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The Dace Man
- Thursday, July 18, 2013
Hey Hey Hey Fanboys Anonymous Nation. The Dace Man back real quick to drop you some images hot off the press from San Diego Comic-Con.
You may recognize the name in the logo above from a certain X-Men character that kicked off the beloved 90's cartoon.
That's right! Bolivar Trask is the creator of the feared and dominant enemy of the X-Men known as the SENTINELS.
If you're out in San Diego this week, you can catch a glimpse of a Sentinel Head but for all of us that can't fly across country this year...Thank You SAP.
Here's a few pics of the Sentinel head that have surfaced online.
As always, check back regularly to see what Chris "The Dace Man" Dace is looking at (and no, not just porn) as well as all other bloggers here at Fanboys Anonymous for updates on Heroes as well as all other coverage from this year's San Diego Comic-Con.
So for The Few, The Proud, and of course The Dacetacular, grab a beer, or in this case halt right there mutant!!—and check out what's going on here in the Dace-Sphere.
See ya next time!!
Posted by
Shaun
- Wednesday, July 17, 2013
[CAUTION: CONTAINS ALOT OF SPOILERS AND BAD LANGUAGE]
Oh, where to begin?
Please note that this is based on my own personal opinion as a huge fan of the show (and hell, just a sci-fi fan in general)...also, I'm writing this at 4 in the morning cause that's how angry I am after just watching episode 7.
Man, have they gone and fucked this up. I wasn't pleased with the show after episode 3, but this has really annoyed me. With three episodes left, they can't come quick enough. The sooner season 4 comes, the sooner I can forget this series.
Let's begin with the plot. Remember Dr. Glass's intelligent daughter? It turns out that she's a hybrid (half-human, half-alien), so Ann does a runner with the kid, thinking that Charleston won't accept her. The next four episodes are about trying to find her and her hybrid daughter. Sounds like a great plan on paper, but not on the screen. These episodes seemed to go on and on and on and on and on and on (get the point?).
In one episode, evil Hal abducts Tom and starts threatening him to tell him about the machine that the new breed of aliens are making. I'm so invested in this series that I can't even be bothered to learn the name of these aliens. So, this makes Hal the mole, right? He has the Eye Bug (that's what they're calling it) removed and comes around, saying he can't remember anything from a week ago.
So in the next episode, Tom hands in his letter of resignation to his advisor, who I can't stand. I hope her character gets killed off soon.
Halfway through this episode, they get mugged, so they go to get their stuff back, which results in Matt (Tom's youngest son) shooting some guy. What do the Masons do? They stay and help him recover just to get mugged again. But then, later on, the Masons trick them yet again, getting their guns back (yawn). At the end of this shit episode, the Mason boys come across Mega Mechs and Skitters who are heading towards the cabin where that boring family was....and what does Tom do? Go back and warn them.
Why?! They mugged you and wasted my time and your time in trying to find Dr. Glass and your kid!
Also, at the end of this episode, Lourdes (Dr. Glass's assistant) is infected by alien worms and kills the President of the United States. When the fuck did she come in contact with live aliens?
In the credits, they showed what was going to happen in the next 3 episodes, which includes Tom shedding his skin (or something to that effect). This has me thinking that he's an alien clone that has Tom's memories. If this turns out to be the case, that would explain the hybrid child.
So this is where my main concerns come. Why does it always come down to alien cloning? Why aren't they focusing more on this deadly grid thing that could wipe us out in three months? Why the hell has this turned into a soap opera? Fuck me, I was really looking forward to this series, but so far this season has been a big disappointment. I wish this show would just end, like Alphas.
If you agree or disagree with my comments about Falling Skies (aka Failing Skies) let me know in the comments below or you can send me Mega Mechs to the Twitter @shaughnessy2k37
Posted by
Shaun
- Tuesday, July 16, 2013
In May, I had to replace my Xperia Play and I thought to myself "well, I've all ready had 3 different Android devices, so let's switch it up and go to Windows 8 for a different look". I got myself a mid-range Nokia and at first glance, I really liked the look and feel of the operating system.
