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comics chat ! bagguy and david !

2016-06-13T19:48:00.000+01:00

dadvid build an SG1 super soldier

2016-04-08T01:02:00.000+01:00

Cregsgirthytoys Having A Rake At Combiner Wars Legends Rodimus

2016-02-04T12:09:00.000+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNdSKJNmt88

cregsgirthytoys having a rake at legion class optimus prime 2014

2016-01-31T13:59:00.000+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozIh8eAN55k

Cregsgirthytoys Having A Rake at Bumblebee Legion Class 2014

2016-01-29T16:25:00.000+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsfnhMhk0-M

Cregsgirthytoys Haveing A Rake At Transformers 2010 legends Starscream

2016-01-28T11:00:00.000+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtOMc8jVnkw

Cregsgirthytoys Haveing A Rake At Combiner Wars Legends Powerglide

2016-01-21T13:13:00.000+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoFyVJbT5Ug

combiner wars legend warpath

2016-01-14T13:13:00.000+00:00

cregsgirthytoys having a rake at cyberverse legion Windrazor

2016-01-07T11:59:00.000+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IA736Boq2IY

Cregsgirthytoys Having A Rake At Cyberverse Legion blight

2016-01-07T01:21:00.000+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJe8FuU-9ws

Cregsgirthytoys Having A Rake At Cyberverse Legion Hun-Gurrr

2016-01-05T22:13:00.000+00:00

https://youtu.be/sXR4rOmD77E

re run of fist vid ! unboxing autobot blaster !

2015-12-28T20:38:00.000+00:00

superbagguy unboxies 2014 legion grimlock !

2015-12-23T20:02:00.000+00:00

Have you seen hal jordans hair recently ?

2015-08-16T18:15:00.000+01:00

sweet lord

Look I know nobody cares about green lantern any more but for us madmen incapable of dropping the book its been one hell of a ruff ride. Which is a shame cause it started ok. Ish . For me anyway . Like it was always going to be difficult coming off of big goffs jons run but damn son. Shits been grim. The writers basically set about destroying everything fun about about gl. starting with the base concept of silly syfy space cops cutting about with power bling. There was a whole arc about how using power rings was draining the light reservoir. Because silly fun has to have a cost? Its one of my most hated tropes in fiction . Limiting the use of your gimmicks to seem more mature. Like when warp speed was tarring holes in the universe back in the next gen. Did anything ever come of that ? I hope not. A trip to memory alpha may be needed.

Also all the blue lanterns died . Yes . Even that elephant guy. Cry.

I feel the rest of the cores are down too buy I honestly couldn't recall from memory what there up to. I think the red lanterns became all about moustaches for a bit.

Oh yeah and every green lantern but hal is dead. Even mogo . Again . Hal seemingly killed kiolowog accidentally himself.

Sigh. Well comics are comics and everything will be fine eventually. Everything always snaps back to the status quo or there about's eventually. That said green lantern is the poster boy book for my theory of DCs stratagem of letting everything go to shit after a big writers run. Cause its always going to be a tuff act to follow right ? So why not lean into that. Just ruin everything that made fans love that property before bringing in a new team and righting the ship. I feel bad about saying that. There has been parts of the current run that Iv quite liked. Its just soo ruff to see gl in this state. Under goff it somehow became the red ranger franchise of DC . For a bit . Shaping events like blackest night. Crazy days indeed. The constant death and rebirth of the green lantern corps is a definite thing . Lurching between universe ending events was what it was all about for sure. Its probably a symptom of my compressed memory but to see it dead AGAIN feels too soon. Like it never felt like the corps had time to breath and be space cops. And not a space army. Witch is the dumbest and most angering thing. Stop referring to the gls as an army in your not at all down with the yoof DC YOU marketing DC . Is dumb.

Anyway. Hal jordan is not captain kirk currently. He's a off brand star lord cutting about in a trench coat in a space ship with a passive aggressive A.I not even slinging the ring but instead packing a power glove. Its something new and different at least ? Kinda ? Its super neo 90s anti hero comic in design. Its kinda scary that creators are taking stuff from 90s comics in a serious way . Though I guess its only fair since all of that silver age plundering. Maybe we'll get guy gardener producing guns from his flesh at some point again . Dreams.

Anyway. Have you seen hal jordans hair recently ? Sure it was anti hero long. A little wintery soulgury if you as me. But last issue it went full hair metal ! Id be impressed if I wasn't soo sicked by how far gl has fallen. This issue it went totely out of control ! Its like that kind of weird not actually a mullet but its definitely the kind of hair cut that would hang out with mullets. Our would at least by a mullet a drink if it saw one down and out in a bar somewhere. Its far from the worst thing to come out of this green lantern run we haven't even talked about that whole stretch of time when hal was actively space hitler but I feel its emblematic of the problem of where the books at and how DC feels about it.

floooooowing !

Be better green lantern. Please ? For the old days ?

2014 one year anniversary post ! Baron Weirwulf's Haunted Library no.54

2015-01-11T21:48:00.000+00:00

Oft what a year of content loikes. Outstanding. Breathtaking even. Pish. But we're back in the game !

Lets have a wee talk about comic. Not because iv been staggeringly ill and have nothing left to do but because comics are pretty damn neat and need a good talking about.

SLOSH SLOSH CREEEK

Baron Weirwulf's HAUNTED Library ! What a title ! Not only this landowning comic enthusiast a wear wolf his lie berry is also haunted for some reason !

Hella tree house of horror three spooky scary story's horror anthology e em up ! Linked / narrated by this weirdly un-legit ghost lady

Story number ones like a standard evil hitch-hiker story but he's such a cool dude. Looks to be a loop of horror with the pro tags doomed to repete the mistakes of the spooky spectre but for what ever reason the story has a super happy ending ware the hitch-hiker ghost saves the day ! Yaaay ! Well . He's still a ghost. And his family's dead. And the pro tags houses and probably all there posetions have burnt down . In the grim ass 70s. Still there alive tho ! Niffty.

Story twos about the devil or some such. Salem witch trails things going on. Its pretty weakly grim I feel . There's this cursed girl who is cursed and this means she's evil ? But then everyone's evil and then satans about looking a touch like big Dracula. Prolly the weakest of the 3 tales of terror but that sudden devil just rocking up was fairly neat.

Then there's like one page splash of aliens being a things. Apparently there a thing.. far more disco than you'd expect too.

