Chapters 43 through 52, currently totalling around ten thousand words, has been primed and prepped for your viewing. This is known as the "HELL" arc of QQQQ, and I hope you enjoy it.

Did you know there's a Yu-Gi-Oh! deck called Qliphorts? It's based off the Qliphoth, from the Qabbalah. It has monsters that are large semi-biological machines, canonically running from a Windows-based CLI. There's one for each Sephirot, plus a later-released Link monster, presumably counting as the Qliphothic equivalent of Da'at. They are a pendulum deck, but are weakened when special summoned. This means you use the pendulum summon as a first step, summoning them in their weaker modes, then tributing them like old-school Yu-Gi-Oh! to make their high-powered forms. Qliphort Scout and Qliphort Monolith are key pieces of the deck, allowing searching and drawing cards, respectively—they're also normal monsters, allowing you to use many old-school cards with them. Pendulum was the newest mechanic at the time they were released, so it's almost as if the deck is a celebration of both the beginning and the (at-the-time) end of the game.

Qliphort Disk [https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61+O8z8aXHL._AC_.jpg]

They are opposed by the Zefra, the "positive" formation of the Qabbalah. Members of the Zefra come from other archetypes in Yu-Gi-Oh! such as Nekroz, Ritual Beasts, and Tellarknights. This is also a pendulum deck, but encourages you to use all the other kinds of summoning forms available: Fusion, Synchro, XYZ, and Rituals. It even got a Link monster, probably also representing Da'at. This deck I would like to learn more about, but it excites me less than the Qliphort do.

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The Qliphorts are undeniably evil, but that's not what I like about them. (I'll always think angels are 100x cooler than demons.) I like the interplay between machine and natural life. They are ostensibly cold, hard, uncaring ships flying through the sky and annihilating life. That's not a cool thing to do, in my opinion. But what if instead of war-machines, they were something friendly, and useful? I want to proverbially put the rose in their gun barrel. I want to keep them as pets. I want to see what kind of strange cross-breeds they form, despite only being machines. I could be a domesticated Qliphort rancher, in a big field with waterfalls and plant growth (that they seem to like). Part of me wants to dust off my game-dev skills and make a Qliphort fangame. Not a Yu-Gi-Oh! one, just a Qliphort one.

None of this has anything to do with QQQQ, by the way. I just enjoy becoming obsessed with odd and overly-specific things. I'm trying to make myself write more, and part of that is just allowing myself to write about whatever I want. It doesn't need to be insightful, or have a narrative, or even contribute anything new at all. I just enjoy it. I don't mind if it's not fun to read. I like writing more than reading, so I don't blame anyone else for feeling that way, either. I've half-started a blog for my rambling thoughts, but it hasn't really gone anywhere yet, and it's been a while since I've wrote a post. But for the new year, I want to fill it full of bizzare oddities of things that give me the brain-tingles.

What are you doing this year? Are you exercising more, eating better? Are you finally going to finish that Final Fantasy game you never completed? What about your aunt? You should really spend more time with her. You could also try inventing a new energy drink, I think that would be fun. You should bring your aunt in on it.

"Hey Aunt Martha, want to help me develop a formula for a new energy drink?"

"No."

Well, Alright then. Moving on.