Holy #####balls Creed was a great movie.

http://comicbook.com/2015/09/03/mega-man-movie-reportedly-in-the-works-at-20th-century-fox/

OH ##### SON.

Have to. Bills to pay and a son who has the longest damn baby legs of all time.

Currently going through my Xbox 360 games, deciding what I want to keep and what to sell. Replaying Wet and Hitman: Absolution, loving the hell out of both.

I've been watching Constantine. I really like the actor, Matt Ryan, who they got to play him, but the show feels kind of water-down. Part of it because it's still regular broadcast TV, but in my opinion, they're spending too much time world-building. They need to start introducing the #####ed-up elements of the Hellblazer series, like The Fear Machine.

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Got my wife to start watching Firefly. Two episodes in, and she's really enjoying it.

I've watched the first half of Man of Steel. I like what I've seen so far.

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Wife is sick, so I watched The Princess Bride with her. I had yet to see it - I liked it.

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I saw Inside Out and Ant-Man this week. Enjoyed both movies. Ant-Man's 3D was probably the best use of 3D in a Marvel movie thus far.

Is it this?

[spoiler][/spoiler]

But not your butt pocket, eh? 

You can't wipe your own ass with digital things. IT'S JUST NOT THE SAME.

Hey dude!

I saw this post on Bleeding Cool this evening, about how a cartoonist's car was broken into and 1200 pieces of his work were stolen. Here's the main article:

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2014/12/18/cartoonist-josh-c-lyman-loses-all-his-art-in-austin-break-in/

Bleeding Cool had an update to the article, showing 21 of the pieces that were stolen. There's a Mega Man piece in there, so for those that go to conventions, eBay, etc., please check out the work and see if you recognize any of the pieces.

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2014/12/19/21-of-the-1200-stolen-art-pieces-of-josh-c-lyman/

THE SAGA CONTINUES

Don't know. Haven't seen it yet. It's in my Ultraviolet library. I'm finally getting around to seeing Transformers: Age of Extinction, which is rather ho-hum.

Microsoft Kin

Got my fingers crossed for a "hardcore" dystopian remake a la Bomberman: Act Zero.

I bought a James Brown "greatest hits" album for my son to listen to when we're in the car and I'm driving him to/from daycare. He seems to like it. He also likes some punk. Dug Ramones and The Hives.

I watched Sex Tape, thanks to Sony accidentally giving it away for free on their Ultraviolet website - ironic, right? The movie's marketing made it seem like a really raunchy comedy, but that couldn't have been farther from the actual project. I haven't seen a more confused marketing campaign since Hollywood Homicide (where they couldn't decide if they wanted to advertise it as a serious cop drama or a zany buddy-cop flick). It was amusing, but I really get the vibe it was given the green light on premise alone. Doubtful I'll watch it again.

With no new games in ages, how else is Mega Man supposed to make money? "Rock hard" indeed.

Had a RoboCop marathon and watched the entire series while taking care of my son.

The first RoboCop movie is an American classic. No discussion is needed.

RoboCop 2 was weird, because they failed to continue the discussion of RoboCop's humanity by brushing it away in the first twenty minutes of the movie. Which should have been a strong point to the series, and something that could have been constantly examined throughout got tossed away because they felt the need to keep it as an action movie, which if you watch the first RoboCop movie...it really isn't an action flick. In fact, the movie doesn't really get going until the second half as it meanders through a bunch of barely explored ideas and trying to imitate the social satire of the first. It really feels like it was cobbled together from two different scripts. Cain is a throwaway villain, but the action is satisfying. Not great, but a decent follow-up.

RoboCop 3 was amazingly "meh". I liked how it handled the fear of Japan taking over everything, but again, they dumped the social satire in replace of PG-13 action. I hated the whiz kid character that they threw in, and it just became a generic action film. Crappy way for the trilogy to end.

Part of the problem is that in all reality, RoboCop should never have had any sequels and just stayed "as is". Clarence Boddicker is to RoboCop as the Joker is to Batman - no one else had the "Bitches, leave" attitude that sold the bad guy so well. I was surprised with the route that they took The Old Man in with RoboCop 2, turning him into a vile business man whose main concern was the bottom line, not so much introducing products that helped make a better world. He's a very different character from what was seen in the first film. The kid gangster was also interesting, but only because he's got social commentary within the character. All other villains in the series are bland because they're just "the bad guy".

The 2014 remake of RoboCop I found to be "meh", but I enjoyed the ideas that they put forth with the movie, returning to examine RoboCop's humanity. The acting was good, but overall the movie was average. They tried going back into the satire with Samuel L. Jackson, doing a Bill O'Reilly impression, but in my opinion, it wasn't enough. The fake ads really sold it. I'd be interested in a sequel to the movie, but it doesn't seem like we'll be getting anything - you figure they would have announced it by now.

