Monthly Archives: May 2013

I saw Star Trek: Into Darkness and I liked it.

Star Trek: Into Darkness wasn’t a bad movie at all. I’m not sure that it was better than Iron Man 3 if we’re talking overall movie quality, but they’re fairly different movies.

The piece of advice that I heard about the movie that really made the most sense was to consider how low-budget the original Star Trek movie were compared to other films at the time. The dialogue could have been written for a television show and not a movie where everything needs to be explained within two and a half hours tops. The first J.J. Abrams movie set the stage for whatever films followed this one, and the other films in the TOS-era films and TNG-era films served to supplement the television series in a way that could sell tickets in cinemas.

And that’s what this second film is: it’s fan service without apology and it doesn’t give a fuck. Its story solidifies what made the previous Kirk/Spock such a dynamic duo among dynamic duos in its own way.

If you enjoyed the first film, you owe it to yourself to go out and see this second one. If you nitpicked the first film to death and ended up not liking it, stop being a try-hard movie critic or overly-devout butthurt TOS/TNG fan and go watch the J.J. Abrams films as back-to-back as possible.

I will finally put Android through its proper paces soon.

I posted a picture to Google+, which is to say, I’ve been really trying to start using the service again. However, this particular picture is the start of something more than simply trying to start using Google+ a lot more.

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Yep. I bought a Nexus 4 from the Google Play store. I intend to transplant the micro-SIM from my iPhone 4S to it for at least two straight weeks worth of testing.

In this test, I’m going to see if I enjoy the Nexus 4 enough to switch from the iOS app-ecosystem to the Android app-ecosystem. All indications are that I should be able to find a way to enjoy it and that it’s better than any iPhone and that I’m dumb for using an iPhone in the first place.

It should be arriving early next week. We’ll see what all the fuss is about, then.

The third of three posts regarding why I think the Mass Effect trilogy is great.

I’ve put off this post for a bit longer than the other two so that I could play a few other games with multiplayer modes to be able to put it into some sort of perspective. The multiplayer part of this post won’t be terribly long, because no one really plays it any more as the game has long passed its youth, in a way of speaking.

The third title presents an interesting change in the focus of these posts. Where, historically, the first two games’ mechanical and technical aspects have been stumbling blocks that negatively affect the title, this third game doesn’t have those issues and goes above and beyond the previous titles to a point where its shortcomings do not relate to the gameplay or the technical failings at all.

The story on the other hand… we’ll need to rant about that.

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