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I don't see how EA can make more money off Anthem with a overhaul at this point unless they are doing it to lay the ground work for paid expansions so it can be more like Destiny. Theres no way they are going to completely redesign and make new end game content for a basically dead game unless they can somehow charge money for it.  

Background images for these themes are handled completely different from a few years ago. I tried getting a background image working for the light theme, background select icon at top of page, 3rd image choice is a FF7 remake wallpaper.. It looks horrible. Looks like the theme downgrades the quality of the pic and applies some filters to it. Theres a new version of the theme in the works so I'll wait on that to come out before I ask the theme designer how to get the backgrounds looking the way I want them to. In the meantime, backgrounds will stay like they are with the default images.

The server move is completely done. The old hosting account will be shut down in a few days. Some of my old sites are all broken now.

http://deathbygundam.com/

http://windscar.com/

http://ancientclan.org/

But I have the first page of them all loading fine. I could swap the version of php to an earlier version just for those sites to make them functional again, but I really don't want to run 2 different versions of php and have to keep fixing those sites incrementally. I'm going to leave them broken and maybe fix them at some point. They're all in archive mode and have been for years. The Death by Gundam and Windscar galleries are going to be broken from here on out though unless I do that php switch. I might re-upload those galleries into an some dedicated Ancient Clan galleries and then link them from those sites. Or someday manually recreate those galleries in hard html/php style so they'll be permanent. I dunno. Either way I'm in no rush to do that at all.

On a side note, no more having to do actual server stuff, yay me.

Good for Joe. Props to the people that can do this diet on the long term. Its interesting how the body can adapt to just meat. Although I still think the elimination of everything else in the diet is the real interesting thing. As soon as he started eating pasta and other foods he got inflammation again. Its probably not that eating meat reduces inflammation, its probably has more to do with what hes not eating thats caused the reduction in inflammation. Maybe its just pasta.. maybe its just refined sugars. Everyones body is different. And no blood work mentioned yet. lol.

That Shield Portable would actually be pretty damn cool along with the geforce now service. You never know, they might make a new portable. Nvidia just recently released 2 new versions of Shield TV so they're definitely staying in the hardware market outside of graphics cards. I love my shield tv. I stream my games from my PC straight to my living room tv with no lag and max graphics. I use either the shield game controller or a wireless xbox 360 controller I have or I use my logitech wireless mouse/keyboard combo depending on what game I'm playing. Lately I've been playing Starcraft 1 remastered in my living room and I love it. For games that use a controller, I'd definitely use the shield portable if I wanted to game outside my house or while taking a dump.  Honestly, after using a Nvidia graphics card (the amount of updates can be a bit too much, but at least they support their stuff thoroughly) and a Nvidia shield, I think I'm a Nvidia fanboy now.  That shield was definitely worth the $150 I paid at the time. Best streaming device ever made and its an amazing plex server with my external hard drive hooked up to it. I'm tempted to try some different mobile games like Arknights to see how well it plays with the shield controller. Since its an android tv I can download any android app and play it on my 4k tv. The only downside is the lack of a touch screen interface. I'm not sure how it compensates for that. I'll have to download some games and try them out to see.

God that first video was sad. I'm glad this guy got the support he did.

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce-now/

Geforce Now exited beta and is fully launched. I own a nvidia shield and have had access to the beta for over a year now. Last time I used it there were connection issues but when it worked, it worked damn good. Last time I used the beta was probably 7 or so months ago so I'm guessing they resolved all their issues since then. This service now makes google Stadia obsolete and I bet some youtubers will be making some videos on it soon. Unlike stadia, nvidia kept the product on beta for almost 2 years I think to fix the bugs.

Also all your steam and epic game accounts can be linked to the service so you don't have to buy any new games. Link the account, tell the service to install the game on nvidia's servers and then start playing at pretty much max settings. Looks like the current price is $5 a month for a limited time with first 3 months free. After that I guess we'll see the full monthly price. But in comparison to stadia, it's drastically cheaper, more reliable and you can stream your games on almost any PC, phone, tablet or nvidia shield.

On a side note my nvidia shield is connected over 5 ghtz wifi and from the comments I've read, if you are going to stream over wifi it needs to be 5 ghtz wifi.

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I forgot to mention there is a free account also that has streaming services available for 1 hour sessions, but you'll probably be in a server queue when you go to login.

I still haven't finished watching the series on netflix. Lol. I got a couple episodes in and got bored. XD I'll start watching it again since I didn't give it enough time to establish itself.

I watched this yesterday and almost spit out my drink. They kept the honey bee scene with the cross dressing in the remake.  This game looks amazing.

SSL certificate is now up and running. We now have a secure connection. This will be permanent from here on out. All urls and bookmarks will be auto forced into a https connection now whenever the site is loaded.

More of the carnivore diet.. these guys didn't seem to like it and interesting enough, the one guy started to only crap once every other day and had the same issue with farts as Joe Rogan. "Its not a fart, its never a fart. I learned that lesson."

