So... was thinking it was going to be a horribly long ordeal but as it turns out it was something s8mple.
Turns out that the ac compressor was locked up and that was causing an unnecessary drag on the entire engine, not allowing it to reach a decent cranking speed, thus not starting.
Also went to a few things locally, Mardi Gras and such. Watched a few parades and looked about the place in terms of architecture and such, and a coastguard ship that partied too hard and crashed right into the ferry dock XD.
The weather has been a lot nicer than St. Louis, but still cold as ass for the most part. Guess the ‘tropics’ still have some semblance of a cold winter.
Going to head back tomorrow early in the morning and hopefully arrive back in time before the rain/frozen shit starts.

Going to fix a friend's truck in New Orleans, will be gone for a bit.
Contemplating opening commissions when I get back and Peepal gets settled and I get a new card.

I have been mulling over alot recently. It's been roughly a week since I have finished a book, one that I did not expect to have so much weight to it, in the fact that it has made me completely stop and is forcing me to realign myself to near totality. The ending showed me a mirror, a part of myself that once understood with total clarity, saw it's reflection, the implications of what it meant and it... did something to me. It feels like getting punched right in the soul with a fiery hot hoof, still burning a week later...

Fallout Equestria.

I picked up the second physical edition, a 2 book set. I hadn't read it yet and was utterly convinced that I wanted to read it with something in my hands. So it was purchased and it sat on my shelf for a few years... a long time. One day I decided to sit down and read it, but I wanted to read it in a special way, like I have read no other book before. Fallout Equestria was... different. I waited for so long, and when I felt the time was right, I began to read it. That's what made it feel special, that I WANTED so much to read it, experience it, but something felt like it wasn't the right time.

Without opening a single page, without having seen but a few pictures you could count on one hand, I had this... 'feeling' that it was different, that I needed to treat it differently than anything else. If I had that feeling about it, then perhaps I should try and read it differently then as well?

I laid out two rules for myself before even glancing at the first page. I decided that I would read the book, cover to cover, and not make any personal judgements about it. I would let it sit, I would think about it and give it time, to try and understand what it was saying, to divorce myself from judgement.

The second part was this. I was going to use my intellectual capacity to the maximum when reading it. I would paint every scene with as much detail as the book had, and fill in the rest with things that would work. To build the world, the story and the characters in my head to the fullest extent. Build something that was 'watchable' as a 'movie' when I was reading. To use my artistic skill to "See" the book play out. I had my rules, understand and visualize, and I began.

To try and explain the totality of the parts that began to move me, to make me reflect on myself would take far too long. Fallout Equestria is written in a... a way that I have yet to fully grasp. From the beginning to end, every chapter and every character, they all play a part, they all change and evolve. To try to explain how a single piece, a single scene effected me would take an inordinate amount of pages. It's written in a way where things have weight, relevance, They are established early on, are built up in smaller pieces along the journey a small bit added here, more there. It all builds into a crescendo when it presents the concept and idea that is fully formed, taking an excerpt is insufficient. Everything loops back to something connecting it earlier, and then again loops forwards to effect things later.

Fallout Equestria builds itself up in an insanely meticulous manor, everything intertwines and weaves throughout the entire land, the entire story. It gives you new threads every chapter, while tying together older ones to weave a tapestry that forms the entire structure of the book, of the journey. Instead I will focus on the culmination of the book and the journey at the ending.

I had visualized the character, Little Pip and her friends as they made their way through the wasteland. When reading it, I felt as if I was there, in a sense watching them, watching them grow, live, love and have losses. I grew to love them and respect them, what they were doing. I watched them be presented with problems, solve them and grow as they had experiences. It wasn't until the end, when so much had been pulled at already inside, so much made sense, that I was eagerly awaiting the last pages.

Then Little Pip made a choice... and my sanity and rules fucked off and disappeared when she made it. Everything I had worked through, all of the story before, everything that this little crew of ponies accomplished and THIS was the ending?! I fought myself, as I wept and became angry at finale, I felt ripped off, I felt offended. I wanted to stand up and curse the author that they did this to me... I spiraled out into the wrong direction, and it brought me nothing but pain.

That was the mirror. At this point in the book, I was being shown a mirror, a reflection of myself. And I HATED it, everything inside me was fighting it, was pushing against the image. That was NOT me, there was no way... that thing is disgusting, it's a horrible selfish creature that... And then... there was clarity. The light came.

