I am the Real Moses!

I am Moses, Hebrew prophet, lawgiver, and the founder of Israel. About 3,300 years ago I was sent to Egypt by god to free the Hebrews from slavery,unfortunately,the pharaoh didn't want to release them. I tried to reason with him, but he was totally unreachable.So I raised my shepherds cane and brought ten deadly plagues upon Egypt.I said to him, oh pharaoh, let my people go! But he laughed maniacally and dismissed me as a bad magician in a ridiculous robe. Pharaoh would soon learn that the power in my ordinary shepherds cane was far greater than the armies that he commanded.For within that shepherds cane was the very will,and the wrath of almighty god.I stretched out the cane to touch the waters of Egypt and it turned into a sea of blood.Oh pharaoh, let my people go, or Egypt will drink bitter water!For good measure, I then unleashed swarms of locusts, frogs, and killed all the livestock, but even after all that, pharaoh remained stoic and unmoved. So I then killed all the first born sons of Egypt, including pharaohs prestigious spoiled brat Lourens. The Pharaoh shook his fist at the sky and yelled, what kind of god would kill a first born Pharaohs son! Amazingly, Pharaoh was still intransigent and uncooperative, so I threatened an unimaginable 11th plague. Oh Pharaoh, let my people go: if you do not release them, Egyptians shall begin gradually burning in hell. On the first day of the plague, 10 prominent Egyptians shall burn, then 20, and a week later Egyptians of all walks of life will begin burning exponentially. Pharaoh became uneasy and threatened me with the law firms of Weinstein and Weinstein seeking compensation for those who were burned through no fault of their own. At first, Pharaoh defied the 11th plague, but the Senate started demonizing him as an extremist insurrectionist who was dividing the nation. He dismissed such criticism, but the scathing op-eds from the Egyptian Times wouldn't let up. With Pharaohs approval rating plunging to record lows on Real Egyptian Politics, he began to fear impeachment proceedings. So the Pharaoh finally capitulated.Release the Israelis! So let it be written, so let it be done! And so it was written, I took the Israelis on a long Exodus out of Egypt, to the mountain where god dwelt.I climbed Mt Sinai for 40 days and 40 nights and found a burning bush that was not consumed.A voice reverberated and shook the ground. Moses, is that you my child? Yes, but why have you chosen me to deliver these peoples? The mountain shook with every word,take these ten commandments to your people! I began to descend the mountain to deliver the laws to my flock and when I arrived I was shocked to find the Israelis worshiping a golden calf and Kid Rock. I bellowed out, oh children of Israel, you have sinned a great sin in the eyes of god! A non believer laughed out and said, god shmod, who needs a ridiculous guy with a long white beard and tablets when we have a golden calf and Kid Rock? Oh ye of little faith, I have parted the Red Sea,and delivered you from bondage, what more can I do? If you shall not live by these laws, then I will go ask god if he could amendmend them! The Israelis were receptive and wrote down their suggestions, but god was livid. As a monotheist the Israelites could either live by his laws or die by them.He was furious at the idea of sharing deity status with Kid Rock, so that was when the flock became known as god fearers. So let it be written, so let it be done.

Fallout 76 patch 1/29 radical changes

When I fired up my Fallout 76 game after the patch was installed, I quickly became aware of just how radical the changes were. I immediately took notice of the fact that all explosives and explosive weapons were drastically reduced in power. How reduced? Grenade launchers, missile launchers, grenades and MIRV fatman are rendered to be not worthy of their carrying weight or the cost of resource to produce them. In most instances, a grenade round or a missile is now only as strong as a heavy gun. The result? I dumped all grenade and missile launchers, as well as grenades for caps. I also removed Demolition expert from my perk list as it takes up 5 specialty points and is no longer worth even 1. That is a big change right there. Next up is the radical price increases for plans. Luckily I have most of them. None of the things that would've made the game better were added, such as stash space or text in game. Everyone is radically figuring out what this game now means to them and how to adapt it to something even remotely resembling what they were doing before the patch. Thats just bad business in my opinion. I'll try to continue adapting to the changes, but no one is launching nukes out there or doing anything in a normalized way since this change. lets see if the coming days and weeks don';t have us all putting this game down and leaving west Virginia to the molerats and its devs.

Dems React To Manchin

Trump Stronger Than Ever After Helsinki

Listening to all this Russia hysteria of the last few days, it becomes apparent why RINO's like the Bush's, Paul Ryan, Jeff Flake, Bob Corker, and never Trump counterparts, are losers. They are losers and spineless jellyfish with no real convictions, or core. They tell us how Donald Trump is coarse, unrefined, and much worse. We hear from George W Bush, who embarrassed and almost destroyed the Republican party in Iraq. After he sat silent for 8 years of Obama's experiment in Nixonian bureaucracy and fomentation of racial unrest, Bush is suddenly not too classy or constrained by protocols to criticize Trump for the cruelty of trying to enforce our nations border laws. Contrast this with the other side of the isle which is willing to do anything, anything at all, and act in any manner to regain control.

