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My understanding is that it may not be fully HDR as it doesn't have individual lighting zones, and that the curvature may cause some issues on the far edges, but still, looks pretty cool. \m/ \m/

The president has once again attacked INE (National Electoral Institute) an independent organisation meant to ensure fair elections, in his words: "It's the most expensive of its kind in the world, we're going to take a good look at it." Following his comments about how he would be the "guardian of the elections" this is quite concerning. Add to this the fact that he's constantly stated that you either support him and his party or you support corruption and crime and we're in for a fun election cycle in 2021. The attacks on INE and others stem from his belief that these are all "useless neoliberal wastes of money, that exist only to benefit the elite", never mind that he created the PROBEIS, an organisation that exists for the sole purpose of promoting his favourite sport, baseball and that uses government funding to achieve its goals. ? Also, IBERDROLA announced the cancellation of their CCGT plant in Veracruz, citing the fact that CFE refused to provide them with the necessary gas for its operation. This plant was supposed to be part of many to be built by this company, among them were some renewable ones, who knows what will happen to them now, this also comes after the president attacked them for their presence in the Mexican energy sector. CFE continues to burn fuel oil like there's no tomorrow (and at this point there might be no tomorrow). In COVID news, no one can agree on what to do now, some people want to open now, others say to wait, Gattell keeps saying we have reached "peak new cases" every other week, the president keeps saying that honesty is the best way to prevent catching any virus, some people keep saying this is all a conspiracy (we're in the 5G towers cause COVID stage) and so on. Some states are already opening up, others are starting to relax on any kind of preventive measures taken.

https://cafemix.pokemon.com/en-us/ A Pokemon puzzle game for Android and iOS. "Free to start". And... then there's this: OK, A Pokémon MOBA, I can kinda get behind, it might be fun, but Tencent + free-to-start means a I'll stay away from this one.

Either this is Halo Wars 3 (which would be awesome!) or Infinite is just going to pretend Halo 5 didn't happen.

The new Lamb of God is fucking awesome! https://open.spotify.com/album/34Y9ZcZ4b3WGbhx66zS0QV \m/ \m/ New Ensiferum is pretty good so far too: \m/ \m/

El Chapo's son and current leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, back in 2019 this happened after he was arrested: Known as "Culiacanaso", a siege of the city that lasted the whole day. After that it was a whole mess of everyone shifting the blame to someone else, the president first said he hadn't ordered his liberation, then said he didn't know anything about it, he revealed the names of the army officers and soldiers involved in the operation, blamed everyone else for trying to hurt the "good people" (as he calls the cartels), and now he says it WAS him who gave the order to release him, supposedly to protect the people of Sinaloa. Again, given the treatment he's given to the Guzman family vs how he treats their victims, it is not that far-fetched to think there's something going on behind the scenes. Either way, he now has accepted he was behind his liberation, even after the defence secretary said, again, under oath, that there had been no such order. In related news, Celaya is on fire after members of a local cartel were arrested and Caborca, Sonora is a warzone supposedly because Quintero has returned to reclaim that land. Ignoring the whole COVID thing, we're kinda drowning in blood here, the good news is you don't have to worry about a virus if you already have lead intoxication. Oh yeah, turns out this may be the president's attempt at hiding the fact he's put forward a motion to eliminate several different government offices and many independent ones, among them the INE, National Electoral Institute who oversees elections and ensures their fairness, and the INAI National Institute for Information Access who is in charge of maintaining transparency in what the government does, where does it spend money, etc. Many others will be disappearing if this goes through, but these are the biggest ones as we'll essentially lose fair elections and the ability to see where the money is going.

Defence Secretary Durazo, under oath "No one ordered us to release him (Ovidio)..." The president "Yeah I ordered it, I told them to set him free and cancel the operation, it was the right thing, or many people would have died." Reminder that back then there were 100 different official versions, among them one where the president claimed he had no knowledge of the whole thing. Also reminder that Sinaloa turned into a warzone back then. Ah, and lest we forget, that time the president stopped what he was doing to personally greet El Chapo's mother, telling her he would do all he could to ensure his son would return to Mexico, all the while ignoring the families of people who have disappeared and/or been killed by cartels, sometimes accusing them of being "neoliberal paid actors" other times hiding behind social distancing to justify why he ignored them, conveniently skipping over how he had been in an event, surrounded by people and while he was wearing no mask or other form of protection. In COVID news, CDMX being led by loyal followers of the president was ready to open up, while still in the red and with many more cases being reported every day, things got so bad that, in spite of what the president wants, they have now announced they won't be opening up yet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_murder_rate Puro orgullo Mexicano. / Yay Mexico! ? Also our president currently seems like he's one bad day away from declaring himself God Emperor. Oh yeah, FONATUR admitted the whole train thing is a fiasco, it's not properly researched, it's environmental impact will be greater than reported and in general it'll be a huge mess.

