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  Weebster's Dictionary describes love as "A status move that lasts five turns and reduces all incoming damage done by physical moves to two-thirds." To live a full life we must love fully, and what love is more pure than a love for one's own self. There are a great many ways to show love to yourself, but by far the easiest one I have found is to look at a reflective surface, any reflective surface, such as a mirror, a puddle, a window, a spoon, someone else's eyes, even a hypothesized reflective surface within your owns mind's eye, and get completely lost in your own reflection like a modern-day Narcissus. Polish your mirrors, stare intently and deeply, and show yourself such a deep-seated love that any potential partners, past-present-future, will seethe with jealousy as you celebrate today, Mandog Month Day 4, Reflective Reflections.

  A few hundred millennia ago man came into being, and we have since been shaped and formed by our time on Earth. When we first stepped foot on the lands we had 87 hands, each meant for the 87 different tasks hands were made to do. In the long history of humanity these tasks became superfluous or outright ceased to be needed, such as holding a hand on the light stone keeping it light so that it may drive out the dark and keep the nightmare beings formed within the shadows at bay. A number of our hands stopped being a part of our form due to the eventual change of their shape to the current five-fingered hands featuring the ever coveted thumb. Being able to full grasp an object with the use of a single object meant the tiny supporting hand with their single, sharply clawed finger were no longer necessary, we could now hold things such as each other's hands without involving extra appendages, a task that is still of the highest importance and one of the three true callings that hands...

  To compete is to put the entirety of yourself into winning, however victory often requires more than you are to achieve. Throughout your life there is a finite skillset you can possibly hone among all the skills you pursue, and you most hone these skills as finely as possible, but understand that sometimes, often, really almost all the time you must go beyond your limits if you wish to be the very best out there. I'm not going to sit here and tell you to cheat, or to lie, or steal, or bribe, or hinder, or create a plethora of pitfalls and/or booby traps for your opponents for the sake of winning, but I am saying that some to all of these things might be required of you. You don't have to act beyond your morals, but maybe just bend them a little, you can always lie to yourself, or maybe learn how to do things you are uncomfortable with by not knowing you're even doing them. Winning must remain the ultimate goal, through means of bettering yourself or otherwise, as we celeb...

Greetings, Bienvenue, and Hey What's Up? To my dearest friends, my deepest belothed, my newest of acquaintances, and to those confused strangers who happen to be passing by. It's time. Happy Thirty-Seventh Annual Mandog Month!   On this day, thirty-seven years ago, across the lands was heralded the coming of one so great, one so majestic, one so utterly conceited they will spend every December posting in great length in celebration of themselves. Every year since we have spent these long days preparing for the worst, hoping for the best, and lying to ourselves over which one is which. As the year comes to a close we must remember to remain ever vigilant lest we lose not only our way, but our sense of self, our discernable form, our quantum displaced omniscience, or even a few dollars. May your preparations be fully girded to all possibilities and may you make the most of Mandog Month Day 1, Be Prepared!