It WAS me... it was myself that I was looking at, I wanted to try and figure out why I hated the ending, and all I saw was myself... I hated the ending. Me. Throughout the book, I remembered a friend telling me "Little Pip is Disposable." And I fought that notion, how was that possible that she was, it was impossible, she was probably THE most important pony out there. Many more thoughts came up, real life ones, they were my decisions, my actions and inactions, and all of them felt... selfish...

To see and understand all your actions in a new perspective... It was at this time that I realized I was trembling, my breath came in short gasps, and left in a sobbing heave... My chest was on fire, burning bright right at the center of my solar plexus. It didn't hurt physically, but my mind was in overdrive near the red-line as it tried to run away... I killed the ignition and stopped running. I accepted it, this image WAS me...

I had been selfish, I didn't want the character to make the choice she did. It was ME. I had felt she was cheated, I had felt she was getting less than she deserved. I took a sledge hammer and broke that mirror... I didn't need to see it anymore, I understood it, I was that image. I took that tool, and again broke something... I broke myself away from the story, I broke my wants, I broke my selfishness that was causing this pain.

I re-thought the entire story, right there, this time I removed my self completely... I realized that with everything the story had, how complete it was, that it was ME that was irrelevant. I re-thought everything up to the divide I had earlier and removed myself, there was only Little Pip, there was only her journey and path, her friends. I understood her journey now, I understood her choice, and this time, without me, it was the right and only choice.

I realized that selfishness follows a character, not the ideals and actions that character takes. It's much easier to support someone doing all the work, than to take on that mantle for yourself. Little Pip only moved forward when she accepted that she needed to follow the element, not become it, it was the path of following that did that. It was her collective experience, her perspective that made her the element she needed to be. Not an idea of what she thought it was.

Characters are the points that follow the elements, and those characters are 'irrelevant'. Because it is not who the ARE that makes them, it is who they BECOME because of their want to follow of be guided by that element. Who they are, who you are, is irrelevant. It is the Element we are meant to chase, to take our selves and break what WE want apart, to follow that guide. 'We', that part of us, has to die because it is holding us back from following it. Only when the 'we', our selfishness dies, do we take the path to our Element.

I cannot yet grasp the full gravity of what happened to me, I'm still working on things... a perpetual WIP. How I was before the ending... I cannot live like that any longer, it wasn't living. Something died that night in the barn when I finished the book... and I'm still coming to terms with what it is and what it means. But things have changed... I feel lighter, I feel like I have more energy, that some part I didn't need was left behind and I'm better off for it. A weight has been lifted, or broken off, and... I'm alot better.

In this new light, I've realized that I need to start doing thing differently. I need to start doing things that I haven't for a long time, or never did. For so long I've taken care of and grown my 'mind', learning, experiencing et-al... and that while I was doing that, my body became neglected. I'm not in the best of health, but I am not in the worst of health either... but in perception, what I currently am will have consequences down the road. I can't let that happen.

I've fucked up, alot. I've done horrible things to my friends and myself. I've driven them off, shut them out, and been a really shitty friend to many people. I've been selfish and it has hurt more than me...

Still working through things... as currently somepony is rooting around in my soul and re-arranging things, tossing things out as I re-align myself.

There are things that are going to start happening in my real life. Going to start moving forward soon, building and changing things. I have a job that is opening up, and it's a way forward. But that means it's going to take alot of my energy, my focus and my effort. This is all just stuff outside myself that is going on... The whole pony deal/realization is something else entirely...

I am not leaving, I'm not going anywhere on the internet... I'll still be here. But I need to remove myself from art and such for a while. I need to tackle myself, and this new job will all of the effort, creativity, and passion that I have devoted to my works. I've not given up art, I can't... it's a cornerstone of what has made me... myself for more than half of my life. I'll still draw, just not regularly, and maybe only when I get an unavoidable urge to create something.

I've changed, and there is more changing to do. I can't offer a time table, a goal or any certainty that I'll be active on the internet and such... But I have things that I need to take care of in the real world that require everything that has gone into my art.

I guess I shall see you all around? Don't want to say 'goodbye', because I'm not done here, I just and re-focusing my efforts on something that needs to be done.

