Author: dtm666

I ramble about things.

State Of The Blog – June 2024

Hello… and welcome to the new dtm666.com… officially speaking, that is.

Well, today was supposed to be the “official” launch of the new dtm666.com, but then I decided to give it a “soft launch” of sorts while stuff in the background continues to get worked on. To make a long story short, some stuff is working, some stuff is being worked on, and some stuff is shelved until it’s eventually worked on. This stuff is going to take time, but the hope is that by the end of the year, everything that was on the old Blogger page will be on the new WordPress site and we can all move on with our lives.

With that in mind, the focus is going to be more on videos and background work this month. I might not even do a DTM-Cast episode this month (and really, I haven’t been feeling it as of late with some personal stuff… oh yes, that old chestnut rear its ugly, unfortunate head.) To sort of make up for it, I whipped up a couple videos where I played through old Mega Man Maker levels (and these even have commentary and other things). I’ll be doing a couple of these every so often and they’ll alternate with the Sunday Gimmick Tables, which will make a comeback for a short time.

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The “Forbidden” REREZ Video About Emulation

Rerez shows you how to get legal ROMS through legal means… mostly through Steam. This is such a hot button video that it didn’t show up on my Youtube feed and I only found out about it because I tend to frequent the actual channel page.

Apparently, being a big fan of emulation will keep your videos from showing up on feeds.

Stupid.

 

Review #1065 – AEW Fight Forever (Switch)

Note: The video is somewhat choppy at points due to a rendering issue. I assure you even the Switch version is smoother than what’s shown.

Will there be an important announcement from Tony Khan? Well, I’m not sure I can answer that right now, but we’ve got a great night of wrestling featuring the biggest stars of wrestling. Jonhny Hungee himself, John Silver of the Dark Order, one of the biggest pro wrestling ultrastars in all of pro wrestling, defending the AEW Stateside title against Danhausen, one of the biggest multiversal star-hausens in all of wrestling-hausen. It’s gonna be a fantastic night of wrestling in our ten-hour long Pay-Per-View event, preceded by a ten hour Zero Hour event featuring Action Andretti, a big star in wrestling, defending the AEW International World Big Gold Western States Heritage Championship against Bryan Keith Lee Armed Anderson Jones, who is a major star from Japan. Box office draw… oh, and we’ll have a nineteen hour overrun after the show featuring some big surprises, including finding out just who the fuck is Griff Garrison?

Wait, what was I talking about again?

THE BITE COMMENTARY #03 – Why Brian Gewirtz Is A Fucking Moron

It’s another Bite commentary… one that stemmed from last Sunday’s DTM-Cast show. If you heard that show, then a lot of what’s being said here is going to be old hat… but then I came up with more words to explain why Brian Gewirtz is a fucking moron.

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End Of Discovery… Eh.

Tomorrow, Star Trek: Discovery airs its final episode after five seasons of… stuff.

I’ll admit that Discovery is not a show that I was a huge fan of. I didn’t care for the first season’s redoing of the Klingons, the focus on “WAR! I’M GONNA STAB YOU IN THE FUCKING FACE” aspect, the main character was a bland, lifeless slab, and then pivoting to the Mirror Universe as an excuse to keep Michelle Yeoh around despite having her character killed off in the pilot… that and the uniforms with their weird collar things. Bad.

Second season was a little better, owing almost entirely on the performance and charisma of Anson Mount’s portrayal of Captain Christopher Pike. You still had issues with lots of emotional padding, lots of staring into blank space, evil robot things that remind me of the Borg without calling it the Borg, and once again, the main character is a lifeless vortex of charisma, which is sad considering the actress playing her is anything but.

Third season moves things into the distant future… where the Federation is all but gone and we have to figure out what the burn is… I dropped off after a couple episodes. Show did nothing for me. And even whenever I try to get back into it recently, I’m like… nah, this does nothing for me. This does so much nothing for me that I never bothered with the fourth season.

So I go back and watch some of this fifth season and… yeah, there are still some issues. Lots of emotion, lots of crying, lots of staring into blank spaces, lots of extras posing as main characters… but they gave the main character some personality for once. She certainly has nice hair.

The uniforms are still kinda ass, though… but at least the collars look like proper collars and not whatever the fuck they had before.

So yeah, Discovery didn’t do much for me… but it did get the ball rolling so that we’d get these other shows, which I tend to prefer. Discovery’s second season gave way to Strange New Worlds, Picard was a thing that happened, Lower Decks is a thing (that’s also coming to an end after five seasons), and we’re getting a Starfleet Academy show… in the FUTURE.

And also a Section 31 movie… because that was such a hot thing.

So yeah… thanks for five years of Trek, Discovery… you didn’t entertain me all that much, but you have a fanbase that loved you for what you were and that counts for something. Here you go. Have a gold star.

This has been my Tim Talk.

WWE Money In The Bank 2018

Yes, I decided to watch a WWE Pay-Per-View event from 2018 over either the latest Double Or Nothing show or WWE’s latest Blood Money venture from the progressive kingdom of Saudi. Truth be told, I almost bit on the DoN replay until I heard it was eleventy-billion hours long… yeah, no thanks. I don’t need to spend three months watching one show.

For what it’s worth, this is probably the only show that I hadn’t seen back in the day… though to be fair, this show was following Backlash, a show that was memorable for the Roman Reigns/Samoa Joe main event that was so thrilling that people were walking out before Roman even got a win. Also, if my old musings on the show are anything to go by, the show itself was pretty dreadful.

So to close out this month before beginning my June-wide wrestling moratorium, I decided to revisit this show for some reason and… you know, some time has passed and one has to wonder if this show is going to be any better now than if I were to have watched it live. I guess we’ll have to see about that.

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Impact (May 23rd, 2024) – No One Likes The Hollywood Hunk (Also Last Musings For A While)

So, as the header of this post implies, this is going to be my last weekly Impact musings… and no, the show hasn’t sucked that bad to scare me off.

On the contrary, the past 19 weeks worth of Impact viewing has been a fun ride that more than made up for the latter half of 2023 when I was revisiting old NWA-TNA PPVs and ultimately regretting it. And while there have been some less than thrilling episodes of Impact that left me with little to say, for the most part, the show has remained a consistent, easy-to-watch two hours of wrestling action. Probably the nicest surprise I got this year was being able to sit through nearly 3-4 months of TNA Impact and actually enjoying it. Imagine that scenario.

That said, I’ve reached the point where… while I’m more than content to continue watching the show on a weekly basis, there is no real need for me to continue to write about the show on a weekly basis, especially when there are episodes that has me saying very little and I’m just posting something up out of obligation. And I don’t want to do that because it feels like I’m not giving my all. Also, with the blog officially being opened up, there’s going to be a need to work on stuff for that in the future and part of that involves lessening the wrestling output. Yes, this is one of those things that gets quite a bit of coverage on this blog, but it’s not the only thing and I want to highlight some other stuff of interest going forward.

So this is the episode I’m ending this weekly run on. After this, if there’s an episode that I want to touch on, I’ll do so… but we’re not doing the weekly thing anymore. Too much, too soon, all that jazz.

Let’s get into it.

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DTM-Cast – Episode #248

Click here to download the MP3.

We call this an “abridged” version of the DTM-Cast, meaning it’s only an hour long instead of two. Brief thoughts on why Brian Gewertz (sp on purpose) is a fucking idiot, further AVGN and CGR thoughts, Nintendo stuff, Atari stuff, and not much more than that.

Helpful hint: Skip the first 21 minutes if you want to avoid the wrestling talk.