Hollow Knight nears it's end

New Bosses, a new storyline, and a new game mode. Whether that's a boss rush or something original we do not know. But we do know that this last update isn't simply the last one for free but in perpetuity. This was my favorite new game last year and while the switch port still languishes in QA testing for the foreseeable future I will  pester everyone I know (that games) to give it a shot.

Please play Hollow Knight, Ya'll. It's the best $15 I've spent all year.

Let Detective Pikachu be the weirdest thing that's ever been.

I'm so confused. About all of it.

So there's a live action film being made staring a CGI Pikachu. Who talks and solves crimes. Played by Ryan Reynolds. I feel high just describing this thing. Now Bill Nighy's in the mix though the nature of his role is unknown. He does seem to pop in and out of live/CGI roles so for now I'm hoping he's Chief Constable Butterfree.

5 Straight Doubles

I've started a new job. Until I've settled in that place and worked out a more equitable scheduling treaty between the two of them I've no choice but to do everything they want. Which is a 65 hour week. Don't get me wrong, I need the money, but I am sorry the Crackpot is left in such a state. I shall return Tuesday!

God of War: The DADening

In which Kratos looks back on his past and goes "...yeah I was a real piece of sh*t." I pictured a self  loathing father figure emerging from him as likely as a feminist deconstruction of Duke Nukem. I'm REAL damn hyped over it now. They're gunning for The Last of Us in terms of story quailty. They won't land anywhere near it but the fact they tried this hard really makes me smile.

A Billy Joel collaboration 100 years in the making.

 

There's an 100 year old poem written by Lovecraft that the internet just realized is the exact same meter as piano man. Being the age of information it took New Yorker musician Julian Velard less than a week to set it to music. It ain't half bad!

C&C Ep: 105

Undocumented Nerfs

 

The Terror!

What could fill the vacuum left behind by the end of Breaking Bad and the hollowing of The Walking Dead? This. This sh*t right here. A Napoleonic Jaws but with a Yeti. Or maybe they just want you to think that's where they're going. Seriously, the book it's based on has rave reviews and this cast is bonkers. I'd follow Jarred Harris into the 9th circle but Ciaran Hinds and Tobias Menzies?! Ok, AMC, enough! I'll take you back.

Cosmos Continues.

 

Not content to having made just one of the best science documentary series in existence, Fox and Neil DeGrasse Tyson are back for Cosmos: Possible Worlds. Yes. PLEASE. Roll that gorgeous CGI and silvern orchestral soundtrack:

C&C Ep: 104

Hype Watch: 2018!!!!

Crackpot Theory:

If Edward VIII's mother had a boy with another man... would he be called a Half Windsor?

C&C ep 103

In which you find out how we spent/squandered our winter hiatus!

The Spark of Hope

 

I'm gonna like The Cree

A suit so dope I wish I could make it for Halloween. But I can't. That would be... foolish.

Early trade routes, super scouts, and food bonuses to foreign traders. Poundmaker is exactly how I want to play Civ. See, the trick to surviving the early game is playing nice, building a massive financial war chest, and setting off to the undiscovered country before anyone else. Eventually the people you want to go to war with will do so on their own out of what I assume is pure digital jealousy.

They'll regret that.

Happy New Year!

Tis but a scratch.

I managed to get into my first ever fender bender. 12 years behind the wheel... had to happen sometime I guess. No one was hurt, no witness or red light cameras, (which according to my DPD sources wouldn't be on anyway shhhhhhhh) so it's a "no fault" situation. Not great, could have been worse, any crash you walk away from, right?