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Roughnecks – Starship Troopers Chronicles – (1999 show)

2016-05-16
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Roughnecks - Starship Troopers Chronicles (1999-2000) dvd

Entertainment > Television >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0190198/
(archive of the original website)

A military unit is sent on missions in a future where all of humanity is at war with alien insects.

The show is animated, and not “anime”. As such, it has not held up well with time. The music is fantastic, though. Truly. However, its other high points do not make up for the visual issue I have.

While it doesn’t do it for me, I would recommend this for fans of the movie or movie series who can also handle the visual style and jerky movement that to me is reminiscent of ReBoot – (1994 show).



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Starship Troopers 3 – Marauder – (2008 movie)

2016-05-16
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Starship Troopers 3 - Marauder (2008) image

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0844760/

The war with the bugs rages on, with humanity starting to lose, but something about god and wining and things.

This started off as a great or at lease decent tv-movie, but its “wrap up” took enough of a nosedive to spoil it. It has a much higher budget and is generally better than part two, but.. that ending, man. That ending. This is still worth a once-watch for fans of the original.

  • Properly titled Starship Troopers 3: Marauder



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This Is the End – (2013 movie)

2016-05-13
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This Is the End (2013) poster

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1245492/
thisistheend.com

The apocalypse happens, and a bunch of average celebrities try to survive.

Moderately terrible. Worth a watch if you like these particular actors and their previous works.



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No Man’s Sky – (2016 game)

2016-05-12
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DO NOT BUY. DO NOT TRY.

No Man's Sky icon

Entertainment > Games >

(on Wikipedia)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/275850/
https://www.nomanssky.com/

Explore, survive, gather and trade while making your way to the galactic core.

Every single described goal of this game has failed. It is a bad flight-simulator, with bad crafting, bad technology, and bad survival mechanics. It is set on procedurally generated planets so vast that nothing matters, in a procedurally-generated universe so vast that nothing matters. What’s worse is that it is so godawfully crowded with hand-holding that it becomes both easy and repetitive. Being ugly and with abysmal performance, it’s not even an exploration time-waster.

Perhaps in some years they will change/fix many of its issues, but I believe it has a fundamental casualness to it that anchors its core gameplay problems. This is not a game made for gamers.

2017-05-07 update: I tried it again, and it just isn’t worth it. If its graphics were the same as before (they’re busted now) then maybe. I have another video card but I’m not going to swap things around or fiddle with installing an old version of my card’s drivers. I just don’t want to bother any more.


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The Lobster – (2015 movie)

2016-05-11
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The Lobster (2015) poster

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3464902/

Single people are in a hotel and must fall in love, and they hunt other people for sport to gain extra days to do it.

This is just a shit movie. The little twangs of music are unnecessarily unnerving, the narration is pointless and fucking annoying and everyone’s manner of speech is .. well it grates on my nerves.



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Overwatch – (2016 game)

2016-05-10
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Overwatch logo

Entertainment > Games >

(on Wikipedia)
https://overwatch.blizzard.com/en-us/

Shoot stuff and things.

I played the open beta. I found it fun, but not worth money. When I was given it for free a while later, I didn’t find it all that great.

  • Has graphics reminiscent of Sanctum 2 – (2013 game).

  • Overwatch 2 – While it has PvE to some degree, the full talent trees and upgrades concept will not be implemented. (source)



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Captain America – Civil War – (2016 movie)

2016-05-08
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Captain America - Civil War (2016) poster

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3498820/
https://www.marvel.com/movies/captain-america-civil-war

Leftovers from a previous movie come back to haunt The Avengers, who tear themselves apart because they lack conflict resolution skills.

Another superzero movie. Only good if you’re not just into this genre, but into this series. Other movies set in this universe must be watched to appreciate some of this one.

  • Properly titled Captain America: Civil War


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Proteus

2016-04-25
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Proteus logo

Entertainment > Games >

(on Wikipedia)
https://web.archive.org/web/20190810154034/http://twistedtreegames.com:80/proteus/

Open-world exploration.

It’s like an even crappier-graphics Minecraft, only with nothing to do. At first I thought it was quirky and interesting, but for some reason I got lifted in the air and after a long, long, while the game ended. I redid things, and this happened the second time too.

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The 5th Wave – (2016 movie)

2016-04-16
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The 5th Wave (2016) poster

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2304933/
was 5thwavemovie.net

An alien invasion begins with horrifying disasters but peters out into a lengthy siege wherein an unlikely girl struggles to survive.

Yawn.



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Batman v Superman – Dawn of Justice – (2016 movie)

2016-04-02
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Batman v Superman - Dawn of Justice (2016) poster

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2975590/
https://www.warnerbros.com/movies/batman-v-superman-dawn-justice

A privileged white nerd-boy never got his patriarchy membership card, so he sets up the most powerful being on earth by using astonishingly advanced alien technology because astonishingly advanced alien technology isn’t good enough and he has to take down competitive patriarchy because something about good and god and evil and stuff.

This movie makes no fucking sense on so many levels, I may as well give it that fuckmenazi description. Characters don’t make sense. Motivations don’t make sense. Lots of action that didn’t need to happen, or happened in the wrong way.

A character that gets whipped up out of nowhere, who only the comic book nerds will vaguely recognize.. and not even understand. Does anyone think all the little comic book nerd boys always wanted to be a woman-superhero? Uh, no. So not popular. So having no explanation, she was dropped in as a deus ex machina. A hot awesome one, but terribly-written and disruptive.

Furthermore, the appearance of The Flash (who I had to look up), made no fucking sense whatsoever. It wasn’t even a deus ex machina, it was entirely unnecessary and confusing fluff.

Yet another bland superhero movie.

  • Properly titled Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

  • Yes, it’s properly titled Batman v Superman, because American theatre-goers know neither “versus” nor “vs.”.


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