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Yeah, I'm not doing what I did in 2016 by voting on everything but the president. I should had written in Bernie back then. Probably wouldn't be counted or rejected like my 2016 Primary vote... This coming Primary, I'm going in person to vote, not just dropping off my mail-in ballot. Edit: I guess a President cannot be impeached and convicted of obstruction of justice, abuse of power, and other high crimes and misdemeanors while going on to aid their re-election campaign if they are doing any or all those crimes in the best interest of national security because they believe they are the best person to be President... that's such a breathtaking stance.

I believe all those are high airflow cases, which is honestly the biggest thing for most people. Not everyone wants to do watercooling. So they're all good. As for the O11 XL coming without fans, I think it's because it was meant for watercooling but it does well with fans. This also allows you to get higher quality fans in that they run more efficiently, faster and/or quieter. I'm also personally looking for a new case as well. I'm tired of the plastic clips for the PCI slots in my case. I love it otherwise since it pushes enough air to keep things cool. Else, it's front IO leaves much to be desired now. I'm also debating about drive bays. You can probably watch this for some ideas if you're not in a rush. I'm personally not in a rush since I tend to use a case for 5+ years so I want a good one.

You know, I'm still feeling the sting of the 2016 Democrat primary. In the way that I'm kind of getting flashbacks of it. Will I bend the knee if say Biden gets the nomination? No. Being in California allows me to protest vote. It practically guaranteed that the Democrat presidential candidate will get this state. My reading of the situation don't make me think it will be any different this time around. Though it would be kind of funny if Trump won California. If the Democrat establishment doesn't get the message* with that then I dunno what to say. * Meaning that they are not left enough since well... they are conservative by most other countries standards.

Well, the heating up the room isn't necessarily a bad thing. Kind of defeats the need for running the heater for the living/dining room as well. Anyhow, after the next few days (trying to dry out the space between the double pane windows), the dehumidifier will probably only run when I cook and for a bit at night to get anything excess moisture I missed. None of the issues will necessarily be an issue then. Besides, it seems silly to try to completely suppress the ambient RH (60-65%) all the time. Probably will have it on when it decides to rain or be excessively foggy.

They're weird as fuck but I'm intrigued.

I kind of wanted a camera tripod but life has other needs so... I got a dehumidifier*. I've been considering it for over a year** since it can get rather humid in the house if I go steaming or just cooking dinner. Like dripping condensation on the windows and window frame. Hell, there can be condensation on the walls too as if someone took a shower in the living room. This is not good for the house and I have noticed that certain existing pain cracks on the walls being expanded and with the edges curled outward... as if it is getting wet and then dried. So yeah, hopefully this unit can keep that from happening and progressing. For tonight's Chinese New Year dinner, I had this running and this defeated a kitchen that has been running for most of the day. So far so good... and it also produces clean (?) water for my plants. There are a few cons to it however... it's rather loud even on low but I guess it's to be expected since it is essentially an AC unit. Being the case, it also heats up the room rather noticeably. It's kind of the physics of it all that I forgot about when I got this. No matter, I'm going to have this go at 50% RH (normal for my area is like 65%; mold growth >60%) and sees how it goes with noise and electricity usage. Since I'm the one paying utilities, yay, it's my problem. *Sadly I cannot get a smart thermostat without a ton of fiddling... else I would've gotten that over this. **Also after seeing one in action in Taiwan to keep the AirBnB place comfortable.

https://youtu.be/cRNvwVPDy-4 Well shit... Kentaro Miura, I'm joining you. Edit: This phone doesn't seem to want to embed the YouTube link... Ugh.

I feel that the Crossbell games warrant an exception from Falcom just to get the Crossbell problem resolved ASAP. While it's too late for CS4/End of Saga, it would be nice if Western fans officially get the two Crossbell games under their belt before Hajimari. And as for other games Durante can work on... it'll probably be the Atelier games. What we got are pretty damn rough (at least Sophie is rough). Playable but they're in a shape that make you grimace. Kind of need Koei Tecmo wanting to go back and improve... a fuck ton of games. I doubt I'll every find the time to experience the entire series but since they're all on Steam/PC, they deserve to be in better shape for people who have the time to devote to like... 12 (?) games right now.

