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This is gonna be a short weekly blog. Perhaps my blog a couple days ago, where I delved into a number of topics, should have been the weekly blog. In fact I'll include it below, since it got the lowest numbers of all my Geeklys this week, and probably deserved the most.
I work at 3 today, till 11pm, so that's one reason why I just won't have much to talk about today. Woke up at ten, will have to get ready at 1:30, so that doesn't give me much time to do stuff. I'm hoping to play a little Spiderman.
Apparently while I was sleeping Blizzard announced a Diablo mobile game. People are very upset, they were hoping for something meaty from Blizzcon, and all they got was a remaster to Warcraft 3 (I'd have prefereed warcraft 2) and a mobile Diablo from someone else. ANd it doesn't look great, but what threw me for a loop was they call it an MMO, yet it seems they only mean that it's normally multiplayer. As in you can team with friends and journey together. But I'm pretty sure they don't mean that it's a large persistent world with thousands of people running around on one server... so using the term MMO feels very dishonest and distasteful. Like they're lying to try and capture people's attention. And it's not surprising coming from a chinese mobile developer. So some people have been attacking fans who are upset, and maybe those fans are being entitled, but this Diablo mobile definitely seems like a immoral cashgrab. Too bad.
That sad, Diablo 3 on Switch is awesome. I've been really enjoying my time with it, and look forward to playign some more over the next busy work week starting today. ANyway off to play spiderman.
Anyway, I'm gonna release this weekly now, and go play some spiderman until I have to get ready for work. Peace be with you.
Geekly Daily of the Week: Thursday Nov. 1
I decided, once I finished my chores at 4am, to sleep a little longer, and woke up just in time for the Nintendo Direct! I hear it's going to be about Smash Bros, but then they're also gonna show off some Pokemon and Diablo 3. So... all the games I care about this year. Damned right I'm tuning in! And Diablo is coming out tomorrow. Tonight, when I'm, hopefully, not passing out prematurely, and watching the DVR for tomorrow before I sleep, I'll be able to play some Diablo at midnight! And tomorrow, I have to leave my apartment for 4 hour while the exterminator does pass number 2 through my place, and ain't that horrible. I'm gonna have to go somewhere else for like 4 hours and play diablo on my switch :o What a nightmare! Also, I'm gonna be playing it on a bus, swinging by my old job and picking up my last paycheck.
Alright, I'm writing this in the morning, and I'm gonna draw a line to show that next parts of my entry are from later in the day. If you can think of anything else I can add to this blog, feel free to suggest things. Like the tweet of the day! Which is only going to be taken from my timeline, so it's not that I think every day that I have the best tweet in the world. The qualifier is being on my timeline. Which can include retweets, so it won't always be my words. Anyway I'm always looking to make my stuff better. For instance, I think the audio in my streams have improved dramatically from when I started. It's little improvements, getting a little better here and there, that will when me the day. Slow and steady wins the race.
I believe sometimes even when you don't think you're getting better, as long as you keep trying and keep doing, subconsciously you are getting better. To become a master at something takes what, a thousand hours doing that thing? You don't have to consciously be trying to be a master, if you do something for a thousand hours, you're just gonna be pretty versed in it. You can't help yourself. That's how self improvement happens. Maybe not always. Maybe saying you should close your eyes and let it happen isn't the answer. It won't bring success, again we're not talking about success. Just mastery. Success is where being either consciously intelligent, or else selfishly abusing to gain success in this world. Guess which one the president was. Because it wasn't being intelligent. It was being abusive to those around him, succeeding off of every failure by throwing the loss on someone else's shoulders.
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Ahahaha, so on the Kinda Funny games podcast, Tim had this big conspiracy theory involving leaks for all kinds of characters that...didn't get announced. I'm excited, though, for the online in this new version of Smash Bros. Mario Party really let me down with their online, and because of that I didn't buy it. This game however looks like it put a lot of thought into matchmaking. And making sure you had choices, and that's what I love to see. I'm excited to set my preferred way to play, and matchmake with others who play like me. With Stock instead of time. With random stages. All items. Ultimate chaos. Can't wait. Next question, can you do 8 people online?
I just can't wait for Diablo 3... but I won't have to. By the time this publishes, it should be in my hands. Sure I've played it and beat it on PC, but that was before it had a 5th act. And sure I played like a hundred hours of it on Xbox One with my X-girlfriend, but we still never beat act 5, or took part in any of the seasonal stuff. That's what I'm excited to be a part of. The seasonal content, right out of the gate alongside the rest of the new fresh community. I'm excited to see how strong my characters can get, and what the adventure mode is like. I'm excited to do all this on the go. Not a great Nintendo Direct, they talked a lot of stuff I didn't care about and wasted my time, but I am excited for all three of the games they showed, and yes, I tuned out during Yoshi's Wolly World. Though, yes, it looks cute.
