Jason

I'm trying to make a Christmas list for myself in case my kids want to get me anything and so far, it's mostly just some movies and video games, and a pair of pliers. I may, in fact, be a very boring person.

I have finally caved and bought a Pro 2 controller for my Switch 2. No more shall I have to endure the tyranny of walking the six feet from the couch to the dock to turn on the Switch! Also, I had $20 worth of Best Buy coupons that were about to expire and went with an open box pad.

So, after years of hearing about it, I finally watched the 1977 Japanese film, House. My summation is it seems to have been a cocaine-fueled fever dream of an excuse for a creepy dude to get teenage girls naked and then nonsensically dismember them, which as fetishes go, is a real red flag for me.

While I believe most LLM shit should be killed with fire, I randomly found this and it instantly moved right up that list. I can't wait to hear about the first Very Normal Human who marries theirs and believes it's sapient. Honestly, who wants this crap?

I don't pay too much attention to RPG Kickstarters lately, but this D&D expansion sounds very cool.

Wow. Fuck EA forever. They not only sold out to the Saudis, but now they're shutting down Bioware. The gaming industry is crashing and burning at an insane rate, imo, because it consistently suffers from the stupidest, most clueless management possible.

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Here's a movie headline I could not have predicted.

So, after 3 episodes, I feel like if you liked Widow's Bay, Netflix's Below will probably be a good choice. I'm enjoying it anyway. It feels like it could be occuring due North of Apple's show.

Can a #Canadian tell me if Josh Harnett's accent in #Below (on Netflix) is right or nonsense?

I have no idea what kind of sorcery was involved with this, but I think it's amazing. I never could get a Vectrex as a kid and always wanted one. To the point where if I saw one cheap enough (really cheap) now, I'd pick it up. #retrogaming

"Wicker" is now at the top of my must-see list. If anyone tries to light that man on fire I will kill to stop them

Thanks, Amazon!

Since it just opened here, I've taken my kids to Dave & Busters and damn are they bad at off-brand DDR. Of course, I'm sure I am too but still.

I don't consider myself the best father by any stretch, but holy hell this dudebro needs his ass kicked if this a real, unironic post. For me personally, if see a guy is one of these lazy, worthless fathers, I instantly write him off. He's not a man, he's a manchild and not worth anyone's time.

My attempts to get a working light gun were also met with dismal failure. After installing different IR LEDs into the transmitter array I built over the weekend that the Guncon 3 couldn't see, it's barely maybe seeing them on my PC, but not on the TV, so it was frustration all around last night.

Last night I discovered to my great annoyance that the PS3 controller is simply the most annoying and poorly designed controller to reassemble I have ever encountered. I just went in to change the battery and give it a good cleaning, and ended up cursing whoever designed it in great detail.

These Wine Caps are absurdly wonderfully prolific all of a sudden, thus providing me with a lovely and much more useful than usual bouquet to take in. #mushrooms #mushroommonday

Made pizza this weekend and had a hankering for a clam pizza,but only made half because I figured no ones would want any. I got one piece before my kids scarfed down the rest. So, lesson learned.

There was a pumpkin roll in the breakroom for people to cut a slice from, so I did because I'm really hungry but it tastes like lemon Pledge smells and now I'm worried someone is trying harder than usual to kill us.

My Wine Caps are fruiting! And very prolifically too! #mushrooms

Wow. Apparently some crazy cat(s) ported Halo to the 3DS and I guess I really need to jailbreak my 3DS, because I keep hearing about wild stuff like this being done for the thing.

Also, the story behind how the song even got out into the world is pretty interesting. Shirley Manson did a sadly short-lived, but excellent podcast and one of them is with Peaches where she talks about it. The whole series is worth listening to for people into (fairly recent) music history.

My general view of Marvel movies now (especially after Brand New Day) is Very Negative, so this makes me laugh, but really everything about this movie(s) has sounded idiotic from the start when they decided to recycle RDJr into Doom. It just such inane casting and has been downhill since.

Yesterday's deliveries brought retro gaming and movies. I'm hoping Arrow's 4K transfer of Forbidden Planet is solid. They've been hit and miss in the past. The Guncon is an experiment to try to play old gun games on new TVs, once I build it a new IR sensor array.

Spent most of my day working on 3 control pad adapters for my #Dreamcast and at the end, only managed to get one working. My soldering skills are marginally improving, but I wouldn't call it a successful use of my time. #retrogaming

Just watched the original Predator with my daughter on 4K Blu and oof, it's a rough transfer. I haven't seen the standard Blu-ray version, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's either the same or maybe better. The waterfall scene looked like VHS. Very disappointing.