Book Review: Children of the Dust - Louise Lawrence

 This novel was a fast read.

It remind me a movie I watched couple of months ago called Threads. A nice movie of the 80's. It was a wake up call regarding nuclear war. It was set in a city and the impeding doom that follow a nuclear war and the trials afterwards. Very disconcerting to be honest.

Regarding this novel it was divided in three parts. Each one follow a different character but they were all connected. The first part dealt with the nuclear war and the weeks/months that followed. It was very interesting and even more was a concept of one particular character - the only one that went to part 2 and 3 but never the main character.

The concept was - after a nuclear war a nuclear winter will follow and most society will died. How much ? We don't know. I remember reading that only 5% of the population would survive the nuclear war, fallout and nuclear winter BUT other novels put that number a bit lower or higher.

- It doesn't matter the number to be honest. What matters is that this novel introduced something - a person who right from the beginning was more intuitively more keen to adapt. This was very interesting.

The second part deals with the years that follow and how some groups survived underneath in bunkers. But the politics of the surviving members (this part deals with 20 years or so) and the difference between the under-dwellers and the outsiders. A group leaves and meets some survivors and the deformed mutants afterwards.

The third part and to me not that good - a solid 4 to 5 stars drop to 3. After fifty years a new kind of breed appear - the mutants are no longer deformed per se (like two heads) but change due to nature. Unfortunately besides that view of mutants vs humans which were blamed for the nukes (even this were the descendants). Then the mutants evolved and now had psychic powers and such and were pure communists... never asking and always sharing. They even go that far to say that's evolution.

I've read that his novel had ". It contains graphic violence, profane language, and descriptions of sexual activity, for which it was banned from many school libraries." Where? Sexual activity? My god lol there is none. Graphic violence? What in descriptions or because she killed children? I can accept that but profane language? LOL yeah right.

(Regarding the communist part it doesn't bother - Home Sapiens - are not that capable of communism - but who knows if our evolution Homo Superior can have a life were sharing and non-violence is the way to go.. I hope it was now but alas...)

I only thing that the evolution was too fast. Radiation and the lack of ozone layer would transition to a new "breed" of humans in only 50 years? I don't know and I hope I never found out. 

Heart of Iron IV - Strangest World War 2

Instead of one great war there were several.

So lets start by telling which factions were in place

Pact of Rome

-> Italiy

-> Hungary 

-> Austria

-> Italian Burundi

Axis

-> Germany

-> Yugoslavia

-> Greece

-> Japan

-> Menkukkuo

-> Shanshi

-> Ximbei Sa Ma

-> Manchunko

-> Rwanda

Allies

-> United Kingdom

-> France

-> Sweden

-> Switzerland

-> Denmark

-> The Netherlands

-> Yuguslovia Federation

-> Malasya British

-> Dominion of Canada

-> Doninion of India

-> China

-> Mexico 

-> Australia

Comintern

-> Sinkiang, 

-> Mongolia

-> URSS

Stand Alone Countries

United Kingdoms of Portugal and Brazil (Me) UKPB

USA (& Philipines)

So what were the wars?

UKPB & Axis VS Pact of Rome  (The only I am in - but after defeating them I will go against the Allies)

Axis VS Allies

Pact of Rome VS Allies

Comintern VS Allies

USA VS Allies

Very messing

Hearts of Iron 4 - Germany Playthrough

Finally I won. Okay with the Germans but still an acomplished. Is now 1 January of 1959 and all the world speaks german. No other countries exist. No puppets. No nothing. USA was by far the most difficult to win and more than 4 million german died on that war. Overall 12 million on Axis side.

So what do I have now?
55K planes with 2 million people on the air force (all new bombers and fighters)
3163 ships with 1 million navy guys.
From 16 carriers, 89 battleships and 2500 submarines.

Troops 15 Million troops worldwide. 85K modern tanks.

It took what? 16H or more to do it.

Playing with Germany it's easier because they start with everything. Of all games I've played they are the only ones I can play with Full Mechanized Army, planes and boats. Everyone else, you go one way or the other. It's quite difficult when you've go to manage all three branches.

