Spritenaut 32

Ugh. Not so much about the spoilers being out there, but about the specifics

If there's ever a sequel to Segagaga (that's not happening), I feel like one of the objectives should be for your character to play a launch day version of the company's new "big game" without encountering any game-breaking bugs.

So I was listening to a gaming podcast this morning (still trying to find one I like) and the started talking about Street Fighter V. Basically, the conversation was about how some fighting stick controller wouldn't be released for a few months, and how a lot of gameplay modes wouldn't be ready till a future update, and the online store wasn't live yet, and there wasn't much to do offline and if you didn't play online you'd be as well off to wait until July, and one of the hosts was trying to explain to his friend that he shouldn't buy a PS4 because he doesn't have home internet and PS4 games are either broken or incomplete when they're released, and...... On and on and on. And I'm sitting there thinking to myself "Are you shitting me? Why do people put up with this?" I just don't get how the companies managed to train consumers to put up with this. I''m not sure what my motivation would be to put up with this. I get that consoles are far more powerful than they were 10 or 15 years ago, and there are some incredible games out there, but are the catalogs really that much better than the PS2/Xbox/GameCube/Dreamcast generation? 'Cause I'm pretty happy with what those games have to offer. Also. it's F***ing Street Fighter. Not the most complex game ever developed. Is it really that hard to put together a new Street Fighter game that's complete and non-buggy by launch day? There won't be consoles and physical copies of games much longer, will there? Ugh.

It was reported that he wasn't planning on selling any more stock. But, then again, it was reported that he planned to invest $100 milion, not $500 million, into this snipe hunt, so who knows?

Vince sold some stock around the time the relaunch was announced (I don't remember how much, so dunno if it was $500 million worth). Supposedly, he's financing this with his own money, not company funds.

I'm kinda sad LeBron James didn't wait till 11:58 PM, then announce he was opting out. From what I've heard, Cleveland should be relieved he opted out. Now, they're one of the few teams in the league who can afford to resign him. If he had re-signed in Cleveland, it sounds like it would have probably been as part of a sign-and-trade deal.

Did he kick out?

Bull being the normal, unassuming one in that photo weirds me out.

Charlotte also got some PR yesterday on Mike Greenberg's new ESPN morning show, Ignore Us (um, maybe the actual title is "Get Up"). Michelle Beadle claimed Ric watches the show and tweeted in to talk up Charlotte when they started discussing the body issue. So Beadle and Greeny started talking about Charlotte (mostly Beadle, who seemed to know something about the product). I don't know that I believe Ric watches the show. Is he in the market for a new wife? He could certainly do worse than Beadle.

I kinda mildly enjoyed Pacific Rim: Uprising because, y'know, it's giant robots fighting monsters and other giant robots. But I still thought it was terrible. Objectively, I felt like it was terrible in almost every way. Lazily written, stock characters, a bunch of unknown actors largely devoid of screen presence, some really meh monster-robot fights. They really dumbed down the two-pilot concept, didn't they. Giant robots doing parkour-style triangle jumps off the sides of skyscrapers so they deliver a clumsy martial arts kick is not what I expected to see. Or wanted to see. I'm kinda sad none of the kaiju knows how to do a proper phoenix splash. The various heel and babyface turns meant nothing because no one had much of a character to play. I'm looking at you, Asian female head of the corporation Charlie Day's character worked for. Not that Day's turn had much impact either.

He probably believed the rumor about Warrior dying and being replaced and thinks Warrior #1 died. Errr.... died. Again. Warrior #2 is alive and kicking in Hulk's mind. Don't do drugs, kids.

As bad as the idea sounds, I find myself wondering (Why?) if Enzo was just betting the physical belt or the championship. Nia Jax becoming cruiserweight champion in a poker game definitely sounds like something this company would do,

LU has succeeded in making shirts as least as awful as WWE shirts. Er... Well... done?