Story number three is the cover story of evil triangular toy clown who like a lot of people I know dosent actual like being outside in the rain . Good on him for working those mittens on the door handle. That was prolly mad locked given he's a evil as shit possessed living doll nightmare . That door sure as hell locked. Concealed lock pick on the spooky mitten ? I assume so. Pretty niffty to the point scary comic story. Some kids cant sleep cause he thinks monsters are in his room . And well. Yup they are. Not to worry though there mad shite and dad soon beats it doon with a bat . Easily defeated evil ! My favourite kind !

Id say have a rake !

Oh ayes . And there's some horrible racist add on the back cover. BOOO ! You gotta take a long hard look at your self 1970s. Ur a mess !

Comic book word talk. The first. January. 2014. part 1 of 1.

2014-01-06T00:45:00.001+00:00

Backs.

Comic book quickies then ? Ayes ? Cools.

I'm pretty sure these comics came out this week. But you know. Time. That whole thing. Not really sure how it works any more at the best of times. Then big x-mass hit and I have no idea. Like its Sunday as I sit here and jab my hand sausages on the keyboard to type this outs but it may as well be Tuesday or some shit for all it feels like.

So ayes. Comics. Cracking stuff. Lotta stuff going on in them. I think. Probably. Its been awhile since I did a proper run down of a weeks comics. Stuffs apparently changed man. I was operating under the impression marvel were the hated mad men . Running about naked in some field somewhere killing off beloved cultural icons and replacing them with mad scientists. But of course. I was wrongly wrongers on the most basic of basic fields. Fields of. Like. Reference . Not sure what I'm trying to say any more. Basically folk hate DC and not marvel. Well people prolly hate both. But people are hella hateful hipster fucks. So that's a given. I can kinda sorta see what folk are saying about DC . I can. They seem to have weird relations with there creative teams. And theres been a slew of cancellations. Then there's the out right dickish bat woman affair. Don't care though. Genuinely don't. Iv become something of a DC fan boy over the past few years. Not sure how or why. Probably just find there books more entertaining. Like marvels entertaining ayes. But in that special lunatic way we discussed before.

Comics !

The flash #26

low five ?

written by christos n. gage art by neil googe

Mmm. Good comic. Hella gid comic. Its got all this crazy amazing goodness all up in it. Goodness that I'm trying to explain here. The pages. They had this thing in them. Goodness ! Ill stop now. Well. No. ill still be talking what with this being the first entry. Barry. Allan. Full. Stops. Barry allan is a bloody machine of good times. He turns up. Dose SOMETHING. Anything. normally running but not always. And then things just tend to work out well. He's just the single most solid guy in comics. As iv very likely harped on about here before. Of course I have. There's not been a bad issues of the flash since the reboot. That could well change though. That cracking first run came to an end last month ish. So I had my reservations about this isssue. Those reservations were hella fucked up during the reading process thankfully. Because flash #26 is Barry Allen is the solidest guy ever- the issue. It helps that its just stand alone filler. This like evil pilot woman is aww going about being a thief and a killer and such. But like as a SKY PIRATE. Ayes. Perfect. Job done. Ima going hame. When I got hame I read on. And my word. The whole issue is basically look what the flash can do. Like aye he's super fast yeah. But he's also you know. Basically a god. With the most broken power set in the history of. Of. Of. Em. History ! Barrys cutting about running on CLOUDS. Straight up. Hella just running on clouds. To catch a plane. There's even a wee flash fact box there. Explaining that yes. Barry is basically god. Well worth a read. Not a jumping on on point what with it being stop gap filler so its more a stand alone treat for the senses. Sense ? Vision ? Senses I guess if you also make your own sound effects to go along with the comics. Which I of course. Totally do.

swim in the sky ! fight dah powah !!

aquaman #26

written by jeff parker art by paul pelletier and netho diaz

Ahh duuno. It was like aquaman. Its a comic. It has pages and panels and coulers and like lines and guff. I ain't in no frame of mind to judge the quaintly of anything right now. I'm still crazy buzzen from Dat flash issue. Like damn sons. Its kinda the prefect comic. That iv read. This month. Its a shame likes. Id totally put it high on my list of the best comics of 2014. but I totes wont remember it loikes in December and of course I wont make a best of list. I don't have that amount of dedication or effort in me. Don't be ridicules. Oh ayes. Aquaman. Big aquaman. Cool guy. Kinda gets hella fucked over as we well know. By popular culture and that. I likes him though. He's like. Got a trident. Annnnnnnnnnnnd. Hes a cool guy. Ayes. This issue big Arthur curry fight like a giant squid /kraken /cuthulu/ kanju beasty. Which. Aye. Of course he dose. Its an aquaman comic. Not much to report really. It was pretty dullish. Again. Like not really bigging up aquaman here as I prolly should. Its hard. Iv always said they should have taken the opportunity of the reboot to make the new 52 aquaman basically the same as he is in the brave and the bold cartoon. Big and brash life of the party legend of human being fish man thing. But naws. They went the acknowledging him as a joke route. Which . Ayes. Did work out pretty well for a while there. Mainly what with it being a goff johns book. But the goff lads hella left nows. It looks to be pretty stormy WATERS ahead for the new creative team. Yes. I'm very proud of the thing I just said. What of it.

patty cake ? is that what that hand game thing is called ?

superman unchained #5

written by scott snyder art by jim lee

Not sure if iv reported this here on the auld blog. If I have I'm sorry for repetition . I am truly sorry if there's repetition here. On the auld blog. But we have to talk about it. See lex luthor. The arch Nemesis of the man of steal. Lex lets cut about in green in purple power armour luthor. Lex luthors SUPER into papercraft. Like big lex was using papercraft things to explain shit to super man in issue one or two . Back then it was only like a page or mibby two of lex with like a pop up book style thing that he had obviously made during his time in prison. It was weird then. But like only kinda. It wasn't a big deal then. Like it wasn't charter defining. Then that last issue happened. And yeah. Lex luthor is SUPER into paper craft now. Like has these wee bone tools specially for it SUPER into it. Like his papercraft has articulation SUPER into it. Its kinda the most magical thing. I don't even want lex to be a villain now. I want his entire deal to be paper craft. I want him to just be cutting about the dc world. Being the go to papercraft guy. Teaching classes. training noobs. Sadly as aww fuck. Lex Luther the paper craft king isn't in this issue at all. Aww we get are plot points from the first transformers film/ overtones of the over arching plan of the reapers from mass effect. And superman being superman. Which ayes. I do hella appreciate that. Kinda just wanted an ish of lex carefully folding up his own set of justice league papercaft dolls. Always next ishh. Always have to hauld on the the hope.

