July 10, 2020

BW’s Daily Link: Attend ConnectiCon At Home

For those of you new to the Spotlight I attended ConnectiCon from 2009 until 2016 due to financial and health issues. I would love to go back and if you go into the sidebar pulldown you’ll find ConnectiCon videos and articles under “convention reports”. With the death plague quarantine conventions large and small all over the country have been shut down and Connecticut’s little party is among them. (They canceled Riverfest too, which has happened the same weekend for a while now.) I probably wouldn’t have been able to go this year either but now nobody can. Funny considering half the attendees wear masks anyway. 🙂

Actually, maybe they can, and so can you. Like with other conventions the people behind ConnectiCon have decided to bring their convention virtual through Twitch and Discord. (No mention of the YouTube channel, or a schedule.) They’ll also be promoting the charity American Foundation For Suicide Prevention. Here’s a link to the official page for more information.

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July 9, 2020

War For Cybertron: Siege Trailer Drops

The previous adult-targeted Transformers cartoon was uploaded to the now-defunct Go90 website, which is now available through Rooster Teeth. After the conclusion of the Prime Wars Trilogy line Hasbro started a new collector line called “War For Cybertron” (not to be confused with the video game because Hasbro doesn’t pay attention–see also Robots In Disguise), which is meant to be a return to the original G1. The first line in the new trilogy, “Siege”, takes place on Cybertron and allegedly involves Cybertronian modes, though there wasn’t a lot of imagination in some of them. Optimus Prime is just his usual flat nose cab with some extra lights. There have been better Cybertronian modes for Op.

Like with the Prime Wars Trilogy the series promoting it doesn’t start until sometime AFTER the toyline has moved to the next series (in this case Earthbound…not to be confused with yet another video game that at least wasn’t Transformers related). This time it’s Netflix that will host the series, meaning if you can’t afford Netflix, like yours truly, you’re out of luck. We do however have a trailer for the new War For Cybertron: Siege animated series (which the trailer calls an anime, a term used for animated series out of Japan…which this isn’t), so let’s see if I’m missing out on anything.

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July 9, 2020

“Yesterday’s” Comic> Robotech: Feral World–Nightmare Of Garuda

“You just had to mention zoos, didn’t you?”

The Sentinels Presents…Robotech: Feral World, Nightmare On Garuda (A Worlds Of Robotech Book)

(I’m glad they left that title for the indicia.)

Academy Comics, Ltd (January, 1996)

WRITERS/ARTIST: John & Jason Waltrip

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July 9, 2020

BW’s Daily Article Link: The Stan Lee Animated Universe

Stanely Martin Lieber
aka Stan “The Man” Lee
December 28, 1922 – November 12, 2018

Stan Lee may be gone but he created a whole bunch of stuff before his passing. POW Entertainment, the company that didn’t try to screw him over like “Stan Lee Media” did, is working with Genius Brands and entertainment network Kartoon Channel (ot to be confused with a certain Network) to bring some of these creations to life in animation. I wonder if they’ll take another shot at doing The Condor? I liked that movie but I appear to be part of a small group. They also worked together on Mighty 7, which Lee had a voice role in.

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July 8, 2020

Filler Video: The Last Of Us’s Medical Mistake

Just because I haven’t played a game doesn’t mean I can’t learn anything from videos about said game. That came up when I posted a video about a broken magic system in a game I hadn’t played versus a good system in a game I also haven’t played. The host of that video gave all the information needed to follow along. Since this week my schedule has been a scramble I’m posting such a video again.

From what I hear The Last Of Us 2 made some huge missteps in their story, by killing favorite characters and then having you play as those killers. It’s certainly an example of the difference between watching a character and playing a character, something I’ll be bringing up in Art Of Storytelling. However, if you’re going for realism…in a story where people are taken over by fungi and turned into mushroom monsters, your typical Wednesday…it is important to get your facts straight. For example, the reason a group of humans wants the girl you’re protecting is because somehow her brain is capable of creating a vaccine for the fungi. MatPat of Game Theory goes over why the science doesn’t really add up here. Don’t watch this one while eating or just before bed. Kind of the wrong time to post it in my native time zone, isn’t it?

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July 8, 2020

“Yesterday’s” Comic> Star Trek: Deep Space Nine #26 (Malibu)

“Garak, this isn’t the place for that!”

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine #26

Malibu Comics Entertaiment (July, 1995)

COLORIST: Moose Baumann

LETTERER: Michael DeLepine

EDITOR: Mark Paniccia

“Genesis Denied” part 1

WRITERS; Chris Dows & COlin Clayton

PENCILER: Rob Davis

INKER: Jack Snider

COLOR SEPARATIONS: Violet Hues with Janice Wismar

“Mudd’s Pets” part 1

WRITERS: Randy & Jean-Marc Lofficer

PENCILER: Keith Conroy

INKER: Larry Welch

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July 8, 2020

BW’s Morning Article Link: Gaming In Vegas…In Games

A stock photo of Las Vegas, Nevada with Palm trees in the foreground. Shot at Sunset. [image source: Getty Images]

Las Vegas is famous for its gaming but it’s also shown up in video games or inspired levels based on Vegas. Here’s a few games that are set there but despite the title of the article it doesn’t really go into why the place is so often used. My guess is it’s just a fun level to design and everyone wants to visit Vegas.

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