Oh, and I'm really curious what the film industry is going to look like ten years from now. Lightyear came out 5 weeks ago, Black Phone 4 weeks ago, and as of the past 24 hours they're both currently available to watch VOD.

You know they've figured out how to make money with streaming when they went there and stayed there after the pandemic's worst days had passed. What do I think it will it look like? Much the same, but without movie theaters at this rate. They can't charge enough for snacks to make up the shortage, no matter how hard they try... yet they most definitely will try.

Black Phone is a relatively small scale horror flick, but Lightyear? That one's got to sting a little for Disney.

I don't know but have heard tell that Lightyear was an utter flop. It's back to the converter conveyer belt of recycled ideas for them.

I watched it not knowing the background. I found it at its core to be fine, but half the characterizations and virtually all the dialogue was patently ridiculous.

I'm sorry, but having read the book, that's...

BWAH-HA-HAH, HA!!!

There's only one more twisted motherlover in that story, and I can't say who as I don't know how far along the show is and wouldn't spoil it.

The only good thing about 100's is that it can't get more humid at that point. The week I was off work in mid-June we hit 102 every day for the entire time...so guess where I didn't go any longer than I had to during the whole 10 days I was off? If you said outside give yourself a cookie.

I tried watching Uncharted. Really, I did. 20 minutes in, I cut it off and haven't felt moved to resume it. So it'll reside on my Plex server as pending for a long time until I finally just purge it.

Johnny should have just reminded himself what kind of world he was going to leave for his father Keith Richards to live in when he's gone. The Green Ambler Heard relationship would have never progressed to the point it did. Just another example of why overgrown children shouldn't breed.

Anyway...hey, did anyone chell out the new Chrono Cross remaster? I'm kind of on the fence about trying it out.

Well, Youtube IS owned by Google. Their hallmark is buying perfectly good things, adding features to them despite being feature-complete, screwing them up, and letting them break before eventually removing them and disavowing their existence. I'm amazed they haven't replaced it wholesale with something worse three times already.

It always comes back to Rammstein for you, doesn't it

Anyway, my new vehicle came with Sirius, and since I can get it for sixty buXors a year I said what the hey. I still can't find anything to listen to.

Took me awhile to figure out what you two were talking about. Are they already airing season 2?

Going to hit Dr Strange after work (i.e., in 45 minutes). Kinda hate now that I didn't watch WandaVision.

Kaguya-sama is back, all's right with the world. I'm trying to remember if I liked Tiger & Bunny enough ten years or so ago to watch the new season. I was glad to see Science Fell In Love got a second season as I enjoyed the first go around. I'm giving Spy x Family a shot due to its  premise alone.

I've actually watched a good bit of anime this season, which reverses a pair of tendencies I've picked up in recent years. First, downloading a bunch of stuff that I only watch a few of but continue to pull the rest in case I ever do decide to watch. Second, paring it down to one or two shows I know I'll watch and forsaking the rest. No, I've been actively watching four at one time (Dress-Up Darling, Realist Hero, Genius Prince, and Princess Connect), and catching up with Lupin III's 5th season and stocking up the 6th (which will probably be replaced later with a dubbed version...ah, how weeaboo of me). I also just started 86 (Eighty-Six) in the midst of these.

I'll likely slow back down with this next season which only has a few shows that appeal to me: Kaguya-Sama S3 (FT-freaking-W!), Date A Live (may not finish this...didn't care for the previous season at all, plus it's been awhile), the final run of Ikki Tousen (being that I'm still a shameless smut-hound), Tiger & Bunny S2, the final run of Strike the Blood (it's been hard as hell to follow the past couple years), the OVA for Moriarty the Patriot (probably should actually watch the rest of it...) and Ascendance of a Bookworm S3 (I really need to finish S2). I probably won't see all of those, either.

Re: Batman 2022.

The Genius Prince's Guide light novels. Just finished the second.

I mean... aren't the Rohirrim basically just the Proud Boys of Middle Earth?

Hahaha.

The Rohirrim were basically Vikings from the Old West. Proud Boys were basically Vikings in Pelosi's office.