I here comic sans upsets folk. Dont particularly get it myself.

randomers #3

2013-10-08T08:45:00.002+01:00

glam as fuck.

ultimate comics x-men issue 23

written by brian wood art by carlo barberi

I have no real experience with the mutants and x-men of the ultimate universe. Lets judge them anyway ! I say no real experience. Like I read the very first arc that mark miller wrote. Though that was like over a decade ago now. Though I have read hella ultimate spider-man with kitty pyde in it. Yes I didn't actually learn all that much about ultimate mutant kind from that. But I like to think it counts for something. That said. I also have no actual clue to what's going on in ultimate marvel theses days. The only ultimate book I keep up with is spider-man and that's fairly isolated from the bigger verse. I gather some sort of civil war type dealy happened in America. Not sure how the mutants fit in likes. Now yes I totally just could go look all this up on wiki but randomers is about just blasting threw some comics and seeing how they stand on there own merits. Writing for the trade be dammed.

So you might have gathered from the cover this a storm centric issue. Fair play likes. Don't think iv ever read a solo storm comic in my life. Well. I say solo. Big colossus is cutting about it for the first wee bit. Seems he killed a dude in cold blood. Seams like a dickish move. But the comic dosent give much explanation or context to it so I wont judge him for it. He also seems to be genuinely affected by the murder or at the very least is acting like he's affected by it. So points there. Its a tricky business this judging a charater by a single issue. But storm here seems kind of like a bit of a bad character. Well. To me at least. She seams fairly week willed. I gusse she's still only a teenager ? That really shouldn't be an excuse at this point in the game. At the very least. Its a shock to compare this storm to the proper universes storm. The proper universes yin is kind of your standard strong female character. And fair play to her. Something of a weather god that she is. In this issue ultimate storm just sort of go's with the flow of things. Which. Would be fine. But like it seems like her opinions change basically every other page. Probably not the best thing to compare the two versions at this point but it was something that seemed rather shonky to me.

So it would seam the American government are rounding up mutants and putting them in camps for the crime of being a mutant. Good. Heartless bastard I knows. But mutants are hella dangerous. And I have to Imagen they must have done something to cause this crackdown. And no. I wont give them the benefit of the doubt. Mutants all tend to be utter dicks. Proper universe or not. And yes this is all commentary on terrorism and immigration and Americas reaction to it. That's fine. Or rather that would be fine if mutants didn't rock the deadly combo of being super powered AND being utter dicks. Like. At some point we're going to have to stop calling them mutants and just start calling then villains. Now. Ill give them points. The mutants might not have killed anyone in this particular issue. Maybe if those sentinels were piloted by humans. Maybe. But ill be generous and just Imagen they were only robbits. Humans don't come off any better here. Though that might just have something to do with them being small towner Americans being depicted in media. There some what hickish. And they do sorta turn storm in to the authority's.

We get a page or two of a mutant cure being rolled out. Cools ? Like normally I'm against anything that kills the magic of a given setting. Like in late series star trek the next generation when we learned warp travel was damaging the fabric of the universe. Just. Naw. Pal. Just like. Dinny go near that shite. The mutant cure idea is kind of like that for me. Though at the same time mutants are genuinely dangerous. There just punk ass kids given grate power with no responsibility and on top of that a lot of mutations are hella deformity's or disability's. Like there's a guy in the background here who's like a 1950s B movie blob monster. That cant be fun. Like not all mutants can be as lucky as the mostly glam as fuck x-men. Though I will relent here and say the very idea of a cure for mutants is controversial because of all the persecuted minority's mutants represent in that its not so much a cure for having super powers in that its a cure for who your and what you represent. So in the end Its a pretty good bad idea.

So once again it might not sound like I enjoyed this wee comic. I totes did likes. It was a fast wee read. Readable almost And I bloody loved the the art. A cracking flash back to early 2000s anime inspired art. Magical likes. Weirdly I get the feeling that particular art style still continues to this day in certain corners of x men comics. Cool likes. I didn't know I missed it but this comic made me relies I did. Well played comic. Well played.

Randomers #2

2013-10-07T12:18:00.000+01:00

I.CAN.FLY!

prelude to infinity new avengers 008

written by jonathan hickman art by mike deodato

I don't think I like infinity. I knows. I'm a massive hypocrite. The event has all the things I love. Space heroes cutting about being epic fighting a war to save the universe. And it has big captain America pointing at fools whilst being humanity's representative red ranger. I SHOULD find it magical. But I don't. Shockingly. And there's a few reasons for that. Mainly. I don't think I care any more. About marvel events that is. Well that's unfair. I do still care about marvel continuity. Just not enough to read ALL the books needed to keep up with it. Weirdly since the new 52 iv become much more of a dc man. Marvel since then have went a tad mad. Which I totally respect them for. Only MARVEL would kill off peter parker in the year a new spider-man film came out. Like. There business plan seems to be to troll as many folk as possible. A respectable goal. It just translates into me buying less of there comics for some reason.

Another key ingredient in my not likening infintyness wid be my not buying Hickman's avengers. I just didn't want to read them. Like I gave his issue one a chance. Didny like it. I liked that he let the movie avenger team get curb stomped by some punk ass new villain. But at the same time he let the movie team get curb stomped by some punk as new villain. Aye fair play hawk eye and black widow can get to fuck but that team contained the big guns loikes. Big cap. Big thor. Big hulk. They just dropped like punks. I'm well aware it was just set up for the arc and it lead to potential overwhelming epicness on everyone's part. I just didny want to read it. Mibby I was burnt out by bendis avengers. Fuck it. Of course I was burnt out on bendis avengers. Something just didn't sit right with me with Hickman on the book. It was an incredible mistake on my part as I get the feeling his run is needed to understand any amount of infinity.

