Monthly Archives - March 2022

08Mar

Journalism Difficulty Setting

Choose Your Difficulty:  Death Incarnate Impossible Very Difficult Difficult Not As Difficult  Easy Don’t Hurt Me Journalist Elden Ring is annoyingly successful.  Everyone.  Simply everyone is playing it.  Including me and I do not have time to cope with a life sponge of a game right now.  The game is as addictive as it is hard.  Just about every fight feels like a boss-fight.  You will die constantly, even the pros are grinding their teeth on this one. “Git Gud!” The gamer cries out as he strikes the Godrick Knight. “That’s r-a-c-i-s-t!!!” The Journalist cries out as...

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05Mar

Friday Night Open Thread

I see Sparkly Batman has dropped. From everything I've heard, it's typical Bad Reboot filmmaking. The plot is Seven plus the Batman Long Halloween, plus Batman Year Two, plus Batman Hush. With some fashionable Woke washing. The reviewers that I'm willing to throw the dice on have all said that it's okay, but not great. It's not another Marvel movie, that's nice I guess. But it does have the standard Bad Reboot Wokeisms throughout. Aside from Batman, all the whites are...

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04Mar

LOLKotaku Writers On Strike

Nothing I can say will make this any funnier. But yeah, all of the writers for G/O Media's subsidiaries have gone on strike. Kotaku, Jalopnik, Jezebel, The A.V. Club, Lifehacker, and the rest of Gawker Media's bastard children who got turned out in the street after Mama Gawker got body-slammed in court by Hulk Hogan, are now on the (presumably virtual) picket line. As I've said repeatedly, the only thing these websites ever had going for them was venture capital. For...

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03Mar

The Dark Herald Recommends The King’s Man

This film was startlingly good. And I mean startling as in how did they get this one so right and the last one so wrong? I will grant that, Kingsmen the Golden Circle wasn’t unwatchabley bad.  But compared to the first film it wasn’t worth watching either. The first Kingsmen movie was that rarest of things today, something original.  It was both a loving tribute to Sean Connery-era James Bond and an intriguing story of class conflict. But it was also the coming-of-age story of...

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01Mar

Funimation Loses the Steaming Wars?

Crunchy Roll's San Francisco office. When Sony (the long-time owner of Funimation) bought off Crunchy Roll off of the wounded giant Warner Brothers, I and pretty much everyone else figured that was the end of Crunchy Roll. Not without reason. "Crunchy Roll started life as the Napster of Anime.  Anyone was allowed to upload any Anime content they had, whether or not they had anything that even approached a legal right to so.  Crunchyroll made enough money that in 2009 it went legit...

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01Mar

More Bad News For Pixar

Brad Bird the creator of The Incredibles and Ratatouille has quit working for Pixar and gone over to... You guessed it. Skydance Animation where he will be working for Jon Lasseter again. Pete Docter brought this one on himself when he said, 'the guys currently working here won't be making movies in ten years. It's the new people that are going to be the ones doing that.' Mostly they have been producing Woke and unwatchable tone pieces like Soul. "Pixar has...

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