatus has brought to the surface the fact that KoshkaIRC cannot afford to have only one IRCOp on call. As such, I have appointed my close friend Anthony2 to be an IRCOp. I have full faith in him as a person who fully upholds Old Internet values and who is a kind, friendly, and non-controversial figure, and I believe that this appointment will keep things running smoothly in case any such events occur in the future.

I sincerely apologise for, and take full responsibility for the flooding-related chaos in # and the resulting lack of activity that may have transpired during the past month. An important lesson has been learned about not keeping all of one’s eggs in the same basket. My sincere thank-yous to Anthony2 for being willing to take on the responsibility.

Of course, as in the past (as is stated in the network’s MOTD), if you are unhappy with how the main channels of the network are run, you are free to start your own channel(s) and run them however you wish. IRCOps on KoshkaIRC do not interfere with private channels that they do not run unless in the case that one of the network’s exceedingly few rules have been violated. You can also use the "/list" command while connected to the network to find any existing channels that have not been marked as private or secret (modes p and s, respectively).

If you have attempted to E-mail me or leave a Guestbook comment in the past 2 months, you will have likely only just now have gotten a response, which I apologise for as well. I was lagging on responding to anyone out of laziness before things went south, so the timing proved truly impeccable.

Although I do not have any new content to share, here’s a list of excellent new links I added to the Dock, which should prove to be of interest and entertainment to someone! They are all marked with a "new" button, for now, to make finding them easier.

Affiliates	Ryo’s Izakaya, Wire Head Online, Noneventive Feedback, WOS Home
Web Forums	711chan
Miscellaneous	Atomic Rockets, Internet Movie Firearms Database, James Cameron Online, Stalking Haruhi Suzumiya, Swedish Recipes

I suppose that’s it for now. Stay safe out there, happy New Years, and don’t forget to get on IRC!

Autumn 2022 05 November 2022 After another prolonged absence, I return bearing a variety of fun news. First and foremost, I have expanded the KoshkaIRC page into a full-fledged multi-page section (with more to come!), including a full page dedicated to Microsoft Comic Chat and our weekly Comic Chat Caturday event. Don’t miss the dozens of entertaining Comic Chat screenshots!

Additionally, I have added no less than 18 new riveting links to the Dock, the basic summary of which can be read below. There is also a "NEW!" button now next to every recently added link to make them easier to find, and a brand new links category: Retro Windows. All of them are highly recommended. Additionally, I also added to quick new dreams to the Somnium. Happy Comic Chat Caturday and don’t forget to get on IRC!

Web 1.0 General	Old’aVista, The Old Net
Search Engines	FrogFind!, TinEye
Other Computer Resources	Phoenix, IRC Reviews IRC Client List
Retro Windows	Retro Windows Wiki, skipster1337’s site, The Eric Experiment, win31.de, Windows XP Guide
Doom	Doomology, JEZ’ Homepage
Retro Games General	Puyo Puyo VS, Puyo Nexus
Garfield	Garfield Postcards
Miscellaneous	Everything Shii Knows, PesterChum

Also, I am in fact aware that the Halloween theme is still up. I’m lazy so I think I’ll just keep that up for a while longer until I switch it up for the Christmas theme.

16 October 2022 I wrote up a lengthy review of the immensely disappointing film Halloween Ends, which came out a few days ago, for the Haunted House section. As one would expect from a review of this length, there are numerous spoilers in there although, quite frankly, this is not a movie I would recommend anyone waste 2 hours of their life viewing. Nonetheless, it is the final installment of one of my life-long favourite franchises, and I felt it necessary to put my thoughts about it on paper, as it were.

08 October 2022 Since I already have a Christmas theme I made for the front page last year, I decided to go ahead and make a Halloween/Autumn theme this year, as a fun creative project and to give some solace to anyone who hates the default pink design.