So there I am. Reading infinity. Understanding every fourth panel or so. Tie ins are necessary it would seem. Normal pish with big events I knows. But more so with infinity in my opinion. like age of ultron was a perfectly fine read without tie ins. It was shite. But at least I could understand it. So I gave this prelude towwdle a try. How to describe it. Stuff happened I guse. I litrully couldn't care about any of it. I really need an answerer to this. Who actually likes the inhumans? Seriously. Is there anybody out there that's happy to see them whenever they pop up. I'm guessing one person. That being Hickman himself. I tolerated the inhuman's presence in his last fantastic 4 run. Because them being the fantastic 4s pals and all that. Though there bits were definitely the low points of that run. Marvels pushing them as this big deal though. I think there actually getting a book. Fuck everything to do with that and to with them and there Shakespeare in space ass pish.

I see wakandas going to war with Atlantis. Good ? Namor did like kill wakanda dead during a vs x. so seeing a little bit of reprisal for that is cool. I'm rooting for Atlantis though. Like I genuinely hate dc Atlantis but I'm fairly apathetic to the marvel yin. Plus big skeevey namor earns them hella points. And of course I hate everything to do with the black panther and his mary sue nation. Every time I have to read something about wakanda I'm filled with such mindless hate. Come on wakanda. Why even are you a thing. My mind cant understand it. Ayes I get that its a future tech African nation. Fair play. But why dose anyone care ! Here black panthers aww namor pal. I let my nation invade your nation. Why ? For reasons ! Shity ones !

Doc strange is completely off his shit. Because of the house visitor he gets at the end of this issue. This angers me.

Reid Richards. The greatest evil humanity as ever know is telecommuting with his illuminaty buddy Tony stark. Its aww fine banter. bringing together Tony returning from his space adventures. I mean Tony only got back in this months issue of iron man but its fine. I buy the continuity hiccups. Its really not that big a deal in the grand sachem of things. Reid's telecommuting though. Like. Yes I understand he's the worst human ever and all but why dosent he pop into the future foundation and tell them that he and the F4 are fine. Ayes the FF are basically a joke book but they still think the F4 are missing and probably dead if mad auld johnny storm is to be believed. For fuck sake Reid. Get it together man.

Well that's really all there is to the issue. It sums up were all the “ new” avengers are at . What's going on in there lives. What there motivations are. What they were doing when thanos ranger team rocked up to the planet. As iv said. Most of them were being utter bastards at the time. A fairly quick read that left me surprisingly angry and still as confused about infinity as I was before.

Randomers #1

2013-10-04T11:51:00.000+01:00

Righto. I feels like trying something different for a bit. Iv got this giant ass stack of comics iv picked up from car boots over the years and I'm never going to read them if I don't also somehow funnel them into mad hat out put. So here we are. Ill see if can blast threw them. Thought we mad hats do have an odd habit of only doing one part of something but promising the world. Almost none of them are connected to each other and there mostly books for characters I dinny ken any thing about. Were going in blind !

hope runs from youngblood's disease sufferers

Cable and x force 009

written by frank tieri art by salvador larroca

Cable and x force. More like uncanny avengers. Amaright ? The entirety of this comic is just the uncanny avengers team going to look for hope. Cables daughter not the awesome blue light of green lantern fame. It was ok. I think. As a stand alone issue that I went completely blind into it worked fairly well. Like id probs be pretty pissed if I was buying this monthly and this was all there was to the issue. Though saying that marvel has been hella cranking books out of late. So maybe the wound dosent cut that deep.

So the uncanny avengers are bobbing along looking about for hope. Having the banter. There cool dudes those uncanny avengers. I can totally see why folk could hate them though. Like ayes they can come off as cunts in there own book. Bit shites gotten epicly space Gothic real in there book. So I at least let it slide over there. Here not so much. Like. The main problem with the team is the mutants on it. Because as we've hopefully discussed before. Most mutants and almost all x men are utter bastards. To a man. Its this incredibly marvely thing. That they continue to push mutants as this feared and hated minority whilst simultaneously making mutants act like complete dicks to everyone and every thing in existence.

Hope herself is a bit of a bam here too. Mind controlling what I assume from context to be her foster parents into driving her about. Though to be fair. My only exposure to hope was from a vs x and from messiah complex if that was indeed her as a baby. I don't know. X men continuity. Fuck it. So her actions in this issue could be incredibly in character for her. Its just once again mutant kind dosent come off looking well. So hopes powers are to absorb other powers ? Cools. Kinda makes rouge a bit redundant when hope dosent even have to physically touch a dude to steal his powers. But again x men continuity. Fucked if I know what rouges current or actual deal is. Points to the comic though as hope absorbs the powers of purple girl. Didny ken there was a purple girl. Nice bit of z list usage there.

Oddly captain America is shown in a bad light. Though its just a fillery continuation of his beef with havok. Like. Ayes havok is the leader of the uncanny avengers. Fucked if I know why. Well. Political reasons. To show mutant and man working together and to piss off scott summers. Its just a bit dumb likes. Aye fair play you dinny need cap to lead ALL the avengers teams. But dinny just have him on the roster as an underling to add credibility to your pr stunt. Cause it leads to pish like this. Cap is the living legend leader of men. There's no getting around that. Though. I will say. Havok dose rock a mean gendo ikari turtle neck jacket look back in the main uncanny book. So. Points there.

Its really more of a banter based issue than a fight em up. But there's a little bit of action here and there. Its fairly stupid though. Hope makes cap and havok fight with purple girls powers as you'd expect. Its fairly meh. We didn't learn anything from it we didn't already know. Hopes finisher is using masterminds powers to summon this red skull galactus thing. Its cool ? Mibby ? Its an illusion that cap just one shots like a proper pro. Though it did serve as a reminder for me that the red skull is STILL out there running about with professor X's brain in his head. I mean. Nobody has gotten on this. Nobody has put a stop to the RED SKULL running about the world as one of the most powerful psychics ever. You'd think that be caps singular driving goal right now. But no. he's cutting about on a mutant publicity team checking up on this teenage girl. Because her dad is apparently at the top of the worlds most wanted list. Yeah. Scott summers is out there right now leading a mutant revolution. And folk are worried about what the human fridge cable is up to. ALSO THE RED SKULL IS STILL OUT THERE WITH PROF X'S BRAIN.

So yeah. I liked this issue ! Not enough to actively seek out cable and x force. God no. but I didn't hate what I read and there were cheeky wee bits of choice banter strewn about. Early on there's a gid bit from havok about x men and there constantly changing loyalty's that I had a good chuckle at. Mutants and especially x men being the worst humans to ever live and all that.

