MetalCaveman

My Top 10 albums of 2019 (in no particular order): Mägo de Oz - Ira Dei Allegaeon - Apoptosis Airbourne - Boneshaker Insomnium - Heart Like A Grave Overkill - The Wings of War Týr - Hel Amon Amarth - Berserker Cattle Decapitation - Death Atlas Sabaton - The Great War Cemican - In Ohtli Teoyohtica In Miquiztli \m/ \m/

I love that yellow/increased caution is the lowest level.

@TheMightyEthan Thanks! I'll keep that advice in mind. Yup, it's digital, I'll play around with the different layers and see how that goes. \m/ \m/

Added a tiny bit of colour. Still struggling with hair and nose/mouth proportions.

Official announcement: https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2019/12/12/microsoft-unveils-xbox-series-x/ So you can have it horizontal or vertical, the controller is new and has some elements based on the elite controller, a share button(!) and some other cool stuff. Also, it's going to be backwards compatible, and if I'm reading this right, it extends back to the original Xbox(?) That's cool.

You'll want to avoid RAID 0 if you're looking for redundancy/data protection, RAID 5 or 6 are your best bets for that stuff. For media files I also use an external drive, though I'm also thinking about turning my current PC into a home server once I build a new one, whenever that happens.

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I lied For Switch.... I have no self-control. Also, it was almost free thanks to the gold coins/points/whatever I had.

Looks like the terrorist designation has been delayed/cancelled(?): https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50697635 I wonder what they get out of this, if I put my tinfoil hat on for a moment, it is curious that, after our president welcomed him with open arms and offered him a "new home" in Mexico, Evo suddenly left for Cuba after this announcement was made. *Tinfoil hat off* As if they didn't have enough control already: https://politica.expansion.mx/congreso/2019/12/02/legisladores-afines-a-amlo-integran-frente-anuncian-buscar-control-total MORENA and their supporters have announced they're looking to establish complete control over every political, military and social system to stop "the right" and ensure the 4T can progress unimpeded. "We'll send the president a message: we're here, we're your army, loyal, brave and committed". That's some scary cult shit. So yeah, this is going to be a fun ride.

So now the government is going to start monitoring every purchase everyone makes with credit/debit cards. They're going to tie your card to your SAT data, and if they find that your purchases don't match your income you'll be in trouble. Beyond the obvious privacy concerns, there's the issue that this new policy does NOT take into account savings or other such sources of income you may have. So if you make, say 2K a month, you've been saving for a while, and then you decide you'll buy a house, put down 10K for it (I'm pulling numbers out of thin air, bear with me ) SAT will be on your ass for that discrepancy. You'll have to prove that you have enough savings to make that payment and THEY have to be satisfied with your answer, otherwise you'll be in deep shit, specially because the punishment for not declaring certain income, or not paying taxes is worse than what you get for murder. Some people, including my father, an accountant, are saying we should all just use cash, avoid banks, avoid cards, avoid anything that they can monitor. So yeah, that's a nice break from all the bloodshed and terror.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1Etaz7tMpWIZBJ I didn't use Spotify that much this year, mostly stuck to CDs and digital purchases, still, a pretty decent playlist. \m/ \m/

https://gematsu.com/2019/12/from-software-marketing-manager-updates-twitter-profile-with-potential-armored-core-banner Part of me is all "IT'S HAPPENING!!!!!" Another part of me is "Don't give me hope" If this thing is real and it gets announced soon.... I'm going to explode.

PS Store has their cyber Monday sale going on, think these will be the last games I buy in 2019... Maybe

Got the base version, if I like it, I may get the DLCs on the next sale.

Here we go again. As a side note, it pisses me off when media refers to them as "armed civilians", sounds fucking stupid.

Yay for Amazon Mexico holding Black Friday sales even though it's not a thing here!

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How would this affect Mexican politicians that help them, can the US government go after them too? There are currently some governors, and other officials that in the past were arrested or were being investigated for money laundering, requesting the support of certain cartels to "deal with" their opponents, and more, what happens to them given that they are government officials? Also, one thing that's been brought up, does this designation include ALL cartels or just some of them. Of the top of my head we have: La Union de Tepito CJNG Los Zetas Sinaloa del Golfo de Juarez Los Caballeros Templarios and many more. Would this policy encompass all of them or just the ones responsible for the attack against the LeBaron family which is what triggered this whole thing AFAIK? Marcelo Ebrard, Foreign Minister has already said that they will not allow any military intervention of any kind, but they're willing to cooperate in other aspects, so he says at least.

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".