Then, in June, reality kicked in. I was so fed up with the lackluster apps that were available.
The Microsoft YouTube app was good, since there were no advertisements on videos (which I loved), but then that had to be taken down because Microsoft didn't ask Google permission to make the app. So what does Microsoft do? They replace it with a bookmark to the YouTube mobile homepage. As a big YouTube user, this was unacceptable to me.
The BBC iPlayer app keeps crashing. When you click to skip a song on the music player, it takes about six presses on the button to actually do it. The God awful Facebook app was unusable after the recept update, but I understand why they did that since beforehand, when you would write a comment on your friend's post, it would always double it up.
The only app that I think was better on Windows 8 was Twitter, which looked and felt more professional in comparison to Android...but then again, there were certain things missing from the Twitter app on Windows 8, such as the ability to save pictures for future use.
So the reason I went back to the beloved Android OS is quite simply due to the apps, as they're far greater than those on Windows 8. As much as I like the look of Window 8's OS and its simplicity to use, I'll be sticking with Android until Windows sorts out their apps.
To all the Windows 8 users out there, let me know in the comments what you think and if you want to send me death threats, tweet @shaunghnessy2k37
Posted by
Anthony Mango
- Monday, July 15, 2013
From the makers of Pirates of the Caribbean comes the latest failed attempt at bringing an old concept into a new franchise (example: John Carter) with THE LONE RANGER, starring Armie Hammer...excuse me...starring Johnny Depp as Tonto with his sidekick, Armie Hammer as John Reid, the Lone Ranger.
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| Tonto's bird is dead from boredom after watching this movie |
NOTE: SPOILERS BELOW. IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN THE MOVIE AND DO NOT WANT TO KNOW DETAILS, SKIP THIS AND COME BACK LATER
THE MISSES
1. LACK OF CHARACTER
At no point did I give a shit about any of these characters, whatsoever. In fact, I can't even tell you who some of them are to begin with. They're almost just tropes. Ruth Wilson apparently places Rebecca Reid. Funny, I thought she played "pointless romantic interest damsel in distress who has pointless kid in distress and does nothing but look pissed off the entire time rather than endearing". You've got the stereotypical Corrupt Businessman as the lead villain who employs stereotypical Henchman Serial Killer Physical Threat. Guess who the traitor of the bunch is...the drunk! Oh no, our female lead is too bland and uninteresting, so let's introduce a hooker with a gun leg so Helena Bonham Carter has something to do. This expands every single character in the entire movie, but it's worth it to point out some others in a solo part.
2. THE BUMBLING IDIOT LONE RANGER
Look...I know that they were probably thinking that by having John Reid be the funny "guy who doesn't know what he's in for" type, that the audience would probably enjoy him more, but instead of being the fun type of clumsy, he just comes off as a moron, a cowardly wimp, and a whining prude. That is, until he suddenly decides to become the Lone Ranger, which is far too late into the movie to make up for it.
3. WHITE TONTO
....what?
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| Such a noble savage. Someone should give him a chocolate factory |
4. OLD TONTO & HIS SIDEKICK, LITTLE LONE RANGER
What was the point of having an old, decrepit Tonto pretending to be a mannequin/statue, talking to a little kid dressed as the Lone Ranger? Was it all to make it seem as though this entire movie was utterly pointless and fictitious? If that's the case, and you knew how much it sucked ahead of time and wanted to retcon the damn thing from THE OPENING SCENE, why even make the fucking thing? It isn't as though it's making any money and that would have been the reasoning....
5. EDITING & PACING
Said flashbacks were pointless, yet there were tons of them—some of which not even flashing back to this time, either. There were flashforwards and flashbacks within flashbacks of a story that could potentially be completely made up. Good fucking lord. Also, why is it that we have to wait what feels like 40 minutes before there's even an origin about what we're watching? Did they think throwing us right into action would make up for how boring this movie is?
6. ALL THAT ACTION, NONE OF IT EXCITING
I've never seen a movie have that much action, yet none of it be interesting.
7. RABBITS
What the fuck was up with those rabbits?
