Mister Jack

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness Much better than the first Doctor Strange movie. However, what I appreciated the most about it wasn't actually anything to do with the movie itself. It was...

Part 5 was the part in the manga I had the hardest time getting through but it just works so much better when it's animated.

Lucky you, then. Most of the mice I buy start to go after just a year or two. Hoping that spending 150 on this one will mean it lasts longer for a change.

Mice are pretty much the only thing where I buy the extended warranty for exactly this reason.

The mouse I was using is...fine, but the dongle for the wireless isn't always 100% reliable and I like the feel of it in my hand but I don't love it. I decided to make this my birthday gift to myself. It was expensive, but it's light as a feather and feels great to use. The wireless should be more reliable too and it also recharges with USB so I don't need to use batteries anymore. It may not have a DPI button but I can just set that to a keyboard macro later if I really want to. The DPI is ultimately higher on this one anyway.

Got it on ebay for 40 bucks. Fuck this 70 dollar game shit.

The Bad Guys It's furry Lupin III. No, really, that's not much of an exaggeration and I mean that in a good way. I love Lupin III. I know this movie is based on a book series but it is extremely obvious that the director of the movie is a big Lupin fan. They even have their own Zenigata, who made for a great foil. I love the character designs, the animation is super stylized and the action is cartoony and completely over the top. In fact, this film somehow managed to have one of my new favorite car chase scenes. I just love how crazy it looks to see dozens of police cruisers all going after the Bad Guys and getting into a huge pileup with officers flying all over the place because they were clinging to their cars like Mad Max characters. The plot is pretty predictable but it's a heist movie. All heist movies are predictable, but that's okay when the characters are fun and funny and have great chemistry. You just enjoy being along for the ride.

Oh wow. You mean to tell me that Activision-Blizzard was full of shit and they don't actually mean it when they say they want to fix the harassment issues plaguing the entire company and it was all just lip service because they're scummy fucks? I DON'T BELIEVE IT!

If I hear any bullshit about how America is "the greatest country in the world" one more time I'm gonna karate chop a bitch in the throat.

Does the story make an ounce of sense yet? I ended up selling the game after getting the vanilla true ending because I just couldn't get drawn into the labyrinthine lore.

Yup, that's exactly the same problem I had with it. Too much blocking. Thankfully that's only really a problem in Yakuza 3. I think they realized quickly that it was frustrating people and went back to a more forgiving enemy AI.

Y3 is definitely the weak point of the series. It's not just you.

I just love seeing the crazy builds people come up with.

Ah, tons of people do that. I did it for Bloodborne.

This is why we need an expansion.

Between this and the Cowabunga Collection, we turtle fans are eating good this year.

Fuck the Dragon God.

Oh no, the new patch added a really bad bug.

The Batman This one is even more grounded than the Nolan trilogy, but I thought that made it more interesting. Batman isn't a flawless fighter and takes a few hits and several bullets from common thugs. The Batmobile is basically just an armored muscle car. Batman himself never does anything crazy like blocking a gun barrel with a batarang and he has to go out of his way to prepare for taking on a room full of guys with guns. I thought it was neat to see how they make him work around these more realistic restrictions, not to say it never has its "comic booky" moments. But boy oh boy. Pattinson is also a pretty good Batman and they really play up the fact that you'd have to be mentally disturbed to put on a bat suit and go out at night to kick the shit out of criminals. Pattinson's Wayne is visibly unhinged for the whole movie and it made for an interesting take on the character. My main complaint is that it's too long. It's almost three hours and I really feel like they could have cut down fifteen to twenty minutes and not really lost much.

Forced stealth sections need to die. They're always the worst part of otherwise great games.

I do wish they had somehow nerfed that boss or at least changed its AI a bit. It's a pain how it's always running away from you in such a huge arena.

Well now you get bragging rights for beating it before your build got buffed.

Huge list of changes in the latest patch. Colossal weapons have been buffed across the board, which was desperately needed. A few OP spells have been nerfed. No balance changes to you-know-who.