Category: Musings

Hospite Stay 2

Posted this on the Youtube page:

“Hello there.

Writing this post from a hospital bed due to some health concerns becoming… well, more of a concern to the point where it can be a danger. At the moment, I’m getting treated. I’m doing some tests. I might need some work done. I don’t know how long I’m going to be MIA, but I’m hoping that things will work out for the best.

In the meantime, I’ve got a laptop that I can use to whip some stuff together. Obviously no new videos for the moment because it’s a crappy Thinkpad I bought off Amazon that’s about to be unsupported, but I can put together some notes for future stuff that I can put together once I get home. Hopefully, I’ll come out of this better than ever and we can continue this thing where we left off… as soon as I figure out where we left off.

I’ll see about doing more of these posts along the way, though if not, I’ll see about putting up something to tell the whole story of sorts. But I’ll leave you with some wisdom; if something doesn’t feel right, get it checked out before it’s too late. I’ve learned that lesson the hard way.

Until next time, take care, be safe, and good night.

Regards,
Dave (DTM)”

So here’s the blog-exclusive stuff;

After a rough night of no sleep, I’ve got a couple tests done, I’ve got a few treatments to keep things going, blood tests have been going well, I’ve been fed, I’ve ordered a bunch of stuff off Amazon for a family member who needed stuff as well as a couple things for myself, and also, as mentioned in the bit above, been putting together some stuff for upcoming videos as well as stuff for the blog.

Obviously, considering there’s been some stuff about Switch 2 being posted, my spirits have gotten a bit higher than they were the first day. Like I said, I’m not one who takes this sort of thing with any sort of good spirits. I can be a miserable asshole at the worst of times and this was, indeed, the worst of times. Fortunately, my sour mood has mostly been directed at people I know rather than the hospital staff, who have been nothing but helpful in making me feel like… I’m not actually miserable.

Except for the doctors who come by and tell you the bad news… that’s when I start getting stressed out and then they wonder why my heart rate starts jumping up… probably because these assholes are giving me news that I’m not going to react positively to. Sometimes, it doesn’t take much to figure out.

Anyway, the mend continues… we’ll see how things turn out.

In the meantime… take care.

Nintendo Switch Pre-Sales Ix-Nayed In North America

So first, Nintendo of America decides that they’re not going to do U.S. pre-sales for the Switch 2 consoles today due to tariffs. Not much of a surprise in that regard. And then, yesterday, news broke that Canadian pre-orders are also kaput due to tariffs.

For those who care, Nintendo stock had plummeted due to this news.

This honestly doesn’t surprise me. The two markets usually go hand in hand and where one goes, the other will usually follow suit… which means if there’s a price change, 650 CAD trending on Twitter is gonna seem like chump change.

The real question now is whether Nintendo of Mexico will follow suit.

All The Review A Great Game Day Video Reviews

Normally, today would be a day where I would feature a video review of a great game, going back to the tradition of now-defunct website 1 More Castle that would declare April 8th “review a great game day.”

Obviously, that’s not happening… but to mark the occasion, I’ve decided to post a playlist of all the games reviewed for the occasion over the years since 2017 made it a tradition. It’s not a complete make up for lost time, but it is a way to mark the occasion, even if I can’t do it properly.

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2017 – Power Blade (NES)
2018 – Wordtris (Game Boy)
2019 – Power Quest (Game Boy Color)
2020 – Metroid II: Return Of Samus (Game Boy)
2021 – Retromania Wrestling (Switch)
2022 – WWF Wrestlemania 2000 (N64)
2022 – WWE Wrestlemania X-8 (Gamecube)
2022 – WWE Wrestlemania XIX (Gamecube)
2023 – Super Mario World (SNES)
2024 – Top Gear 3000 (SNES)

Lacking In Trophies And Bob’s Shop Music

Source: https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2025/04/the-switch-2-wont-have-achievements-or-eshop-music

I’ve shared most of my thoughts on the Switch 2 in my last DTM Rambles video, but then comes this news that has people talking; no game achievements and no eShop music.

Look, I’ve never been on achievements – I think they’re completely worthless, but people seem to dig them, so I can see why they’d be bummed by Switch 2 not having them… but the lack of eShop music? Really? Can we just focus on eShop not running like or featuring a whole bunch of shit instead? I think that’s the bigger priority.

Hospite Stay 1

Hello, folks.

I am currently writing this post from an emergency room.

I may as well bare it all… so this past weekend, I’ve having some issues breathing and it got to a point where I had no choice but to get myself admitted to a hospital. Turns out that I have some clots in my lungs and those need to be cleared out. Also, at the same time, I’m also getting my Crohn’s checked out.