Invading the USA was quite difficult since Mexico was his allied. So going north through Canada was easily swept away. So the only solution? Going through south America, developing it and waiting as I built my ships - then cut their supplies and then invading. Even so it took me 7 years.  Then I turn against Italy & Turkey and most world was mine. Only  New Zeland and Japan. And they fall. Japan had to be nuked 200 times. 

Oh by the way Japan invaded China and put everyone has his puppet then Chinese Empire turn Japan as it's own puppet. Very odd.

Let us see my next playthrough. 
Tried Spain; Portugal, France (multi times with different approaches); Italy, Japan, Communist China, Mexico and South Africa

Anime Review: Japan Sinks 2020

First of all, if you want a good drama about earthwakes in anime - go watch Tokyo Magnitude 8.0.

Now, I believe this is one of the worst anime coming out in couple of years in terms of propaganda. Anime is being turn into propaganda. How come companies from Japan resort for this?
Are you really selling your soul because to netflix for a few bucks?

First of all - know your history. This is was previous released as a novel and then a couple of movies.

What I think from this it's crap. So being netflix - they had to bow down to their overlords. So they took characters and made them POC. Because as you know half of japanese people are foreigners - no, wait it's one of the lowest in all world.

Then they made men rapists. Of course they are they. Men are bad no matter if they are white or Japanese.

Then you got the racists - which englobs almost all nippon citizens. So when a person identify as one - they are killed by a divine buying - in this kind their own foolishness (see episode 7).

Don't talk to me about animation. It's crap. Really cheap stuff.
Irrealistic crap. All the Rap stuff. Lol. what about the phones who don't need charging?
Oh and people dying? Who cries? Noone. Even family and friends. L

How, what about who help Nippon?
This another interesting thing. All world stood behind Japan as you can imagine.

This is a globalism kind of stories. A woke that I hope never to see again.. but unfortunately Anime is no longer a Nippon kind of stuff. It will lose it's essence.

Storywise it's unrealistic of course because nippon will not fall like here. If Mount Fuji erupts we will go back to the dark ages because a nuclear winter will follow. It's like Yellowstone or the one in Indonesia...

Don't become woke Anime Industry. Netflix its a plague.

TV Series Review: Snowpiercer (Up until episode 7)

This is a woke show fruit of the time... It could have not be if it was made 5 or 10 years ago. But unfortunately it is.

The all Tail and the Classes -> I remember watching the movie but it didn't felt like a woke show. 

The show is a marxist propaganda , no class shit kind of show. The good guys are the poor and the rich are corrupt, filth, narcisist and so on. 

Then there are some who go both way - not in LGBT kind of way - I don't care if any are gay or lesbian. Probably one of my favourite character is Lesbian.

What I want from this how?
- Not all black people are "good".
- Not all LGBT character are "good".
- Not all rich (1 class) are "baddie"
- Not all white people are " baddie"

I want realistic people... some people are bad, some are good - no matter the race, gender or culture.

Please create a more realistic show. Not Woke trash.

People are getting sick of this, why can't Hollywood understand?

There will always be classes, there will always be differences, there will always be bad and good people of every race, gender or culture. Don't elude yourself.
If you make your marxist wannabe country - you will perish.

I will continue to watch it. But I am disliking more and more...

TV Series Review: Into the Night (2020)

This is Langoliers 2.0.
This time they are running away from the Sun. I like thrillers and this is okish thrillers. Nothing to spectacular.

It's a plane full of different people trying to escape the sun. We've got Belgians, Italians, french, Russians, polish, Turks and all other type of people there.

As it's normal this days - the white men are bad. The Arabs and African descendants are of course good.

It's a Lord of the Files situation with Social Justice in the mix.

The other problem is that we cannot connect to anyone because there isn't any connection. In the beginning there are couple of minutes where they talk about the characters (some spinets if you like but they failed to provide anything good. We just hate them more...)

In episode 3 we find out that the Turk was using some other Muslim to smuggle some stones outside Belgium. He is confronted and the black woman say to a white man - "You are just racist". Whereas the Turk being honorable admits it all. The Black woman then have the following speech

Why? Why would you do that?
I told you I worked in shipping
No, why did you confess? Why admit to all this?
Because it's the truth. I always tell the truth.

