MetalCaveman

I didn't know the creative director had left, wow, things are way worse than I thought.

And then I learned 2018 is free right now at Humble Bundle.

HELL YEAH!

Don't know much about this, other than it looks like a Souls game, but they're using Rotting Christ music for their trailers, so that's cool. \m/ \m/

Officially, that's still the president's stance on it, though seemingly it only applies to specific cartels, like CJNG, Del Golfo and maybe a couple of others. There's some rumours going around, obviously take these with a grain of salt, though we've seen worse in the past: They're going for a Sicario approach, where they take down smaller cartels, trying to consolidate power in one or two big groups to make it easier to keep track/control of things. The groups that are receiving preferential treatment had involvement in the campaign to get AMLO elected, and/or have supported him directly/indirectly in the past. 1 Hasn't worked in the past, usually when the leader of a cartel gets brought down, what happens is that whatever's left over splinters into smaller groups, and violence increases while they fight over whatever's left from their old one. 2 Wouldn't surprise me, it's not that rare for certain candidates to get kidnapped and/or killed during elections, and former sicarios have confirmed they will support certain candidates, whoever promises to let them do as they please while going after the opposing groups gets their support, whoever doesn't want to play ball gets killed. Of course there's also: 3. Other people are actually doing their job, ignoring whatever the president wants. Which IMO, is a bit too optimistic, but also a possibility.

El Marro, leader of Santa Rosa de Lima has been arrested. Captured in the middle of the night. Though there's still a chance his people will try their own Culiacanaso, it's also true that before this, they hit them hard in terms of closing income sources, freezing accounts, seizing assets, etc. So they may not have the strength and money to coordinate something like that.

Finished watching the Kandagawa Jet Girls anime, life and hometown* for days! Still, it's a fun series to watch, YMMV and all, but I liked it a fair bit, the CG during the races looks better than expected, and the relationship between Misa and Rin is adorable. More importantly, it's just a happy series, there's no evil force behind the scenes, no shady characters pulling the strings, none of that, it's just happy, which is just what I needed. \m/ \m/ There's some light sports drama, but nothing too heavy. *In case you didn't know, that's how the producer/creator of Senran Kagura and Kandagawa Jet Girls, refers to T&A.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/legal-deep-dive-mexicos-disastrous-new-copyright-law EFF Takes a look at the new copyright law passed here. Not good, not good at all, which we already knew, but now they're confirming it.

"Then it comes to be that the soothing light at the end of your tunnel, is just a freight train coming your way" That's what the last couple of weeks have felt like.

That's kinda cool, never bothered too much with MP, but this might change things up a bit. @TheMightyEthan They talk about how the build shown was from weeks ago, I can see them improving some things, but like you said, short of a drastic overhaul, which would probably require delaying the game a fair bit (or ungodly amounts of crunch) I don't see much actually changing by the time it comes out.

I liked Conviction, but the first one is my favourite, Chaos Theory was pretty fun too. \m/ \m/

https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/splinter-cell-animated-series-netflix-1234612535/ Splinter Cell getting an animated series. The writer from the John Wick series is attached to the project as writer and producer. I'm hoping they'll keep the stealth/infiltration stuff, but I'm also pretty sure they'll make it more actiony than that. Hope this means they're thinking about bringing back the games.

New CEMICAN! \m/ \m/

GWAR unplugged works surprisingly well.

Our president "We're leaving things in the hands of the experts, they'll guide us through" Our president a couple of days later "Our experts have told me there's no scientific evidence that masks work, there's no need to use them!" Then this happened in Chilpancingo, Guerrero: Supposedly because the store was having some kind of sale on cooking oil.

There's still other issues, specially with texture pop-in and in some cases, what looks like a complete lack of textures. That screenshot with the rifle, it really looks like it's missing textures, and after watching the gameplay video in 4K, it still doesn't look right, though it does look slightly better, phantoms, some of the rocks, the wheels on the warthog, they all look like they're missing a layer or two. Whatever materials and stuff they're using, they need to revise some of it, unless they really want to go for the plastic look. That article even mentions Metro Exodus, which even on my PS4 (not pro or anything) manages to look really REALLY good. https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/news/campaign-evolved They mention Infinite being a spiritual reboot of the series, while also saying it'll go over what happened after Guardians. Honestly, if they're going to jump ship from that storyline, I'd much rather they just reboot the thing and forget Guardians existed rather than trying to cram it in there somewhere, somehow. Still, knowing that I'll be able to play it with gamepass makes me kinda look forward to it, otherwise I'd be pretty disappointed with what's been shown so far.

That red brute armour straight up looks like a Lego, or Mega Bloks thing.

\m/ \m/ I forgot this was a thing. Surprised to see it at the Xbox event.

Things look plasticky and low-detailed, except for some of the environments which I thought looked cool, maybe not next-gen cool though. I don't know if it's due to performance reasons or a design choice, but still, the more I watch that trailer the worse certain things look. In many ways they do seem to be going for that Halo CE look/feel, but I'm not sure that's the right move right now, specially if that means just abandoning the Guardians storyline. Given how 5 ended, suddenly jumping into another completely different war and fighting these dudes from Halo Wars 2 just feels weird, a bunch of brutes don't feel that threatening even if the trailer mentions they've already won, compared to Cortana pointing a gun at the head of the galaxy.

Well... Do I have some news for you... Open world game, with a grappling hook. The stuff they showed look cool, but yeah, too far from Halo for me, also they do seem to have left the Guardians, Cortana and the Mantle of Responsibility behind, the Banished are the main enemies now. Will still keep an eye on it, just, it went from DAY ONE HELL YEAH to, eh, I'll buy it, maybe. Edit:

A lot of people are saying that the thing on his forearm is a grappling hook. I don't know, and honestly, it'd be kinda weird. It worked for DOOM Eternal because of how it combined with glory kills, traversal and just the forward combat approach of it, but I'm not sure it would work with Halo. Either way, we'll find out soon.

Yup, this is it, the start of the EXTRA/EXTELLA series. http://typemoon-bb.com/record/ It's in development for current platforms, no word yet on a PC release, but I wouldn't be surprised if it did come at a later date, after all, both EXTELLA and EXTELLA Link are already available on PC.

Heaviest Kataklysm song in a while. \m/ \m/