Resident Evil 4

General:
So, I thought it was a good idea to bring some videogame topic to this blog as a "your say", and getting it started with a childhood game wouldn't be bad. Resident Evil 4, first horror-survival game I played when I was young, and the one who introduced into the resident evil franchise as well. This game brings me back so many memories, and nightmares too! I can barely remember the day I finished it, but I felt so happy! The pain was over, because it was indeed a pain in the ass to finish it, considering that a eight-year-old boy shouldn't be playing this hehe. Jumpscares, horrifying enemies, scary atmosphere because of the soundtrack and the environment, charismatic characters and a nice plot  made this game a masterpiece.


Plot:
Leon is a US agent who received a mission to rescue the president's daughter, ashley, who was kidnapped by a weird spanish religious cult, who seem to worship a god, called Saddler, created by "Las plagas", which was the virus they used to infect people. Through his campaign, Leon will go through different sscenarios, 3 in total: The spanish village with peasant zombies ( a cool detail about this game is the fact that some of the people who got infected could still preserve human habits, like talk, use weapons, work, plan ambushes, etc...but they were really violent with strangers ), The spanish castle with religious zombies dressed like monks saying "morir es vivir" and  The Island with soldier zombies, to rescue Ashley and get her back home.

Most terrifying experience
1 word. REGENERATOR.

My very first encounter with him made me turn off my Ps2, because of how scared I was. Your first encounter  with him is in the Island, where you enter a hospital, more exactly, in a surgery room. When you get in, you see him through a window, lying on a bed, but the door is closed so you can't get near. Once you collect a key to progress to the next part of the game, you hear the noise of the jammed door, getting open. The music starts, and you hear his asthmatic breathing. He's an obnoxious enemy because you can only kill him shooting in 3-4 specific body locations, where the virus resides, if you shoot anywhere else (arms, legs, head, stomach), it will explode, but past a few minutes, he will recover from it, in other words, Regenerate it.

Trump: I 'should get credit, not be scorned' for tone of events

Donald Trump is pinning the blame for escalating violence and protests at his campaign events on Bernie Sanders.

The Republican presidential front-runner said in an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union" Sunday that he "should get credit, not be scorned" for his handling of the tension at his events.

"You had professional disruptors, thousands of them, from Sanders and to a smaller extent, Hillary (Clinton)," he said of a Friday night event in Chicago that Trump canceled after chaos broke out there.

Trump was deflecting blame after a weekend of eruptions on the campaign trail. On Friday, his campaign canceled his appearance at an event in Chicago amid security concerns. On Saturday, a man rushed the stage during one of his speeches, and Trump closed out the day by calling for the arrest of protesters at his events.

Trump said of conservatives: "We are treated so unfairly, and I'm treated very unfairly."

He fired a warning shot at Sanders, suggesting that his supporters could disrupt the Vermont senator and Democratic hopeful's events after some of the Chicago protesters brought pro-Sanders signs.

"If conservative Republicans ever went into his rally, you would see things happen that would be unbelievable," Trump said, even as he denied that a tweet he'd posted Sunday morning saying that Sanders should "be careful" was a threat.

His comments come a week after a 78-year-old Trump supporter was arrested after video showed he sucker-punched a protester who was being escorted from a Trump event in North Carolina. (On NBC's "Meet the Press," Trump on Sunday told moderator Chuck Todd that he's "instructed my people to look into" whether he could pay the man's legal bills.)

Breitbart journalist Michelle Fields, meanwhile, accused Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski of grabbing her after a campaign event. Fields tweeted photos of her bruises and filed a criminal complaint alleging she'd been assaulted.

Sanders, in an interview with Tapper on "State of the Union," said his campaign "had nothing to do" with what happened in Chicago. He also called on his supporters to allow Trump's events to go forward.

"I would hope that my supporters would not disrupt meetings. To protest is one thing, to disrupt is something else," he said.

Still, Sanders said Trump carries the blame for the escalating tensions at his events.

"Even his Republican colleagues make this point: His language, his intonation, when he talks about carrying people out in stretchers ... this is a man who keeps implying violence, and then you end up getting what you seek," he said.

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio also criticized Trump on "State of the Union."

"He has turned the most important election in a generation into a circus, into a complete fiasco and a carnival," he said.

Rubio suggested he's considering backing off his pledge to support the Republican nominee if Trump wins the nomination.

"It's getting harder every day to justify that statement to myself, to my children, to my family, and to the people that support me," Rubio said.

Ohio Gov. John Kasich said on "State of the Union" that he, too, is tired of seeing Trump's comments designed to make people "depressed and down and angry."

"When I saw the violence in Chicago, I just had enough," Kasich said.

Personal Opinion:

Trump is really a failure of a candidate to be US's president, and he's trying so hard to convince people that he is quite the contrary. I don't support his ideology mainly because of his racist campaigns and his demagoguism, but it seems like he's getting really far in the competion thanks to all the blind people who vote him. In case he wins, let's see how much time it takes to his supporters to start complaining about him!

Vocabulary:

Bruises: Contusiones

Disrupt: interrumpir

Fiasco: fracaso

Blast in turkish capital of Ankara kills at least 27

An explosion ripped through a busy square in the Turkish capital Sunday evening, killing at least 27 people and wounding 75 others, the Ankara governor's office said.Scores of police cars, firefighters and medical personnel rushed to the scene. Security forces evacuated the area, the official Turkish news agency Anadolu reported.

