Category: Media

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Supergirl Finale

S2 E22: “Nevertheless, She Persisted.”

This entire season was head and shoulders better than the 1st season.  There was the introduction of so many great characters, including the Man of Steel himself, Kara’s cousin Kal-El a.k.a. Superman/Clark Kent.  And Mon-El, who grew on me as the season went on.  Maggie Sawyer.  Lena Luthor.

This finale was great, with a real roller coaster of emotions for a DC fanboy like myself.  Winn’s reaction to Superman recognizing him, the fight between the Kryptonians, Cat Grant doing Cat Grant things, all of it was fun to watch.  It’s still a toss up on who is more my spirit animal in these CW DCU shows, Cisco or Winn.

They appear to be setting up something that I’ve been hoping to see, involving the future of the DC Universe.  Meanwhile, they’re setting up something more recent from the comics as well.

I’m looking forward to next season already.

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“Cestus III has been destroyed.”

I need to stay off eBay.

I just found and bought this:

It’s the prize pack for the “Arena” Organized Play event for Star Trek Attack Wing.

So that covers 3 of my all time favorite episodes.  Yikes.

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“Matt! We’re stronger with you than without you!”

So I check online to see if there’s a Doomsday Machine for Star Trek Attack Wing.

Apparently there was an Organized Play event featuring the Doomsday Machine last year.

The Planet Killer token
I’m gonna ram this thing right down it’s throat!

The prize was the planet killer token and cards/tokens for Commodore Decker and the Constellation, so you can recreate the episode or scenario.

And, thanks to eBay, the prize is on it’s way to me.  Yay!

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iPod Failure?

I’ve been fiddling with my iPod for the past few hours.  It doesn’t seem to want to respond to a proper sync with iTunes, so I deleted all the music and am currently reloading them.

One problem was that it said that it was 4GB over limit, even though I didn’t add anything.  On the contrary, I deleted a few playlists, that were still listed on the device after a couple of ‘successful’ syncs, but the playlist I wanted to add was not found in the list.

I even went in and marked a few apps for uninstall, and it still said I was over capacity.

Looks like it’s syncing now.  Arrgh.  I hope it’s not dying.

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Randomness 5.16.2017

Thoughts after last night’s Supergirl episode:

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

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Watched 10 minutes of Logan Noir, it looks great.

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Mind control?  Disguised Daxamite? #supergirlthoughts

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Is the current popularity of Star Wars sapping away my interest in Star Trek?  Or is it the debacle that is Star Trek Discovery?

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How do you like your eggs?

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Sunday Recap

Washed car.

Visited Mom at cemetery.

Breakfast at McDonalds.

Target run.

Made Hawaiian BBQ pineapple chicken in instant pot.

Watched Giants and Warriors games.

Assembled first Shadow War Armaggedon kill team.

Currently reading digital comics.

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Wargames

At lunch yesterday Nelson mentioned that his son had asked if he’d been shown Wargames, starring Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy.

Nels said that he had, many years ago, but at the time his son found it slow and asked to watch something else.

I thought about it afterwards, and it had been a while since I had seen it.

I turned on the TV this morning, and guess what was on BBC America?

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Free Comic Book Day 2017

Getting better at scheduling this out.

I picked up my nephew at a little after 10am.  We got to the comic shop about 10-15 minutes before they opened.  We had to park on the other side of the 24 Hour Fitness building and walk a bit to the comic shop.

There was a short line that went pretty quick after the shop opened at 11am.  We each grabbed our allotted 3 comics, got rung up at a register, and left.

By the time we got to the mall/theatre, it was about time to grab some food and go to our seats.  They ran out of medium sized ICEE cups and didn’t have pretzel bites, so I settled for a large ICEE and a hot dog.  Joseph got an ICEE and popcorn.

There were no loud talkers, and only some seat confusion due to not being able to see the seat numbers once the lights go down.

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 holds up on second viewing.

After the movie I checked my phone and saw a voicemail message from Gator Games, which I checked to confirm that my copy of the Shadow War Armageddon rule book was available for pickup.

After picking up some sundries from Target we quickly drove down to the game store and I got my rule book, while Joseph asked the workers there about Yu-Gi-Oh cards.

We made one last stop at the Brisbane library, who also participate in Free Comic Book Day, and they have no limits on the comics one can take.  I don’t know why we just don’t go there initially…

I dropped off Joseph, then refueled my car and myself (gas and McDonalds, respectively) and went home, to find too many choices on TV (Captain America movies, Star Wars marathon, NBA playoffs).

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I am Star-Lord

One of the main reasons I call the Guardians of the Galaxy films my favorite Marvel films is because I relate more to the main character in these films than any other Marvel film.

I had a very similar experience in a hospital like the beginning of the first film.

He says and does things in both films that I would do in the same given situations.

His taste in music is similar to mine, though I lean more toward the ’80s.

But most of all?

I have family, and friends who are like family, that believe in me and have my back.  And I have theirs.

I do have that first name in common with 3 of the main Marvel movie actors, though.  So that’s cool.