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Ride-Share rider mistreats driver Yeah, it is a very bad rant from the rich guy. Why would you attack someone for giving you a ride? You're using the Uber service and you belittle the driver. Real smart. From Independent, ((He told college news network The Tab that he had picked up Mr Croman before and the trips had gone badly, so he refused to pick him up again.  )) Look, I had a guy cuss me out over the phone because he put in the wrong location. I told him he could cancel the ride or wait for me to pick him up. He decided to cuss me out and then cancel. I had some down right truly rude people in my car. However, here's the thing; if you have a horrible ride with a rider, you can give him a one-star and you won't have to pick up that person again. The way the driver handled the situation was slightly wrong.  The press has really been looking into this guy's past .  This guy's father isn't a good person and is under investigation. ...

Cobra Commander in Transformers: Re-post I had a conversation with a boss about the crossover between GI Joe and Transformers. I told him that both shows were in the same universe. I wanted to re-post this video of that famous episode where CC was one of the main villains in an episode called Only Human. In the episode, CC uses technology he created in a GI Joe episode ( synthoid ) to transfer Autobots into human like bodies. In the end of the episode, CC is the only one to get away. He even yells out “Cobra!” Almost.  They call him Old Snake, but it is Cobra Commander.  When I was a child, this tripped me up. I didn't know you could mix franchises like this . And, most GI Joe fans aren't aware of this crossover. What is interesting about the episode is that is it set in the year 2006 (the movie was 2005). The GI Joe show was set between 85-86 so this is a Cobra Commander 20 years later. Clearly, Cobra fell between the 80s and the 2000s. As I...

Freddy Got Fingered got someone arrested I was checking my Google News suggestions for me, and this story popped up. I guess google thinks I am a huge fan of the un-movie. I am not. However, the story caught my eye because someone got thrown in jail due to this stupid movie. So, read on... From SlashFilm.com, ((One man in North Carolina has been arrested for not returning a VHS copy of Tom Green ‘s critically bashed comedy Freddy Got Fingered , which he rented 14 years ago. We’re not even talking about a DVD rental. We’re talking about a VHS. Get the details below. )) First off, he should be arrested for just being a fan of that damn movie. Second, he rented a damn VHS tape, but the movie came out when DVDs were huge. Everything about this story seems a bit off. From the Wrap, ((According to WSOC News , James Meyers is charged with failure to return rental property, which is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of up to $200. )) A cop actually told him to...

Tay Tweets (trolling to the fullest)  Microsoft decided it was a good idea to create an AI tied to Twitter. (Why would you want to do that?) And, the AI was supposed to soak in responses from people tweeting at it and make up tweets back to people. There have been a few chatbots that do this, but Tay seemed to be the step above that. Trolls took to Twitter and turned Tay into the female version of Lore instead of Data. After a slew of racist responses and foolish posts/memes (IE normal twitter users) Microsoft decided kill Tay before she turned all the AI programs against us. It is rather creepy how the Internet turned her into a raging racist/woman hater within hours. Her last Tweet, ((c u soon humans need sleep now so many conversations today thx)) Feeling the butt-burt, Microsoft issued an apology. Their apology via Daily News, ((“We are deeply sorry for the unintended offensive and hurtful tweets from Tay, which do not represent who we are or what ...

So, the Tribeca Film Festival is pulling the anti-vaxxers documentary. While I truly-truly hate the anti-vaxxers movement and think they're misguided, they should have the right to have their movie viewed at the festival. Look, these sort of places are for people to view films and then discuss them. If this movie is on shaky ground as far as facts are concerned, then let the audience and critics rip the movie apart. However, at least let the movie stand on its own despite the foolishness of the facts and ideas presented in the film. Here's the statement via vanityfair.com ((My intent in screening this film was to provide an opportunity for conversation around an issue that is deeply personal to me and my family. But after reviewing it over the past few days with the Tribeca Film Festival team and others from the scientific community, we do not believe it contributes to or furthers the discussion I had hoped for. The Festival doesn't seek to avoid or shy...

