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TV commentary:

Riverdale- Heh, I'm amused the promos for this ep heavily featured Molly Ringwald as Archie's mom, and that scene doesn't actually occur in the ep until the last minute. ( spoiler cut )

Supernatural- So I'm confused by Ketch this ep. ( spoiler cut )

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ME:A blather- Good? Finally got another bio-converter! Bad? Got the dreaded "ws-37397-9" error and couldn't connect to PSN. Which means I couldn't access my strike teams to get the rewards. And I was one pack of heleus research data away to have enough points to unlock an Isharay X. Luckily, I was able to temporarily connect via the wireless hotspot on my phone to access APEX and get my rewards.

So now, I have a sweet Isharay X. Which, I love the Valiant and Black Widow, but this thing blows them away. I mean, it has one less augmentation slot, but that's fine. As I mentioned before the base Isharay X did more damage than my crafted Black Widow X that had 3 kinetic coils and a vented barrel. So while four augmentation slots meant there was only room for two kinetic coils after putting in the bio-converter and double mod slot, that's still more damage.

But yeah, besides doing more damage (normally had to do a head shot for an insta-kill on the grunts, but a cloaked shot seems to drop enemies instantly no matter where it hits now), the bio-converter not only makes it infinite ammo (well, sorta, presuming you can keep your health up) it forgoes the reloading time. I mean, the most frustrating thing on the black widow is only getting three shots before painstakingly have to reload, which really messes up one's groove.

This set up works well with cloak and the adrenaline fusion mod. Say what you will about weapons vs powers, but bottom line, the former does more damage. So if something does take multiple attacks to bring down, chances are a power will bring them down just enough for your squadmate to kill them instead, losing out on the instant recharge from the adrenaline fusion mod. But since a cloaked shot will kill the mooks, it feeds upon itself- dropping the enemy, instantly recharges cloak, allowing you to re-cloak and make another cloaked shot.

Anyways, it did look like I can access PSN again as of 8pm tonight. Which is just about 24 hours from when it stopped working. So, ws-37397-9 error means your IP has been blocked. Now, it looks like PSN had issues earlier yesterday. Presumably in their attempt to fix that, the IP here was blacklisted. Now, the quick fix I found online is to basically change your IP. Which for some is no easy task. Like it was ridiculous that people were all, "Just change your router!" Which is an expensive and erroneous solution- it only worked because for those people, the process most likely changed their IP, thus getting around the problem.

But yeah, another suggestion was to "ask your ISP to give you another IP!" as if that wasn't a huge pain in the ass. Which again is bullshit- PSN erroneously blocks your IP, and they want you to change your IP instead of unblocking you?! So my hope was that the block was only temporary. Which it seemed to be. Hopefully I haven't jinxed it.

TV commentary:

The Originals- So Keelin and Freya? Just gal pals, or are they going there? Hopefully, the latter. Some interesting reveals this ep though. ( spoiler cut )