Remember when I livestreamed games? This is one of those times when I did! It was for a game I was very much looking forward and was very happy to play; Space Cows! Built by Happy Corruption whom I’ve been very happy to meet and chat with, even having tea with the chaps at their office in Warsaw earlier this year!
Full Disclosure, I’m in the credits of the game for providing extra bad jokes! So yeah, I’m biased on this one folks.
Anyhoo, Space Cows was the colmniation of a lot of hard work for the chaps and I was more than happy to play some on a livestream for your mooing and milking pleasure.
Warning, there are a lot of fart noises and laughing…..
You can buy the game from http://bit.ly/2KNboO4 and get to know more about it at: http://bit.ly/2rgqnJx even if you’re vegan! So go…. go and milk it good. And other words relating to cows…..
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Oh dear oh dear…… I made a bit of a mess-up on this one, didn’t I? Basically I picked up Bloodstained: The Ritual of the Night on one of the many sales that was recently had online, due to various reviews and so forth being outstanding.
Well, save for the Nintendo Switch version which apprently at the time of this going out, still has performance issues which hopefully will be addressed soon.
Created by the original director of Castlevania after he left Konami back in 2014, this kickstarted game answered all the fans’ prayers of having another game in the genre that honestly, I never played much if at all before.
So what better way to fail than at a genre I don’t play? Gaming Car Crash, deploy!
This is the PC version of course that I play with the trusty ol’ Xbox One Joypad and to begin with it seemed to go well, the obvious things from Castlevania were obvious, along with the required p*ss taking which was needed of course. But when it came to the first boss battle during the tutorial level on a boat…. DAMN!
That boss battle boiled my p*ss something firece and in all the ways really tarred my experience with the game in the opening two hours you see here. I couldn’t shake it off, it was just annoying beyond boredom and in the end, I still didn’t know how I beat the boss. Seriously, watch for yourself, you will not get it either.
Things get better once we reach the castle…. but damn that first boss battle…..
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He’s not really that mysterous with a face like that, is he?
Another month long past, another Marvel movie which will indeed just hoover up money.
Before we even begin, this film firmly goes into the category of “If you’re not a fan, you’re not going to want to see this”, in the similar fashion of Detective Pikachu was, which was just published on this very blog beforehand. It’s the latest in a long series of superhero films and after Avengers: Endgame, you might have actually had your fill of the whole genre and are ready to move on with other things.
That’s all entirely understandable and so after the ridiculous highs of Avengers: Endgame, Both Sony and Marvel have to contend with how to continue things forward now with a lighter affair which brought many things back down to a much smaller staked situation and indeed show there was going to be life after Tony Stark. That’s mentioned here as pretty much, it is a theme of dealing with the aftermath of Avengers: Endgame and who is going to take over the reigns from Robert Downey Jr’s larger than life billionaire hero.
With everyone coming back from the events of Avengers: Endgame now being referred to as “The Blip” and the universe saved from Thanos, Tom Holland’s Spiderman is just tired and wants to get away from it all on a school trip and in essence, get it together with MJ (Zendeya) finally. Of course as we see, things will not be straight forward as a new threat comes along with strange elemental creatures causing havok and Jake Gyllenhaal coming in as the new hero on the scene, Mysterio.
Nick Futy makes a return along with Maria Hill (Samuel L. Jackson and Cobie Smulders) and they lead the new duo in combatting the new foes, and we see Nick Fury somewhat annoyed that Peter Parker is still thinking about his own high school issues and hanging out with MJ rather than saving the world and doing more grander things. This conflict occurs for quite a bit of the film with the theme of “stepping up” being the main focus.
Thank you for taking care of everything Mr. “Not suspicious to anyone who read the comics at all” man!
Now this is where I may cause some constination in terms of the fanbase of the MCU. in a strange sort of way, this was a tick the boxes affair that was entertaingly fine. It was very good to watch, no real bad acting, the story made sense in context, some really cute scenes along with good speical effects. The mid end credits scene is a massive moment, with a large dose of fan service and reference to “fake news” which leaves things wide open and certainly makes you want to see what happens next. Seriously massive props for Marvel bringing back that particular actor too for the role…..
