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whats causing labor shortage after covid lockdown? unemployment checks can buy you some time but not a living expense so i dont think thats it..and ppl are finding new ways to be self employed and earning more than their previous shitty minimum wage so they have more time to spend w/ their families. i quit my job in july bc i got fed up with the owner and tried uber eats (some youtuber made $8,000 in one month). when that didnt work out i got a job at amazon prime warehouse while i applied for other jobs. 5 out of 7 companies i applied for responded me back for interviews. if this was 2 years ago i dont think i would get this many opportunities. either that or ppl have lost willing to work. in houston they fired hundreds of nurses bc they refused to get vaccinated, and then a week later hospitals declare nurse shortage and blamed it on increased delta patients wtf.

^ i got my CDL as a backup and now im using it holding onto it for 5 years was a waste. i shouldve looked harder for trucking jobs but God is good. i got hired by Dr Pepper!! 🎉 🎈 🎊 im just waiting for my background & drug test results. starts next month!! right now im watching trucking related youtube videos to refresh my memory. and bought PXN steering/clutch pedals to play American Truck Simulator rotfl so i can practice and be ready 🤣 

how can he recover from this? he cant..15k+ americans trapped in kabul and all he can say is everyone around him appoved his decision. desperate ppl falling off from that plane became his legacy. make a decision, joe. get our citizens out of there. this quote from west wing stuck in my mind for almost 2 decades. each passing year, US is becoming less and less of what it use to be.
“Did you know that two thousand years ago a Roman citizen could walk across the face of the known world free of the fear of molestation? He could walk across the Earth unharmed, cloaked only in the protection of the words civis Romanus -- I am a Roman citizen. So great was the retribution of Rome, universally understood as certain, should any harm befall even one of its citizens.” 

Random thoughts. That Time I got Reincarnated as a Slime has gotten a nice new coat of darkness too it. Watching Geld mercilessly beat the shit out of Shogo was one of the most brutal scenes I've seen in a long time. What an epic way to show the drawbacks of immortality.
Black Clover is fucking awesome now. Man what a rough start. I don't know what compelled me to stick it with for so long. I think we're at 170 eps... and it takes around 40 eps for the story to get good, and about 100 for the animation quality to get consistent, then at 155 it goes to high end. If you can get to the Eye of the Mightnight Sun arc, thats when it turns around storywise. Asta is no longer a super annoying screamo main protagonist, and his abilities he's developed since coming from nothing ad an interesting layer to his character. All the characters develop and grow... which I'm always a sucker for.
 
 
Not to mention Mereoleona Vermillion is probably the most bad ass female in all of anime. She just absolutely rekts everyone she fights. But of course she gets that Fairy Tail's Guildarts treatment because shes waaay to fucking OP.... but at least she gets more bad ass fight scenes than Guildarts ever got in FT.
 

I didn't expect to be underwhelmed.

The Suicide Squad (2021)
My movie rankings for 2021 so far
The Suicide Squad - 5/5 Nobody (2021) - 5/5 The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard (2021) - 5/5 Mortal Kombat (2021) - 3/5, Kano - 4/5 Wrath of Man (2021) - 2/5, Jason Statham - 4/5

Now I want Cyberpunk Okami.

I guess I never made a topic on this. Basically Turtle Rock, the OG dev for Left 4 Dead is coming out with a new co-op zombie shooter.
 
 

Last two seasons have been less than stellar. Negan's arc is really all that has kept me interested. I'm glad Maggie is back to finish up because she was still holding the show together after Rick left... When she went off to do her failed crime drama, the show suffered immensely. This trailer is packed with good action. Looks like we'll have a lot of Negan and Maggie having to work together. The commonwealth story, finding the deaf sister, and Daryl all have things going on. I bet that chick in the cabin he was seeing is a Reaper!

If done right. We shouldn't need another BF for 4-5 years TBH.

Both anime series were extremely disappointing. I think I fell asleep for a few eps of this one and didn't even care to go back and rewatch. How can we get anime so right until it comes to Godzilla?
Seriously, just watch SSSS.GRIDMAN and SSSS.DYNAZENON for a good Kaiju anime.

The trailers were better than the show. 80% of Godzilla Singular Point was a small handful of characters talking about make believe non-plausible or even remotely believable science and half of that dialogue took place in text message form while us as the viewer literally stare at the characters phone screens for 10 minutes at a time. Better watch it in english because I don't see anyone reading subtitles that fast. The monsters were good, but there wasn't enough action, and what action we did have, none of the characters ever showed any actual sense of danger. That was more unbelievable than all the BS science they kept talking about. There are monsters all over the place about to murder everyone and every character's reactions are so deadpan its as if nobody fears anything, and I mean every character from the main characters, regular people walking down the street, tv news anchors, etc. Its basically a potential extinction level event for humanity in the making and literally everyone is completely chill. wtf.  And also, Godzilla is barely in this until the end of the season. If not for Jet Jaguar every character would have been dead before we hit the halfway point of the season.
Also, consider this series a completely different alternate universe for everything Godzilla related. All the monsters, Godzilla itself, Jet Jaguar, all of it is completely unrelated to anything ever done with anything related to Godzilla. The other Netflix Godzilla series, "Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters" is also an alternate universe of Godzilla as well, but it was the superior of these series. 
BTW, the end of the last episode does have an after credits scene that leads into a potential season 2.

