Made it to my destination, first thing we did was grab some big ass burgers which are great for absorbing the amount of alcohol we planned to partake in tonight.
Darth Stoner
It was pretty cold this time around, in fact there was some snow on the drive up here. It rained for most of our wine walk, ended up back at our hotel. We’re staying at a casino, and I passed the one armed bandit machines, apparently they were made by Konami. I had a dream the other night about wanting to murder a horde of pachinko machines but was held back by a friend. Tonight I had the urge again, but remembered this was the real world after all… and things like that don’t make me break out in a metal rash.
I managed to finish Wolfenstein 2 today, add that as two Wolfenstein games conquered for 2018… To celebrate I had a small livestream of me failing at MGSV:TPP. I recorded a bit of it, and if I can find anything worth saving I’ll have a video. :melon:
On another note I will be headed out on the road tomorrow, so I probably won’t have time to post anything. I’ll save it all for Saturday when I return, assuming I don’t have a hangover. :trollface:
I’m taking some time off to relax. Will be heading out of town in a couple days to meet with some other people for a wine walk. Will bring my laptop and tablet, though if this goes anything like last year I’ll probably be too buzzed to coherently sit up at my computer and blog. I will try to take pictures, perhaps more Stoned Troopers. :trollface: And who knows? Perhaps I’ll have time to produce some video related content! Or maybe even stream! :O if I could figure out wtf to play…
Benn continuing to progress through The Phantom Pain, so far I haven’t been a complete failure at it, and I haven’t modded my game to cheat so there is that. In fact apart from stealth I’m really good at outrunning bears, horses and other animals, and depending on my mood punching my enemies into a bloody mist. What I’m NOT good at is smoking cigars.
Could never get the hang of smoking.
I should look up instructions for replacing the cigars with watermelons as I find those to be much more soothing. :melon:
I think I’ll take a break from it, now that I’m getting the hang of modding I feel like I can step back and look at something else to do.
Every so often Yutram and I will gather together to watch the internet together in one place, our cinema. As per tradition once we’re done doing most if not all of our viewing duties we will wreck the place, and by that I mean I ragdoll myself and Yutram moves stuff around. Apparently I thought sitting on a watermelon would make it hatch into… something.
And every so often there is a random ritual that must be performed. In this case we wished good luck melons to the Enchantress Motifa.
Of course, before all of this I was having fun running around and creating fun sleepovers in MGSV, I had my R&D team get on some extremely important gear for my horse.
Look at my horse, my horse is amazing.
The Metal Gear Series is serious business yo. :melon:
I’ve mainly been looking at mods for MGSV today. It’s been awhile since I last looked into the modding scene but browsing the Nexus gives me some fun results to play with, as well as useful. Like removing the parade of splash screens you have to skip through before getting to the menu. :zorak: Sadly I haven’t found any watermelon based mods yet, but I think I’m off to a good start. I also installed a really brutal CQC mod that causes your enemies to explode blood upon punching them, and of course a particular model swap.
This was brought to my attention by a certain someone (you know who you are :trollface: ) and of course by law I am required to install these types of mods. For the melons told me so. :melon: That said I’ve progressed a bit lately, already on my first mission after being re-introduced to Mother Base. My mission: Kill a guy. I’ve already done it a couple times, but I keep having to start over because I keep getting sighted and I want to do it as perfectly as I can. I did find a mod that lets you fulton recover basically every person you mark on a base, but that seems a bit overkill for my first playthrough. :v:
I’ve also found some mods for Metal Gear Rising, including a weaponless mod and a tweak to run the game above 1080p. So at some point I’ll have to replay it, I’ve contemplated it for awhile now. Considering MGR takes place in the year 2018 and features someone who wants to Make America Great Again I feel that I’m required to partake once again… eventually. :melon:
As much as I like the game and character designs of the Final Fantasy games I can’t really say I’ve ever really been interested in them. This release of the new Final Fantasy XV for Windows though has me intrigued, they had me at mod support and Half Life 2 Cosplay, now THAT’S a Gorgeous Freeman. :trollface:
I’ll admit, like I said the other night I didn’t get to experience much of Metal Gear Survive, though I did like it enough to consider buying it down the road perhaps during a sale… Mainly because of my scheduling preventing me from properly enjoying multiplayer matches and the microtransactions. Well, Konami has found another thing to charge people for, and it isn’t even a lootcrate? Want an extra save slot? It’ll cost ya.
Oh, Konami. We already knew that Metal Gear Survive would include microtransactions, but folks who picked up a copy the game yesterday have discovered Konami has come up with a creative new way to nickel-and-dime their customers. It seems Metal Gear Survive only comes with a single free save slot – if you want a second one you’ll have to pony up a significant chunk of extra cash.
I’ll probably buy it still in the future should the price be right and the planets align so that I can enjoy multiplayer sessions more often again, perhaps around that time the full game will come in its own pack… Kinda like a full game. :trollface: Besides, I still have a large collection of games to finish, with no microtransactions. :v:
On that note I have a hypothetical question: If I were to stream a particular Metal Gear game, what one would be the most interesting to start with and why? At this point I have access to all the games. :happy:
This video pretty much nails what I’ve been thinking since 2017. The voice of Roy Campbell (The Colonel in the Metal Gear Solid series) read a snippet of the latest indictment provided by Robert Mueller, as if it were a mission briefing for good ol Solid Snake himself.
It’s kinda funny when you think about it. Metal Gear Solid 2 was a game about how people could easily be controlled by particular information sources and made to feel passionate no matter how right or wrong they are about it (it also had a president that grabbed your crotch because you looked a little too feminine), exactly what we’re going through right now. We have people chanting fake news and only accepting one source as gospel, and if you even so much as try to debunk anything they’ll either try to move the goalpost or retreat to their happy little safe spaces where they can continue to echo whatever they want to believe. This article is a fine example of such a person.
Florine Gruen Goldfarb loves America. She is a real, down-home patriot. So much so that she unwittingly promoted Russian-coordinated events on Facebook in support of Donald Trump. Goldfarb, who runs the Team Trump Broward County Facebook page, was one of the 53 percent of white women who backed Trump in 2016 and likely didn’t need Russia’s help to do it. But CNN reports that she did, in fact, promote pro-Trump events that were encouraged by Russian trolls on Facebook.
These people call themselves patriots, while not caring if the Russians were involved in the 2016 election… To me a real patriot is someone who serves their country. If you’re willing to die for your country, then to me you’re a true fucking patriot. People like her ruin the word patriot for the people who actually deserve to be called as such, and that sickens me to no end.
Anyways, in light of this are we all honorary Metal Gear characters now? O_o
