Recent content by Johnny Novgorod

I know, that's why I posit she wasn't "faking it" when she walks out of the show with a smile. That's just the show gracing the actor with one final "my job is done" close-up.

Why would Kimiko's tit blast de-power Homelander, Butcher and Ryan but do nothing to Sage's powers?

The Boys Finale Looking back over the years, The Boys has been fundamentally about finding ways to spin its wheels and kill time. I think season 3 is when I gave up on it. It was the fact we spent the whole season on Soldier Boy's revenge path, only for it to peter out and hit reset at the end...

Finished Notes From the Underground. It really is some kind of brilliant what Dostoevsky does for this sort of personality, fantasizing about victories over perceived slights and braving slice of life in a constant state of victimhood. Nominally this dude is pathetic and insufferable, but the...

Oh sure, apparently Ronda ends or used to end all her fights within seconds. And Gina is older and hasn't really had a fight in 20 years. So it tracks. I'm just disappointed cause I feel like I didn't really watch them fight. At least Tyson went the distance.

I've heard good things about it and have the devs' previous game, Rabi-Ribi, in my backlog. I'm just kinda put off by the whole loli thing.

Back to my regular Metroidvania programming: started playing Blast Brigade vs The Evil Legion of Dr. Cread. A little bit like Omega Strike (but better), it's a twin stick shooter that lets you switch between characters on the fly while apeing '80s action movies and Saturday morning cartoons...

I think I was either in the snow fields or the Haligtree when I discovered the L2 finisher. Didn't I feel like a sucker.

Got together with friends and played Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes. One player defuses a bomb while another flips through a manual and walks the player through the defusal (without looking at the screen). The instructions are deliberately overcomplicated and designed to confuse each other as...

Cleaner Die Hard but it's a lady window cleaner. And I love that she can't just be a window cleaner: like everything else these days it needs to tie back to childhood trauma. So the movie opens up with lil window cleaner monkeying around the kitchen and climbing out the window when dad gets...

The first two seasons of the show relied more on cycling through one-off writers and directors from prestige TV like The Sopranos, Mad Men and Breaking Bad. Beginning with season three creator Eric Kripke (who also created Supernatural) started brining in writers, directors and actors who were...

It was free on Netflix though.

Rousey. She arm barred Gina almost immediately.

Watched the Gina Carano vs Ronda Rousey "fight" and it lasted exactly 17 seconds. Whole thing could've been a gif. What a rip-off.

Death of a Unicorn A24 horror comedy that isn't particularly scary or funny. It's basically a feature length adaptation of that part in Jurassic Park 2 where they bring in a wounded baby T-Rex and mom and dad T-Rex come knocking, only it's a dead unicorn in a mansion and the movie wastes a lot...