Category: Random Musings

Just random musings on random stuff.

A Bunch Of Random Crap

So, a couple folks have been wondering why there hasn’t been much RAW talk on the blog, considering they started building towards Wrestlemania and also they recently had the Ultimate Deletion that saw Bray Wyatt get deleted and stuff. Well, it boils down to a couple reasons.

1 – I’ve been recovering from a cold. Hence the lack of frequent “worthwhile” posts such as videos and stuff.

2 – I haven’t had the need to watch RAW in years and whatever I might’ve missed, I can easily catch on Youtube via official clips. No need to sit through three hours of stuff.

Right now, there’s nothing on the “road to Wrestlemania” that has me remotely interested in the show beyond a strictly superficial level, but with news of Daniel Bryan Danielson being cleared to compete, I may be tempted to follow the road a little more closely… but not too closely, because I’ve got stuff to catch up on.

In other news, I’ve been lagging on the movie watching bit as of late. Off the top of my head, the last movie that I can recall going to the theatre to watch was The Last Jedi and since then, there hasn’t been much that piqued my interest. No, not even the modern-day blaxploitation film Black Panther has garnered much interest from me. I don’t know, man. There’s nothing on the waves or on the tube that has me really hooked as of late. I’ve dabbled on some of the Marvel stuff on Netflix, but after Defenders, I was done.

Now I just stick with binging on old episodes of Star Trek, Power Rangers, and other stuff. And mostly for the purposes of trying to turn those viewing experiences into material for the blog… which may or may not be considered a bad thing, I don’t know.

So I decided to make the plunge and donate a couple bucks of Classic Game Room’s Patreon page so that I could check out the new Classic Game Room 2085 show that started earlier this month. This new show is available on Amazon Prime… in the U.S. Outside of the U.S., you’re shit out of luck, which means signing on to the Patreon and checking out the shows there. And in hindsight, I’m glad that I DIDN’T make the plunge to Prime, as there was no way I could honestly justify going with a one-year commitment for a service that would have me watch just one show.

So, about Classic Game Room 2085… it’s essentially the same Classic Game Room that you got for the past couple years, except much longer and with more stuff within. Each episode features a game review, some viewer mail, and a couple other features depending on the theme of the show. I want to say that the show feels like a step up from the smaller reviews, but the truth is it’s really more of the same. Now for me, that’s fine and the longer format feels a bit more flexible, but if you didn’t care for the recent reviews on the old Youtube channel, then this new 2085 variation isn’t going to change your mind any better.

Anyway, I’m going to see if I can get back into the groove of finding my voice so I can start dubbing videos again. I desperately need to catch up in that regard, but on the bright side, most of the text stuff that’s on tap to be posted in the near future is pretty much done and will publish on schedule. So that’s one less headache to worry about.

Later, folks.

No Celebration On My End

I don’t dwell into politics here… but I want to provide a quick comment.

40 years ago, my home province passed a law designed to protect the integrity of its mother tongue.

It’s since been used to treat anyone that isn’t born here or French-speaking like the enemy.

It is, for all intents and purposes, legalized bigotry and prejudice.

This is not a condemnation of the people. People are good-natured folks.

This is a condemnation of the lawmakers who give good people the means to turn into bigots.

That’s all I’ve got to say about that.

Advice To Websites: DON'T SET YOUR SHITTY VIDEOS ON AUTOPLAY

Why is it that every time I go to a website to read an article, there’s always a video that plays automatically? More often than not, that video has nothing to do with the article in question. This isn’t a convenience. It’s a waste of time to have to scroll on a video and tell it to stop. This is especially trying when a page has multiple videos and they all play at the same time.

Or even worse; the video will still play and appear in the corner. Yeah, because if I don’t want to watch the video in a big format, SURELY I’ll want to watch the same thing in a much smaller screen tucked away in the corner.

Here’s some free advice to websites with video supplements to their articles; don’t set your videos on autoplay. If I want to watch your shitty videos, I’ll click on them myself and watch them. If I want to read the articles, then I don’t want some idiot blasting into my ears unless it’s something I’m playing on my own volition.

Goddamn, kid. I need a stiff drink.

Or fifty.

My Brain Hurts

Sometimes, you just wake up in the morning and you’re left with such a ringing pain in your brain that it feels almost dehibilitating. Not even the coffee is getting the job done.

Maybe I should lay off the caffeine… or maybe I should get more coffee.

Who knows?

Anyway… off to work for me.

Tomorrow will see a review that’s… on the ball.

I think.

Weekend Of Hell

Spent the better part of the weekend watching a bunch of bad movies on Netflix for the purposes of putting together a bunch of Slideshow Movie Reviews. One of them is an Asylum film. On top of that, I saw another episode of Impact Wrestling against my better judgment and lasted about ten minutes before the feuding announcers did me in again.

This weekend sucked.

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.