The Tab

So… by now, if you know me, you know my opinion on the Transformers movies and Michael Bay.  Frankly, I hate them both.  I didn’t like the movies for the terrible acting, shitty writing, and over use of special effects (the only thing Bay may actually be good at).  Alas, when you have a movie series that can break 300 million with each film, would you want to call it quits?  Yeah Hasbro didn’t think so either.  That’s why they’re planning to possibly film the 4^th and 5^th film back to back……..

Let me say that shit again…. Hasbro wants to film the FOURTH AND FIFTH film BACK TO BACK!!!!!……

Fawk my life.  I’m lost in so much rage I can’t think of anything better to say… just Fawk. My. Life.  What makes it worse, is because I feel the need to review and express how much crap these films are, I have contributed to that commutative $1.07 they have made in box office alone. It hurts me to know I have helped them make over ONE BILLION DOLLARS!!!!!11!!1ONE! in just box office, so of course they want to make 2 more god forsaken movies.

I’ve read that they’re even wanting to potentially make movies off their other products…. Guys, we may be expecting a Monopoly movie real soon!  I mean we already have Transformers, Rock’em Sock’em Robots, and Battle Ship.  Why not make more ridiculous movies?!

Only good bits of info I was able to find some sort of solace in, was that Bay has not confirmed to come back as director, and if he does, it won’t even start until late 2012.  That should give us at least another 2ish years before we see any more Transformers films if they’re going to film them back to back.  That will also mean 4 and 5 being released pretty close to each other.  -_- gogo summer blockbusters… again ,|,,

So folks, another year has passed, and another year has pass that I sat on my ass and didn’t do what I really wanted with the site XD.  I’m so damn lazy, and to my shock, I’ve actually been asked for more regular updates.  So I’m doing a few things for those (very) few individuals.  I am setting up a schedule for the site.  There should be regular reviews once a week posted every Wednesday starting next week.  This does not include the rants and random bits of news that I find out on the web.

On that note, I made a twitter account as well for quicker and more frequent news updates.  I don’t know how many of you have twitter, but if not, I suggest you get one, just for all the bits of news I’ll be posting on there about movies, games, and whatever else I find.  It’s also linked to my Facebook so you’ll get spammed with all my updates regardless ;D

I’m sorry I don’t really have a whole lot else to say except… look out for more regular updates at random times as well as new reviews every Wednesday.  Thanks for sticking around my few and faithful readers.

First of hopefully a long constant string of reviews….. Mario Bros!  ugh… (and for that announcement that went out ages ago about Transformers 3… don’t worry. I’ll be getting that review up eventually)

Alright folks, so I had went and explained that I was going on hiatus for some time.  I’m going to use this time to kind of rework the site some, all internal changes mind you.  I plan to set up a schedule for regular updates on the site, creating a list of things to review many months ahead of time and keep a good backlog of reviews.  I will be hopefully updating my regular every two weeks to start, not including new release reviews.  Now the changes wont justify the wait that will be taken place, but I have a lot of things planned in the future that will hinder any kind of progress on the site for the next few months, sorry folks *sadface*  Now as far as the serious reviews being on hold, I will still make occasional posts of just the random shit that goes on, maybe a few “Dear Dipshits” and so on.  Though for the most part, the site wont be regularly updated for some time (not that this is really new from how things have been going any how =p)

Peace folks ^_^V

So despite my recent announcement to go hiatus until I get caught up on all my review sites (yes I am big enough of a fan of all these reviewers to watch over 6 months of missed content!), my brother has requested a bit of a rage review.  Not of my normal kind either.  Normally I’m doing reviews of shitty movies; however it was requested for a review over the recent changes and addition to the Magic the Gather card game sets.

For those who know me well enough I have been QQ’ing over these new cards for a while now.  The classic card game that I use to love and spend countless hours in and after school playing with friends is quickly doing what Blizzard is doing to WoW (another possible review just to vent later).  Though it seems as though Wizards of the Coast is now getting to a point where it is breaking its own game and spoon feeding all the newbies to the game.

I had spent a few hours playing with a friend of my brother’s where I was introduced to a card set known as the Eldrazi.  They are colorless creatures that all share a common ability known as ‘annihilator’.  This ability has be raging every time I see these cards.  This ability has your opponent sacrifice X creatures where x is equal to the annihilator ability, whenever the creature attacks.  So you have a creature on the field that has annihilator 2, you’re opponent has to sacrifice 2 creatures before blockers can even be assigned.  No… no wizards… no.  WTF is this shit?! How can this really be countered?  With the multiphase in the combat step, I need to destroy that shit either as soon as your declare attackers, or when they come out.  Someone builds a deck of these broken fucks how will one counter that?!  What makes it worse, is you didn’t JUST leave them to only have annihilator.  You saw fit to beef them up with plenty of other fancy abilities.