Been working on a car for a day or two... and have some very interesting conclusions:

2009 Mercury Grand Marquis 4.6l
Had recurring codes;
p0300 Random/multiple miss
p0303 Miss on Cyl 3
p0306 Miss on cyl 6
p0307 Miss on cyl 7
p0106 Map/baro sensor range

Being a Ford, I suspected the ignition coils and did the normal "Musical chairs" with them. Move the suspected bad ones to a different cylinder and see if the code moves to that cylinder as well. No luck... The codes stayed on the same cylinders.

Injectors! Did the same with those, shuffle them around. No change, same cylinders. The injector harness checked out with a noid light test across all 8 cylinders.

I've ruled out electrical and it was time to test for mechanical. Yay...

Compression test was my next go to, all cylinders were reading normal aside from Cylinder 6, which had 0psi compression.
Just then a though occurred... I'd done almost the exact same thing on the same engine type, and the problem there was a collapsed lifter.

I removed the valve cover and behold, I found the rocker arm had FALLEN OFF the lifter and was laying in the bottom of the head. Well, problem solved. Replaced the hydraulic lifter and the rocker arm, inspect the camshaft for damage. Car runs fine now.

Afterward: I found it odd initially that the MAP/BARO sensor was throwing a code, but after thinking on it, I figured out why. The MAP sensor monitors pressure/vacuum in the intake, and is pre-programmed with a set of parameter values (X-Y reading range) IF there was an intake valve that was not opening (CYL 6), then the computer that is looking for 8 pulses of vacuum will only see 7, thus triggering the code to pop.
The misfires on cyl 7 and 3 were from the fuel pooling at the valve that was not opening and spilling over into the adjoining cylinders (3&7)

It's a pain in the ass to chase 'phantom' codes and problems... codes that pop up because of another issue. But, if you don't get overwhelmed by the amount of codes, and only tackle the core issue (Misfiring) it helps to smooth things out. If they are 'real' codes and not phantom codes, then they will come back after the larger issue is solved. If they are a symptom of the problem, then they will clear out once the problem is solved.

So for future reference, I shall keep in mind that a MAP/BARO code could be an indication of a mechanical valve problem, but only if paired with re-occurring missfire codes.


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And now for something completely different...
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So far I have 21 commissions to get to, already completed 3.
If you submitted a note, I shall get to you


Doing Commissions:
Send a note and I'll get to you in order!

Feel free to browse through my latest submissions as a guideline for what you can expect to get!

Base price, 15$
Add Char +10$

Send a note to my FA with character ref, description of what you want drawn and so on. If I have questions, I'll note them back.

Doing Commissions:
Really want to do a single picture commission, so I can get to as many people as possible. I'll also try to grab people who had commissions before, and I didn't get to them.

Feel free to browse through my latest submissions as a guideline for what you can expect to get!

Base price, 15$
Add Char +10$

Send a note to my FA with character ref, description of what you want drawn and so on. If I have questions, I'll note them back.

I have a piece written out about what I believe to be the 8th "Wonder of the World", but instead I thought a way to get that info across is to make a comparison, then discuss it in the comments.

So;

"The Internet is the 8th wonder of the world, our civilization's 'Library of Alexandria'"

Yes/no, and the reason why it is or isn't

So, I've tried signing up for a few sites, using my gmail so they can send an activation email.
Problem is, I never receive them... none.
I've tried to sign up for multiple sites as a test to see if ANY go through, but I get NO activation emails from anywhere. They are not in spam, social, main, the messages are not showing up anywhere, they just don't exist. I've gone through the options and am currently letting ANYTHING sent to me come through, even junk mail. I'm getting nothing from the sites I'm trying to register...

Any advice?
I've already gone through everything I can to get them to come in...

Commissions are done and over, can't keep up with the back log and am burnt out... sorry

It puckers up and shits down your throat....

Graphics card ate shit, and subsequently the re-install of my old card triggered Windows 7 DRM... Now my PC is totally locked from running any program and no internet connection as well. The product code I have for my windows can't get online and check to see if it's valid, cause the DRM shut off the internet... way to go Microsoft... that's some really forward thinking there. Now I have to re-install windows... again...

I swear I should learn coding and make an OS that is better than windows, and I'll call it "Fuck Windows OS" and release it for free...

Another fine example of "Any consumer is a thief unless we constantly monitor them constantly"
And no, I will not get windows 10, ever. I'd rather quit gaming and PC's in general before I get Big Brother 10, erm, windows 10.

