Category: General Blog Updates

Updates and information regarding the blog itself.

For Anyone Who Cares, Your Christmas Week Video Festivities (And Beyond)

First off, no Gimmick Table today; we’ll double up next Sunday and I’ll have a special video on Monday. However, I do have something of remote significance today.

If all goes according to plan, this will be the 6,000th published blog post as of this publication. And what better way to celebrate the occasion than to present the finalized Xmas Week video schedule. Should be quite a fun time ’round these parts.

This schedule also represents the last batch of videos for 2025. The first video of 2026 will probably hit Saturday, January 10th and will cover my time with Ataribox, while the first review of 2026 will hit on Friday the 16th, kicking off the Valis reviews that have been way overdue. From there, who knows? I might actually pop up the new video trailer for the channel somewhere along the way.

Meanwhile, on the non-video side of things, there will be a special Christmas morning edition of the DTM Mailbag to go along with the Xmas “Special” on the same day, a Boxing Day edition Bite commentary, and perhaps even a surprise post or two.

Anyway, that’s the plan. It might actually happen for once. Would be nice.

Later.

Old (New) 2010 Video Reviews Uploaded On Youtube

Hello, friends. I said that I had a treat for you folks and indeed I do… actually, I haven’t got. I just have a bit of rubbish as usual… but it’s vaguely historical rubbish, I guess…?

Well, I tried… but hey, the laughing Minako GIF is back for these things… so that’s something, I guess…

Okay, let’s get it out of the way. So, I’m pleased to announced that all seventeen video reviews recorded in 2010 have been re-uploaded to Youtube with brand new title cards and slight edits here and there to make them seem less empty and more slick… though not by much. There are some things I can’t fix; audio levels are all over the place, some bits of footage are simply unsalvageable, and then there’s the problem of these things existing in the first place.

The Rebel Assault II review did get one major change out of necessity. Originally, it had been intended as a Halloween upload and an intro was recorded around that time. However, things happened and it got delayed, which resulted in a new intro needing to be dubbed. However, I changed the music and didn’t have the raw audio for the new dub, so the old Halloween related dub was brought back for a video that was supposedly done in November… which it was, mostly. Sometimes these things happen.

In any event, the first batch of new re-ups have taken place today. It’s the first step in eventually getting all the old reviews replaced with newly numbered versions so that there’s some sense of continuity. Also, for those wondering, I haven’t deleted the old videos, but rather they’ve been made private. It’s something that I wish I had done with the old commentaries, but whatever. Lesson learned on that front, I suppose.

Find the review page here and enjoy.

The Wolf Fled And I Had To Catch It…

Yeah, so a last minute medical appointment (nothing serious – just an intravenous injection of fluid after work that lasted a couple hours) has prevented me from uploading today’s scheduled video. Good news is that it’ll be up tomorrow (maybe later than usual) and then Friday is the one people actually care about.

Long story short, the treatment that was supposed to be treating my bowels didn’t exactly get the job done, so I got an emergency infusion of stuff. For what it’s worth, I feel fine. I still have bouts of pain, but my stools have been fairly solid and trips to the john have been less frequent compared to earlier in the year. It’s just something in the internals that the medical professionals didn’t think was progressing as far as it should.

Joy.

Sorry for the morbid details, but this is serious business that is treated seriously and morbid details are what you’re getting. When I get this video crap out of the way, we’ll find some funny way of digesting this information… or you could just watch whatever AVGN thing is out right now.

He still makes those, doesn’t he?

New Spooky Upload Time And Extra Bits

Hey, folks… we were going to do a Spooky Week of video entertainment, but sadly… health issues arose.

Good news is that I’m fine. Bad news is that this big ambitious plan to do a whole week worth of videos is out the window, which basically boils down to some of these things needing more week and I really don’t feel like rushing through what are supposed to be some pretty major videos. So we’re going to scale back things.

