Quick Hits: New Seasons For Some Favorites, And Random Pictures

On 10/09/2015 at 02:40 PM by goaztecs

Good morning Pixlpeeps! So how many of you good people downloaded the Star Wars Battlefront Beta yesterday?

I didn’t try it until late last night because the download took forever but holy cow, how good does this game look? If it looks this good on a console it is going to be insanely good on PC. It looks like I am going to be picking this game up on release day.

Anyways we shall talk more about it on Monday, so the weekend is here and do you good folks have any plans? I was supposed to go out last weekend but laziness kicked in and I spent most of the weekend in front of a TV watching random football games and tinkering with tablets. When I did go out I hit the usual spots including a couple of places I haven’t visited in a while. You’ll read about it as we get started with Quick Hits With Chris!

Chris Watches…

Green Batman is back on TV. When we last left Green Batman he was saving Starling (Gotham) against Ra’s Al Ghul, coupled up with Felicity, and decided to retire. Well the new season has to be a couple of months later because retired Green Batman is living the normal life (how does his neighbors not know that Oliver Queen is their neighbor) and he is dragged back in to crime fighting. It’ll be interesting to see where this season is headed especially with what is being teased.

Flash: I watched the first episode after watching the season finale last season, and I still don’t know who most of the characters are but it was still entertaining. I saw that a new bad guy Atom Smasher was introduced which I called Fake Bane because he looked like Bane. I guess DC is still sampling from the Dark Knight Trilogy. I hope Supergirl has to fight Cat Woman.

Quantico: I may have added another person to my list of people I think are the terrorist. So far my list is two people. This might be a show I could actually buy the Blu-ray’s when they are released. As for last week's episode, I just want to say that I solved the practice case they were working on before the main character did. I caught on to the clues.

SHIELD: You know what I like about this show other than the constant references to other comic book heroes in their universe? There are sneaky jokes that poke fun at themselves. I do like that they are building up to this massive battle for this season’s finale.

The Affair: This is one show I got hooked on last season on Showtime. The plot of this show is the story of this couple who breaks up because the husband falls for another woman while on a summer vacation at his in-laws home. The show is broken up into two sections where you get the point of view from the husband, and the woman he’s cheating on. This season starts with getting the point of view of the husband, and now the soon to be ex-wife. I like how the clothing changes and how whoever is telling the story they are victim while their counterpart is pure evil. Showtime has the first two episodes online but I’ve been holding off watching the second one until Sunday…I might cave later on tonight if I can’t find anything on TV.

I still need to catch up on Homeland, Below Deck, and a couple of other shows.

Chris Listens To…

I’m still trying out new Podcasts. I tried listening to PS I Love You XOXO, which is a Playstation podcast but the hosts just ramble on and on about things I really don’t care about. After 30 minutes into this 2-hour podcast I was done. It’s just not for me. Another podcast I tried out was actually fun was Ric Flair’s Podcast. Coughs* WOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! He interviewed Hulk Hogan and it wasn’t even podcast. It was more like two guys having a conversation and reminiscing about the past and telling stories. Every so often a moderator who chime in to get the conversation moving into different topics but it was fun to listen to. I’m going to subscribe to it.

I listened to a couple of songs on Soundcloud. I never really use my Soundcloud but I like this service especially since I found a couple of singles I like that sound nothing like the things I normally listen to.

As for my regular library, I am almost finished with listening to all the CDs I bought in August. I think I have maybe 300 tracks left to listen to, rate, and add to various playlists.

Earlier this week my iPod decided that it would make things more interesting by forgetting all the music I had on it. I had to reformat and Apple’s prompt said it would only take a minute. It lied. Two hours later I got all my music and podcasts back on the iPod. I saw on Reddit a guy took his old scroll wheel iPod and turned it into an iPod that reads off an SD Card instead of a hard drive. I’d like to try this out, but I need to price out the parts to see if it’s something I want to tackle.

Chris Takes Pictures…

The first picture I took is of last night’s sky

The neighbors must think I’m weird.

The next couple of shots are of the sky when a storm rolled into the valley

The morning of, a bunch of clouds were covering the sky, and the weather was cool…like 80 degrees cool.

This is the sky the next morning after this “storm” aka random sprinkling. I did enjoy the cool weather.

The final picture I took while roaming around

I like how it came out.

Thanks for looking at my pictures!

Randoms

Last week I bought a new bin for my Lego Minifigures. I had a smaller bin for my Star Wars, Comic Book Characters, and Specialty figures like the Simpsons and Scooby Doo, but I needed more room

On the left is the new bin, and on the right is the bin of regular minifigures.

The Sentinel from set 76022 X-Men vs. The Sentinel

The Hulkbuster from set 76031

Here is the bag for my Fake Lego figures I bought from Fake Lego Lady at the Swapmeet. They stay in the bag but live in the new bin.