Ancient Magus Bride didn't hold up for me over the long haul. There's a lot I really like about it. The art/animation look great, the music, the world-building, etc. Didn't like get hooked by either main character, but their evolving relationship was interesting. Thought the early episodes were outstanding. On the downside, I didn't feel like there was much enough narrative progression to make the episodes feel important. 18 episodes into a 24 ep show and it feels like they're still doing world-building. And then the last six episodes hit and suddenly there's a plot driving events forward and a big bad of sorts who didn't seem particularly important earlier, and it show suddenly feels like a different show. The first 18 eps or so felt like something special, the last six feel like a FMA clone (to me, anyways). The stuff with Joseph and the eye and Chise's mom gets incredibly dark, so dark it feels like another show. Felt like the show had a lot of potential that went unrealized. The first eight or ten eps felt like something special to me. Then I realized the supporting characters weren't getting developed any further and the pacing seemed kinda off me and started noticing little flaws. And then the show gets dark and kinda goes down the path of a traditional fantasy anime. Eps 22 & 23 really took me out of the show. Just way too dark. Couldn't reconcile that with the rest of the show. Still recommend it. Just don't feel like it was all it could have been.

Eh, I had just the opposite reaction. When I saw her at piano, I was kinda hoping she was into classical. Rock chicks don't do much for me (well, a lot of them do frighten me). It's just as well. I'm married. And, if I wasn't and asked her out, I expect I'd eat an exploder suplex then have my arm dislocated.

You're not going to get far on the internet if you keep trying to be reasonable.

I quite enjoyed the Last Jedi. Obviously, I'm a terrible person. What didn't people like about the movie?

Honestly, if they writers had just basically said, "eh, the Emperor gave inquisitors the power to fly", I would have just shrugged and went with it. Flying wouldn't be the wackiest thing jedi and sith can do. But there was no explanation and the visual of an inquisitor lifting up his light sabre, spinning it horizontally, and helicoptering away just looked sorta silly. Apparently, there are quite a few message boards threads out there devoted to the topic.

Eight episodes into Ancient Magus Bride and really liking it so far. Really liking it. As in, best anime I've watched in a long time. We'll see how it develops over the next 16 eps, but I could see it ending up in my personal top 10 or 20. Too early to say for sure, though.

That was like four pages ago. How long an attention span do you think i have?

No one posted the best six minutes of Vader's career? Boo.

Came across this while looking for a Vader-Sting gif.

Speaking of Bryan, Big E's spear to the outside was scary. Big E hit him high and, at first glance, I thought they hit head-to-head.

Yeah, there's three or four instances when the Inquisitors fly while spinning their light sabres (the double-sword ones like Maul used) like a propeller. I know it's a sci-fi show and it's animated, so suspension of disbelief and all that, but it looked absurd to me. Edit: Here's a clip, albeit not the one I would have liked to use. Skip to 2:05 when the inquisitors retreat from Maul and Ezra

Gah, stupid non-chronological ordering of movies. Yeah, when i referred to Episode 1, I meant the original, 1977 movie. Completely forgot that Lucas' reboot trilogy is technically episodes 1-3. I ended up liking season 4 much more than I expected. After being underwhelmed by season 3, I was ready to check out when I didn't like the Madalore 2-parter that kicked off season 4. S4 picked up steam once the primary plot kicked in. Are there any other Rebels projects out there? Wikipedia gave me the idea there's at least one Rebels novel out there? I'd be down with a novel or another show that followed Atsoka's quest to find Ezra. One thing I should mention is that I really liked how they presented Jedi. Ezra and Kanan couldn't just whip out their lightsabers and beat up everything in sight. They still had limits. Star Wars in general - and Clone Wars especially did this - tended to present jedi as super heroes. Anakin and Obi Wan could take out 10,000 well-armed troops by their lonesome in most stories. I thought it was interesting the character death in S4 was basically the result of being collateral damage in an explosion, not the result of fighting some uber-powerful Sith. Good show. Wish there was more. Like I said, I'm surprisingly into the quest they set up at the end. I do wish they hadn't had inquisitors flying around in season 2 by twirling their light sabers like rotor blades. That seemed dumb. Was that established elsewhere? I really don't remember flying jedi or sith before.