Bag guys adventures in villains month #1

2013-09-08T23:17:00.000+01:00

Villains month. Ayes. So it did seem quite shite when the news first broke way back when. Though to be fair. Almost all news tends to be met with at least a somewhat negative response. Comics are just like that. Change in my opinion is the work of the devil. Or at least another almost as important daemon like creature. I remember when I was just a lad the adds for avengers vs x-men sent our own dovay davey into an unstoppable rage. Millions died. So basically. A lot of decisions that are made in comics tend to sound amazingly shite when you first here them.

Villains month sounded AMAZINGLY shite. Like. Basically everything about it. The the villain take over. The point one nature of the books. The fact that a fair chunk of them aren't by the same creative teams. The SHEER amount of books. And the 3D covers. That I feel was a gimmick to far for a lot of folk. They REEK of the 90s. Not a bad thing in my book. But definitely in a lot of other comic buyers. I'm forever hearing rumblings of another comic book crash. A negative effect of the 90s. So I can understand why most folk widny want to be reminded of that particular decade by theses shiny covers. Those folk are bastards. Just remember the endless summer !

So ayes. Wasny existed for villains month. I was still gonna get it of course. Just wasny at all hyped for it. But then that last justice league issue happened. The end of trinity war happened. And I was BACK IN THE GAME. Trinity war was a lot of faffing about. It has to be said. There was a lot of running about and wonder woman being utterly horrible. That will be my abiding memory of the mini non event thing. That and the sheer crazy holly shit factor of the last issue. It was a proper goff johns last issue of an event. Meaning stuff ACTULLY happened.

I doubt its any kind of spoiler at this point. But the actual contents of Pandoras box was a portal to another world which the crime syndicate rocked threw. That's pretty neat loikes. Like the implication for magic in the dc verse are kinda fucked considering the box was only supertech. But hey ho. We got some solid as all fuck villains out of it. Now this is my first time dealing with the crime syndicate in actual comics. Iv seen them in the brave and the bold cartoon and I know of them from general comics lore though I'm assuming thieve been updated for cutting about the new 52 verse. Now. It dosent really matter who they are. I just think its cool there actually something. A real threat that has to be dealt with in the present. In the beginning I just assumed villains month was going to be mostly origin story's and dat. Though with with forever evil as the first proper event of the new 52 I should have known better.

So I got four dc books this week. All of varying quality and shininess. Lets take a quick gander !

First up is joker #1. its odd. Appropriately so ayes. But iv not really decided if its the good kind of odd or the bad kind of odd. Its not at all what I thought it was going to be. Though I'm not actually sure what I thought it would be. Its surprisingly weird yes. But a book being odd and strange in no way makes it a good comic. The main chunk of the story is the joker cutting about with his face on raising his son. who is a ape he kidnapped. Ayes. Now it is a joker story so there is a hell of a lot of room for joker to a an unreliable narrator. For all of the issue to be utter bull shit his mad brain has just made up. I get the feeling its aww real though. And its just written in an older less palatable style to modern sensibility's. I personally did enjoy reading it. Though I did find the insights into the jokers childhood to be somewhat pandering to the youth of today. And if anything in the issue wasn't quite real it be those bits. His aunt was basically evil olive oil from pop eye. Who abused him. So now he abusing and killing other folk. I don't care how real a thing that is. It can get the fuck out my comics. Its a SHIT trope. Other than that I thought it was pretty neat. Balances the evil sinisterness and the need for sillyness of the joker quite well. At least in my opinion. And its the one book that most people will probably get this month even if thieve sworn of the event. Popularity power of the joker after all.

Next up is grodd #1. and its defiantly the least good of my dc purchases's this week. Not bad at all. Just the least good. Nothings wrong with the over all story. The gorillas have made peace with central city and both sides are committed to rebuilding and living in peace until grodd rocks up and ruins everybody's day. The premiss is incredibly flash like. normally in modern comics civilians be they man or ape tend to be right bastards. Not so in the flash. Mainly because big barry allan is generating enough lad to go around. And its only really grodd that spoils that, but that's good. Because he's a bad guy. Its what there meant to do. Now. I did say this was the least good dc book I read. That's mainly because certain parts of it come off as a little clunkie. This group of lesser villains just turn op for grodd to kill. I'm not underselling it. They just turn up midway threw the book. Ayes there moving in on flash territory but it could have been handled a little better I feel. Anyway. Still worth a read and the art its hella warm and wovely.

The last of the 3d covers I got was count vertigo #1. surely to be the critical darling of the first week of villains month. It gets major points for having green arrows actual creative team behind it. Big jeff limire likes. It hits all juicy tropes so beloved by the youth of today's hippster audience. Vertigo had an abusive child hood. A drug addict whore failure of a mother who he eventually mercy kills/ takes vengeance on. He's turned in a psychic child solider. Aww the classics. Well. There not thaaaat comen. Its just the over all tone they create is very much something designed to appeal to the hated youth of today. Thing is it works. I attribute this to the continued SHEER metal gearness of lemirs run on green arrow. Vertigo is BASICALY psycho mantis. And his sad back story is fits with a lot of bosses from any given metal gear solid game. So aye. Its probs the mainstream indi book of choice for dc in particular. This week. And yes I did enjoy it. But god damn it hipsters.

Finally we come to forever evil. The first proper event of the new 52. now ayes, there's been hella cross book events. Particularly in the lantern books. But this is the first proper eventy event standalone book but with hella tie ins. To my knowledge. I could be talking uttter shite. But lets carry on like I'm not. Its a first issue so yes there's a lot of set up. Something that I should have expected but after that last issue of justice league I assumed it be straight into the action. Sadly not. What we got was still staggeringly entertaining for how weirdly subdued it was. Let me explain. There was sort of a low key tone to proceeding's. Which ayes. Set up and all that. But there's these moments of sheer insanity. Like ultraman snorting kyrptonight. And it also give it points for the crazy amounts of super folk ripping giant doors off there hinges. There's something pirmaly super heroy about that. And ted kord might be back in the game. ACTUL POINTS THERE. So lots of fun so far with crazy potential to get even amazinger. Yeah.

So defiantly a solid start to the month. Lets hope it continues to go well

Mad Hat Pirates Game Night - Race Drivin' and Donkey Kong Country

2013-08-12T16:43:00.002+01:00

More from our game night - we play a classic, and, well, a less than classic. Dat cow. And dat barn.

