Yule Tide greetings from machine land!

This post will no doubt come late, mainly due to the fact that I wanted to have Fallout 4 beaten and all my art cards finished up. I hope all of you have had a remarkable Christmas full of helpful gifts and warm evening feasts in this cold weather. I got tires for xmass from the ol’ dad, 4 of them. A much needed addition to a vehicle who hadn’t had em changed in 56k miles. Stayed home with a 6 pack of beers, a rack of pork ribs, and worlds greatest tank battles on science channel. Really I Couldn’t have asked for a happier holiday. November’s art cards are complete and now I can focus on maybe another comic page, porn piece, or science study. As for new years coming up, my resolution is to A. find a RT job, and B. Never take a commission I wouldn’t enjoy. If all else fails, a small goal like.. loose 20 lbs might be in order as well. What’s your New Years resolution?

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Uploaded a video of my own arm at clinic, we were checking out an infrared vein finder and its pretty cool. It gave one of the tech’s the willies looking at it, but I cant help but feel that maybe this would be but one of the myriad of bio scanners a modern machine could have built inside them for future human interface.

• Speaking of interface, a Skype snek brought this tumblr to my attention. To you sirs, I agree- I would fuck the shit out of an A-10. But now I’ve learned that japs have a word for being ‘fucked stupid” called Ahegao.

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Armored warfare update:

Ooooooooohhhshiiiiyyyyttt son. I’m Tier 9+ officially in AW and while I couldn’t wait anymore for the implementation of my Polski Husbando, I decided that I would use my Shishkin token on the Challenger II. I had always planed to get this tank because I think its a sexy as fuck British man. As it turns out however, it is one of the top tanks in the game (about equal with T90MS). If you play this tank, prepare to never ever be threatened again.  They did a special + 200% EXP Christmas bonus thing and its going to run out in about 16 hours from now, but I banked a whole shitload of locked rep to use for later. If anyone plays or is thinking of playing, It will behoove you to get some kind of premium time. Otherwise you wont make any headway even if you grind your ass off daily. Despite the general slowness of the grind, I hope they introduce a new dealer soon, as it would be quite nice to start getting the French/Viking nations tanks. Btw AW is now Putin approved, so they probably wont nerf the t90MS or the BMPT-72 too soon. If you are looking for a sure bet in this modern Wot clone, go down the British and Russian lines asap.

Fallout 4 update:

So I finally beat the game. Over 6 days of gaming, over 60 levels, 600 explosive .45 bullets, the journey is finally over. I wont spoil the story for anyone who is interested, but I think I can now give a real honest to goodness review of the game from the eyes of a true fan.

The good: I had a lot of fun with this game despite the nasty things that anti Bethesda gamers spat out the first week of the games launch. You get over 200 hours of exploration of a wasteland full of awesomely redesigned creatures and raiders. every item matters, no more bullshit coffee mugs and clipboards that don’t seem to do anything no- even that is useful. They got rid of the skills system in favor of a no-level cap perks list that plays and feels just like the previous game.  there was also a TON less bugs in this version for PC then fallout 3 and New Vegas combined.   It was everything I needed it to be, a beautifully updated Skyrim engine based landscape of death and destruction. The addition of being able to design your own settlements was a welcome change and will surely be a modders playground in the near future. And this game has the best fallout intro to date.

The bad: Maybe some of you guys tuned into the videogame awards a couple of weeks ago and saw that The Witcher 3 took best game of 2015 over fallout, so why is this? Well for one thing, Bethesda has never been particularly good at crafting a story. I say this based on 5 of their past “open world” games including this one. You could say that its really impossible to make a rich story based on the very nature of open world games, that its the lore of the world that is the story. I understand this perspective, but for how long they said this game was in development, it makes the farcry writers look like geniuses. The story of this game is about as bland as 200 year old Salisbury steak. Its yet to be seen if the expansion pass will somehow redeem the story a little bit as they tend to be smaller bite sized chunks of game then one so massive as the main story.

The ugly: Fallout 4 has a very different feel from the previous games, but I cant help but feel that some depth to this game has been lost over its previous incarnations. This is all just strictly opinion, But v.a.t.s. no longer matters as your gun is way more effective shooting from the hip then it is without it, this makes certain S.P.E.C.I.A.L. stats a complete afterthought in gameplay. (In the past you needed charisma and a little bit of intelligence to pass speech challenges, now all you have to do is put on a Mr. Rogers sweater and drink a beer to pass challenges?) Its as if The game designers’  push to make this game more like a shooter and less like a strategy rpg.

Do I still recommend this game? Oh hell ya. ride out tomorrow and pick up a copy with a coupon if you can. Tell em Ratty sent ya.

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It’s light out.. Time to sleep, If all else fails maybe I will watch some Das Boot later on this evening. Or get a comic page done. Either way, happy Holidays people and stay warm.

Aggressive cuddles!