MetalCaveman

Looked up the official release for Cells at Work... Damn, wish it was anyone but Aniplex. $140 is way too much for me, specially now with the peso being what it is.

Yup, I started reading the manga because the trailer for Code Black popped up in my youtube recommendations. That's going to be a thing.

Started reading Cells at Work and Cells at Work: Code Black. Cells at Work is super fun, I recommend it to everyone, in between all the jokes and the action there's some actual explanations on cells, their names, and what they do, overall it's an awesome package. Code Black is much MUCH more dark and graphic and brutal and... Well, you get the idea. Essentially, it's what goes on in a body with high stress levels, poor diet, and with lots of alcohol and cigarettes. This also has the same information on cells, their work, what enzymes are used and for what, etc. Still a recommended read, just know what you're getting into, though with people here reading Goblin Slayer and Berserk this may not be that bad. I do prefer the look of the white blood cell in Code Black though.

Some big-name business owners made a deal with BID (Inter-American Development Bank) to offer credits to small and medium business owners, that they can keep afloat while this lasts, the president is pissed at this, probably the most furious he's been (at least live, during his press conferences). The thing is that, from my understanding, credits will come FROM the bank, and won't incur in costs to the government, the president argues that he won't pay to "save corrupt neoliberals, when 60 million poor people die*", however, if this is entirely from the private sector then he has no reason to complain. *Of course, instead of spending more on hospitals, safety, schools, roads, etc, which would actually benefit people, he'll spend billions upon billions on his pet projects, ensuring these cannot be affected in any way shape or form regardless of economic or health crisis, while also increasing and adding new taxes, most of which will affect the poor people he claims to protect. In other news, attacks against doctors and nurses continue, a nurse talked about how some kids threw soda and water at her when she was going to get some coffee at a convenience store, then the mother of the kids walked out and the two got into a fight, in the end, the nurse ended with two broken fingers. In a separate case, a nurse was headed for work when two people tried to steal her stuff, when they saw her uniform they said (according to her) "This is one of them doctors who are infecting us! Beat the shit out of her, teach her a lesson!" they then proceeded to kick her while she was down on the ground. Those were two of many other cases. People are spreading news about doctors being the ones infecting people with the "Chinese plague" as they call it, and they want bus drivers, metro workers, restaurant owners and others to stop offering their services to doctors and nurses, some go as far as to threaten anyone who helps doctors with violence "Le partimos la madre al chofer que ayude doctores!" (We'll beat the shit out of any drivers* that help doctors!), they're also promoting attacks on any medical workers, because they "have the Chinese plague and they want to infect us all". *Chofer often refers to public transport, busses, cabs, etc. Oh yeah, the president also put forth this change in government management, which would allow him to directly control the budget for the entire country, completely skipping everyone else, then he'd be able to do whatever with the entire budget and no one would be able to tell him no. Because his party controls the senate and congress this is likely to pass, stupid as it is. With this and some other, rumoured, changes, he's well in his way to becoming a one-man ruler. Given his propensity to attack and vilify anyone who doesn't bow down to his will, I'm sure there's no way this will end up badly, no sir, no way. We spent 75 years with a one-party government, the PRI doing whatever they want, when we finally got out of it, we had 12 years of PAN, which then fucked things with the war on drugs, then we went for 6 years of the "new" PRI a bit like the old one, and now we (I didn't vote for him, but "we" the country did) decided to go back to someone born and raised in the old PRI, where we'll go from here? What's next?

But dogs are WAY better in every other way. HELL YEAH! \m/ \m/ We had a cocker spaniel and she was the cutest sweetest bestest pet you could ever want/need. \m/ \m/

I would be interested in seeing that info for Mexico, a lot of deaths are just being reported as atypical pneumonia, and with only a small amount of cases being tested real numbers may be way higher than reported. Then again, given we're in line for out bloodiest/most violent year in a while, I wonder how would that affect the data.

1:30/7:30 works for everyone?

I think treating it as a dog whistle is giving these people way too much credit. Today the government announced their plan to help businesses, well... some of them at least, they're focusing on small businesses first, formal and informal (not registered, don't pay taxes), thing is, they're only giving them 25k pesos which is... Not at all, I want to give them the benefit of the doubt and assume it's 25k per employee, but I don't think that's the case. Either way, 25k if it's per employee it's not much, though for some people it'll be a saving grace, for a while at least, if it's per company then... it's nothing and from what I've seen, it's a one time thing, that after 3 months you have to start paying back with a 6% interest rate. Also, the government is bragging about it's approach to dealing with the pandemic, which involves moving away from "neoliberal science" (whatever the fuck that means) which according to them is dependent on technology, at the same time, they seek to achieve "technological sovereignty" to ensure Mexico with Mexican work and Mexican made stuff will be able to handle the pandemic. So let's just ignore the president begging for some supplies from the US government, IMSS buying supplies and machines from China, and the Cuban doctors who were supposed to come and help us, yup, none of that happened, Mexico with Mexican strength alone will overcome this. Meanwhile, doctors keep being attacked and the government says nothing about it, literally the only thing said about it was one "please don't do that" from the president, that was all. Personally, I don't want things to go "back to normal" 'cause "normal" was fucked up, I'd rather we all take this chance to at least try and fix some shit, but I know that won't happen and we're likely to emerge from this worse than before.