Let’s bring in your mythic rare Eldrazi; Emrakul, the Aeons torn.  This bastard is a 15/15 for 15 mana.  HOLYCOWWTF THAT’S CRAZY ALREADY!!!  Sure, you can argue 15 mana is a lot and hard to get out, but lord knows that if a play plans to put this in his deck, he will have a deck built for putting these mana heave creatures out, so mana should not be an issue for a player with this in his deck otherwise they didn’t build the deck right.  Moving on, he apparently can’t be countered.  -_- really? I mean yeah, sure, I’d be pretty pissed if I used up 15 mana for this bastard and someone just “oh yeah? Two islands, counter spell, oops? TROLOLOL!”  It also has the absolutely unnecessary ability to give the owner of the card another turn directly after the turn this fuckwad is played….. WHATTHEFUCKWIZARDS??!?! FUCK YOU!!! So not only can I not counter the bastard, but I don’t even get a turn after to do anything before this “Flying protection from ALL colored spells with annihilator 6” gets to take his big 15/15 ass and stomp my ass into the floor?!  Oh and let’s not forget to mention that if by some miracle you actually manage to get rid of the fuck, he just goes directly into his owner’s library…. I mean seriously? This honestly seemed like a good idea?  Why not just take all that shit off the card and replace it with “When Emrakul, the Aeons Torn enters the battle field, its owner wins the game” because that is pretty much how I read this card.

Ugh moving on from those stupid shits, let me move on to the newer sets.  Now me personally, I was stoked to hear that WotC was bring back the Mirrodin set.  This is where I started playing magic back in ‘03/ ’04 ish.  Bringing back the artifacts and looked forward to reading the stories (I have the books from the first Mirrodin set and really liked them).  That was till I saw the ability of choice that was brought back in this set.  I’ve seen from the previous annihilator shit that Wizards should take a break from coming up with new abilities, so sure why not bring back some old abilities?  BUT WHY THE FAWK DID YOU BRING BACK POISON?!  It’s not that it’s a bad ability; in fact I actually like it. However, obviously you can’t bring ability into the game without breaking it.  In Darksteel, we were given an 11/11 with trample, indestructible, and what not.  Sure it’s arguable that this is pretty broken in itself.  However, they went and gave us a small “Easter egg” I guess you could call it.  A new artifact that is known as ‘Blightsteel Colossus’.  So this parody card (stfu I feel like they’re mocking the original Darksteel colossus) is an 11/11 for 12 mana, with trample and indestructible, and when put in graveyard from anywhere, it goes back into the owners library.  Essentially the same as the original guy, however they saw fit to spice it up and give it infect.  Infect is an ability that instead of dealing dmg through normal means, it deals its dmg as -1/-1 counters.  So when he deals dmg to a player the player takes 1 poison counter per dmg it would normally do, when a player reaches 10 counters, that player loses…… so let me get this straight, they put infect on an INDESTRUCTIBLE creature with TRAMPLE that happens to also be an 11/11.  Now this isn’t nearly as broken as the annihilator fucks but still!! C’mon Wizards, you’re breaking your own game putting these ability combo’s together.

It has also reached my ears that you are changing a classic mechanic.  Rather, you’re completely removing a mechanic that (as far as I know) been in the game since it began.  Mana burn.  You’re honestly getting rid of mana burn?  Why would you get rid of this?!  There is no other reason that I can think, other than that the newbie players and complaining and whining about this?  For those who do not know, when tapping for mana, you are given mana to your ‘mana pool’ per land you tap.  1 mana per land, if you end up say, tapping for 6 mana, and only end up using 4 mana for a spell, you are then dealt two damage to your life, since you had two mana left over.  It’s a mechanic that I honestly feel, forces a player to think about what they’re doing prior to actually playing the cards.  With only 20 life, every life counts, especially now that the game is becoming ever broken.  But you honestly see fit to remove this mechanic?  Wtf is it with these great games that have been going on for years, deciding that the best way to carry on is to break their own damn game?!

It’s just a load of bull shit.  Sadly it’s not just down to Wow and WotC.  I find that most games in general these days are just lacking what games use to have.  Sad to say but the golden age of video games is officially over.  Another rant another day I suppose.  Peace folks -_-V