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Aug. 6th, 2017 11:17 amYesterday Aug 5th was my car's first birthday. I can't believe I've had Alan for 1 year now. Though I've been calling him "Fear" because of the art on him. I need to do something for him. Washing and do a photo shoot or make a video. With the stupid road construction here I haven't wanted to go anywhere or wash the cars. It's kind of pointless as when other cars drive by the throw lime dust everywhere. Washing is kind of pointless and I have no idea how long the road will be screwed up. There was nothing wrong with the road. If they don't make the connection through the cowfield then this was a completely pointless thing for the city to do.
Bullet is doing ok. She's on antibiotics. We're fighting her tummy illness. I'm proud of her because she's actually drinking her gross medicine on her own. I know it must be so bitter and gross but it's her only drinking water. She has no choice. I've also got her on pellets now but she only eats enough to stay alive. I can tell she's protesting the diet change. I must not give in and give her seeds. She's so fluffy probably from being hungry. But all this is best for her. Must not give into her. I've got two weeks to fix her still. She's acting broody too which is not good and I did cave and gave her a little towel so she can lie on it though she hasn't yet.
Art wise I've sort of put the plush aside for now. I might get back to it. I'd love to have a new travel buddy for this next trip but well he may not be ready in time. I colored most of the rocks for the Relaxed drawing. Almost done with rocks then I can start on plants. My Doom figures I have placed in the curio cabinet. They look nice in there and for now it's their temporary home. I'll order paints for them later too. It's not a priority to paint them yet.
I'm loving my Plague Inc Evolved game. I beat the Black Death scenario. It was challenging but not impossible. After playing Shadow Plague so long I got spoiled by having bats and forgot how hard it was to infect islands and I kept getting stalemate on this level where I infected nearly the whole world but some islands and then everyone dies but the islands survive though the cure was stopped. Definitely a stalemate. It's one of those things you just have to get lucky on that a boat or plane will go to all the islands in time before they close the ports. Before I get to the good stuff want to rant a little bit. Some scenarios are stupid. I played the Global Warming one. I knew something was wrong when they let me chose my disease type. That's not a scenario. That's no different than playing the normal game. Sure enough I started as bacteria once I picked it for an easy experience and all the news flashes were from the bacteria game play. There was nothing unique in the dialog or in the leveling screen. WTF Does this have to do with global warming? I even named my bacteria Pyrobacter and thought I would start with built in heat resistance but no not even that. I beat it on the first try and it was just stupid and disappointing. I figured the Ice Age one would be more of the same and sure enough it has nothing to do with Ice Age and you pick your own disease. I'll have to blow through those levels on easy and fast just to get them over with. I'm disappointed after the other two were so great.
I played the Frozen Virus one and LOVED it. This is an example of a very well done scenario based on a real virus. It's based on the Pithovirus which Giant Microbes calls Zombie Virus. I recognized the picture right away though it had been colored blue as it looked just like the one on that link. I love that they made it be accurate to the discovery. You start in Russia where it was discovered frozen/fossilized in Siberia. It is a giant virus compared to what we have today and lived at the time of Mammoths and Neanderthals. But it didn't attack big animals it went for amoebas. In the game you start with maxed out cold resistance which makes sense and you have to repair your DNA which makes sense if you've been dormant for 30,000 years. You infect amoebas (the leveling screen has pics of amoebas! I like new an dunique screens like that) to increase transition and have to build up heat resistance. So I love those starting parameters and then it's the same strategy to quietly and quickly infect then kill everyone. I really enjoyed that.
Ok now for the screen caps of the Santa's Little Helper scenario with the Neurax worm.
YES, Bringer of Light is a force of good. I named this worm after the story with Scary Fear I am still working on. No my story has nothing to do with Christmas but there are some parallels in this that I love that fit my story apart from the obvious that these worms and Fear are mind control creatures. One thing unique about this is you play the good guy for a change. Now don't get me wrong. The whole fun of Plague Inc is you're the bad guy doing evil things like destroying the world and humanity. But I have never been so happy to be the good guy in this scenario. The fact that all the governments turned evil and banned happiness, fun and holidays is something to fight against. And though some things were funny in the game at the same time it's also a bit scary that some of this stuff is happening in the US. Less government is always better so off to destroy all governments of the world with a cute worm. Another thing unique about this game that I found very interesting was that there's no lethality. The Neurax Worm is a lethal organism in the end but in this version the point is only to infect and FREE everyone. This makes this scenario probably the most unique one in the whole game. Ok more screens behind the cut.