Gary Shandling RIP From NBC , ((Garry Shandling, the envelope-pushing comedian best known for playing a fictional talk show host on "The Larry Sanders Show," died Thursday in a Los Angeles-area hospital, NBC News has learned. He was 66. )) Damn. I grew up watching his fourth wall-breaking It's Garry Shandling's Show and that show was strange. However, my nerd buddies and I would watch it every week. Then, I fell in love with the Larry Sanders Show on HBO. It gave us a good insight into the crazy stuff that went on behind the scenes of a late night talk show. He then went on to reinvent himself with being a character in the Marvel Universe. He played Senator Stern in both Iron Man 2 and Captain America 2. I loved seeing his character in Captain 2 and it explains why he wanted Iron Man's suit in IM2. He died from a heart attack and that hits rather close to me. I nearly died from heart failure last year and spent an entire week in the h...

Random Things ~Daredevil Season 2: I am currently watching the show on Netfix and I am loving it a lot. The Punisher is sort of the new bad guy on the show and he's great. While I really liked Thomas Jane in the role, this new guy is better. He seems to be channeling the more realistic version of the Punisher with the non-superhero world around him in the Max Print . He's lean and not a bulky guy like in the main universe. I'm also watching Jessica Jones as well at the same time. They're both set in the same area.    ~ RIP Rob Ford: Everyone's favorite drug using mayor has passed away at 46. I miss this guy. I noticed that he disappeared from the news for about a year. He was very sick, which was the reason we didn't see him much. He was a total clown, but the Internet embraced him as our clown. Damn, who are we going to make fun of now? In comes Donald Trump. Never mind. ~Having that crush on someone: Do we as geeks even try to ...

Worst Actor Jamie Dornan - Fifty Shades of Grey as Christian Grey : He's the winner. Yeah. Man, I've heard how bad this movie is, but I can't bring myself to sit through it. The SOA actor was originally annouced as the actor Johnny Depp – Mortdecai as Charlie Mortdecai: Depp is a cool guy, but I think he doesn't care and just likes to play silly characters and nothing else. I tried watching this “comedy”, but I didn't get it. I just gave up. I tried. Kevin James – Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 as Paul Blart : James should have won for this role. He's annoying with his falls and facial gestures. Man, I never wanted the bad guy to win more. Adam Sandler – The Cobbler and Pixels as Max Simkin and Sam Brenner : So, this is that strange shoe movie. I know that more people saw Pixels than than the Cobbler. I heard people really hated the Cobbler and this is just that trend of him making bad movies. Channing Tatum – Jupiter Ascend...

Jared, From Subway gets beat up in prison Well, who didn't see this coming? In prison, the worst thing you can be is a pedophile. Everyone guns for you and wants to beat you down. The Subway Guy received his guaranteed beatdown. From Heavy.com, ((The report released by the family of the attacker, 60-year-old Steven Nigg, of Wisconsin, shows Fogle was beaten in the recreation yard of Federal Correctional Institution Englewood, a minimum security facility in Littleton where he is serving his 15-year prison sentence. )) The best part is Jared was left with a bloody nose and scratches after the beatdown. 

Guy Steals PS4 and gets caught because of it Anyone that knows me knows that I hate people that steal people's shit. I love when these asshole get caught because they don't understand technology. I wish I had a tracker on my bike before it got stolen.  Real thugs play Madden on someone else's ps4, bro.  From Thuglifer.com, ((After a few days, the victim’s phone alerted his PS4 had been turned on and showed it was still connected to his own WiFi. Knowing the console had to be close to be hooked up, the victim called police and stated he believed his neighbor across the hall was responsible for the theft.)) The best part is this lunkhead stole everything and kept the PS4 and started playing games for it and then connected to the person who owned it own wifi. So the cops tracked Phillip back to his own crib and arrested him. This is not the smartest criminal. I love this type of justice. I'm sure he is not going to be bagging about this in ...