I watched that YongYea video on my lunch break. Most of that stuff I didn't know about, like remastered cut scenes, etc. I noticed in the starcraft remaster all the cut scenes are still the same old SD ones just cropped to widescreen monitors. All that legal stuff about mods and everything else mentioned was all news to me. It was a good video that explains more of the anger. As for me, none of that really affects my decision to buy it. lol. I've never used any custom maps, multiplayer, etc. and its always been about the campaign to me. I'll pick this up for a black friday sale again when its 50%+ off.

Warcraft III: Reforged came out this week and it looks like the internet is angry like it always is. I never played multiplayer/competitve with the game so it doesn't bother me, but I can understand the frustration people can have especially since it completely screws up the original game's servers.

https://kotaku.com/warcraft-3-reforged-isn-t-much-of-an-upgrade-1841325885

I bought the Starcraft 1 remaster a couple black fridays ago for $7 and started playing it this week. I was expecting a bigger HD improvement but when I look back at the old SD version, it really is an improvement. Looking at Warcraft 3: Reforged, it looks like a good HD upgrade and thats all I thought it was going to be.

I think too many people thought this was going to be some giant completely new remake. They already did a remake before with Starcraft 1 and it looks pretty much just like the original game but all HD now. I'm planning on buying this and replaying WC3, but not at the current price tag. Maybe I'm being picky, but $30 for a game I already bought, played and beat years ago doesn't sound like a good price point to me.

Its a good lineup, but I've owned the Bioshock collection for a couple years now and only played the 3rd one for about an hour and forgot to go back to it. Its in the backlog that I'll get to eventually. Lady plays the hell out of Sims 4 on her laptop, but she has most expansions.. but this might have us competing for time with the PS4 if she likes the controller interface. lol.

LMAO! All the shitting. At least its working good for him so far. Its interesting because just meat and fat should be kicking in ketosis. It makes me wonder if theres other things going on when doing a huge dietary change like this. Like instead of ketosis some other kind of metabolic change takes place that just doesn't have a name yet because it hasn't been fully researched. I remember reading that Joe Rogan has a financial stake in a supplements company so I'm wondering if he'll keep up with taking supplements or if hes going full on meat only to see how his vitamin levels, potassium, etc. will all be affected.

My genetics are whacky, I think everyone's are because we're all unique. I had a grandpa that couldn't eat any kind of mushroom because it would cause painful gout in his foot within minutes of eating them, I have a brother that is mostly lactose intolerant, I have a sister in law with a gluten allergy and another sister in law's sister that has crohn's disease and that is some serious dietary restrictions for her. As for me I can't handle butter. If I eat buffalo wings my ass will be on fire that night because that buffalo sauce is 50% butter and it shoots through me like exlax. x_x I prefer ground turkey over beef for almost all applications now except for hamburgers. I'll eat pork loin, chicken, beef and venison, especially cooked in the smoker during the summer. The longer I go without eating greasy fatty foods like bacon or fried foods like fries, the less I crave them. Maybe my body is telling me something. lol. I do get cravings for salad some times. I'll look at some salad mix or a pepper at a store and its like its calling to me to be eaten. I'd be tempted to try this carnivore diet but I bet it gets boring and expensive quick. And all that diarrhea Joe's having.. screw that.

Well I messed up the SSL I'm setting up today. I think I know what I did wrong but I'll mess with it this weekend instead. Anyway, if the site looks messed up to you and the images are not loading, please clear your browser cache/history to fix the issue.

Joe Rogan does alot of fitness stuff, exercise, dieting, etc. Its interesting about the carnivore diet. I'm really interested in seeing his blood work because I bet his cholesterol will go through the roof. I bet most people lose weight with the diet because all the fat acts like a natural laxative and they're all shitting so much the food doesn't get absorbed as much as a regular meal. Going all meat only doesn't make sense to me. It inspired me to check a few more videos:

I think it works as well as it does for this guy because of his family's biology is all kinds of messed up. What works for some people might not work for everyone. In this case if this guy can get all benefits he can then good for him and his daughter. I don't think this diet is a cure all, but just like some people's bodies can't tolerate milk or have nut allergies, some people might have serious reactions to a much larger amount of foods than they might think.

This is a long one, but I think the vegan comparison near the end of the video can apply to the carnivore diet as well. The elimination of all the refined carbs and sugars is probably the single most significant thing. Going from an average American diet of fast food to just meat is probably just as healthy as going full vegan just because its taking all the junk food out of the equation.

