I am working 3rd shift tonight. It’s a slow night so I decided to sit down and watch some TV. Usually when I work 3rd, for the early part of the night I will watch Discovery since they usually have some cool programming on. Well I ended up watching a “doomsday” about December 21, 2012.

Well it just finished and I got a good chuckle at the end of the program. At the very end all the scientists that had been featured on the program unanimously agreed that nothing was going to happen. Then the narrator of the program came on with the most sinister voice I have ever heard and said “But the experts could be wrong” and then went on about how the living would envy the dead and how when the shit hit the fan to remember “we were warned”

Why is it that shows like this have to install fear into people? Fear of things that will most likely not happen…well at least not in any of our life times….

Hell, even if it does…at least we can say that WE WERE WARNED

I think I have finally become a codger. I seem to be grumpy all the time, argue with people just for the hell of it, dislike things I used to love, and am relatively unhappy most of the time.

::sigh::

Life it seems will fade away indeed….

Did….Did I see a flying Spartan riding the wings of a Rocket Pack as well as the ability to roll out of the way of damage.

I was skeptical…but now…

Anime. Japanese Animation. I used to love it. I used to watch it religiously. I used to not be able to get by a day without watching a new anime. Then something happened. Suddenly I no longer loved it. In fact I started to loath it. Not the stuff I used to like mind you, just all the current stuff that was being shoved (like manure) out of Japan.

At first I thought it was just me. I thought It was just me who had changed his opinion of the entertainment media. It seemed like everyone else I knew who also was in anime seemed to be eating it up like it was candy…I accepted this and moved one.

Fast Forward to today and I view a article from Kotaku that seems to have hit the nail on the head. Something he said click:

When foreign cultures talk about Japan, they usually talk about anime and / or manga. Usually, it’s anime. Anime is terrible. It used to be okay. Now, it’s not. It’s inbred trailer-trash in entertainment form: Every season’s new Japanese animation places one-upmanship of every single aspect of the last season higher on their list of priorities than even “make something entertaining.” The same can perhaps be said of all Japanese entertainment, though it’s not relevant anywhere else as much as it is in anime. Anime used to answer the questions of kids’ dreams: “How awesome would it be to be a world-class assassin / kung-fu master / robot pilot / baseball hero?” Now it’s just a bunch of shit pandering to perverts and pedophiles. Anime heroes used to be people with amazing job descriptions; now they’re reasonably young men who find themselves miraculously sharing houses with a dozen girls aged six to nine, accidentally almost touching every other scene. Or else it’s just guys with huge hair and impossible weapons shouting jargon. Long ago, manga aspired to be like Dragon Ball Z: graphically iconic, with a story more coherent than it probably needed to be. Now there’s the ADHD-addled Dragon-Ball-Z-inspired One Piece, a manga for the Twitter age if there ever was one.

I now realize that it isn’t just me. Anime really is crap now. It makes me feel good that I am not alone. Also makes me glad I swore that shit off years ago.

Well, I finally got to see for myself the first wave of Iron Man 2 figures…and while I was initially excited about the line and really wanted more than a few of the figures, I have to say that much to my disappointment, that has changed. While some of the armor designs the figures sported do intrigue me…the figures themselves, I got to say, do not impress me in the least. It seems that Hasbro, a toy company well known for its Transformers brand (to name a few) as well as the figures from Iron Mans last romp onto the big screen, has decided to forgo the 6″ toys that were standard for the previous figure line for a standard of 3.75″; the same size many of Marvels properties are having figures made of them

While I am not surprised by this (it is after all cheaper and economical), it disappoints me. The end result makes the figures look cheap…almost to the point they look like they came out of a McDonald’s Happy Meal back in the mid 90’s.

So far the only thing I liked in the new figure line isn’t really a figure. It’s the electronic helmet from the new movie that figures a flip-up mask. I almost bought one of the sonabitches, but the mask didn’t slide up enough to allow me, a full grown adult, to see out of it. If it had, I can guarantee I would have bought one.

This all makes me a sad panda and wish for my youth.

I love HAWP. I love Psychonauts. Two tastes that taste great together lol!

This video and this video:

Has given me a massive raging boner

I have to say, I really haven’t been a major fan of the Battlefield series, but Bad Company was fun to play (taggard is awesome). So upon seeing the Single Player reveal trailer (after all the trailers had been focusing on multiplayer…I got really excited.

I cannot wait.

Man, are the screenshots for the upcoming Iron Man 2 game looking awesome. I really want to play it but I am kinda reluctant. If you played that Sega game that was made for the first one you would see why.

Luckily, the game for the new movie seems like they have learned from their mistakes from the first one…

Who knows.

Until then, I present you with really sweet looking screens of Iron Man and War Machine from the Wii version (developed by High Voltage Software and all console versions will be published by Sega).

Enjoy

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La Femme Nikita, Being Human, and Torchwood. What do these 3 franchises have in common? They all three are TV series that are being revamped or remade for your viewing pleasure. I just have to wonder “why?”

When did this trend of remaking TV shows start? Was it RDM’s Battlestar Galactica re-imagining that started this trend? We already have to deal with big screen re-adaptations of classic movies and TV’s from our past…so why must we now deal with small screen remakes of series (some of which are not that old).

Here’s a rundown of the “new” adaptations:

La Femme Nikita: Nikita was a 1990 French action film about a woman who after a lifetime of degenerate drug addiction, is trained to be an assassin and femme fatale sleeper agent in Paris. The movie was released in the U.S. as La Femme and was remade by Warner Bros. in 1993 under the name of Point of No Return starring Bridget Fonda; and had a Canadian/US television spy drama show that ran from 1997-2001 based on it (under the name of La Femme Nikita) starring Peta Wilson.

The remake (announced by the CW) will star Maggie Q as “Nikita” and in this “sequel” series; Maggie Q plays a CIA trained Nikita that replaces the original, who has gone rogue.

Being Human : Being Human is a British television supernatural drama-comedy about a vampire, a werewolf and a ghost sharing a house. Syfy is apparently making this one (which explains a lot) and even though Syfy’s Craig Engler already answered this question…I am still wondering “why remake a show that is still airing, just showing the British version like they did with Dr. Who?

Whatever, at least we can blame this own on the shows creator and not the network (or can we?)

Torchwood: Anyone who has been into the new Dr. Who series knows what Torchwood is. Torchwood is a British science fiction television show that is a spin-off of another famous long running British science fiction show: Dr. Who. Why do we need an American version of Torchwood to begin with. To me it seems a little unnecessary since the original was so great. Like Being Human, original creator Russell T. Davies will be involved and has moved to Los Angeles so that this is can be one of his pet projects. Several sites reporting this are assuming that this is a remake, starting over from scratch, but one source seems to believe that Davies might just pick up the story where it left off at the end of “Children Of Earth,” the five-hour miniseries that ended the series that aired last year.

Who knows?

Maybe it’s me. Maybe it is a sign that I am just getting old. I just do not see the need for any of it. Specially when one of them is still in production in the country of origin.

Meh I say….Meh!