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I Am Sick Of Every PC Game Company Needing A Launcher!

Last night I needed to download the Bethesda Launcher to player “something” (sorry I can’t say what), and at the same time my EA Origin said it needed to update.  Then it got me wondering, “How many stupid ‘launchers’ do I have?”  Let’s list them shall we: Steam, GOG, The Windows Store, EA Origin, UPlay, Epic, Twitch, and now Bethesda.  Those are just the ones that I have, and I am sure more companies are coming up with their own.

Look Game Companies, I get it.  It makes sense.  You can make your own launcher and store and then skip the middlemen to sell directly to your customers.  More profit for you.  Plus you get to push the patches out directly without having to get approval from Microsoft, Valve or CD Projekt Red (am I the only one that thinks they need to drop the ‘CD’ off their name?), but man every time I need to play a game on one of those platforms it needs to patch before I patch the game.  It is supper annoying!  I just want to play the game!

Crap like this is why people love consoles.  Sure you have Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft acting like gatekeepers, and not all consoles get all games, but when you do get a game it just works!  Yes, you may need to make an account with those other companies to make some features of those games work, but for the most part that is optional unless it is an MMO.  I play video games to have fun, not to play patch-a-palooza, or which-launcher-has-that-game bingo.

If this is where the PC market is headed, we are in for a headache.  I understand why it is happening, but that doesn’t mean I have to like it.  In my day we went to the store and bought games off of a shelf like man!.  Hold on.  I need to get a stick.  I think there are some kids on my lawn!  “Hey you!  Get your game launchers and your Free 2 Play FPSs out of here!!! … Unless they are really fun!”

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David Fincher Is Directing World War Z 2?!!!

World War Z hasn’t held up well.  It was an okay action film that turned zombies in to insects, so while Brad Pitt has been pushing for a sequel, I have been hoping for the opposite.  That all changes now!  According to Variety David Fincher is close to signing a deal to direct the sequel.  David Fincher is one of the greatest directors working.  I mean if Alien 3 and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button are your worst films, you are pretty good, and if anyone can make World War Z work it would be him.

I guess Brad Pitt has been begging him to do it for quite a while now, and Fincher has finally given in.  I just hope that he can bring something new to the very tired zombie action formula.  A zombie thriller perhaps?  Maybe there are threats of a new zombie outbreak and people are desperately trying to find its cause?  Man that could be a good film.  David if you are reading this drop me a line so we can talk story ideas, and don’t let Brad write it.

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The Tick Officially Returns This August!

Our sad pathetic Tick free lives get much better August 25th!  Because The Tick is returning to TV, or at least the internet that connects to our TV!  Will it be as funny as I remember? I don’t know, but if MST3K can come back better than ever so can our favorite blue bug man.  Spooooooooon!

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Shmee Tours 1977 LA With The Nice Guys!

Shane Black specializes in a certain type of movie, and that type of movie is Lethal Weapon.  You know, two guys against the odds taking down something bigger than themselves.  One is guy is funny and the other is the straight man who might just be too old for this.  The Nice Guys fits very well in that mold, except it takes place 1977.  Though credit were credit is due, no one does Lethal Weapon better than Shane Black.

The movie begins with hired muscle Jackson Healy (Russell Crowe) ‘convincing’ PI Holland March (Ryan Gosling) to stop bothering Amelia Kuttner (Margaret Qualley).  March quickly complies because he was actually looking for porn star Misty Mountains (Murielle Telio), who he knows is dead, but he is making a quick buck off Misty’s aunt, so he was just tracking down Misty’s friends to make it look like he was working.  It turns out a lot of Amelia’s friends are dead.  Of course this all leads down a crazy rabbit hole neither Healy or March are prepared for.

The time and the place of the film do help The Nice Guys feel a little different from Black’s other action comedies, but in all honestly, I knew what I was in for as soon as I started the movie.  It would be like expecting something new from a Guy Ritchie gangster film.  They are all the same, but they are also all very good.  If you do something well and people like it, why try and reinvent the wheel.

Crowe and Gosling were perfect for this film.  They are both talented actors who nailed their roles.  Crowe’s Healy is an old pro who wants to do his job well and get things done the right way.  While Gosling’s March is just trying to get paid while getting as many free drinks as he can, but that doesn’t stop him from knowing what he is doing every now and than.  Much like other Shane Black films all the women in this film were pretty much props with the exception of Angourie Rice who plays March’s spunky teenage daughter Holly.

The Nice Guys is a funny film with plenty of action, and if that is what you want, you will be very happy.  If you are expecting something new and fresh, you will have to look somewhere else.  This film is Shane Black doing what Shane Black does and having a good time doing it, and I had a good time watching it.  One word of warning though, since the background of this movie is the 1970’s porn industry it does earn its ‘R’ rating.  I would hate for you to say I didn’t warn you.