( Happy Christmas Worm )
So yes I am very much enjoying this game and now that all these other scenarios are unlocked I look forward to playing them. BTW the official Plague Inc Giant Microbe plushes are
Neurax Worm
Nano Virus
Bio Weapon
Nano Virus is the only one I'm missing. Too bad I can't add it to my wishlist. I hope they bring the wishlist feature back. So anyway yes fun game and since I'm not done with it I'm not yet ready to fully review it but I can tell already it will get a great rating from me.
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Bullet is doing ok. She's on antibiotics. We're fighting her tummy illness. I'm proud of her because she's actually drinking her gross medicine on her own. I know it must be so bitter and gross but it's her only drinking water. She has no choice. I've also got her on pellets now but she only eats enough to stay alive. I can tell she's protesting the diet change. I must not give in and give her seeds. She's so fluffy probably from being hungry. But all this is best for her. Must not give into her. I've got two weeks to fix her still. She's acting broody too which is not good and I did cave and gave her a little towel so she can lie on it though she hasn't yet.
Art wise I've sort of put the plush aside for now. I might get back to it. I'd love to have a new travel buddy for this next trip but well he may not be ready in time. I colored most of the rocks for the Relaxed drawing. Almost done with rocks then I can start on plants. My Doom figures I have placed in the curio cabinet. They look nice in there and for now it's their temporary home. I'll order paints for them later too. It's not a priority to paint them yet.
I'm loving my Plague Inc Evolved game. I beat the Black Death scenario. It was challenging but not impossible. After playing Shadow Plague so long I got spoiled by having bats and forgot how hard it was to infect islands and I kept getting stalemate on this level where I infected nearly the whole world but some islands and then everyone dies but the islands survive though the cure was stopped. Definitely a stalemate. It's one of those things you just have to get lucky on that a boat or plane will go to all the islands in time before they close the ports. Before I get to the good stuff want to rant a little bit. Some scenarios are stupid. I played the Global Warming one. I knew something was wrong when they let me chose my disease type. That's not a scenario. That's no different than playing the normal game. Sure enough I started as bacteria once I picked it for an easy experience and all the news flashes were from the bacteria game play. There was nothing unique in the dialog or in the leveling screen. WTF Does this have to do with global warming? I even named my bacteria Pyrobacter and thought I would start with built in heat resistance but no not even that. I beat it on the first try and it was just stupid and disappointing. I figured the Ice Age one would be more of the same and sure enough it has nothing to do with Ice Age and you pick your own disease. I'll have to blow through those levels on easy and fast just to get them over with. I'm disappointed after the other two were so great.
I played the Frozen Virus one and LOVED it. This is an example of a very well done scenario based on a real virus. It's based on the Pithovirus which Giant Microbes calls Zombie Virus. I recognized the picture right away though it had been colored blue as it looked just like the one on that link. I love that they made it be accurate to the discovery. You start in Russia where it was discovered frozen/fossilized in Siberia. It is a giant virus compared to what we have today and lived at the time of Mammoths and Neanderthals. But it didn't attack big animals it went for amoebas. In the game you start with maxed out cold resistance which makes sense and you have to repair your DNA which makes sense if you've been dormant for 30,000 years. You infect amoebas (the leveling screen has pics of amoebas! I like new an dunique screens like that) to increase transition and have to build up heat resistance. So I love those starting parameters and then it's the same strategy to quietly and quickly infect then kill everyone. I really enjoyed that.
Ok now for the screen caps of the Santa's Little Helper scenario with the Neurax worm.
YES, Bringer of Light is a force of good. I named this worm after the story with Scary Fear I am still working on. No my story has nothing to do with Christmas but there are some parallels in this that I love that fit my story apart from the obvious that these worms and Fear are mind control creatures. One thing unique about this is you play the good guy for a change. Now don't get me wrong. The whole fun of Plague Inc is you're the bad guy doing evil things like destroying the world and humanity. But I have never been so happy to be the good guy in this scenario. The fact that all the governments turned evil and banned happiness, fun and holidays is something to fight against. And though some things were funny in the game at the same time it's also a bit scary that some of this stuff is happening in the US. Less government is always better so off to destroy all governments of the world with a cute worm. Another thing unique about this game that I found very interesting was that there's no lethality. The Neurax Worm is a lethal organism in the end but in this version the point is only to infect and FREE everyone. This makes this scenario probably the most unique one in the whole game. Ok more screens behind the cut.
( Happy Christmas Worm )
So yes I am very much enjoying this game and now that all these other scenarios are unlocked I look forward to playing them. BTW the official Plague Inc Giant Microbe plushes are
Neurax Worm
Nano Virus
Bio Weapon
Nano Virus is the only one I'm missing. Too bad I can't add it to my wishlist. I hope they bring the wishlist feature back. So anyway yes fun game and since I'm not done with it I'm not yet ready to fully review it but I can tell already it will get a great rating from me.
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