I've been playing The Simpsons: Tapped Out on my iPhone. It's a free-to-play game...pretty much just SimCity but with the Simpsons. It's fun, and doesn't require much effort or time.

I played it over at my friend's house. I thought it was okay, but the lack of a real single-player campaign really killed it for me. I doubt I'll ever pick it up when I get an Xbox One a year from now.

And here I thought Abe finally loosened up on the "no erotic fiction" rule.

My wife and I LOVED The Lego Movie.

They did a series of these with Link, Mario, Samus, Captain Falcon...and one other character.

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I found this from last summer/fall. I tried to update you all on what the hell was going on in my life, but I never finished it. Covers December 2012 to Summer/Fall 2013. So, here's what I wrote. SPOILER: I ENDED UP MARRYING MY CO-WORKER.

So it’s been a while since I’ve told you, my online family of sorts, what all I’ve been up to. Last real update was that I had been living with my now-ex-girlfriend for three months, and had given some advice for someone who was just moving in with their significant other. If I remember correctly, I said three things
1)   Don’t take the other person for granted.
2)   Don’t go to bed angry.
3)   Realize that it may not work out, and that’s okay.

As you’ve figured out by now, it didn’t work out. Life has been a crazy roller coaster since July, but life has honestly been so much better. Things had been going downhill between Ashley and I since November 2012, but in February 2013 we decided to move in together. After all, we’d been dating for almost three years at that point and it seemed like one of those “crap or get off the pot” things. That Christmas I was in a bit of a funk, and came close to writing a play that would’ve been my final thing – I’d considered killing myself after writing it. The play never got written.
   
But I chugged along, presenting at a conference and then moving in with Ashley. Even though our relationship wasn’t great, I was looking forward to moving in with her, thinking that this was the next big step in our relationship. I thought it would be great, but in the back of my head I knew things were starting to spin out of control when one evening while moving my crap in, I found her crying on the bed, telling me that the whole thing was a mistake and she shouldn’t have forced me to move in with her.
   
Things progressively got worse, and it was looking like the breaking point was about to be reached, in our relationship and in my mental state. The idea for the play rolled around in my head again, this time with more of the plot and events figured out. Finish it and then jump off a nearby bridge to finish it all. Still never happened, and after one of my night classes, I broke down and used my health insurance’s website to find myself a therapist. My ex-girlfriend was initially supportive. I wouldn’t be able to see the therapist before we got back from vacation over the 4th of July holiday weekend, which was fine, until right before we left Ashley told me that the vacation was either going to make or break our relationship.
   
So as you can imagine, this wasn’t sitting to well with my state of mind. I felt like I was walking on eggshells the whole entire time, trying to do my best to save the relationship. I couldn’t enjoy the vacation, and I picked up on little things the whole time, like there were no pictures of us from this vacation – she took pictures of fireworks, but nothing of us.
   
When we got back from vacation, I was a wreck and I went to my first meeting with my therapist. Since my relationship was the topic on my mind, we talked about that. For over an hour I spilled my guts about how I felt and how the relationship made me feel, and she told me “Everything you’re telling me, you need to go home and tell Ashley.” I felt better, but wasn’t looking forward to the talk when I got home.
   
“So how did your appointment with the therapist go?” Ashley was on the bed, reading a comic book or novel. She reads a lot. I sat down on the bed and for about 15 minutes I told her what I had been telling the therapist and how I felt about our relationship. Ashley just stared at me and when I was done, said “I don’t know what to say to that.”
   
“I don’t know what to say to that.” A million #####ing things that she could have said, and THAT’S what she says? Not “I didn’t know you felt that way,” or “Okay, let’s work on this together.” No, she just says “I don’t know what to say to that,” before going back to her reading.
   
Later that week we got in a small fight. I had been cleaning up some stuff in the living room, and she had made a comment – the fight was dumb and it escalated quickly. She got off the couch and start storming out saying "Keep it up and I’ll break up with you!”
   “Like you weren’t already in the process of it?”
   “Fine, I’m breaking up with you!”
And with that, she went off to the bedroom. I didn’t bother responding; she broke up with me for the last time. I wasn’t going to chase after her any more. I was done with the mind games, done with the immaturity, done with her #####. It felt like a huge weight had been lifted off my shoulders. I calmly walked over to my Xbox 360, popped in a CD of classical music by Vivaldi, and chilled on the couch for two hours before going to sleep on the sofa.
   