I’m not going to lie… I’m scared shitless here… and despite assurances that all is going to be alright and there will be treatment to take care of this stuff, I can’t help but feel a bit helpless in this situation. I’ve never dealt with these situations all that well, either when a family member is suffering or whether I’m the one in this situation. I’ve never had an extended hospital stay. The situation didn’t just scare me, it angered me. I feel trapped. I’m not going to have a pleasant time here.

None of this is because of the staff. They’ve been helpful, some of them even speak English (thank fuck for small favors), and I’ve got a few things to keep me relatively sane. I can only hate myself for being in this position.

Obviously, who knows what this means for future material. I don’t know how long I’m going to be here. I’m hoping it’ll be sooner than later… but then that would be a fool’s hope.

I don’t know. WIsh me luck. Spare me a prayer.

Or maybe send me cyanide. That might help.

Will get in touch soon.

All the best,
Dave

25 Years Later And Ready To Rumble Is (Still) The Worst Movie In Human History

Twenty-five years ago, on this very day, Ready To Rumble was unleashed onto the world.

I never watched this thing in theaters, but even back in 2000, I’ve heard about how bad this film was. Not just in terms of being a bad wrestling movie, but also just a bad comedy in general. It wouldn’t be until a couple years later that I’d eventually get around to renting a copy of Ready To Rumble from the video store and see for myself what I was missing. After pressing PLAY, I bore witness to what everyone else had been raving (or raging) about these past few years. Shortly afterwards, I opened up Frontpage on my computer, started a new document, and proceeded to write the words “Ready To Rumble is the worst film in human history.”

This would have been back in 2003-2004 when I was still renting videos and also when I was first putting up stuff on the IMDB site. At some point, I was going to post this little write-up on there until I realized that I had more than whatever the usual word limit was for IMDB user submitted reviews… and also there was more than a fair share of colorful metaphors… so it never saw the light of day… well, until the move to this blog, which you can find here.

About a decade later, I’d revisit the movie as part of my Slideshow Movie Review series and I’m not quite sure that I truly vocalized my disdain for this film. So now, here we are and… listen, I am not going to try and convince you that this is a misunderstood masterpiece. That much is obviously when the title of this post is “25 Years Later And Ready To Rumble Is (Still) The Worst Movie In Human History.” And to this very day, I have yet to see a movie that I would consider to be worse than Ready To Rumble. I’ve seen plenty of juvenile films in my day. I’ve seen plenty of utterly terrible films. But none of them were as bad as Ready To Rumble.

Hell, if the day ever comes and I break my long-standing moratorium on Ghostbusters 2016 to give that a watch, you know what? Yes, that movie is gonna suck, but I can guarantee you that it won’t be as bad as Ready To Rumble.

(Maybe that’s why I don’t want to watch that movie now that I think about it. Imagine the horror I’d feel when the possibility exists of a movie that is WORSE than Ready To Rumble. I don’t even want to contemplate that.)

Look, I’m sure there are movies. People can come up and tell me that the Deuce Bigelow movies are the nadir of comedy films. And yeah, those are bad… but you already know going in that those movies are aiming for the lowest common denominator. Ready To Rumble aims a little lower than that. It’s a terrible movie that is so unfunny and yet reprehensibly stupid that it somehow makes you stupider with each passing second that your eyes and brain are exposed to this vapid piece of garbage. Now would I have had this same kind of contempt for this film had I not been a wrestling fan? And the answer would invariably be yes. In fact, if I had not been a wrestling fan or if I had downright hated wrestling, I probably would’ve despised this movie even more.

Look, I just rented a painfully dull and unfunny film called Leonard Part 6 from Amazon for the expressed purpose of watching a movie other than Section 31. Yes, the one with Bill Cosby… and yes, it is every bit as bad as people made it out to be. But you want to know something? The worst thing that I could say about this movie was that it was BORING. None of the jokes landed. None of the bits worked. All the actors were phoning it in. It was deathly dull. And yes, I would have considered this a big ol’ waste of time… but on the flip side, I did not walk away from Leonard Part 6 with the same kind of contempt and utter bile that I got from watching five minutes of Ready To Rumble.

Some time ago, F4WOnline guy Bryan Alvarez teamed up with former wrestler Lance Storm and indy wrestler/former MMA guy “Filthy” Tom Lawlor to review this movie. Alvarez, a former wrestler and a normally intelligent fellow, had claimed that this movie is not the worst film ever made. When pushed to name a worse one, he admittedly couldn’t name one, but maintained that this was not as bad as people say that it is. This proves that Ready To Rumble has the capability of rotting brain cells of any person who willingly exposes them to repeated viewings of this thing.

Anyhoo… here we are.

Twenty-five years later AND STILL the absolute worst movie in human history… Ready To Rumble.

See you all in another twenty-five where we get to do this shit all over again.

