Category: Musings

“Babyface” Trudeau Speaks Moistly No More

Someone did a video of soon-to-be former PM Justin “Babyface” Trudeau’s rather “unfortunate” choice of words during a press conference years ago. Said video was featured on this blog once upon a time.

This is pretty much the only happy memory there is to be had with Trudeau, who has been in office since 2015 and has been on a downward spiral ever since. Part of me wonders if he took a walk in the snow in much the same way his old man did when he stepped down from office back in ’84.

Truth be told, I’ve had no issues with the man until I read the news. Maybe ignorance and obliviousness are better allies that I would have imagined, but every stupid thing I hear him say or do makes me facepalm and headdesk. Really, when you’ve done such a shitty job running the country that the buffoon taking office down decides that the country in question should be another state, that’s when you know it’s time to throw in the towel.

Pierre Elliot Trudeau’s famous words were “Just watch me.”

Well, Canadians did watch Justin Trudeau… walk off a cliff and land head first into the trashheap.

Like I said, I’ve no issues with the man personally… but I ain’t shedding a tear over his loss, either. I can only hope that the next PM ends up being a far better deal than what we’ve had this past decade because we really need it.

Another Minecraft Movie Trailer

Listen, I’m not a Minecraft player. I know nothing about Minecraft. The appeal of Minecraft is not foreign to me, but it’s just not something that I ever found myself tempted to play. As such, I have no real interest in the Minecraft movie starring Jack Black as Puppet Steve.

That having been said… this looks like every comedy movie where kids get sucked into another reality and meet a kooky character to try and escape this world or learn to live with it. It’s nothing we haven’t seen done better or worse before. It looks like harmless fare that you take the kids who are more into Minecraft than you are to watch. If this popped up on Netflix somewhere and I had nothing better to do, I’d probably pop this up as background noise or something to keep me occupied or something.

Honestly, this looks like typical kids fare. Not much to say about that. I’ve seen worse video game movie outings. Hell, I’ve seen worse movie outings. This doesn’t look like any of that. It’ll either be a big hit or it’ll be quickly forgotten about save for the couple memes some moron on Twitter might pull out of it, but either way, it’s a thing that’s happening and then everyone moves on.

A Minecraft Movie hits theaters in April of this year.

At Least He’s Happy…

From The Gimmick Attorney’s Twitter Handle

Yeah, there’s going to be jokes a-plenty… but let’s be honest; there have been worse and far stupider names in wrestling than someone shortening their last name to one syllable. Besides, it’s not like we couldn’t have seen this coming… how quickly we forgot that this man was TNT Champion and held the COPE OPEN?

And look at him. He’s happy and gleeful. Why would anyone want to crap on this man’s happiness at this stage in his life? Especially after everything that he’s been through with injuries and the hurricane and all that stuff?

Besides, is it really any dumber of a name than EDGE? EDGE – let’s be honest – is a dumb name… but he made a career out of it, so it worked.

If the man wants to be COPE, let him be COPE.

He’s earned that privilege.

And think of all the jokes you could come up with.

That’s a win-win proposition in my book.

P.S. If he doesn’t have a move called the COPE-ing Mechanism, I will be severely disappointed.

Suck Shun Terty Von

Paramount released another trailer for their Section 31 movie that’s coming out next January… and I will give them credit on delivering a better second trailer that gives me more of a sense of what this thing might be about. I’m still not sold on this movie, it still looks like low-rent trash and not the good kind that’s fun to make fun of, but at the very least, they’ve got a better sales pitch with this second trailer.

Am I more likely to watching this after having seen this trailer? Probably not – right now, I’m more than likely going to be holding out on word of mouth. If people say that it’s better than the trailers make it out to be, then maybe I’ll give it a watch. Otherwise, I’ve got a pup to house train and she doesn’t care about Suction 62.

Just because it says Star Trek on the tin doesn’t mean I’m guaranteed to watch it.