The Michael Myers screenshot is from Halloween Kills and is owned by Blumhouse Studios, the disembodied hand is from Monster Bash and is owned by Frank Maddin/id Software, the Baron of Hell and Imp are owned by id Software, the Bilsy is from Jazz Jackrabbit 2: Christmas Chronicles and is owned by Epic MegaGames. The rest, including Eldritch Garfield, was done by yours truly. ^-

More to come very soon!! Happy Comic Chat Caturday and don’t forget to get on IRC!

27 September 2022 I added five very interesting new links to the Dock (listed below), as well as a new Dock subsection for Garfield. I also updated some of the Affiliate link descriptions that were grotesquely out-of-date, replaced Mermeliz’s button with a proper 88x31 button made by Cidoku. Finally, I took a page out of Cidoku’s book and added a blurb to most of the articles on the website linking to the IRC network and my Guestbook.

I sincerely apologize to anyone who may be checking for the continued lack of updates. It has been a very busy and rather stressful period for me, notably due to leaving my job of 7 years and starting a brand new one. Obviously, I am very inimical to change, so this was a decision that was both difficult and took some strong motivating factors in order to spur it into motion. I don’t want to whine and moan about real life happenings here, so I’ll just say that I am planning to update soon, and have a number of new page ideas in mind, including at least one brand new site section. Just waiting for the energy/motivation to return.

The new links are as follows:

Summer 2022 10 August 2022 I updated the Somnium with three goofy new dreams I had, including one that will make it into Macula’s Maze whenever I find time to properly learn Inform and actually create that.

03 August 2022 It’s been entirely too long since I updated the Dock with some more links, and after having come across a number of top-notch websites (and rediscovered some excellent ones that I neglected to previously add), I decided the time had come. The list of new links is as follows:

Affiliates	Milk of the Void, Svetlana Studios
Web 1.0 General	Anilinks
Other Computer Resources	Modern IRC Client Protocol, Netsplit.de, Web Design Group
Doom	Classic Doom Versions, Ports, and Remakes
Retro Games General	Catacomb Crypt, HURL, Sega Retro, Sonic Retro
Mysticism and Supernatural	DagonBytes, The Global Consciousness Project
Comedy and Oddities	Bash.org, Random Garfield Generator
Miscellaneous	Icebike Home Page, Lasagna.cz, Petr Zika’s Garfield Archive, Weather Spark

Enjoy, and have fun out there!

02 August 2022 A discussion on IRC inspired me to create a new Dragon Ball page dedicated to preserving images and information about the infamous Dragon Ball AF phenomenon that pervaded the Dragon Ball community in the late 90s and early 2000s. Essentially a surprisingly resilient rumour of a brand new Dragon Ball series whose existence was supported by nothing but tacky Angelfire/Geocities/Tripod sites and silly fan art. The page is purposefully designed to look like a genuine 90s AF website, so don’t go in expecting anything pretty. Just another dump of the sort of autistic infodumping that I am known for.

I’m still saving the last Dragon Ball on the Mount Paozu page for a future fanfiction, so I had to awkwardly squeeze the AF page under the other (satirical) AF page as a corrupted Dragon Ball in the style of the ones from GT. If I decide to add yet more pages to that section in the future, perhaps I will come up with a better system.

And no, I have not forgotten about the article on masking autism, or the Doom reminiscence/shrine. Writer’s block is still being an indomitable pain. ._.

26 July 2022 I added a brand new section to the website dedicated to promoting my IRC network, KoshkaIRC. This page contains a summary of network community events and services, as well as a KiwiIRC Web chat interface for anyone wishing to visit without installing an IRC client. I am rather proud of the design, as it is (embarrassingly) the first time I have ever constructed an entire page using almost nothing but tables. A mobile-friendly alternative page is an idea that a friend has proposed to me and that I may or may not do in the future, but I really wanted this to look like a genuine 2003 era website.

05 July 2022 I added two dreams to the Somnium, and updated Markovka’s reference guide to reflect an additional function that I recently added, also adding a changelog to that page for future reference. I also added to new Affiliates to the Portal and the Dock - nether and Painless Destiny.

