Gaming Car Crash Revisited: Heroes of the Storm

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It’s been a little while now since we started this epic adventure through the gaming time and space continuum and now in a pre-recorded venture, we’re now going to be revisiting a game which was played on the very first stream, Heroes of the Storm.

You might be thinking that pretty much this is being devoted to everything that Blizzard does given that last week, we played Hearthstone, but actually this is part of an attempt to revisit what the very first gaming stream got wrong and with the production lessons learned from that fateful night at the beginning of the year, truly show you in a better fashion what this game is all about and see if I can be at least 3% better than the first time!

This will also be pre-recorded due to not being able to do a live stream this week due to unforeseen circumstances, and we will return to the airwaves soon.

So adventurers, sharpen your fighting skills, wonder why there’s nothing better on TV* and take a time out from watching cat videos and see if we have what it takes to not be as bad…..right now!

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* Terms and conditions apply, see pack for details, you really will wonder why you ended up paying for Sky TV in the first place….

Valentine’s Day Ultra Turbo Championship Edition

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This is what the future holds.Today’s post comes to you about the recent February 14th shenanigans which everyone of course with their loved or hated ones, depending on the situation, embarked on a magical time of eating, drinking and whatever else the imagination would take them.

Probably sex, let’s be fair.

In recent years, the tired old tradition seems to have taken on something of a new lease of life as illustrated rather remarkably while wandering around Hammersmith the night before.

Though rather than the traditional queue of men who clearly forgot this wonderful excuse for the card and florist companies to make large amounts of cash as a result of aforementioned men trying to avoid an argument, both men and women this time were looking for the usual gifts of overpriced roses, a card with twelve different ways to say love and chocolates filled with left over creme egg remains that Kraft just couldn’t get rid of any other way.

Just think of the other amounts of messing around you are meant to do, and you are left wondering why this shift in the terrible trend has surfaced, and even now a few days after it’s all over with for another year is somewhat of a mystery.

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Gaming Car Crash: Hearthstoned

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Lordly lord, the Valentine’s Day stream was not without the usual technical screw-up was it? Just as well really as you didn’t also want to see what happened with the beef lasagne and the rest of the vodka we had to drink. It seems that things are most likely to go wrong when we attempt to do the stream with fancy things to make it more interesting than most of the other tat on the internet.

So in the spirit of trying to keep it simple once again so the program doesn’t cry because we asked it to do more than one thing, we’re going to try our hand at that now time honoured staple of no skill involved at all, Hearthstone.

Yes, Blizzard Entertainment’s epic card game which has earned about £12 billion a second from all us silly people on the internet, will be played, where if we win even one game, I will be shocked. After all, with all that money spent on the damned cards, it may as well start earning its way! That is, if we actually got any money for this of course….

So roll up that there die which is of no use in a video game, cry havoc and let slip the rumours about the neighbours upstairs and drink a galleon of ale* with us. And maybe, just maybe, we have one god damned evening where the audio doesn’t die or the streaming software doesn’t have a heart attack…maybe.

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* Terms and conditions apply, see pack for details, ale supplied from the 12th century may be out of date!

Boiling Point

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In a return to issues which concern not that of entertainment but that of the real world, it’s time I finally wrote about one of the bigger horrors that always gets overlooked with home ownership and that is clearing up the mess left behind by previous owners.

Put simply, It’s not been too much fun over the course of the winter at home recently, as one of the worst to have to do aside from admit to people you like the Mr.Blobby song from 1993, is to survive without fully working hot water and no real heating aside from one slightly dodgy convection heater which will do some of the job but of course to heat an entire flat is asking a bit too much of it.

This leads to one of the awful truths; Getting a chap to install a new boiler is one of the largest single expenses you will ever have to face. Hell, even paying for an abortion, an invasive medical procedure for those who don’t wish to bring life into the world after dirty fun sexy time just yet, is way cheaper! Continue reading →

Baymax will see you now…

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In what is again a welcome shift away from the films which have filled the cinemas in recent weeks, it seems the schedules and screenings are returning to what we, the general public who consume far too much KFC, laugh at cat pictures on our smartphones and are shocked by pictures of movie stars buying food, actually like.

Granted there are still a good number of awards candidates, but one notably has arrived in British cinemas recently from Disney, whose Pixar powered animation studio has presented hot on the heels of the award winning Frozen (who by the way, refused to let it go…see what we did there?) last year, Big Hero 6.

Big Hero 6 is based on a Marvel property about as well known outside those circles as that last damn question on the pub quiz about that guy who was in that thing one time. Instead of relying on Marvel themselves to bring this to the big screen, we have an animated romp through the semi-futuristic city of San Fransokyo (twinned with Grimsby) and we are introduced over time, to the 6 themselves. Continue reading →

Where you at boy?

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Yep. I was this young once……

Wikipedia describes distraction as “the divided attention of an individual or group from the chosen object of attention onto the source of distraction.” And that takes us to perhaps a brief posting tonight as to what’s been going on as recently you may have noticed that the content output of Ooh Sometimes, has returned back to the depths of the bad old days where it was only once every few years that something new arrived.

