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Geekly Blog:
So I've had to face a harsh reality. I'm drowning so bad in debt that there's no way out. CIBC fucked me over with increasing interest rates and constant bullshit fees and ridiculousness. They've messed with me again and again, so that even when I thought I had finally gotten my finances in the green, they just jacked my interest rates further.
Then last month when I went to pay my, constantly increasing, minimum payment, I found out that my chequing account was closed. And that meant I wasn't able to e-transfer the funds. I had the money and couldn't even give it to them. So I was like "Fine" and put it in my mastercard and moved on. Terrible idea. Now they're freakign out, jacking my interest rates more, throwing fees at me, calling me every day. I don't know what to do. It's made me look at things, and I didn't realize how much my interest rates had already raised, but I'm super screwed now if I can't get a loan of some kind to take my money out from CIBC's hands.
SO I've asked my uncle for help. I've explained everything and I made him an offer. If he gives me 18k to close my accounts with CIBC, I will pay him back 20k, which is less than what I'd be payign if CIBC continues to screw me, 200 dollars a month. 400 once I pay off my mastercard (18k is about half my debt, but all with a bank I've tried to get away from cause they keep treating me like crap). I can deal with my other debts but I can no longer also deal with CIBC. No response yet, but if he says no, I dunno what I'm going to do. Declare bankruptcy maybe, but I don't even know what that does for me.
But yeah so those are my choices. IN the mean time, I've been working more hours, and I don't know when my writing will be out next. I dunno if I can maintain a monthly schedule, but I'm gonna try. I just, I'm so depressed and stressed and I dunno what I'm going to do. I guarantee Dakotah Slade will be out this month, promise. I just still haven't touched it yet. I'm working on fixing my life right now.
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Geekly News Headlines:
May 4th:
➤ Epic bought rocket league?
https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/01/fortnite-maker-epic-games-is-buying-rocket-league-maker-psyonix/
➤ Watch out for ticks in your eardrum
https://www.livescience.com/65379-tick-on-boys-eardrum.html
➤ New Picard Star Trek series could be a social commentary on immigration.
https://screenrant.com/star-trek-picard-series-spock-romulan-theory/
➤ The architect of our destruction has been found, a three eyed snake.
https://www.livescience.com/65382-three-eyed-snake.html
➤ Monday ends the Russo brother's ban on endgame spoilers, a ban that Don Cheadle's private messages to me on twitter suggest I already broke. *whistles*
https://www.polygon.com/2019/5/2/18526929/avengers-endgame-spoilers-ban-disney-dontspoiltheendgame
➤ A musing on mass fandom
https://www.polygon.com/entertainment/2019/5/2/18526773/avengers-endgame-game-of-thrones-star-wars-rise-skywalker-fandoms
May 3rd:
➤ Developer insists his game was taken off Nintendo's Eshop unfairly
https://kotaku.com/nintendo-removes-game-from-switch-shop-after-developer-1834395344
➤ Riot games e,players share a walk out for sexism.
https://screenrant.com/riot-employees-walkout-sexism-workplace/
➤ Winnie the poohs forest burns down.
https://screenrant.com/winnie-pooh-hundred-acre-wood-fire/
➤ Amazon to deliver to cars?
https://www.engadget.com/2019/04/30/amazon-key-car-delivery-ford-lincoln/
➤ Fortnite getting sued once more, lawyers taking new tactic after last suite of lawsuits failed.
https://screenrant.com/fortnite-dance-move-lawsuit-saxophone-emote/
➤ Crispr baby unethical and at risk
https://gizmodo.com/substandard-superficial-and-absurd-experts-slam-the-1834417285
➤ Asteroid impact on moon hotter than surface of the sun
https://gizmodo.com/lunar-eclipse-meteorite-briefly-created-a-spot-on-the-m-1834425440
➤ Marvel announces Ghost Rider TV series, with the actor from Agents of Shield returning,
https://io9.gizmodo.com/2-more-marvel-shows-are-coming-to-hulu-including-ghost-1834441410
➤ Umbrella academy more popular than Stranger Things season 1?
https://screenrant.com/umbrella-academy-ratings-stranger-things-season-1-netflix/
➤ You can get food poisoning from Rice?
https://www.livescience.com/65374-bacillus-cereus-fried-rice-syndrome.html
May 1st:
➤ Theaters overwhelmed by Avengers Endgame crowds
https://screenrant.com/avengers-endgame-theaters-trash-piles-overwhelming-crowds/
➤ Bio-degradable bags not so bio-degradable?
https://earther.gizmodo.com/biodegradable-bags-can-still-carry-groceries-after-thr-1834384186
➤ Netflix teases new show The Society
https://screenrant.com/society-full-trailer-netflix/
➤ Are Russians fitting animals with spy equipment?
