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case queen, officially commandeered.

I saw Noodles from Offspring doing an interview on Youtube recently and he looked like hippie grandpa... He looks like the Asheville bar flies that frequent the bars that were cool here in the early 2000s.

Almost as bad, there's 20 somethings at work talking about bands like Highly Suspect like they've been around forever. 90s and 2000s rock is called divorced dad rock and Dave Mustaine is 63 going on 112!

maybe this should be reposted in the loser section!?

ooooh I woulda bought in at 60, its 122 right now

Early 30's Dave, dood's mid 50s now. Makes you feel old...

I'm kind of ready for a new Nintendo IP. Newer iterations of Mario, Mario Kart, Mario Party, Donkey Kong, Kirby, etc. are fun, but just don't bring back the excitement each once did. It feels like how junkies talk about their first time, a video game chasing the dragon scenario. I looked at a few lists of future releases for the Switch 2 and the only game I even might play is Disgaea 7, and I quit that series 5 iterations ago. DK Bananaza looks like they built the game around the chunk gimmick, and everything else looks like stuff we already have. Not to mention 80 dollar Mario kart looks a lot like Mario kart 8 with more characters, less tracks.

So far, the entire thing seems miss able. I'm certain I'll change my mind over time but for now, I'm saving my money.

probably a case queen at this point.

It was my first playstation game. Most of my 100% completes came from the xbox 360 days, although if you added up xbox live, steam, and playstation I still don't have 16. I typically try to finish the game, just not necessarily the achievements.

thanks guys!

Its been so long I cant remember what games I got!

looking forward to the mission impossible collection steel book (please make this happen!)

I spend less buying the special editions than a trip to the movies in all honesty. I am looking forward to watching the movie though, just from the comfort of my own couch and loud enough so my neighbors complain.

yeah maybe if we get out of this multiverse phase things will start to work out. Its only seemed to have worked out for No way Home, the rest of the multiverse stuff fell flat.

It's deep in the back log at this point.

@BLUEVOODU being generally decent human beings, I think we tend to overcompensate for the haters sometimes. Age was meh. I didn't hate it but it didn't hit as hard as its predecessors.

Scared!

Marvel's first family has never been done well. 1986 movie was low budget and no one watched, second iteration of fantastic four was better but never caught and the second movie BARELY used the Silver Surfer, and the last iteration was completely forgettable.

Once again a new FF is coming out later this year, and its success will likely have a big impact on next year's avengers flick. I refuse to watch or read anything about these movies outside of the trailers. Lets face facts, the last few Marvel movies haven't been great and the net nerds are in full blown Disney hate mode. I just don't want any bias heading in because I'm already scared its not going to be good.

I got into comics in the copper age and bought what silver age stuff I could. My favorites were Xmen and Fantastic Four. I'm way more critical of those two and may join the net nerds in Disney hate if they get ruined.

It seems to be getting more and more difficult to find new stuff to binge, Streamers are moving back to the drip feed model and amping up the commercials... wonder where they got the idea?!

With that being said, I've been looking for some deep cuts I've missed. HBO Max has come through so far with Last Ship and Banshee. I finished Banshee and it was pretty great and has Homelander in it! I'm on the last season of Last Ship. also great. Its pacing isn't perfect but there's four seasons and pulling your content from a book or books makes that difficult, but in this case very forgivable.

Prodigal Son is also on Max but harder to recommend. Fantastic show despite following the same formula for the majority of the show. Once it broke that formula and got going it wasn't renewed for another season, leaving on a cliffhanger with no hope of conclusion.

I loved it for what it was. There were flaws but it told an entertaining story. Die-hards will / did hate it. Without spoiling anything, there's a back story that was rushed and had liberties taken. Even the showrunner addressed it, basically admitting it was shoehorned in.

I didn't appreciate the earlier series until later in life and have not been through all of it yet. They were more soap than action, so I wrote them off and have only recently started watching the legacy stuff. The Next Generation movies were great and cut the fluffy stuff to seemingly attract a wider movie-going audience and was more my thing. I think that's why I liked Picard. It took a little more of the action route and had some ties to the Star Trek materials I most enjoyed.

