MetalCaveman

Work in progress, haven't been able to draw much recently, so not nearly as much progress as I'd like, and much more complex than previous work, this will be fun.

HELL YEAH! New Insomnium!

Battletech Well, the last couple of missions have been a thing. Earlier in the campaign I had an issue with one of the story missions, but that annoying thing ended up being related to an optional objective, so I just skipped that stuff, now though, these missions have some mandatory conditions that are just annoying as hell. First, they shove a story character into your team, replacing one of your units, so now I've lost a trained pilot and their mech, built and set for their skills, and they've been replaced by a useless pilot, with no decent skills and a mech that's made of paper, and hits with less force than a wet noodle. Oh, and of course I'm supposed to keep them alive. The next mission is worse, many of the same conditions apply, except that now there's MORE enemies so enemy turns take half an hour, I have none of my mechs or pilots, and of course, there's more than one part, with even more enemies popping up. Also, for some reason: Resident Evil 4 Now this is a FUN game, controls are much more awkward than I remember, but the rest holds up pretty well.

THAT RELEASE DATE

We might not have to wait until 2024 for AMLO to just "I'M THE SENATE" the shit out of everything: https://www.forbes.com.mx/reforma-electrica-inconstitucional-cambiamos-constitucion-amlo/ https://www.proceso.com.mx/nacional/2021/3/17/morena-va-por-modificacion-ley-de-amparo-busca-que-jueces-no-puedan-suspender-leyes-260226.html?espv=1 https://www.lapoliticaonline.com.mx/nota/135283-exclusivo-zaldivar-mando-llamar-al-juez-que-suspendio-la-reforma-electrica-de-amlo-y-la-reunion-termino-en-insultos/ AMLO: "I will change the law to displace clean energies, increase production through CFE's plants and force the purchase of fuel-oil from PEMEX! Yay for the 4T! Yay for energy independence!" Judge Juan Pablo Gómez Fierro: "Nope, not so fast, those changes to the law are unconstitunal, violate people rights to a clean environment, threaten the safety of millions, plus, breach several existing contracts with renewable energy companies." AMLO: "You evil neoliberal judge! Bought by private interests! I'll have you investigated! There will be consequences!" Also AMLO: "If my changes to the law are unconstitutional, I will change the constitution, NO ONE STOPS THE 4T!" And there you have it, so far the response from the judge in question has apparenly been: "You can't threaten me! You can tell Zaldivar (head of the supreme court and person who immediately agreed to AMLO's demand to investigate judge Juan Pablo) to FUCK HIMSELF!" Other judges have also stepped in to put a stop to this law, all met with the same response. So now, MORENA is also aiming to change the law to prevent any kind of legal protection (appeal(?)) against law changes that target CFE and PEMEX, so that there's no legal way to stop them. They've also engaged the propaganda machine, targetting companies like OXXO and BIMBO, among other giants in Mexico, because they all use their own energy plants (some of them being 100% renewable, with BIMBO claiming they will soon switch to a 100% electric fleet for the entire country), and so they end up using what they need, and pumping the rest back into the grid, which is good, except that it's clean, and the government doesn't like clean. The best part? Multiple organizations have run simulations, and the majority of these place MORENA as the great victor for the next round of elections, meaning that AMLO won't need to use the army (to whom he recently handed over even MORE power), because people will gladly serve him the country on a silver platter, leaving him to do whatever he wants, with no opposition or counterweight of any kind.

Current System CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5900x Motherboard: ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Hero Memory: Corsair Vengeance Pro RGB SL 64GB (4x16GB) Storage: Samsung 980 Pro nvme 500GB, Crucial 2TB SSD, Seagate 4TB HDD (x2) GPU: ASUS ROG Strix 3090 Case: Corsair 5000D Airflow with Noctua NF-S12 Fans PSU: BeQuiet! Straight Power 11 1000W Platinum Should be good for the next decade or so. CPU and GPU where just what I could get my hands on, as everything else sort of just vanished from existence as soon as it was available, 2020/2021 not a good year to upgrade or buy anything PC related. The motherboard was an interesting case, lower tiers from brands like ASUS, Gygabite, MSI and others were almost twice the price, because they were imports. Similarly, the RAM, was cheaper than 32GB of other brands, and even cheaper than some 16GB options, yay for import fees! Thinking about setting up a NAS, or using my old PC as a server of sorts, but in the meantime, I wanted as much storage as I could fit in this case, which is, sadly, not that much, with only two HDD bays available. Case does look pretty neat though, and I like how the white/grey combo looks, plus, it seems to have decent airflow and easy to clean filters. Was looking at the recommended 750-850W PSUs, but it seems like a fair amount of them have problems with the 3090 series, apparently it has some rather aggressive spikes that can trigger overcurrent protection on those units, causing the system to shut down, since I couldn't find a good list of which brands/models work fine, and some of the more recommended models were hilariously expensive (30,000 pesos for a 750W psu!!) I went with a higher wattage, higher rating and cheaper priced unit (5,600 pesos for this one). Originally, I planned for a more mid-range build, but things worked out in such a way that I had a bit more money to spend on it, and since I use my PC for work, games, media, and basically everything else I need/want to do, it ended up like this. One good thing came out from these stock shortages though, I learned there are now way more PC component stores than I remember, some of them have ridiculous prices like PCEL, TodoCheap, but others have better prices, better stock and relatively fast shipping, I was glad to see how well DDTech packaged my stuff, with things like the GPU being shipped inside a box, inside a box, inside a box, all with soft foam and bubble wrap covering them. Specially important was how the outer box was just cardboard, with no branding on it or anything, that was neat IMO. Still, probably the worst possible time to try and upgrade or build anything, hunting for stock and trying to still get a fair price on things was not fun, and it seems like it'll get worse before it gets better. Specially in countries were import fees and other related taxes apply.

