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PAWG: Now I know uh, for research, I have been seeing more and more anagrams of the letters PAWG in titles and not sure what it means. So, I looked it up on the trusty urban dictionary. From Urban Dictionary, (( pawg Phat Ass White  Girl A  girl  wit da ass of a  god . " Holy shit ,  look  a that  PAWG !")) God bless you, Internet. Now I know and knowing is half the battle. Given that I am a black man, I should have already known the term by heart. However, my ghetto card was revoked. BTW, don't look up the term at work on Google image...damn.  

Rockstar being sued by the folks that own the likeness of Miss Cleo  I had no idea Miss Cleo died recently. Anyway, Rockstar games is being sued by a group of psychic.  From Screengeek.ne (( Psychic Readers Network, who hold the rights to ‘Miss Cleo’, just filed a lawsuit against Rockstar Games and others who helped make a distribute Grand Theft Auto: Vice City – for allegedly taking her image and Jamacian accent and slapping it on the character known as ‘Auntie Poulet’. )) There is a huge problem with this lawsuit though. Miss Cleo is actually in the game playing the parody character of herself! Auntie Poulet is supposed to be modeled after Cleo. You can't sue the company if she was willing to bring her likeness and voice to a project. Plus, this falls under parody as well. This suit will be thrown out rather quickly I think. BTW, this character is from GTA Vice City that came out in 2002!

Holmes wrote this article in such a bias manner that I got very angry over it. It was posted on the Destructoid main page. If you can remember, I mention that I found it odd that the mainstream gaming sites haven't talked about it. Now, we got a side to it. Despite leaving key facts out of the story, this is where the shitstorm started. From Destructoid, (( Unfortunately, not everyone has been so empathetic. Since word got out that Ms. Mauer had issued the DMCA orders against the two games, a sadistic feeding frenzy has formed in certain pockets of the internet, leading to Ms. Mauer receiving multiple online death threats, and opportunistic video game pundits demonizing her in long winded, fruitless YouTube rants.  )) Why would you go out of your way to not mention the harassment Alex has done against everyone else? Why not mention the false copyright strikes against nearly a 100 plus group of YouTubers? He wrote some other things in his original post attacking Y...

Webster and that Star Trek The Next Generation "Crossover" I wrote about this years upon years ago in another Trek post. I think it was a Reading Rainbow crossover with the TNG BTS crew. I talked to the founder of the Agony Booth and we talked about this often overlooked episode. He said he wanted to go over the episode. Even though I haven't seen it in years (20+), I still remember it. It kind of falls under that whole missing canon rule like the Ewok TV movies. The fine folks over at the Agony Booth got their hands on a copy of the Webster/TNG crossover and did a full rundown of this strange crossover . From Memory Beta , (( This episode has Webster transported into the future and aboard the  USS Enterprise-D , where he has a conversation with lieutenant  Worf   and relates some of his experiences to him. Webster is ultimately returned to his own time, where he questions if the experience was a dream - only to discover he still has his souvenir from his ...

Passengers (2 of 2) I liked seeing this world where a huge cooperation has taken over space travel. This new style of space travel is now considered the wild west and a fresh start for people on new worlds/colonies. Everyone one is just trying to start anew for different reasons. However, it still takes a very long time to travel between planets, so everyone has to sleep in pods. That plays a huge factor into the overall plot. Pratt's character will be stuck alone on a huge starship. Will he go crazy? It is a nice touch to see that there is a tier system to the luxuries on board the ship. Only the rich get certain varies of foods and drinks and access to certain areas is restricted to those that can't afford.   Lawrence has the money to get certain items, whereas Pratt has to break into things. That was a nice touch. Michael Sheen plays an android that is a bartender. Sheen is great in the role, but he is in a limited role. Was the Android activated when Pratt...

How did I get here? I just re-watched this episode a couple of days ago. I love how crazy this show is. In the comments, they revealed the the host of the show is actually listening and looking at them watching and talking about his show. Watch his eyes move toward the people talking. I love the Trek reference. And, stay away from the coffee machine. I am certain we will get a small callback to this scene.   

Passengers (Part 1 of 2) This is a flawed movie with some interesting concepts of space travel and some good character moments. The trailer claims a more sinister type of movie, but it isn't that at all. I liked the first 30 minutes and the last 40 minutes a great deal. It is too bad the love story suffers a bit in the middle. There are some things that are not that bad to watch. Yet, the movie is missing something to make it stand out. The acting from the entire cast (a small one) is overall very good. I know that the movie received some major backlash from critics, but it isn't that bad. Due to a major malfunction aboard a sleeper ship, one person is awakened from his pod. He discovers that he is the only one awake aboard the ship. He only has some robots and androids to keep him company. Later another, another person wakes up and the two spend time together. Yet, something is wrong with the sleeper ship. The directing by   Morten Tyldum isn...

R-Kelly doing freaky things I am a freak, but even I have to say that R-Kelly is a major freak that is on the dangerous side of things. Kelly is a good artist, but something is gravely wrong with him. It all follows a pattern. He gets in trouble, he denies it and the black community has his back. He puts out some thinly-connected religious song and goes back to his more booty-shaking songs at a later date. Now, he's been accused of having a “cult” of women he has around him that he controls with an iron grip illegally. From Variety.com, (( According to parents and the former associates, Kelly keeps several young women at his homes in Atlanta and Chicago; replaces their cell phones with ones specifically used to communicate with him and forbids them to contact their families; requires they call him “daddy” and ask permission to leave the studio or their residences; films their sexual encounters with him; and abuses them physically and verbally.  )) Now, w...