However, one can argue that this was just a nice way to climb down things from Endgame, to show what happened and in a way, it’s just fine. It has action, funny chracter moments and certainly a moment which made lots of girls go awwwwww in the screening I attended. But afterwards, having time to digest the events of the film, acting, effects etc, I only reach the conclusion of it’s fine.
To be honest, the film kind of leans way too much on the death of Tony Stark as a crutch, even though during two scenes, it was used to great effect. Seriously, The Marvel Logo coming in with “I will always love you” by Whitney Houston along with images of Stark was a touchingly laugh out loud moment at the beginning. But really it was laid on a wee bit too thick at times and it got annoying from my point of view. Perhaps that was now a failing from Spider-Man Homecoming, that having Iron Man present then, not having him now, left a void to be filled and they hadn’t worked out how to do that yet. That Spider-Man actually can’t work by himself in his own films. It maybe the wrong impression to arrive at of course but couldn’t be helped.
That’s potentially a more long term problem with the MCU; It only litterally was down to the final mid credits scene that I’m more inclined right now to see what happens with Spiderman next and not much else from Marvel, aside from perhaps Blade which if given the right material, Mushaira Ali will knock right out of the park.
The biggest cloud surrounding the MCU now is; What will be the point in carrying on watching after Avengers: Endgame, which was a damn good finale and that was such a natural point to actually stop? Based on this outing and films slated down the line, I’m not sure any more.
Make no mistake, Spider-Man: Far from Home is not a bad film. Cast and Crew have turned out a quality piece of entertainment and it’s still much better than a lot of other films on the market at the moment. But the point has been reached for myself where indifference has finally landed. If it is just myself feeling that way, that’s fine perhaps, they will continue to make all the monies in the bank account without me. If however, many others have reached that point, that is very dangerous for the franchise.
This was a very much sobering livestream campers, I must confess. Having not played that much in recent months, save for the livestreams, it came home to roost that I hadn’t a damned clue what I was doing when it comes to constructing decks in Hearthstone.
With the arrival of the new expansion, Saviours of Uldum overnight, everyone and their dog it seems quickly got to grips with the new expansion, using the best decks and pretty much I was destroyed! It was actually to the point of rage inducing towards the end, so maybe I’m even worse than I already thought I was? Tis the Gaming Car Crash for a reason no?
Still, it means I can try harder to suck slightly less for next time doesn’t it?
The first part of the livestream was basically the card pack openings and seeing what new cards were about, to then have my ass handed to me on a silver platter. All thanks more often than not to the rogue card; Spirit of the Tiger with double Battlecry bringing the pain….. So enjoy!
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Recorded a long time ago when the fith part of the Daleran Hesit arrived on the scene within Hearthstone, watch more fun and frolics with Hearthstone on a sunny Thursday evening in ol London town. Well, failing miserably during all this while having a drink.
Sure, why not?
Hopefully the next livestream will be soon, considering there is a new expanison approching and there’s no way I want to miss out on that!
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Seriously…. The best I can come up with here right now, as I sit facing the screen, hands poised over the keyboard… is meh. I even put off writing this all down for the longest time as you may have noticed I’ve not really been around. Partially down to apathy and partly down to the fact this will make the pokemon fanboys grab their pokeballs in anger and attempt to beat me to death with them.
Perhaps this is part of the problem with some films in this day and age, with the volume of sequels we are subjected to, relying on knowledge of content previously. Given the sheer volume of Marvel films at this point, Avengers: Endgame would be impossible for anyone to follow who had never watched anything before from the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The impact of events isn’t there, the chracter arcs never realised and it would easily be dismissed as weird, incorrehent though well produced cinema.
The same has to be said here and now, for those who have never watched the Pokemon TV series, films or played the games. If you’ve not been invested with the franchaise, you will struggle with the overall plot, and thus may arrive at the end of the film either releaved or bored. Perhaps both to be fair.
These are the expressions that most none fans will have while watching the film….
So the story of Detective Pikachu revolves around Tim Goodman (Justice Smith), an insurence salesman who has to deal with the death of his father in a car crash. Tim has to travel to the city, a place where humans and pokemon live together in harmony. Though this is actually just Liverpool Street and other parts of East London, and the sight of seeing the London Overground train go past on occasion was just funny by itself to me.
