Category: Musings

That ELON MUSK Thing On SNL

This dog is more entertaining than SNL.

Sometimes, I wish I hadn’t gotten rid of the old WTF label… because this would certainly qualify.

So a couple folks I used to associate with before everything went to shit had asked (via e-mail) if I had seen the SNL skit with rich dude Elon Musk. I told them that I hadn’t watched a single bit of SNL since Will Ferrell stopped doing those Celebrity Jeopardy skits ages ago… for those wanting a timeline, that was a long ass time ago.

So I ask them what the fuck they’re talking about and they sent me this link to a Youtube video (which I am not providing here; chances are you’ve already saw it and if you haven’t, then consider yourself extremely fortunate) that features Elon Musk dressed in a Wario costume in court. My first response would be to ask if Nintendo sent a cease-and-desist to NBC for this blatant infringement on their intellectual property.

So I watched the clip in question… I kinda wish I hadn’t.

I don’t regularly watch late-night comedy shows; usually I make a point of it whenever someone is making an appearance there. And even on that point, it’s a genuine struggle to stay through the whole show and watch a series of really bad skits that aren’t funny. And this was twenty years ago.

I watch a clip like this and I find myself wondering how things have gotten so bad that this comedy bits make the worst Irate Gamer comedy seem like Carlin in comparison. I’ve seen old Nostalgia Critic skits from a DECADE ago that are funnier than this and that’s not exactly high praise, either. I mean, it’s amazing that they got these performers in these accurate-looking costumes, including one who is a billionaire dude of sorts, and produce the absolute worst dreck imaginable… actually, now that I think about it, I can imagine far worse dreck and this doesn’t come close to scratching that particular surface.

How is it that I watch something so inane and yet I’m able to type out a couple short paragraphs out of this? Is this really that bad?

And so, after watching the clip, I e-mail the fellow back and let them know my feelings… and I will just end it there.

Why The Current Star Wars: Battlefront Games Don't Appeal To Me

Every once in a while, I’ll go on Steam and I’ll check the games that are on sale. Every now and then, one game in particular catches my eye.

Star Wars Battlefront II.

The new one.

The one that was once riddled with lootboxes and paid content that everyone threw a fit and EA lost money, forcing them to restructure the game considerably so that you’re less reliant on paid DLC and you can just stick with the basic package. Nowadays, I hear it’s pretty good and that the current version has atoned and made up for the mistakes it’s made.

Every time this pops up on sale, I give it a brief thought and I pass.

Sometime ago, this happened and I ask myself “why?” Why am I not jumping at the chance to grab this once former dumpster fire while it’s nice and cheap.

I supposed part of the reason is that I have the old Battlefront games and I enjoy those enough that they’re all the Star Wars Battlefront that I would ever need… even the gimped PSP games have their moment to shine. Another part could because despite sharing the same name, it’s not quite the same game that I’ve played. It looks similar, but it also looks similar to all those other multiplayer focused first-person shooters that I don’t particularly care for today.

So I skipped this one… again. And I’d imagine I’ll skip it again.

Why am I bringing this up? To be honest with you, I’m not quite sure. I suppose I wanted something to post up here and this is the only thing that really pops to mind. All the best to those who enjoy the game and such. But I have a feeling this isn’t for me.

I really should give that Squadrons game another shot, though.

Either that, or go back to TIE Fighter.

Later.

The “Rise” of Skywalker… Oy

So, it’s been a while since we touched on Star Wars, hasn’t it?

Assuming you skip out on any video reviews I might have uploaded along the way, I think I might’ve touched on anything related to the long-running franchise only a handful of times in the past year. And yes, outside of the video games that I’ve gotten along the way, I have not touched much of Star Wars as of late. But since we’re talking about Star Wars today, I’d imagine most people would’ve expected something on the Mandalorian or one of the new upcoming series or maybe there’s a new video game that I’m not playing and choosing to ignore.

Instead, I’m going to talk about The “Rise” Of Skywalker.

