Mike Dragon

Yay! ATS and ETS2's newest updates are here!  Now to play the waiting game and patiently wait for MP to be patched.

So far my favorite new additions are the differential lock and multiple fueling points on gas stations. The multiple fueling points will be REALLY useful on MP. Finally we can actually share the pump with other players! And that differential lock is sure to help get our trucks out of some situations which we couldn't get them off from before. Like, say... you pulled up to the side of the road but onto a bump/ditch without noticing, now you want to get out but one wheel is spinning freely in the air while the only wheel that is touching the ground and could get out out of there simply won't budge, leaving you with no option but to F7 away or load your latest save. Well, no more! Just engage the differential lock and give that wheel that's on the ground full power!  I tested it multiple times and I can attest. It works beautifully! It also helps a ton when going up some steep hill. It seems to give the truck more traction. Great for pulling up heavy trailers up quarries in ETS2, for example.

Years ago I made a Twitter account just because I had to, though I never really used it. Recently I received a couple emails from Twitter, talking about a new login attempt from a new device. Which I know I didn't do. So to ensure the security of my account and personal data related to it I reset my password (couldn't remember it, anyway lol) and enabled some extra security steps on my account so now, every time I (or someone) tries to login into my account, even if the correct password is used, a security code will be required and without it, the login will not be possible. This code is sent to my phone via SMS so even if I try to login into Twitter myself, I will need my phone with me to receive the code and then type it after the password.

Why I am saying this? Because after I enabled the extra security steps, I now have already received two SMS from Twitter with a security to insert after my password. And I haven't gone into Twitter ever since I enabled the extra security so clearly, someone, somewhere, is trying, for whatever reason, to login into my Twitter account. I just wonder who and why?

Also eBay. For the past couple weeks I have been receiving emails from eBay (supposedly) with the subject, "Michael Godoy, do you need help signing into eBay?" and the body of the email mentions failed attempts to login.

Just who the crap is so desperate to steal these accounts of mine that I rarely even remember that I own and why, I wonder!? Whoever you are, if you are reading this, just know two things: 1) I own those accounts but I don't use them. You are not going to gain anything with invading them; 2) Unless you manage to physically steal my phone, you are not getting into any of my accounts, at all, so just find yourself another target that's actually worth of your time. Those accounts have nothing in them. But most importantly: Get a job!

Yes!! Netflix has FINALLY added season 3 of Sleepy Hollow!! <3

Yes. There will finally be a WedTruckSim (my weekly Wednesday trucking livestream) today. 7 PM eastern as usual. Follow me on Twitch to catch it!
https://www.twitch.tv/mike_dragon/

Yesterday's stream will happen today in about 30 minutes. Today's game: BeamNG.drive.

Follow me on Twitch to catch it!
https://www.twitch.tv/mike_dragon/ 

YO GAIS!!! IT'S DECEMBER!!!

You are in your car in a flooded street or road and you want to show it on video but doesn't know the best way to do it. Well, for starters, do NOT roll down your window! lol

You just gotta watch this whole thing, trust me! lol

You know what really sucks? Getting copyrighted on YouTube by in-game music of a game you simply recorded yourself playing.

You know what? I'll just say this... Most of you people may dislike ATS but I love it and I think it deserves more love and attention. If I get promoted, that game will be having an IGA around a lot more often.

You know what? I'm done with trucking and dragons and stuff. From now on, all my art and videos will be all about ponies. And it starts now with this EPIC game!

You know what? Screw Samsung laptops. Screw Windows 10. Screw Windows 10 on Samsung laptops! Windows 10 is an ok OS, but terrible to work with if you have to fix it.

