MetalCaveman

Game of the Year Given that I've played through the whole story mode about 9 times by now, plus going back to get all achievements, even The Mercenaries stuff, this was an easy choice. This new generation of RE games (first person, more horror-y) skipped a few steps and went directly into RE4 territory, and it's awesome. \m/ \m/ Runner-Up Looks awesome, plays well (on racing wheel at least), the locations are gorgeous (though I'm probably a bit biased here ), cool cars and more. Oh and there's an Arknights livery for the warthog, what more do you need? (maybe an Azur Lane or Blue Archive livery as well lol)

Given everything he's said and done, like ordering that Ovidio (one of his sons) be released after his arrest during the Culiacanazo, promising Chapo's mother that he'd do everything in his power to bring her son back, apologizing for referring to el Chapo as a drug lord, changing it to "one of the world's richest businessmen", etc. there's a non-zero chance that the Sinaloa Cartel is directly funding him, his campaign and his party. Wouldn't be the first time, won't be the last time.

Second season confirmed, planning to air on April 2022, HELL YEAH!!! \m/ \m/

Travel/event/whatever restrictions don't apply to Mexico, because those things cause "discrimination and hurt the well-being of people", also because apparently Omicron is good for herd immunity, and will be beneficial to us all, so says Gatell, undersecretary of health. Also, now we know the plan for 2024, so far, the president has been cutting funds to INE, more and more, they're in charge of things like organizing elections, verifying results, making sure everything works as it's supposed to, and they keep getting their funds slashed by the very same person that is responsible for its creation (we had IFE before, which got replaced with INE). So now, the president wants people to vote on whether or not he should remain in office and INE is like "we can't, with our current funding, organize something like that in the time frame we've been given" and the president's response is: "LOOK AT INE!! ENEMIES OF DEMOCRACY!! EVIL NEOLIBERAL CONSPIRATORS THAT WANT TO PREVENT PEOPLE FROM EXERCISING THEIR RIGHTS!! THEY'RE THE ENEMY!!!!" Using the salary the top brass of INE receives as his ammunition, things is, even if they all pooled all their money, that still only accounts for a fraction of what the voting would cost (4 billion to set everything up vs 20 million in salary for the dude at the top of INE), so even with that it still would not be enough. Enter the power play, the president has now said that if INE can't do it, they'll do it by "popular vote" which means "we'll gather a bunch of people that support the president, in states that support the president and then ask them to raise their hand if they support the president", basically how all his other "popular vote" things have been done. This is, in all likelihood, a rehearsal for 2024, were he'll pull the same play: Cut funding to INE Demand elections be held without flaw even without funding INE Can't do their job properly 'cause they don't have to money for it President blames INE, accuses them of sabotaging democracy President demands a "popular vote" election President is all like "SEE! People want me to be president! For life!" That or he automatically names his successor president elect, a puppet so he can stay in power Adding to that: He recently tried to mark all of his projects present and future as "National Security Priorities" meaning they would not only have all details hidden, they would have to be approved in a maximum of 5 days, so, no environmental impact studies, no budgeting, no planning, nothing, the president wants something done, it gets done, no questions asked. He keeps giving control of so many things to the army, infrastructure, construction, medicine, etc. He's even now putting pressure to all states so they hand over all construction projects to the army, all to keep them on his side. The secretary of defence pledged his undying loyalty to the 4T and urged everyone else to do the same. He's made clear that the law, the court, attorney general, etc. Will be used against any strong opposition candidates, with several charges, real or otherwise, used to prevent them from running for office. And that's that, he's president for as long as he wants, have something to say? Congratulations, you're now an enemy of the state, and the full weight of the law, and the army will be used against you you traitor. I wish I was exaggerating, but everyday it seems like we're moving closer and closer to that. Oh yeah, the president ain't too happy about the USA offering a reward for information that leads to the capture of Chapo's sons, he's REALLY not happy about that. As unlikely as it is, I wonder how he'd react to a less hands-off Black Swan*. *The operation where Chapo was captured, originally the Mexican government claimed they had done it all by themselves, but it was revealed that US JSOC was also involved, with Delta being on the ground, though more as analysts/advisors not combatants. Whatever the outcome of 2024, the real scary part is how much power AMLO has given to the army, no way they ever give up on all that, no matter who gets elected next. Oh yeah, even the secretary of foreign affairs is jumping on the "Nintendos are the root of all evil" bandwagon, so that's fun.

https://news.ubisoft.com/en-us/article/4adJLuhgYrPboHAPRfK7Oz/splinter-cell-remake-begins-development-at-ubisoft-toronto Splinter Cell remake on the works, given that they had to delist the video announcing NFTs for Ghost Recon, I don't have any hopes for this. https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/15/22834567/stalker-2-nfts-metahuman-dmarket STALKER 2 is getting NFTs as well, quickly went from one of my most anticipated games of next year to something I won't touch even with gamepass.

Might just paint mine instead then, won't be quite the same colour, but it sure as hell is going to be cheaper.

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Here's mine: 24" monitor for scale. I still enjoy setting this up, even though it just sits in my bedroom, would love to get a full size one at some point, but for now this does the job well enough imo.

Originally I was just going to have the old window removed, thing had a huge crack and was held together by hopes and dreams lol. Then I used that chance to give my room a makeover. Hidden because this wall has some rather NSFW posters lol. Left part on the first pic used to be a closet, moved that to a different room and turned that space into a shelf area, I do need to do something about light, half of the room is kinda dark lol. Also something about that empty wall behind my bed, I'm thinking more shelves, or some posters. This room has been through a lot of changes, most of them in the last year or so.

The purple one looks so cool! Not in the market for a new controller right now though. Would like to get the black one so it matches my controller and desk, but once again, that purple one just looks so cool. Would have to see it in person though, just to be sure.

Don't know how well it's aged, but I do remember it being quite fun, specially the Thunder Hammer. \m/ \m/ On topic:

Time for me to go back and finish the first one.

And the award for "Most Unexpected Announcement" goes to:

Sounds pretty good! \m/ \m/

Obscura: Metaphysics, space, philosophy. Obsidious: BDSM Super shreddy power metal featuring Linus Klausenitzer, Hannes Grossman and Christian Muenzner, HELL YEAH!!

Yes. Also like the textured grips and triggers, pretty fun stuff, my Halo 5 controller can finally take a break.

These brought the hype levels back up.

On one hand, I had said I wouldn't buy any new games until I cleared a bunch of my backlog, on the other hand, I've been waiting for this one to go on sale and it finally did so...

So.... Stuff happened, kinda lost the will to draw for a while, then more stuff happened and... yeah. Got back into it recently: Probably won't be done in time, but hey, at least it's something.

I think it was the Giant Bomb preview that stated that there were elements of the Ubisoft open world formula in there, and I don't think anything could kill my hype more than that.

Haven't watched the series, but the music is pretty good. \m/ \m/

Yup, that is true: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/08/mexico-army-drug-cartels-michoacan My guess is that this stemmed from a "kind request" from the Sinaloa Cartel, CJNG's biggest rival, or it has something to do with the coming meeting between the US president and our President, though I've also read that she may be trying to negotiate the release of her brother and son(s).

This is going to be interesting, Rosalinda, wife of El Mencho, CJNG's leader, was arrested last night, shortly after, two marines were kidnapped, though authorities say it was a separate incident. She's the one in charge of the money and supposedly not only knows the names of all current leaders and members but also of the politicians, cops and soldiers bought by the cartel. People in Jalisco are already being told not to leave their homes and to be extra careful in the coming hours. CJNG btw, are those dudes that even have their own uniforms and armoured vehicles.