MetalCaveman

Got recommended a new place for pastes, it's a bit far, but the stores I usually buy from have been fumbling some things here and there recently, these ones were pretty good. Def worth the trip. \m/ \m/

Absolutely, love how my AKG sound, but they aren't the most comfortable for long sessions, the G733 are much more comfortable and wireless, but the bass is a bit too strong for me.

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https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/daily-briefs/2022-06-15/6000000-bounty-twitter-account-teases-friday-announcement/.186714 Trigun announcement incoming(?)

Looks cool. Kinda forgot RE:Verse was a thing lol, got it confused with Resistance.

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HOLY COW, new Stratovarius after 7 years AND new Dragonland after 11 years!! ... and they're both pretty good!! \m/ \m/

The good news, I was able to vote without any major incidents. The bad news... Not even in my most pessimistic predictions could I have come up with this: MORENA now controls 22 states, the remaining 10 are split between PAN, PRI and MC. So, across the country, people looked at the way things were going and decided they wanted more, and more and more. Of course, the other parties have their share of responsibility, PAN shot themselves on the... Not foot, but the head, with the VOX thing, PRI should get rid of Alito, in fact, they should learn from AMLO, start a new party with the current members, sans a few that drag them down hard, name themselves something flashy that makes them sound cool and friendly and just keep going, worked for the old PRI that's now MORENA, so maybe it'll work for the new PRI? PRD is toast now, and the rest of the parties are mostly irrelevant since they act as proxies for the big 4 (now big 3 with PRD disappearing from the landscape for now lol), this does however paint a bleak picture for 2024 and forwards. I'd like to think that I'm lucky, in that my state is not a tourist magnet, nor a big industrial hub, makes us a smaller target for Sinaloenses del Bienestar lol, but that doesn't mean we don't have to worry about that. So yeah, that's going to be a thing.

This Sunday (June 5th), we have elections, governor elections to be precise, if the fact that polls seem to put MORENA's candidate ahead by a fair margin wasn't enough, dude went and did what MORENA does best, put some boogeyman in people's minds to cause trouble, once again citing their favourites, the elite-neoliberal-educated-conservative-aspirationists, he called all MORENA followers to So yeah, as if the whole voting process wasn't already a dangerous affair in this little slice of hell we call Mexico, I now also have to worry about what shenanigans these cultists will get up to. It's going to be a fun day... NOT!

From the team behind Punishing: Gray Raven I dropped PGR because of the release pace and the gameplay bits, while fun, were super short, just as it was getting good the mission would be over, this one could be fun.

Main thing I'm curious is how toned down the cheesy stuff will be, if they remove it or tone it down too much I'll just wait until someone mods the original dialogue in and then play it.

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!!!!! HELL YEAH!!!

Apparently written for a wrestler, so the deviation from the Viking theme makes sense lol. Oddly enough, Put Your Back Into the Oar is not going to be in their next album. It's been 3 years since Ategnatos, but it felt like way more lol, Eluveitie is back and it sounds awesome! \m/ \m/

lol, nah, thanks to an event in Fate Grand Order I got into cardistry, this: Though I'm nowhere near as good as those guys lol, far, far, FAR from it, I can barely pull a Sybil without cards flying everywhere. Which is the thing, certain moves like the pressure fan: Can bend, warp, or otherwise damage the cards and that's if you can pull them off properly, if not, the damage is even worse lol, add to that the damage suffered when cards fall on hard floors, bends when trying to pick them up and other issues and it's easy to chew through a deck in a short while. I know some people who go through one deck per week, which IMO is insane, but not that uncommon depending on what moves you practice and for how long. My first deck, a Bicycle Rider Back that I had for years before using it for this stuff, has some cards that are now bent to hell lol, got a new one a couple of months ago and that one is still in pretty decent shape, for now.

Sale + store credit = $1.50 per deck lol, normal price is about $4, and since I don't go through them that fast, these should last for a fair while.

https://www.gematsu.com/2022/05/tvt-announces-first-three-game-project-details-featuring-god-eater-and-patapon-staff Got really excited there for a moment, before reading the "multiplayer" part, and that it's being made in an engine designed for multiplayer games...

Dennis Chambers putting his own spin on Tool's Schism, pretty cool stuff. \m/ \m/

That train scene looks like a nice callback to the original film, looks great, I can't wait!

