Bots visiting my blog - Please stop

Today, there seems to be a spike of visits on my blog. Most of them seem bogus enough, because traffic to my blog comes from certain unreliable sources, for some odd reason. I'm not going to dwell more on this subject. Just a reminder though, the web is a weird place with people enough. These days algorithms bounce back and forth as bots count as views on pages and on videos.

If for some reason, you happen to be people, or some kind of sentient presence, please, it would put my mind to rest, if you'd leave me a comment. For example, write some info like how did you end up in my blog or something along those lines.

On another note, as the surveillance states grow bigger and bigger, privacy of fellow internet user is at stake. In other word, its time to fight back. Secure your browser. Clear those tagging cookies and hinder data corp from following you. Switch to use duckduckgo.com or startpage.com search engines instead of Google, Yahoo or Bing.

If you can read this, you are literate in English. If you don't understand why, don't bother.

Let me know what you think about the latest Pet Shop Boys album - Electric.

The Last of Us - A non-spoiler review

The Last of Us = The Last of U.S.

It goes without saying that Naughty Dog has once again reached new territory of storytelling and produced a balanced gaming experience on PS3 that will be remembered for years to come. The Last of Us can be seen as a plethora of allegories of the crumbling human condition. However, I can't imagine better timing for the release of this game than the current situation in the States. Be aware though that I'm not a US resident, I live in Europe, in Skandinavia. Still I'm aware of the current decline of USA, both physical and spiritual, that can be seen as well in the cruel world of The Last of Us. If in US soil, have a look around. Look at the police state, surveillance state, stasi state. Fed is arming to wage a civil war against the people who consider themselves true patriots and answer only to God and constitution. If anywhere, look at the way US is bullying almost every country in the world that is trying to facilitate whistleblower E. Snowden's asylum for exposing massive surveillance agains all the peoples of the world, who might stand agains the hegemony of the banking elite, or whatever. Nonetheless, a pile of steaming shit is getting closer the fan. In Last of Us, we see that pile of faeces literally flying all over the place. 

So the US is wrecked, in that situation, there is only little concern of rest of the world. The dying struggle of humanity as the zombie-fungus infestation spreads like a wild-fire across the nation. All in all, now, it's all about the little things and day-to-day survival. The game depicts a scenario likely to a world wide deadly pandemic, with quarantine zones, remains of military force and a lot animosity over resources. If so, things seem to have calmed after the outbreak, Joel, our main man,  is coping and trying to survive in a cruel world of smuggling goods and contraband for the extra reward. This is how the main campaign starts after the gruelling prologue where hoards of infected ransack and neck-bite

every Texan they can grab. Here we go.

If this America, why can't I have an assault rifle to protect myself?

The weirdest thing, gameplay-wise, or anything for that matter. Where are all the military weapons? Them feds probably confiscated them after the outbreak: How convenient and so frustrating for our protagonist not have decent weaponry of which we have an abundance in gaming in general. Do I make any sense? Be as it may, thing might have been too easy. Besides, it would've significantly more difficult smuggle and long barrel rifle through all those checkpoints in the quarantine zone. Still, WTF. A world where the rule of law my ass...

A beautiful game experience, with some rough edges...

Art style of the Last of Us is exhilarating, all the seasons, lighting, just perfect. The soundscape is perfected as well, an awesome soundtrack to notch the ambiance to the max (I hope to review it later). And yes, some rough edges. Maybe it's the transition between the this and next-gen, I wish this game could've been on PS4. All the visuals would've been out of this world. PS3 is on its dying bed and that shows, rough textures etc. Gameplay. The camera angles are sometimes problematic with dark corners and tight spaces. I would've wanted a first-person viewing angle to absorb the surrounding detail of derelict cities. Next thing of complaint, the friendly AI suck big time. When in tight spot, it seems that the enemies have little interest if all of Joel's loud and visible entourage. That really takes the overall experience down a note. And yes, here and there you can stumble upon a glitch, but this can be an amusement. And just one more thing. What's this I hear about crafting shivs? Come on, can't one person find a single military knife or axe that could withstand a stab in the neck? Oh please.

So there are some logical inconsistencies. No big deal, no big sin. All in all, all of that is of minor importance.

The review continues later on...