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Roman Reigns (do I get extra clicks?), Vince Russo (nobody asked, bro), and Duke controllers… also a couple quick words on the passing of Walter Koenig and Sir Patrick Stewart.
Was due for a couple days, but I forgot the upload, so you’re getting it now.
Been prepping stuff for storage elsewhere and I figured… why not? So here’s a collection of VHS tapes that I still have laying around… mostly wrestling tapes, but there’s other stuff here too. Maybe I’ll do more of these…
Apparently something important happened last night in America. What did I miss? Anyway, on to important matters…
I made a couple purchases off AliExpress that I thought would make for a couple fun Gimmick Table videos in short order, but also threw together a quick video denoting a recent Amazon purchase that I didn’t need to make. This video is the next one after the third and final Grab Bag, which also went in a different direction. Once I’ve got a feel for what the final video schedule for the month looks like, I’ll repost the State Of The Blog this weekend and likewise link it to the main sidebar.
With a clear focus ahead with regards to how we’ll move forwards in terms of video fodder, I can hopefully get some shit done in time to start working on material for next year, which includes a new review on New Year’s Day… which is the first in a long while and also a timely one of sorts.
A friend of mine also made me aware of a couple things that occurred in wrestling programming that they thought I should comment on for the sake of blog fodder. Things that, mind you, I already knew about because I’m subscribed to a couple wrestling Youtube channels that made light of these things in the first place, but I thought, “Eh, why not?” Sadly, when it came down to gathering thoughts, I was mostly… meh. One is a silly spot that people have differing opinions on and I’m like “whatever.” And of course, verbal spats over wrestling personalities of sorts on Twitter interest me about as much as… well… listening to these personalities in the first place discuss things that I have no interest in listening to in the first place.
As far as the so-called John Cena Classic is concerned… anyway, last week…
So… yeah, quick thoughts out of nowhere… enjoy your Wednesday, everyone.
Ooh, I almost forgot. First collection video in who knows how long goes up today… and it’s me cataloguing old VHS tapes to move to storage. Yay? I’m hoping to do one of these per week… maybe two if you’re lucky… but more than likely, I’m making you suffer through old reviews being republished for public consumption. What fun.
Another year, another Bound For Glory PPV… and this one feels a bit familiar, a bit dejavu… honestly, it’s the same feeling I’ve got with a certain stretch of Wrestlemanias, but this is to a different degree. It’s not so much dejavu in terms of the same people involved, but rather… I don’t know. For a show that’s supposed to be the big tentpole, the crown jewel (no pun intended) of the TNA Impact Wrestling empire, you would think more pomp and circumstance would be added to the mix.
Granted, I understand there are budget reasons. Less inclined to spend on frivolous things, but even the best Bound For Glory shows felt like a genuine can’t miss event and I never got that feeling with these last couple entries. Granted, they’re good shows, but they feel more like good TNA B-shows, not good Bound For Glory shows.
That said, my notes are fairly bare for this show.
There’s no reason needed to enjoy a decent Star Wars video game… except to avoid the mediocre ones.
His weakness is Gordon Ramsay Man’s FUCKING RAW Cannon.
On the other hand, a hamburger might have an easier time killing Protoman that he would his brother in blue.
Another week, another grab bag special…
In today’s (previously recorded) video presentation, we play the first 75 stages of Castlevania on NES with black magic and hackery. This is not a “seamless” run for reasons that will be apparent when one watches the video.
It is the 31st of October in the year of our lord 2026… and it’s the time-honoured tradition of my declaration of not having watched the Section 31 streaming motion picture starring Academy Award winner Michelle Yeoh.
And the tradition continues.
And really, on a week that saw the Star Trek family lose two of its esteemed members (Walter Koenig earlier this week and this past Thursday with the news of Sir Patrick Stewart’s passing – tribute eventually forthcoming), a little levity is what is needed here.
Just so we’re clear, I do have a banner ready and uploaded in the event that I do end up watching this thing… but I haven’t yet… despite the fact that I’ve had a month’s subscription to the Paramount+ service. I just ended up watching Strange New Worlds, old Star Trek, and that Golden Axe show that I didn’t know I wanted… and the reason that I didn’t know I wanted this is because I DIDN’T want this. I never really asked for it. Never really thought about it.
But now that I’ve seen it… I don’t particularly care for it. It’s got that early Lower Decks stench that initially turned me off on that series, but only got better when the characters became marginally more likeable and not completely one-note. I don’t know how you do a Golden Axe cartoon… honestly, I don’t know WHY you’d do a Golden Axe cartoon… but doing the cheap flash animation with meta jokes abound is probably not how I’d figure such a thing would go. I’m not expecting anything along the same caliber of Netflix’s Castlevania show, but this is far beneath that bar.
Seriously, I thought that BIG SWINGS was the other guy’s schtick.
Oh well… that was my brief blurb on Golden Axe’s cartoon debut, which I’ve included here in an effort to make this recurring Not Watching Section 31 bit more meaningful. Did it work? Probably not… but it’s the thought that counts… somewhat.
The last of our Arcade’s Revenge videos… and a sudden reminder of something that should have been evident.
And the 453 day streak continues… fuck you, crashing out in the middle of crunch time.
