Sorry it’s been a while since I wrote anything. There’s just not been anything that has captured my interest in the way that it should for a hot minute. I have a bunch of random things that I am thinking about, and it is hard to keep it all together in my head long enough to write an entire post about it. However, because I have a huge amount of things rolling around in my head, so I thought that I would write about all of them in a big menagerie of my brain’s bullshit.
My birthday was last Sunday. Nice, right? It would have been, except for one small detail – my identity just got stolen, and so my debit card was defunct. I have a credit card, but I REALLY don’t want to have to depend on that. So a lot of my fun birthday purchases and getting to enjoy myself went right out the shitter. You cannot begin to imagine how frustrated this made me. Seems like shit always goes wrong at once, but such is my life. I also had to miss a day at work to get my headlight bulbs replaced. I bought this car just a couple months ago, and the bulbs are dead. Thankfully it wasn’t a wiring issue, so that’s good.
YouTube has decided to get rid of the Dislike button. Or rather, showing the ratio of Likes to Dislikes. You can still dislike a video. They made this piss-poor argument that it is to stop people from dislike-bombing smaller channels. This was immediately debunked. The real reason is clear – because corporations are tired of having their stuff ratio-ed into oblivion. Most recently it was Nintendo who was obliterated because of their pathetic update to the Switch. Even the endlessly-forgiving fanboys/girls who do nothing but kiss Nintendo’s ass couldn’t apologize for it. Major corporations are tired of looking bad, so they got YouTube to essentially make it so that nobody can say anything wrong about them anymore.
Can the apologists for the Democrats just admit that Biden is a corpo rat? Their new infrastructure bill has been so gutted that it essentially does nothing, and it even gives yet-another tax cut to the rich! Oh, and did you all see Nancy Pelosi did the marriage ceremony for an oil tycoon’s daughter and her husband? If there isn’t a bigger indictment of the Democratic Party and what whores they are to the rich and powerful, I can’t think of one. The social issues are the only thing that they are able to keep the moral high ground, but as the people get more and more screwed by the rich and powerful, it becomes painfully obvious that that is just a smokescreen for their real agenda – screwing the people in service to the real owners of this country.
Reviews of Marvel’s Eternals are coming in, and it has confirmed something that I have been thinking would happen since Endgame – that the MCU doesn’t have a clue what to do next, and there is a creative bankruptcy happening with them. The film has been panned as boring and over-stuffed, with WAY too many characters that you couldn’t give any less of a shit about because the film does nothing to try and sell them. I knew that film was going to be a complete waste of cinematic money, and that going to see it was not something I would be planning to do.
Speaking of wastes of money, did you all see the video showing that CBS’s fourth-rate Rick and Morty clone, Lower Decks, ripped off a joke from Red Letter Media? Here’s a link to it. This is just fucking shameless! I knew that show was nothing but a giant trash fire, but this is the lowest of the low. The irony is that Red Letter Media was making fun of how bad the current Star Trek series are, and CBS decides it’s a great idea to take their idea into their terrible show that is literally ripping off the animation style, tone, and adult themed animated series straight from Rick and Morty.
Oh, that reminds me – why is everyone saying that Rick and Morty is getting so bad? I just watched through season 5, and I still think it’s a show that is funny and engaging. Is every episode a flawless hit? No. But the thing is that the show takes risks. They take chances. And the season finale was just spectacular. The dimensions it has opened to Rick’s character made me grin from ear to ear. Like, the next season absolutely has to open with Rick and Morty getting home and then talking about what happened.
The realization about Rick’s backstory changes so many things about how you see the series. For starters, Beth thought that he abandoned her at a young age, not understanding that he never knew her past a certain point. She was killed as a toddler. What would that do to the two of them’s relationship, when she realizes that her version of Rick never abandoned her, and instead did all he could to come back to her, trying to reclaim his life and what relationships he could after his desperate mission to get revenge for his family ended in failure. That would be an amazing episode.
What’s neat about the series is that its dramatic moments are just as impactful as its comedic ones can be. Rick is such an engaging character, and none of how he is written ever feels at odds with his character. He is cold and nihilistic, because he’s seen how fucked up it all is, and how there is no way to change it. He cares deeply for his family, but also understands that they are but one of many. Through everything he has done, there is a clear growth of this character, and now that we have filled in the gaps of his “crybaby backstory,” it gives new dimension with the character. I am DESPERATELY hoping that the writers decide to run with it, and that we get some serious conversations between characters when more of them learn the truth about Rick and what happened to him as a young man.
Oh, did you guys hear? The government plans to seriously commit to zero emissions! By 2050. You know, a timelines out so long that they can continue to do fuck all about it for the next 30 years and by the time they have to pay the piper, the people who are in power now are dead, so they don’t have to deal with it. You’d think these corpo rats would understand that they are basically fucking over the world. Don’t any of these pieces of shit care about their children or grand-children? Do they just figure that they will be rich enough to exploit whatever way out the corpos give them? They know how this all ends, right?
Actually, in 30 years, we will be at the beginning of what is being called the “population bomb.” It seems there is not a population boom that has happened since the days of lockdown, but the reverse. My generation isn’t making babies. Now that Gen Z is getting old enough to procreate, with even less buying power than my generation, it seems that they aren’t looking to make babies either. We have fallen below the line of population replenishment, and all signs point to a population collapse in the decades leading up to 2100. It could actually be the extinction of the human race. The idea that I might get to watch the end of this species, not just the American empire, is kind of awesome. Not gonna lie.
2022 is shaping up to be one HELL of a year for gaming. I put out my Most Anticipated Games of 2022 list at the tail end of last month, and I think that next year is going to have some amazing stuff. So glad I have a partner who not only doesn’t have a problem with my gaming, but also has it as a hobby. It’s great stuff. A feeling of togetherness that warms the heart.
Anyway, I think that’s where I will end my rambling thoughts for tonight. If you all have rambling responses, feel free to post them below.
Until next time, a quote,
“Now this is the power of math!” – Mike Stoklasa
Peace out,
Maverick
Lucien Maverick's Den 