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My attempt at drawing Cerea from Monster Musume, one of my favourite series, and one of my favourite characters. I need to get better at cleaning the sketch lines, and there are some things I now see I could have done better, but still, the first time I looked at the complete work I had a bit of an existential crisis, I was 100% sure I wasn't the one who drew this, that someone else did it and just used my notebook. Now I'm about 70% sure it was me who drew this.

That's pretty cool, of course, it remains to be seen how it'll be used, but still, looks pretty cool so far. More importantly though, for smaller users, UE now waives all royalties until your first million in gross revenue. That's some good news.

"Is the player a bad guy?" Not THE bad guy, but A bad guy. Granted this is more of a rant on how poorly Arknights handles this, but still. Some backstory: In Arknights you play as The Doctor, leader/CEO/commander of Rhodes Island a pharmaceutical company that also functions as its own military because... reasons. There's this disease called oripathy that slowly transforms the body into a chunk of originium, a rock. The infected are treated harshly by many, in some places they're even rounded up and killed by the government. RI is trying to find a cure while also dealing with all the problems that come from trying to help people some governments deem a threat simply because they are alive. RI is home to infected and not infected alike and is the best example of how the two can live and work together. Reunion is a group if infected that seeks revenge on those who harmed them in the past. They show no mercy to any non-infected, regardless of who they are. Now here's my issue with it. Arknights tries to paint most Reunion commanders as tragic enemies who seek revenge for their tragic past and whatnot. The problem is that Reunion is full of genocidal maniacs, the first time you run into them they are destroying an entire city, killing women, children, infected, not infected, anyone and everyone is a valid target to them in their quest for revenge. They go as far as just prevent the people there from escaping what's known as the Catastrophe, a storm that, instead of water or ice, has huge chunks of rock falling from the sky. So, for all intents and purposes, they murder the crap out of everyone in there, even those who were infected, because they refused to support Reunion or because they tried to help others. Your encounters with them are no different, these people are all about shoot, shoot some more, shoot even more, stab, maim, kill and then, if you feel like it, ask questions. They continuously send forces after you to kill you because they see RI as their sworn enemy, a traitor to all infected, because you're not killing the not infected. So every story encounter goes like this: Reunion: *Goes around murdering everyone* Rhodes Island: *Tries to save as many as possible* Reunion Commander: "Rhodes Island! You traitors! You murderers! How can you side with those that harm the infected!" Doctor: "We're not siding with them, we're helping any wounded, and we're trying to find a cure for this disease" RC: "Bullshit! You stand idly by as infected are killed!" Doctor: "We talk to governments, asking them to allow all infected people to flee into Rhodes Island, where we then cooperate with those who welcome the infected to find a place for all of them" RC: "You're not killing the not infected! Die! All of you, die!" Doctor: "We don't have to do this, we can help you, we can help all of you, just, don't go around murdering everyone, let's talk first" RC: "Kill them all!" *Fight happens and you crush all of Reunion's forces* RC: "I knew it, Rhodes Island hates the infected, how could you harm us! How could you kill us!" Doctor: .... *facepalm* Other Rhodes Island characters: "Doctor, maybe they're right, maybe we are in the wrong for fighting them" I don't know what Reunion expects from you, if you don't fight them, they kill you and everyone you know, if you fight them you're the monster for defending your life. It gets annoying when in most chapters some Reunion characters try to kill you directly, setting up ambushes and resorting to all manner of dirty tricks, but then when one of your operators saves your life another Reunion character somehow sees this as the ultimate sin against the infected, and they go on a tirade about how horrible you are because you didn't just sit there and die. After several instances of this I kinda just wish you could say something about it, unfortunately, most of your choices are pretty limited and most characters around you tend to agree with Reunion, those that don't limit themselves to "It's us or them, no point thinking about it." That was my rant, it felt good to get that off my chest.

Love the "mariachi" in the background.

This could be quite the game changer. Assuming further tests confirm it, and that it can be made accessible to everyone of course.

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They have songs talking about the government using vaccines to control people, so yeah, not surprising. ?

After our president attacked doctors in one of his press conferences, saying that they were all greedy people who only helped those with money, he has backtracked, saying his comments were misunderstood, that what he meant was that doctors are selfless people who look after others.... So much for the hugs-not-bullets approach, it's by presidential decree that the army and navy are back on the streets, supposedly until the national guard gets its own stuff sorted out, though the decree states a five year period of activity. I wonder if the fact that violence continues to escalate finally pushed him to do something or if there's something else going on. Not concerning at all that he said "you either support the 4T (as he calls his movement) or you support the old regimes of corruption... think about it" during his morning conference. He has also called NYT and some other international outlets "well known media, but with a complete lack of morals/ethics" after they have criticised his response to the pandemic.

Three doctors were murdered in their home in Torreon and a hospital in Guerrero closed its doors after receiving several threats. The newest conspiracy theory is that the virus doesn't exist, and this is just a plot to keep people home so they can control society and establish a communist/socialist country... Also, certain groups are going insane over the fact that apparently Trump says he found evidence that Obama spied on him, and that somehow that means that Trump is our glorious saviour that will bring down the neoliberal empire of Calderón and his cohorts (how the two are connected I don't know). The Fast and Furious thing seems to have surfaced once more too though I doubt anything will come out of it. Future generations will look at this time and go "The fuck was wrong with ya'll?!", or something like that.

Visigoth - Bells of Awakening, a two song Dark Souls themed EP. I normally don't buy short EPs, but after spending the last couple of hours singing Abysswalker I figured it was worth it. \m/ \m/

Now I want to go back and play Dark Souls again... and again and again and again.