Fucking DRM ruins everything...
Maybe if you weren't trying to fuck the customers with high prices and ludicrous agreements for your product, people wouldn't pirate the shit. You know, actually provide a decent service at a decent price, the same thing that is demanded from every singular person on the planet?
You reap what you sow Microsoft...
And the harvest of "Fuck you" is growing rather well

Brb... life stuff...

With the advent of AAA games sliding down the scale to resemble the 5 hour 10$ bargain bin games with multiplayer and 100000000000000000000 unlockable skills, skins and hats (Hats sold separately, see Steam Marketplace for prices [.01-400$]) Ubisoft has yet to have an aneurysm when squeezing out the latest turd of an idea.

Rainbow 6 Siege: Year Two season pass...
So now instead of 1 pass, that doesn't include much of anything these days, there are 2... This sets a dangerous precedence for the games industry. For publishers to not only rip content from the game and resell it in a season pass or DLC, now they get to have 2, TWO seasons passes... With the proliferation of Micro-transactions in single player already happening, it won't be long before we need a credit card to play each match (cough cough Hearthstone cough cough)

So it's not enough we pay 60$ for the game
Not enough to have skin packs, 28 of them for roughly 5$ a piece
And they are selling the characters, 'Operators', if you don't want to grind EXP to get them for roughly 5$ each...
NOW a season 2 pass for 30$....

Fuck

You

This is absolutely ridiculous. Imagine if I sold my product like that

60$ for showing up
300$ for replacing the timing belt
30$ for part removal
50$ for part reinstall
20$ for gasket removal
15$ for gasket replacement
70$ for completion check
120$ and I'll put the fuse back in for your ECM so it will run.
And then I will tell you that I need to tighten everything to specifications, after it's all back together. Time to take everything apart again... for a cost
Broken down to itemize individual parts and maximize profits, and in the end I rush and cut corners.

I'd never find a job if I did that...

Why is this acceptable?
Why do we have to now pay an egregious amount for what used to come in a game for the base price?
I don't know anymore...

Also, Fuck loot crates...

Car is done, I got co-opted to work on it because I'm apparently the "authority" on mechanical things... The 180$ I'm getting for helping is compensation enough.
Anyway... Back to commissions like normal.

Roughly 15 left...

So I bought a Razer Deathadder, and already claimed a warranty once, and now it's doing the same thing again. The right mouse button is not responding 10% of the time... (Probably because I have the mouse set up for left handed use, but I use my right XD)

Any recommendations for a gaming mouse that isn't shit and breaks in 6 months?
As long as the thing lasts, and has these buttons: http://assets.razerzone.com/eeimage.....ure-button.png I don't give a shit if Isis made it, gotta be better than the damned Razer ones..

So the world is supposed to end... cause Trump...

Just wondering when it's going to happen or if it's all post-erection rhetoric like in 2008 when the "Blacks would invade the suburbs." Or in the 1970's when the pot smoking sedate hippies were going to be why Russia invades us.

I'm still waiting for the apocalypse rhetoric from 2012 and 2008 to happen. Someone let me know when (insert whatever fear/lies here) happens...

Until then...
Baa

So FA deleted or lost a journal I made after I received inquiries regarding the "note status" (Read/Unread)

UPDATE

I am NOT reading your notes until I am working on them. It's a flag to know what I have done, and what I haven't.

I have ALOT to work through, it's going to take time.
Don't stick your cock in a clock....

18 more I need to do...

Done 7 so far...

And I will draw a picture for you.

Pee-pal wants to be paid and I need to pay them... So says the cranky lady on the phone anyway...

I have 20 days to avoid a fee [strike] you owe us another 30$ because reasons. Those 1's and 0's must be sucking up alot of electricity or something [/strike]

I've gotta get 210$ in pee-pal in 20 days or dey will set de Jamaican tele-debt collectors on me `mon. And also I need some new shoes.

So line up in a neat and orderly fashion to [strike] be executed [/strike] get your commission done.

Rules:
Send a note containing:

1.) character reference picture, poses, 'somewhat like x' links...
B.) the idea: TF'd into X, rubber, bondage, rubber bondage, et al
3.14) Pie, pumpkin only
X.) I'll send the picture over and then you pay. (Paypal only)
X+1.) Any use of shortening text (c u l8r mstrb8r) will disqualify an note entry, I am not charging per-letter to read it. I will charge 10$ per letter missing if such things transpire.

