The Blogtastic Blogfest That Is Getmeoutofthis.net!

So I was doing this history project and trying to think of weird little things in history to put in there instead of the big stuff, because it’s supposed to be fun, you know? So, for whatever reason, I think of Dani Bunten Berry, the male-to-female transsexual who created the game M.U.L.E., which is this huge deal and which I need to play at some point in time. So I check out her wikipedia page to see if the dates of her doing all this would fit, and I’m browsing along, and I read “After a third failed marriage, Bunten, who had until then been living as a male, transitioned to living as a woman. Bunten later regretted this decision.” And there was a link to the source for this comment. So I go and I read the source, and it’s this rant about how transitioning didn’t ruin her life, but it did cut her off from people she cared about and cost her a lot of money and cut off her sex drive, and if she could do it all again she wouldn’t have gone through with it.
I’d only heard about her like… vaguely. It was only like last year I heard of M.U.L.E., and then it seemed like I started seeing it everywhere, as this sort of small gaming classic back in the day, and knowing that a transsexual was behind it… you know, it was comforting. It meant that, you know, it’s all doable. One can make it, you know? And although I know the state of the internet and information on it is nebulous, and all this might not even be true… it’s just depressing to read and learn about anyway… I dunno. It’s going to be hard. It really is.

In happier news, Advance Wars: Days of Ruin is awesome. I’m going to go to bed and play more of that now.