EDIT: Premature posting meant wrong video embed. That’s been fixed. Also, while I generally don’t do this, I was curious about the like/dislike ratio for this thing on Youtube and…

To the 2.4K folks who liked this, I truly hope you get a film worth your time. To the rest of you… well, there’s always the old shit to rewatch. That’s what I tend to do these days.

 

Kevin Is Right, Fou Yucks

Kevin Owens is right.

He tried to dethrone Roman and got screwed for his efforts. He helped others in their fight against Roman and they would end up helping Roman when he was in need. Hell, I was one of those who wanted to see Cody finish his story and he got to do that… but for him to forget all that and agree to teaming with Roman for a tag match… that’s where I draw the line.

Kevin was stabbed in the back for being a nice guy and he has every reason to feel this way. The man stepped aside from the main event circle so others can have his moment – he even started liking TEXAS – and look what happened. He got his match against Cody Rhodes, he gave the man a stunner, and probably would’ve been champion right now if not for the fact that the referee was taking a nap outside.

And then Cody won the match… or I should say, he “won” the match. The Codyverse, it seems, is in full swing. Then Kevin responds by hitting Cody with his signature PACKAGE PILEDRIVER. A move that he hasn’t used in ages. It was the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. Even more so, when Kevin picked up the Winged Eagle (yes, they finally brought back the Winged Eagle for a one-night stand) and raised it over his head while standing over the broken American Person, the Long Island crowd showed their approval (and thus their seemingly mythical intelligence) by cheering for this hero of the people who was in the right, who tried to be a nice guy, and got fucked in the ass continually for his efforts.

You know what, folks? I hereby advocate for the finishing of another story. I want to see Kevin Owens win the WWE title that has eluded him for years. I want Kevin Owens to overcome the egotistical American Person and finish his own story that’s been put on hold for years for the benefit of others. I want Kevin Owens to beat that fake blonde haired pretty boy for that title.

And I want to see it happen when RAW moves to Netflix.

Do that and you’ve got a Netflix subscriber for LIFE*.

 

 

 

 

 

Disclaimer: May or may not have a Netflix sub for life. Their content is still ass outside of Old Star Trek, Cobra Kai, and the entire run of Sailor Moon Crystal.

Tetris Added To Nintendo Switch Online

For those who need a friendly reminder, Nintendo Switch Online recently added the NES version of Tetris onto their NES gimmick. This is significant in that not only has this version not seen a re-release since 1989, but it also marks the first time that Japanese audiences would be exposed to this version of Tetris, which never saw the light of day on the Famicom back then. Considering the amount of Tetris games they were getting, I don’t think they’d be missing much, but still, it’s a treat.

In addition to NES Tetris, the Game Boy gimmick also added Tetris DX among their ranks. Tetris DX is the Game Boy Color upgrade with more play modes and slightly tweaked game mechanics that makes for a smoother controlling game. So if you’ve got an NSO subscription, you can sample both games to your heart’s content… as well as abuse rewind and save states for alleged expert plays.

Remember… Alexey wants you to “play Tetris, my friends.”

Not “Cheat at Tetris, you capitalist pigs.”

Please Wrap It Up… And Throw It In The Bin…

Tomorrow will see the annual Game Awards take place; the walking advertisement for non-game products with occasional game trailers you could watch online and a handful of award presentations with winning speeches from people who are told to please wrap it up so we can give Christopher Judge ample time to talk. No beef with the guy, but just because he played a character who said very little for over a decade on a popular sci-fi show doesn’t mean I want to hear him make up for lost time.

Then again, what do I care? I follow an annual tradition with the Game Awards that continues to this day… and that is not to watch it because I have better things to do with my time… like giving the dog a bath. In fact, I never bother with this thing unless other people I frequent are talking about… which is almost never because nobody outside the influencer circles gives a flying fib about the Game Awards.

So yes, this is me telling you that I’m not watching the Game Awards. You don’t really need to know this. I’m not enhancing your life by relaying this information to you. Nobody cares if I have any interest in this thing. I just felt like letting the world know because… that’s a thing we do nowadays and I don’t have anything more substantial to add to the proceedings… which probably describes the Game Awards in a nutshell.