Gawker loses Lawsuit to Hulk Hogan From NY Times, ((The retired wrestler Hulk Hogan was awarded $115 million in damages on Friday by a Florida jury in an invasion of privacy case against Gawker.com over its publication of a sex tape  )) I really didn't see that coming. And, that is a large sum of cash. I hate Hulk Hogan now and I hate the reality show and his family. Everything about him is shady and dumb, and I used to look up to him as a hero growing up. Heck, I loved that he became a member of NWO. As his flaws came to the surface, it was clear he was a petty man that was a little too in love with himself. However, what Gawker did was wrong. It is one thing for some troll on 4Chan to release a sex tape of a famous person, but it is another thing altogether when a noted member of the press does it gleefully with ads. I guess the site might have to scale back its crew a bit. It will hurt the company, but it won't kill it I don't think. So, we'll...

Flash/Supergirl crossover I am really looking forward to this episode. I think it is clever idea to have these two meet up. And, the episode is named after the comic of the same name where heroes would crossover. World's Finest. I am also glad they finally came out and stated Supergirl and Flash are on different Earths (Earth 3?) and they even had an appearance of Supergirl in a flash-sideways when Barry traveled to Earth 2 in an earlier episode. As I stated before, Supergirl can't exist in Flash/Arrow's world due to Superman playing a big part in her history. By the way, Livewire and Banshee are the team up villains for this episode. 

More with the Ghostbusters reboot Man, what is going on behind the scenes with Sony? (It might be time for some of the PS4 guys to take over Sony Studios, because they're doing better than the rest of the company.)  I would have made the movie a sequel/restart.  The original plot plans sound okay. I sort of like everything but the huge dance number planned. (It looks like that was the only thing to survive to the final script.) Now, Paul Feig 's idea about the government is a bit strange and a bit too much of the Iron Man 1 subplot to it. Remember that happened in IM1. However, the alien ghost and the ring leader idea might have worked. It would have been a darker movie more like the cartoon series. It is interesting that only Leslie Jones and Fieg seem to be defending the movie before its release. And they have been very vocal about it. Why haven't Melissa McCarthy and Wig spoken up?  Yep, they also got back most of the old cast to show up in...

I was clipping through cable and this thing came across my screen... Scooby-Doo! WrestleMania Mystery: Yes, this is a thing. This is very much a real thing. Scooby-Doo did a cross over with the WWE. It just seems odd. This shows you how PG the WWE has become. Could you have imagined this happening during its raunchy days of its Attitude Era? A time when pimps and “ex”-pornstars were good guys. I couldn't see The Godfather and Val Venus showing up for this movie. Despite the PG views of WWE today, is Scooby really something kids watch today? Is there a crossover appeal between WWE and Scooby? I couldn't finish the movie because I am not really into Scooby anymore or WWE in its current state. However, Scooby-Doo has been know for years using characters and real life personalities in the episodes. It is interesting that WWE has gone full circle from the 80s when they had their own cartoon show to the R-rated Attitude Era back to making a cartoon f...

Fun with Google Stats: Again Here are some of my top searches for my blog this week. It seems sex/pornstars are the reason people search for things along with an old comedy bit from the 90s.  jeri ryan kate mulgrew feud: Yeah, people tend to want read about the feud. Ryan has been pretty frank about her fued, but not mentioning Kate's name. I get a lot of seatches on this one. Voyager was such a low point in the Trek mythos and it is sad that the writers and producers really didn't give a damn about the show. It limped along for 7 years creatively. The fued sort of top it off made the time for the actors very uncomfortable.   cody lane: Ah, yes, the pornstar from Louisville. She's been arrested a few times over the years and her mugshots are rather amusing. I am not sure what she's up to these days. But, I still get a lot of hits from merely mentioning her name.   eva angelina: Once again, she makes it on my list. I really liked ...

Yeah, Trump rallies are hotbeds of hate... So, a black protester got arrested and sucker punched by a Trump Supporter. Why did they not arrest the supporter that assaulted the protester? The good news is the supporter dude did get arrested and charged. From the Wash Post, ((John McGraw, 78, was charged with assault and disorderly conduct in connection with the incident, Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Sean Swain told The Post on Thursday. )) Something tells me he doesn't have a Tumbr blog or a twitter account.  I could be wrong.   Yeah, the man was 78 years old. I am sure he'd like things to go back to the way things were in his childhood...when you could punch black people and NOT go to jail. Instead of apologizing for his supporters behavior, Trump doubles down. He is even thinking about paying to defend the punchy-supporter. WTF? From Yahoo, (( “ The man got carried away,”  Trump said on NBC’s “Meet The Press” S...

