Category: General Blog Updates

Updates and information regarding the blog itself.

Random Stuff

So next Monday will see a new doggy video that will have a slight announcement regarding the next couple months of video material. Then on Tuesday, there will be a pick-ups video. Wednesday and Thursday will see video reviews and finally on Friday, a DTM Rambles video on Ataribox… because that seems a bit more relevant than the Sega/ATGames partnership (and there’s actual new details that I’ve been waiting on.)

Is there anything being planned for May 4th? Nope. However, I may be going to see that new Avengers flick. Finally got around to watch that Thor movie and I thought it was quite a bit of fun. A drastically different tone from the two earlier films, but still a good time to be had with a couple funny moments and some top notch super heroics. There’s still that Black Panther movie, but I’ll wait for the DVD on that one.

The 100-Post Challenge II is taking place in July. A good chunk of the text based material is either being worked done or ready to go. The details are still being worked on, but there’s going to be some old features making a comeback, some new features getting a test run, and more of the usual stuff.

This, along with the possible mass load, will be the make-up for the lack of material as of late and while I run the risk of pushing quantity over quality, I think I’ve done enough checking over and over to the point where I think there’s a nice balance. In any event, 2018 is going to be a busy year… I hope.

Anyway, that’s it for now.

Later.

Progress Report: Good Enough To Have A Laptop On My Lap

So after two weeks of being bedridden and stuff, my leg is feeling a hell of a lot better and I’ve been moving around a lot more easily. Still got a week to go before I’m back to work and I’ve still got some moving around to do before I can safely say that I’m well enough to do some heavy stuff, but at the very least, I can keep a laptop on my lap for an hour or so while on the recliner, so that means I’m getting some of the written stuff out of the way.

To re-iterate what’s been said in a previous post, I plan on resuming video uploads next Monday. The first new video up will be a DTM Rambles video and will probably touch on the whole Sega/ATGames partnership that seems almost detrimental. I would’ve liked to have touched on the whole Ataribox/VCS thing if more details on the project were forthcoming, but other than vague mentions that has been copied and pasted on various news sites, there hasn’t been anything truly substantial in that regard. As such, I’ve opted to hold off on that topic for a much later episode.

Reviews are also progressing rather smoothly. I’m hoping to start building on that backlog and have enough to hold over for the next four or five months, even with a couple of those months being really heavy loads… but I’ll get to that stuff later down the road.

Anyway, that’s it for now. I’m off to bed. Later.

About That Ramblemania…

I’m going to hold off posting my thoughts on last night’s marathon until Thursday because the truth of the matter is that the show was mostly background noise while I was busy doing other stuff. And when the biggest show of the year is treated as background noise save for a couple key matches, that’s usually not a good sign.

Truth of the matter is I’ll need several days to rewatch the show and I also want to wait for the fallout from tonight’s RAW and tomorrow’s Smackdown before finalizing my overall impressions. But if you want an initial summation of my thoughts on the show, it can be summed up in one brief Simpsons clip:

Sounds about right.
In any event, I’ve heard the NXT Takeover show from the night before was really good, so I’ll see if I can find time to watch that and post some quick thoughts on it. There’s also a couple other choice posts I’d want to put together regarding that Monster Spectacular event that took place in the Olympic Stadium this past Saturday as well as the usual fare of videos.
Anyway, that’s all for now.
Later.

Running On Steam (Not That Steam)

So here’s a post of random bits I want to touch on.

Things on the PC front is going well and slowly progressing forwards. With the second, larger hard drive installed, I’ve begun to slowly install a bunch of games on there from the Steam and GOG services, including a whole bunch of stuff I got from the Humble Bundle bundle things that I’m actually looking forward to trying out. It’s not the biggest upgrade, but it will give me a bit of wiggle room when it comes to storage and I can lay off plugging in the external drives every night. So that’ll be a nice step forwards, at least.

Weather around these parts has been ridiculous, with a couple days teasing a nice little heat wave before bombarding us with the traditional Canadian winter cold front. In fact, tomorrow, we may very bit hit with a good 20-30 cm of snow if the Weather Network can be relied on to provide an accurate forecast. They’re usually on the money, though. So I can’t complain too much there.

For those inquiring, the dog is doing fine. She’s had to take a dump in her special place indoors because trying to get her to go for a walk in Classic Canadian Winter temperatures is like trying to get Jim Cornette and Vince Russo to kiss and make up. Other than that, she’s doing fine and occupying her usual spot on the couch.

Two reviews coming for this week on the Youtubez: tomorrow’s Sonic Labyrinth and Friday will be the Goonies game that never hit the NES, but was available as an arcade machine for some reason. The Goonies game review will also be the 3100th blog post, so that’s a nice little something. Also, the next episode of the DTM-Cast due this Sunday will be somewhat on the light side unless something worth talking about comes up. More than likely, it’ll be about a couple blurbs and some Q&A. Not much else going on in these parts.

Not much else to say today. So I’ll be going now. Y’all have a good day, kids.

Review A Great Game Day on April 8th

A few years back, now-defunct gaming website One More Castle established the Review A Bad Game Day event, where people can submit reviews of bad games to be posted on August 8th. I’ve done one such event, thinking it was a one-off thing, but turns out it was an annual thing all these years. Just as I was thinking of jumping back into that fold, One More Castle closes its doors and the event was closed… I ended up adopting the concept anyway, to the point that for the past couple years, every August 8th, I’d review a bad game.

The other concept they’ve started up a year or so later was the Review A Great Game day, where people would post reviews of great games and see them posted on April 8th. This event, I never participated in and I’m hoping to change that.

Next month, on April 8th, it’s going to be a good day to review a great game here on the blog. What that game will be… well, that’s the kicker… and the surprise.

Another Dailymotion Experience

Been uploading the past month or so worth of game reviews over to the Dailymotion page when uploading privileges were suddenly suspended because of mass upload or something. Twenty four hours later and I can upload again, which means the DM side of things is up to speed in terms of reviews.

I’m wondering if this Dailymotion alternative is more trouble than it’s worth… probably nothing.

A Potential Subject Matter For A Future Video Project

Recently picked up this piece of business and am currently playing through its “massive” library of games. Much to my own surprise, Dreamgear is still a thing because this is a recent product with a copyright date of 2016. The quality of the games is as you’d expect something like this to be, but there are a couple decent titles on here that wouldn’t be out of place on a proper console (with the proper polish, of course.)

Of course, this being a portable device with an A/V output (but no A/V cable; I needed to supply that bit myself), this will no doubt be a subject matter of a major video to be released some time this year. I’ll let you know when to expect that.

Just as an excuse to revive this thing, here’s a re-up of the last time I touched a DreamGEAR product.