After more accusations were presented, the MORENA ethics committee removed his candidacy, then the president accused all victims of being paid actors and immediately, MORENA placed him back, now he's going to be their candidate for governor and he's likely to win. One of the victims had to flee to another country, and more don't know what to do now that the president has stated that a rapist has his full support. Further, the president, in one of his morning conferences claimed that "feminism and environmentalism were created by conservatives to impede progress" In news about the environment, the "sembrando vida" program, which is supposed to incentivize reforestation, has been found to have the opposite effect. The old version paid people from small rural communities to protect their land, ensuring that jungles/forests/etc weren't destroyed and preserving the echosystems as they were. Our current president, as usual, marked it as some kind of evil neoliberal program and modified it, now, people are paid to plant specific crops and trees, then making money from selling the resulting produce. Two things with this process: People are now tearing/burning down forests and jungles in order to plan the crops the government wants them to, if they don't do so, if they try to preserve things, then they get paid nothing, and lose all other benefits. The government is, in many cases, asking people to plant foreign invasive species, causing further damage to local echosystems. So it's effectively making things WORSE for the environment, but people have no choice but to burn down or chop everything down, and plant whatever invasive species they're asked to, else they lose all support and they can't afford that. Of course, the president insists that his program is a blessing and that other countries are praising it as one of the best in the world. ?

https://www.siliconera.com/senran-kagura-and-neptunia-crossover-action-rpg-revealed/?utm_campaign=twitter&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitter SENRAN KAGURA LIVES! Kinda... as a crossover with the Neptunia series... In a game for PS4. Oh well, I'll take what I can get. Seven still toast though.

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Senran Kagura Peach Ball used the HD rumble, it was pretty fun, I believe SK Reflexions also used it, but the pinball theme of peach ball made it more noticeable.

FFVIIR is on the PS+ games for March, however you won't be able to upgrade that version when the PS5 update hits. https://blog.playstation.com/2021/02/26/playstation-plus-games-for-march-final-fantasy-vii-remake-maquette-remnant-from-the-ashes-and-farpoint/

A remaster would be fun, IMO it still looks kinda good, so a patch to the current version would work, but a complete remaster/remake would be cool. Comparing Bloodborne on PS4 with the Demon's Souls remake... I'd say for these games it IS worth a full blown remake, though I doubt they would do it. Bloodborne doesn't look as bad as Demon's Souls on PS3, but even with that, the difference between BB on PS4 and DS for PS5 is enough that I wouldn't mind if they went that route.

Pretty fun, looks like they're going back to the Carolus Rex style and theme, sounds cool so far. HELL YEAH! \m/ \m/

This looks cool, and a nice mix of airflow and looks, other airflow oriented cases look... Not good, IMO, this one is a nice balance. Next thing, I'm looking at extra fans, if I do end up going for this case, it includes 2, but I'd like to swap those/add more. Part of me wants to go with RGB everything, Corsair LLs or something, part of me wants to go with something like the Noctua NF-S12, my HAF-X has 2 led fans, but these are the old style, with a solid colour, I do like how they look but do wish you could change the colour, one is red, the other one is blue. I know Noctua is mainly known for silent fans, but noise isn't that much of an issue to me. Customization would be nice, but the NF-S12 also seem to perform better. What do y'all use? Now that the GPU has been secured, it's time to get the rest of the thing, let's see how it goes.

Yeah, I'd assume Biden and his team wouldn't be too happy with something like that happening so close to home, how they'll deal with it though...

Fear of a coup in 2024 grows, as the president continues to hand even more power to the army, destroying/removing/closing any civilian agencies he doesn't agree with, and the secretary of defence pledging the army's "undying loyalty" to the president and his cause.

