The Return of Lcd101 + The Crossing Project

10 October, 2024

This took me long enough.

Well, another summer has come and gone! Without any activity here on Lcd101.com. I know, I know. You guys have been waiting for something. The truth is that I've been going through the worst depressive period of my entire life. I truly apologize for not being active here, but if you've been in this situation before, you know how hopeless things can feel. Really, really bad stuff.

I tried everything to get out of it - and I mean everything. The only thing that worked was waking up from a night of maddening and increasingly strange dreams involving Murdoc Niccals of Gorillaz bothering me incessantly. Giving me explicit directions on how to construct explosives, getting an advertising deal with ASDA and continuously hawking produce at my televisoon screen, the works. I think he ever told me the exact time and date of my death. Anyway, I woke up after that and my depression was completely gone! Thank you, Murdoc. I can now continue my blog. Don't call me. I love you.

This is what I saw.

With that out of the way, I am pleased to announce a new side-project of sorts - The Crossing Project! I've been a fan of Animal Crossing since the very beginning, which means that I've amassed quite the collection of cartridges and memory cards over the years. I've always felt weird about wiping the previous owner's save data, though. That's, like, killing their character and destroying their town with a gigantic asteroid or something. So I came up with a compromise. With every new copy I'd pick up, I'd back up the data. I feel like here is a brilliant place to back those saves up!

All save data collected as part of The Crossing Project will be uploaded to Lcd101.com as soon as they're safe in my hands and backed up. If you see your town there and you just don't want that sort of thing on the internet, please contact me privately and I'll be happy to take it down and erase it from my records forever. (Although, I try to make sure nothing senstiive slips by.) On the flipside, I'm more than happy to host your own save data if that's something you're interested in! Again, contact me privately and we'll get things sorted out.

The Crossing Project isn't quite ready, so check in soon and I'll have the first of the saves up! Next up on Lcd101.com is decidedly not the British digital switchover saga I had promised all those months ago, but instead a humerous look into the television programmes that our parents didn't want us to see. Don't worry, I'll cover Digit Al soon. For now, I'm just glad to be back.

And what a great feeling to know that I'm not alone here. It just goes to show you that even during your lowest points, you just have to keep looking up.

- Lcd101