One of my clients left his laptop installing updates but forgot to plug it in. The battery died mid-installation and it corrupted the system. Samsung littered the hard drive with recovery partitions and none were helpful. Samsung also hid away in the BIOS about ALL of the needed functions to boot up from DVD or USB, making me waste almost a whole day just to figure out how to boot with Hiren's Boot USB. Windows 10 itself has F8 on boot disabled by default, so load the Recovery Options and Safe Mode cannot be done from outside Windows itself, unless you shut down the system three times while it is booting, which  in reality only makes matters worse. And then, when recovering the system was no longer a option and format to install all from scratch was the better choice and I finally managed to get into the Live Windows on Hiren's, I learned that Samsung limited what you can do to the partitions on the hard drive and made it impossible to delete and format them (the recovery partitions).

I had to boot into Linux to bypass the limitations and then I learned that even so, the MBR cannot be written due to some sort of hardware-level limitation Samsung somehow imposed on the device, which makes it impossible to mark the partition as active. The option then would be to use Windows 10's own setup to format, but that just re-creates all of those useless recovery partitions. >:C Not even the MBR rewritting tools I used could fix the MBR.

My next choice now is to plug this laptop's hard drive into my computer and format it there using my own hardware. In theory, that should bypass the hardware limitations (it's probably some code in the BIOS ROM) since there would be none so it should be possible to format it normally like any regular computer. Just gotta wait my boss' response on the idea and if given the green light to carry on with the idea, then hopefully it will work.

EDIT: Oh and get a load of this... Windows 10's setup did not offer me to select which version to install. It just went straight to Home Single Language and turns out that to get the hard drive out of the laptop I will have to open the whole bottom of the thing. >:[

You know what? That post I made a few hours ago in which I do a short and simple performance analysis of a Volvo FH16 and a Scania Streamline, both with specific and identical specs... I should probably make a little video out of it. And obviously, include a couple more trucks and chassis combinations.

You know what's interesting and I never realized before? Every single Cubone that you find and can catch at the Lavender Tower, in Pokémon Red, Blue and Yellow, once you obtain the Silph Scope, every single one of them is actually a ghost. They are all dead.

You know you are way past your bed time when you are on YouTube and start watching stuff like this.

And laugh at it like an idiot.

You know... From all the game streams on YouTube that I have done this far (which haven't been many as of yet, as I am just starting to get into it), I couldn't help but notice that the ones I have announced here on the forums are the only ones that gets an unbalanced amount of dislikes, such as these three most recent ones:

Now then, that leads me to the conclusion that whoever these people are, they are certainly reading this post. Which begs the question: Why?  

Please do not be afraid of any sort of retaliation. There won't be any (there can't be any, even if I wanted. It's just literally impossible). I am not upset or anything, after all what matters to me is the views, I just honestly want to know why are you, well... in the lack of a better word... hating my streams, so much? Am I doing something wrong? If so, tell me what I should do to improve! I am open for suggestions and constructive criticism. I have just started doing this, after all! Is it the content that displeases you so much? If so, what would you rather have me play? I am open for suggestions, you know. Or are you disliking my streams just for the sake of giving a dislike? Don't be afraid to answer me why you dislike my streams so much. You can send me a PM. I won't bite. Dragon word.

You know... there's a reason why I pay internet...

You will not believe this...

Enjoy your Sunday! 

You've made it to Sunday, congrats and happy Sunday! Now join me for some art on today's Chill Art Sunday!

https://www.twitch.tv/mike_dragon/

YouTube's copyright algorithm is really full of horse poop. I just uploaded a video of a new artwork I am working on and YouTube has identified the first song I put on the video as a copyrighted song. I'd understand it if the song YouTube claims it is was the actual song I put in the video but nope! The music it claims infringes copyright is something completely different by a completely different musician. What the hell?

Now I'll have to edit the video again, find another suitable song, render it all over again and then upload it again. Such a waste of time!

Yup... that's a fence. Though I find it oFENCEsive that it wouldn't let me go any further beyond that point. There were living burgers on the other side!

Yus, another ATS public convoy, at last! <3 I'll definitely try to be there, tomorrow!

Looking forward to seeing some familiar faces, around!

Yus! Finally!

Yus!! Got my free country flags DLC! -3-