Category: Geek

Peacemaker

January 28, 2022 / / 0 Comments

Peacemaker tv show on HBO is a new DC superhero series.
After watching the new Suicide Squad on HBO I was hooked on this character.
This show is a combination of the Boys, Justice league and Guardian of the Galaxy. It is funny, violent and very comic book like. There are a lot of deep cuts from DC Comics on this show. Peacemaker himself is a bit of a deep cut. Like many of James Gunn’s movies the music is on point.

The Characters are great as are the actors that play them.

John Cena is really great in this show. Freddy Stroma is a great vigilante. When I heard the vigilante was on this show I thought it was the old west version.
Nope it’s the new version but a bit different than the comics.
They are the dynamic duo of this show and a hoot.
If I was in charge of DC I would give James Gunn a large dump truck of cash to keep making great series and movies for them.

The way he can take a comic book character who nobody knows anything about and make it a hit is amazing.
The rest of the cast is amazing. I figured that they wouldn’t be in it much but they are the team and they are great.
Danielle Brooks as Leota is good at being tough but also conflicted and not wanting to get to deep. Jennifer Holland as Harcourt is tough as they come and a great fighter. She takes Leota under her wing.
Chukwudi plays a great leader and I won’t ruin anything and spoil it.
Steve Agee might be the diamond in the rough I figured he would just be the computer geek of the group, but he is more. Annie Chang and Lochlyn Munro play a great buddy cop team. Nhut Le as Judomaster doesn’t have enough screen time but he’s fun to watch. But it is Robert Patrick who will make you hate him but also sometimes laugh at. When you watch please do me a favor and watch the song and dance intro in the beginning. Oh and Eagly for the win!
I will have a review of the show with spoilers after the last episode.

The Mandalorian

November 15, 2019 / / 0 Comments

Hello Friends.
I have watched two episodes of eight of the Mandalorian.
I am a Star wars fan. The Mandalorian scratches my old school Star wars itch. We go back to a more dirty lived in place and a time five years after the Return of the Jedi.

The empire is falling apart and lawlessness is back and bounty hunters are used again. The Mandalorian doesn’t say much but when he talks there’s a reason. He picks up a bounty while fighting of some scum at a bar. He brings him back to his ship and the guy tries to find a way to escape but it doesn’t work. He puts him on ice. The two episodes are really crafted well. I am a fan of John Favreau and Dave Filoni. I really liked the Clone wars that Dave Filoni made. And everyone likes Iron Man. If it was me Dave Filoni would be in charge of Star wars. He knows what the fans want and gives it to us.

I am hoping that the quality doesn’t change but I don’t think it will. It really seems like a western and all the characters are great and really brings the world alive. They have started on season two already so we have that to look forward. Here’s hoping the other Star wars shows are as good.

Video Games

August 8, 2019 / / 0 Comments
arcade full of video games
Photo by Kyle Nieber on Unsplash

There has been a lot talk of video games lately. People saying video games make you violent. I am here to say “I don’t think so”.
I am a very nonviolent person. I am very Catholic/Franciscan , and can’t say if I have ever hurt anyone.

I have been playing video games almost my whole life.
I am in my fifties, and the first video game I played at home was pong.
I love arcades, always have. But playing a video game at home is great. Not crowd, don’t have to bring a bunch of quarters. Pong was a very early game. Pong had a few modes most were very much the same.
Then a few years later at Christmas Atari 2600. That changed everything for me. We didn’t have a lot of money, so it was family entertainment. Oh and we only had one TV and it was in my Parents room. So we usually played together as a family even my parents.
After a few weeks my Dad and I were developing Atari thumb.
After about 6 months my parents bought a small 12 or 14 inch TV for the Kitchen/Dining room. We ate in our kitchen in a small table and my parents had enough of us kids coming up at 6am to watch TV and play Atari. Because when I was a kid in the 70’s and early 80’s there were a ton of Saturday morning cartoons. So by summer of that year we had a small TV and this was the kids TV. A friend and I would take any money we could get our hands on and bike to the golf course a mile or so away and spend it on video games and a coke. We would play games like Defender, Joust, Space Invaders, Tempest and more.

As I grew older the video games got better. When I graduated high school I bought myself a commodore 64. I had a job at McDonalds and most of the money went to video games. Whenever I was at a mall, I would go to the arcade called Aladdin’s Castle. Ever since I had the Atari I would ask for games for Christmas and my birthday. Eventually I played Nintendo, Sega, PlayStation, Xbox video game systems. With the commodore 64 my love of computers started.
After my commodore 64 I bought the Commodore Amiga. It was so cool because when I would look at PC games there wasn’t much color and the Amiga had really great color and after about a year I was able to buy a Mac emulator for it. After that PC’s did color better so I bought a 386 and so on and so on.

Now we have more power in our phones than my old PC’s ever did.
I have an Xbox one and a PC that has an I7, Nvidia 1060 and a super fast SSD and a terabyte hard drive. Oddly enough my favorite games were the shooters. Doom, Quake, Unreal and more. The more violent the better it seems. Now I play Rainbow Six Siege, GTAV, Red dead redemption 2 and more. With all that video game playing you think I would be violent. Nope I’m just as chill as always. Now video games help me with my stress and help me chill out. The things that get me mad now are traffic, people not being nice and people taking advantage of others. I don’t yell or scream or anything. I just hop on to a game and the stress disappears.

Dresden Files

July 24, 2019 / / 0 Comments
magic
Photo by Mervyn Chan on Unsplash

I am a big geek and I love fantasy and sci fi books. One of my favorite series is the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher. The last Dresden book he wrote Skin Game in March of 2015, so I have been waiting awhile.
But he just tweeted that he was done with the book and it was out to editors. I love the Dresden books. I love Harry Dresden and all his friends.

You might think since I am a staunch Catholic that I might not the like Dresden Files books, that since they have magic and evil spirits and such I might not like the books. But you are wrong.
Even though Harry may not be a Catholic but he believes in what the Church does. One of Harry’s best friends is a man named Michael Carpenter. He seem like a blue collar man and really he is. But he is also a knight of the cross. A man that wields a sword with a nail of the cross on it. There are other knights of the cross and they have similar swords. Also he has a big dog named Mouse who is smarter than he seems because he is a Foo Dog. Also his step brother is a white vampire Thomas and a friend on the police force Karrin.

Lets just say I really like Harry. He is a wizard but not just any wizard. He is a wizard that tends to take a beating. He doesn’t give up if he is right.He also always tries to do the right thing. It’s the people around him that give him a lot of his power. Harry has a ton of magic power but not as good at being subtle at it. I can’t wait to read it.

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