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I was thinking about why The Rookie has stayed on my list when most other shows like that most certainly do not. Sure it could be the charisma of Nathan Fillion, but I think it's also the structure of the show. It's not exactly a procedural, in that it's not case of the week. In fact characters sometimes deal with 2 or 3 cases in an episode, that sometimes connect, sometimes only thematically, sometimes not even that. The focus every episode is on the characters and their arcs. The police work is just a series of very short stories not to different than what the life of a cop is probably actually like. It's a formula that worked for Saving Hope, relying on the charisma of its actors to hold it up, and it succeeded, and it's a formula that is, for now, succeeding again here. We'll see how next week goes.
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I tried to play Age of Empires today. It was the campaign I started before SPiderman. Usually I only start one campaign at a time, specifically because this is what happens. I get derailed. Well, I went back and tried to continue where I left off, and I got my ass handed to me. The game is so annoying with its AI, and how when you advance, they love to send units sneakign past you to destroy everything you built up while you aren't watching. THey did that to me repeatedly. And non was worse than this map. I got murdered. It really sucked. THe AI, even while I'm murdering them, had no problem wiping me out, and destroyign all my foundations. I just couldn't do it. I spent 2 hours, and made no progress. In the end I'll have to start over.
So I give up. I can't be bothered playing a game for hours on end and making no progress. Besides, I finished the tutorial campagin. It's just the subsequent campaigns I didn't beat. But I had never intended to beat them all. Maybe the tutorial campaign will just have to do. I helped the Egyptians ascend to a higher level of civilization. THe greeks just couldn't keep up. As the narration told me at the end, my men were slaughtered and I was thrown into a dungeon to eat worms until my execution. I'm taking Age of EMpires off my to-beat list. It's done and gone, just in the background if I wanna punish myself again.
Geekly Weekly TV Rankings ( ➤ for new ):
- The Flash *****
This might be a broken record, but I just love the dynamic between Barry, Iris, and their daughter. I think it's so adorable and fun the way they've all slipped into their familial roles. They are such her parents, even though she's old enough to be almost the same age as them, they still parent her and she still treats them like her parents, and I find it adorable. - Legends of Tomorrow ****1/2
A good episode. Surprisingly not as funny as I was expecting. They made you think this seaosn would be all crazy and wacky, and then the villain of this episode is a fairy godmother which as a concept was very crazy and wacky. But then in reality they told a much more touching story about dealing with ignorance and prejudice, and the whole episode was rather serious a lot of the time, and not nearly as wacky as it was pretending to be. Is that a bad thing? No, I don't think so. It's nice to know this wacky show still has some serious things to say, and I look forward to the next episode. - Arrow ****1/2
An episode focusing on Oliver in prison trying to get information about Diaz. I don't know what he expects to find in level 2, seems like an easy way for Brick to get rid of him without having to do anything. Now Oliver is out of his hair forever. - Doctor Who ****1/2
Great episode this week, classic premise. Giant spiders running through the UK. Those giant spiders were detailed enough to creep the heck out of me, and I was screaming at the screen repeatedly. So the episode did a good job of engaging me. It was also fun meeting Yaz's family, but it's interesting when someone pointed a gun at her she didn't bother to mention she's a cop... - Supergirl ****1/2
I enjoyed this episode. Maybe it was cause I was watching it just before work, because it was quite obvious what they are doing. Melissa Benoist is needed for the crossover episodes, she's probably featured in a major way, so they came up with a plot that grounded her for an episode, and now she has a suit covering her face so her stuntwoman can do all the work next week. Which means she has ALOT to do in the crossover. It was nice seeing Sam Witiker. You might remember him from Smallville and The Force Awakens video games. It was cool they put a familiar face in that role so that we could empathize with him, and understand what led him to become the evil bigoted person he's become. Fantastic episode. Also, the guy from Walking Dead as the father was good casting. Turns out you can even kill Grggory and he still keeps coming back. I'm adding half a star. This episode deserves it. That said, obviously generally I'd prefer episodes where the show focuses on the main characters I love, but for what it was, this episode did good. - ➤The Good Place **** A good episode of the good place with some real progress on both Elenor and Tahani's character arcs. I'd say this might have been the best episode of the season so far. I enjoyed Tahani's scenes with her sister. Elenor's A story was a little more boring, but every time she didn't understand how kids work, it was pretty fun. Also, as a side not, is Janet trying to spark things with Jason again? And Chidi falling for Tahani's sister was pretty great too.