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/04/beluga-black-ops-norwegians-discover-russian-spy-whale/
➤ Woodstock cancelled by corporate schills?
https://news.avclub.com/woodstock-50-reportedly-cancelled-amid-reports-of-capac-1834386658
➤ Electric cars are not worse for the environment than gas cars, despite BS study.
https://jalopnik.com/enough-with-the-actually-electric-cars-pollute-more-bu-1834338565
April 30th:
➤ Avengers endgame earns a billion dollars in a matter of days. Captain Marvel, still in theatres, takes second place despite other more recently released AAA films.
https://screenrant.com/captain-marvel-domestic-box-office-behind-avengers-endgame/
➤ Woman hospitalized for hyperventilating during Avengers endgame showing
https://screenrant.com/avengers-endgame-fan-hospitalized-uncontrollable-sobbing/
➤ Marvel and Stan Lee have always been social justice warriors, despite people's complaint that they are forcing it down our throats.
https://www.polygon.com/comics/2019/4/29/18520723/avengers-endgame-stan-lee-cameo-comics-politics
➤ Don't record everything your child does, or do... just don't show it to them until they are older else risk fucking them psychologically.
https://offspring.lifehacker.com/why-you-should-wait-to-show-your-kids-videos-of-themsel-1834375834
April 28th:
➤ Chvrches angry with Marshemello for collaboration with renowned abuser Chris Brown
https://news.avclub.com/chvrches-releases-statement-on-recent-collaborator-mars-1834313944
➤ Opinions on new Star Wars comic are messy in a feminist me too sort of way (there were people saying in the comics on saying "why didn't you complain about Harley Quinn" and another. "We did! no one wanted to listen to us when we screamed that it rings to true to things that have really happened to us" and at that point, if it's too real, I don't see how it's offensively anti-feminist. If anything it's a cautionary tale)
https://io9.gizmodo.com/why-this-weeks-darth-vader-comic-is-causing-controversy-1834311320
➤ Mosquitos taste with their legs
https://www.livescience.com/65334-how-does-deet-work-mosquitos.html
➤ Are all the designers behind the iPhone now gone from Apple?
https://gizmodo.com/why-is-apple-s-famous-design-team-reportedly-bleeding-t-1834335837
➤ Mortal kombat on switch apparently a major down grade.
https://www.polygon.com/2019/4/26/18518509/mortal-kombat-11-switch-impressions-review-comparison
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Geekly Weekly TV Rankings (➤ for new) ( I live tweet shows on twitter, but try to keep those spoiler-lite @AndrewGeczy)
- Game of Thrones *****
Amazing episode. Horrifying to say the least. I was literally trembling for the first act of the show, it messed me up so bad. It sorta of evened out a little. the second act wasn't as good as the first, and the third was really starting to push my belief... but Then Arya jumped in just in time to save the episode (I literally laughed at Theon's moment) and the world all in one bad ass move. Amazing episode. but everyone is dead now. Who is left to go fight against Cersei? Shout out to Liana Mormont for having an amazing scene. Shoutout to the whole episode for just putting me through the wringer. - Legends of Tomorrow *****
Great episode this week. SO funny. We had so many different plots being balanced at once, but they were all told with the right people at the right times. It was fun, each dynamic was interesting, I was laughing throughout. Mick at a convention for his works was hilarious. Nate and Zari was cute. Ray with the evil hand, and Gary with the cursed nipple. It was just all really great stuff. Some of it, the cursed nipple and evil hand, felt very Evil Dead to me, which is great. - Killing Eve ****1/2
Last week I kinda told this show off for not having any stand out moments. I'd say this episode was slightly better than last week, which is not to say either episode is bad, but it is a slower part of the season. There was a lot to enjoy, and some great character moments, but I really think if Eve is going to continue flirting around with other people, she should break up with her husband. - Into The Badlands ****1/2
Great episode this week. Pilgrim has been built into quite the bigger threat than I considered him before this episode. Even his witch, who I hate, fears him now. I really don't know what she expected. I was super disappointed that they killed Nix. Right away, really graphically and just ground the point home by ripping her head completely free of her body. Did TIlda mourn? Not at all. She was too busy dealing with her ex drama. Blah. Nix... Tilda should have stayed. They could have taken Pilgrim together and saved the world. It was at least nice to see Sonny fighting at full strength again, after so many episodes of him recovering from his major beat down at the hands of Pilgrim. Most of the final episodes have been sans our hero, which was a strange choice, but whatever. I'd blame the writers, if I wasn't too busy blaming them for Nix. I will have my revenge! - Family Guy ****1/2
Hilarious episode of Family Guy. A lot of great jokes, a surprisingly decent moral, and... yeah it relies on the tired and sexist trope of a manic woman, but I've known too many people like this in real life to be offended. This episode felt real in a sense, but also was a lot of fun, and if you can balance both of those in an episode of Family Guy, you've got a hit. - The Big Bang Theory ****Hilarious episode of the show, well maybe that's giving it too much credit, but I'm watching this show late at night and I'm a little delirious. And I appreciated the way it resolved a plotline I sort of hated. I haven't enjoyed this plotline once until tonight and that's gotta be worth it, for redeeming the plotline just in time to conclude it, and now Sheldon is free to get a noble peace prize with Amy. I also liked the way it touched on each of the cast, and the opinions on the moral gray choice.