John Cena Was Always The Heel

On Saturday, March 1st, 2025, at the WWE Elimination Chamber premium live event from Toronto, 16x WWE World Champion and once franchise player John Cena did the unthinkable when he aligned himself with DWAYNE and beat the crap out of undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes, finally turning heel for the first time since 2003. Wrestling audiences and the WWE Universe were in awe, citing this as the greatest turn in recent memory.

My reaction to the turn? Took them long enough.

You folks need to understand something here. What John Cena did wasn’t going against his principles. He was simply doing what was best for the company that made him a household name. John Cena was all about doing what was best for the brand. If that meant toning down his act to be more acceptable to the kiddies, if that meant being the goofy do-gooder in the same vein as Hulk Hogan (minus the bullshit), if that meant siding with the company over things that fans took issue with, then that’s what he was going to do. People claimed that John Cena sold out, but really, they’re just seeing him for what he truly is.

See, in my eyes, John Cena was always the heel. Whenever he would be in a program against somewhat who deserved a run with the WWE title, I’d be rooting for the other guy. One only need to read my wrestling musings from the late-2000s to early-2010s when I would refer to Cena with juvenile names such as “John Worthless” or “John Useless” or some other stuff like that. Every time there was an up-and-coming talent that was catching fire and John Cena was somehow involved, that was usually the kiss of death for that up-and-comer. See, it wasn’t about Cena giving the new guy the rub, but rather it was about Cena taking the spotlight from the new guy; the idea being that “hey, if I pair up with this guy, people will stop booing me.”

They try this every single time and it not only almost fails every time, but the guy that they paired Cena up with that was popular with the fans… well, he’d be off to jobber territory, seen as collateral damage in the effort to make Cena look really, really strong. And so the end result becomes not only is Cena no more loved than before, but eventually, they figure out how to chant JOHN CENA SUCKS in line with his theme song. How bad was Cena getting it in the ass from the crowd? When Rock came along and Cena decided to be the defender of WWE honor because he’s a full-timer versus the part-timer Rock who says he cares but really doesn’t… people were rooting for the part-timer. It got to a point where anytime they try to do this part-timer vs. full-timer thing these days, nine times out of ten, they’ll cheer for the more popular part-timer because the full-timer comes across as a whiny geek.

And so one day, John Cena’s time in the ring is limited. He spends more time in Hollywood, he gets meme’d, he comes back for sporadic appearances to put over younger talent, including Austin Theory… with whom they’d proceed to do fuck all with afterwards. And when John Cena decided to go for one last farewell tour… well, this year’s he’s gonna win the Rumble… that didn’t pan out… so fuck it, he inserted himself into the Elimination Chamber and he won the match… and then he turned on Cody… and then he cut his promo a couple weeks later about being in an abusive relationship with the fans, who were just awful, awful idiot losers that kept booing him no matter what stunts he did to get their approval.

Nothing he said in that promo was untrue… but he’s just admitting what most of us already know. But then comes the unspoken part… people boo him being in the spot he’s in because they’d rather see other people be in that spot. In a sense, John Cena’s journey was similar to that of Roman Reigns when he first broke away from the Shield and WWE would attempt every trick under the sun to get people to like the guy because THIS TIME FOR SURE… and it never happened. In fact, what did happen was that Roman took time off for leukemia, came back, took time off because of COVID, and drastically reinvented his whole schtick to become the Tribal Chief he is today. So yes, he started off as a babyface hero nobody wanted, became one of the biggest heels that people started to like, and now he’s one of the top fan favorites in the company. Took him long enough to get there, but he got there.

This John Cena heel turn… if you want to call it that… isn’t going to mean anything in the long term. It’s not a paradigm shifting event like Hogan being the third man. It’s more along the lines of Andre The Giant, who was a fan favorite for years and often neglected by all who mattered, taking matters into his own hands by joining with evil forces to confront the fans’ new beloved babyface. It adds intrigue to the WWE Championship picture at Wrestlemania 41, but that’s about all it’s going to do.

And you know what? I’m fine with that.

I’ll admit that I wasn’t too keen on the whole Cody/Cena thing and even with this latest wrinkle, I’m still a bit on the cautious side of things. Still, you’ve got a bit of spice in a feud that desperately needed it. And if nothing else, fuels potential speculation for what happens next.

On The 31st Day… A Reminder That I Did Not Watch Section 31

It is March 31st of the year 2025 and I am here to tell you that I have still not watched the critically-divisive Section 31 movie starring Academy Award Winner Michelle Yeoh.

The idea occurred to me to make this a regular tradition. For every month that passes, I make a post on the 31st day of the month (should it apply) that I have not watched this film.

I do this not out of pride.

I do this not out of integrity.

I do this because it amuses me greatly.

Tomorrow, I have something special for you folks.