About that False Copyright issues on Youtube Update It looks like things are really heating up between River City Ransom: Underground was another game she worked on, and she has mass flagged a bunch of YouTubers for streaming the game. Again, she refuses to release the claims even though she doesn't own the rights to the music. She has also gone after the company that made the game on the Steam platform. From siliconera.com (( River City Ransom: Underground   is no longer available on Steam. A DMCA takedown has been filed, resulting in the game’s delisting. This means people will not be able to search for and buy it from the storefront and, if they have acquired keys from the Humble Store, will not be able to redeem them on Steam. Read more at )) So, now she has pretty much destroyed two games and rumors are she is going after another game. There is some good news though. There has been a restraining order put on Miss Alex for the false copyright claims o...

Wow, this fell under the radar for me and I missed out on some major drama. Due to the ligious nature of a certain person, I won't be posting her/his photo or putting up any of her/his music. NOTE: Do NOT even post a picture of her/him on your blog. Trust me folks, this is epic for all the wrong reasons. I've been on the Internet for a long time and I've never seen anything this loony.   (By even mentioning her name puts me in trouble.) Let's talk about Alex Mauer and the rain of false copyright strikes. I kept reading story after story with them saying “she”, but all the Google Images are of her being of a hairy dude, so I was confused. Basically, this composer was hired for a videogame (Starr Mazer DSP) to write music. He/she wrote the music and the company made the game. Out of nowhere, YouTubers and Twitch Streamers received copyright strikes for using Alex's music, which she doesn't really own the rights to. The company that made and p...

A lot people in my age group remembered seeing THIS scene in the movie and claim up and down that it was in the movie proper. There was always a controversy among movie fans about this scene and it still floats around today. Even I have read conflicting reports about this scene. People claim the scene was in the theatrical release, but deleted for many of the home releases. I watched this on HBO and tape and this scene was not in the movie, but was in the special features on the DVD. IMDB and other sources claim this scene was cut for the HBO release. From IMDB, (( In a version broadcast on US cable channel HBO, several scenes were cut. These were back for the Disney Channel version, however. They include )) Legends Revealed has a very good write up on the scene and I think this post holds true to the actual reality. From Legends Revealed , (( The scene did not appear in either the theatrical release of the film or when the film was released on VHS. However, a...

About this CNN thing... Back in the early 2000s, I wanted to work for CNN in some way. I loved the dogmatic way of finding the stories. Now in 2017, you have CNN in a petty troll war with a stupid child-like President. When Trump re-twitted a gif of himself beating down a CNN meme. CNN got butt-hurt and did a search for the guy that created the original meme. And, then this happened. Check it out from CNN via Lifezette.com, (( "CNN is not publishing HanA**holeSolo's name because he is a private citizen who has issued an extensive statement of apology, showed his remorse by saying he has taken down all his offending posts, and because he said he is not going to repeat this ugly behavior on social media again," wrote Kaczynski. "CNN reserves the right to publish his identity should any of that change." )) You reserve the right? That's pretty bold. How many anti-doxing stories have CNN written or produced over the years? Regardless of what ...

Transformers: Arrival to Earth Remember when the live TF movies were good? Yeah, I stopped watching them after the second movie/ However, the first movie has a lot of heart and care put into it. That was when Bay took advice from the writers and the Producers. It felt like a TF movie. One of the best things to come out the movie was the score by   Steve Jablonsky. While it was a departure from the TF series of the 80s, it was still an nice turn on action music. Sure it has a Zimmer feel to it, and that was because Zimmer produced the score. Arrival to Earth is one of my favorite tracks from the movie.

Random Things -Still depressed: But I am feeling a bit better. I still have a bit of down-ness and sadness here and there. But things have gotten slightly better. I've been spending a lot more time alone and dealing with these issues alone. Keeping a better attitude is a key. - Hawaii Five-0 Two stars leaving:  Daniel Dae Kim and Grace Park are both leaving the show. When I was in the hospital for a week, I watched and hated watching these episodes. Kim and Park are both the faces of the show and seem to get paid way less than their co-stars. That does seem a bit strange. Actually, I had completely forgotten the show was still on their air. Then again, I have very little interest in watching Network TV anymore. -Remember those Hawaii Five-0 in show ads:  I wrote about these "hidden" ads years ago.  The writers didn't even bother trying to integrate the stupid ads into the show.  The characters litterally stop and talk about the sponsor...

 Digital Homicide still trying to shovel poop...literally If you remember, DH tried to sue Jim Sterling for bad reviews and the case got thrown out. They also tried to sue members of Steam and got kicked off of the platform. Here's the thing; they might be trying to sell their shovel-ware under a different company name despite the fact they were banned on Steam. Really, DH? Allegedly, they re-branded themselves Loot-Toot Games. Spraying painting a turd is still a turd. And, I thought these guys had quit the "gaming business". After the crushing blows they took online, you would think they would take some time off...a lot of time. A turd is still a turd no matter what you call it.  And, it still stinks.   These guys won't stop making shitty games and refuse to give up making said shitty games. Maybe, there needs to be more research into this new companies background. Here's a FB page that has the same name, but they're m...