THE HITS
I'll post something in here if I ever think of an example...yeah....it sucked that bad.
END NOTES
This is an awful, awful movie that bored me nearly to sleep, which is really disappointing. It had the potential to be the next Pirates-type franchise, but the script is just too terrible to get around and the acting, editing, and pretty much everything else is just as bad if not worse. It fails on all levels. Is it the worst movie I've ever seen? No. Is it the worst movie I've seen this year? Without a doubt.
Posted by
Anthony Mango
- Friday, July 12, 2013
It appears as though we may be seeing an X-Force film in the future coming from 20th Century Fox's division responsible for the X-Men film franchise.
Rumors have circulated for quite some time now that Fox is looking to expand their film franchises into a much bigger and cohesive universe, similar to what Disney has with the Avengers series. This would include not only the X-Men films but also Fantastic 4 (and who knows, maybe they'll shack up with Sony and throw Spider-Man in there).
When it comes to X-Men: Days of Future Past, many are looking out for signs that this film's use of time travel will in fact retcon many of the previous films that came before it, paving the way for new takes on previously used characters and so forth.
With all this combined with the news that Fox has registered the domain name "x-forcemovie.com", it's not hard to imagine that we'll be seeing an X-Force related spinoff or that this could possibly be the name of the sequel to Days of Future Past.
If indeed this ends up being a movie as opposed to some random safety-net purchase, what would you like to see come out of it? Are there any particular X-Men characters that you'd like for them to throw into the film, such as Cable, Cannonball, Boom Boom, Forge, Psylocke, Wolfsbane, Shatterstar? Who do you think could be the villain of such a movie (maybe Mr. Sinister)?
Let us know your thoughts in the comments below!
Source: X-MenFilms.com
Posted by
The Dace Man
- Thursday, July 11, 2013
Check out episode 3 of "The Dace Man Show" with special guests Michael Burhan, Michael Paden, Dan Raup and first timer Brian Gibson.
Join The Dace Man this week as he tackles
- George Clooney and Stacy Kiebler split. 90s Wrestling Fans Rejoice.
- Angelina Jolie after undergoing a double mastectomy has bounced back with two new boobies.
- An Unknown Hacker got to Jersey Shore Star JWoww’s twitter account and hacked the hell out of it. They switched everything on it to nazi symbols and then dished out the cell numbers of Snooki, Pauly D, Deena and Perez Hilton.
- Singer Randy Travis going through some heart complications and is still in the Hospital. Those close to Travis claim his health to a rapid decline days leading up to the hospitalization
- Lauryn Hill reported to federal prison in Connecticut, where she will begin her 3 month sentence for tax evasion
- Big Brother still under fire for house guests Aaryn, GinaMarie and Spencer and their racist comments. Covering everything from African Americans to Asians to Homosexuals.
- Lady Gaga is so afraid of what is being said in a lawsuit involving two of the people who discovered her that she's filed legal docs to try and keep certain information from EVER seeing the light of day.
We did SPORTS again!!
- Phillies Dominic Brown snubbed from home run derby yet seemingly ok with it.
- Andy Murray takes the Wimbledon with three set victories over Novak Djokovic 6-4, 7-5, 6-4
- Lebron James NBA Champion and now….rapper?
- Dwight Howard heads to Houston. Pisses off all of LA and Ice Cube.
- According to the Cobb County Sheriff's Office ... Lawrence Taylor Jr. was arrested on July 7 on 3 counts -- statutory rape (felony), aggravated child molestation (felony), and statutory aggravated sodomy (felony). The details surrounding the arrest are unclear.
- MLB steroid investigation continues forcing the original whistle blower to go into hiding.
- Chris Weidman KO’d Anderson Silva for the UFC Championship.
The off the Wall topic of the week….When is it acceptable to go to a Concert Event? What Justifies the purchase of a ticket for a specific Artist?
Also the fan favorites
The Dace Man’s High 5: Beaches to Visit and
The Douche Bag of the Week!!
Step into the Crazy Train with Chris "The Dace Man" Dace this week on The Dace Man show....queue the Final Countdown!!!