Now that I got confirmation email and tracking number, I can safely say that this monster has been acquired. After hunting for months, signing up for notifications that never arrived, or arrived too late, and avoiding scalpers and scalper-bait (people selling pictures of a card, not the card itself), DDTech finally had a couple in stock, without thinking twice I nabbed this one, I believe the other one was an EVGA FTW3. Super low stock, only 2 of each, and by the time I had bought this one, the others were gone. Got worried that it might not have gone through properly, or that bots had been faster, but today I got confirmation that it's on its way. \m/ \m/ Would've preferred (and it would have made more sense) a 3080, but hey, after saving for 10+ years for a PC upgrade, and given the current situation, I didn't want to miss this and end up waiting several months again. DDTech is also one of the few stores actually respecting MSRP (Mexican MSRP... MMSRP? ) there's PCEL who are selling a couple of 3080s for $4500 (yes, that's dollars) each, TodoCheap which had a 3090 for $4000 and DECME who had MSRP but their stock banished in seconds. So yeah, that was fun. Now to hopefully to NOT do this again 10 years from now. Also hoping that there are no issues with shipping, I know things are taking longer than usual, no problem with that, just hope that it arrives safely.

Resident Evil 0 HD Remaster Kinda fun, I enjoyed being able to switch between Billy and Rebecca, their interactions are pretty neat , the story was cool, seeing more of the events that led to RE, and how the virus was released, the story behind Wesker, the origins of Umbrella, all that stuff. Billy hasn't been in any game since, but I'd like to think he's still around. That being said, the inventory management is hell, there's a ton of stuff to pick up, and without item boxes the only option is to look for a room with many doors, some place you're likely to pass through a bunch of times, move all your key items there, then make progress, find another room like that, move everything there, repeat as necessary. Worst part is there are certain items that will be needed later on, and if you forget to move those, you're in for quite the journey. In particular, a key item you get at the start, that uses 2 inventory slots, and that's needed a bunch of times later on. It also feels harder in certain ways, there are more enemies, a bunch of ambushes, and enemies that are faster/stronger or that can be a pain if you don't have the right weapon with you at the time. Having a teammate might seem like it makes things easier, but in reality it's just one more person to try and keep alive, and they can go through ammo quite fast if you're not careful. All in all though, I had fun, though not one I'd want to replay immediately, unlike RE1.

Resident Evil 0 I miss item boxes

https://www.publimetro.com.mx/mx/destacado-tv/2021/02/18/ya-chole-amlo-dice-desconfiar-acusaciones-felix-salgado.html The president, defending Felix Salgado Macedonio, MORENA candidate for governor in Guerrero, after at least five women have come forward accusing him of assault, first part of his "trial" was conducted in secrecy, in front of a group of MORENA officials, and without allowing the victims or their lawyers to be there. They called themselves the "most feminist party ever" yeah, that's going well so far ain't it?

I never found the sweetspot. Kept trying to use the kerosene, but it kept telling me "there's no need to use this right now".

Resident Evil HD Remastered This was fun, the new controls make it EASY, how easy? I didn't die, though it was close in that part where you're carrying the fuel cell, mostly because I was using a controller, and moving the stick in a direction causes you to auto sprint, and sprinting for too long causes you to go boom. Being able to move freely makes evading enemies a simple thing, and though crimson heads sort of even the odds, it's still quite the OP mechanic, personally, I liked it. First run was with Chris in his BSAA outfit, which was fun, expected him to start punching boulders, but that didn't happen. Managed to clear it in under 5 hours in my second run with Jill, but missed the 3 hour mark by about an hour or so, tempted to do another run, but probably move on to other games for now. One thing that did happen and I didn't realize it until I was writing this: I completely forgot about the map for the second floor, never got it, but did have the wooden mount, never remembered what it was for until this moment, that was two playthroughs without using that thing. An issue I did have though, I was never able to burn a zombie, I don't know if there's a specific position, or if I had to combine the fuel with the lighter in a specific way, or maybe you have to wait (or not wait) for a while before burning them? Tried burning crimson heads, but that didn't work either, flame rounds for the grenade launcher didn't work either, so that's a thing. A pretty cool update, and a fun revisit to the original, which I remember being scary as hell, from the start when you get that scene of Chris(?) getting chomped by a zombie dog, before the title screen, this time around, specially after playing 7, not that scary, but still quite fun. Onto RE0 HD, which is going to be a thing, because unlike this one, where I did remember certain things, where to get certain items and stuff (even so, I got lost a bunch of times), I don't remember anything about 0, so that's going to be fun.

OK, this actually looks really cool, in a cheesy, metal sort of way. \m/ \m/