MetalCaveman

On one hand, there's that sense of desperation, of wanting someone, anyone to step in and do something, when shit like this: and much, much worse, becomes a daily occurrence and the government is unwilling and/or incapable of responding or doing anything to ensure the safety of those of us who are just trying to get by, it does breed that feeling of "hey maybe if they step in, something will finally get done". I mean, if you told me that special forces will carry out surgical strikes against the cartels, with minimum damage to civilians and civilian property, or that drone strikes will only target their bases and hideouts, I'd go all "HELL YEAH! DO IT!". But like I said, that's not likely. We already know what happens when the US army gets involved, and it hardly ever ends well or without severe losses, though I wonder how they would act being so close to home and all. That said, we have thousands of murders, mutilated corpses being dumped on the streets, mass graves with hundreds of unidentified corpses popping up everywhere, bodies hanging from bridges with warning messages carved into them, kids being shot, kids that have already killed dozens of people and are proud of it, cities under control of cartels where even expressing a negative opinion about them leads to you and your family ending up dead, cities turning into warzones because of cartels fighting each other or against the army, etc. It's a situation of "how much worse can it get?". The more I think about it though, the more I do feel relieved, there's always that part of me that looks at how things have gone elsewhere and is worried about what will happen, but looking at how things are now, how social change is so unlikely to happen because certain attitudes and beliefs are so ingrained that it's nigh impossible to change them, and how the government, both past and present has failed in many ways, and yeah, I do think that it was about time for someone else to step in, we couldn't fix our shit ourselves, now we got to deal with the consequences and hope for the best. If things do end up going tits up well then... Honestly we have no one to blame but ourselves. We'll look back at the last election and think about what could have been.

That might've worked... I tried reinstalling everything from scratch today and... It works! The thing is alive once more! Of course if it fails again I'm setting it on fire and buying him a new one, fuck dealing with this shit again.

How much of that depends on the way our government reacts? I assume a more reasonable government would try and get some form of cooperation going on, relying on intelligence and other methods. Our government on the other hand has shown they're willing to outright deny reality for the sake of protecting/ignoring/allowing/etc the cartels. So I wonder if the US could just go "Well, we could do things peacefully, but they don't give a shit about it, so let's just bomb the crap out of everything, turn Culiacan into one big ol' crater".

Well, this is going to be a thing: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-mexico-cartels/trump-says-u-s-will-designate-mexican-drug-cartels-as-terrorists-idUSKBN1Y02NJ Can't help but feel that if our current government had done something, anything, rather than just keep with the "hugs not bullets" approach maybe this wouldn't have happened. Who knows how/where things go from here, our politicians are trying to change or prevent this thing from going through, while some people are afraid of the possibility of military intervention. I wonder what this means for our government and well... Pretty much every industry/company/business entity, it's a well-known "secret" that many politicians receive money from these groups, that they have their hands on several companies, and that they finance several others. I'm not expecting drones to be flying around bombing shit everyday, not yet at least.

Downloaded the drivers from the HP site, yeah, I guess I'll help him look around for something new, though he does use colour for some things, so we'll see, still, it's definitively time for an upgrade.

My father's printer has stopped working as a printer. It's an HP2510 which he hadn't used for a while as ink is stupidly expensive, he finally bought some new ink cartridges, brand new, HP brand, etc, but when he tries to print something it fails saying it has a configuration error. I've already uninstalled everything, drivers, software, etc, reinstalled everything, updated the drivers, and now it appears in device manager, but it appears only as a scanner, the thing itself can still scan and copy stuff, just won't print anything. I've changed USB cable, and tried it on my PC and it's the same, it is recognised only as a scanner, and even the HP software sees it as a scanner only no sign of its printer side anywhere. Is there anything I can do or is the thing toast?

Some of the descriptions are dark (and metal \m/ \m/ ) as hell: Yamask: Honedge:

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I still think that GR Wildlands with TPP gameplay would have been fucking awesome. The more I see and hear about Death Stranding the less I want to play it, it's just not my cup of tea. I think it's cool that it exists and that some people have liked it quite a bit, I just don't see myself playing it. I do like how pretty it looks, and the creatures look cool too. Also the special gas tanks that came out for Days Gone were pretty sweet.

Turns out you can't, you can wear a uniform like normal clothes, but the moment you start a gym mission you change back into the standard one. Lame!

Can you change your uniform for Gym fights? Some of the uniforms they sell look cool, but I don't know if you can change it for gym fights or if it's just another outfit for normal stuff.

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Yeah, I picked Grookey after looking at its final evolution. First time arriving at the wild area I saw an Onix, immediately ran towards it only to find it was level 26 (Grookey was 12) , didn't end well. But it was cool to see it just roaming around. \m/ \m/

Oops, forgot to include that. It's the PS4 version.

