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It is time for another Free Comic Book day, I haven’t been able to attend one of these in a few years now.
I am excited to express that not only I will be attending this year’s free comic book day but my son is attending as well. We will be promoting this year’s SpaceCon convention, happening in June.

I cant wait to see everyone there and meet all the cosplayers and attendees. It’s always super fun to talk shop about comics, movies, video games and etc. This year my son will be attending as Link and I will be bringing Trolgar to the public.

I can’t tell you how proud I am to help promote local conventions and Holidays like these, specially here in South West Florida. We need more events inviting and keep Geek culture alive and more importantly, passing this along to the next generation.

I will be posting photos from this upcoming Saturday later that day or Sunday.

So I’m watching the Matrix for the 999999th time and I still
find it hilarious how the Oracle gives Neo a cookie just like we
have to accept cookies on our computers.

I remember seeing this movie on a VHS player, I also remember thinking this was the best movie ever.
I hadn’t seen anything like it. Watching the fight scenes thinking: “This is straight from Dragon Ball Z”.

And of course that 360 degrees camera move where Neo dodges the bullets O_o’
That blew my pre-teen mind in so many pieces I was beyond hooked. It also made me think
That computer’s and “hacking” were cool. The Matrix and Hackers sure played a huge part of my childhood, getting into computers and learning as much as I could.

This movie designed it’s own world and universe so well that it’s trilogy has marked itself as one of the most important trilogies in cinema… In my opinion. Years later I’ve found that it was heavily inspired in Ghost in the Shell, which it makes perfect sense. Because there was no way in hell, these fight scenes and angles were a 100% original.

I also remember attending a local tech-convention and this was when DVDs were just coming out and they were they biggest best things. But also as hackers would call… the beginning of “ripping” DVDs and burning CDs. I clearly remember passing by a booth where they were showcasing a brand new laptop, no idea the brand or model, what caught my eye was that they were playing a ripped/burned copy of The Matrix to showcase the colors and the speed of the laptop’s screen.

In a nutshell, this movie still brings me joy and still inspires me after all this years and after so many times that I have watched this. It pumps me up to keep learning anything new in tech. The craziest thing about this movie surviving the effect of time is that now I can watch it with my kids. Which is insane to me that I can enjoy this movie as well as they do.

Such a great movie and a fantastic trilogy, filled with tons of easter eggs and so many theories that still have many people turning heads. If you have been living under a rock and have never seen this movie.
I cannot stress it enough, how fast you should see this.

To whom it may concern:

I haven’t done any game development for over a year. Since I got into 3D printing, that has been my main hobby lately.

I do get few people asking me if I am working on a new game or more important a sequel to El Pansas. I believe I have mentioned I had some ideas to work on a sequel but I wanted to make it all about jokes and more comedy relief than anything. 

People keep telling me I should do a sequel since Trump is back in office and now with Elon Musk and everything happening recently with our government.

I would like to say that I do not like the idea of basing those factors, to make a new El Pansas video game. 

The only reason I had our commander in chief in the game was purely for laughs, because it was funny back then.

Is not funny anymore, I do not find Trump or Elon to be “funny” subjects at the moment. And I sure as hell do not like the idea thinking that they are the ONLY reason for me to make a new video game.

Every time I hear people telling me I should use those two as “jokes” for El Pansas, makes me NOT want to work on a sequel.

I am hoping to get back in the groove to program and design a new El Pansas. But I assure you all, it wont be because of our political situation. In a weird way I do like that people still ask me about a new video game even if it’s because they want me to have Trump in it again. Thank you for support.

In a more personal level, at the moment I have more important matters that need my attention, probably why I havent been coding anything.

But I will keep you all posted.

Some people fall asleep to white noise. Some people listen to music while studying. Some people have the radio on or a podcast while doing chores around the house. And some programmers (me included) like to have something playing in the background while they code away.


My guilty pleasure is to have a movie playing in the background. Helps me relax and I’ve found out that I wont get as frustrated when I find bugs in my code. I tend to put on movies that are coding/programming theme. I find it extremely inspiring. Sure thing is just a movie but I can’t help to fantasize while I code.


If I need a break from coding, I literary just look at the TV and watch whatever movie is on for a few minutes. Helps me clean my head. If I am stuck trying to debug a piece of code or if I am drawing a blank trying to figure out a way to code a new feature for one of my indie video games. These movies sure do help.

