MST3K has been off the air for eighteen years, but that is about to change! With a new cast and a new channel (platform?), they are ready to make fun of terrible movies for our delight, and I for one cannot wait. Check out the trailer above then start counting down the days until April 14th!
Don’t Mind Me I Am Still Just Playing Torment: Tides Of Numenera!
It has been a long time since I have actively dreamed about a game, but here we are: inXiles’s Torment: Tides of Numenera is constantly on my mind. I am wondering how things could have gone differently on certain quests, or wondering what sort of conversations I could have had, had I made different choices. Any time I play I am constantly finding myself talking to just one more person, and before I know it I need to go to work. Yes, like I said in my earlier post the combat is still trash, it can be hard to look at, and it is still glitchy, but there hasn’t been a game this well written for ages, and one where I am truly role playing the way I want to. It is a grand choose your own adventure tale, but one that truly lets you choose your own adventure.
Mass Effect: Andromeda is out today, and it should be showing up in my mailbox any time now, but I feel quite certain that it will not leave the impression on me that Torment has. While for the most part I have been happy with most of the games I have backed on Kickstarter, Torment: Tides of Numenera might be the first game I am proud that I backed. Which is interesting because inXile’s Wasteland 2 was the reason I stopped backing games on Kickstarter. Maybe after I am done with Torment and Mass Effect I will give Wasteland 2 another try, but for now, I am just happy to playing the cRPG classic Torment: Tides of Numenera, and I think you should too (just try not to fight anybody).
MST3K Is Back On Netflix And I Watched Time Chasers To Prove It!
Oh how I have missed MST3K not being on any of my streaming media accounts, but that ends now! Some classic MST3K episodes are now on Netflix, including Manos: The Hands of Fate, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, Eegah, and Time Chasers! This of course is the lead up to the new MST3K episodes coming out in April, but I will take all the MST3K that I can get! To celebrate this wonderful occasion I watched Time Chasers.
Time Chasers is about a guy who turns his crappy plane in to a Time Machine, and then sells it to an evil corporation. Who in turn destroys the world, so he has to go back to before he sells the time machine to set everything right again. Also, the movie was filmed in Vermont. Which I have been lead to believe is important.
Pretty much everything about Time Chasers is bad, but not in that nothing happens kind of way, which makes it perfect for MST3K. The show also includes a fun set of sketches about the robots going back in time to stop Mike from getting a temp job as a janitor, so he will not get shot in to space. It kind of works.
Time Chasers is very funny episode, though for me it ranks in the middle of the pack. It is definitely one of the best Pearl and Mike episodes though. If your life has been lacking MST3K, it is time to let it back in, and I couldn’t be happier! These classic episodes will make the thirty day wait for the new episodes much easier.
The American Gods TV Show Looks A Lot Like The Book!
There used to be a time when you wondered if they would dare to put everything from a book in to a TV show or a movie, not anymore. All the crazy and horrifying things from American Gods seemed to have made their way to the small screen for the upcoming Starz TV series. It looks a lot like what I imagined it would look like (for better or worse). A word of warning, the trailer has no age restriction, but it really should.
Get A Lesson In Norse Mythology From Neil Gaiman!
With Neil Gaiman coming to town in less than a month I had to read his latest book. Though to be fair I would have read his book anyway, but his upcoming talk in Seattle was a kick in the pants to finish the book sooner rather than latter. It would have been a shame for him to be discussing a volume on my Amazon wish list (very high on my wish list mind you) and not one I had just read.
Neil Gaiman’s latest work is a collection of Gaimanized Norse Myths creatively titled Norse Mythology. I know that some people were a little disappointed that these stories weren’t about the characters from American Gods (though it is kind of about them), but instead tales about the occupants of the Nine Worlds. They shouldn’t be though, they should be disappointed there aren’t more stories in the book. My only complaint is that I wanted more.
Norse Mythology will take you from the birth of the Nine Worlds and the gods all the way through to Ragnarök one story at a time. These stories are told very much like someone would vocally tell a story around a camp fire. There is not of chit-chat or characterization, but a lot of Thor, Loki and Co. going out and doing stuff. It just turns out that the story teller is very recognizably Neil Gaiman.
In the introduction Gaiman wishes that more of the Norse gods stories would have been preserved, so that we could have known more about the other god’s and their stories, and after reading this book I have to agree. There is such a good cast of characters I would have loved to hear more about them. Still, I am very happy with the book that Gaiman has produced, and now that he has given me the basics, there is nothing stopping me from telling my own Norse tales.