The Toad's Burrow

    I'm back with a new season of The Boondocks , and a new site to (not) legally stream it form. I was pleasantly surprised with this season. This season basically took my biggest complaint with the last season, and flipped it on it's head, turning it into one of it's strengths? After watching the first season of Futurama  to this, I must say I do appreciate a show with a decent bit more edge to it. I don't know if I'd go so far to say I enjoyed this more than season one, but I will say it was more balanced, and I did really laugh at one episode, so maybe I did. It feels like the showrunners did a better job balancing all the different personalities this time. Let's talk about it.     I distinctly remember my biggest complaint from season one was that I liked the Huey storylines the best by far, other than maybe Riley Wuz Here,  which was very heartwarming. I just felt like the Grandpa Freeman and Riley centric episodes were just weaker, I wanted to see mo...

      Not all 50's are created equal you know? This may come off as a bit of a weird intro but I left this movie not thinking it was particularly good in any sense, but it was impressing, considering how it was financed, and the fact that it starred and was written by a Youtuber. Like, this movie certainly did not blow me away, but it gave me enough hope that maybe if Markiplier ever released another project, maybe I'd consider going to see it. It's most certainly an interesting and ambitious undertaking creatively there's no way around that. Even if you didn't like the film you have to admire someone's first real foray into the movie industry being a solo film where you're largely by yourself on a single set acting your heart out for two hours. So let's talk about it.     On one hand, the most interesting part of this film was that it's filmed entirely in a single location, that being the "iron lung" so to speak. Markiplier does an admirab...

      Originally, I was planning on using that single iconic painting of "The Judge" as the cover for this review, but after some deliberation I decided against it, even though you could argue he was by far the most interesting part of this book. I mean after all he was the main reason I decided to give this book a try. The white skin, the unsettling grin on his face, it was calling to me. Though, now after reading this novel I can safely say, wow, what a slog. I don't think I can unironically recommend this book to most of my friends, just because it is a real pain in the ass to get through. I even spaced it out, but no matter what I did, in terms of the actual reading experience I can safely say I did not particularly enjoy Blood Meridian . Let's talk about it.     After finally finishing the book, and looking up some threads to see other interpretations of the ending I can safely say that this book is significantly more interesting to read about then to actua...

      Let me tell you the story of a younger me. One that spent his cash like it was truly disposable. He had few expenses, and few other hobbies save for video games, and so he loved to spend his money on Steam key websites, going for the "10 mystery game packages" and many others of a similar ilk. Eventually, at some point, he had more games than he could ever conceivably play. Hundreds of Steam games bought cheaply, on an account that was now worth thousands more than he had ever invested in it. The reason I tell you all of this? If you haven't guessed it by now, Sunset Overdrive  was one of those games that lay dormant in my Steam library for years. Until now. Let's talk about it.     I will say, this game might be short, but it's a damn good use of 30 hours. I can say it with my chest that I would wholeheartedly recommend my game. Yes, there are absolutely caveats to it, but I'd argue they're kinks that could easily be ironed out, rather than ugly sta...

      Yes, yes, I know I said I was watching The Boondocks  but in Canada you have to buy it on Apple TV which is a pain so it's kind of annoying to go through it. So I've also been dabbling in other shows and frankly, this hasn't been the worst idea so far. There have been multiple times I have called this show The Simpsons  or Space Simpsons  by accident, despite the fact that my only actual exposure to The Simpsons has been clips online. So make of that what you will, I'm not saying it negatively or positively, I'm just saying I assume this is what The Simpsons  would be like if it was set in space. But otherwise, it was a pretty decent first season, let's talk about it.     You see, it was actually pretty novel watching the first season of Futurama  for "the first time." I say this in air quotes because I'm pretty sure I had actually already watched a whole rerun of this season when I was a very small child looking for anything on C...

      I have officially finished watching the first season of The Boondocks.  It's a show that's always been on my radar, but for one reason or another eluded me, mainly the fact that it cannot be streamed in Canada unless I buy it off of Apple TV. But, I am in a bit of rut when it comes to figuring out what I want to do, I could not finish Tomb Raider 1 unless I felt like ripping my hair out, so I decided to give this show I see online so often a spin. And I should have watched this show earlier. I don't think it's the best show I've ever watched so far, but it's just a really enjoying watch. Let's talk about it.     I'm not saying this show is for "Le Intellectual" or whatever, but when I say this show feels pretty smart, I mean in the sense that I never really have to worry about anything aging poorly. Even if this show wasn't an animated show I would say it's pretty smart about topics it chooses to satirize, even if it's often t...

      I remember seeing someone post a page from The Legacy of Luther Strode. I felt as if the "messaging" was a bit vague, and the person who talked about it did say that they weren't sure if they agreed with the message, and I have to say, I kind of agree. Not to say that this comic book is particularly profound or anything like that, in fact I'd argue it's trying to be something it simply cannot be. For instance, I also saw somebody online describe this comic as "If Superman grew up with no morals," and I yet again also have to vehemently disagree. The bones of maybe an interesting concept are there, but there are simply too few bones given to readers to truly make anything special. Let's talk about it.     Luther Strode's fundamental issue is that it is simply too short. I would say almost all of it's issue's could be fixed if Jordan and co. made this comic longer than six issues per section, totaling to a measly 18 issues in total. T...

      This review is going to be a little different, in the sense that I'm reviewing a rom-hack, but also because I'm just going to be reviewing Pokemon Emerald in general as well. Part of this is because I've been slowly (and I do mean very slowly) going through all of the older Pokémon generations again, and another part of it is because this game is very intentionally faithful to the original games. I don't really mind reviewing the game, after all when I first started out emulating Pokémon Emerald  was one of the first games I played, and I've had a very on and off relationship with rom hacks in my life anyways. And because I just kept on playing variants upon variants of this game, I have very little recollection of ever actually finishing it. I'm pretty sure I must have at one point, but for some reason a memory of actually finishing this game eludes me. Let's talk about it.     I'll start off with the "Seaglass" part. The art style is fa...

      If you named this book "Sapphic Encounters in the Time-Space Continuum" it'd sound like a really campy 60's flick, but that's also how I'd describe this entire book. The reason I decided to read it for my one mandatory book of the month was because I had heard about it before, I had seen it's cover, and for some reason people were clamoring about it on Twitter. If you think I base too much of my hobbies on what Twitter recommends you're probably right but still. I vaguely recall it being described as "some people call it really great, others call it too pretentious." So imagine my surprise when I pick up this book from the library, only to find that it's not even 200 pages long, and it's labeled as "Science Fiction Elementary." Let's talk about it.     On that last point for a quick paragraph. I can see why one might describe this novel as "for kids." I mean when I say it's short I do mean it, not jus...