So, hey. Did you hear? Dennis Rodman won the Celebrity Championship Wrestling competition show created by Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff. If that isn’t a scripted ending, then I don’t know what is.
With that said, here’re my picks for tonight’s amazing Royal Rumble PPV.
Just in time for the new Legend of Chun-Li flick coming out in February, Universal is also re-releasing the old Van-Damme flick next month too… but this time, it’s an EXTREME edition. It’s got some special features here and there… and there’s some content on Street Fighter IV in there too, so there’s new stuff.
So if you haven’t bought the movie when it was last released on DVD, here’s your chance to look back on one of the more campy films out there… and then shed a tear as you realize that this film, while not exactly top-of-the-line in the Street Fighter mythos, has way more personality and life to it than the Chun-Li flick… which looks more like a generic Hong Kong flick than a Street Fighter film… and not even a good one.
There’s word that Spider-Man has undergone a change of late. Marvel has been proudly touting its Brand New Day storyline, which is supposed to introduce the first new status quo for its popular superhero. Now I haven’t been following comics in a good couple years, but I figure let’s jump in and see how Spidey’s been doing since he opened himself up to the world.
So I come back to comics, start reading this bold new vision that Marvel has released and what do I learn?
– Peter Parker and Mary-Jane are no longer married and are apparently on bad terms with each other. Apparently this happened due to a deal with Mephisto that he would save frail Aunt May for the existence of their marriage. Yeah, that alone is pretty stupid and totally against the Parker character. How many people close to Peter have died? Did he make a deal to bring back any of those characters? That’s just bullshit! Why don’t we make a deal that brings back Uncle Ben too? Or any of the other 500 characters that have died in the Spider-Man comics… oh wait.
– Harry Osborn is back from the dead, on good terms with Peter, and hates Spider-Man… Christ, are you fucking kidding me? Bad enough we brought back Norman Osborn for that Clone Saga years ago, but now we’re brining back Harry because of this whole Devil deal? Bullshit! Again, why not bring back Uncle Ben instead of Harry? And if Harry hates Spider-Man, shouldn’t he hate Peter too? After all, Peter came out of the closet and… oh wait just a minute there, King.
– Nobody knows who Spider-Man is anymore. Don’t worry, it’s still Peter Parker, but apparently the whole thing is reorganized so that the whole unmasking thing that was much publicized, debated, criticized, analysed, whatever… never happened. Why would you do this? This is a move I expect from the Distinguished Competitor, not fucking Marvel. Again… BULLSHIT! It’s almost like they’re trying to rewrite history.
– Ol’ Jonah suffers a heartattack and his rival buys the Bugle and renames it the DB. Yeah, really fucking original. The DB. Yeah… BULLSHIT!
– Spider-Man no longer has organic webshooters, but the old-school mechanical ones. Some people might be happy with this, but I actually preferred the organic shooters. After all, spiders don’t have mechanical shooters, but I digress.
– A new heroine called Jackpot appears… and you know it’s obviously Mary Jane because she has red hair and calls Spider-Man “Tiger”. Christ! And who the fuck is Menace? Another goblin-like foe? BULLSHIT!
How do you fuck up Spider-Man?! Please tell me! PLEASE!
Okay… I guess I should be asking myself if the books are any good.
Truth be told, the stories aren’t that bad. They do try to bring back some semblance of classic old-school Spider-Man, but apparently nobody clued in on the fact that Peter is still old. The art for these books are… mediocre at best. Don’t get me wrong it’s not terrible and it’s fairly decent, but it’s nothing that hasn’t been done before. Overall, it’s worth a quick look, but the whole rewriting of history just ruins the whole thing for me. Again, why do these things need to change? It simply doesn’t make any sense. It reeks of… BULLSHIT!
Some random bits…
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Did you pick up the latest issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly? You know, the January 2009 issue? Do yourself a favor and take really good care of it. I mean, really good care of it. Give it a bouquet of flowers and nice treatment… it might be a collectable one of these days.
Why is that? Because that’s the last issue of EGM you’ll ever get.
If you haven’t heard the news, the long-running magazine, which would have celebrated its 20th anniversary, has been cancelled after parent company Ziff-Davis sold the online component of the 1UP network to the company that runs the UGO sites.
You know, that’s kind of sad. Especially considering what a great mag EGM used to be… before its untimely cancellation. I used to remember back when my brother would pick up some issues back in the mid-90s; those guys did some great stuff. While I haven’t been a regular reader in recent years, the couple issues I would pick up were always great reads regardless of what was featured.
So all the folks involved with the EGM run, I just want to say thanks for the good times and the fun ride… and good luck out there.
Original Posting Date: December 31, 2008
DTM Blog Post No. 1078
Not much to say here, since I’ve already said quite a bit back then…
Generally speaking, 2008 was a bit of a mixed bag. If you were a political history whore, something magical happened down south. Otherwise, you were a Quebecer voting twice in a calendar year within a three-month span. But let’s not dwell on that… the year’s done. Let’s move on… but not before looking back on this past year of mediocrity and historical crap.
Here’s a Bite commentary on the first day of winter. Shit load of snow. Nice. So I’ll keep it short, since I’ll have more to say next week with the annual year in review thing. So…
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Change of plan apparently… YouTube has policy changes and Tolstoy is pissed and planning a boycott today by avoiding YouTube and Google. Interestingly enough, it has to do with swearing.
That’s sort of like the self-imposed exile I’ve put myself in from Fanfiction.net (um… the first exile, long before I posted anything on the site) for their policy change on adult content and fanfics featuring real people. I suppose there will never be a site that is suitable for a couple of neat fics I had written; both of them featuring Jason Frank beating the crap out of Tommy for being such a poorly developed character who went from martial artist to dinosaur doctor… or vice versa.
P.S. That fic doesn’t actually exist. Such a concept is stupid, anyway.
Two former partners review the same game on the same day…
First up, a review on YouTube by Camera Man Joe of The Game Heroes, a site run by Handsome Tom. Posted on December 19th, 2008.
Next up, a review on GameTrailers by Stuttering Craig of Screwattack.com fame. Also posted on December 19th, 2008.
No, don’t look anything into this. I’m sure it’s just a wonderfully stupid coincidence… so what? Who cares. I’m not trying to revive any old wars… I just find it funny that two guys formerly associated with each other would review the same game on the same day.
Finally, a review of Wave Race 64 by someone else besides me… if I can find one.
For those who don’t know, NicotineAlien is the second alias of game reviewer Armake21. No reasons have been given for this latest closure, although I suspect it has something to do with his hilarious commentary of Uwe Boll’s House of the Dead movie.
Oh well and he was just about ready to get his old shit back up.
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