It seems she is more upset that he confess giving the white men liability to throw him out.

It's funny this, no? 

I mean, that white men probably it's racist (but not all are, although they are all treated like that).

Can anyone in the Hollywood or movie industries understand that not all men are racist? They can just be mean person? Do they know that other races can also be racist? After all in the 4 episode we learn that the Turk is not that good person :)

I am sick of this kind of SJW crap. 

Overall it's a crappy show with crappy characters, non-related ones. Cannot advice to anyone.

Thoughts XXXVI - All Lives Matter

As a White Person, are you ashamed for every white parent that kills his own infant?
Are you ashamed for every white person who kills another white person?
Are ashamed for every white person who commits suicide?
Are you ashamed for every white person who steals? Who commits a felony?
Are you? You are not!

Being ashamed for another human being - be it white or any other race - wrong doing is just stupid. You don't control anyone - not even your own family. Only yourself.

Be ashamed if you witness a crime, and could have done something but did nothing.
Be ashamed if you do a felony. Be at shame if you do something wrong (wrong is a bit far-fetched because it depends on culture or creed but you get me).

This is wrong. Seeing white people kissing black person feet is just plainly stupid.
You are a person, it doesn't matter your race or gender. It matters your action towards another human being.

Stop being woke and really wake up. Wake up and see that we are all different yet all with the same flaws, necessities and rights. Everything else is just bullshit.

Stop the victim blazing. Stop the white shaming (or black or yellow or pink with red dots I don't give a shit).

You are being drawn into war. The democrats want a war. The republicans will reply.
What I don't understand is those rich powerful white playing false virtudes for what? They desire some piece of mind? They desire attention? Don't they understand if they make this war they will fall? If they really are communists or socialists why are all millionaires living in mansions? Why shouldn't they donate money, really help the poor? They want attention, they want people saying - oh he or she did good.

We are not all the same, we will never be all equal. History as teach us that.

Black Lives Matter. White Lives Matter. Asian Lives Matter.
ALL LIVES MATTER!


Sorry for the politics...  But it upsets me.

TV Show: Mr. Hiiragi's Homeroom (2019)

This is a Japanese show so a lot of people will never even contemplate watch it. I can understand that. Maybe, if it become famous, hollywood will adapt it? Probably not since it critizices social media which hollywood uses to control the masses.. 

Maybe netflix will buy it? Again probably not.


If you want to watch it, please bear in mind that this is a japanese show not us or European so don't go expecting the same mentality. In the essential this is a show about trying to find out who the killer was. In the end, after each episode or so, you will understand that this is much more than that. It's a show about social media critique, about young teens mentality that are destroying lives. It's about people not even thinking before typing in the internet which will stay for good. It's about fake news. It's about thinking mentality and the dark side of the world wide web. It's very refresh although a bit long.  

I really enjoy it - if you want something different from "white man bad"; "orange-man bad" and other forms, please do so. This is a critique without racial, ethnic or gender bias. 

Year Recap - 2020 Changes & Boardgames

I've watch a lot of anime this season. 2600 plus animes. Lets be real today it's 20 of December so...

I've watch more TV Series. There are a lot of interesting shows debuting nowadays - I've skip and stop some because they were crap - shows that bend their knees to Social Justice per example.

Let's start Boardgames. 
I am going to try to play a bit more. I have yet to learn playing Tainted Grail; Nemesis; Lord of Hellas; Fortune and Glory; Dawn of Zeds & Cthulhu Death May Die. I am going to learn and play them this year (with others that will arrive...) Comparing with the olde years it will be far less but I know some will come - Reichbusters; Invasions; Carnival Zombie; Planet Apocalpyse & Solomon Kane.I Highly doubt I will receive Shadows of Brimstone: Adventures; Middara The Trilogy; Aeon Trespass or Eternal Adversary.

Regarding TV Shows I've watch more than last year which surprised me.

