Today

Kong: Skull Island - Rise of the King

I guess we're going all in on movie trailers. Here's the greatest and latest for Kong: Skull Island. I really dig this trailer and pretty much everything I've seen about this movie for the last year. Like in 2015 if you had told me they were rebooting King Kong again I'd have rolled my eyes so hard toilets would have exploded. But here we are in 2017 and this movie looks killer....

...almost too killer. They sure are showing us a lot of the plot and the monsters in this trailer. This better not be a scenario where they really only have about 3 minutes of cool stuff so they're showing it to you all in the trailer. I mean, I'm not expecting The Sixth Sense here or anything but I'd like there to be a couple surprised in the movie.

Bright, The Trailer

Will Smith as a cop with a sword fighting trolls in a modern day Los Angeles? Yeah I think I can find 2 hours in my precious schedule to watch the hell out of that. Good work Netflix.

Kinda New FF8 trailer

The international trailer for The Fate of the Furious just popped up in my YouTube feed so I thought, why not? FF7 was on this last weekend so I'm sort of in the Fast and or Furious mood. This international trailer has like 7 seconds of new footage over the last one they released last month so I guess that's something.

BTW, there's a scene in FF7 where Ludacris modifies a grappling gun with a NOS canister. That is not how any of that works. If I didn't know any better I'd think the producers of these movies aren't that interested in a realistic portrayal of the LA Street Racing scene.

Rough Night: Archer Season 8 Trailer

Woohoo new Archer is right around the corner! Sure I'm wildly behind on all my regular TV watching but why not add a bit more to the pile. Actually Archer is good enough, and it's only a half hour, so it'll probably get watched way before Luke Cage or Legion or Better Call Saul. I mean I love all those shows but man an hour where I actually have to look at the TV and pay attention, that's tough. Its way easier to keep up with The Curse of Oak Island or something where I can watch it while I smoke fools on Overwatch.

Anyway, new Archer. Yeah it's another gimmick season but that's ok with me. Even the most mediocre Archer episodes are better than any other comedy I'm watching right now.

No Problem

This is me at work for the last 4 weeks. We're migrating to a whole new computer system and the transition has been ROUGH. We're 6 weeks away from going live with the new system and I haven't used it at all yet. I've barely been able to keep up with all the extra work involved with getting the old system to talk to the new one. Ugh.

I guess there's a silver lining, if I get fired or quit I'll have way more time for blogging.

Via James of No Trades

Blizzard Shuts Down SEXY Playwatch Magazine

So you are away, I copied the title of this video direct from YouTube so the fact that SEXY is in all caps was their decision not mine.

Also it should be noted that I'm posting this video without having watched it. It just popped up in my subscription feed and it's mostly relevant to my Overwatch interests.

This is 1000% no surprise to me. Blizzard has been very active at trying to squash all the porn associated with Overwatch, League of Legends and World of Warcraft. I mean they're not doing a great job of it. It's still everywhere, but I'm just plugged into the digital art scene enough to know that they'll get your tumblr or twitter account shut down for a while. The funny thing to me here is that Playwatch wasn't porn, again I have no idea if the video points that out or not. Yes Playwatch cribbed their name from Playboy and the while the cover to the magazine (which is being generous, it was just a fanzine you could download as a pdf) did usually feature a character from Overwatch in a suggestive pose the inside of the magazine was pretty innocent. It had interviews with cosplayers, and some fan art and articles on gameplay. Typical fan-zine kind of stuff.

My guess here is that the magazine was just a bit too polished for Blizzard's liking. It certainly looked like a real magazine and while it was free the creators were "cashing in" on Blizzard's intellectual property. I'm never a big fan of some big fancy moneypants corporation getting all bent out of shape over fan created stuff but at the end of the day they own Overwatch not the guy drawing D.Va in a her underwear.

Reportedly Links

Ben Affleck Reportedly Doesn't Want to Play Batman Anymore. Are we at full on crisis mode over at the WB/DC yet? Around the time when Ben Affleck was first announced as the new Batman he went on record saying he would direct a stand alone Batman movie as long as the script was right. First it was announced that he wouldn't be directing the movie now everyone and their grandma is reporting that he doesn't want to do it at all. That's not good. Combine that with how poorly Dawn of Justice was received by critics and the rumors that Wonder Woman is a mess and everyone at the studio hates it, and you're left with a less than rosy outlook for the DC Cinematic Universe.

Oh yeah, it's also been reported that they're trying to get Mel Gibson to direct Suicide Squad 2. Can't wait for the scene where Joker calls Harley sugar tits.

Kate Upton lands 2017 'Sports Illustrated' swimsuit issue cover. I thought we were all over Kate Upton, so congrats I guess, for getting back in the public eye. I think she's tied a record for most cover appearances. I guess I could google it but that seems like more work than I want to go in on this. Someone on the radio mentioned this was some kind of record so lets just go with that.

Also Angie Everhart is the greatest former SI model no one ever talks about. #fact

Inside the Booming Business of Adults Who Play With Toys on YouTube. Oh man, my daughter is all over these stupid videos. She will hand me the kindle and ask to watch "let it go", which doesn't mean she wants the song from Frozen. It means she wants to watch one of these Youtubers that always plays with Elsa and Anna dolls. Next to Paw Patrol and waking up in the middle of the night, it's like her third favorite thing in the world.

Hero Coder Adapts 'Portal' for the Apple II. I don't know if I'd call him a hero, that doesn't look like a ton of fun to play. I'm surprised more of these kinds of things don't exist. Sure pretty much no one has an Apple II in the house but getting your hands on an emulator is super easy. How come there aren't more SNES and NES games. If I was single and had freetime you know I'd be coding up some mods for SFII, sexy mods. Like Guile without a shirt on.