I finished Shadow of the Tomb Raider last week. Ehh. The combat finally kicked in near the end but overall I wasn't impressed with this game.  I've already said my complaints, but the games wasn't all bad. The tombs and exploration is where the game shined. That and the graphics.. the landscape, HDR, lighting effects, etc.. but not the character models. The characters all looked horrible, but damn if the location you were in didn't look stunning. And swimming was done amazingly well, aside from the first swimming location and running out of breath too easily until you get some holding your breath upgrades. Water, swimming and the use of water in tombs was all done exceptionally well. The extra challenge tombs that come with the complete edition didn't appeal to me as much as I thought they would. Mostly because they can be played with multiple players with matchmaking because they are designed to be either played solo or with an extra player. Theres also an online scoreboard for timed runs. Because of this design choice the extra challenge tombs aren't really exploration based and I didn't see any artifacts or anything like that to interact with. Overall it was an ok game, but my expectations were definitely way to high after playing the first two over the past couple years which caused my enjoyments issues. The first two games definitely excelled in combat, whereas this one focused more on puzzle solving with tombs. Just seemed so off putting to do such a drastic shift.

Oh, and the ending sucked IMO.

Imitation is one thing, but some of these scenes from this game were straight up plagiarism.  Lol. I still love Stranger Things and I think its an amazing show. It is definitely its own thing... except for Eleven's character.  I need to watch some videos for Beyond Two Souls to see the other endings. Even though its basically an interactive movie, your choices affect the entire game like a Telltale game except with actual real major changes. I read there is Eleven (  ) endings. I'm not interested in replaying the entire game though to see some of these. I think there is an apocalypse ending that I'd like to see because I think there was a chance to start it with specific choices if they were made throughout the game.

We got this game free with PS+ membership a while back and I played it this last week. The game was originally released on PS3 back in 2013. 3 years later Stranger Things season 1 came out on netflix. I make that reference because Stranger Things is a blatant rip off of this game. The trailer shows Jodie and Aiden, the soul/entity attached to her.. and she has psychic powers. Based off the trailer alone it doesn't look anything like stranger things, but the game is all over the place in her timeline and you see her story from childhood to full adult. The more I played I thought to myself, wow that is so much like Eleven from Stranger Things.. but when exact scenes from stranger things started happening... repeatedly... I couldn't help but notice it can't be just a coincidence. Aside from exact scenes with different sets, the overall theme was the same. Government doing tests on a psychic kid, government running a secret facility to open a portal to another dimension, Jodie aka Eleven having to close said portal. When Jodie overexerts herself she gets a nosebleed and is weakened. But instead of a sheriff father figure its a scientist, still a strong father figure. The only thing stranger things did that was unique was throw a bunch of kids into this character's life so it wouldn't be nearly so dark and then made it cheery and funny, once again to not make the story so dark. I could go on, but I don't want to ruin the game, which by the way was great. It was like a full interactive movie mostly run with QTE inputs which sounds boring but its not. There is plenty of walking around, running, exploring and even combat. Using psychic powers to kill people was quite enjoyable as well.

I'm sure there are some youtube videos showing all the comparisons. My guess is Netflix paid this game developer/publisher money for movie/tv rights under the table with a clause that the game wouldn't be referenced as source material. If not I don't see how in the hell the game company hasn't filed a lawsuit. Direct scenes happen, multiple times, like almost shot for shot that occurred 3 years later in stranger things. When I got to the end of the game and saw scenes that took place in season 2 of stranger things theres no doubt in my mind this was the source material. It really opens my eyes as to how unoriginal Stranger Things actually is and I'm sad this game didn't get nearly as much publicity for being as good as it was back during its release. If you got this free with PS+ or can get it cheap, I think its on PC now, I recommend playing it.

If the next season of stranger things is a time skip and Eleven ended up joining the CIA.. well, play this game to find out what happens!

https://www.ign.com/articles/star-wars-knights-of-the-old-republic-remake-rumored-to-be-in-development-at-ea

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The latest rumor indicates that a new Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic project is underway at EA and it looks to, "integrate elements from the first two games in order to bring certain things into the current Star Wars canon."

A remake could be good if it's done right. But those games were so huge it'd be a bigger task than remaking Final Fantasy 7. Meanwhile I still haven't played the second KOTOR game.

The only version of Morbius I remember was the villain in the old Spider-Man cartoon. I think he had to consume blood from his hands instead of using fangs even though he had them. It was an interesting take on a different kind of vampire, more like a mutant man-bat... man bat instead of bat man for obvious reasons, that and he literally looked more like a bat/man hybrid like at the end of the trailer. I'm wondering if Sony is trying to make their own Marvel universe with just their Spider-man license. They'll spin off every villain into its own movie and maybe have a big crossover movie? That would be interesting since they are going with more dark themes like Venom and Morbius.

I have something to look forward to watching.  Looks like it resumes where the series left off at. Since a good handful of these characters are in Star Wars Rebels and that takes place many years after the end of the clone wars I'm guessing some of those fights in the trailer will end in some kind of stalemate or something. Interesting that the clip leaded with a shot of Mandalore from space and high ranking mandalorian.. maybe the events in this series will cover some plot holes introduced or at least fill in some back story for the Mandalorian series.

Oh my god that funeral was so f*cking sad. 😭 I just watched it and got tears in my eyes. When a show can get a reaction from the audience like that then it was amazing. The funeral was exceptionally well done.

I hated Ivar and wanted to see him dead. I couldn't think of anything that would make me interested in him except his demise, but using him to introduce new characters has been very interesting.