Author: dtm666

I ramble about things.

How Far Has Trek Gone…?

I’m looking at the front page of the TrekWeb website and what notable news stories am I reading today? Fan production New Voyages changing its name to Phase II, after the aborted Trek series that eventually became The Motion Picture. An interview for one of the writers of Operation: Beta Shield, another fan film. Alumni Trek actors talking about past days.

Has the franchise gotten to a point where it’s considered news when somebody pisses the words Star Trek on a field of snow? Maybe I should try that right now. Get ready for that to make headline news.

Disclaimer: I didn’t actually go out and piss the words Star Trek out in a field of snow. If I’m going to be doing any pissing, it’ll be in a toilet within the comforts of my nice, warm home. Thanks.

DVD Review – The Legacy of Stone Cold Steve Austin (3-Disc Set)

Because we needed another Austin retrospective set…

The Legacy Of Stone Cold Steve Austin is a 3-disc DVD set (also available on Blu-Ray) that once again spotlights one of the biggest names in WWE, but this one is different because it’s mostly a compilation of matches with some occasional interview bits from Steve Austin himself. So it’s less a documentary and more a collection of some of Austin’s best matches. Not only his WWF stuff, but also some of his WCW and ECW stuff.

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Glamazon Barbie and Chain Gang Ken

WWE has apparently signed a deal with Mattel as far as toys are concerned. Meanwhile, Jakks Pacific, the company doing the WWE toys now, has signed a deal with TNA to do their toys. Just what we always needed; Barbie in a Diva Search contest. The sad thing is Barbie could very well be the most talented Diva of the bunch should she enter.

Sadly, both of these deals are expected to take affect in 2010.

(2024 Update: We took this piss out of this deal happening, but the WWE/Mattel relationship continues to be a beneficial one as of this brief update. The TNA/Jakks Pacific deal, on the other hand? Not so much. Oh well. Maybe they can fire that up again now that TNA is no longer a joke… or not. Whatever. I don’t care.)

First Impressions – Playstation Portable (PSP-2000)

So a couple days ago, I picked up a PSP… the POP Station rip-off console.

I kid, of course.

In all seriousness, I picked up the Star Wars edition PSP, which is the white Darth Vader-engraved PSP handheld that comes with a copy of the Star Wars Battlefront game. I’ve also picked up a copy of Dracula X Chronicles along with a Memory Stick to save all my crap in. I think it’s crap that I have to buy a separate memory stick when it should be included in the package, but that’s a fault that has been evident with most consoles requiring memory units, but I digress.

After giving it a couple days, I don’t think the PSP is such a bad system. The game selection might be a bit icky, but the system is fairly functional and seems to have a lot of stuff it’s capable of. The D-Pad and controls seem to be functional, they feel fairly good in the hands, I actually don’t feel awkward playing a system with Darth Vader’s mug on it in public while riding the metro, so that’s a plus. The analog stick is rather strange – at first glance, I thought it was a button or extra padding – but it works, so no complaints. Haven’t gotten the network function to work, but I’m not really a big network guy anyway, so that’s alright.

All in all, not bad, really. My main problem right now is finding some decent games for the console, but that’s another story…

RAW (Feb. 11th, 2008) – Don’t Get Your Hopes Up

The main event between Shawn Michaels and Jeff Hardy was actually pretty good – it’s almost make wonder if I’d pay money for this had it been on PPV. As much as I want Jeff to get the big one that he truly deserves, it’s probably not going to happen. After all, we know who’s winning that match and that’s the guy with the three Hs… who hasn’t been on TV for the past couple weeks.

I don’t know – seems pretty stupid to give the win to a guy who hasn’t been on TV for two weeks – regardless of their reasons – simply because it’s in the books, but this is WWE we’re talking about. Their booking plans make almost as much sense as TNA’s.

Other than that, nothing particularly special happened. Vince had his match with Hornswoggle and booked a rematch in a steel cage. Yeah, that’s going to bring in ratings.

Quick Thoughts On UFC81

You know the funny thing about hype? Chances are you’ll never live up to it.

I say this about Brock Lesnar: he had put up a good fight for a minute there, even getting a foul for a shot to the back of the head. Unfortunately, all it took was a simple little leglock from Frank Mir to put down the former WWE champion. It was a complete embarrassment of a fight and one of the reasons why I prefer watching “scripted” entertainment as opposed to a real fight.

In any event, I went past the Brock match and tried to watch the rest of the show, on which a friend of mine foolishly blew fifty bucks on and taped the event for me. Other than a few quick moments, I couldn’t really get into the show. It just seems like after watching a bunch of sports-entertainers trying to make scripted entertainment seem real for a whole bunch of years, I’d expect a real fight to even more intense, only to be sorely disappointed as I watch two grown men in their boxers swatting each other like flies with about as much ferocity as a ball of cotton. Maybe I prefer my action to be scripted.

But let’s get back to Brock for a minute. Obviously his first UFC outing didn’t turn out too well, as after a minute of solid punches, he was caught in a leglock and forced to tap out. While I mentioned this already in a previous blog post, Brock is far from the next big choke. It’s his first match and naturally, you can’t win them all. But from the short time he was offensive, he didn’t look like a complete idiot and may do very well in his new UFC career.

So best of luck, Brock.

(2011 Update: May do very well? Brock Lesnar would eventually win the UFC World championship; the only guy to hold the top championship in both WWE and UFC… I severely doubt anybody else is going to repeat that feat.)

DTM BLOG Classics #34 – The Weather And Other Stories

The string of bad weather began this past Wednesday, which started off nicely with some rain and wind (yeah right) and then when I get out of work, everything is frozen over and windier. Only the roads were ice-free, but the sidewalks were death-traps waiting to happen.

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