Welcome to The Adventures and Ramblings of DimitriFaustin

Dear Reader,

Greetings - welcome to my new blog. This is the "ceremonial first pitch" of what I hope will grow into a compendium of entertaining and thought-provoking musings and ruminations about video games, music, sports, movies, television shows, history, roads and life in general. You may even learn something new from my essays, rants and such.

So... who is DimitriFaustin? That is, for lack of a better username, the avatar I've used on Internet forums since 2016 and was a Grand Theft Auto IV in-joke, which referred to the two characters Dimitri Rascalov (the game's main antagonist) and Mikhail Faustin.

I am also a former DeviantArt user - I had an account there from 2017 to 2024, and all artwork and works I published there will return to life through this blog which I will post here when time allows me to. Thus, this will be the new home of the Anywhere City HD Concept (a remake of the setting of Grand Theft Auto 2), the GTA 64 Concept (my own take on what a Grand Theft Auto title for the Nintendo 64 platform might have been like - emphasis on might have) and so forth.

I will also soon be setting up a separate blog for 55-State Union, an alternate geographical history of the United States which I began in 2020. That blog will be called "The 55-State Union Project," and it mainly revolves around the three fictional U.S. states of Altamasstachia (pronounced All-tuh-mahs-sta-she-a), Mallettbarr and Zeconnemeleth (pronounced Zeh-con-nah-mah-leth), and is also an alternate history timeline where-in Puerto Rico is a U.S. state as is Superior (Michigan's Upper Peninsula in our timeline). Stay tuned as I aim to create the most comprehensive and original alternate history timeline on the Web.

My personal seal.

A little about me.

This is the start of a new chapter for me, and I can only hope that this will be a delightful excursion for you, the reader, as well. Without further ado - welcome to my realm. Let's see what the road that is life has in store and embrace it with open arms.

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