Sex Education - Not crap but not that bad. Some SJW stuff but overall bearable 5/10
Love. Death & Robots - Good animation show by netflix. A couple interesting stories. 7/10 Advisable.
Nightflyers - based on a George Martin novella. Sincerally not good 3/10
Kingdom - A korea show about zombies in medieval korea. What's not to like? Very good indeed. Eagerly waiting season 2 - 8/10
Orville Season 2- Great sci-fi show - way better than star trek. Some episodes touch sjw stuff but overall it was very good 8/10
The Kirlian Frequency - Crap animation and show 2/10
The Walking Dead Season 8 - Bearable. I am not enjoying this last years but overall they are still good 6/10
The Society - Teen soap opera. Some episodes were nigh impossible to watch with such SJW crap 3/10 - not going to watch season 2 unless this crap disappears. 2/10 
The Rain Season 2 - Enough to say I will not watch season 3. 2/10
Chernobyl - Great show about some of our world darkest moments - (at least for europe) 9/10
The Hot Zone - Great show. Advisable to anyone who loves medical, investigation and a bit of drama. 7/10
Scream: The TV Series Season 3 (or one since they restarted) - Crap. I will not watch season 4 (or 2) if you like. Oh it's full of SJW crap. 3/10
Dark Web - Not good- Not advisable. Sounded good but it was not. Poor plot and characters.
Origin - started fine and ended badly. Don't watch. 3/10
Good Omens - Excelent TV Series. Great Adaptation. 9/10
Swamp Thing - So this was cancelled before it premiere but it's way better than other crappy shows like Batwoman or Super Girl. But it didn't bend the knee as other shows so it was cancelled. 8/10
The Rook - nice spy tv show with mix of super powers. A bit slow and predictable. 6/10
The Boys - What a joy. This show didn't bend the knee to SJW and proofed that changing story and characters just for the sake of diversity is wrong. If you want your character to be a lesbian or gay do it. Don't change everything to give importance when it doesn't have any. We spectators don't care Dumbledore was gay or not. Why should we? It's a character and that's whats important. He was a good character and was gay not the other way around (being gay made him a good character if you didn't understood). 9/10
The Lamb of God - nice yet a confusing story. A bit boring at times 5/10
Fear The Walking Dead Season 5 - What was the purpose of this series? Overall probably the worst season we had 4/10
The Outpost Season 2 - A show I thought it had no future yet it show me wrong. Entertaining fantasy show.
Final Space Season 2 - A real good animation from the USA. Sometimes it bend the knee and sometimes show them the middle finger. to be honest worse than the season 1.
Age of Living Dead - Crappy show - don't watch it. Even the worse season of walking dead it's better. 
The I-Land - It would be a interesting show if it could have went a bit further. Stuff was never really explained but overall entertaining show to watch over a couple of matinees. 5/10
Daybreak - a good show about an apocalpyse. It bended the knee so much that made it a parody of it. Some can watch and think this is crap because it made all SJW stuff stick out while others said that it made a parody of SJW. I am part of the latter. Advisable. 7/10
Green Frontier - Started with a bang and when out like a candle... Weak plot. Why the nazis are the bad guys after 80 years? Oh my... 3/10
Creepshow - A good horror anthology. some stories were very good to be honest. But most were just average. 6/10
Zomboat - a good british zombie story. It has some SJW crap but overall acceptable. 8/10 
Two Sentence Horror Story - Bad. 2/10
Kuzu no Honkai - If you have watched the anime don't bother. Its like they used the anime as the storyboard. 5/10
Are you afraid of the Dark - good horror show for kids and grownups. 7/10
The Haunting of Hill House - A great horror show. Highly advisable. Wish for a second season 9/10
See - The first apple show I watched. a good post apocalyptic show. It bended the knee at some stuff but it's bearable. Overall it was very interesting with several plotholes and a second season it's needed to watch. 8/10
Le Guerre des Mondes - bad and don't waste your time 2/10
War of the World - again don't waste your time 3/10

Modern Family & Big Bang Theory & Young Sheldon - I am watching with my wife. Interesting show. BBT unfortunately finished.