While there's plenty of big games coming out this year but I like my smaller games so it's a pretty simple choice for me. VA11 HALL-A is seriously one of my favorites (surprising, right?) so N1RV Ann-A is easily my choice. Visual novels man... arguably they hardly qualifies as games but they can sure pack a punch in everything else. if I were to choose a gameplay oriented game... To be honest though, early access kind of dampens my desire for Bannerlord but shit, it's Bannerlord. I have been waiting for this for a long time. Bring on the early access drama! So many skulls to choose to drink from! I got another game in mind that kind of combines a great, overaching story (4th game in it's series and 9th overall) and pretty alright gameplay but got to wait for an announcement. Hell, it might not show up this year but it'll come.

"More than zero and less than four." I'm with some people who thinks he said a whole lot with that statement but yeah, best to not think about it. CS4 and Ys9 are gonna come over, that much is pretty much azured.

Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap It's metroidvania of sorts that doesn't give you a map so you're pretty much running off memory on where to check out next. Combat is rudimentary at best, same goes to movement. It combines to make for a frustrating platformer which this games does with a mouse form that can stick to walls and ceilings... if you time the inputs correctly! It made me rage quit for the night. It's very true to the original it seems which is fine but man... it's shows. At least it looks and sounds really nice. Not sure if I want to finish this... mind, what I played was not that hard. Just frustrating. Ys: Memories of Celceta I think I'll play this before I move onto Ys 8 for game mechanics' sake. Kind of like how I recommend people to play the older Ys games before moving onto Oath or Origins. Story wise, I technically played this one but just one of the SNES one. As for CS3, I'm kind of mustering the will to commit to it. Once I start, I'll be crushing the game. Kind of like how I quickly worked my way through to Chapter 3 where I'm currently at. Part of my hesitation is just how much of the Crossbell games' info I am missing and how it will probably get worse as I move further in.

Judging by the Reddit AMA Durante is doing, there probably will also be an audio patch/pack in the future to deal with any low quality sound/music issues. But yeah, you folks who will play CS3 on PC should have a nice time without stutters and slowdowns like the PS4 has. I wonder how's the Switch port will be like since PH3 is kind of sharing resources with the folks doing the Switch port. Also remains to be seen if somehow the performance improvements from PC can be backported to the PS4... It would be entirely out of PH3's hands and be with Falcom. Anyhow... I'm kind of laughing at the people being salty of no CS4 or Ys9 announcements. It's very likely they are being worked on as we speak for announcement at E3 or around that time. Probably want to drop one or both before the end of Falcom's fiscal year. Also, I doubt Falcom/NISA would like to release anything new new between now to May considering how packed it was. So might as well hold announcements until E3 when they know if they are ready. I'm confident that we'll get one of them within the next twelve months or so.

I probably won't be getting around to it but this is in response to Durante working on the port now.

We don't deserve Durante. ?

Here you go.

Eminem dropped an album and he doesn't hold punches...

Christopher Tolkien has passed. RIP

Release delayed to September 17th, 2020. I'm actually okay with this. This first half of the year is just way too packed. Combined with work, there's just not enough time to really invest into all the games.

No spoilers since these guys just kind of come out of nowhere and seems to be their own entirely separate thing. Though...

I've been kind of following this for a while so, yeah, I bought it as support. I'll be giving it a spin soon.

As he should.

So looks like Iran accidentally shot down the plane that left Tehran the other day. At this point I think we should just bury the missile attack and assassination. Just toss the ego. Enough people have died down this road that we really shouldn't be on...

https://apnews.com/add7a702258b4419d796aa5f48e577fc And away we go...

https://www.engadget.com/2020/01/06/dell-concept-ufo-portable-gaming-pc/ All concept. So basically a portable PC shaped/modeled after the Switch. After having the Switch, I wouldn't mind a PC option like this. A fair bit of my PC backog would work on such a device. In the grand scheme of things, I would choose something like this over VR (up till we get enough killer apps...). Between this and a Switch is harder to say. Having access to Nintendo's IPs is kind of nice but having a Switch-like PC would defeat most of the need for a Switch for it's ports (ideally) so a Switch would become a purely Nintendo device which wouldn't be nearly as attractive. Whatever happens with this concept though, I think there is for sure a desire for something like it.