What is a Skoodle?
It's a sketch/doodle where the sketch lines are cleaned up so I don't have to do line work. Backgrounds will happen based on some arbitrary RNG, so they might not be included. Colors are mandatory and will be enforced.

Examples of a Skoodle:
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/21056853/
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/21358174/
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/21012415/

Prices:
10$ a character/panel/gross weight

FCFS
First come, first serve. I'll knock out as many as I can until I feel I have enough money. (Depending on interest, it'll be anywhere up to 21 commissions)
Make sure your note contains everything I need to make your idea happen inside of it, as I tend to do these fast and hate hang-ups in communication.

Things I don't draw:
Sonic
Humans

Things I do draw:
Mostly anything but Sonic and humans

You were a dick stop


I will now use Discord instead full stop

~End Telegram

The last video game Console will be a PC


"Hey! You have PlayStation on this thing?" Scott shouted, having seen the black computer tower and maze of wires passing through the desk and branching out to the monitors and peripherals a desktop computer needs.
"Yea, and the Nintendo one too," Mike replied after appearing in the door way, "All of them are on there, got a lotta games too."

Now, this is a snapshot of the future of gaming, any gaming. Microsoft, Sony and perhaps even Nintendo will just be a mouse click away from jumping into the latest title games and an extensive library behind them from the past. There will be no more 'console' or 'pc' gamers, however fret not, the childish rivalry of what 'platform' is best will still remain. So the flame wars will still continue.

Now, the important question of 'Why will there be no consoles?'

That is easily explained through a bit of a history lesson, current news and a little bit of thought. So let us dive in with a bit of history of consoles of the past and the available PC's of the time for a reference towards how both have evolved, and that is an important part.

The history of the consoles from the beginning, and covering all the consoles is a large task and has been done with much more effort and passion than I am willing to type here. However, the Nintendo/Famicom is a good place to start as any.

Nintendo/Famicom home entertainment system. I use this as a jumping off point as it is the most recognizable console and the most wide-spread 'install base' of previous generations. While the Nintendo/Famicom was the beginning of the 3rd generation, it brought awareness that home gaming was now part of the culture.
Now, onto the meat of the argument, the specifications of the Nintendo and an average PC at the time:

1983) The 3r'd Generation
Nintendo
1.7mhz CPU core
2.5kb Memory (Total)
0Mb Hard drive (No storage options, cartridge only)

IBM Personal Computer XT
4.77MHz CPU core
128kb Memory
10Mb Hard drive

These are general specs for computers, as multiple were available and higher price ranges with more power were as well. I chose a 'standard' popular model of the time.
The PC core is 4 times faster, the memory is 42 times more and the hard disk space is close to 100 times better, as some games had no memory and the storage required of games with saves barely went over the kilobyte range.
The numbers show that the PC has the better specifications. It does not mean the PC is better, but do take notice in the size differences. The PC out performs on any numerical level, and is on average, a rough average 48 times more than the console's hardware offerings. Yet the Nintendo system was more popular than the PC for gaming.

1990) The 4th Generation.
Super Nintendo
3.58MHz CPU core
192kb Memory
0Mb Hard drive (No storage options, cartridge only)

Intel
25MHz CPU core (average)
4Mb Memory
100Mb Hard drive

Again. the numbers based on averages; CPU in the PC is 6 times better, the Memory is 20 times better and the storage is 100 times better. On average, the PC is 42 times better technically.
We begin to see, in a 10 year period that the 'average' console -(The Sega was technically 'better', but not as popular as the Nintendo) has become to catch up with the advance of technology, dropping 6 points of average specs compared to the PC.

Let's jump ahead 10 years, to the 6'th generation. I will be using the X-box versus the PC:

2001) The 6'th generation
X-box
733MHz CPU core
64Mb Memory
8Gb Hard drive

PC
1.2GHz CPU core
512Mb Ram
10Gb Hard drive (20Gb and higher were available)

Just 10 years later we see vastly improved hardware between the two. The PC still out-steps the consoles with 2 times better CPU's, 8 times better memory and 1.25 times better hard drive storage. These numbers knock the hardware discrepancy down alot, making the PC just 3.75 times better.
I find this very interesting. Empirical evidence that the performance gap between PC's and Consoles is closing. The PS2 was a bit behind tech wise, but on average, PC's and Consoles are getting closer.