Authorities haven't released details about what caused the blast.February: Kurdish militants claim deadly Ankara blast

"It's too early to talk about who carried out this attack. The investigation is ongoing," a senior Turkish official said. "Our priority right now is the wounded."The explosion apparently targeted a transportation hub where bus stops and a metro station are located in the Kizilay neighborhood, Anadolu said.A bombing that targeted military vehicles in the capital in February killed at least 28 people.

Last week, the U.S. Embassy in Ankara warned of a possible terrorist plot to strike government buildings in the capital's Bahcelievler neighborhood, which is just a few minute's drive from the square where Sunday's explosion occurred.

Personal opinion:

Wounded are always the priority, but if those terrorists keep up like this, there will be no wounded, only dead people. I've seen already 2 terrorist attacks heppening today, and they all cause between 10 and 20, plus the wounded, just keep that in mind.

Vocabulary:

rushed: apresuraron

hub: cubo

embassy: embajada

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/13/world/ankara-park-blast/index.html

Gunmen attack 3 Ivory Coast hotels

Gunmen mounted deadly attacks at three hotels in the beach resort city of Grand-Bassam, Ivory Coast, shortly after noon on Sunday, according to the government.French President Francois Hollande, whose nation maintains a close relationship with Ivory Coast, said 12 civilians were killed, including at least one French citizen.

The Ivory Coast government had said 11 people -- including a child -- were victims of the attack, but did not say whether they had been injured or killed.Security forces "neutralized" six attackers, Interior Minister Hamed Bakayoko said in a statement on state-run broadcaster RTI1.The statement said security sweeps were continuing.

Video from the scene -- about 40 kilometers (25 miles) from the country's largest city, Abidjan -- appeared to show people fleeing from the hotel during the attack.Hollande condemned what he called a "cowardly attack" and pledged French support to find out who was responsible for the attack, which the Ivory Coast government had earlier said targeted two hotels.The U.S. Embassy in Abidjan reported that it had no evidence that U.S. citizens were targeted or harmed.

The French Embassy said it had set up a crisis unit, and asked people to limit travel in the area and stay clear of security forces. The British Foreign Office had similar advice.The identity of the gunmen was not immediately known, although jihadists have targeted hotels in West Africa before.

In the past year, two countries bordering Ivory Coast -- Mali and Burkina Faso -- have witnessed attacks on hotels popular with Westerners.

Ivory Coast itself has not been the target of terror attacks, but the threat of such an incident has risen since the country's support of France's 2013 military intervention targeting Islamic extremists in Mali, the U.S. State Department has said.

A terror group in Mali named Ivory Coast as a potential target for attacks in 2015, the State Department said.

Personal opinion:

Local police still sweeping the area trying to find the suspects who escaped, although they neutralized 6 attackers, including the terrorist who was in the mounted gun. Some people think this is a job made by jihadists because it is said that they usually attack hotels in Africa. Ivory Coast shouldn't be surprised at all, because it is known that they helped France to target some islam extremists in Mali, but for now, let's hope the security to increase, and keep those people away from harm.

Vocabulary:

fleeing: huyendo

support:  apoyo

witnessed: presenciado

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/13/africa/ivory-coast-attack/index.html

Can technology make a better world?

            Knowing that technology is utterly useful and it is a powerful tool at its prime, every single object/tool that can fit in this description can be used for good or bad. I always like to highlight the way social relations went from being good to poor and generical. Why would we ask someone for locations when we have a gps? Or online maps? Why would we meet someone when you can instant message them instead? Secodly, machines are stealing people's jobs, because why would we pay a month salary to someone when we can improve our industries machines to do a human's job?
            On the other hand, everything is not negative. I look forward to think that even with its flaws, it benefits us more than the harm it causes. Briefly, it makes life more easier and confortable, like using internet at home instead of going to the library to do a research, or renewable energies instead of using unrenewable ones which pollute our planet.
             Obviously, it is made to do positive things, but sometimes negative things can happen, but the only one to blame is the owner, the one who gave it usage, not the technology itself.

Informal conversation

                                       Characters: 1.Big Moris/ 2.Lil Mich/ 3. Dj Faron
3 old friends meet at the park...

3. Sup fellas. How ya'll doin'?
1. Doin' great. I'll have a lipo next week, because of my obesity and breathing probs.
2. WOW! Now you'll be able to pass through my house door.
1. Ha-Ha fucker. At least my gf is pleased with me
3. Hey guys! Be cool!
2. Dont worry bout that. It won't last too long.
1. What do you mean?
2. I'm gonna have a penis size enlargement.
3. You kiddin' ain't ya?
2. Nope man, I mean it.
1. My prob is serious business, I can't stand guys who do stuff...
3. That's stupid!
2. Do you guys realize how insecure I feel in the bed game?
1. I can imagine, don'cha Faron?
3. Don't be a dick with'im! Don't make fun of it.
2. Well I'll think about it.
1. Dont try so hard, will ya?

Can technology solve our problems?

Watching Jason Pontin's speech about technology really answered a lot of questions. Why have US been the first country to land in the moon? What happened to the future? How to solve big problems? Etc...

As him, I see JFK's iniciative of sending apollo 10 to the moon to prove that he had better rockets than the soviets a good thing because since then, for some reason we advanced a lot in technology, but as he says, these things won't solve humanity's biggest problems if we don't know how to use them, because most of the time our political system still fails, and some of these biggest problems are not even technological, like famine, which is caused by a bad food distribution.

Sometimes we can't solve them because we can't understand them, so, before trying to find the answer for something, political leaders and public must care to solve the problem, institutions must support the solution, it must really be a technological problem and we must understand it.