"The melting pot is melting down" And now, for something completely different: They're no longer scraping the barrel, they took the barrel, filled it with gun powder, rum, pcp, lsd, and whatever else they could find and then went to town...

Anyone up for something this Friday/Saturday? Could do some Destiny 2 (maybe try that gambit mode?), or something else, I don't have the Party Pack stuff though, so someone else would have to host that one. Somewhat related, has anyone here played GTFO? Watching some videos of it, looks interesting, but also hard as hell, only four players though.

Sorry I couldn't play, after finishing everything I had to do I ended up taking a nap and doing nothing more for the rest of the day. ?

Don't know if I'll be able to join, got some housework to take care of, but if I can get it done quick I'll see if I can jump in.

I play Titan, always been my favourite, Hammer-Falling enemies is pretty fun. My problem, after running around for a bit trying to get a feel for it, is that I underestimate the initial boost and overestimate the jetpack thingy. Which is why I keep falling short of where I want to go. That sounds cool, is it a special playlist or bounties and stuff?

That might have something to do with it, I assume that 22 mobility is low? (I have 52 strength). Also, played for a bit, got an exotic quest that has the requirement of: get an exotic engram So that's going to be fun.

There's been some attempts at protests, some have been broken by the police, others sort of died out when few people showed up. The Secretariat of the Interior issued a warning against TV Azteca, for telling people to disobey social distancing norms and continue with their business/daily activities as usual. On another note, it sure is a fun time to live in a country that bases a good chunk of its economy on oil isn't it? Yes there are hedges and there's supposed to be some kind of insurance, but no one knows the specific numbers of those, so it's hard to say how big of a hit we'll take.

Yeah, I had never played any of these games before, but that was fun.

Took most of the day, and there's still some work/cleanup to do, but now I've moved my game/bed room into a different spot. This is where my old consoles used to be, now they're were my bedroom used to be. This place is a bit smaller, but overall it's an improvement, particularly in terms of layout and how close power outlets are. The other room, I'd like to turn it into a movie room if/when things get better.

To be honest, currently that time works for weekdays too. For me at least.

Been playing on kb+m, surprisingly comfortable given I'm not used to it, usually play with controller. I hope it's not too loud, mechanical keyboards tend to be annoying like that.

Today I learned: I can't jump. Also there's a ton of stats and stuff I don't quite get, I'll have to look into that, maybe there's something to make you jump better.

Welp, this is a thing. I don't watch much TV so I've missed most of this, but this is the latest in what seems to be a campaign from Grupo Salinas against Lopez-Gatell, undersecretary of health. I've criticised him for his late response, how long it took for measures to be taken and how light these measures seemed compared to what other countries have done and the results they had. But I also can't deny he's doing what he can with what he has, and his reactions and responses improve dramatically when the president isn't around. This however, is outright fake news. Calling him a liar because in an interview to the WSJ he said the model Mexico uses leaves many undetected cases. Meaning, there's way more infected than are being reported. Somehow, this has been spun into "Don't believe his lies, he's an idiot, we should all be able to go out, work and hang out with friends." Yes it's true that they had said the current figures aren't up to date, but that should serve for people to take it more seriously, as there are WAY more infected that are being reported, NOT the other way around. Also, something fun happened with some medical supplies. The contract was given to a Mexican middle-guy who has contracts with other companies, like PEMEX, to buy ventilators and other supplies from Chinese companies. He was all "well, we paid THIS much because they have increased the price of everything, but in the end our supplies are secured and they'll get here when we need them". Then the Chinese company went "We.... don't know what you're talking about, we have no orders from Mexico or the Mexican government, and our products haven't and WILL NOT increase in price, particularly during this emergency." Who's telling the truth? Who's lying? Tune in next week for the stunning conclusion!

Sounds good to me.

Something that I kinda overlooked, sorry about that, is classes, I only have a Titan, but can start a new whatever if others want to play Titan. Anyone got any favourite class?

OK, I think I get it now, the current quests were added for new players after it went F2P, after you complete them (or at any time depending on how you want to progress) you can get the campaigns and play those. I guess the objective is to introduce new players to the basic systems and then those that care about the story can play the campaign, everyone else can just focus on raids/strikes/pvp. From what I've seen, some rewards have been removed from the campaign, but you can still get some decent stuff.

Yeah, I'm in.