In dealing with his dad’s estate, he encounters a Pikachu wearing a hat and having the voice of Ryan Renolds. This is odd for a couple of reasons, notably of which Pokemon don’t talk, save for one word. Having been attacked by random purple pokemon when they were exposed to a gas, the two begin working together to solve what happened, espiecally when it looks like Tim’s dad had been murdered. From illigal pokemon fight clubs to abandoned research facilities, the plot certainly does go much more murky.
Sounds like an interesting premise doesn’t it?
Well, in essence when it’s Tim and Ryan Renolds as Pikachu, that’s where the film is actually at it’s best. The scene where Pikachu is after coffee in a bar while making no sense about what happened to Tim’s dad is among the best the film has to offer, it’s really entertaining. Kathryn Newton as Lucy Stevens, is quite endearing as the downtrodden but determined junior reporter looking also to uncover what really happened, even if at times she doesn’t have a lot to play with in terms of script. Her pokemon though is slightly scene stealing as the chronically nervous and prone to exploding Psyduck.
But the film ultimatly relies on your knowledge of the franchaise and in the final third, I found myself out of the film and just bored. Quite shocking considering what’s happening as the bad guy’s plan comes together in the end, over the reskinned East London city. In fact, it was at the height of this that the biggest plot hole can be found, I won’t spoil it here in any major way but suffice to say that the main bad guy’s reasoning for doing what he did made no sense as he would still die? Seriously, it bugs me even now!
So there are many good scenes which keep things interesting during the middle third of the film for sure, the effects are quite good, the setting and creatures on show are varied and colourful and all in all, it likely ticks all the boxes that would furfill the fan’s wishes in what they wanted to see on screen. The secondary chracters do the minimum needed to forward on events. Sadly from my perspective, and it’s rather rich for me to say, it got a tad too ridiculous, espeically with the aformentioned plot hole. Yes, a film about make believe creatures got too ridiculous, I really don’t know how else to say it!
It was a film meant for kids and fans of the toys / games / tv series / previous films and that would be the only way I could recommend this at all. In essence, the film has to rely on Ryan Renolds from the marketing to carry the whole thing and it just about manages. But I wouldn’t ever sit through this again and it feels like a massively missed oppotunity to do something much more interesting with something that’s been running for a good 15 years or so. The trailers in essence gives a glimpse of something much more interesting and it didn’t live up to the promise overall. A shame to be sure.
More fun and frolics with Hearthstone on a sunny Saturday afternoon in ol London town?
Sure, why not?
Here’s the entire almost four hour livestream from Saturday 1st June, where the Lord of Leisure wore crap clothes while sitting on his sofa for a change, going through the next two chapters of the Dalaran Heist.
Then for the final part of the livestream, we proceed to have a ball with the most random of Tavern Brawls yet, where you could play the rules of one Tavern Brawl with a random deck, against someone else’s random deck, based on whatever rules of Tavern Brawl they chose!
All in all, it was a damn fine way to spend a Saturday afternoon, don’t you agree? Watch on to see if it’s true or not at the very least!
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Oh it’s so good to be doing this again and on a film that has been so much looked forward to since its announcement. No it’s not the next My Little Pony film! That’s for next week….. Don’t look at me in that tone of voice!
Oh god, it’s even worse this time! HELP!
For those of you who already know the John Wick series, you would also be awaiting the return of the hitman with the knack for revenge for those who would murder a puppy left by his deceased wife. In what became a welcome surprise, the original John Wick film was just a straight up action film starring Keanu Reeves who amazed us all with long action sequences that took your breath away.
It led of course to John Wick 2, where his past actions caught up with him and in honouring a favour for a member of the elite “High Table” who runs the assassination business in the world, he also became public enemy number one.
Along the way, we have been introduced to a wide range of excellent side characters; First, Jimmy, a cop who would turn a blind eye when needed to “disturbances”. We also met Winston, the happy manager of the Continental hotel in New York where all killers go to relax, safe in the knowledge that no business could be conducted and they could sleep at night. Who could forget Laurence Fishburne’s fine turn as the “Bowery King” whom John sought out at a major time of need by being hidden by a homeless man when on the run? Truth be told, there are quite a number of performances which have been just excellent, even in so minor a role. You just were carried along for the awesome ride.