Another smaller bin of the Lego Microfighters and the double decker couch. I have all of series 1, but only bought the AT-AT and Snowspeeder sets from Season 2.

It looks like Humble Bundle is jumping on the monthly box craze but this one they send you the games to your email. This could be interesting but I don’t use my Steam account enough to justify signing up.

Hobby Lobby has no idea what month it is

I’m not going to complain, but it is still 102 degrees outside so it’s a little odd.

I saw this on Twitter and I thought I’d share it with you folks

Here is the article

All the GI Joe’s ranked. I think Scarlett is too high, and Wild Bill needs to be Top 5. Also why is Super Trooper ranked so low? Do you know how many Flag Points I had to save just to order Super Trooper and his customizable info card?

Pickups

Games

The Target in the next town over had a barrel full of $5 3DS/DS games and after looking past the top layer of games (mostly kids games) I found these games

Ghost Recon is one of the bundle games with a stylus. I think I have the Luigi stylus from the Tetris bundle I bought last year. Yeah Planes looked fun, even if it’s a kids game.

If my cousin ever claims it Kingdom Hearts is his. I don’t play that series, but I picked it up anyways. I’m hoping Dead or Alive will be fun.

At another Target I decided to pick this up because it was $10 with the giftcard I got from Dimensions for Pre-ordering at Target

I have a flying character in Dimensions now, so I can get the coins in hard to reach areas and blow up silver items.

At Toys R Us, I had a $10 Gift Certificate so I used it on this add-on and dropped the price to $20

I haven’t tried the BTTF Level because I’m still playing through the storyline, but I have used Marty in my party.

Music

When I bought the Wicked Witch Fun Pack I also picked up this album

I was going to buy it at Barnes & Noble and then at Best Buy but I held off until I could see what came on the Target Edition. Turns out the Target Edition had a couple of extra songs and was $4 cheaper. As for the album itself after a listen I’m not a fan. I was expecting older Janet stuff but this album just didn’t connect with me. I found maybe one or two songs I’d like to listen to again, while everything else is good for a listen.

I rarely visit Goodwill now because they raised the prices even though the info cards the main office sends out says CD’s .99 unless otherwise noted, and the local store now believes every CD should be $3. Anyways I found these two CDs for $4 because one of them was 50% because of the color of the tag.

I liked this Grey’s CD because it has a couple of songs I really enjoy but never owned my own copy. I’m not a fan of Ohio State or Michigan but I do like these college football albums of recordings from big games. The CD is still sealed and on the Michigan Bookstore website the same CD is selling for $20.

Toys

From the .99 cent store next to Goodwill I found some Hot Wheels

My first Kool Kombi I gave to my uncle because he has a 21-window bus. The Batmobile I will probably give to my younger cousin who keeps staring at my Batmobiles when he visits.

I thought this was funny

Have a good weekend Pixlbit!

That’s all for now, more later!

-Chris

For my song of the week we are going back to Grey’s Anatomy Soundtrack. This song is by Rilo Kiley, and you folks remember Jenny Lewis from The Wizard and Troop Beverly Hills. One of my favorite songs and it reminds me of a lot of good times.

KnightDriver

10/09/2015 at 03:58 PM

TCGR: Shadow Wars is great. I can't wait to play it again.

goaztecs

10/21/2015 at 03:56 PM

At some point when I put down the tablets and pick up the handhelds/turn on the consoles, I'll get to play my games again.

Ranger1

10/09/2015 at 05:00 PM

Nice pics, Chris.

10/21/2015 at 03:57 PM

Thanks!

Matt Snee Staff Writer

10/09/2015 at 06:22 PM

that hulkbuster lego is sick. YOu have a lot of mini figures man. A lot!

I always like your pics of the sky and nature.

i saw that gi joe ranking but didn't read it. Man, I used to love my Gi Joe figures. Wish I still had them.

10/21/2015 at 04:00 PM

I have a bunch. Its crazy. When I first got back into Lego I think I had maybe 20 minifgures, and now two bins. Its crazy.

Thanks. I'm into taking pictures of the sky, and when I eventually buy a new lens I'll try taking pictures of the night sky.

The GI Joe list is long, heck I missed a couple on the list. My brother and I had a bunch of GI Joe's, its a shame that we lost track of most of them.

Super Step Contributing Writer

10/09/2015 at 08:21 PM

Need to start downloading that Battlefront beta. I've been waking up at 4am for work the past few days, so I've been out of the loop on a few things.

I can't get into Green Batman. It's The CWness of it I think. Gonna give it a few more episodes though, Netflix research says 7 is the magic number for when ppl get hooked on Green Batman. But I'm still interested in watching The Flash, because I find the character interesting and I like running. SHIELD I liked what I watched of the first ep on Netflix. I sometimes have trouble paying attention to certain shows because I feel like being on my laptop at the same time.