I get the hate, when Marvel or DC takes too much liberty with some of the comic story lines I read as a kid, I took it as a put-off. Sometimes big changes work, other times they don't. People are always going to find issue when others take liberties with source material. I'm less resistant to it than some, I just ask for quality, which in general does seem to be fading.

Next time I'm in the mood for a little masochism, I'll try to power through

Clerks 2, Randalls analysis of the LOTRs trilogy...

I keep trying. I really want to like it but it's not even vanilla, its more butter pecan.

dang, now I want ice-cream!

I'd still use Gamestop if they would either stock their stores or make their website where it stops showing unavailable stuff, or at least make it where the sort would actually work. Redeeming points doesn't do always work either. It's such a sham now.

Pretty late to the conversation but this was fantastic. Serial DC hasn't kept my attention since Gotham. This one did, completely worth watching. The season finale went hard, can't wait to see how the second season starts after that.

Best Buy will soon be another Amazon murder, possibly the next. They've significantly cut staff, getting something delivered or repaired takes forever, and they've cut SKUs, significantly. The video game section hasn't been cut square footage wise but when it comes to buyable stuff it's just not there. For each system there's maybe a 4' section of games and the remainder of shelving is filled with displays. I've gone in a few times in 2024 and once in 2025 because I wanted something right away. More often than not they didn't have what I wanted and had to wait for Amazon.

I don't know what it is but it seems like connecting to the car sound system only works when its apple, and I don't have apple. Amazon and Google seem to fight each other on mine and I just wind up listening to xm. I'm sure I could take a few minutes to figure it out but I just haven't cared that much yet.

 I hit the vinyl pretty hard until the prices started going crazy. It's cool having all these special edition vinyls but music should be played, and it hurts a little to pay so much for a record and then not spin it. I found myself buying albums on amazon that includes a digital copy of the music. It seems like they're not doing that as frequently now.

There's always some old movie that I get the urge to watch and it's not streaming anywhere, unless you buy a digital copy, and even then, if the rights are tied up (think Dogma or Beavis and Butthead with the music videos) you'll never stream it (legally). Pretty soon we won't own anything. I already can't leave my steam library to my kids. Ugh, this is turning into a boomer / back in my day rant, and I'm really an elder millennial that identifies as gen x!

The quest for profits seems to always turn into an Icarus scenario. Something good becomes better and better as interest is generated, little guys make a name for themselves and turn into big guys, marketing explodes, big guys start buying up little guys, big guys start paying more for little guys, big guys get too big, margins become miniscule, ceo's and board of directors go from people within the industry to some flavor of investment banker, min max hits harder, creativity, innovation (in the sense of taking risks / trying something new) becomes too costly and we get Madden 75, Call of Duty 400, and a whole lot of vanilla flavored games, all be it on fantastic hardware with pretty graphics.

Not chasing bleeding edge technology affords Nintendo some liberties, but they still play it pretty safe with their games. They stick close to the Zelda, Mario, Pokemon staples (peppering in some pikmin, kirby, and DK) and haven't had a new IP of note since Ring Fit in 2019 and Splatoon before that in 2015. They took lumps with the Wii U, N64, GCN, and the Virtual Boy but have persevered and always put out great games.

I think Nintendo's business model will keep them in the console space while Sony and Microsoft are destined to dissolve off into the PC space. I've already decided to not buy a new Xbox or Playstation, despite having chased after each previous iteration. I just hope Nintendo continues to innovate, take risks on peripherals as well as games, and put out another Kid Icarus, Earthbound, 1080, wave race, excite bike, or better yet, the next unforgettable IP that'll be able to stand with the Mario, Zelda Pokemon tentpoles.

I found it difficult to make it through the first season and gave up on the series. Hearing the second season was better gives me hope. Outside of the "purists" that can't stand anything pop culture not made 40+ years ago, the only real complaint I've heard was about the pacing. I can deal with that now that all the episodes are out. I'll have to spin this one back up.

Its February and I'm still trying to start working on mine!

yeah, I've got a few of those...

how was it

Nope!

Its a late reply I know, I blame Helene (and some lazyness) but mostly Helene!

ugh, back to 40 as well