For the most part I haven't had any issues with the language, though there's been a couple of times when I went "what did you just call me?". Y was the last one I played, and I like that now even catching a Pokemon gives your party EXP. Y-Comm is kind of annoying in handheld mode, but on my TV the icon doesn't bother me that much.

A friend of my father is selling his game collection, he has Diablo 3 with the Reaper of Souls expansion for $14, is it worth it? Does the expansion come as a download code that has probably already been used or is it included in the disc?

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It looks cool now, I'm actually looking forward to it.

Days Gone Holy shit that ending! \m/ \m/ I went from not knowing much about this game and not really caring about it to having it be my GOTY. It does have some issues, I ran into a bug where I could not retrieve ammo from my bike, framerate goes to hell sometimes and textures had some trouble loading in some endgame areas, but even with all that, it's a really fun game. The open world is actually fun to explore, and unlike some other game I never felt like I was being punished for going out of my way to go somewhere or for trying a different path. There are no cops/Unidad/Wolves/whatever that chase you if you mess up or anything like that, all obstacles and enemies you run into while exploring feel like they actually belong there, they're natural. You won't get chased by 40 thousand choppers if you bump into someone else, there are no enemy soldiers that spawn out of thin air if you accidentally enter a restricted area, nothing like that. The stuff that you do run into is nowhere near as frustrating as the stuff I mentioned, and running into a horde while you're trying to reach a mission area is quite fun and somewhat scary. Animals and freakers (zombies, but we don't call them zombies ) wander around and some of them can keep up with your bike, but it's still easy to outrun/eliminate most threats. The map and the world itself are also pretty barren and it's hard to express how much I enjoyed that, particularly when compared to other games that have a trillion icons/missions/NPCs/etc. There's only a handful of camps, there's rarely a time where you have more than one or two missions active, usually a story mission and some side missions. Even with all camps, NERO checkpoints and ambush camps unlocked, the map is still easy to navigate and you never feel overwhelmed when looking at it. Getting upgrades for your bike, along with more and better weapons really changes the game. The opening hour plays like a survival horror, enemies are deadly, your bike is kinda slow and ammo is scarce so avoiding confrontations is pretty important. Later on though, you pretty much turn into an unstoppable machine of death. Except when it comes to hordes. Hordes are one of the most fun aspects of the game. There's a couple that are story related and most of them you can just find while exploring. Fighting one requires knowing the layout of the land, entrances and exits, any places you can climb, dead ends, etc. You'll also want to bring a ton of ammo and traps as some hordes can have hundreds of enemies. The biggest one has 500 freakers or so, fighting it was fucking awesome. Storywise, I can describe it as Sons of Anarchy meets The Walking Dead. There's some of the usual zombie stuff but it's executed in a fun way and Deacon is one of my favourite characters. At the start he seems like an asshole with a death wish, but as the story progresses and you learn more about how he ended up like that it makes sense, and he does start to change for the better. Then there's the ending. There's stuff here for a direct sequel and even for sequels/spinoffs/DLC that follow other characters, so I do hope it did well enough for Bend Studio to explore some of those stories. Shoutout to my aunt, she's the one who got it for me as a gift, otherwise I would have missed it. \m/ \m/

Then it might be a better idea to move all your songs and then install VLC.

I use the VLC app and Spotify. VLC has some issues though, sometimes new files won't show up in your library and you may need to uninstall and reinstall the app for it to work again, however, this isn't that bad unless you're constantly adding/removing files.

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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-50299562 Women and children shot and burned, some, according to their relatives, burned alive. There was a tweet by one of the family members showing one of the vehicles they were travelling in, shot and burned, but twitter took it down. While the official version states that they were attacked because the cartel mistook them for a rival gang, it's dumb to ignore that the LeBaron family and their mormon community have a long history of standing against the cartels, defending their lands and in general, refusing to bend their knee against them. Further, they had official protection from the PF, until our current president disbanded them in favour of the National Guard which is currently acting as Trump's wall, beating the shit out of immigrants trying to cross into Mexico to then try and get into the US. Meanwhile, in one of his (in)famous press conferences, the president, instead of facing the issue, claimed that he had defeated violence, that murders are going down and nothing bad happens anymore, then he used this incident to engage in one of his favourite pastimes, blaming previous administrations for everything and ignoring everything going on right now. In terms of the Selva Lacandona, now they're proposing splitting it into thirds, with one third going to each of the groups fighting over it, this means the destruction of two thirds of one of the most important natural reserves the country.

Now I don't have to spend Christmas alone! Thought about getting Peach Ball Beach Splash but I still have to play Estival, instead, ended up getting this. \m/ \m/