Could you now think about Monster Musume? That might get us a second season then. I don't remember much about Inuyasha, but I do remember enjoying it.

Some DLC stuff has been revealed: ?

It's definitively there, the entire thing is inspired by HR Giger, so yeah, it's definitively there.

Just read about that... That was a thing. I would ask, why? But at this point I don't think there's a "why" anymore, it just is.

What if Ensiferum decided to do write an Alestorm song? Here's the answer.

So, the Xbox thing happened, I kinda forgot about it, catching up now. This one looks cool, concept is interesting, and enemies look weird, keeping an eye on it for now. Also reminds me of Psi-ops The Mindgate Conspiracy, will the telekinesis stuff. I am a fan of spaceship combat, so this one caught my attention, although from what was shown it looks a bit cramped, much more linear than I expected, still, interested to see where it goes. Not a big horror game fan, but that soundtrack was pretty cool, and that bit at the end of the trailer, with the thing in the background, yeah, that got my attention. This has been in development for some time now, seems like it's finally coming out. No gameplay or anything, but the aesthetic of it is enough to make it stand out. There were some others, but these were the highlights for me.

Yeah, it's more about all his promises about unparalleled economic growth, millions and millions of jobs created, the end of poverty, etc, and then delivering the exact opposite. Even before Corona hit, the economy was tanking, people were losing jobs left and right and every safety net was either destroyed or its scope was reduced to specific sectors (i.e. those that support the administration). That's when he started going on and on about the moral economy and spiritual growth.

Oh I'm sure they'll find a way to blame doctors for it too. Meanwhile, because our president is not one to miss an opportunity, using the current emergency as an excuse, they're pressuring wind and solar energy companies to stop producing energy, telling them that if they don't the government will simply not buy energy from them. This under the argument that renewable energies are unreliable because they are dependent on nature, while good old carbon and oil are effective, fast and cheap. Keep in mind, the way it works here is that companies have priority based on who sells the cheapest energy, with the national CFE being on the lowest end, as their oil plants are super expensive compared to wind and solar, thus, CFE is way behind everyone else, and instead of investing in renewable energy themselves, they stick to oil and carbon, they do operate a hydroelectric, but that one produces nothing compared to their oil stuff. This of course did not sit well with these companies, particularly because it wasn't done through the government offices in charge of this stuff, rather, the office in charge of energy distribution was the one to take this step, bypassing COFECE and CRE who should be the ones managing any kind of issue related to this. They will push for this in court, as they deem this to be an illegal move to benefit CFE even though the results would be more expensive electricity for everyone, not to mention the contamination resulting from more oil/carbon plants operating at full capacity. The president says this is justice, as we as a nation will no longer bow to foreign interests. Related, the president has asked that things like economic growth, GDP and other neoliberal indicators be abandoned, instead, he says, we should focus on spiritual well-being and growth. Oh yeah, he also asked media to cancel any campaigns to promote stay-at-home stuff, saying that we should trust the wisdom of the people, 'cause that's worked so well so far. Oh, and there's something about beer running out, but I don't know much about that one, and in international news, something about killer hornets from hell, but who has time for that stuff.

Hey! Remember those people who wanted to burn down a hospital? One of them just died... From Corona. In another town a hospital was surrounded by people who wanted to "rescue" a corona patient, once more, they "know" the virus is a lie, so they wanted to get that person out of there. The national guard and police forces managed to stop them.

Tried to draw White Blood Cell from Cells at Work Code Black. First time in forever I try to draw a human character, weapons and mechs are easier, but she's my favourite character in the series so I felt like I had to at least try.

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Russian architecture needs some work. I think people don't blame the chupacabras because of the scale of things, if these were smaller incidents then yeah an alien/monster whatever would be their go to... Then again, a small town did claim they were being besieged by werewolves so...

Well, from a facebook post a relative sent me, it seems that at least some people believe doctors are killing people because they're stealing "knee fluids" (synovial fluid) because apparently it's worth more than platinum, so they get people who visit the hospital for whatever reason, steal their synovial fluid, kill them and then blame the death on a non-existent virus. This was just one post, and it did lead to an interesting conversation trying to explain said relative why this was complete bullshit and how the virus is very, VERY real. So yeah, at least now some light has been shed as to the reasons why people think this kind of stuff, still monumentally stupid though.

Thing is, they don't think the doctors are injecting a virus into people, rather, they don't think the virus is real, so doctors are injecting "something", one of them said they didn't know what the doctors were injecting into people, just that it was doctors that were killing people. I've been reading interviews with these people, trying to see if there's some kind of conspiracy theory that could explain it, but so far they just repeat the same thing "He was alive yesterday, I have a photo to prove it, today he's dead in the hospital, doctors killed him!". There doesn't seem to be much behind their belief other than: was fine -> visited hospital -> dead -> doctors did it I don't know, there might be more behind it, but this is all these people say/know. Some other people have accused doctors of working with "them" whoever that is, they don't say, just that "them" know something and are behind this. Whatever/whoever "them" is, all these people know for sure is that the virus isn't real. I wish our conspiracy theories were as fleshed out as US ones, ya'll can at least say it was the deep state/illuminati/aliens/demons/masons/flavour of the week, we just have to settle for "them". @1:20: The man confronting the doctor asks him what are they injecting them with, the doctor first dismisses his question, prompting the man to push further, when the doctor begins to explain, the man responds "what solutions!? What medicines?! Give me their names!" The next clip is from a woman chasing a nurse, the nurse asks not to be touched, the woman responds "I'm not going to touch you, but I'm going to record this, you everyone can see this fucking bitch" Followed by: "Here's the police, they're in collusion! They know what's going on!"