The last few weeks has been full of one distraction, which has been pretty much overriding everything else that would have been going on.

This of course includes the now regular sitting down at the keyboard and mouse of the computer residing in the front room of this one bedded fortress of solitude, and shoving out the door a few hundred words of complete drivel onto the internet for everyone to deride and ridicule as being the ramblings of a mentally ill five year old.

Basically every time I’ve come to sit down and type away, my mind turns to jelly and I forget what I was going to do to begin with. However, and this is the most important thing to note here, it has been a distraction of which has been far too welcome and one I hope is not going away any time soon.

Fear not campers, you come here for occasional mutterings on issues of non-import, so stay tuned as normal service will be resuming shortly with yet another would-be critique of something on the big screen….. you may now go make a cup of tea while I attempt to remember what happened during the film.

Gaming Love: A Gaming Car Crash Special

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It’s about that special time of year where lovers around the world come together to show how much they care about each other when the card companies, florists and restaurants all band together to ensure that either you are happy with someone, or dead inside by yourself! Don’t worry, you only have to care about other people or feel lonely on special occasions, we’re 2% sure it’s fine the rest of the year!

So to celebrate this awful tradition, we’ll be there for you happy people to provide some gaming love to show you how the dating game really works with a special bonus concerning matters of the heart.

So gather your pictures of your ex, lose your sense of self worth, wear the t-shirt with the 12 curry stains and join us once again for a good old time* recorded from Valentines Day;
where afterwards everyone went and enjoyed the evening doing whatever makes them feel good, perhaps in the same way as Halle Berry in Monster’s Ball!

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* Terms and conditions apply, see pack for details, no gloving, no loving!

Gaming Car Crash: Drinking Elite

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It’s not been a good start to the gaming car crash, has it? It’s earned its name for very good reasons; Audio problems, trying to be an editor when tired and then having no idea what to do or say?

Granted, it’s still better than watching Big Brother on Channel 5, but we’re not just there yet. Well given that something always seems to go wrong, why not go further? Let’s introduce a requested game series of Sniper Elite but with an added incentive? Why don’t we play a drinking game while we screw up trying to murder a bunch of pixels?

So gather your shot glasses and drinks of choice, with perhaps some pork scratching from the ye olde pub and join us once again for a good old time* where we will be featuring the lack of skills that only can come from playing while drunk?

Will I spill a drink all over the keyboard? Will I forget to unmute the damned microphone again, and screw up the audio by making your ears bleed? Will I make any sense and not just laugh all the time? Find out now via the Youtube video!

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* Terms and conditions apply, see pack for details, drink responsibly or not, you’re adults!

The Cop Show Continuum

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This latest piece of written onslaught against the English language on this occasion, has to start with asking one question to you, the humble reader / drunk;

Have you ever seen what is shown on the UK satellite TV station known as alibi?

So……many……my eyes are melting….

It exists it seems for one reason alone; the sheer volume of cop shows now prevalent have reached epidemic levels and if we don’t start shoving them somewhere else soon, they will just overrun and destroy everything we hold dear before wrapping the scene with that yellow police line tape and saying some bad pun about the crime before cutting to the introduction titles.

I suppose when you see so many being produced in the same genre, much like comic book movies in recent years, it becomes all too easy to see patterns of behaviour in what makes a cop show live and breathe, unlike Mrs Higgins from No. 42 who was killed just now. Where were you just now? It was you, you b******d, YOU DID IT!!!! The downside of this is once you’ve seen one, you suspect you’ve seen them all. Continue reading →

All the King’s Horses and all the Kingsmen….

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Given the recent remarks on Ooh Sometimes, about the sheer volume of award grabbing films which have been released this time of year, the fact that the Lego Movie was pretty much snubbed for anything beyond a BAFTA nomination for animated film and best song at the Oscars, it’s with great relief that finally something else has come along.

As the recent film Birdman itself commented on (of sorts) about viewing habits of the public, this will drag you away from your everyday lives and the tales of true stories and various amounts of shouting and crying which is pretty much what is required for something to be “hard-hitting” these days.

Perhaps then, my reaction to Kingmen: The Secret Service on Twitter coupled with the next paragraph may be forgiven in it’s lack of objectivity as when asked by anyone who will come along afterwards and enquire about the comic-book conversion from the chaps behind Kick-Ass, it will go something like this;

Watch it, watch it, watch it, watch it, watch it, watch it, watch it, watch it, watch it, watch it, watch it, watch it, watch it, watch it, f**king watch it, watch it, watch it, watch it, watch it, watch it, what are you still doing here, go watch it, watch it, watch it, watch it, watch it, have you watched it yet? Watch it, watch it, watch it, watch it.

Sorry I had to beat people up just now, would you care for some pork scratchings?

Not exactly the stuff that you read in the Guardian in terms of critical excellence and it would have been enough to just leave it at that and ensure that everyone marched over to the cinema this instant.

But then again, not everyone is that way inclined when it comes to the well worn-out ground of the spy genre, and arguably it’s entirely understandable why so many people will pass this over in favour of more serious content.

So, what’s the story and is it any good despite the blubbering watch it comments above?

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