IT: Stephen King Book Review

Title: It By: Stephen King Published: September 1986 (This Edition: January 5th 2016) By: Scribner Genre: Horror-Adult-Mystery-Dark-Paranormal To the children, the town was their whole world. To the adults, knowing better, Derry, Maine was just their home town: familiar, well-ordered, a good place to live. It was the children who saw – and felt – what made Derry […]

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Jeepers Creepers (2001)

This movie has a special place in my heart. Not because I love the movie, tho it is a good one. The sound is nice the acting is solid and the visuals are good. No, see my ex wife ( Hello ex wife) used to be find the song really creepy. You know the one. “Jeepers, creepers where’d you get those peepers”..any way i’d watch the movie and creep around the house singing the song just to freak her out….also you probably understand why she is the ex wife.

Jeepers Creepers is the story of a demon/devil sort of monster that terrorizes a highway harvesting humans for body parts it needs to survive and may be one of the most under rated horror movies of the early 2000-2010 decade. Best wishes and may the gaming gods bring you glory.

Loot Boxes Good Or Bad?

There are two main questions when it comes to loot boxes. Are they bad for gaming, and are they gambling? Honestly both a matter of opinion. Companies will say no to the first one because it makes them money and gamers seem to be pretty split.

The gambling question weirdly has seen different answers, Americas ESRB has sad no since you get something for your money and the European equivalent has said only a gambling commission could possibly answer it.

However my answers are simple, loot boxes are becoming a cancer. What started as just a quick way for game makers to make some extra cash and gamers to get some cool stuff is becoming damn near pay to win and a pay wall to hide stuff behind.

As for the gambling question that one is rough. Yes you do get something so I get the ESRB’s point. You pay money and you get something, where is the gamble? Here is where it gets dicey. What you get isn’t always of equivalent value. If I said send me $20 and you I will send you random money back between $1 and $100 would you feel that was a gamble? I certainly would. Either way it seems loot boxes are here to stay, so we may as well get used to them. Best wishes and may the gaming gods bring you glory.

5 games people love, but I don’t

Let me start this by saying these series/games are some of the most popular in gaming. They are by most accounts great. I am not denying this. I just don’t like them. Some i just don’t enjoy some I simply don’t even understand. And here we go. Feel free to hate me in the comments.

The picture says World of Warcraft, but basically all MMO’s. I have played a few, WoW, Guild Wars, Neverwinter and a few others. I simply don’t get why people get so obsessed. They get boring and redundant quickly. And I play sim games.

Anything Metal Gear. I want to like these games. I beat 2. Played 3. 5 is free on PlayStation this month, I simply can’t do it. Worse yet I can’t explain why.

This one I won’t even try to say much about. In my retro review I said the original was more fun than I remember and I meant it. Here is that review https://saviorgamingblog.wordpress.com/2017/09/20/metroid-retro-review/

The series to me has never been good. I have played most of the series. I have never enjoyed it. The story, the game play, none of it.

Minecraft. The building game that took the world by storm. My daughter spent hundreds of hours playing it. Still plays it. Thanks to her I have played it tons. I hate this game. I don’t even understand it. You strip mine the world to build stuff for what purpose? I prefer 7 Days to Die.

This one may get me killed by some PlayStation fans. But I will say it. God of War is way over rated. Its a decent story with a button masher attached to it. That is it. Take away the threesum mini game and even the edginess is gone. I have never and will never understand it.

That’s it, my five games people love and I do not. Anything you guys would add? Let me know and may the gaming gods bring you glory.

My Bloody Valentine (2010)

Look first off I’m not even sure the picture I used even has to do with the movie. I mostly found pictures from the T.V. series Supernatural. Seriously guys Dean has been in other stuff.

Any way Dean plays Tom a guy that survived a killers attack 10 years prior and left town only to return when his dad dies and leaves him a mine. Of course he wants to sell the run down mine of bad memories but Dean..I mean Tom falls in love.

What follows is a horror thriller that will leave you guessing til the very end about who the killer is. People will die. Truckers, naked women, a midget. There is really something for everyone here. Highly recommend checking this one out, and may the gaming gods bring you glory.

Be Afraid (2017)

I have seen a few of these sleep paralysis movies lately and I am forced to admit this one is very well done. The movie doesn’t do anything great, but it also does not do anything badly. The characters are pretty well written the story while standard was also pretty good.

The usual applies here. Family moves to a small town, town has weird things happen, little girl was missing yada yada yada. We have all seen it before. Son comes home from college meets local girl. All standard affair.

Where the movie really shines is that you believe this small town is simply a small town with no real secrets. Even the town drunk seems to be just a father distraught over the loss of a kid. But alas nothing is as it seems. The sleep paralysis that will soon plague a select few and the strange dreams are no dreams but creatures with a nefarious and unclear plot of their own. Not a movie for everyone but worth a watch. Best wishes and may the gaming gods bring you glory.

The Babysitter (2017)

The new movie from Netflix was not quite what I was expecting. The story is of a kid named Cole and his babysitter that happens to be one of his best friends and object of his 12 year old affections. And why wouldn’t she be? She is smart, attractive and protects him from bullies.

Inevitably as babysitters will do she invites friends over after Cole goes to bed. Curious as to what goes on (his close friend suggest orgy which he of course googles) he sneaks to the top of the stairs and discovers normal shenanigans. Spin the bottle, kissing, stabbing a guy with two knives in the head and collecting the blood… Well normal for a cult. What follows is a tale of gruesome and exaggerated death, love and coming of age and a randomly placed but awesome car wreck. Any fan of horror comedy will enjoy this one but fair warning, the movie is not for everyone. Best wishes and may the gaming gods bring you glory.

Professor Marston And The Wonder Woman

Three’s a party. Professor William Marston (Luke Evans) and his wife, Elizabeth (Rebecca Hall), live a relatively happy and carefree life together. He’s a professor at Harvard and she desperately wants to be, but because this is the 1920’s and she’s a woman, for some reason, that’s not allowed to happen. Anyway, the two have […]

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