shinypiplup Hits 100 Dogs in January — Barely, With an Hour to Spare

By the final night of January, shinypiplup was a few dogs short of 100 and the whole server knew it. mikvelv was counting down the minutes — "2 hours 50 min left" — while Daniel refreshed the leaderboard from bed. shinypiplup poured some beers, fired up the stove, and jumped into voice chat to cook the final stretch live on stream with a nearly dead phone battery.

The 100th dog arrived sometime around 7 AM Pacific, just before the calendar flipped. The server erupted. Randy called it "Epic." Daniel, watching from bed, said simply: "What a mad lad." Asked the next day how it felt to have hit 100, shinypiplup delivered the only appropriate response: "The work never ends. There is no rest for me yet."