Here's another "watched on the plane" short thoughts. I think I watched this coming back from Greece?  It doesn't really matter.  This was a movie that I also had on my to watch list, but never made the time for when I was at home.  I read the novel (audiobook version narrated by Wil Wheaton), and I found it rather enjoyable. I understand the criticism that it was rather derivative

It's been a while since I saw this on a plane to (or from?) Greece, but I thought I'd add some short thoughts here. All of the Tron movies, which include Tron (1982), Tron: Legacy (2010), and Tron: Ares (2025), have been on my to watch list for a while now. Tron seemed like one of those culturally defining movies (at least the original 1982 one) that I should watch.I started with Ares first to

Recently, I finished watching season 2 of Paradise, a post-natural disaster show that shows how people prepped and survived an extinction-level event. If you haven't seen the show, stop reading, because...spoilers, obviously.Most of the season was awesome! I will give it that.  I think the way stories were told this season really brought together a lot of threads in an interesting storytelling

Another gaming-related April Fools. Again, I am aware of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. as a series, but have not started any of the games (I am sure I have them on GOG or Steam...) I love the "I am taking this Photoshop request literally" aspect of this prank ;-)Direct Link in case the embed does not work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWl1itEoJNM

Well now... after completing the first Cobra Kai game, I thought I'd continue with the sequel, Dojos Rising.  I was doing pretty well with this game, but after a few frustrating weekends, I decided that this was going to be a Did Not Finish kind of game for me.  Pronounced DNF on March 22 😹The game essentially picks up after the first game ends, and somewhere in Season 4 (?) of the series.

Alright!  After a false start, I got to play and finish the New Colossus. I finished this game just before the start of the new school semester on 1/20/25, both the core Blazkowicz story, and the Freedom Chronicles.Some things that stood out to me in the game included going to Venus where a very senile and paranoid Hitler resides and he is trying to make a movie about "Terror Billy" (Blazkowicz).

Another looking back at 2024. This one I finished (again) on 11/3.  I thought that I had played this game a while back, but I either didn't write about it, or both the search capabilities of Blogger and Xbox stink.Anyway, I started playing the New Colossus, when I realized that it was a sequel to The New Order, so I went back to this, only to realize that I had played it back in the XBOX

Here's a show I finished last month (August 2024) and thought I'd write a few things about it before it completely faded from memory. This is a Tom Clancy adaptation for Amazon Prime.  The series had four seasons, and the first two were the strongest in my view.  The series stars John Krasinski (of The Office fame) as Jack Ryan, and Wendell Pierce as James Greer (Ryan's Boss).The first season

Here's a game that took WAY too long for me to finish (considering how much I like this series). I finished June 2024 but I started October  2023.I was reluctant to start this game. I love the setting. I love the size of the map, and I love its "simplicity" when compared to the ENORMOUS maps that came with Origins, Odyssey, and Valhalla.  Don't get me wrong, I really enjoyed those games,

Another bit of a whackadoo series that I binged in June. This one is on AppleTV+, and it's questionable whether it's worth the watch 🙄 (spoilers).In this series, Amber Chesborough is an American scientist in Colombia researching psychedelics to treat addiction. When she is kidnapped by militants, her brother, Bambi, and her husband, Prince, both US Army Delta Force operators (in the same unit),