- The Flash ****
Good episode of the Flash. I enjoyed Nora's arc, and Iris' lesson to Barry that it doesn't matter what Nora does, that family is too important to give up on. I also enjoyed all the different smaller plot threads involving the rest of the cast and their romantic lives. My only disappointment was that n-- I think I passed out while writing this... I work nights... I have no idea what I was gonna say. - The Goldbergs ****
Good episode, with a strong focus on the mother, who I often find annoying, but who I also often feel is a lot like my mother. As usual, the smaller side stories were more fun, than the A plot, though Barry can be a little too dense at times, like while he's trying to ruin Erika's chances to get into college.As usual, I enjoyed Geoff's often minor contributions, - ➤ Brooklyn Nine Nine ***
I actually passed out for the middle portion of this. I had no idea how Gina got stabbed, other than that I'm good. I like Rosa's plot with her hands. I dind't love Broyles plot, cause I don't love Broyles, nor do I enjoy GIna, so an episode focused on those two, it didn't seem a big loss to not go back and catch up on what I missed. But I will go to sleep before watching Doom Patrol. Guess that gets pushed to next week with Cloak and Dagger. - American Gods ***
I'm not quite sure what I just watched. It didn't seem like a season finale, and though it had some good moments and some good performances, the police disappearing made no sense, all in all the episode was a middling experience that didn't really lead anywhere. Just sorta jumbled up its pieces and walked away. What a mediocre second season of a once great show. It's not so bad now that it's not worth watching, but I suppose that is an choice everyone will have to make for themselves. - Supergirl **
Meh episode of Supergirl this week. Just super dumb and boring. I could have gone on, but I passed out instead after that first sentence, and now all the details of that terrible episode melted from my brain. It wasn't the worst episode ever. Just this season, maybe. Ooo, next morning, I remember! Okay so The main plot about Dreamer was really cringe worthy. Her one liners were the worst, but also her powers make no sense to me and were never explained or defined. One second she dreams the future. Cool I can dig that. But suddenly she was like electrocuting people, and shooting energy out of her hands, now she's creating lightsaber whips and bright lights. None of it is explained or set up. She just has the power to do whatever the fuck she wants I guess. But then every side story. Supergirl's was sorta interesting, but kept devolving into BS. Like "Oh, I gotta be supergirl without my costume, and accidentally knock this dude unconscious, or read through these files really fast." The James storyline was terrible, he's becoming superman now? And they just put more effort into making us like his sister, and that's never working, and I don't want her to date Alex, oh god do I not want that one bit. I find her so uninteresting, and totally not needing to be there, and Alex is like being so supportive to her for some reason. No! She's the therapist! She doesn't need your support.She needs to go home so we can go back to not knowing she exists. I can't believe Arrow was worse than this. - Arrow *1/2
Terrible episode of Arrow this week. I'm getting really tired of the law and police being the big bad of the season. And this was the dumbest police focused episode yet. Going after Team Arrow because during a terrorist attack that could have killed thousands of people, a couple guards got killed. I mean people have died all the time in attacks, but now suddenly these two guards really fucking mattered because there will be hell to pay for team Arrow. It's insane, super dumb, and it's only saved by the twist at the end, which almost made it worth it if everything before wasn't so bad. All that stuff the fat cop was saying was all such bullshit, he's such and asshole and this show better be freaking done with these storylines. It literally made no sense this week. Just wasted my freaking time. Like why wouldn't it be assumed that the evil organization who kills lots of people and were there that night might have killed those two guards? WHy is that so impossible for these cops to believe, that they have to spend days interrogating people and run a whole investigation. God the police subplot has sucked balls this season, from the moment Arrow got out of jail... no before. Every time the camera cuts to that police station, I know I'm in for a shitty time. Also Fuck Dinah. Perhaps because she's a part of all that bullshit that drags down the otherwise great show.
- ➤ Vice News Tonight *****
- ➤ Stephen Colbert ***
- ➤ The Daily Show **1/2
- James Corden **
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