The movie I want to give a shout out to and perhaps recommend to anybody who might be reading this.
Is called Ex-Machina. With Oscar Issac, Alicia Vikander and Domhnall Gleeson.

The Wikipedia’s summary is as follows:
Ex Machina is a 2014 science fiction psychological thriller film written and directed by Alex Garland in his directorial debut. A co-production between the United Kingdom and the United States, it stars Domhnall GleesonAlicia Vikander, and Oscar Isaac. It follows a programmer who is invited by his CEO to administer the Turing test to an intelligent humanoid robot.

The local and so far my favorite convention of the all is around the corner. I say is my favorite convention because it was the first con where I publicly demo my first commercial indie game. And I received nothing but praised and amazing feedback from the attendees. I also had one of the best nights hanging around with some amazing people in the voice acting world. My best friend and I hung out after hours with these incredible individuals. So yeah perhaps I am bias when I say SpaceCon is my favorite convention of the all.

This year is happening on June 11th and I will be demoing my current indie game called Haxbrygd. I am excited to see what the public has to say about this new project of mine. Another reason why I wanted to submit a new post on my blog is to test this new KeyChron K8 Pro keyboard I’ve received yesterday. aluminum plate with RGB lighting of course, and these new keycaps with the brown switches sound and feel beyond satisfying. I am going to enjoy programming and typing a lot more with this keyboard. xD

I have to start planning and designing my booth for SpaceCon 2022 and once again like I said just now, it is around the corner. Going to have LOTS of props that are “witchy” themed. I will be posting loads of photos as soon as I get back from the big day.

That being said. I like to keep my entries short and sweet lately. Who has the time to read blog posts in these crazy times. Am I right? Til’ next time.

I was one of the very few that received the SteamDeck, besides the content creators on YouTube.
At first and after watching other reviews online, I was a bit unsurprised. When I pre-ordered on Steam for five dollars I knew it wasn’t going to be a hundred percent completed. Like anything else that is brand new piece of hardware. I knew bug fixes will be needed. Luckily nothing has been wrong with the actual piece of equipment. I’ve had it for perhaps a bit over a week. Sadly some other online technology reviewers have already experienced broken buttons or malfunctioning internal parts. Not many creators have encountered these problems but still some have.

I started going to the list of what games were “certified” by Steam to be compatible with the SteamDeck and it isn’t that impressive. Steam does a very good job on “showing” everyone what games are green check marked which means, the game has been certified to work smooth without any issues on the SteamDeck. Then you have a “?” question mark and then a closed mark meaning the game is not compatible.

The thing is I ended up installing Street Fighter V on my SteamDeck even though it wasn’t meant to work on it. By my surprise the game works extremely perfect, like almost too good. I played mostly indie games but the few triple A games I’ve played have been working great. Killer Instinct, King of Fighters XIII, Back 4 Blood, Street Fighter V, MegaMan 11, Borderlands 2 and Apex have all ran without any issues, including co-op play mode and Online. I keep hearing that the StreamDeck works amazingly as a emulator machine as well but honestly at least for me I did not spend five hundred dollars on emulation. I have multiple Raspberry Pis for that.

Over all I do recommend the StreamDeck to anybody that would like to play their Steam library games laying down in their comfy bed. I literally did that all this morning. And the night before I was able to play some indie and triple A games online with my best friend. We had a blast. That’s when it hit me, spending five hundred dollars was not such a bad idea. So if you have money to burn and want to play your Steam games on the go. I do recommend to get the SteamDeck. It also works as a personal PC when you dock it to a monitor with a mouse and a keyboard.

Working late.

As I get older I understand the importance of getting a good night’s sleep. Going to bed a bit pass 2am is now OUT of the questions for me. As a parent and as a husband, I know now not to hurt my body and my mind in such childish ways.

The crazy thing is that I stayed up working on the new look for the website and the format of the blog I am currently writing. By Odin’s beard it is difficult to keep my eyes open. @_@’ <—- Me right now!

Is not like I can just ignore my daily duties either. I have plenty of stuff I want to get done today. Since it is my day off from my day job. I will see how long I can keep my eyes open today without “taking a nap”.