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August 18, 2021
The Nerf Aliens LMTD M41A Pulse Blaster.
…(Via Fark) I assume I have your attention, now?
The Nerf Aliens LMTD M41A Pulse Blaster: a fully-automatic, Ultra/Mega over/under shooter. Ten-round motorized Ultra magazine with digital shot counter, pump-action for the Mega. “Movie-inspired blaster sounds” included. This GameStop-exclusive baby will run you $94.99, because they have a pretty good feel for their target markets. Five bucks more might have hit a price point.
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PS: Oh, it is absolutely beautiful. But it’s not ’95 bucks beautiful,’ at least to me. Or at least at this particular moment in time.
CYBERPUNK 2077 1.3 patch includes small free DLC.
Nothing major, just some cosmetics. The bright side there is that CDPR did something similar for The Witcher: Wild Hunt where they would release lots of little stuff regularly, which was nice. Utterly futile, in this case — nobody’s opinion of Cyberpunk 2077 is going to change, just because of a new car — but at least they’re trying to get things back to normal. And, hell, I never got any DLC for ME: Andromeda, and that still ticks me off*.
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*So does releasing games before they’re ready, obviously.
Tweet of the Day, …Sure, Okay, Let’s Teach Robots How to Parkour edition.
Why the hell not? Surely it’ll never end in murderbots doing jumpy-flippy stuff in the abandoned streets of post-apocalyptic Newark.
…Hrm.
Parkour is the perfect sandbox for the Atlas team to experiment with new behaviors. Through jumps, balance beams, and vaults, we push Atlas to its limits to discover the next generation of mobility, perception, and athletic intelligence. https://t.co/xZRNVnhrkc pic.twitter.com/E0ssh45ZCi
— Boston Dynamics (@BostonDynamics) August 17, 2021
August 17, 2021
The *Very* Anime STAR WARS: VISIONS Disney+ trailer.
Now, obviously, STAR WARS: VISIONS was supposed to be anime, because it’s a collection of episodes from various Japanese animation studios. So conceded. It is, however, almost immediately clear that the studios in question were not phoning their anime-ness in.
My only worry here is that they’re going to try to make me watch the dubbed versions. Which, yeah, no. I am totally a snob that way.
08/17/21 Snippet, RESCUE.
Powering through!
Patreon!…Ted’s damn safety harness had probably been cheap-ass even when it was new, back in the last century. As he was straining to get a strap tightened, he heard a pop, just as the ship shuddered and tilted. It was a pretty good tilt, too, enough to send him staggering down the deck, and right into a cargo crate. It could have been worse: Ted didn’t lose a tooth, and didn’t even break his nose. He did get a nasty cut along the scalp, which he only noticed when he put his hand to the sudden pain in his head and it came back watery-red.
“Fuck!” yelled Ted, his bloody hand leaving a smear on the crate as he levered himself up. He followed that with some of the foreign curse words he had learned lately — only to suddenly be grabbed, and pulled away from the crate. It was Rahi, who started to propel Ted to the nearest hatchway while doing some shouting himself; whatever he was saying, it didn’t sound polite. He certainly wasn’t being calm.
The ‘Eat. Them. All, Do-do-do-do-do-do’ SWIM trailer.
Seriously, anybody who goes down into a flooded basement to check a circuit breaker is asking to auto-darwinate herself anyway. Why blame the shark? Damn thing doesn’t even want to be there.
And by “there” I obviously mean “an Asylum movie.”
My mini-review of FREE GUY.
Short version: FREE GUY has no business being good. Not to mention, decent.
Slightly longer version: FREE GUY is one of those films that will happily confound your expectations. Mind you, it’s in a good way, particularly since one of those expectations would be “people are horrible.” In FREE GUY, they’re… not. Even the horrible people aren’t horrible all the time.
As you probably guessed from the above, the movie’s more complex than you might expect. Well worth seeing, particularly if you can get lunch beforehand. A cold beer and a hot sandwich before the movie: pure, pure bliss…
Tweet of the Day, ‘Crocodile Donnie?’ …I’ll Allow It edition.
Wrestle a gator into submission, get the nickname. Seems fair.
See, this is why I think we need a better definition of “beat” for the question above, because imho this guy clearly “beat” the alligator even if he didn’t kill it. https://t.co/1iqgFRGMzM
— Sonny Bunch (@SonnyBunch) August 17, 2021
Moe Lane
August 16, 2021
Tentatively gonna go see FREE GUY tomorrow.
It’s been a week since the procedure, and I’m now at the ‘spectacular bruises’ part of the recovery process. A matinee sounds like a lovely idea, honestly. I may also try to get in JUNGLE CRUISE later this week, then do the new Venom and MCU flicks as they come out. That should get me caught up at this point.
I did miss theaters. Call me old-fashioned, but I did. I’m glad I can get back to them now.