I played A Link to the Past on GBA, I remember enjoying it a fair bit, does that one count as a remake or remaster? Don't know if they changed much other than the graphics. It is one of the few Zelda games I've actually finished though, so there's that. Back to God Eater 3, after playing a bit more... Holy cow! This game fixes a lot of the issues I had with the previous two, first, sprint speed feels way faster and stamina doesn't drain as fast, or at least it feels like that, second, there's now a "dive" move, a long jump that propels you forward at a really high speed, perfect for catching up to aragami that are trying to run away or to quickly close the distance to a target. The new weapons feel much better and more fun than previous additions, which felt too slow, or did not hit hard enough for me, so I kept using the standard blade, this time, the twin blades are super fast dealing a decent amount of damage and their glaive form does a huge amount of damage, at the expense of being unable to recover stamina until you switch back to twin blade form, still, they're pretty fun to use, the moon weapons are awesome too, slightly faster than blades, with a much more acrobatic and flashy combat style, the axe form is great for dealing huge amounts of damage on downed aragami. Predator styles are back too!! Kinda, don't know if you can customize them, but the different devour styles are back and they're awesome. Much easier to stay in burst now. Biggest complaint though, custom bullets are limited now, you can only bring a certain amount of them so the options for strong bullet recipes are fairly limited this time around, in fact, most of the recipes I've found are for fireworks bullets, which do no damage but look cool.

Wow... God Eater 3 just outright starts with the "Is humanity worth saving?" and a quick answer "Nah, they ain't" Usually it takes longer for these questions to pop up and the answer is more often than not a "Yeah, in spite of everything else, it's worth fighting for" This time though, not only do God Eaters get treated like disposable things, one of the guards in this prison is NGL, Kinda want the Aragami to win this one lol Edit: Well, that didn't last long lol, we're back to business as usual.

God Eater 2 Rage Burst "what?... wait WHAT?!, I mean, WHAT!?!?!?!... WHAT!?!?!?!?!?!?!?" That was my reaction to the ending, in GE the power of friendship overcame mutations once thought to be irreversible, this time it's managed to overcome Which came out of nowhere, one of the things that happened was expected, no surprise there, but then and THAT was a surprise. This is one of those sequels that in part feels more like an expansion and also a regression, which may be caused by the original having had to re-releases, God Eater Burst and God Eater Resurrection, while this is the first time 2 has been re-released. Resurrection added predator styles, which allowed for different devour combinations and setups based on your weapons and playstyle, along with some weapon and weapon styles that are now also a part of 2. Meanwhile, 2 not only uses several of the same maps and weapons, even HQ is the same after a certain story event that takes you back to Fenrir's Far East Branch. All this while removing Predator Styles, instead opting to go with Blood Arts, which enhance melee attacks, Blood Bullets which can add specific effects to bullets (like friend or foe detection, gravity based damage, etc.), and its main new mechanic, Blood Rage, which to me ended up feeling like too much risk, too little reward. Basically you build up a gauge based on damage dealt and taken, when it reaches 100% you can activate Blood Rage, which then allows you to select and enemy and a series of pledges (conditions) to be fulfilled in order to activate it, this conditions range from Do X% of damage or hit X amount of times, all the way to having extremely low health or stamina, different conditions grant different damage bonus depending on the difficulty, the problem, and this is a problem with the entire game, is that the monsters here move so fast and so much that you can waste a full gauge just trying to keep up with the thing in order to fulfil the conditions, and once activated it only lasts for about a minute, of which you're likely to spend 30 seconds just chasing after your target. You can use traps or flash grenades to stun monsters for a bit, and AI teammates can be equipped with skills that help keep targets in place during Blood Rage, but even then it can be a pain depending on the monster in question, even more annoying when you're fighting multiple enemies. Having increased speed or something that could help close the distance faster would have been awesome. Other than that though, the rest of the game plays very much like GER, and there's plenty of missions here to keep you busy for a while lol, story missions, free missions, character missions, emergency missions, some more challenging that others, some unlocking more skills for certain characters, though I said it felt like an expansion of GER it sill has more than enough content to stand on its own. One thing that did disappoint me is that, in spite of the events of the previous game and the role your character had in it, this time around, when meeting or talking with returning characters, the most you get is "oh, you remind me of someone I used to know"... That's it... Kinda hurts. Even with the issue I had at the end, where multi-stage battles got pretty annoying, GE2RB is a fun game, one that I'd def recommend if you're interested in the series. \m/ \m/