Mad Hat Pirates Game Night - Street Fighter 2 Turbo

2013-08-01T15:20:00.001+01:00

Hey all!

Apologies for the lack of our killer content lately, we all have damn busy lives we do. HOWEVER, a few weeks ago myself, bag guy and Mike got together one July evening to play some vidya games on a SNES, and we decided to film the shenanigans that ensued. Here's the first in a series of videos chronicling that magical evening, beginning with Street Fighter 2 Turbo, a game we're utterly amazing at, as I'm sure you'll agree.

Next up, POKEMON (INCLUDING METAPOD AS YOU'VE NEVER HEARD IT BEFORE)!

Bagguy vs the man of steel

2013-06-28T18:56:00.001+01:00

Superman wins obviously.

Wellzers. Fashionably late to the party as always. But the man of steel did indeed hit cinemas at some point in the immediate past. Never has a community stood so divided as the geek community dose today. Wells. That's grossly over egging it. The split is really between comic book fans and the hated normals and between actual fans of superman and folk that could just take or leave the big boy scout. Id like to say up front that I did enjoy man of steal. I thought it was ok. And at points it was even quite fun. However. This was not the film big supes deserved.

Now before we get in the negatives there is a fair bit to like about the film. There's HELLA action for one thing. Now. A lot of folk would say that's a bad thing. And ayes it is at certain bits but we'll get to that later. Come on now folk. You need lots and lots of ACTION in a superman film. Like. Come on now. Its good they went all action. You get to see supes DO stuff. With a big budget. And for the most part it is awesome. You can call it dumb if you like but I like that they just went all out with the fighting and the physical god level craziness.

I quite liked the bits where superman wasn't superman yet. Now put away your torches and pitch forks and let me explain. Superman not being superman can get quite hateful. It was a risk they were always going to run what with it being yet another origin film but they pulled it off quite nicely if you ask me. From the trailers it looked like we would be getting quite a bit of fisherman supes which I think you'll agree looked quite hatefully hipster. But as it turned out the fisherman shtic was only a vehicle to get supes to an oil rig to do some life saving. See it COULD have been hateful but it turned out fine.

There was a fair chunk at the beginning of the film that took place entirely on krypton. I here that as base brakery as the film is this part was well received. I put that down to jor els general pimpness and the fact he rides a dragon at one point. I mean, I really wasn't prepared for the dragon. I should have been. What with that one issue of supergirl ware she rides a dragon. So I should have been aware kyrptonian dragons were a thing. I just wasn't expecting to see it in the real big deal synder/nolan superman reboot is all. And oh my it was awesome. Im not really a big dragon man. Its just the sheer absurd surprise of it the thing.

Jor el himself was quite the lad. Like he manages to CQC the fuck out of general zod. General zod. Krypton's legendary soldier. Defeated by a sqwisihe scientist. In hand to hand combat. Well. I guess you get points for being supermans dad. And fair play he is killed by zod eventually. Now here's where the ladness comes in. jor el dose indeed kick the bucket in the opening act but comes back. As YAMI jor el. If you've followed any of our coverage of superior spider-man you'll know about our unending love fer yami pete. God king of the banter. Now yami jor el dose get some choice bits of banter here and there but he mainly utilises his yami ness to cut about. I amazingly approve of this.

Superman him sell came off quite well as a character I think. Well for the most part. Folk just never seem to shut the shit up about superman being a terrible character to write for. That because he's such a god he's unrelatable. These people are actual bastards. Supes is a grate dude. And ayes he's powerful. Juggling planets and all that. Power dose not make you unrelatable or just a bad character because of it. There are countless actual gods cutting about comics that folk love. Its a trendy double standard to hate on superman. Because he's apparently cheesy or childish. That said iv seen some encouraging things from other folks reviews about man of steal that seem to show the myth that its impossible to do a good superman story is somewhat vanishing. Good stuff !

Man of steel had a darn solid cast all right. Your mileage may vary on if that cast was put to good use though. I herd claims of blandness. I don't see it. But that might just be my own good actor blindness. I tend to see. If a like a particular actor in a particular role ill probs be hella forgiving on the actual acting. That said. Do do think everyone was doing a fairly good job with what the script was giving them. I thought henry cavill did a nice job as superman. Like in the scenes ware he was properly being superman I think he had it locked down. Being so superior to humans superman walks a very dangerous line of smarmyness that's sometimes tricky to pull off. Like you need a wee touch of smarm for the flashiness of the character.

Zod was an all right villain too. I say all right. At the end of the day he was quite shite. I'm not sure he won a single fight. Even like I was saying he lost to jor el. Its a little weird. He is built up as kyriptons greatest warrior so for him to lose AWW the time is quite weird. Though I guess he IS a general so I suppose he's not meant to be the absolute best fighty fighter. I did like him and his gang though. They were quite funky with there power amour and eventful superman sun powers. Supes fights with them we're amazingly dragon ball z. though I suppose that's the only way they could go in this day and age. Its not a bad thing. Even though I'm kinda making it sound like one.

Now with al that said. Man of steel dose have some amazingly hateful unforgivable moments.

Pa kent. Pa kent why. Oh god. Why. What have you done ? You monsters. You actual monsters. Pa kent in the man of steal verse is just. I don't even know what. Like I don't quite comprehend why they made him the way he is. I don't even what to try because he was so hateful. I should actually say what my beef with him was. He's not a lad. Not at all. Pa kent is supermans dad. He's meant to give superman that un shakeable moral compass. He's meant to inspire clark to be more than an ordinary man. Superman may be a god. But he gets what makes him a legend from humanity. From the upbringing the kents gave him. And in this film I don't think I'm far off the mark in calling there pa kent a monster. There's a bit in the trailer where pa kent is conserned that kid clark saved a school bus full of children from drowning. Including all his fiends and bullies. Kid clark asks if he should have let them drown. Pa kent reply's maybe. That is unforgivable. Now I get pa kent wanted to keep his son safe and feared that if the world knew about him they'd probably take clark away and dissect him. Fuck that. Kid clark can lift a bus from a lake on his lonesome. He can take who ever rocks up to the farm looking for him. Now. I can buy that pa kent wants his son safe at any cost. I can. But any other pa kent wid be disgusted at this universe one. Pa kent teaches supes to save as many people as he can BECAUSE he can. Its like pa kents whole deal.