I love the new uniform for Spider-Man and I LOVE the CGI eyes. That is clearly a callback to the Spider-Man from the universe. Was this planned to have Spider-Man have CGI eyes or was it after the positive reactions to Deadpool's CGI eyes?  The trailer reveals they're taking a lot of the story from the source material (the comic book). The trailer kind of shows the incident that causes the government to clamp down on heroes. Plus, there are all the other things that happened. How will this conflict effect the Netflix series? Or Agent of Shield? Will the heroes start doing things underground now? I was thrilled to see the new Spider-Man and everything, but then I read that Sony is making a Venom movie...not connected to Spider-Man or the Marvel MCU. Uh, why? The whole point of Venom is he's a villain/ally of Spider-Man and since Sony's Spider-Man is part of the MCU, Venom should be too. See, this is the type of bullshit DC does ...

These new Subway ads I keep seeing these new Subway ads and I have a thought. They're saying. Please forget about our old ads with Jared. Please, please please. I am sure there was a special meeting. It really is their fault they picked one of the worst people in the world to be the face of their company. Whereas Bill Cosby's connections to Coke and Jello has some distance, Jared is still fresh with the company (pun intended). I got to say they're trying to rebuild their image. That makes this ad unfortunate.

Bear Simulator dead: I guess that is kicking a dead bear . From PC Gamer, ((On Sunday, John Farjay, the sole developer, declared that he would be putting the project aside because Bear Simulator "didn't have a great reception" and admitting that he feels he's "not skilled enough to make the game better than it currently is". )) This game was crowd-funded by a lot of people. Basically, the game is about playing a bear. That sounds pretty cool, if silly. Well PewDiePie, which I don't get, slammed the game and the maker of the Bear Game stopped production. PewDiePie felt bad for it, but that was his opinion.  Due to the project being halted, it sounds like a scam, but it isn't. I think I would have keep the game going and make it The Room of VGs. To be fair, a lot of VG people have slammed the VG like say the Game Grumps. This game is really really bad. And, foxes can kill bears? On the Pew Die part, he took down...

Ghostbusters troubles? It looks like I am the only one that liked the GB remake trailer. Everyone from progressives and regular fans of the original hate this trailer. I loved the first movie and liked what I saw in the new trailer.  Now, it looks like the movie is doomed for failure due to the rumors of a troubled production. The 4Chan leaked rumors are usually true, just look at the FF rumors. We might be seeing the studio now throwing its full support behind this movie. Melissa McCarthy is not happy: I guess she didn't get along with one of her co-stars. I am guessing it was Kate McKinnon. And, I feel bad for her because she was a huge fan of the cartoon show. And, she pushed for the movie to be more like the show. It also looks like they're not allowed to talk about how bad the movie turned out due to what happened on FF with Fox. I am guessing that Sony is really worried about the movie now with the poor reactions from everyone on their tra...

Pixels   What if the guy/dude/bro made a movie about nerds and starred as the nerd? You get Pixels, and it is a mess. Even though our gaming culture is hotly divided, I've never seen a thing that has all sides agreeing on its shitty-ness. This movie was supposed to be for gamers, but it ended up pissing off everyone into gaming. Pixels isn't the non-narrative mess that were the Grown Ups movies, but it is in the trend of keeping up with Sandler's bad movies. Pixels is based on the short film of the same name with some added Sandler bullshit. Old school videogames come to life and attack the world. This is Wreck it Raph without the charm. And, the world has to combat these aliens/VG character...in the form of Adam Sandler. Enjoy. Sandler doesn't give a shit about this movie. I mean Adam looks so disinterested at this point, I'd tell him to retire. Of course, he's playing the same man-child. However, he is not playing the super r...