What I am watching? Well...
I will be watching Lost in Space Second season coming on 23 December.
Evil Season 1 - Several episodes are awful bending the knee but overall it's a nice story
The Walking Dead Season 10; 
The Purge which I just finished. Better than the first season
The Mandalorian - This is Star Wars - This is the way disney.
Servant - ahh a horror story with thriller and oddity in the mix
Reprisal - Interesting revenge story
The Witcher - With two episodes so far I am really loving...
Marianne - Good Horror; comedy french show.

I will talk anime in the next post.

Books 2019 and What's coming for 2020

Well this year was bad, comparing to last year it was better but still it's bad. Only 17 novels (probably finish the one I am a reading plus another).

10 were from Black Library at least.

So what was my favorite? Unfortunately not one of the would give a 9 or 10. Even 8 it's a bit of stretch. 

Iron Resolve a novella from Black Library was a very good one to my opinion. The rest were medium to bad.

So what's to come from 2020?
Well I am really going to try to read more this year. I am going to aim for 36 novels (would love to get to 54 but I believe it's too much.

At least

• 2 or 3 Agatha Christie
• 1 or 2 Vampire Hunter D 
• 1 or 2 novels from Dragonlance to finish the trilogy.
• 1 Drizzt novel (The Two Swords) - Maybe start with The Orc King
• Reread Elric Saga Part 1 (3 novels)
• Spiderlight by Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Finish The Stand by Stephen King (finally?)
• 1 or 2 Stephen king novels
• Warhammer 40K and Fantasy novels
• Iron Guard - Mark Clapham (40K)
• Imperial Glory - Richard Williams (40K)
• Castle of Blood - C L Werner (Warhammer Horror)
• Plus others from Warhammer Horror that will be released
• Curse of Necrach - Steven Savile
• Knights of the Blazing Sun - Josh Reynolds
• Wulfrik - C L Werner
• Sigvald - Darius Hinks
• Valkia the Bloody - Sarah Cawkel
• Gilead's Curse - Dan Abnett & Nik Vincent

This is my idea but lets us see I can do it... Who knows?

Book Review: Severed (Nate Crowley) Black Library

A interesting novela regarding Necrons internal affair. This story only has three characters. Nemesor Zahndrekh and Vargard Obyron (interesting both have miniatures you can buy in GW shop).

As I said it was interesting because it was told in Necron point of view and we learn more on how they see other races and themselves. As being alien species they felt alien with different interests and morals.

We also learn more about the dinasties system and how it function and why Necrons sometimes fight other necrons.

A bit of political drama and what does it mean to be a necrontyr.

It's a bit sad story to be honest with the feeling they don't identify themselves machines (hating machines - like the Cult Mechanicus) and explaining how they see life.

Overall a sad story of one the mightiest race. Advisable.

Book Review: The Colonel's Monograph (Graham McNeill) Black Library

So I am on a roll reading these Warhammer Horror Stories.
This one is also told in first person perspective. In it we follow Sullo a archivist as she is trying to live after retiring. the son of a very famous Grayloc asks us if she would like to catalog her library and she promptly agrees.

There are some really interesting passages where she is describing about the books the Colonel had (including some interesting nods). Inbetween we follow Sullo as she goes in the nearby city trying to learn more about her benefactor and story of her fall.

I am not going to dwell much on the plot but I enjoy the little snippets in the bottom of the page, put by some inquisitor and warnings. It was a slow building dread as we uncover more and more about the history of the books.

Really enjoy learning more about the world, the wars they were in.

The last dozen pages it's more action filled scenes and we learn more about all that unfold (and the demon within). A spooky tale, more akin to some gothic tale.

Book Review: Iron Resolve (Steve Lyons) Black Library

What a nice story. Finally a good old astra millitarum story featuring Mordians. They are a very interesting bunch very focus on order, disciple and duty. Their armor always pristine.

In this story we follow Myers as his company battle some feral orks. After his initial battle he is wounded and taken back to the medicae where they accused him of self inflicted wound. From this moment on and until the last 30 pages the story resolves around him having some flashbacks as we try to understand did he really wound himself?

I wont spoiler here. Last 30 pages are a blast with more action scenes.

Very interesting story. Remind me of fifteen hours or other imperial guard novel. I do prefer them to space marines. They are more human and have doubts and change of heart.

Advisable to read to anyone who wants a nice imperial guard story primally focus on character.