As cool as the final fight in the film was. As much as it averted short lame boss fights at the end of current gen super hero movies and movies in general. It was amazingly stupid. Thousands if not hundreds of thousands of innocent people MUST have died. Metropolis is now just a crater. It be one thing if was just because of zod and the villains and that it was unavoidable. But no. a lot of the damage could have been stopped by superman and some case's it was superman actively causing the damage. Yes you read that right. The last fight of the film is between superman and a fully powered up zod battling in a darn crowded metropolis. They basically go at it like like neo and smith from the last battle of the matrix revolutions. That was fine there because everyone in the matrix was a smith so the collateral damage was lessened and it was somewhat an end of the world scenario. Here. Supes dosent seem to give one single fuck for the people of metropolis. Flinging zod threw buildings and flinging stuff at zod that either impacts around him causing damage to the surrounding area or explodes. EXPLODES. Now I feel the hatefulness might be lessoned if it was just two other random super beings. But this is superman. He would sure as fuck care about the people of the city. Caring about people is what superman dose. SAVEING people is what superman dose. Yes. He'd still be fighting zod but the entire time he'd be thinking about ways of getting zod away from civilians and he'd be saving folk from the buildings zod was collapsing and not actively trying to collapse buildings himself.

Now. We've all trecked threw spoiler country. I should have probably started of by saying that there would indeed be spoilers. But its a fair few weeks after the films release and I feel its common knowledge now. But fair play. I have encountered a fair few folk that have decided to wait for the dvd because of its mixed reviews by actual critics. so for the last bit here. Major ending spoilers.

Man of steel reaches its climax with supes having zod in a head lock in ruins of metropolis. Superman has proven that bizarrely he is the better fighter. Zods no looking well. He's lost his mind just a touch. Well. I suppose he wasn't always there. But my point is. He's gone full mental. It looks like it all over but zod bust out his eye beams on this family that just happens to be standing around. Slowly. Like really slowly. The family could just run away. But naw. There only very slightly trapped. They COULD just walk around the eye beams. But naw. They don't. Like the massive twats they are. Well. my point is. Superman is forced to kill zod. He just snaps his neck. With a crack of thunder. Now to tell the truth. Superman killing dosent bother me as much as it should. I'm not to sure why. It just didn't shock me. I feel like superman has killed folk in the past. What is was though was a massive downer. Like in the cinema we saw it in. the kill just sucked all the fun out of the room. You could totes feel it leave. It was quite the moment. Now I don't want to bleather on about the rights and wrongs of superman just killing fools but its certainly one of the things that has divided folk. I can totes get that. I SHOULD be agreeing with them. Its probably the worst thing ever. But I dunno. Its just something that happened.

So. I quite liked it overall. It man of steel is an all right film spoiled by a few bizarre narrative choices. Though I would say it worth a watch. But maybe only on dvd when it comes out. Which isn't something I want to say about a big new superman film.

Why bagguy didn't like the avengers film

2013-06-27T17:06:00.000+01:00

I used to have some strong and controversial opinions about the avengers film. As the years passed I mellowed out and I no longer hold most of theses views. The following review has been declassified from the mad hats black list.

It seams the avengers film was the defining event of our youth. I'm sure people don't think its the best film ever made but they probably think its the beast super hero film and possibly the most laddish. they of course use the term laddish AMAZINGLY wrongly. Lad used in the auld dark way. Lad like bloke if you will.

So there I was genially hyped for the film. How couldn't I be. It was a team super hero film that had the actual actors from the highly successful and well liked marvel films. This was something that was on the horizon since 2008s highly cracking iron man. It had geek god joss whedon as director. Every base was covered. It couldn't possibly suck.

But I didn't like it.

Yes there probably is something wrong with me. I get that. There is probably many things really. Basically I'm just being that guy. The thing is. I'm aware of it. I was aware of it DURING the film. It started and probably not 5 minutes in I knew I didn't like it. I just didn't like it. Its hard to logically explain why but ill try to at least give it a go.

Hypes probably a factor. I do tend to hype things up quite a bit. To the point ware life dose tend to feel quite hollow. I don't think you could not hype avengers. It was fucking avengers. Like how do you even describe what that kind of film meant to this generation. OOO. I know. Avengers is like new 10s space jam. Its like an event film ware all your favourite child hood icons team up to fight a threat but like on the big screen. So it was modern age space jam and I didn't like it. Just take that in. its the modern age bit that probably ruins it. The modern age is discusstingly horrible. That thing about each generation being less than the last is so perfectly true. Yes I'm an auld man. Deeply cynical . But jamsus fuck. Its like being the only sane man on the planet when you see the pish the kids of today come out with.

I don't like joss wheadon. Yes. Come at me. If I cared more id probs say I hated him. Now fair play. Quite a bit of firefly is damn gid. There's also quite a bit of it that's not laddish in the slightest. And I feel he's slightly defensive about its cowboy bebop/ outlaw start influences. That might be highly untrue but its the feeling I get from him. Never watched buffy. Just never appealed to me. Apart from that I ken fuck all what he's done. The script for titan a.e ? fair play that's laddish. But mainly for vibe reasons. Whedon thaw. He's not a lad. That would be fine. But what irks me is people THINK he's a lad. He's kind of cunnty likes. He killed wash. That's really just unforgivable. He's basically just all about the emotional baiting. So him being the director of avengers is definitely a negative for me.

I didn't like the plot of avengers. It sucked ass. Again. I probably think that because of the hype. Like I'm not sure what I really wanted from the film. But I feel what we got was pretty hollow. Like its not all the memorable to me. Maybe I was expecting some gern defining moment of amazingness. Like just wall to wall awesomeness. I don't think we even got close to that is the thing like there were bits of the film ware it wasn't awesome. Like there were bits ware talking happened. Set up and exposition. I don't think I was expecting that. Also im probably been spoiled buy actual avengers comics. Ware shite normally gets god puanchinly fantastic.

I wasny too blown away with the characters. Ayes that's sort of mad to say what with me enjoying there individual films. Its just. I dunno. I'm note sure I remember a single line from the film. Not off the top of my head or anything. Ayes probably if pressed. But nothing really stands out. Fuck hawk eye and the black widow though. You do not do the metal gear vibe any kind of justice. I don't think they got captain Americas legendary hero ness down. Like the captain America film didn't either but that was fine because that was set in the 40s when he was still just a man and we still had the avengers to come for them to work on it. But caps just cutting around the 21^st century with no fuss. Yes they sort of tried with the scean in Germany but again it rang hollow for me. It just didn't get cap. I get this is just my nit pick but I really didn't like the hulk. He was bloke ish. He appealed to blokes. Its mad yes but his widely worshipped wrecking of loki makes me shiver. I REALLY do not like any kind of back ingerry. Yes I know it was loki and its fine cause he's a god. But the hulk could do that to anyone. Yes I know that's not a legitimate complaint but that's what I feel about it. Loki was a actual punk. He acted like a guy. Like a mere mortal. They fuck ? Ayes he's just a space god but come on people. Its like they weren't even trying.

