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Died twice to the Metroid Prime.  I won't type up a long rant again, but I hope at least one other person in the world feels that the fight was needlessly long and tedious and that having to repeat the first phase was just a waste of time if you died.  10 minutes per attempt.  Not even a joke.

My brother has a web comic he's working on, and a while back I modeled the main character in Blender, 3D printed him, and painted the result:



This is a picture my brother drew of the character to compare against, spoilered since I didn't make it:


I need a light box or better place to take pictures, and need to work on my painting technique.  Other than a bit of a gradient on the eyes, it's all flat colors, and amateurish.  I also hate that it's obvious where his tail was rigged, and I'd need to do a better job with the subdivision or sculpting cleanup next time.

Anyway, a full resolution image can be found on the main comic album on DeviantArt: link

I know that's a joke but I'm actually not sure... and kind of want to know.

I'm not sure why I never plugged it before, but my brother has been working on a web comic for quite a while now based on an unusual fantasy setting where tribes of intelligent "monsters" live in a world of perpetual night and compete to harvest chunks of their moon that fall from the sky to use as a source of energy.

Moonclash

I've been wondering for a while if he needs to start uploading the pages somewhere other than just DeviantArt, but it's what he's used to.

Killed by the sheegoth boss in Metroid Prime.

Until that moment I hadn't ever even come close to dying, but it took me a few cycles of its attack pattern to recognize how to damage it, and by that point I'd wasted too many missiles to kill it.  I read up afterward that bombs also work, which explains the bit about concussive blasts damaging its underbelly.  For some reason I thought that meant you could shoot missiles at its belly, which did not work because of the subtle auto aim causing Samus to shoot its back.

I feel like compared to Super Metroid I've probably missed several missile upgrades.  I think I had a max of 35 while fighting it, which is about twice as many as you need if you know what you're doing, but I didn't.

I'm certain Putin will use it to blame Ukraine and try to drum up more internal support for the war, but I can't envision how it'll lead to more escalation on its own.  Russia can't escalate more in its conventional warfare front and there's no way this will lead to nuclear escalation.  No matter what Putin says, he knows using nukes will alienate the entire world and risk nuclear retallation.

Yeah.  I was pretty convinced she had cancer before I even took her to her primary vet earlier this week since she'd had muscle loss, and was already trying to imagine what I'd do when we paid an unbelievable sum to get to that diagnosis only to be faced with the prospect of even more expensive surgery or chemotherapy for a chance she might live a little longer.

Your experience isn't far off from from what happened to her brother a couple of years ago.  His case was absolutely tragic.  His initial presentation was just not wanting to eat, and his initial diagnosis was an ear infection.  Antibiotics helped but he never recovered his appetite.  We ended up taking him to the specialist emergency room for dehydration, and that led to a spiraling chain of expensive tests and procedures because they thought he had cancer.  Ultimately they determined he just had fluid in his middle ear and needed for it to be drained.  The specialist couldn't do it for like 10 days, during which time he declined to the point of no return.  I finally called my primary vet only to find out they could have done the same procedure from day one.  They tried it, and it helped.  He recovered his appetite that night, but the damage was done.  Kidney failure led to a fatal blood clot on the second day after and we had to put him down.

It was a horrendous and traumatizing experience of watching a cat slowly die over the course of 3 weeks while trying to give him medicine he didn't want.  We ended up spending more trying to save him than I spent on my last car.

And for nothing.

I don't really blame the vet for the cost, but it was a very educational experience in more than one way.  First, I learned to ask more questions and to try to work with my primary vet more.  Second, I learned that sometimes you just have to let them go.

One of my 11 year old cats is very sick, with anemia and jaundice.  The vet thinks she has a hemotrophic mycoplasma infection, so they sent her blood off to test and sent us home with some antibiotics.  She may need a blood transfusion, but I have no idea how the vet will schedule that since they're booked up for normal appointments though early April.

She's still eating some, but not enough for a cat her size.  I'm worried she won't get help before it's too late.  Or, worse, if the blood test comes back negative, since that would mean the vet has no idea what's wrong with her.

This is the worst thing about pets.  I'm pretty sure she's not going to survive.