Note the quotations around the word “rise” and that one image of Mark Hamill looking stern – the same one used for my piece of The Last Jedi a couple years back – and think about that for a couple seconds before realizing that you have me all figured out. Then question where you’re resigned with that thought and are left to either move on to something or click the break to learn more and perhaps be amazed by what the actual thought process is.

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Billie Kay Released Because Kevin Dunn Doesn’t Get Her

Source: https://www.ringsidenews.com/2021/04/16/kevin-dunn-kept-billie-kay-down-in-wwe/

So the Bucky Beaver Motherfucker strikes again.
(Again? Who do you think allows for that atrocious editing and camera cutting on WWE programing?)
I’ll admit to not being the biggest Billie Kay fan in the world. In fact, I find her to be quite hideous in more ways than one and a large part has to do with the amount of make-up they cake this poor girl world (watch her YouTube stuff and you’ll find she’s actually not that bad looking), but letting her go because Bucky Beaver decided there was a ceiling for her. Dude, you’ve got a whole bunch of people with ceilings; you might as well drop them too.
Oh wait, you already have… Oops.

Ey Ee Dubya… Ded By NationalAnalLubeDay

Yeah, so this is a thing.

So there’s a number of ways to see this. One could be Vince losing his mind and approving the deal because he either still thinks Jericho is a WWE guy or maybe Austin said he’s interviewing Chris Masters. OR you could see this as Jericho

In any event, this is a good thing. It gives AEW some added publicity and visibility (assuming it gets mentioned at all), it gives PEA-COCK some potential must-see content since they’ve got fuck all at the moment (and considering all the “editing” done to conform to modern standards, they’re having fuck all for a good long while), and it gives the twits on Twitter and various “social” media platforms to debate and shitpost things over.

Hey, you know what? I might actually tune in to see this one, just to see how it turns out and whether anything outside Vince’s bubble is worth mentioning. I mean, I suppose it’s okay for AEW to get mentioned. They’re in the “sports entertainment” business, while Vince is in the “content provider” business.

Random Image Does Not A Star Trek Make

A little late to the party, but whatever.

The above image is the first official promo image of the upcoming Star Trek: Prodigy animated series… and I am ambivalent as a whole.

The image depicts our core group of characters; a ragtag group of alien misfits who are all smiles now, but I’m sure their assembling will begin with bickering and slowly but surely, they’ll be good buddies by the end of the season, if not the show. For what it’s worth, I like the varied designs of each of the characters. Whether it’d be the Thing-looking thing or the blue slime thing or the robot thing, it’s a suitable cast for what I’d imagine is kids’ fare.

This image does not immediately scream Star Trek. There’s nothing in the image that I would remotely associate with Star Trek. None of the aliens seem like anything you’d associate with Star Trek. You could have called this anything else and I’d be like, “Cool.” If I gave you this image without telling you what it is, Star Trek would not be the first thing to come to mind… maybe Star Wars. But for Trekkies to start shouting to the heavens that this screams Star Trek is hyper hyperbole to the reaches that goes beyond hyper hyperbole.

One image does not make or break a series, however. It’s just a stock image of some stock aliens. That’s what I got out of it. Does this bode well for Prodigy? I can’t say since this is all we have to go on and it says NOTHING beyond this is what the central group looks like. And until we get more concrete details, I can neither praise or damn the series as a whole based on one single stock promotional image. I can speculate, but that would be raising hopes and the current regime has worn out their goodwill in being giving that much benefit.

I will take a “wait and see” approach with this one. Let’s see what comes of this and then we’ll have something to sink our teeth into. Until then… maintain current course.

I’ll be in my ready room.

COMIC REVIEW – Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Pink (2017)

Boom! Studios’ first off-shoot Power Rangers miniseries was surprisingly not focused on TOMMY, but rather on Kimberly, fresh off not being a Ranger anymore. For you see, this takes place after Kim left the team to be a gymnast at the Pan Globals… but things are amiss. People have gone missing in the French village that her dear old mother lives in and she had find out what it is… so how does Kimberly take on the enormous task for solving the mystery of the missing Frenchmen?

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