Additionally, fans of my joke "sister" site loliwut? (a parody of my friend lolwut?’s website) may be happy to know that I finally added some actual content to that site. Inspired by Prints’ Strawberry Facts page, I decided to create a lulzy Pear Facts page that alternately pokes fun at lolwut and provides some tasty facts about the beloved pear.

Although she is already present as an Affiliate, I want to give a special shoutout to Human Raccoon for her wonderful new Microsoft Comic Chat page, showing the absolute hilarious glory of the IRC client at its finest. I am slowly in the process of working on a dedicated new section of this website to promote my growing IRC network (including the dedicated Microsoft Comic Chat channel #comicchat), which will contain a link to this page (among many other things!), but I wanted to spread the word about this sublime page as early as possible.

Spring 2022 18 June 2022 Happy Autistic Pride Day!!! I sincerely apologise to anyone who has been waiting for an update. I do have an autism-related article that I am writing, but I predictably put off working on it until the last minute, and writer’s block and real life problems then stepped in to ensure I wouldn’t finish on time, or at least wouldn’t do a good job if I did. I don’t want to give out subpar advice, especially regarding autism, so I elected to give myself more time. I am hoping to have that article, a massive new Doom-related page I am also working on, or both done in the next week or thereabouts.

In the meantime, I did add a brand new Affiliate website, Manjaruntu’s Madhouse, by my friend and fellow Aspie and self-hosting Chad. It is pretty sparse at the moment, but he is planning to put some articles up on it, and I wanted to give him the exposure he deserves in advance.

31 May 2022 The Great Reorganisation of Koshka’s Kingdom is finally complete. Every section that has or that I currently plan to have more than one page for (Autism, Library of Babel, Mount Paozu, Mystery Mansion, Town of ZZT, Astrophysics, and Haunted House) has been neatly segregated into its own directory, and every single link to these pages has been updated. A rather Herculean task seeing as I do not use templates and had to do it all by hand. Many page names have also been changed for better readability and SEO. I also set 403 redirects to guide anyone visiting any of the old links to the current location of each page.

Not wanting this update to just be me patting myself on the back, I also added a goofy dream that I had at the tail end of high school about an exceedingly nonsensical apocalypse scenario to the Somnium. That is all.

28 May 2022 Happy Comic Chat Caturday! I updated the IRC/Contact me blurbs on the front page and the Wildcat Den, including adding a guide I wrote today to the available commands for my all-purpose IRC bot Markovka, which can be read here, and my pro-IRC article from a few days ago. I also reorganised my Affiliates alphabetically and sorted them into Friends and Affiliates categories, seeing as it was silly to put websites of my good friends into the same category as some random person who I have no affiliation with besides them having my button their site.

I am mostly done my grand project to re-organise the website by confining every single page of every multi-page section to its own directory (i.e., koshka.love/autism/, koshka.love/babel/). Still some work to be done, but most of the website should be up to date by now. Once that is done, I will get to working on my next article, more than likely something autism-related as it has been lamentably long since that section received a proper update. In the meanwhile, don’t forget to GET ON IRC!

26 May 2022 I added a lengthy yet important write-up on why I still use IRC and believe it to be the only chat protocol worth using to the Library of Babel. I also touched on a number of important subjects such as the evils of Discord and the surprising advantages of Microsoft Comic Chat as a communication method for autistic people.

As formally announced in the article, I am also going to start holding a weekly all-day event known as Comic Chat Caturday every Saturday (or Sunday-ish for folks in Oceania) in #comicchat on my IRC server (irc.koshka.love) for fans of Microsoft Comic Chat. Time zones do not permit for the formation of an event any specific time, so be sure to drop by this Saturday whenever works for you if you are interested! If you want a custom avatar and/or background for use,[Mermaid Elizabeth’s website](https://mermeliz