We didn’t talk until Monday. Frankly, I didn’t care. My parents and friends asked me if I was going to take her back, and I flatly said no every single time. Unless she was willing to admit that she was wrong on some stuff herself, and willing to see a therapist…no, even then I’d still say no. I’d had it. I was done being the one running after her, picking up all of the pieces after she’d gotten upset over something else. I was ready to move on, and my folks were pleased with that. Not only was I starting to take care of myself (I had also gotten the ball rolling on having a sleep study done to check for sleep apnea), but I was moving forward with my life. It surprised me how many of my friends had apparently been tolerating Ashley all this time. They were ready to talk ##### about her until I said “You know, I hope she finds what she’s looking for in life. I hope she’s successful and happy with whatever she ends up doing.” Most people thought I was going to be mean-spirited about the whole thing, but I was ready to move on. If Ashley was still in my life in some capacity, great. If not, so be it.
   
I began looking at apartments with my co-worker and friend Jess, as she had just gotten out of a relationship at the same time as me. She could afford more, so she was able to find an apartment faster than I. Apartment hunting was absolute hell because there wasn’t a lot that I could afford by myself, none of my friends needed roommates or were looking to move out on their own, and all of the super-cheap places had already been snapped up by college kids. I’ll tell you what – August is a #####ing terrible time to go apartment hunting if you’re poor. Things at the apartment I was sharing with Ashley were going no better. There were a few times where she’d keep me up for a few hours at a time because she felt the need to ask me questions (“Were you cheating on me?” “Why are you being so immature?”) and prattle on about what a great catch she was, I’d never find another girl like her (I #####ing hope not!). Then I got a call from Ashley asking what time I’d be home, as she was making dinner for us. My heart sank because I knew this was a trap. But then again, what if it wasn’t? What if she just decided that we should try to be peaceful until we go our separate ways? I came back to the apartment after work and found that she had made pork chops and scalloped potatoes, two of my favorite foods. I knew immediately that this wasn’t her just trying to be friendly, and I wanted to get the ##### out of there. I don’t know why I stayed. Overall, dinner was nice. We chatted about the nerdy things we usually discussed and laughed over things, but inside I wanted to die and just plain get the ##### out of there. We started talking about our relationship, and I started to cry as I told her I was more scared for her. I felt like she was becoming self-destructive and throwing away great opportunities (she had been working on a feminist paper about the Marvel Comics character She-Hulk, which she’d hoped to submit to a pop culture journal, with a shortened version going to some feminist magazine like Bitch or Ms.). We agreed that we should try to be peaceful and see where things went, but she asked that I not make it clear on Facebook that we had broken up – her mom was going through a nursing program, and Ashley didn’t need her getting wind of what had happened and focusing on Ashley instead of her studies. Because I liked – loved, really – her mother, I agreed to it.

The mood in the apartment worsened over the next few days, to the point where I didn’t even want to be there. I couldn’t live there anymore, and so I’d do everything I could to stay away from it. I ended up sleeping on friends’ couches and floors for over a month so I didn’t have to be there. Jess had found an apartment by then, so after I got out of work I spent my evenings helping her get the place cleaned, painted, and moving stuff in. It got my mind off all of the other crap going on in my life, and as I discovered, painting rooms is an incredibly relaxing activity.

As the Fall semester got closer, I started panicking. I didn’t have enough to afford my textbooks, much less the deposit for an apartment. My parents made it clear that they would help me any way that they could, including paying the deposit and first month’s rent for any apartment that was safe and I could afford. There were a number of places I had checked out, all of them #####ty because of crappy areas (one landlord told me that he wouldn’t be out on the street with $100 in his pocket after 11 PM, which is great because I’d be coming home from work at 11:30 with a laptop) or #####ty landlords (overcharging for places in dire need of repair, outrageous rules). I actually reported one of the landlords to the housing authority after a wonderful 20-minute phone conversation about how he was violating the PA Tennant Act with his rules for his apartments. It got to the point where Jess gave me a cut-off point; if I had not found a place to live by September 15, I could move in with her.

I'm going to be selling off a bulk of my Xbox 360 games, so I'm going through the ones I never got around to playing to see whether I'd want to keep them around or just go ahead and sell them. Currently switching between Kameo and Singularity. Probably going to be selling both of them, but I'd like to finish Singularity before I sell it.

Jeez, what a B.

Hormones, man. You gotta learn when it's the hormones talking.

Anywho, IT'S A BOY!

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So my wife has said no more pop culture tshirts, unless they're "adult" ones. Bands, logos, etc. are okay. BUT if I get one for our kid as well, then it's okay. So even though he can't wear it for a good 6 or so years, this came in yesterday from RIPT Apparel.

We find out this Friday. Current favorite for a boy is "Rowan Benedict", current favorites for girl is Cordelia or Cora.

However, if the baby is born on June 27, the day Transformers: Age of Extinction comes out, I originally reserved the right to name the baby Optimus if it is a boy, or Arcee if it is a girl. My wife was like "YOU WANT OUR BABY TO BE BORN TWO WEEKS PREMATURE? ARE YOU SERIOUS?"

*cough*

That ended that.

