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I really didn’t plan to freeze frame at the worst possible shot, honest. It took three tries to even get a picture with the text.
I have nothing against mobile games. I have a few on my phone and tablet for when I’m out and need something to do without dragging a computer around and Game Boys are too tempting a target given their current worth. However, some of the ads out there right now will lie to you about the game inside. For example I tried playing Hero Wars on Facebook because I thought it was an interesting brain teaser puzzle game. You’re lucky if one of those comes up as a bonus level. The actual game is you watching your characters walk up to the enemy and beat them up. It’s like a real time side-scrolling strategy game for lazy people. Some of the ads now, probably because the Lilli’s Garden ads have a story that YouTube channels like The Game Theorists dive into the lore of, are somehow even less representative of the game inside. There are ads for new mobile game formats and those games don’t exist. They’re lying to you.
What’s worse is some of these ads are not exactly falling in the same YouTube guidelines that Google forces the creators to go with. In addition to being false advertising they use sex, stolen assets, and other issues that will in turn get a regular video flagged for using, at least to the point of costing ad revenue to the creator because supposedly advertisers want more family-friendly videos. How you have family-friendly videos with ads that absolutely aren’t? YouTube’s entire model is sometimes questionable to creators and the reason they keep hoping some other platform may be more friendly to new and lower tier creators who don’t get enough views and clicks for Google’s liking.
In the video below Saberspark goes over these ads because as someone who occasionally makes safe for work videos of not so safe for work content among his other animation reviews he’s been a victim of this hypocrisy. Note that swearing, suggestive themes, and farting are surprisingly popping up in this one.
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I know they didn’t get along but this seems a bit much.
Star Trek Unlimited #5
Marvel/Paramount Comics (September, 1997)
WRITERS: Dan Abnett & Ian Edginton
COLORIST: Kevin Tinsley
LETTERER: Phil Felix
EDITOR: Tim Tuohy
The Next Generation: “Secret Lives”
PENCILER: Ron Randall
INKER: Al Williamson (additional inks by Art Nichols)
The Original Series: “As Flies To Wanton Boys”
PENCILER: Tom Morgan
INKER: Kev Sutherland
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The fourth of the New Trek shows have dropped on Paramount Plus, with the Nickelodeon airing yet to be announced. The new shows have been…not well received with the classic Trek fandom. Star Trek: Discovery seems to only be about how awesome Michael Burnam is, changing the iconography of the franchise right down to the design of the Klingons, and introducing concepts but un-Trek and stolen from someone else. Yes, we still remember the Tardigrade incident. Meanwhile, Star Trek: Lower Decks took a concept from a fan-favorite episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation of the same name and basically popped out something that both loves referencing and spitting on the classic timeline. I’m not saying there aren’t classic fans who like these shows, but they are not necessarily the representation from what I can tell. Alternate continuity or not, they haven’t really captured what made Star Trek popular. Let’s not even discuss Star Trek: Picard.
Star Trek: Prodigy is the third animated series, produced in association with Nickelodeon. Nick isn’t ignorant of space exploration shows. The just-barely-qualifies-as-campy Space Cases and the more recent co-production The Astronauts were pretty good. The question about this show is not only the quality of the work itself but the quality of the adaptation, which is where so many shows and movies using classic names and trappings are miserable failures. Well, I do more than talk about it. Paramount Plus’ YouTube channel has the first episode, the two-part “Lost And Found”, available for viewing so I’m going to post it below. Come up with your own opinion (before it comes down, which is why I didn’t wait for Saturday Night Showcase because I don’t know how long they leave these previews up) and then check out mine. I wish I got to do this with pilots more often.
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The link to my YouTube channel is in the footer, but anything not made for the Clutter Reports, which I link to on Sunday’s comic or update posting anyway, will end up here or at least linked to. Still, a boost in subscribers would get me closer to the features YouTube reserves for the cool kids.
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Are we just running out of names for wars in the Marvel universe now?
Free Comic Book Day 2015 (Secret Wars)
Marvel (June, 2015)
Secret Wars #0
WRITER: Johnathan Hickman
ARTIST: Paul Renaud
COVER ARTIST: Alex Ross
LETTERER: Chris Eliopoluos
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Jon Moisan
EDITORS: Tom Brevoort & Wil Moss
There’s also a back up story featuring a crossover between the Marvel universe and Attack On Titan but I care so little about that franchise that any attempt at reviewing it on my part would be a waste of both our times. Yes, I know one of the characters has a similar last name to mine. That’s the limit of my interest.