Now, we are going to jump through time again, to 2017-2018. To the release of the X-box 'Scorpio' as it is now dubbed and let's compare my PC specs to what we know of the Scorpio.

2017-2018) The 9th Generation

While the specifics of the Scorpio are still under wraps, we will now move onto speculation based from what we DO know about the new Console:

The XBox-Sc (Scorpio) boasts that it is 4.5 times powerful than the Xbox One. Meaning:
Xbox One Specs
1.75Ghz 8 Core CPU
853Mhz GPU (Graphics card)
8Gb Memory
1Tb hard drive
Now, the question is do we multiply these specs by 4.5 times EACH, or that the system will be 4.5 times more powerful than the Xbox One as a total? We would be seeing a Console that looks like this, with each spec multiplied individually:

Xbox-Sc (Scorpio) [SPECULATION, NOT OFFICIAL!]
4.5ghz 8 core CPU
1.5Ghz GPU (Graphics card)
32Gb Memory
1-2Tb Hard drive and more (upgrades possible)

My PC
4.2GHz 8 core CPU
1.2GHz GPU (Graphics card)
24Gb memory
3.5Tb Hard drive space (Multiple)

I sit in amazement at how close they are, and perhaps the Scorpio will be better than my current PC at the moment. A console in 2017 out pacing a 3 year old decent PC.

Now, with PC gaming, I am a few years behind, as it was built in 2014 and upgraded in early 2016 (New Graphics card and Ram). A console that could be better than a 3 year old PC that I call a 'low end, top tier PC'. Now, this is all just speculation, but clearly the Xbox-Sc will be NEAR or MORE powerful than my personal build PC circa '2015'.
Microsoft announced that Windows 10 will have support (Xbox Live) to play title released on both the Console and the PC. Eventually there will be cross-platform play with some titles, the console will have some exclusive titles, but as time moves on, the titles will be universally available on PC as well as the Xbox-Sc. Depending on how well the PC versions of the game sell, Sony may venture into a PC platform for games in a bit to reach a wider audience.

I've laid out how the PC and Consoles have matched up over time, how the technology gap is quickly closing and will eventually merge. Microsoft and Sony see this as a God-send, what it means for the future of gaming and their respective businesses and for their bottom line. The last nail in the coffin for consoles.

Microsoft and Sony pour billions of dollars into research for console development, what they need for specifications, cost and then development of the technology. Shipping, handling and tests. All of these things create a massive cost behind a console release.

Imagine that cost for development disappearing. They no longer have to spend billions on research for a system. Why, the technology they have developed for the Scorpio (and Sony equivalent) is JUST as good as a PC, perhaps better. Instead of spending Billions on research, let's give our friends at Nvidia/AMD/Intel/Seagate and see what bulk PC parts cost. It won't be billions of dollars in research, and a custom 'Xbox' case for all the parts isn't too hard to make. Why make new tech when you have the equivalent of what you would be making, ready to buy?

What ever comes in the 10th generation of gaming, though many years down the road, those 'Consoles' will be just PC's with Sony or Microsoft skins on them. I'd be willing to bet you could put more memory in them (Ram), perhaps change out the Graphics card. At that point, there is no difference between the 'Console' and the 'PC'.

The last Console will be a PC.

*PS
I have not mentioned a new Nintendo console (The 'NX') for a good reason. Nintendo sees this coming and that is why they have bowed out of the Console 'race'. The NX had been reported to be a hybrid hand-held and console, a transition to a market where they have a monopoly.

*PS-S
These are my thoughts, what I have seen and some of the logic I went through. But, I could be wrong, these are just my thoughts on the matter in regards to gaming perhaps less than a decade down the road.

The demo!
https://youtu.be/eKXbAqNw47s

The answer is Belief!

