It took eleven hundred reviews to get to a game where I have to write down things that a computer told me to write down. Can I go back to playing BEE SEVENTEEN BAWMBEHR?
Screw it. No reviews next week, but the week after begins the October marathon. Quality stuff there, I promise you… not really.
I posted this on the YouTube page, but I figured that it bares mentioning here.
New review will be published later today. Next week will see a pause in the review output before the eventual October marathon that doesn’t actually start in October, but fuck it, that’s what we’re going with. The marathon is going to be a random selection of stuff with no real theme behind it, but you’ll get your 5-reviews -a-week offering. The back end of 2024 reviews for November and December are pretty much locked in place, so this is really the place where odds and ends are featured… though since this is October, after all, there will be some spooky stuff to be spookily featured or something.
In other, less exciting news, the secondary “DTM Archives” channel has been renamed into the less-pretentious-but-equally-nondescript “DTM’s Extra Bits.” While I made a somewhat lighthearted jab on the channel just being a place where I dump a bunch of Mega Man Maker stuff on there these days, I do want to try and add some other stuff that maybe wouldn’t fit the main channel… which is funny because when I first conceived the Youtube thing in the first place, the idea was to have EVERYTHING on there. Now the extra bits is for the extra bits that the “hardcores” can check out while the less than hardcores can watch the main stuff, decide they don’t like it, and go back to [INSERT POPULAR YOUTUBE TREND HERE].
Whatever comes of this… eh, it’ll be business as usual ’round these parts. But please… look forward to… something ’round these parts. It’ll be fun. Promise.
Click here to play:
https://megamanmaker.com/?level=569426
A remixed Woodman-style level with Needleman needle gimmicks peppered throughout. Not terribly exciting, but at least this one has checkpoints. Also uploaded before the update to 1.9, which looks very exciting to dive into before all the bugs and crash reports pop up. In any case, enjoy.
In other blog-related news, today’s scheduled review (#1100!) on Tron: Solar Sailer (groan) has been pushed back to tomorrow since there’s stuff I want to keep working on there. But don’t expect the greatest gameplay because this game (spoilers) isn’t very good.
Spoiler: This game is not a-maze-ing.
Next review (#1100) is on Solar Sailer, the last of the Tron INTV games. Why do I do this to myself?
Haven’t had enough Kurt Angle, have ya?
Well, here’s more anyway… actually a bit of a bonus musings as we kill two birds with one show – the now-defunct UK-based WhatCulture Pro Wrestling promotion, which later became DEFIANT Wrestling, which later became defunct, held a show in 2016 called Refuse To Lose, which featured some silliness, yes, but its main event – which you can watch online for free – is the legendary match between Olympic Gold Medal Hero KURT ANGLE and Local Hero JOE HENDRY.
Yes, that match exists… and you can watch it for free here.
But what about the rest of the show?
Well… that’s another story entirely…
Yes, we’re using a picture of dearly-departed Sacha for the banner of this post because we’re opening with some sad news on the personal front before diving into other stuff.
The disc is indeed deadly… and I don’t mean the one in the game.
So once upon a time, there was a show called Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. It was the one with the black man who became captain at the tail end of the third season. Anyway, there was a 2-part episode called “Past Tense”, where the crew is warped back in time to a pivotal moment in Earth history called The Bell Riots, a violent confrontation in the sanctuary district of San Francisco. It’s one of the classic episodes of Star Trek that deal with serious issues in a way that give it gravity and weight, unlike today’s Trek where serious issues are not dealt with so much as one side hammered in while we cut to dancing Klingons and crying crewmen.
The date that the Bell Riots occured?
August 30th, 2024.
It’s been two weeks since then… and not a peep of a Bell riot nor any mention of anyone named Gabriel Bell.
So… what happened? More timey-whimey bullshit that we have to fix up. Did it get pushed up the timeline much like the Eugenic Wars were pushed up when 1996 came and went without so much a peep of a Khan Singh in the world news?
Well, I’m sure Alex Kurtzman and the crack creative heads at Star Trek World Headquarters will eventually solve this conundrum… maybe… maybe not…
Either that, or they’ll produce another Trek show with 10 hour-long episodes of crew people doing nothing but cry on the bridge or something. Hey, we need to fill the void left behind by Discovery, so might as well get on that bandwagon.
Anything has to be better than that Section 31 thing they’re crapping out…
A few quick thoughts on a bunch of random stuff to kick off this weekend’s supply of needless gunk.
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