…to AEW last night.
From Winnipeg, you idiot.
Okay, now that we’ve resolved that piece of business, we can all move on with our lives.
“But what about the mystery caller talking to Randy?”
Who cares? It’s not coming out of a box.
Don’t give a fuck.
“Oh, but they brought back the Queen Of Ear Rape to slap the taste out of-”
Do. Not. Give. A. Fuck.
Next.
Yes, I have more thoughts on this MMPR comic book thing that’s coming up. For those who need a refresher, I did a couple posts on this previously, which you can read here and here.
Long story short, BOOM is rebooting MMPR with older Rangers and rather than follow the template established by the Johnson/Hotson miniseries The Return, you’re getting this other thing where the Rangers are older, are fighting a new threat who’s also named Rita and looks like the old Rita, and are wearing new knock-off costumes you’d find on the packaging of those cheap, imitation action figures you’d find in cheapo shops. It just occurred to me that the people behind this new reboot are the same folks who brought you that Beyond The Grid storyline, which is apparently critically praised because it checks a few boxes in certain places, but really came across as really shitty fanfiction… which is saying something considering I used to dabble in my fair share of it. (Which will return in some form or fashion because I hate you all, apparently… just watch.) However, shitty fanfiction can be dropped and forgotten about because it doesn’t count; this thing, however, was part of Boom’s mainline MMPR series and rather than focus on those characters, we’re focused on some mishmash of stuff… and ultimately, this was the storyline that convinced me to drop off the Boom Comics train.
Though, if I’m being fair, I was already on the verge of dropping the series after the whole Shattered Grid thing, which I was never a fan of. And despite a couple attempts to jump back into it here and there, the series didn’t land for me and I just moved on to something, like replays of old episodes on Youtube once the deal with Netflix went up.
There’s a contingent of fans who are no doubt tired of the MMPR saturation of product. Let’s explore other seasons that seldom few people outside of the hardcores will care about. I think I’ve said this before, but if not, I’ll say it here. The reason MMPR often gets the spotlight is because it’s the most recognizable of the seasons. It ran longer, it had a movie under its belt, it had the most popularity, and even years after that run had concluded and we were dabbling in more narratively-complex seasons, there’s always that vocal section who want to return to that original crew, bring them back together for one last rodeo or something like that.
I’ve got no issues with them bringing back MMPR. Would I prefer they explore other seasons? Sure… preferably, I’d rather they focus on the season that’s currently on television to raise awareness for that… except we don’t have that now.
So yes, bad costumes, tired plot concept, and written by a crew that drove me off the comic years ago… I suppose everyone deserves another chance… maybe.
A video document summarizing my first few months with the neglected Atari VCS (a.k.a. ATARIBOX) device from 2021. Yes, I did get my hands on an Ataribox (for cheaper than usual), I fiddled around with it for a bit, and I’ve gathered some notes on the device. Is it worth getting in 2026? Probably not, but at least, I’ve got some decent fodder out of it that will fuel video material for this webzone in the future. Expect a sequel in October because there’s more to tinker with here and this is just a sampler of… something or other.
Yes, the premiere is at 8 p.m. EST – chances are you’ll have to decide whether you want to watch another exciting edition of MJF And His Low Hanging Fruit on AEW Dynamite or some idiot fumbling with a gimmick nobody is going to buy because you can do more with a mini PC at the price point that it’s asking for. And also, yes, this was a pain in the ass to put together in more ways than one… but it’s done. And we’ll be rolling back to this thing in October via One Year Later special, which will be very exciting, I’m sure.
Sunday Gimmick Table returns with a spotlight on a Japanese PSX, followed by the usual Review material. Review A Great Game Week also happens to be next week, though your guess is as good as mine as to whether these next titles constitute as “great.” Good, maybe… we’ll see.
So the show begins with Giant and Sting going at it… apparently, they were supposed to team up against Harlem Heat, but Jimmy Hart paid the Heat to take a hike and now the two partners has a fight. Match lasts a couple minutes before Lex Luger comes in for the DQ finish and that’s it… April Fools, I guess.
The Steiners beat the Road Warriors and the Nasty Boys in a Triangle match (a.k.a. the Triple Threat or 3-way match – apparently, the first time in WCW) in a dubious finish that saw one of the Public Enemy guys knock out a Nasty Boy while the other Public Enemy guy dressed as a Nasty Boy plays dead so that one of the Steiners can pin him for the win and… yeah, stupid fuck finish aside, this was an entertaining enough piece of tag team business. Could have done without the dumb swap finish, but considering how many worse finishes I’ve seen over the years, I suppose it’s inoffensive enough… meh.
Bobby Heenan announces that he is retiring from WCW… only to stick around and say April Fools. In hindsight, maybe he’d had been better off leaving, but whatever. There’s a Hogan/Booty Man match against Kevin Sullivan and Arn Anderson that I refuse to watch… so I skip ahead to the main event where Ric Flair retains his WCW World title over Lex Luger via a schoolboy, hand full of tights, and BOTH feet on the ropes for extra leverage. I’m guessing that’s supposed to show off the lengths Flair has to go to cheat a win out of Luger, but that seems a tad excessive. Regardless, a fine main event to an otherwise meh show.
Well, okay, the 3-way tag was pretty good until the finish, so it’s not all bad.
There’s no Nitro next week, which means a free slot for something else to fill its space and we’re going to fill it with [REDACTED.]