Warface, a game made by Crytek (They made Crysis), a 'Free to Play' shooter game, and a childspawn that should have been aborted with an intro-vaginal 12ga shotgun.
Note before moving forward, I have not played PVP and never had any interest in it, the second you can pay for guns, PvP becomes unbalanced and shit.
Why say that about this waste of plasma? Here's why:

Everything is locked behind a ludacris 'paywall'
"Rental" equipment
Lack of enemy variety
Lack of PVP balance
Unoriginal 'Hallway' levels
Pay to win
More grinding than a grain mill that runs 24/7
Horrible Anti-aliasing, graphics and performance
No one knows how to play a team game anymore
What's a story? Go kill stuff, cause we said
Multiple in-game currencies
Horrible interface
No distinguishable lobbies
Inability to kick AFK players after a certain point in the mission

1.) Pay wall
A pay wall, the number one indicator that a game is a money mill. When a game is made purely to make you spend your money, they hide things behind a pay wall. The best equipment, armor and gear is level locked like every game out there these days, but they give an option to 'Buy' it outright. It's possible to get the best stuff, but the amount of time needed to do that is far longer than the game will hold it's interest to anyone with half a functioning brain. So they give you an option to buy the shit instead of grind for days to get 1 decent gun/piece of equipment. More on the Paywalls later in the "Confusing multiple currencies" section. While you can earn the cash in game, you get nowhere near enough to purchase new equipment without spending real money.

2.) Rental Equipment.
Guns and armor break down into a rental or 'buy' option. Rent a piece of equipment for 1-7 days for differing amounts of cash, or for a large amount buy it permanently. Nothing says "Give us money" like working hard and barely able to get a new gun and have to use the default, under powered weapons, or spend your saved cash to get it for a little while. This is a beyond ridiculous system for their gear, and with the hundreds of weapons, a level lock system would have been far better. A rental option forces you to play the game simply because you don't want the 20 hours you spent gaining 5,000$ to rent the gun for a week, and thus spend another 20 hours getting that 5,000$ back.
Or you can buy a 'resource' booster for 5$ and double what you earn. Just saying.
Also, each mission your gear gets damaged, and costs money to repair. Because we all know that every gun needs a barrel or receiver replaced after 200 rounds went through it... So kiss your non resources booster cash goodbye!

3.) Lack of variety in General
Variety is the spice of death, if we know anything at all, this is true. However there is a lack of variety in anything in the game. Cloned soldiers come after you, shield dudes, heavies. Stock standard crap for a game. No thought or intuition to create anything that is more than a pallete swap between them.
The level design is abhorrent and reminiscent of the hallway shooters of old, funneling you into the objective with hallways of buildings or invisible walls in rather bland and similar levels. Run through here, shoot this, Wait! Something is coming. Every time, every level.

5.) Multiple confusing Currencies
The game has several currencies, which they really don't explain at all. Cash, Krowns, K-Kash, and Tokens. Cash is gained every mission, and used to repair your equipment and buy equipment, but you get so little of it without a paid booster. I Had 8,000$ Cash in the game, did 3 missions and after everything was repaired (I earned about 3,500$ between the missions) and was left with 8,500$. Seems the game is set up that to get anywhere, you need to buy a booster, pay to win.
Krowns are gotten if you pass certain challenge points, Kills and Time in certain missions. You can use these Krowns to RENT weapons only, can't but them. Only good thing about the Krowns is that you can't buy them with real cash, yet. But this feeds into the 'Pay to win' rigging of the game. You are more likely to get kills, and more Krowns if you have a decent weapon and armor.
I have no idea what the K-Kash is for, but they give you an option to buy it.
Tokens. You earn tokens through log-ins or by completing challenges in the Co-op modes. The Tokens allow you to play other missions, a few tokens for 1 mission. Run out of tokens to play certain missions, well you can just buy more.

6.) What interface?
The lack of explanation in the interface is abhorrent. There are no clear visible lobbies and getting friends to play with you is obscure as fuck. Sure you can click around and see what's there, but there are so many things that need explanation or don't work unless a friend is online. And you have no fucking idea what is what because it's not explained.
The shop is labeled though. Spend that money!

7.) Crappy graphics
From the game devs that brought us Crysis, the game that to this day, stresses the fuck out of a 1,000$ top of the line video card made this piece of trash. The anti-ailiasing was better on an N64, even on Ultra settings. The game chugs at certain points for no reason at all. The textures are sub-par, the damned game looks like Counterstrike with better models.
Loading is abhorrently slow, and the game LOVES loading, taking on average up to 2 minutes to load the pitifully small level.