Now I think at this point I like bad films better than good films. I blame reviews. When a good film is good. That's fine. But there's not really much to talk about. When a bad films bad its AMAZING ! So much to talk about so much to remember ! It becomes iconic. Basically a bad films more meme worthy. So its possibly I don't know how to watch a good film any more. Though that really cant be true. I still like other “good” films. Like I find bad films far more enjoyable than good films. A bad film is probs more funny than a good comedy. That's probably saying something about the modern age there

I not quite sure ware this hate of mine comes from. I'm not willing to give avengers anything. I have no time for it. Its a bad film to me but not in the same way the bad films I was talking about above. Its not a good film. Its a bad bad film. Like I'm not having fun not likening it. And I don't even want to not like it. But I do.

Like I was saying. I'm probs just that guy. Not likening something because its popular. I don't want to be that guy. I kinda am though. I genuinely hate the young folk. As we've covered. There just so imperfect. Like we auld bastards are GODs in comparison to them. And when they go on about there perfect film it sickens me. Its possible I want the most absurdly continuity heavy impenetrable film that the maasies will hate so I can love it. Sorry's likes.

So basically. I thought the avengers was shite.

Hideo kojima and the soldiers of hayte

2013-06-26T23:38:00.001+01:00

hideo kojima and the soldiers of hayte

There has been a single overriding topic that has consumed my mind in recent months. Let me ramble on about it here. Of course. Like most things I say. Don't consider what I say here to be anything close to actul facts. Its all for the best.

Only kojima could make me NOT hyped for metal gear solid 5. no matter what you say about the man. No matter what I go on to say about him here. You cant deny. He is a master troll. To be fair. Hes continuing to do his job. He hates us fans.

What I'm bleathering about is david hayter not returning to voice big boss for ground zeros or the phantom pain. Just goona say this up front. I don't believe this is true. Call me delusional if you want. Its fine. But this is just too kojima a development for it not to be trolling. Here me out loikes.

David hayter IS the voice of snake. I mean. He just is. FUCK IT. David hayter IS snake. Replacing him is just unthinkable to me. It disturbs me that other folk think its no big deal. I just thought we didn't take shite like that. Now. Don't get me wrong. There is president for hayter to not voice big boss. He didn't in mgs4. That's fine likes. Bigg boss was auld then and hayter was cutting about as solid snake. So it is fine for hayter not not voice big boss eventually. One day. Years from now. When we're all very dead.

However it seems ground zeros takes place soon after peace walker. So I think you'll agree its weird for big boss's voice to so suddenly change. Now. Maybe there's room there for hayter to voice big boss during ground zeros but not in mgs5. I could by that big boss was effected by his coma and the years spent in it. Basically. Like most sane folk . I want hayter in mgs5 in some fashion.

And there's hella room for him to be in it. So much room that I feel this is something worth talking about. I think the general feeling is that the time line is getting to the point where by mgs5 we could be seeing kid solid snake cutting about. So it entirely possible that hayter will be voicing him and not big boss. That's the main hope I cling to. Its what keeps me sane. There's a wee problem with that theory in that kid solid would only be about 10 years auld at the time game is meant to start and I don't think the legendary gravel growler snake voice of hayters wid work on a pre teen. Though. I'm gona call it now and say that mgs5 MAY take place over several years. Allowing for popper snake action.

Kiefer sutherland. The actual fuck. So you replace hayter with someone new. But its just some actor. Its not even like you replace hayter with another voice actor. You get a famous guy. Like. You COULD have got steve blum. That would have lessened the pain. But no. even if kojima wanted a famous actor to voice snake he could have got kurt russell. You know. SNAKE PLISSKEN. For fuck sake. I'm sure kojima could have just given him all the money to do it.

Meta wise. Its not like we haven't been here before. Snake has continually been replaced as the player character in the actual games starting with mgs2. Everyone was hyped as fuck to play as the legendary solider in the next gen graphics of the ps2. What we got was raiden. I like radien. He's a true bro. But ayes. That was kojimas master work of trolling. In mgs3 we play as big boss for the fist time. Who is A snake. But not OUR snake. Again. True bro though. We had to wait until mgs4 where we once again got to play as our hero. And he was an auld man. See what I'm getting at ? The replacing of hayter is just another aspect of playing as not snake. This time its a little bit more personal. It cuts hella deeper.

This is all just delusional fan boying. Ayes. But we all know something WILL happening mgs5. Something will happen and then it wont stop happening. There HAS to be some sort of twist. Mad meta plots and cardboard box shenanigans. Its metal gear solid after all. It dose seem big boss is going by punished snake for 5. that seems some what significant to me. Its entirely possible that who we believe to be big boss isn't. That it may be another clone. All the sons of big boss other than solid we're voiced by other folk after all. Though I will admit this seems a little unlikely after recent trailers. Though. We shid NEVER trust metal gear trailers.

There are things that can be said against hayter of course. I here grumblings that doing the snake voice hurts him. But come on now folks. I feel we can be fairly confident in saying that the man would do the voice until it killed him. Folk are also on about the voice being degraded . Being a parody of itself now. I cant even process that. Like. WHO are these people ? what is wrong with there blazing souls ? The snake voice is quite huge part of the fun of any metal gear game. For me at least. A large part of the games is codec conversations after all. And yes. It may not be exactly the same as in the ps1 days. But big boss IS ageing after all.

Well. At the end of the day. It may just be real life shiting all over the dream. It may just be ugly personal real life stuff getting in the way of awesomeness. The thing is I hold kojima to a higher standard. The man made a game about memes in 2001 for fuck sake. He's clearly a god. Or maybe. Was a god. Still. I cling to the hope that all will be well. That its all just a funny jokey joke. That come release day everything will be set back the way it should be. That we'll all be sitting by roaring fire toasting auld kojimas genius.

We shall see.