Absolution is free on GOG right now.

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Kinda, I think the original ending was "Hey so... we're in the middle of this huge fight and all but uh... Everyone take a break!" And then one of the characters has this weird dream about the villain turning into a princess or something. There was a re-release with an actual "ending" which was still not an ending, but it was better, then there was a sequel which sorta made no sense, and some spinoffs. The original anime didn't really follow the manga that well, except for the ending which did follow the "let's just stop for a bit" thing. Still, it was one of my favourite series and one that I used to stay up to watch when there was a marathon late at night, so I'm super excited about this new one, maybe the'll use this chance to give it a proper ending.

I didn't get anything right... Closest was my prediction of Bloodborne 2 which ended up being a Demon's Souls remake.

https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2020/06/11/breaking-shaman-king-anime-reboot-announced?utm_source=community_cr&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=news&referrer=community_cr_twitter_news HELL YEAH! New Shaman King anime! \m/ \m/

HELL YEAH! \m/ \m/

So... Apparently this starts this fall, so... Anyone up for some campaign stuff? Before it heads to the vault for who knows how long.

EXCELLENT \m/ \m/

Darksiders 3 I said I was going to skip this, but it was better to just finish it with Game Pass than trying to buy it. Sad really, I love the other two games (haven't played Genesis) but this one has too much going against it. The Darksiders games have always taken inspiration, and sometimes just outright copy other games, 3 tries to copy the Souls games, in the worst possible way, without paying attention to the details and the balance that makes the Souls games work. The way combat works, with the camera angle issues, enemies attacking you from off-screen, enemies constantly blocking, ranged attacks, enemies that teleport, etc. and the way levelling works meant that I had to tone down the difficulty a fair bit, and even then, there were several instances of frustrating encounters due to the issues I've mentioned. When you die you lose your 'souls' and have to go back and recover them, and trust me, you'll die a bunch, couple that with some extremely long loading times and it increases the frustration a fair bit. Levelling up anything other than arcane feels like a waste of points, as most boss fights sort of just devolve into bait attack-dodge-arcane counter-rinse-repeat. Any attempt at a proper fight usually ends with you dying. Points into health can be useful depending on which difficulty you play in, strength feels kinda useless as most of the damage output increases come from upgrading weapons. The worse part for me was this area that has a constant environmental hazard that insta-kills you if it gets too close, I died so many times there I thought about dropping the game entirely. Another problem I had, though I admit this it 100% me being dumb, is the puzzles, too many times I had to look up guides because I couldn't figure out how to solve a certain section. Speaking of guides, I missed the true ending because there's a boss that, for how much it gets mentioned in the story by a main character, and how it gets mentioned, I was sure it would be the final boss, or close to it, turns out it's an entirely missable fight that's hidden in the most annoying area of the game. I looked it up and found that there's some interesting stuff in the true ending, but not enough for it to be worth another playthrough. With some more polish, a more consistent combat system, manual saves, and a map this game would have been pretty cool. The Hollows system is cool though, I liked that part. In terms of story, for the most part, you've seen the important stuff if you're played the other games. All in all, the weakest in the series for me. I would only recommend it if you're a hardcore Darksiders fan and want to play every game, and even then, only if it was on sale, or through game pass.

So weird that John Dolmayan is a Trump supporter.

Boss Katana 50 MK2. A HUGE upgrade over my Squier SP10 that's starting to go.

I've been meaning to get these two for a while, was about to buy them at the last Greenman Gaming sale, but turns out they're way cheaper on Steam, glad I waited. Plus the tier 2 Idea Factory bundle at Fanatical: https://www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/idea-factory-bundle Includes: Fairy Fencer F Fairy Fencer F Dark Force Hyperdevotion Noire Neptunia VII Deluxe Moero Chronicle Monster Monpiece For $5. \m/ \m/

Thing is, that'd require caring about that kind of stuff, and being willing to accept delays, something this administration isn't willing/capable of. Tlatelolco 2.0 here we come... I hope not.