Other problems:
They have a system where you can be revived if you take too much damage. However it feels random when that happens, most of the time you strait up die, with no real way to tell if you are going to need a revive or have to burn a "Revive token" (Purchasable for money if you run out)

No real story. You are a Merc, kill stuff. They 'bad guys' are just dudes with guns, same as you. There is no distinguishing factor or event that makes them a 'bad guy' at all. You hear all the bad stuff they 'do', but never see it, and we all know what someone tells you is truth, Iraq had WMD's for sure... They try to set you up as the good guy, cause the bad guys are doing bad things and we must stop them! Shoot them, who needs a story?
There is so much potential for a decent story mission and a campaign.

No one knows how to play as a team. You need the other players and they need you, except the one guy who bought his shit and plows through everything, cause best armor and guns. This creates a discrepancy with the newer players, as they suck up all the kills and so on, leaving you to get less from each mission because you didn't pay money for the best guns. It locks you out of alot of options simply because you didn't pay money.

During the game you get 'Checkpoints' in a mission, where HP/Armor and ammo is restored. However they are NOT checkpoints in any sense of the word. If all players die in the game, the checkpoints do nothing, you are loaded back into the lobby WITHOUT a "Restart Mission?" option. They are not checkpoints, they are re-arm points and server no purpose whatsoever.

Now, it is a Free to Play Game and the "They made it and deserve money" argument is surely applied here by the brainless. No
No one "Deserves" money because they made something. IF they are to receive money, it is because their product has value to it. Just because someone makes something doesn't mean it has value. Hell, if that is your argument, I will start releasing my new art behind an arbitrary money wall, gotta pay me cause I "Deserve" it, creating something.

Something has to have value, some return on an investment. While the term "value" has different meanings to people, it generally is a satisfaction that what you spent your life on created good memories, where you can laugh and talk about it with friends ect. Anything made that has an honest force behind it for entertainment has value. However, this game stiffles the player at every turn, constantly having lower returns for high priced things, and reminding you that you can always remove the molasses slow progression if you spent real money. That isn't value, that is a money grab, intentionally made harder so that you feel compelled to spend cash.

Free to Play games aren't a license to charge for everything in the game, especially when it isn't even a good game. Anyone who does that hasn't created a decent game. There are plenty of FTP models out there that don't want you to spend copious amounts of cash to progress. The smart ones make everything available to get in exchange for time. The armor someone pays 10$ for is receivable if you put in a bit of reasonable time. You don't short change experience or resources and hide a sensible progression rate behind a 24 hour 5$ booster.

You need content, Warface has little to offer there, unbalanced pay to win pvp in horrible maps, map clones, very little to do in the game. There are 6 co-op missions that change each day, but not by much. Same structure/goals in the same maps almost every time. They have some more intense/longer missions, but don't even try if you don't have decent stuff. Other co-op esque stuff is locked behind the 'Tokens' wall, and they get used up quickly. At this point, there is no reason to spend an money on the game, there isn't enough in the game to justify it.

Warface is to be avoided, the game is structured around you spending money, nothing else. The game delves into the depths of old-school arcade games, keep feeding it quarters to progress, merely to progress for progression's sake.
Bad thing is, this type of game is a cancer, for multiple reasons. It becomes "Normal" for these games to exist and games made to take money with nothing to offer in return. People grow up with "Pay to win" games and thus they continue to be made because nearly every game out there wants more than 60$. Ultimate editions, MEGA edition, Complete editions, DLC passes, DLC that isn't included in the DLC passes, Microtransactions, Fee-to-play, "Free" to play, subscriptions.

If people continue to play these types of games, I hope you all love spending 120$ and several hundred in Microtransactions for 1$'s worth of experience and entertainment.

I have noticed that I will go long periods of not doing art, usually coupled with other things RL side, but it always has a good side to it.
When I finally come back to drawing, get the mojo back, my art... "Levels up" so to speak. It's happened quite a few times consistently now, and been trying to figure that out. I just feel that I draw better and so on.
Apparently I run on Morrowind Skill levels.... gotta rest to level up... XD

One of the guys I watch on Youtube posted this to his channel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TYTdtU-9wY

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfil...../?id=647892080

A fantasy game with Bears.
Not my thing, but give it a look/pass it on if you know someone may like it. So they can like/support it if they want it.

So... I'm going at the behest of my parents, with them, to Burning Man.

I know there is a furry camp somewhere... Any one else going, or know of a furry group somewhere that does?