A sample playthrough of Pac-Man 256 for PC via Ataribox… which gets a video tomorrow at 7 p.m.
My best game on there and it’s on fucking ATARIBOX!
It is the 31st of March in the year of our lord 2026… and it’s the time-honoured tradition of my declaration of not having watched the Section 31 streaming motion picture starring Academy Award winner Michelle Yeoh.
Yep, we’re still doing this… and really, I haven’t had the urge to subscribe to any streaming channels. I’ve got a TV box to watch some local news and channels… and the rest I watch on Youtube and the occasional Prime because I have Prime to save on shipping.
Don’t even have an active Netflix subscription… but I do watch Plex. Plex is a good time. And it’s free.
Truxton Extreme is coming to Nintendo Switch 2.
If this doesn’t revive Lord Karnage, then I don’t know what will…
Maybe a new Atari console or something…
You know… there are a number of announcements that can get me to drop everything, subscribe to Netflix, and dedicate a whole weekend to watching what could very well be the most underwhelming Wrestlemania showcase in WWE history… at least, until next year.
Announcing that John Cena is going to host the thing… is not one of them.
Can he just fuck off and do movies now? What is he going to do now? More MEMES on Twitter?
Gah…
Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/air-canada-ceo-michael-rousseau-retires-9.7146886
On a more serious note, Air Canada CEO Michael Rosseau has announced plans to retire at the end of the year.
I’m assuming you’ve heard about the tragedy in LaGardia Airport with the Air Canada plane that crashed into a fire truck and cost the lives to its two pilots. Air Canada is a Canadian company based out of Montreal, which is in the province of Quebec. Canada has two official languages; English and French. When the CEO came out to express his condolences, he did so in English only. One of the pilots was Quebecois. The French speaking community, naturally, threw a fit and asked for his head. He delivered a written apology. Not good enough. Off with his head… and so he plans to step down later this year.
Naturally, prayers and wishes to the families of Antoine Forest and Mackenzie Gunther in this trying time.
I honestly wish that more effort was made in celebrating the lives of two pilots who went above and beyond the call of duty to keep their passengers safe… only to be overshadowed by what I feel are somewhat petty language issues. Every time I hear OLEF giving a notice to someone’s Instagram or a bad with Irish decorations, I roll my eyes and grimace. The morons running this government have no time to fix their potholes or fund their medical sectors to procure more top of the line equipment to deal with their sick, but they’ve no problems spending money on spies to see who’s speaking acceptable levels of French at their places of work.
With that said, Michael Rosseau had a previous language-related controversy back in 2021 that also involved him speaking no lick of French in his statement and people cried foul. He said he’d do better and stuck around, but now five years later and despite taking French immersion classes, he still couldn’t muster a few quick words in French… and he runs a major airline based out of a province whose only official language is French and anyone who doesn’t speak French deserves to die or something. Someone in that position, who’s getting paid loads of money to run that expansive business in Canada and can’t speak a lick of French… I’m sorry, but why is this guy allowed to be CEO?
It’s one thing if you’re a lowly worker down the food chain and you only speak a little of one or the other. It’s another thing when you’re the head of a national corporation and fluency in both official languages of Canada is not only required, but should be expected, especially if you have to issue a statement regarding prevailing circumstances. I’ve got nothing against the man personally; I’m sure he’s a swell guy, but him being piefaced over not speaking French five years ago and then doing so again despite claims to have taken courses… yeah, I can say that I’m more francophone that this guy is, and my French is just good enough to get by, but not enough for me to run Air Canada.
Moral of the story; if you’re gonna apply for a job and it requires fluency in both English and French, you’d better be fluent in both English and French.
I’ll post something happier later.
This is a deep cut from way back when… but a long, long time ago, a bunch of comic book geeks who were disenchanted with the Spider-Man movies at the time, were seeking funding to create their own version of Spider-Man 3, which was upcoming. They had a trailer that featured comments from Richard Donner (he of Superman: The Movie and Lethal Weapon fame) as well as other comic book geeks talking about how Hollywood is a soulless machine that mines intellectual properties for the sake of money.
Riveting stuff. Meanwhile, the sky is blue and water is wet. Grr…
So this was a thing that existed for a few years and there was an active forum and all that. I’ve wrote about this thing on the old DTM Blog (of which you can read here and here if you want more timely comments on the matter) and even left a couple comments on the message board. After a few years, the website shut its doors; citing a need to keep the production and website off limits for the foreseeable future. A year or so later, the website would disappear and replaced with a generic service page. I mentioned that much on the old blog fifteen years ago.
Whatever happened to the folks behind the project? Did they drop everything and move on with their lives? Did they end up making their secret Spidey movie that’s so secret nobody knows of its existence? Who can say for sure? I do know one thing; Spider-Man 3 came and went without a hitch, the Studi-HOS (their words, not mine) made their money, and we got more Spider-Man movies of different types. Maybe these guys made one of those… who knows? But really, who cares? You probably didn’t even know this was a thing until I mentioned it just now.
However, I can tell you this much. At some point, a Japanese car service website assumed control of the domain name and used it to provide some information on car servicing. That site would cease updates in 2014, but would stay active until at most 2019, which is the last update that Wayback Machine has in archive. And if you try to access the site today… you get nothing… because the site is long dead.
Oh well… so much for that. I’m glad that I resolved that mystery that I clearly didn’t think about until fifteen minutes ago when I had a brain fart of a realization that I need to post something today since there are no videos this week save for the one on Wednesday. What fun.
Later.
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