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I can relate to Kyle here. An overdue cleaning of the bathroom knocked me out this week. Even splitting the work up between days didn’t help, as the most exhausting part was done on Friday. I was wiped on Saturday. It’s why I didn’t get a comic review done this week, just after starting the new schedule of course. It’s why there’s no Jake & Leon, and why Friday gave us the next My Transformers Universe (finished that just in time) instead of talking about the latest Star Trek news, which I won’t get to until Tuesday since I’ll be doing the Chapter By Chapter review of a different Star Trek, The IDIC Epidemic, in the usual Monday slot.
Meanwhile, The Clutter Reports finished looking at G.I. Joe Vs The Transformers by reusing my old review of the last miniseries from Devil’s Due.
So we have the Star Trek news to go over on Tuesday unless some breaking news happens. Otherwise we’ll see what’s coming up when it comes up, and hopefully I’ll have a finished comic strip for next week. I just wasn’t able to work on it. At least the bathroom’s clean. Hopefully I can make sure it never needs that much work at once again along with the other dusting I still need to do. Maybe wait a few weeks on that one so I can focus on other stuff. Have a great week, everyone!
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Sorry, folks, but cleaning my bathroom, even splitting it up over a few days, still kind of drained me. Dusting, cleaning the toilet, tub, sink, and floor (I swept that thing like three times and washed it), just kind of drained me. Getting the brain going to do the Golden Age comic review or find a Saturday Night Showcase entry just didn’t happen today. I’m still trying to get my new “work” schedule into gear, and these two series I don’t have a buffer for.
Hoping to get this week’s Jake & Leon done in time but I also have guests coming. I just can’t focus tonight. So please forgive me. I’ll try to work to keep this from happening again. I guess if you want to find something interesting you’ll have to check old Showcases and Daily Videos, or do what you usually do. I’m just not up to anything. I really need get some working out into my schedule. Have a great night. There will either be a comic or a programming note tomorrow and I did have one last buffer for The Clutter Reports. I’m getting there, folks.
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The Iliad and the Odyssey by John Flaxman is licensed under CC-CC0 1.0
Here’s a bunch of articles to check out today, actually.
Maybe I should get some more images, because Christopher Nolan’s take on Homer’s tale is still a big discussion topic. Regardless of how it does in the box office, even the writer of the translation Nolan supposedly based his take on has pointed out how wrong the adaptation is, and she turned it into some feminist scribe. Among the complaints like historic inaccuracy despite Nolan claiming changes were made to fit the time period (which was just an excuse to pull as much myth out of the mythology as possible and make a tale about wartime PTSD and guilt) is the use of modern terminology. As Carrow Brown writes for That Park Place, Nolan’s language choices further take the epicness out of the epic story and adds to the mundane. Writers, read this as a warning of how you use words in your story to set the story’s mood. As a final link, Bleeding Fool contributor Michael Fowler goes over other choices that further drain the epic myth of both epic and myth.
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It’s been too long since I’ve done one of these. It’s been in my head. I just didn’t have time to put it to text. I finally found the time.
As our chronicler is about to point out, Cybertron didn’t start out like other civilizations. The starter details…food, housing, protection, healing, building social groups and religion…were pretty much handed to them. They didn’t have to learn the basics of living. They just started. They still have to form laws, culture, a stronger society, and become a civilization.
I couldn’t tell that story until I finished going over the basics of how Cybertronian life operates. These are mechanical lifeforms, and one thing that has disappointed me is when writers make them too human. So how do I go about this artificial life without going too far the other way? Is it a balancing act? They’re robots, but they’re robots with emotions and everything that goes with that. They can transform into things and in my version have always been able to alter what that form is, something we’ve seen in TV and comics from literally the first story. Working early toy gimmicks, tech specs that used to give them “powers” (these were the Marvel Comics folks), and even explaining toy engineering and mold reuse all factored into how I approached Cybertronian life.
Now they have to take that and what they know about the universe, which is far more than the caveman, and become a proper civilization; mechanical people but still people. And so we turn things over to the chronicler, to tell us how the 13 Primes got the ball rolling before they went off to who knows were.
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The internet has allowed for new forms of entertainment, including watching others doing hobbies. Either as video or live streaming, you can watch people draw, crochet, build model kits, open trading cards, rebuild an F1 car engine, perform open heart surgery (probably), learn how to do things of various levels of importance to the universe or teach you how to do them. AMSR is just someone making noises that calm people. The trick is that the creator has to be entertaining, interesting, and/or informative if not all three. They even made vacation videos interesting, one of the big running gags of conversation and television, proving it was just that your Aunt Edna got more out of her trip to Oxnard that you do watching it versus when Jackiechanfan85b showed off his.
From the early days of the modern internet, one of the first internet born entertainment options are “let’s play’s”, where you watch other people play video games. Now there are streaming channels on Sling and Plex among other freestream channels that are just people playing video games. That started with short videos posted to YouTube and let’s play websites. Then Twitch came along, and now livestreaming those games while talking to and with the audience made the let’s play, live or recorded, a big part of internet and gaming cultures.
And yet there are people who make the games would rather that didn’t happen. Not all, mind you. Smaller studios see them as free advertising, and it wasn’t just Markiplier making Five Nights At Freddy’s so successful it has novels, it’s own theatrical movie, and enough imitators to fill a pizza parlor. No matter how many people were playing the games on the internet, it needed other gamers to also buy the game and play them…or at least buy the game. They have your money, then it’s only the developers who want to see people playing and loving their games unless they’re in it for the messaging or the money. Or both.
An article came out recently by Japanese site Nikkan Sports. Translated by Google Translate for me, comedian Hidetaka Kano was discussing his own streaming and brought up a conversation with Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami. He also said he went to Capcom for permission to stream the game. We’ve seen Nintendo of Japan push back against anyone streaming their games in the belief that watching a stream means less sales rather than more, though there are plenty of indie game developers who would beg to differ. So then the president of Nintendo Of America at the time, Reggie Fils-Aimé, who fought for the let’s play community. I learned of this interview from a Bleeding Fool article by Mike Murphy. I understand where Mikami is coming from, but I’m not sure I share that perspective, which still isn’t as harsh as Murphy made it sound.
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