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Well, maybe not so dark.
There are some things related to Star Wars that I do not like. Toxic fanboyism aside, I’m referring to merchandising.
Sure, I’m a sucker for anything Boba Fett/Millennium Falcon/Porg related, but the latest thing that annoys me is Fantasy Flight Games’ X-Wing Miniatures game, which recently went to version 2.0.
As part of this new version, players are expected to buy conversion kits for their existing miniatures to make them ‘2.0 compatible’. The problem is that each of the 3 conversion kits are $50 (retail) and cover a broad range of ships within each faction (Rebel, Imperial, Mercs).
Fair enough, but for the most part, the kits either have too few or too many of ships I own, or are mostly for ships that I don’t own. I hope they come out with individual ship conversion kits, but I’m not holding my breath.
This is the main reason I’m not getting into their Armada (capital ships) game, which I fully expect to to undergo the same 2.0 revamp.
I have a different strategy with their other miniatures offerings, however.
I’ve gotten back into playing Imperial Assault, and collecting the miniatures/expansions for this game, to prevent myself from getting into their other miniatures battle game, Legion.
I feel that skirmish level games are what my friends and I are more interested in playing anyways.
This season’s viewing schedule:
Tuesday:
The Gifted (FOX)
Mid-season replacement shows, time/day TBD:
The Orville
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
I’m more than half a season behind on all the CW DC shows, and frankly I was getting tired of all of them, so they’re totally off my viewing schedule. I may end up binge watching them, or switching to them as my morning exercise show. We’ll see.
None of the new shows interest me. Though I may end up checking a few of them out over the next week or so.
Friday afternoon.
I still didn’t feel 100% this morning, so I stayed home.
I managed to shower at my usual time. The new scale still says I’ve lost about 8 pounds since the stone appeared. Surprisingly I can see and feel a difference in my face and my clothes.
I made breakfast, eggs, which I hadn’t had in about a week. Most of this week was 3am-4am wake up calls to urinate and rehydrate and falling back to sleep until about 7am-8am. Though I did manage to have oatmeal on Wednesday.
I decided to do what I meant to do last weekend, and went out to get a haircut. On reflection this should have been done Thursday afternoon, since I was in the area, dropping off the stone to my doctor’s office.
On the way home I stopped by Best Buy, since there was an email from after 11pm last night, telling me that Spider-Man for PS4 was available. I was asleep at the time.
Once home I popped in the Spider-Man disk, and marveled (heh) at the speed which the game was downloading, minutes instead of HOURS.
I began to watch Iron Fist season 2, which seems better than I was expecting it to be. I then jumped back to the PS4 and entered the download code for the pre-order bonus stuff, including Peter’s Infinity War suit.
I then started to play Spider-Man. It’s fun, but I only got [redacted] before I stopped, though I wasn’t feeling anything wrong with my hands. The PS4 controller just seems more comfortable in my hands than the XBox controller. We’ll see if this changes as I try to play the game further.
I went back to Iron Fist. The first episode was good, and I’m currently in the second. I don’t think I’m going to binge this over the weekend, since there’s other stuff I need to do.
I made the congratulatory frozen pizza that I bought earlier this week, to be eaten post-stone.
I think I’m going to finish this IF episode and either take a nap or do some miniatures painting.
And that elliptical looks like it’s been waiting for me to get back on it.
If you’ve read DC Comics in the past 26 years, you’re aware of the Death of Superman storyline.
It’s a classic. One of my favorite stories to pick up and read over again.
It was one of the few times that I cried over a comic book story.
Yeah, they killed Superman. But you knew he’d be back. It just took over a year for him to return in the comics.
This year, DC/WB Animation came out with an adaptation of this story, and it’s far better than I expected.
When you pair Obi-Wan Kenobi and Peggy Carter together in a movie, along with Mycroft Holmes and a bunch of beloved stuffed animals, you know I’ll come a-runnin’.
Christopher Robin is the first movie in a long time that had me laughing and crying equally, sometimes at the same time.
I couldn’t relate to the title character because let’s face it, I’m still a kid at heart.
But to watch him interact with some of my best friends from childhood (at some point after Kindergarten, we had the whole gang from the 100 Acre Woods) just made me smile with tears of joy, though there were a few moments of real sadness.
The voice acting was great, it was a pleasure to hear Peter Capaldi as Rabbit.
And two songs that I had hoped would make it into the movie, did. One is obvious, about a certain bouncing animal, the other almost made me jump out of my seat from pure surprise and happiness.
I highly recommend seeing it. Go now!
Today is the 50th anniversary of one of the best monster movies ever made.
This was one of the first ones I remember watching on TV, probably on the tiny 13-inch black and white set in my parent’s bedroom.
And probably on the 3:30 Movie on KGO Channel 7 in San Francisco.
Between the weird ‘metal’ aliens (Kilaaks) and the 11 Toho monsters and the Moonlight SY-3 (I still want a toy of that) there’s very little to not like about this one. It’s campy and silly at times, just like a classic Godzilla film should be.
My favorite part is when the Kilaak leader begins to gloat near the end, and then Godzilla smashes into their secret base.
It’s like, “naw, b*tch, we comin’ for you, too!”
This was one of the few classic Godzilla films that I got to watch with Dad, sometime last year. He found it just as silly as I do, but entertaining.
What I found amusing was that the English subtitles did not match the English dubbing for a good portion of the movie.
I watched it over the weekend, not knowing that today was the actual 50th anniversary. I may watch it again tonight, just because.
The last time I built a model of the Starship Enterprise was over 35 years ago, and it was the movie refit Enterprise. She still hangs from the ceiling in my bedroom.
Today I built a snap-together Original Series Enterprise, pre-decorated.
