State Of The Blog – August 2023

The Road To 1000… has been delayed due to illness.
Normally, the last five reviews would be up this week… but this past Sunday, I was hit with some major stomach aches and was practically bed ridden for the past couple days. Good news is that I’ve recovered a bit. Bad news is that plans have changed once again.
So the reviews are being pushed back or spread out a bit. These reviews are mostly done save for last minute editing and a final review before rendering. As soon as I’ve got something ready to announce, I will let you all know.
As for other stuff, 21 Years Ago In TNA is somehow still a thing. Everything else is up in the air.
I’m sorry about all this. I really wanted to nail that August 4th date, I’ve been pushing reviews out to try and make that date as best as I could, but once again, life finds a way to make plans go awry. Hence the moral of our story… don’t plan ahead.
Anyway, will follow up with an update in the future.
EDIT 2023-08-06: Never mind, here’s the set schedule of Reviews…
Review #996 – The Legend Of Zelda: Link’s Awakening (Game Boy)
Due Wednesday, August 9th, 2023
Review #997 – The Legend Of Zelda: Link’s Awakening DX (Game Boy Color)
Due Thursday, August 10th, 2023
Review #998 – The Legend Of Zelda: Link’s Awakening (Switch)
Due Friday, August 11th, 2023
Review #999 – REDACTED
Due Tuesday, August 15th, 2023
Review #1000 – REDACTED
Due Friday, August 18th, 2023
From there, reviews will take a two-week break before resuming on Friday, September 1st with a review of Illusion Of Gaia for SNES… and then a bunch of seemingly random shit that was actually planned ahead until plans change and you end up with actual random shit.

21 Years Ago In TNA #07 – Planting The Seeds Of TRUTH (July 31st, 2002)

21 years ago, on this very day… NWA-TNA had another terrible weekly PPV show that they got away with charging people money for. A lot of bullshit, a lot of garbage… How these assholes still stayed in business when THIS was the product they were offering is confounding to me.

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Stop Catering To Nostalgia; You’re Not Very Good At It

No, seriously… just stop.

Every time you try to cater to my nostalgia, you’re just reminding me of something that I’d much rather be watching right about now. Why watch another rehash of Terminator when I can go back and watch the superior first film… or the second for that matter? Why feature Michael Keaton’s big return as Batman in a movie starring someone else when I can go back and watch the classic Bat films from back in the day? Oh, look. Another Indiana Jones film featuring 120-year old Harrison Ford just tagging along for the ride… yeah, no thanks. I’ll stick with the trilogy; that’s more than enough for me. What’s that? A live-action remake of a classic Disney cartoon that’s going to be shittier than the cartoon it’s based on? Why the fuck would I want to watch that?

Also, stop trying to introduce your shitty next generation characters to your nostalgia acts. You can’t do that all that well, either. If you want to do the next generation, then do the fucking next generation and only have a couple old guys or gals around to send our new heroes off. I could think of one show that did that wonderfully. It’s called Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Enough with the nostalgia acts. They only remind me of things that used to be good. They also remind me of things I could be watching right now instead of your shit film.

Later.