Another week, another Hearthstone Happy Hour! It’s even better this time round as it’s time for more new Single Player content which makes this old fart very happy indeed.
The Dalaran Heist was released to everyone this week, with Chapters 1 and 2 being available for all now with the other three chapters coming over the next three weeks. With different bosses every time, Bartender Bob helping us with drinks and throwing out bad minions and random silliness every game in the form of treasures to alter how a game will go, what more could you possibly need?
Well, a couple of games with this week’s Tavern Brawl wouldn’t go amiss as well. Granted it’s Cloneball but with lots of legendary minions added since last time, it surely was not going to be the same this time. Enjoy!
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Considering how long it’s been since I last wrote anything exclusively for the blog site, I decided to take a timeout from sleeping in order to briefly write a few things that have been going on within the realm of my tiny mind. I say write as it’s been a long time since I last took to writing here in quite a while. To be perfectly honest there are times when sitting down at the keyboard and staring at the screen has been rather daunting and given how much time I spend instead of Twitter and various video platforms instead, it pretty much went by the wayside.
It’s a shame really as the act of writing crude and diabolical rantings is quite a bit of good fun. In many ways, they were always way more structured than the filth I can spout when just talking on an Aftermath video after just coming back from the cinema. The mini meh was the way of truly digesting what I saw and perhaps allowing for my thoughts to mellow a bit more before committing back to any form of media what I thought about something which people poured their time and efforts into.
The last time the Gaming Car Crash had proper reviews sadly was back in 2016.
It’s also been quite a long time since I did also anything scripted video-wise in any case and it’s down to two very simple reasons; Time and money.
It’s always about time and money.
To start on the time aspect, the time it takes to sit down and mess around on live-streams doing a play-through of a game in some respects take much less time and effort than to look at something as a critic, write things down, edit as needed, perform as needed and add other bits to everything that arrives at something even resembling something competently put together.
It can be daunting to start anything too; you really have to be in the mood and after a long day at work or pretending to care about what other people are doing? Yeah you really do have to make the effort. Once you’ve begun it gets easier to then arrive at a conclusion to the piece of work. There are always stretches of time where you really don’t want to do anything and it’s incredibly hard to get your mojo back.
There’s also saturation to consider in this little corner of the mass market to consider. Why you ask?
There are so many people in the world doing the exact same things; A lot of whom, are already doing this all as a full on business. So even doing this all as a hobby at times seems all completely pointless. After all how could you ever measure up to those who do this all the time and can pump out much better content at an accelerated rate? Even perhaps still have delusions over having any form of social life and downtime? It just isn’t possible. It never was possible. For any fools out there who tend to produce “inspirational” videos and books about how you can do it all and still only work 12 minutes a year while skiing down the Amazon wearing a jetpack, I say this; You are all liers! J’accuse!
A mini meh that never was…… Loved doing the image though!
So then, what does it all come down to? If it’s never going to be all the monies in the bank account? Simple… enjoyment. I like messing around in Photoshop making crap mock-ups. It’s cool having the knowledge that you managed perhaps to make someone smile or laugh at your terrible shenanigans. That maybe you just brightened up someone’s day with a witty sentence or bad joke in whatever form it took. Even perhaps to show that you did something which may leave the tiniest of marks on the world. So while maybe there is not a lot to show, I can say, at least I gave it a go.
So while it may not happen all too often, it will be always be good to create content for your dining and dancing pleasure. To that end, I’m pleased to say that the Mini Mehs will be returning! Starting with John Wick 3 and Detective Pikachu, along with audio recordings for YouTube for anyone who doesn’t want to read, along with the occasional meme put in for good measure!
It does mean that the Aftermaths won’t happen that often now but considering there were times it was hard to even talk properly (like after Avengers: Endgame), perhaps it will be for the best! So stay tuned and to everyone who ever found anything I did and enjoyed it, I can only thank you and I hope you come back again in the future for more utter rubbish!
