Category: Musings

Chappy Took A Crappy And Blamed It On Chef

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2296781/Gordon-Ramsay-destroyed-business-One-chef-reveals-REAL-Kitchen-Nightmare-appearing-hit-show.html

So if your business is failing and you need help, but then someone offers the help and you don’t take it, why did you even bother?

For those wondering, Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares show went to a New Orleans-style restaurant in Nashville that’s known for its chef who wears a tall hat and apparently has little man syndrome. Ramsay naturally destroyed his food, introduced Chappy to the idea of people who only eat fish, and then did the whole overhaul of the locale and menu… and then Chappy turned around and went back to his shitty menu.

And then he wonders why his business is failing.

So I Finally Watched Some Samurai…

…and boy was it painful.

So this is an odd series for me? It’s the first new Power Rangers season since RPM in 2009 and the first under the current Saban ownership. And yet it feels like a complete and utter regression of sorts. We’re bringing back the Go Go Power Rangers theme with slightly altered lyrics to fit the theme (something they’d do for Megaforce as well, which means they’re lacking in originality). And then we have these paper thin main characters that have very basic traits and not much else going for it.
I don’t want to blame the actors because they’re doing the best they can, but the show tends to be unbearable due to the clunky and horrific dialogue. Apparently, this is a near-straight adaptation of the Sentai show this was based on, which isn’t a new approach for Power Rangers, since it’s been done in past seasons. However, whereas seasons like Time Force attempted to put its own spin on things to make things interesting, Samurai doesn’t really do that.
I’ve only saw a few episodes at most and promptly gave up. I thought the series had reach a low with SPD or Operation Overdrive… and well, I have a feeling we’ll be going even lower…
But that’s another story.

You Know What Would've Been Nice?

If they had made the genuine effort and cash offers to try and bring back most of the original cast so they can do an episode of Megaforce and use them in a way that would be pretty cool and noteworthy. Probably not to the little kids who care only for the colorful costumes, but as a nice nod to the older folks who have stuck around since the beginning.

Gokaiger had this cool schtick where in almost every episode, they’d bring back an old Super Sentai legend from a past series and they do some cool shit or something. Honestly, that’s something they could do with Megaforce. That Super Mega Battle thing at the end isn’t going to mean much if they only have a few random faces and everyone else is in the background.

I don’t know. Maybe I put more thought into this than Saban did.

Attempting To Have TOS Klingons Speak Klingon

The scene below is from the Star Trek episode, “The Day Of The Dove.” A bunch of Klingons are talking and using a Klingon translator gimmick online, I put together this rushed translation that probably sounds crap to somebody, but it’s an interesting experiment.
KANG: HeghDI’ Dujvam tlhap qIrq nach ghoD ‘ej DIr tlhoy’ cabin vIneH.
MARA: maHvaD pIHoH chaH ngejtaH laH vang maH.
KANG: Qo’, maHvaD yu’, HoS, nab ghoj DayaHmoH chaH. not vaj chaH.
MARA: tu’lu’ neH loSmaH maHvaD wa’vatlh loS wa’vatlh lughaj.
SOLDIER: qaStaHvIS wa’ ram loS SaD Hugh SIjlaH qetbogh loD.
KANG: yItuv. Qagh chaH. Sov veS qabna’Daj nom nob maHvaD ‘entepray’Daq jon.

Some Dip Shit Said This

“Fuck clones play the real shit they all look and sound like crap anyway. I’ll bend pins all day so don’t have to deal with this crap.”


Some schmuck posting a comment on the
NES Clone Comparison video before deleting it…

Seemingly unaware that I still receive e-mail notices regarding such comments… I’d reply with a smarmy reply, but such a thing isn’t worth the effort… and I might attract the attention of some other fellows.

What Have You Done, Microsoft?

First, there was the Xbox. Then, there was the Xbox 360. Now comes XBOX… One…

From this revelation, I’ve learned the following;

Playstation 4 > Xbox ONE
Retron 5 > Xbox ONE
Nintendo 64 > Xbox ONE
Windows 98 > Xbox ONE
Atari 7800 > Xbox ONE

Because everything is greater than ONE… and stuff.

Oh wait… almost forgot. X68000 > Xbox ONE.
Superman II > Xbox ONE.

Anybody else got some stupid Xbox One jokes? Get them out in the open before Microsoft starts retroactively purging them from existence. Or something. I don’t know. I’m going to bed. Good night.

Contemplation

The dog is here to keep me company while I contemplate.

There comes a point where you can’t go on with something because you lose interest in it. It tends to happen quite a bit, but the really sad thing is that when you lose interest in something and it gets abandoned, you tend to lose a bit of yourself in the process. This is more often than not the case.

Every once in a while, I have people asking me when the next part of Reading Sonichu is coming along and more often than not, I have no real answer for them.

But as I’m assembling the pages and putting together the audio for this thing, I realized something; why am I wasting time with this stuff? That’s when it occured to me that this isn’t interesting anymore.

Here’s the thing; the Sonichu comic/universe/fanfic/whatever is awful material. For some, it’s that so bad it’s good that makes it worth riffing. The first couple issues that I did were fun to do, but when it came to the next issue, not so much. And as I jumped further into the lore of series, it eventually got to the point where I felt genuinely uncomfortable reading this stuff, let alone producing anything to do with that whole endeavor.

Reading Sonichu was never going to be an ongoing thing. At most, I’d touch about three or four issues before calling it a day. With the two issues that I’ve done, I’m more than satisfied to call it a run.

Maybe somewhere down the line, I might upload the first few pages of issue 2 that I dubbed as an Archive package, but for now… I think it’s time to kill off the Sonichu experiment as far as this blog is concerned.