Valis Delayed, But… If I May…

So the Valis review is delayed on account of health issues and should be up tonight at the latest, but I do have another piece of business that I’d like to share in the meantime.

Dave’s Old NES and Game Boy Reviews from 1999 – one of my earliest online web projects that actually got put on a Geocities site (people know what Geocities is, right?) has returned to the land of the living for the first time since 2000.

Well, that’s a bit of a fib. There was some version of this that was posted on the old Blogger space, but that was an incomplete version and it was soon taken down for a long time until the completed version was found. That happened a couple years ago and was one of the first major projects I’ve ventured to restore after the move to WordPress. It took a while, but now you folks can check out my earliest contributions to the Interwebs… even if it’s reduced to a single page and not an elaborate website… but it’s got screenshots and everything, so it’s not all bad.

To visit the page, click here.

Doctor Who Doesn’t Need To Be Star Wars

Source: https://bleedingcool.com/tv/doctor-who-never-going-to-be-star-wars-is-a-good-thing-mark-gatiss/

Yes, we’re going to continue using the Doctor Boo banner for whenever we need to talk about the current direction of Doctor Boo. If we ever need to touch on vintage Doctor Who, we’ll use something else. But as far as this current flux of Doctor Boo, BOOM! There you go. I ain’t even bothering with Billie Piper. Ncuti deserves some love… and also deserved some better scripts, but that TARDIS has long since flown off… but I digress.

So some time ago, veteran writer of many Doctor Who scripts Mark Gatiss opined his two pence on the failure of the Disney experiment and suggested that maybe Doctor Who doesn’t need to be another Star Wars or Marvel type franchise with its own cinematic universe or other such rubbish. It should just focus on being a good show and embrace its somewhat kitschy nature.

I’ll leave that “kitschy nature” point open for debate, but yes, Doctor Who doesn’t need another Whoniverse or whatever marketing bollocks you want to use. There’s a whole bunch of Big Finish stuff that covers the nuances and how many people actually dig through all those subseries about the companions and side characters that aren’t the Doctor themselves? I don’t need (nor want) to watch eleventy billion side series to enjoy the main show. Just give me one good show with good stories and good characters. And then if that starts to get some wheels, you can think about maybe one (and just ONE) side story here and there.

Whatever happens with Doctor Who next, hopefully it’ll recover from the past few years of the Disney malaise that inflicted it. Go back to being cheap as shit if you have to. As long as the scripts are good.

And fuck off with all the “mavity” bullshit. That was fucking stupid.

WCW Monday Nitro (Feb. 5th, 1996) – A Breeze Monumental Moment

A bit of a historical record breaking moment.

Oh, I’m not talking about Nitro, although I will say that this is probably one of the better episodes I’ve seen in a while as far as general interest goes. But with this post, we have officially surpassed the NWA-TNA run from a couple years ago, when I dropped off after 21 weeks due to the debut of “OH SHIT! IT’S VINCE RUSSO!” and that’s when I decided, “Nope. Not for me.” Fortunately, Russo isn’t anywhere to be found here in 1996, but we are a couple months away from the end of the road when Scott Hall shows up and Nitro expands to two hours. I’m still on the fence as to how to proceed beyond that, but we’ll cross that bridge eventually.

Right now, let’s talk about this Nitro show…

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DTM Archives Collection – Power Rangers Time Force Game Reviews

Twenty-five years ago, the very first episode of Power Rangers Time Force aired on Fox Kids. To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Power Rangers’ ninth season, here’s a compilation of all three console/handheld video game reviews that I’ve done. There’s also a Windows version that’s just a collection of minigames and presumably far too costly to purchase a copy as well as presumably a pain in the ass to try and run on today’s computer systems. PC Master Race my ass.

Review #1277 – Valis I (Genesis)

We return to where it all began… except not really because this is a remake. We’re also breaking from the Valis Collection grips by playing this on the Antstream streaming service, which actually held up quite nicely until the last stage playthrough where it eventually shat the bed. If nothing else, I’m getting some mileage out of this Antstream thing and hopefully, it continues to be a thing for the future, especially as it relates to this hobby of mine.

State Of The Blog – February 2026

How has your 2026 been so far? Mine has been… a thing that happened.

If you’re expecting much in the way of actual content… well, there’re video reviews, Nitro musings, and maybe a couple other things. This past month has (mostly) been dedicated to some minor tweaks and fixed in the background that have been LONG overdue and with most of that (almost) out of the way, I can start on prepping some new material for the future.

Further details after the break, but TLDR version for you folks in a hurry; expect more stuff to come along in March.

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On The 31st Day… The One-Year Anniversary Of My NOT Watching Section 31

It is January 31st of the year 2026… and we’re celebrating the one year anniversary of my first declaration that I have NOT watched the Star Trek: Section 31 streaming video motion picture film starring Academy Award Winner Michelle Yeoh. The fact that I managed a full year without watching that film should be a godsend… or is it god’s end?

Fuck you, RedLetterMedia for playing that clip during your re:view, which remains the only extensive exposure to Section 31 that I’ve had up to this point… and yes, I continue to not watch the movie. I suspect that sooner or later, the disk will show up on my doorstep and I’ll have to give it a watch.

Not because it’s my duty or anything, fuck no.

But rather I need to watch this thing once before I can use the disc as a drink coaster… maybe it’ll work out better than Fighting Force 2 did all those years ago.