Mini-Rant: Home Alone: The Holiday Heist

I didn't even know they made a new Home Alone this year!
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Alone_5

Anyway, "major improvement" is the best way you can describe this film. It's kinda refreshing, but now it's just as bad as your average Disney-ABC TV movie. There wasn't a single character I liked.
You'd think that since this is the first Home Alone film in a decade (the bittersweet "Taking Back the House" was released in 2002) they would have "modernized" it a bit for fans of the original (Hi, my name is Speedy). But, hey, what did you expect from a Disney-ABC TV movie, something decent?

"...development for the film began in March 2012 as a co-production between ABC Family and Fox TV Studios. The two production companies previously co-produced Home Alone 4 in 2002."
...THAT EXPLAINS EVERYTHING...!

Random Cp24 post (9/27/2012)

"The CRTC approved an application by CHUM Limited (the station's former owner) in June 2007 to launch an High-Definition simulcast of CP24. As of September 2012, the channel is not broadcasting in HD, however an HD feed is scheduled to launch later in 2012."

You sure about that? Because I just now noticed that CP24 looks a bit...different today. Different meaning fresh!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP24#CP24_HD

Depression

It's happening again. That mid-career depression. The same depression that nearly caused me to cancel Reycralibur before. I've spent three years working on Reycralibur, three years that I've could have spent creating a machinima that would shake things up. 
Instead of Link, Mario, or Sonic being the hero. Instead of a storyline where "X rescues X" or "X enters a tournament". I've already wrote 2 new machinima series that are more fresh than Reycralibur or Typhoon School. Just yesterday, I got an idea and storyline for ANOTHER machinima that's even better! I hate to admit this, but I do want to be noticed for my machinima instead of some random video I make. But this is the road I've chosen. I'm doing this for me, myself, and I.

I've come way too far and wasted too much time working on this, it's only fair that I finish this once and for all. This spring, it's gonna all pay off.

Pro-Wrestling isn't a sport, but... (Reposted from Machinination)

...I needed a place to let it out. My name is KidKira, and I'm a pro-wrestling fanboy. I stopped watching WWE sometime in 2008 and didn't return until 2011. Three years later..., I never knew how much of a nightmare it would turn out to be. What the "PG era" would really due to "Sports Entertainment"

You know that guy who used to be about "Hustle, Loyalty, and Respect"? Yeah, he also used to be one of my favourite wrestlers. You know "The Voice of WWE?" Favourite commentator...until 2010. Oh, and The Rock? Yeah...I hate him. He just HAD to come back and make everything worse, did he? He's not a regular anymore, yet he just shows up when he feels like it and the crowd's all over him like Justin Bieber. I know he's a hall of famer, but right now, he's just as overrated as the other guy!

But it's not his fault. Pro-wrestling fans are just horrible; they wouldn't know how to appreciate this art form if it choke-slammed them straight to hell! Everytime I talk to a PW fan on YouTube, I get a response that only a neanderthal can appreciate.
Sure, the "WWE Universe" is filled with stupid children, but TNA fans are just as bad. All they care about is turning WWE into the new MySpace. When WWE turned sour in 2010, they rotted the brains of their TRUE fans just enough so when they left that wasteland and immigrated to TNA...they became cavemen. (The precursor to COD fans switching over to BF3; it's just as horrible!)

Anyway my feelings for WWE are like if someone still had feelings for their ex-girl/boyfriend. Sure I found comfort in TNA and ROH, but it's not the same. Yet, I can't even bring myself to watch SmackDown, the very show that made me a Pro-wrestling fan, anymore.

Right now, I just wish WWE never went PG. I want to go back to the days of the "Post-Attitude Era." Back when I wasn't a fan of an overrated posterboy, back when I had something to look forward to on Friday nights (besides Bionix, lol), back when we still had intergender competition in video games, back when pro-wrestling fans knew how to spell.
Sure they can give Kane his mask back, and promote an "Attitude Era" mode in their video games. But it won't undo the damage they've done to me and others in the last three years. I don't know if things have REALLY changed since I stopped watching WWE again, but I don't really want to know either...

...As a pro-wrestling fan...I want to commit suicide.

