USELESS NOTES: Did you know that the Wii has a bit of a feature that records the play times of each game you play during the day? It’s a neat little (useless) feature.
Not much to say, but then there usually isn’t.
Continue reading “Classic Bite Commentary #83 – November 13th, 2008”
Congratulations to Barack Obama for winning what many considered to be the most important election in American history. In a couple months (and I must stress a couple months), he’ll be inaugurated and be the first African-American to be president since… ever. Now why can’t people say that? People blindly and stupidly refer to the guy as the first black president, when in fact he’s only half-black.
Don’t believe for a second that Obama’s win will bring about immediate change. Any plan that comes to fruition takes time to have any affect and even so, you still have two more months of Dubya to endure.
In any case, I feel bad for John McCain. Don’t get me wrong; I don’t agree on some of his ideas, I do believe that McCain would continue Bush’s wars and even start off some of his own just for kicks, and I cringe at the thought of the most clueless woman being one step away from the most powerful seat in the US, but even so, had he been running against, say, Hilary, he might have had a sporting chance and some of his ideas might actually be different from Bush’s. But against a heavy favorite like Obama, he virtually had no chance.
That… and the endorsement from Dubya pretty much killed off his chances.
So, congrats to Obama. Better luck next time to McCain. Go back to Alaska, Sarah Palin.
So I guess Tina Fey needs something else to do right about now…
(2024 Note: Uploaded video in December 2012)
Been messing around with Windows Movie Maker and I took the ending montage from the AVGN – Spider-Man Episode and blast it with screen filters, slowdowns and speed ups. It’s not a particularly good video, so watch at your own risk.
Anyone who browses YouTube on a regular basis knows the name. The supposed account belonging to a kid was home to two “infamous” reviews in which the kid bashed Contra and the Genesis version of Mortal Kombat. In trying to be another AVGN knockoff, he ended up opening a can of worms and gotten many other posters to post parodies and really vile comments.
Goes to show you can’t have opinions on the Internet, because just anybody who disagrees with you can and will bash you because your tastes don’t match up with theirs. It’s a damn shame…
Turns out the kid featured on those videos are NOT that of Sizzler07, but a guy by the name of VIB(x)00. The story so far is that the Sizzler07 took videos the guy made years ago and posted them without permission. VIB had recently made a video addressing this, saying that he regrets making the vids and that he’s putting out a warning to anyone who uses the Sizzler stuff for their own warped purposes.
Now let me be clear on a couple things. In terms of the actual reviews, I seem to be the only one to get some semblance of enjoyment out of them. Don’t get me wrong, I disagree with him on the two games and to be fair, they’re not entirely great reviews. Somehow, I seem to enjoy seeing kids not know what they’re talking about and act like complete idiots. However, let’s be fair. The kid was doing one of two things; either giving his true thoughts (dispeled as VIB did an actual review of Contra and had some good things to say about it) or attempting to be like an anti-AVGN who bashes good games as a joke.
To be honest, this was something that I had actually thought about doing, but then I saw all the responses these reviews were getting and none of them were exciting kind to the guy. Responses have ranged from typical disagreements to cursing to unwarranted insults to full-fledge parodies. Now I’ll admit that some of these parodies are amusing (NicotineAlien has a particularly good one), but these are all parodying and insulting a kid who just posted a couple videos.
Watched a bit of RAW and… well… I couldn’t stay awake Monday – the show bored me to a point where I actually felt like going to bed much earlier. I think that takes some effort when a show actually puts me to sleep and trust me when I say I usually have a hard time getting myself into sleep central.
So if RAW has anything to celebrate, it’ll probably be that. Because the ratings (from what I’ve heard) won’t be the source of joy this week.
I had PPV predictions to post, but shit happens and you know…
So anyway, here’re the results of the show if you haven’t seen it yet:
Midway is undergoing ecomonic problems… and considering the current happenings on the stock side of things, who isn’t? According to this piece, Midway is pretty much in dire straights, as they had to cancel a couple projects based on licensed properties and the properties that they didn’t cancel (such as TNA Impact) hasn’t sold as well as they would have liked. Right now, they’re hoping that the upcoming Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe game will be their saving grace.
Could this upcoming MK game have a chance of turning Midway’s fortunes around? I’ll admit that I’m a bit skeptical as to one game making all the difference, especially a game that is part of a franchise known for its excessively violent video games. However, considering the game also features DC heroes such as Superman, as well as a Teen rating for less bloody but still intense action, the possibility might be that the game could make Midway a lot of money. However, it can’t be the only game to do this feat. It takes more than that.
Yeah, this was a thing I stumbled across somehow once upon a time; a 3-DVD set compiling the entire Adventures Of Super Mario Bros. 3 series, which was basically a continuation of sorts of the old Super Mario Bros. Super Show, but without the live action bits and with an almost entirely new voice-cast, save for Harvey Atkin, who still does a solid King Koopa.