As far as I know the 1st 500 backers already got their AyaNeos & I might be a part of the 2nd batch of backers.
I get updates about how the 2nd batch of backers will get improved AyaNeos while the 1st 500 backers will get free upgrades.
The AyaNeo I'll eventually be getting is the 2021 edition & AyaNeo has plans for another 1 codenamed XXX right now.
If I didn't already back AyaNeo 2021 edition I'd probably wait to see if it could run Windows 11.

I remember when this was rumored to be called Steam Pal. And before that there was a Steam Machine handheld that failed to launch named Smach Z. I expect to find out that Steam Deck like Steam Machines before it will only be able to run games that work on Linux & will void warrantee if you want to use the desktop. On the other hand if I had money to burn I'd probably buy a Steam Deck.
I don't expect AyaNeo to sell more than Steam Deck, but I wouldn't be surprised if Alienware UFO or some other well known PC company did.

So essentially they faux kept classes by making you choose between Resupply, Health pack, or launcher. I'm fine with this. It will be interesting to see this new take on conquest. It honestly just feels like they took bred Operations and Conquest and came up with this mode. Thats fine... personally I'm down with it... but I can already see the backlash and they'll have "Classic Conquest" added to the playlist after launch... and it better still be 128 players and like 12-15 flags.
The cooldown on vehicle spawning is very encouraging. It will give everyone a chance to get a vehicle and put an end to spawn screen camping. So far it feelsl like we're going in the right direction.

If I can get it on day 1, I will. If not, I'll hopefully have my Aya Neo before then.

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This actually interests me. I love the back buttons. As amazing as the dualsense is... its baffling they didn't include back buttons. and 3rd party modders already want $250 for a modded DS.

Steam has made its own hand held game console. It can be used as a handheld or docked to a tv like the Nintendo Switch. Honestly, this looks like a solid hand held. Everyone that does PC gaming has a steam account and most likely alot of games already in their library. 
There are three versions: $399, $529 & $649 depending on the internal storage. Its shipping December of 2021.
https://www.steamdeck.com/en/?snr=1_4_4__118
The hardware looks great too:
https://www.steamdeck.com/en/hardware
 

The "I won't forgive you!" reveal at the end fucking killed me. The whole time you wonder why she said that... and you realize the whole context. The waterworks flowed. This series was so tender and amazing.

I finished up Fruits Basket a couple days ago. Overall it was a great reboot. Season 1 was pretty spot on with the original season except it went a bit faster and felt like it lost some of the humor the original show had because the characters didn't seem to transform as often, but maybe I'm remembering the original wrong since its been over 10 years since I've seen it. The two eps that focused on Hana & Uo-chan were really good since they didn't go into any real backstory for those 2 characters in the original series. Season 2 went a bit slow and the student council/Yuki school president episodes felt like filler to me, but by the end of the series it was all character development for Yuki and how things ended with his relationships. Season 3 was so emotional and I love that the series got an ending after all these years.

I finished up Fruits Basket a couple days ago. Overall it was a great reboot. Season 1 was pretty spot on with the original season except it went a bit faster and felt like it lost some of the humor the original show had because the characters didn't seem to transform as often, but maybe I'm remembering the original wrong since its been over 10 years since I've seen it. The two eps that focused on Hana & Uo-chan were really good since they didn't go into any real backstory for those 2 characters in the original series. Season 2 went a bit slow and the student council/Yuki school president episodes felt like filler to me, but by the end of the series it was all character development for Yuki and how things ended with his relationships. Season 3 was so emotional and I love that the series got an ending after all these years.

My wife's been enjoying the reboot of the show a lot, re-watches it on and off. There's something about it that I can't get into ... maybe it's nostalgia of the older show and the soundtrack - always a big factor for me. It's like the reboots of HxH or FMA - I could never get into the reboots as quick as I got into the older anime for em cos of the same reason. Weak soundtracks/ no memorable tunes, which is fine by itself but not fine when I have something to compare against. Sigh. Picky picky picky. 

either way is fine for me but i prefer: pc for rpg, fps, and turn based strategy games and console for mostly action games or games that my pc cant handle. plus some of my all time fav games arent available on consoles anyway. and never really liked online/multiplayer games bc yes ppl do cheat. and finding a good server can be a such a task. i just dont like competitive games period, i just want to set everything on easy and just relax playing as a single player mode lol.