A Quick Site Update and Livestream Schedule

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Hello there campers, just so you’re aware, we’ve migrated to a smaller server, just to save some cash per month for the time being. Performance etc, shouldn’t be affected honestly given the current levels of traffic I’ve seen in any case.

There was downtime today from 11am to about 11:20am and all was well afterwards. The wonders of virtual servers eh? If things go a bit rubbish then I will bump it back up to the bigger server size but for now, we’re cooking on cheaper gas.

In terms of content, Mini Mehs will return with quite a number of them in the pipeline. Will try to get back into the routine of doing them soon.

Just a reminder as well now onto further news that August should see a good number of livestreams taking place on Twitch / Youtube and also that Beam thing that Microsoft has out there in the wild with the following games currently scheduled;

4th August: The Sexy Brutale
5th August: Black The Fall playthrough
8th August: Batman Season 2: Episode 1 Playthrough
9th August: Sine Mora EX (Moved after release date in UK confirmed)
14th August: Starcraft Remastered
15th August: Sonic Mania
18th and 19th August: Agents of Mayhem
22nd August: Call of Duty Day
28th August: Destiny 2 PC Beta
29th August: The beginnings of X-COM 2 Week, where till 1st September, we will be playing out for your dining and dancing pleasure, the new X-COM 2 experience thanks to the new expansion.

Hearthstone will be making an appearance as and when the new Frozen Throne Expansion is released. You know I have to! That’s all for now folks.

A mini meh about…. Despicable Me 3

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More like a despicable meh, am I right? Yeah!….. I’ll be quiet now….

Oh my, it happened.

This was the day the Illumination studio and Universal Studios responsible for films finally got on my nerves.

I suppose it began with the heavily promoted “The Secret Life of Pets” which had failed to get a single laugh out of me. It was wall to wall stereotypes and half assed acting with a basic story which wasn’t too bad. Then came along “Sing” which was again heavily advertised. Think “Animals Got Talent” and that’s it. No idea if that was any good as basically talent show meh hasn’t really interested me at all. But now they came back with the franchise that launched it all in Despicable Me 3.

Remember the minions? Even if the attempt to spin them off in the Minions film was utterly awful? They’re back and after two seconds shouting Illumination while doing fart noises at the opening logo reveal. Remember most of the characters from the last sequel like Gru’s new wife Lucy and the bloke with the big bottom? They’re here too! Well Ramsbottom (played by Steve Coogan) is only in it for about two minutes before he’s thrown out for someone else. They also didn’t even get Russell Brand back to voice Dr. Nefario so he shows up twice silently.  Continue reading →

A mini meh about…. Baby Driver

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Hey Baby!

You may have seen the last Aftermath Video on Youtube, where I had seen Baby Driver at a preview screening a week ago and basically gushed all over it, to the point of repeating myself over and over again. Watching it back, yeah it was cringeworthy, but it was for good reason. You see, Baby Driver became one of my best pieces of cinematic entertainment for 2017. Why? Well stay tuned and find out why I turned into such a fanboy for one Mr. Edgar Wright.

You see, he kind of got slightly screwed over, if what was uttered from the rumours about Marvel’s Ant-Man was concerned, along with Adam Cornish. While there were still clear elements of humour from the pair, other parts you could consider more normal Marvel. So what’s the director been doing with his time? Well he got a bunch of his favourite songs together and wrote a film around them all! Obvious really!

So the plot of Baby Driver, is that we have ourselves a very talented getaway driver by the name of “Baby” (Played wonderfully by Ansel Elgort, whose name also belongs to a swedish porn star). Seems though that he must be constantly listening to music because of an accident when he was a kid, left him with Tinnitus. So the music is played, just to drown the noise out. Continue reading →

A mini meh about…. The Mummy (Dark Universe Edition)

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The Daddy was not pleased.

It’s been a week since the Mummy returned for the 234676th time on the big screen. Why remake this of all things now? Well it seems that Universal Studios have pretty much gambled all by committing themselves to creating what they are calling the “Dark Universe”. Think of all those comic book things from Disney and Warner Bros, but with Monsters like Frankenstein, Dracula and Barney the Purple Dinosaur.

Because they’re making money hand over fist despite questionable quality of film at the time, it seems Universial are pretty much just jumping on the bandwagon while the going is good. Why do I say that? Because damned if I can think of any other reason why this remake exists. On the face of it, it could have been a nice easy route into exploring this tried and tested world with new twists, turns and various other threads. Be standalone, give a taste of what’s to come and then leave us wanting more. The mistake of not really rushing things through was made by DC and Warner Bros with Batman Vs Superman. Sadly not only do they make that mistake here, it’s borderline much worse.

The whole monster movie concept was always a bit of horror / b-movie cheese, and the last series with the wee scamps of Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz were actually not too shabby as that went. Some good humour, some neat special effects and ridiculous setups made for some decent entertainment back in the day. Of course it did disappear up it’s own arse with the Scorpion King and that third film that I don’t know what happened in that one for sure, certainly not without looking it up. It did though have some wonderful choices in terms of the time period which made it more interesting, the 1920s.

This version though, chucks that all out the window in favour of being set in the modern day. Apparently some knights in shining armour back in the day took a ruby and buried it in merry ol London, just in time for Crossrail Engineers to uncover it all and bring Russel Crowe into the picture. He’s here to give you all the backstory in the film, so have 5 minutes to explain that the Mummy lady did bad things and got buried. But don’t worry kids, he’ll be back later to tell us more. Continue reading →