I would never vote for a Democrat as I have really come to view them as extraordinarily corrupt in ways that would make Nixon blush. After incidents like Benghazi, we learned that Hillary Clinton knew immediately that it was an Al Qaeda affiliated attack, but for some reason, kept telling us that men with rocket propelled grenades and machine guns who attacked in waves were actually protesters who were angry over an obscure YouTube video that no one had ever seen. This one incident alone should have sent Democrats galloping towards Whigdom, but they survived. They survived because they had a supportive news media who are really in the business of disseminating propaganda rather than reporting news, and because they stuck together, telling the American people a cartoonishly bad lie. The Russia conspiracy is a little bit more elaborate, but its just as bad. All the main actors such as Comey, Brennan, Yates, Clapper, Mueller, and all the rest are just hyperbolic, partisan zealots who tried, and are still trying to frame up Trump. What Democrats do have, what makes them strong is the one thing they have is the will to fight and do whatever it takes to advance their corruption. Republicans at times sound like they don't even believe themselves. Take Marco Rubio during the Republican primary when Chris Christie made him start reciting his talking points like a doll with a pull-string on his neck. Most of us wouldn't vote to put Marco Rubio in charge of a McDonald's after that gaffe, and he knows it.

Donald Trump was the exception to that. Trump didn't burn the playbook he nuked it. He rose up and spoke in harsh tones, but in tones that he clearly believed and people understood. He also had an anger that was righteous, and a willingness to fight for things he believed, sort of like Reagan's "I paid for this microphone" on steroids. We see time and time again squishy Republicans who won't lower themselves or get in the mud because they are too royal and regal to fight dirty Democrats for the future of America and Republican voters keep asking, well, why not? Get in there and fight you coward. And thats what Republican officials still don't seem to get and what Trump and his voters almost certainly do.

Blog news

I will keep this blog as a personal page of some kind, not sure yet exactly what, but I'm certain that my political rants are utterly worthless to the internet community at large.

The site meter tells me that traffic wise. the only things I have posted of interest are articles related to Win 7, PCS2, Linux, and Philip Caputos "Rumor Of War."

It would seem that I should just delete everything and leave that stuff up. I may as well put up Google ads with those articles of interest since the thrill is gone and keeping a blog really doesn't interest me very much anymore.

Running Pcsx2 in Windows 7 Beta

I seem to have gotten the Playstation 2 version of Resident Evil 4 into playable condition in Windows 7 with the pcsx2 emulator.

My first problem was getting the faster VM version to work in Win 7.
I ran it in compatibility mode and checked off the "last worked in XP" option.

Windows worked in the background to find a solution and did, albeit, with a minor glitch. Now, when I shut down the game, the sound and process continue, so the only way to shut it down completely is by killing the process in the task manager. Not a biggie.



In no time at all, Viola, the start screen.



When I was done getting the VM version running, I had to find the best plugins for my rig. These seem to work best for me:

Graphics - GSdx 846 (MSVC 15.00 SSSE3) 0.1.9

Sound - P.E.O.p.S SPU2 1.9.0

Despite having a dual Core CPU, I had to shut down the Multi Threaded GS (MTGS) and Dual Core (DC) Modes.

Running the MTGS mode actually depreciated performance and maxed out both cores. With the option turned off, one core fluctuated between 50% and 90% while the other never went higher than 10%

This all Resulted in a pleasantly playable Resident Evil 4. Here are some shots of the gameplay.







There are some intermittent periods of slower gameplay, but its not so bad as to make it unplayable.

Its really cool to run the PS2 version on my computer because the PC port is a bit different. The PC port is nice, but some of the games original ambiance was lost. The metals seem more metallic, and the scenery seems to have more contrast in the original. There is also a certain amount of character animation that was lost. Of course, I do have the PC port up and running as well. :-)



It runs a lot smoother than the PS2 version, but there is definitely a certain charm attached to the original game. I guess I'm just a total Resident Evil fanatic.

Comodo Firewall in Windows 7

Every time I went to install Comodo firewall I would get this ridiculous rollback error. It seems like the fix was quite simple.

Right click the setup and go to the compatibility menu and change the default XP setting to Vista.

Right click Comodo setup -> Select Properties from menu -> Select "compatibility" tab -> Change from "Run in compatibility mode for: XP Service Pack2" to Windows Vista -> Double click setup and it should now run.