The Very Epitome Of “But Why?”

Source: https://www.timeextension.com/news/2026/09/prep-your-crane-stance-nes-karate-champ-joins-the-console-archives-today

Some time last year, the Hamster people behind the Arcade Archives series of arcade game emulations launched a new series for PS5 and Switch 2 called Console Archives, where they’d port a bunch of console games. Today’s Console Archives release is the terrible NES port of Karate Champ… why?

I did a review of Karate Champ years ago. You can watch that here if you wish.

COMIC REVIEW – Power Rangers Unlimited #3

Our third and final issue review for this series (for now anyway – we’ll do another one if it starts getting interesting again) is going to be a short one. Basically, today’s story has a bunch of Rangers infiltrating a SPD villain party to steal an old villain’s warzord. There’s a nice little bit of sneaking around, showcasing each of the Rangers’ unique gifts and special abilities before we get another fight. And there’s some advancement towards the overall plot… for whatever that’s worth.

Once again, I reiterate my point about how this would have been better off as an anthology series of self-contained stories without the need for an overarching plot because I feel that’s the one thing holding back. Most of the book is a fun little romp over the theft of SPOILER and then we’re reminded that this is a thing that exists because… it has to?

Not entirely sold on the overall plot, but I did like the story as a standalone. The story continues, but I’m done with these write-ups… holding up on Green next.

TNA Bound For Glory 2016

Well… it’s something, I suppose.

Yeah, so whenever I prep these slots, I’ll leave a quick blurb in the intro before starting the musings proper. Once that’s done, I could try and cook up a proper intro for the post. As it turns out, this show gave me a whole bunch of nothing and thus, “It’s something, I suppose” is just about the best thing I could say about this show.

Anyway, let’s get it over with.

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And Down The Drain We Go…

Days after I praised Strange New Worlds for providing me with some “good fucking Star Trek” in the form of Orders of Magnitude, we return to the Well of BIG SWINGS with Once La’An A Time, where the Enterprise goes to Fairy Tale land and instantly regrets it. Although if we’re going to be fair here, I didn’t really mind this. TOS had Shore Leave with its Easter Bunnys, robot knights, and stuff. TNG had QPid. How many holodeck episodes on Voyager? The Wild West planet in Enterprise?

It’s a silly episode in a series of silly episodes… and I wouldn’t mind these if there were more non-silly episodes to offset the silliness… but we’re all about big swings that the cast and crew are sorry/not sorry for… and honestly, neither are the viewers who abandoned this show as a result… which explains why they’re no longer in production. Still, I can’t hate this for no other reason than La’an gets a new friend… no spoilers beyond that tidbit.

And yes, Jimmy is here again… goddamn, he must be the only first officer in Starfleet who doesn’t stay at the starship where he’s the first officer of. Is this the point where Pike just goes “fuck it” and offers Kirk the captaincy right then and there? That way, we can remove all pretense of this being a Pike show and just jumpstart this Year One thing that’s never going to be its own series.

Only one episode remains on this journey of BIG SWINGS before the wait for the final season to roll around. The name of the episode in question? Tomorrow’s Enterprise. I have yet to see the previews for this thing, but I’d imagine that Jim Kirk will be around, won’t he? He’s like the Steve Urkel of this show; sooner or later, the whole show is going to be about him.

Oh wait…

Review #1371 – Off The Wall (Atari 2600)

“You know somethin’, mean Gene? Those kids whose parents got them that 2600 from the 70s need something new to compete against those Japanese wankers, jack!! So whacha gonna do, mean Gene, when the 10.1 inch box runs wild on you? Huh?! WHACHA GONNA DO?!”

“How about Breakout with ethnic foreigners and you can only play with a joystick?”

“That works for me, brother.”

Mediocre A-Lister Who Can’t Act Embraces AI

Source: https://filmstories.co.uk/news/gal-gadot-defends-starring-in-ai-film-throws-in-that-her-lawyers-spent-six-months-checking-the-contract/

As controversial as this may be, let’s not bury the lede here. Gal Gadot could be embracing AI because she’s come to the realization that she’s never been that good of an actor and believes that her performances could be enhanced by AI. Sadly, Gal also believes that it’s called AL and not AI… because AL rhymes with GAL and so, of course, she believes it in it.

Best of luck in all her future endeavors, I guess.