Those Castlevania DS videos? They’re being pushed back to December. If you’re really desperate for your Dominus fix, Uncle Johnny is there to hold you folks over until I can get these babies ready on my end. Point being that I’d rather hold this off and spend a little more time making these things look beautiful and wonderful than rush them out and have them look like shit. Especially when there’s very specific bits that I want to highlight.

However, nobody who watches this stuff cares about that. They just want the one with Chef. That hits on Halloween.

After that, it’s Atari month in November because I want to put out shit that’s nice and quick while I work on the bigger stuff for later down the road. Not quite sure what December is going to look like, but it’s also going to be a bit different.

On the bright side, Sunday Gimmick Tables will return starting next Sunday. I’ve had to shuffle some videos around because some stuff isn’t ready, but there’s enough to work with for the next few weeks, at least. I’ve been experimenting with some methods in regards to DVD rips brought up to a respectable HD level. Won’t use these for review purposes, but they might be useful for the Gimmick Tables. We’ll see how that goes.

I wish I had better news for you and I’m sorry that yet another plan is foiled by bowel pains… but I’m hoping things will be less turbulent going forward… would be nice.

Spooky Week Review Schedule

Because nothing screams spookier than crazed madman Bill Shatner in his youth. Probably saw that one episode of Strange New Worlds with the muppet Pike… what are the odds that there’s also a puppet Kirk, but it looks like Bill rather than the new guy because they ran out of budget?

Anyhoo, here is your video schedule for next week’s spooky countdown thing from Sunday to Friday, which is Halloween. Will there be something on Saturday? Who knows? We’ll see.

Sunday, October 26th, 2025
Review #1248 – Carpathian Night Starring Bela Lugosi (Switch)

Monday, October 27th, 2025
Review #1249 – Chronicles Of The Wolf (Switch)

Tuesday, October 28th, 2025
Review #1250 – Hell’s Kitchen: The Game: Le Jeu (Wii)

Wednesday, October 29th, 2025
Review #1251 – Castlevania: Dawn Of Sorrow (DS)

Thursday, October 30th, 2025
Review #1252 – Castlevania: Portrait Of Ruin (DS)

Friday, October 31st, 2025
Review #1253 – Castlevania: Order Of Ecclesia (DS)

Saturday, November 1st, 2025
No More Spooky Month

Later today will see the Darkwing review at the usual time and Friday will also see a review because of course, it will. As for Saturday… hope you’re a fan of reading, because there’s quite a bit of it.

Should be fun… or a disaster waiting to happen.

Later…

Bit Of A MisFire

Sorry about the incomplete Slammiversary posting that I had completely forgot about. I was supposed to have it done soon, but then lost interest and forgot about it. I’m usually diligent on this stuff, but I’ve been preoccupied as of late.

Good news is that we’re fairly on track with videos. No set schedule for the rest of the year save for maybe a couple key dates in October (the Hell’s Kitchen Wii review as well as knocking off the three DS Castlevanias), but truthfully, I’ve been starting on getting stuff ready for 2026 so that by the time we’re ready to get started there, there’ll be no setbacks.

Finally, I saw the latest Strange New Worlds… the one where everyone turns into a Vulcan and also guest starring Patton Oswald because god forbid we can’t have a show without that fellow around… anyway, the less said, the better.

Later.

P.S. I have a poll up… for a friend. Click here to check it out.

P.P.S. New review will be up on Saturday. Feeling a bit sick and also wanted to add a bit or two to vid before going ahead. And then next week, it’s Star Trek’s 59th anniversary and we’re doing… nothing of significance.

Video Delay

Just a quick note: today’s scheduled video has been pushed back to tomorrow. I had a couple birthday parties to attend over the weekend and I didn’t have time to do work on videos. Videos are still (as of this moment, at least) scheduled for Wednesday and Friday.

In other news, Extra Bit videos will resume in two weeks and will see weekly Tuesday uploads.