Why I'm Not Voting for Harris-Walz

Ahh, election season once again. Time to get controversial.

So um, here's the thing. I hate Trump. He embarrasses me every day. He makes us look like backwards idiots. And frankly the fact that he got elected means that we probably are all backwards idiots. Um, he's ruining people's lives, he's making horrible racist decisions which are probably going to have long-lasting repercussions long after he's out of office. Overall I would be a much happier person if we found a way to deport him from every position of power that he has ever had. 

But I'm not voting for abortionists, and claiming that abortion protects women is a very shallow way to look at it, to say the least. Republicans may have chosen literally the least likable candidate they could find, all for the lulz, but the Democrats are wicked. And as it turns out, that's not even the worst part.

Gov. Walz is bad at Crazy Taxi.

I'm a Minnesotan through and through. I may live in Nebraska, but I spent the first 20 years of my life in Minnesota. I love the Minnesota Vikings. I love lefse. I love going to the lake. I love saying "Doncha kno." However, I am not a fan of Gov. Walz.

Stupid flag council should have picked this one from DeviantArt Tieger131

I respect him for being one of the few politicians who acknowledges that teachers exist, and thinks they are valuable to society. I want him out for his abortion policies. (Do you think I'm a single-issue voter yet?) But this is the final straw.

He probably did own a Sega Dreamcast back in the day, 25 years ago. He probably did play Crazy Taxi. But his skills do not show it. He overshoots the first stop by a long way, and I don't think he knows about the brake. I doubt he has any memory of the Crazy Box, if he played through it. Because he could have done a crazy stop to stop in a second. It's okay. The Crazy Taxi passengers don't believe in whiplash. In fact, they pay you better.

Walz drives really slow. I think he might not be pressing the analog trigger down far enough? I'm not sure what port he is playing, so I don't know what controller he's on. (I know it's not the Dreamcast port, because the soundtrack is different. Probably Xbox 360 or Steam.) If he had played Crazy Box mode, he might have learned about the crazy boost. It would have really helped him out.

His weaving skills are weak. The name of the game when it comes to driving in oncoming traffic is to make very slight adjustments on the analog stick so you can get through with as little movement as possible. Massive adjustments in velocity just make you a bigger target. But he doesn't make slight adjustments. I'm starting to wonder if he's playing on keyboard and mouse.

And finally, he loses a passenger really early into the game. Losing a passenger is not super uncommon, because the downtown area, with the multitude of intersections and similar-looking buildings, can screw you over. But this is only 2 minutes or so past the start of the game. It's because of the reasons above. He doesn't know how to brake, or at least not effectively. He drives slow for some reason. His weaving skills are unrefined at best. He's not good at the game.

What controller is he holding?

It's funny. AOC said something along the lines of, "Nobody watching can say you haven't played a Dreamcast." I think Gov. Walz probably did play Crazy Taxi on Dreamcast, but I would not argue if you don't believe him. His skills are weak. You might as well pretend that it's your first time if you're gonna be that bad on stream.

Is this the type of man we want in our federal government? I say nay. If you vote for Harris-Walz, I won't automatically be upset with you. I don't think that way. But if you vote for them because of Walz' Crazy Taxi skills, you're off your rocker.

I miss Jesse Ventura. We should re-elect him as governor. What a time that would be.

E3 Wishes and Predictions 2018 - Sega + Atlus

Well last year, most of the things in my "realistic" tier of wishes from Sega was answered. We got playable demos of Sonic Mania and Forces, a new All Stars Racing game was announced (albeit with only Sonic characters this time), and PSO2 is on the Switch. So now I have new things to beg for.

NEW CRAZY TAXI - I love Crazy Taxi. It's super fun. I would really love a new one for current platforms. I already made a potential soundtrack for it in Spotify. I would like if all the Crazy Taxi 3 maps and 2 new maps were included in it, but as long as it's Crazy Taxi and it has at least 1 good map and solid music, I don't mind.

PSO 2 LOCALIZED - Phantasy Star Online 2 looks like it would really fun. I don't have a Raspberry Pi, so I can't play PSO online on the Dreamcast. But the Switch has WiFi. I'd much prefer to play online. Thing is, I can't read Japanese so playing it in its current state is near impossible. I would love it if it came to the West. I would prefer an actual port over PSO2 Cloud, but I'll take what I can get. Also, put it on Xbox One. They have about 38 million users, so that's a lot of potential sales of PSO 2.

SATURN GAMES ON SWITCH - The Saturn is easily Sega's most collectible console. It has almost 1400 titles, and a lot of them are uncommon and expensive. Saturn consoles are also the most valuable of all Sega consoles. Genesises are about 30 bucks, Dreamcasts are around 50, Master Systems are upwards of 85, and Saturns are over 100 dollars. Long story short, Saturn collecting is expensive and I want Sega to just rerelease things on the Switch, sort of like Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection.

And since Sega owns Atlus, they could put Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner for the Saturn on the Switch. I've never played Shin Megami Tensei before, but I've always wanted to. Besides, I have to mention Atlus somewhere in this post. We'll throw in a Persona 4 Golden port for good measure.

Last year, I said that I wanted a new Sega console. Now I don't. If Sega had a new console, all their cool games would be exclusive to their platform, and I couldn't play them on Switch. We also can't confirm that a new Sega console would have good third party, so it would only be good for playing Sega games. No thanks.

So what I expect from Sega and Atlus this E3 is not a lot. Sega is going to be showing off All Stars Racing 3 and Valkyria Chronicles 4. I'm hyped for both of those, so this is a good show so far. I feel like Sega Ages is having some titles announced, plus an announcement for Sega Ages for PS4 and Xbox One. I just feel like that's gonna happen. Atlus is probably going to talk about Catherine and Shin Megami Tensei 5. That's all I think will happen. It sounds like a good showing this year. See you later for when I talk about Activision's set!

E3 Wishes and Expectations 2018 - Microsoft

I have more hopes for Microsoft than I do for Electronic Arts. But I'm not entirely sure why. Microsoft doesn't really do much as far as games go, and E3 is all about games. They make Xbox Ones and they make 6th-gen and 7th-gen games run on Xbox One. That's why I'll have a lot more wishes than I'll have expectations, but we'll get to that later.