I haven't seen the Affair but I should probably watch Showtime stuff before my free PSVue trial of it runs out on the 28th.

My iPod randomly decided it lost some capacity a while back. I still need to figure out how to get iTunes to play nice with my Microsoft OS and get back to having all my songs with some space left over instead of no space left and not all my songs.

Great pictures as always. Although I think being a photographer in Cali is a bit like taking PEDs. Such an unfair advantage. haha

I've always liked the design of that Hulkbuster LEGO and the Sentinel is cool to see.

I'll have to look into that Humble Bundle thing. I don't use Steam too too often, but I may use it enough to be worth it, especially since it's also a charity.

Don't worry, Home Depot has no idea it's still October either. My coworkers love to hate on that fact (I work for a company called RGIS right now that does inventory for big box stores like Wal-Mart and Hobby Lobby to get some money before I go adjunct in the spring).

I want to say my older brother had some GI Joes, but there was a lot more TMNT/Transformers stuff around and Power Rangers once I got old enough to watch TV.

$5?! I need to hit a Target! Especially for a portable KH game. I have a bare bones free DoA on PS4. It's ok and it's satisfying to use the triggers to attack, but compared to the deep and over-the-top combat and personality in Guilty Gear Xrd it just doesn't do it for me as much. I'd like to get a good 3D fighter though. Wonder if there'll be a new Soul Calibur at some point.

Y'know, Wizard of Oz is one of those flicks I know I've seen all of but wonder if it's ever been in one sitting. I sat down and watched BttF trilogy cause it's a friend's favorite. I like it, but just not on the same level as a lot of people.

Janet Jackson was in the vote for the next Rock Hall of Fame member. I think pop and rap need their own HOFs. In fact I think it's disrespectful to both the actual rock acts who should be the only ones in contention and the pop and rap stars being called "rock stars" as if pop and rap stars aren't just as valid things to be. They're not rock stars, but they don't have to be; they've had great rap and pop careers.

That Michigan vs. Ohio State CD looks like it could be a PlayStation game. Those pictures of the announcers remind me of the old Madden covers Madden himself was actually on. I don't wish the Madden curse on anyone, but it would be funny if a plane crashed into Madden's bus after he was on the cover. Or maybe how the Raiders have done the last few years is a direct result of his picture on those early games.

The 1989 Batmobile with the 60s red trim? Now that's class.

I thought that Batman meme was funny though. I also saw this on Facebook earlier.

I know I've heard that Rilo Kiley song, but I couldn;t have told you song or band name. It's a really good song though. Wonder what else is on that Gray's Anatomy soundtrack.

10/21/2015 at 04:13 PM

So I'm late in responding and I know what happened with Battlefront. Its a pretty game, but I'm still on the fence about getting it on release day. I'll probably buy the game but I might wait.

The first two seasons of Green Batman were really good. Season 3 just dragged, but Season 4 looks promising. I should watch Flash from the beginning especially now and for the crossover episodes with Green Batman.

If you have time reformat the iPod. It should be fine afterwards. It'll take some time to add the songs back on however.

Your work story reminds me of when my uncle worked at Costco and he would tell us that they would start getting in random Christmas stuff in the summer. I do like Christmas but we have a couple of holidays in between now and Christmas. Althought the minute Thanksgiving Dinner is done, I'm playing Christmas music.

My brother bought some TMNT but we were pro GI Joe, He-Man, Transformers, and then TMNT. The Hulkbuster is such a cool set. I wish Lego made more of the Iron Man line. The fake Lego has such cool figures from the comics that I'd like to see them as official Lego.

I don't think I've ever watching Oz in one sitting. I'd catch it here and there. I like BTTF, but mainly the first and last flicks. The second one is cool, but I enjoyed the Western much more.

There should be genre specific halls of fame for music. A lot of good acts are being pushed back/forgotten for other more recent acts. This will probably happen when groups like New Kids, or Backstreet get into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

From what I remember, most of the music on that Grey's CD is the background music from the early episodes of the series.

Captain N

10/12/2015 at 05:27 AM

Dead or Alive is really good for a 3DS game. It runs at 60fps, but drops to 30 if you want to use the 3D. But still playable.

99 cents stores usually have alot of hidden gems when it comes to Hot Wheels. That Batmobile looks awesome. My brother loves VW Beetles and Busses. He has a few Hot Wheels Beetles.

That's alot of minifigures.

10/21/2015 at 04:14 PM

I never use the 3D on the 3DS so I should be ok.

99 Cent Stores have tons of fun stuff. I found everything from giant floor drum heads for Taiko Drum Master, to old CDs from old music stores. The Hot Wheels are back in stock and there are a lot of older cars which I'm cool with because they're new to me.

PixlBit