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RBG probably should've retired back in 2016 so with two seats out, it'd be... a usually reasonable tough sell to not fill those seats for 9 months. Then again it's the GOP we're dealing with and having a 7 judge court would make them think it's okay to let it sit even further. But yeah, I'm hearing about a 18 year term limit being floated around. That's basically a whole generation so would be fine... I guess? John Roberts has been surprising but he is more of a Lincoln Project Republican than say Tea Party+ Trump Cult. While Chief Justice Roberts has his issues, I feel that he tries to fit the ideals and traditions of the Supreme Court. Then again... Bush v. Gore in 2000. Hard to say we can't have something similar in Roberts' court. -sigh-

April is like 10,000 years away...

Got myself a chef knife and a carving/slicer for long/big items since the one I have is shit. I do have some more economical chef knives (Victorinox knives are the way to go) but I wanted a nicer one. These look great and they really don't break the bank. If I like these enough, maybe I'll go for a Chinese style chef knife (my actual go to knife, they basically look like a cleaver) if they ever make one.

I can't say no to Vanillaware.

Fuck

I think 2D-ish looking 3D models has come a long way and now can be made to look excellent but yeah, end of an era. We need another Vanillaware stat!

I have the first 15-20 minutes of this soundtrack etched into my soul since it follows the title screen all the way to the first battle or two.

We'll be in good hands

lol on SE and Sony flip-flopping about a PC release now. BUT YEAH, dare I say I'm actually somewhat hyped for a Final Fantasy game after SOOOOO long? It's not a return to Ivalice but something new yet feeling somewhat familiar. There's no fumbling around with new battle system either which must be a boon to development. It's the same one as FFXV but probably more refined. Square Enix probably should've done this since FFXII but I GUESS I could cut them some slack with FFXIII and its direct sequels (it seems to have gotten better than the really noticeable mashing of X and linear corridors). But yeah, I'm really digging the setting and I don't think I'll have any complaints about the battle system. Show me what you got SE. inb4 troubled development for a decade

Ah, I see. Yeah, lots of rocks and shit so things are rather muted. Things are rather conservative so perhaps they'll spend more of the tech power for other things. Also, I forgot about FFXII with a medieval-like setting.

I say it's more return to some old roots. The last time it has been medieval like this was like FFIX and to be really true, FFIV. It has been so so long.

I mean, I guess we can pump the heat directly to the ocean/water body. It's not power plant runoff but it makes you wonder if it's a good idea.

I'm being left in the past...

Umm, how did this BotW-like clone get past me (edit: or did I or someone post about it and I totally forgot since it's 2020?)? I only noticed it when I came across this tweet: That cut animation is pretty damn fly. It made me question what am I looking at? Am I looking at some gacha game or what? I even found the English website here: https://genshin.mihoyo.com/pre-register/?utm_source=invite&invite_code=c7ab35d0706d127961fe0669d16af3a8#/ and it made it to feel like a gacha mobile game but is it? Basically, yeah. It's gacha but the game is an open-world adventure game basically like BotW. It does adds quite a bit of anime bullshit fluff to it which may interest some of you. I'm not sure why there's gacha since the core gameplay seems fine if grindy. If anything the gacha makes the game even more grindy than it has to be. You get rid of the gacha and balance it without that and you might have a banger of a game. As for platforms... It's coming for, yes, iOS and Android, but also for PS4, Switch and PC. It should be coming out this month on the 28th but we'll see. Price is... free? I'm still not sure what's up. Just charge me $60 waifu bucks and make it gacha-less. I'm not even sure how the "free" gacha model works for PS4, Switch and PC...

Exorcize 2020

FUCKING FINALLY

The story is going to be grim... And you know Link's final level. I want some BotW2 news...

I might have shown this dude before but he runs a pest extermination business with minks and/or dogs with great success. So yeah, warning for the light stomach. In a day's work, the minks/dogs can absolutely cull/eliminate a rat infestation. In the past 6-12 months he has been trying to train a monitor lizard to do the same. It worked. The crazy SOB did it. The monitor lizard is a bit harder to have it let go of a kill, takes longer to kill and has the drawbacks (?) of being a reptile but it's wicked fast and smart.

This might be it.

Vtubers are a thing I'm slowly watching. You never quite know how's things are going to go, it's really not unlike good old regular streams/Let's Plays (think of all the big Twitch streamers). Only tech now allows for avatars now rather than just listening to a voice or seeing a webcam. Pikamee is probably the better ones for us English speakers to follow since she does know English (born in Texas, family moved back to Japan). It's fascinating to hear her swapping between Japanese and English on the fly. Plus she has quite the unique laugh. I'll leave this post with just her. Notice how she doesn't add an accent when swapping to English! In the above she does so when speaking to another Japanese player.

Play the original with PhysX and downscaling. Really gorgeous that way.

You shall be using that TV a decade from now.

I've debated about getting that or the Samsung Tab S6 for drawing. The Kamvas and the like are tied to a computer while the Tab S6 can roam free. If I had the fuck-you money for an iPad Pro (I use one for work and I recognize how good it is with the pen since I sketch out a lot of things) then sure but I don't...