Check out The Dace Man Show live every Wednesday at 8pm EST on
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Posted by
The Dace Man
- Wednesday, July 10, 2013
It's Dace's World, Dace's World, party time, excellent! Now that I have begun the ultimate rip off of Wayne's World catch phrases, it's time to continue the debate first heard on The Dace Man Show that I have been having in my mind for decades and recently used to justify a purchase of concert tickets.
I am a firm believer that when listening to music, if you know five or six songs for an artist, you should in theory enjoy the concert. This particular concert in question for me is the ICONIC...yes I used the word iconic...
The Back Street Boys.
Everybody
Larger Than Life
Quit Playing Games
As Long as You Love Me
Show me the Meaning
I Want It That Way
Knowing those six songs justifies the twenty-seven dollars I spent on the ticket. To enjoy a childhood memory on a lawn with beer on a Friday night in August is an ideal situation. Plus, all the girls that used to listen to these guys can now enjoy beer with me as well sooooooo win/win, right?
But to me the debate rages on. I attended a concert earlier this year that had a total of six bands and I collectively knew seven songs from them and the ticket panned out to be about fifty five bucks for a 2-to-midnight concert.
To me, this was justifiable as well, until the rain rolled in and we left prior to the two headliners (of which the majority of the songs I knew belonged to). Paying hundreds of dollars for a concert is a ridiculous price to pay. You better know and enjoy every single song by that artist and they better get you Started Up....see what I did there?
Basically, I'm saying screw you Rolling Stones for your 10th retirement tour....bitches.
So I turn it over to you, the audience of Fanboys Anonymous Nation....or the FBAN if you will...I'm coining that phrase here you heard it folks. How many songs would justify a ticket purchase in your eyes?
Posted by
Miguel Leon
- Tuesday, July 9, 2013
If there was ever a series that confounded video gaming logic, its the Army Men series. The first game was released in 1998 (I'm assuming to capitalize on the budding World War 2 game craze sparked by the release of Saving Private Ryan and Medal of Honor) and was a well regarded Real Time Strategy title that played like a tongue in cheek take on 50's war jingoism played out with green and tan army men figures. But as the series became popular, it decided to venture into more mainstream gaming facets. And here is where the confusion occurs: while Army Men in that small span of several years was considered a popular enough franchise, its games were considered some of the worst in video gaming. Towards the end of the series official run in the early 2000s, the series was regarded by many hardcore gaming fans as a running gag in how bad a video game series can get. And yet, not only did their publishers, 3DO, churn out numerous entries and spin-offs in the franchise(even going so far as to release a platformer for the PS2, called Portal Runner) but fans apparently were buying said games in droves. I can't help but think this was the same core of America that years later thought Larry the Cable Guy was a good idea, but i digress.
Personally, my experience prior with the series was very limited. I remember briefly playing demos of Portal Runner, but my real experience was several years ago when I got a copy of Sarge's Heroes 2 for the N64 from a friend. I played it for an hour or so before returning said game back to my friend and demanding my copy of Super Mario 64 back. But since my bad gaming quota was running low, I decided to trek for a copy of the similar game for the PS1. However, due to how surprisingly rare that game seems to be for the PS1, I decided to go for another 3D iteration in the series, Army Men: World War, or Army Men: Operation Meltdown as it is known in other areas (which is confusing since there is an Army Men game for the PC titled "World War" that is completely different, and yet the PS1 version still went with the title here in the states; go figure). Having been saddled with this game instead of Sarge's Heroes 2, I was actually upset. I was worried that there might be a chance this game was actually good, and that there was a chance Sarge's Heroes 2 might have been an isolated incident. HOO BOY, was I wrong. World War deserves the ire that the rest of the series has gotten. This game makes me want to play Blue Stinger and Space Ace on a constant loop.
