Saturday 19 September 2020

Game Dev Log Status: Runnin on Empty

So it's been a while since I posted about game development.  My last post pretty much outlines one of the reasons.  The other reason is that I'm back at work.  Needless to say going back to work and having to deal with the bullshit plandemic virus government enforced lockdown measures has drained me emotionally and physically.

 

I'll get back on the wagon at some point, but right now I expect to veg for a while longer.  I do have some progress that I made before going back to the day job and after I made my last dev log.



A rough model has been done for the previously mentioned project.  There are a lot of things that need to be touched up, so take this more as concept art.  But for the most part I think it serves my purpose.


The last thing I got done was the isometric tileset.  It looks like bland crap and I don't have any internal corners made, but it was mostly meant to be a prof of concept to see if I could devise a workflow to make seamless isometric tiles.  It definitely is seamless and will serve as a good guideline for future tilesets. 


So the only thing left in terms of artwork is to make a few objects to interact with, and some enemy to fight.  I have a skeleton model I did wayyyyy back when, I'll find it and use that for the time being.  I also know I modeled and rigged a chest.  I'll have to find that and use it too.  I'll set aside some time at some point to print out character animations and the intractable objects.  Then I can finally start that tutorial.



Friday 18 September 2020

2020, the year medicine became political.

So its been many months now since the initial lockdown started, the powers that be are allowing us a trickle of freedom but the threat of a second lockdown is looming ever closer.

Nothing really major has changed since my last post except for mandating masks in all public spaces. Naturally this drove me into a seething rage and I sent another keyboard to the shit hawk buffet. There have also been huge protest around the world, people are starting to wake up and realize that all the number pasta they have been served seems more grand than the meal they have received on their table.

I came to a few conclusions since all this started and why it keeps going. I've heard most of the conspiracy theories about the 'Illuminati' and Gates trying to establish a new world order. While I won't dismiss them (the government declared underwear effective at stopping viral contamination for fuck sakes), I feel they are a tad too outlandish to outright believe. There is definitely a script there, and some of the actors are playing their part well, but I can't help but shake the feeling that it's nothing more than a distraction while the real objective is carried out when those of us that are more observant than the usual are too distracted to notice.

The economic reset. I felt this was the real reason for all of this at the beginning and I sill believe that this is at the meat and potatoes of the matter, however I've become increasingly worried that there is more than a couple of groups or individuals that are going to, or already taking advantage of this situation for their own gain.

At this point I strongly believe that the timing for this 'event' has been to interfere in the American election. While I imagine this event would have taken place anyway, I think it's timing is too convenient not to have been used with the intent of being politically weaponized.

Take the mask law for instance. It's an abortion of rational PPE logic and was installed in the middle of summer when viral spread would be at its lowest. There have been many theories about how it is used to make people compliant and get them ready for mandatory vaccination, to trying to make people own the (plan)demic so that officials can justify killing off the elderly and frail for a holocaust that never happened.

But I think it's purpose is more direct. Quebec has always been enthusiastically anal about ripping off face coverings (especially the hijab,.... and possibly turbans, not racist,.... maybe), but suddenly they have done a complete 180 and now passionately insist that people mask on. So it hit me when the statue of John A MacDonald was torn down, could this be a way to help out the various rioters that have been popping up like weeds during this sham? It makes sense to me since the rioters appear to be politically weaponized at this point.

Speaking of masks, I can't believe just how many people have fallen for this complete bullshit scam. 'You wear it to stop others from getting infected and not yourself' says our overlords, talk about an oxymoron. If that was the case, how are people getting infected still? Everyone I see on my shopping trips have dawned sheep face, with less than a handful of exceptions. People would happily flap their arms and squawk like turkeys if the officials told them it would save their lives or the lives of their neighbors it would seem.

So let me just set the record straight, the underwear people wear on their face is NOT adequate to prevent viral contamination! First off you need a proper filter. Then you need an air tight seal between your skin and that filter, otherwise it defeats the purpose of wearing PPE. “A glove with a hole in it is equal to no glove”, this is the PPE mantra that I have been taught with every job that I had to handle chemicals. Even if you just disregard the 'science', ask yourself, if masks are so effective in everyday situations and setting, why haven't these benefits been discovered earlier? The truth is the real studies found them to be ineffective in everyday use and sometimes even harmful.

Other theories I've been thinking on is how we got the mass initial deaths when this all started.


The First one is about the long term care/nursing homes. From all the bits and pieces of information I gathered the theory that makes the most sense to me is that when the WHO declared the state of emergency all the world governments sent their sick elderly into LTC/Nursing homes to make room for all the sick young people that would have a chance at surviving if they had the proper care.

My mother was in a Nursing home before she passed away and I can speak from experience that, while the care staff there are hardworking, doing a really thankless job, they are ultimately not nurses or doctors. And a LTC facility is not a hospital, they are not equipped to handle people with serious medical issues. One person on social media made the comment that they don't provide 10 foot spoons at LTC, and it downed on me. The government flooded the nursing homes with sick elderly, then declared a deadly virus.

I don't see the minimum wage, ill-equipped care staff taking risks around these people. My assessment is that the LTC/nursing homes suffered such catastrophic loss more to poor management and bad logistics, than a killer virus.


The Second is about the hot spots where lots of people died. As with the first theory I believe most of the death was caused due to poor management and logistics. There is a YouTube channel that is called Journeyman Pictures, they did a short series called 'Perspective on the Pandemic'. In one of the episodes they interviewed a nurse that served in the military. She was sent to New York to help with the crisis. Her account was very disturbing and described how they were putting patients into medically induced comas and then hooking them up to ventilators. This inevitably end up killing the patient. I can partially confirm this as a young man was reported to have died from Covid19 while being put in a medically induced coma by the YouTube channel CityNews Toronto. The article is called, 'Montreal teen second person under 20 in Canada to die of COVID-19' posted Aug 21, 2020.


Thankfully things are starting to look up as I know two U.S. States have found the lockdown unconstitutional. However, at the time of this writing the battle is still being fought here in Canada. Although it's hard at times, I'll do my best to stand steadfast. Thankfully, no matter how insane I think I've become over the last months I still refuse to accept that underwear worn on the face is somehow a viable new solution to stop personal viral spread or that Plexiglas somehow magically stops microscopic airborne particles.


Anyway, I honestly don't know how much of this is real or not, but I suspect we'll find out in the coming months. I'll leave this blog post here and see how well it ages.


One thing is for certain, when all this bullshit is over I'm burning each and every fucking ear-loop mask I come across in this house.....