- ➤The Big Bang Theory ****Not a bad episode of Big Bang Theory at all. Did everything it needed to, was fun, played around with the characters, gave Lenard something to do. It was fun seeing Penny find him attractive. It was also fun finding out that Howard knew Bernadette was in the toy house the whole time.
- American Horror Story **** Not a bad episode, but a little underwhelmed. Also, it was the shortest episode of the season. For the Halloween episode it was pretty disappointing, focusing on Michael's story for the entire episode. It had a lot of mentions of satan and satan worshipping, but not a whole lot actually happened. He lost Kathy Bates, he was lost, found a Satan cult by random, and they helped him make a new Kathy Bates. The end, I guess.
- South Park ****Another underwhelming Halloween episode. Largely focused on Mr. Mackey and his war against scooters. I thought it was going to make something of Kenny being poor, and touch on how we're excluding the poor from our society, but they didn't really go anywhere with it. They didn't really go anywhere with anything. But it was fun enough, I suppose.
- Star Wars Resistance ****
This is the first episode of Star Wars Resistance that I can actually admit I enjoyed. It was fun, I got behind the story. I enjoyed the characters. I was engaged with the story of finding out about what the First Order wanted, and what the New Republic was into. I actually engaged with this episode, which is more than I can say about every other episode of this show so far. - Ducktales ****
A fine episode of Ducktales, focusing on a plot that I couldn't care too much about. The under water mutant crill was kind of gross. The best part of the story, in the end, was one that happened off screen with Launchpad where he returns at the end of the episode saying "I was lured into the sea where I did... sea stuff." Hilarious - The Goldbergs ***1/2Decent episode. Some funny jokes. I was more interested in the B story with the sister and her boyfriend, who didn't have lines in half the scenes he was in. I'm with Adam in that I have no great love for fiddler on the roof, but it also felt forced with his father. There were funny parts, but it wasn't the strongest A plot. Also, still don't like his girlfriend recast. I liked her better when she was more goth to be honest. WHen she's trying to be Rowan Blanchard... it's worse.
- The Gifted ***1/2
This episode had a good A and B plot. I enjoyed seeing Marcos interact with the Morloks. I also enjoyed Andy's story with that girl. I don't even remember if anything else happened, my DVR has dragged on and on today. - The Walking Dead ***
This episode kinda bored me this week, despite it's focus on Machonne. I've read elsewhere that people have been enjoying this season. Which is funny cause this is the first season that has been boring me. Until now I've been totally in on this show, but this season has been really meh. We'll see how it goes. The ending was intense. Rick is pretty fucked. - Black Lightning ***
I went into this episode bored, and I think that someone touched my enjoyment of this episode, but the happening of this episode were pretty decent. I liked the relationship between the sisters, I liked the focus on how Tobias has infected other people's lives. I liked Jefferson coming to realize the new headmaster was a male Professor Umbridge. This show isn't bad, I just had a lot going on this morning, and my DVR has dragged today. Maybe a faster pace and better action would have improved the rating. - The Rookie *** ANother alright episode that keeps me on the fence on whether I wanna keep watching this show. It hasn't lost me yet, which is more than I can say for Charmed.
- The Last Ship ***
It was an alright episode, but very cable TV. Also I don't know why last week I thought it was the finale this week. There's still two more episodes, which is good because this episode reminded me more than any other how much like 24 all this is. It wasn't bad though, it was tense, people died, including a main character. Master chief didn't get shot for once. And of course Tom Chandler had to be a hero at the end. It was decent. - Charmed *
I didn't even make it through the episode. I got to about 5 minutes in, when the youngest one was waiting tables, and this guy was complaining because they didn't have chicken, and then this dude came by, with the worst dialogue and acting ever, but the way he was saying everything let me know, this dude was a dude. And I was just like "Out." I don't care. I only like the one sister, and if the writing isn't even going to try, I'm out. I have better uses of my time. Maybe I'm in a mood, but now I still have Arrow and Legends of TOmorrow to watch, lets see if they rub me the same way. :p
Geekly Weekly Talk Show Showdown:
- Last Week Tonight
- Stephen Colbert
- ➤Vice News Tonight
- Real Time With Bill Maher
- The Daily Show
- James Corden
- ➤The Graham Norton Show
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