Sadly, the ol’ King of the Koopa has been sullied with his annoying, obnoxious kids whose names have been changed from the games to more… weird names that may have been drawn out of a hat. I don’t know why they changed the names; maybe the original names were too “on point.”
(Fun fact: the original Koopa Kids were play on pre-existing people. Morton Koopa Jr, for example, named after shock jock host Morton Downey Jr… which might explain the needless name change.)
The rest of the new voices are alright. I thought the guy who voiced Mario was pretty good, but Lou Albano was the more “iconic” voice. You folks can keep your Charles Martinet for all I care. Captain Lou is mah Mario.
(Fun Fact: The guy who voiced Mario in this and the Mario world cartoon is Walker Boone, whom I later found out had played Leland T. Lynch, one of a billion chief engineers on the Enterprise in the Star Trek: The Next Generation first season episode, “Skin Of Evil.” Yes, the man who voices Mario was the chief engineer on the episode where Denise Crosby’s Lt. Tasha Yar was killed off by a tar monster. The more you know, I guess.)
Of the three Super Mario cartoons back in the day, this was the one I was least familiar with because I missed out on this one completely during my younger years. So this was a chance to finally catch what I was missing out on… which turned out to be not so much. Unlike the previous Super Show but much like the later Mario World cartoon, SMB3 stays true to the game it’s based on and doesn’t try to go for parodies of popular movies and such. The problem is that the show itself isn’t all that interesting otherwise. The episodes are your typical kids fare; there’s a minor problem that needs to be solved, our heroes need to solve it, and there’s a musical number that plays at some point. The songs have aged poorly and some of them seem to have been replaced with some bad generic rock tune of sorts.
The series is contained across two discs, with the third disc reserved for what the box calls the series bible, which has you navigating a bunch of things. It’s a bit of a fluff piece and anyone wanting something deeper is probably not going to find it here, but it’s better than nothing, I suppose, and considering the cheap price, it’s more than I would’ve expected out of a set like this.
For those wanting a piece of their childhood, this is worth it for the nostalgic value. I don’t know if it’s aged particularly well and the DVD set itself isn’t all that impressive, but it was fairly cheap, so I’d say go for it.
Don’t tell anyone this, but apparently it’s Election Day up here in Canada and we’re supposed to vote or something. I don’t know if you Yanks could follow this shit, but do yourself a favor and go ahead so you can watch the Great White North go down the political shitter… or not. Either way, it should be very entertaining for anyone who follows or remotely cares about politics.
With that having been said, it’s another Bite commentary and a rather scathing one, I’m afraid. Because I had Canadian Thanksgiving off (which was yesterday – hope yours went well), I’ve had plenty of time to reflect on some things without being disrupted by outside forces. Soooo….
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Kirby Super Star Ultra is a remake/port of the SNES game of the same name (minus the Ultra part). Essentially, it’s touted as having several games in one, but really it’s the same for a majority of the games; Kirby goes through several levels and clears them in typical fashion – sometimes with the help of a helper. Nothing too complicated, nothing thought-provoking, it’s essentially a what-you-see is what you get type of deal.
It’s a nice little deal that keeps in tune with other Kirby game. My only real problem is that it’s too easy; I’ve already cleared a good chunk of the game’s… er, games and there’s not much left to do other than improve my scores. Definately not worth the cash I paid for, but still a fun little romp and a decent addition to any Kirby collection.
In 1995, Garth Ennis wrote a Punisher comic that saw Frank Castle’s family killed during a battle between the usual Marvel superheroes and an invading alien force. After the superheroes show no remorse for their actions and offer a pitiful apology, Castle goes ape shit and kills a few before he is arrested, taken to jail, broken out of fail, and offered a shitload of weapons and tech to kill all the heroes, becoming the same ol’ Punisher we all know, but with a decidedly different target.
Almost five years later, Ennis would pen a new Punisher mini-series that would be critically acclaimed and this one-shot would see a reprint, with a new cover by Ennis’ occasional collaborator, Steve Dillon. But I didn’t know any of this beforehand because I picked up the reprint. And so it was jarring to open up a Punisher comic by Garth Ennis and not have Steve Dillon do the art. Fortunately, Doug Braithwaite does a serviceable job, with reasonably proportioned characters and some decent looking setpieces.
And the story itself is actually quite brilliant; shifting the Punisher’s war on crime to that of a war on superhumans and basically telling the story of a man who won’t stop until all these heroes (and villains) are dead. If nothing else, some of the kills are pretty creative and the way the comic comes to its conclusion makes sense.
For what is essentially a glorified What If, The Punisher Kills The Marvel Universe is a pretty entertaining read if you just want a bonkers comic. Recommended.
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