I got to play Assassin's Creed IV last week, which was awesome. I'll be picking that up when I get an Xbox One...years from now.

So I've got some big news. Coming July 2014...

As Jess (my wife) and I sat in the parking lot of Sheetz, I thought about what a crazy-ass year 2013 was:

-Presented a paper at a conference
-Graduated with my English degree and started back up in the MBA program
-Finally started dealing with my depression by seeing a therapist
-(Ex)-girlfriend broke up with me (good thing, trust me)
-Almost became homeless - spent a little over a month sleeping on random couches, beds, and my car before getting a place
-Started dating my co-worker (now wife), got engaged, and now married

Here's hoping 2014 is a good year as well

So, a bit of an update - I got married two days ago. You know, nothing special.

My fiance and I watched "What to Expect When You're Expecting", as I won an auction for a 12 Rounds 2 UV code with a "mystery code"...and that was the mystery code. Still, the movie was better than what I was...expecting.

Nothing political has been said yet.

Strangely enough, this is precisely the place where I learned to be a prick on the internet.

Haha, same. Pretty sure for DZX9 as well.

I'm looking forward to it.

I got to play Saint's Row IV over at a friend's house the other day. That was pretty damn fun. If I wasn't broke as #####, I'd be playing it right now.

I figured that they wouldn't be, just because of their release date.

I'm pretty sure that I'm done buying ##### during this Steam Summer Sale. Ugh.

It's like those werewolf movies where the guy wakes up naked in the middle of a field, covered in blood and he like "SWEET RAPTOR JESUS IT HAPPENED AGAIN!"

That's me, except I wake up on my couch.

So here's the list:

AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! for the Awesome
Anomaly Warzone Earth (picked it up for free from a promotion during the sale)
Audiosurf
DarkStar One
The Dig
Fallout 3 - GOTY
Fallout: New Vegas GOTY
Far Cry
Fary Cry 2
FTL: Faster Than Light
The Great Art Race
Half-Life series (complete)
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Just Cause
Just Cause 2
The Last Remnant
Loom
Manhole (Did I own this one before? Who knows? Not I.)
Max Payne
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
Organ Trail: Director's Cut
Patrician III
Risen
Section 8
Serious Sam series (complete)
Super Hexagon
System Shock 2
To The Moon
Tomb Raider (everything except for the latest game and that Guardian of Light one)
Universe Sandbox (best thing ever)
The Wonderful End of the World

The only things left that I'm still thinking about are the Grand Theft Auto and Strike Suit series, which I think I may just pick up at Christmas, or maybe next summer. Unless there's some crazy-ass deal, I doubt there's anything else that I want to pick up.

I'm disappointed that quite a few games I've downloaded, including some modern ones, don't seem to support controllers.

Anybody need the Tomb Raider card? I'm looking to trade it for the Football Manager 2013, Bioshock Infinite, or Prison Architect cards.

Guys, the Steam Summer sale is going on now. Three days in (and it runs for another week or so), and I picked up:

The Dig
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Just Cause
Just Cause 2
The Last Remnant
Loom
To The Moon
Tomb Raider
Tomb Raider II
Tomb Raider III: Adventures of Lara Croft
Tomb Raider IV: The Last Revelation
Tomb Raider V: Chronicles
Tomb Raider VI: The Angel of Darkness
Tomb Raider: Anniversary
Tomb Raider: Legend

Went to a gay club with my girlfriend, as our friend was doing a drag show. I had a fun time, as I got ridiculously drunk. Had 7-8 beers, and then wandered off to have more alcohol. Ended up drinking with a co-worker and his ladyfriend, ordering an Incredible Hulk (my specialty in college) and an Old Fashioned because my that's what my co-worker had and I had seen The Great Gatsby a few weeks previous and the drink was mentioned. Ended up calling everyone "Old Sport" for the rest of the night as I had more of Old Fashioneds.

Took the girlfriend to see Epic. Much better than I thought it would be...it's the movie that Ferngully should have been.

I'm playing X-men: Destiny, which is a very "meh" game. I think it would've been passable on original Xbox...it feels like a budget title on the 360.

I miss Mall Monkeys.

I've been living with my girlfriend for what, 3 months now?

I hope that you're moving in together - not you moving in with her or vice-versa. Trust me, it's easier if you're both unpacking.

Rely on each other, but don't take the other person for granted.

Don't go to bed angry.

Realize that things may not work out. It's okay. Sometimes people discover that they can't live under the same roof. Again, it's okay.

I really enjoyed it. I thought it was an exciting take on a well-established character, although what should have been an emotional gut-punch wasn't.

I played about 10 minutes of DAAAAAAAAYTOOOOOONAAAAAA the other day. It felt wonderful.

And covered in semen.

So this is being posted from my new Nook Color.

Gyro Man! ##### YEAH!