Don't watch life hack videos.That's really good advice and is a more useful life hack than you will see on any current year life hack video.There was a time, when YouTube was quite a lot newer, that there was some effort put into these things. They were fun and clever and occasionally even worth trying. Life hacks were exercises in lateral thinking. You might or might not be coming up with a better approach to something but at...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0e8v2G6Lzo Dark Herald: Do you want to stay with your entire family locked in a building and sleeping altogether in a room the size of walk-in closet for three days and two nights?Darklings: Fuck no! What’s wrong with you?DH (enticing lilt to his voice): But you get to LARP Star Wars the w-h-o-l-e t-i-m-e…Darklings: We’ve begged you to get your meds adjusted.DH: I haven’t taken those in years. And what if I told you, you could do all that and more for...
Something that was rattling around in my bean over the weekend was the tone of Disney's reply to Scarlet Johansson’s lawsuit.The tone reflected genuine aggrievement. As if matters had been settled, an agreement had been reached and then Johansson went ahead and sued anyway. Everyone in Hollywood was going on about how shocked everyone else felt by this lawsuit because stars as big as Johansson don’t have to do this.ScarJo is repped by Bryan Lourd. Let me elaborate on that, she personally, is...
The poster-child for failing upwards has done it again.Alex Kurtzman’s contract has been extended until 2026 (two years early) and is being paid $150 million to continue doing to Star Trek what Jack the Ripper did to the sex workers in White Chapel. There were rumors flying around last week, which I didn’t report on because I couldn’t quite believe it. Although, this became a worrying possibility when Kurtzman hijacked Strange New Worlds away from Akiva Goldman.Only Chris Chibnall has destroyed a...
I don’t know why I’m smiling, Doctor Who is still owned by the BBC.Well, it has certainly been a wild toboggan ride on a rockslide down the side of Mount Everest for the Chinballs era Doctor. But of course, the bottom was going to have to be reached eventually. They are both out at the end of this season. While it has been rumored for a while, now it is confirmed. After this season’s finale Special, (note, they aren’t saying Holiday Special, the Beeb...
Another casualty of Disney’s release strategy for Black Widow was Scarlett Johansson’s paycheck. The upfront money is good but the place a headliner like Johansson really cleans up is the back-end theatrical deal. Let’s take a look at a recent example of what this potentially looks like. Gal Gadot was starting to make quite the stink over Wonder Woman 1984 being released exclusively on HBOmax. Because of the same thing Scarlett’s mad about. Gal was being deprived of the backend theatrical cut that she...
I tried to find trailers for three movies I want to see this year. I could only find two.FIRSTGhostbusters: AfterlifePlease don’t screw this up guys. Pretty please with lots and lots of sugar on top? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y7V1Wf0Xuc The rumors appear to be true, and Bill Murrey will have at least a cameo. That is a little surprising given how much he hated being in the reboot. The leaked Sony emails show that they forced him into making that one with the threat of a lawsuit. Possibly, he sees...
It is impossible to examine this game by itself. It has to be held up to the mirror of its predecessor; Subnautica.Subnautica Below Zero has been out on Beta for years but it was finally officially released in May of this year by Unknown Worlds. Unknown is now a subsidiary of Perfect World, a Chinese media company. Just so you know where your money is going if you buy this.Subnautica was a horror game disguised as a survival game. Below Zero tries for the...
Mattel appears to be extremely unhappy with Kevin Smith. The toy sales for the Master of the Universe Revelation are reportedly non-existent. Whatever brand manager at Mattel who had the ingenuous notion of hiring professional nerd-whore Kevin Smith to helm the Netflix He-Man mini-series has cleaned out his desk by now. The new guy is clearly leaning on Kevin. Kevin Smith’s immediate stream after Revelation was launched had him bellowing joyfully about having killed He-Man TWICE. And how proud he was to have...
Which is good because I wasn't taking that bullet for you guys.Honestly, I don't give a fuck about He-Man. There are basically two types of Gen-Xer. The Prince Gen-Xer and the Micheal Jackson Gen-Xer. It was an inter-generational thing depending on your age.* He-Man was for the Michael Jackson portion of the Real Greatest Generation.I don't have a dog in this fight which not to say I have no stake in it at all. Everything is...
