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Random Thoughts On… Not Shazam.

So I finally got to watch the teaser trailer for the upcoming Captain Marvel movie and my initial reaction was meh. Wasn’t excited, wasn’t depressed, it was just a thing that I watched and moved on with my life. I gave it another quick watch just a short time ago and my tune really hasn’t changed all that. This will probably be straight-to-Netflix for me if it gets to that point and that’s been the case with a lot of the Marvel output aside from Infinity War, which we did get to see in theaters. It also doesn’t help that the film is featuring the Carol Danvers character; a character that I was never too keen on in either her Ms. Marvel or Captain Marvel phase. If anything, the best use of Carol Danvers was to be the sacrificial lamb for Rogue, a much more interesting character and member of the X-People.

So, apparently, there’s a big stink being made by the fact that Carol Danvers (played by Brie Larson) doesn’t smile enough in the trailer. More than likely, this stink was brought up on Twitter because Twitter is populated by stupid people. Unfortunately, there’s enough stupid people in the world to turn this into a big deal for some reason. I watch the trailer and yes, for the majority of the trailer, Danvers doesn’t show much emotion, if any. There’s a couple hints of a slight grin during the airfield scene or a pained expression when she’s shooting laser beams, but for the most part, it’s just this stone-faced expression that, upon second viewing, made me wonder if this was an actual human actress in the role or another of those digitally CG mock-ups without the facial expressions programmed in. I mean, at this point, it wouldn’t surprise me considering the efforts they went into de-aging SLJ and that other guy named Phil.

I don’t know; maybe the people who made this teaser figured we needed more impressions of Lt. Commander Data and save the emotional bits for the actual movie.

And that’s just the thing; it’s a teaser. It’s just a brief snippet of a much larger playfield. You have these scenes which take place, but no context to go with it. Why is Captain Marvel punching some old lady on a bus? Unless you’re familiar with the comics, you wouldn’t have a clue and assume that Captain Marvel is an asshole. There’s a scene where Carol’s on this alien world and there’s no sense of wonder or astonishment or any sort of subtle emotion… but on the flip side, what makes you think that this was her first time? For all we know, she may have been on that world for who knows how long. Maybe it’s something that’s taken from the end of the movie. After all, we need to explain why this person has been non existent during the entirety of the Marvel Cinematic Canon.

Look… I don’t know if this is going to be a good movie or not. Nobody can assume such a thing from a teaser trailer. Right now, the teaser trailer is a thing that happened and not much more than that. I’m neither excited nor enraged; I’m just like… whatever. I’ll just wait for the next trailer to come along and provide a little more light on what this Captain Marvel movie is all about. Maybe the trailer will show more emotion than this trailer did. Or maybe they’ll just add more stone-faced Brie and then Twitter can complain about it… and I stop caring entirely because Twitter ruins everything.

And that’s all I’ve got to say about that, really.

P.S. Maybe in five to ten years time, if they decide to reboot Captain Marvel, they can go with the Monica Rambeau version instead. Not only is she female, but also a female of color; two checks off the diversity checklist. Also, a much better character than Ms. Cannon Fodder For Rogue.

NBA 2K19… WTF

I took this shot from the EB Games (Gamestop) store close to home. I don’t know if this is the regular version or the deluxe version, but I do know that EB Games is selling new, unopened copies of NBA 2K19 for Nintendo Switch at a price of approximately $129.99 CDN plus tax. Which probably adds up to 140-ish.

A hundred and forty dollars for a video game… and then you have the stupid gambling mechanic that was barred by the Belgian government recently. And these fuckers at 2K Games want Belgian players to convince their government that these loot crate gimmicks aren’t gambling.

Yeah, good luck with that, dipshits.

It’s one thing when mobile games pull this shit because they’re usually free to play and that mechanic is where mobile game makers make their money, but for full-priced games that cost 60, 70, 80, or even 90 dollars… with Deluxe Editions that typically cost way the fuck more…

My brain hurts.

Look, I know the gut instinct would be to cheer Belgium for adopting an anti-loot thing to their video games and treating infractions as criminal… but the last time I checked, Belgium is part of the European Union; a union that recently signed off on an ANTI-MEME LAW.

AN ANTI-MEME LAW.

And you thought North America had dumbfucks running their governments.

“Jean Phillipe… Ban the loot boxes, you Belgian twat.”

Four Hours Of "Fun" With Animal Contest

I posted this on the Youtube channel during the week, but haven’t bothered to make a post on this until now… so here we are.

The idea is simple; start up the awful Nice Code game Animal Contest via the 500-in-1 cart onto a top loading NES, place an elastic band over the A button on my NES Advantage joystick and set the DVD Recorder to record four hours worth of Animal Contest rubbish. If you thought a near 10 minute video on this terrible game was something, TRY FOUR FUCKING HOURS.

Sad Fact: I had a couple extra shots on here that I wanted to include… but Vegas simply REFUSED to render such a terrible video. So I had to use my video converter thing to combine parts of the video into one long piece, hence the lack of end screen.

ALL IN

So this past Saturday, Cody (Rhodes) and the Young Bucks (or Young Fucks) held their much-hyped self-financed independent wrestling show ALL IN, featuring a showcase of the very best that the independents had to offer as well as two World championship matches being contested. What seemed like a big gamble paid off considerably as the show sold out in 22-ish minutes and genuinely felt like a big deal going in.

This is the first wrestling PPV that I’ve bought in years and I was slightly pissed off because shortly after I paid the forty bucks for the show, NJPW World announced that they would have the show on their 999 yen per month streaming service. Not to mention there were some other minor issues with the live stream that I’ll get into after the break, but when all was said and done, I think I got my money’s worth and thensome.

So, I bought the PPV on Fite and had the page loaded Saturday so I’d remember that the show was on. 7:00 rolls around and I get a video error. Tried refreshing the video several times and gave up. Tuned back in about a few minutes later and the PPV was up and running, so sadly I didn’t catch the National Anthem being played or the card being run down by the announcers (including Don Callis – fuck me, this guy is suddenly everywhere all of a sudden.)

Unfortunately, trying to watch the video full-screen caused the streamer to stutter horribly, so I’m left watching the show on my television from a tiny window while the Young Bucks stare into my soul the entire time. Clearly, not a promising start to this first time running Fite.TV.

In any event, let us begin…

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Black Saturday (World Championship Wrestling 14-July-1984)

So they dropped the Black Saturday episode of the old World Championship show from 1984… a show that aired precisely twenty-four years ago.

Once upon a time, there was an old wrestling promotion called Georgia Championship Wrestling, which was hosted by popular wrestling announcer Gordon Solie and featured popular NWA stars such as the Road Warriors, Dusty Rhodes, Ole Anderson, Ric Flair, and others. It’s been a staple of the WTBS Superstation every Saturday Night at 6:05 p.m., airing a program called World Championship Wrestling.

And then Vince McMahon came along and bought the company.

Now instead of NWA stars wrestling at a small Atlanta studio, we have pre-taped WWF matches and interviews from other arenas for other WWF programs. People were pissed at this development, but none moreso than Billionaire Ted himself, Ted Turner. WWF’s version of WCW had shit ratings, so Turner gave time slots to Ole Anderson and Bill Watts’ Mid-South circuits, both of whom did better than McMahon’s show… to make a long story short, the show was eventually sold off to Crockett and the rest is history.

And it began with this one show.

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