G4 Canada Needs a Makeover [reposted from Machinination]

Not to be rude but, when I look over the G4 Canada schedule and the G4 (US) schedule, I see that G4C is more of a gaming and tech channel than G4 ever will be. Yes, the G4C schedule just repeats shows like X-Play and Attack of the Show on a regular basis but, on G4, those are the only gaming and tech-related shows left on the schedule. People say that G4 is trying to compete against Spike TV, but I'm calling bullshit. If G4 is trying to be something it's not, a network for men instead of a network for gamers, then It's a losing battle (The fact that Spike has a so-called VGA show and G4 doesn't, only adds insult to injury).

As it should, G4 adds in non-gaming programming to broaden it's demographic and attract other viewers. However, G4C does that and still maintains it's original focus, something that networks like MTV & A&E could have done and could still do today*. The only non-gaming programming on G4C include UFO Hunter, Bomb Squad and the ADd block, which only takes up one hour and repeats once. So in total that's four hours of non-gaming programing out of a 24/7 schedule. They could even throw in the Anime Current block and nobody would throw a fit ('Cause anime fanboys have as much intelligence as Google Chrome's spellchecker and we could really use a new anime block).

So why do I think G4C could use a makeover? Simple, because it's not G4 or Techtv anymore. When OLN became a sports channel instead of an "Outdoor Life Network" (Thanks again, Comcast -_-), the Canadian version couldn't follow suite. Just like G4C, changing the main focus of the channel to match the US version would be a violation of their licence. So instead, Rogers gave OLN it's own unique identity while still retaining it's original purpose. Now since Rogers has 100% ownership of G4 Canada, they could do the same thing OR they could create a brand-new gaming channel!

I'm truly hoping for the latter because, as a gamer and tech-geek, it would be nice for Canada to get it's own branded channel for gaming and technology, instead of sharing the name of a US channel, let alone a US gaming channel that isn't even a gaming channel anymore. Not to mention, with Showcase Diva and History Television being rebranded as US channels, it's starting to get a little crowded.

I don't care if the schedule remains as plain as usual, I'm down with just a new logo and a name-change.

* Same rules apply for TLC, but then again, the original had "poor ratings from a narrow target audience". Why do you think A&E focuses on Drama and Documentaries? Because, adults hate learning as much as kids do! XD

Machinination hates Call of Duty - Re: The 7 Things I Hate about Call of Duty (Reposted from Machinimation) [MISLEADING TITLES FTW!]

"Play a Treyarch campaign. They're usually better. The Black Ops campaign was pretty good, and the story was easily the best one of the Call of Duty franchise." ~naetle07

"I agree with both of you. I do enjoy the Treyarch games better, but I still run into the same problem with the endings: same things every time. They need to mix things up a little. In BO2, you'll probably have some slow- mo scene, and either kill this Cordis guy, or him and Woods will be good buddies again and they'll wheel their wheelchairs off into the sunset." ~CommandoX


I find it funny that the Treyarch games get more appreciation within the Machinination and non-COD fans then from the COD fanbase. The Black Ops campaign (while I'm still face-palming at the fact that it's a sequel that has nothing to do with World at War) was an improvement from Modern Warfare 2 and the multiplayer added some really great features (Create-a-Class 2.0, COD Points, Mercenary missions, and especially Combat Training).

You don't need to be Einstein to predict BO2 will be just like Black Ops (just like every other game so far), but from what I heard and seen, it looks and sounds like a HUMONGOUS improvement from MW3. Even non-COD fans can agree that Treyarch put more effort into Black Ops then Infinity Ward and Sledgehammer Games did with MW3.
And speaking of SHG, for them to say MW3 isn't MW2.5 and ask the fanbase to give the game a better score on Metacritic..., do they know the meaning of the word "dignity"?! Bungie admitted Halo 2 was a disappointment, you'd think Sledgehammer would do the same!

Honestly, the COD community is just sucking up to Infinity Ward; they treat Treyarch like crap ONLY because IW was the original creators of the series and blindly throw their money away like XBL fanboys (Coincidence?). Both the community and the fanbase are nothing more than pathetic, foot-kissing, children.

Toonami Canada?

If only we could get a Toonami block on Cartoon Network. It doesn't have to be like the adult swim version. 
Seriously, look at this:
5:30 AM POWERPUFF GIRLS
6:00 AM DI-GATA DEFENDERS
6:25 AM BAKUGAN
6:50 AM METAJETS
7:15 AM BATMAN: BRAVE & THE BOLD
7:40 AM GENERATOR REX

All they need to do is slap a Toonami logo and foreigners ("Americans") will eat that shit up. Again, It worked for [adult swim], didn't it?