First, lets talk about the controls, which was actually worse than what I remember with Sarge's Heroes 2. The first big problem you'll notice with this game is the turn radius. Trying to turn in this game is a chore. Not only do you turn like you're moving through black tar, but it also works on momentum. This mean that not only does it take a split second for you to start moving after you hit the button, but you keep moving slightly after you stop. This becomes a big time issue in battle. Another issue is that the auto-targeting the game seems to have only seems to work when it feels like it. Half the time you'll be able to land a shot on a guy from what seems like half a mile away, and other times you'll be missing guys by like a centimeter off to the side only a few feet in from of you. Maybe it will lock on, maybe it wont. Then there's a other button the game gives you. You'll get a quick crouch that will allow you to crouch at the drop of a hat, which I'll admit does come in handy in certain situations where you need to get really low really fast. But then there's a separate button that just allows you to duck. these two actions are not nearly exclusive enough to warrant separate buttons. You could have consolidated either of these two buttons together. But the most important button in your arsenal is the rolling dodge. I say important, but really its only marginally more useful than the instant crawl. It allows you to roll out of the way of fire. But the roll is so stiff, you don't get much distance from it. So even if you roll out of the way, the enemy still has a bead on you. There is one cool aspect in that you can roll while you're crawling, but other than that, the controls are seemingly designed to make this game much harder than it needs to be. God forbid you ever have to fight more than one guy, because its hard enough to get a solid bead on one guy in a firefight, let alone having to not fight back, but try to dodge the other shooter picking you off off-screen (its always off screen since the camera likes to plant itself firmly on the back of your main character's head at times (which sucks since you can't control the camera at all).
This leads me into the main story of the game. You play a member of the Green Army in a war against the Tan army. There's not much in the way in character, as this is the first where you don't play as the titular "Sarge" character that became the main character in most of the other games in the series. You are faceless soldier dropped into one of three areas, usually split between a field area, jungle area, or city areas. There are a few notable areas, mainly the stereotypical beach front battle parodying Normandy, but other than the specific missions, don't expect much diversity. Most of you missions will consist of shooting tan solider and going from one spot on the map to another. Occasionally you'll get to man something like a turret gun or a tank, but these are ruined by the lack of something very specific: a target reticle. I forgot to mention earlier that you also have a free-aim button, but like with the mounted guns and tanks, you have no way f aiming you gun for any sort of precision. Not even down hard sights on you gun. Every shot you take might land, or it might not. Its all luck and no skill. Don't even bother with free aim, and as for the tanks and turrets, you'll just end up going "spray and pray". Don't worry though, because the enemy A.I also seems t work like that. sometimes they wont even notice you're standing next to them, sometimes they can see you from a half mile away and have the most perfect pin-point aiming. And like stated before, God help you if you get more than one enemy to deal with because they have no problem landing their shots on your ass. For a game with controls this broken, it should not get this frustratingly difficult.
Graphically this game looks like is was made in the mid-90s on the PC. From the first cutscene, you'll notice how lacking this game is in its visuals. Most of characters looks like the were dropped right out of Alone in the Dark from the early 90's, with their horrifically low polygon counts. They basically have square arms. For a game that cam,e out in 2000, this is unexceptable. Levels themselves consist of flat shapes masquerading as trees, buildings and vehicles. Textures are at best flat and boring, while anything trying to have a texture looks murky and pixelated. this gets to be a big problem in levels like the jungles, where your enemies can actually blend in and get lost in the environment, which doesn't help the already frustrating skirmishes. Sound design is probably the best part, if only because its nothing god or bad. Generic ambiance mixed with generic war music, with lots of marching music. Its Ok, but wholly forgettable.
What isn't wholly forgettable was the gameplay experience I just went through. Having played this game actually makes me see Sarge's Heroes 2 in a better light. at least that one seemingly had better graphics, more of a story, and given that one's story took place in the real world, much more personality. Heck, i remember playing a level that took place in a play room area. That to me is where the kitch of the series should have gone. Instead we get a generic war game that loses all sense of what its trying to parody. This game looks and plays like an early attempt at an action title from the mid 90's. I will never understand the nostalgia players seem to have for this game and the series in general.this game deserves every bit of hate it has gotten from the mainstream gaming media. Save your money.
Grade: F
