Alright!  Just in time for the semester to start, I finished Halo Infinite on the Xbox! 🥳 I started this on May 30, 2026 (just as the spring semester was ending), and I completed it on September 4, 2026.Gameplay General ThoughtsThis Halo tries something a little different from past games and dives a bit into the open world concept.  I wasn't sure how I was going to like it, but I thought

Alright, one final movie review before the fall semester starts! The funny thing is that this series of movies was what I watched first on the way to Greece this summer 😂. Saved the best for last?  Maybe. Or maybe they were just popcorn flicks and I left that for last.  Either way, here we are.I've loved the Mission: Impossible universe since I was a kid watching the 1988 series (which

One more "watch on the plane" film.  This was also on my to watch list for a while since I've seen most Karate Kid films.Right off the bat, I will say that it's a disappointment that none of the Karate Kid spin-offs since the original trilogy recognize The Next Karate Kid (1994), which is the only one I watched in the movie theaters (and probably one of my first films watched in the theaters

Here's another "watched on the plane" short thoughts. I think I watched this coming back from Greece?  It doesn't really matter.  This was a movie that I also had on my to watch list, but never made the time for when I was at home.  I read the novel (audiobook version narrated by Wil Wheaton), and I found it rather enjoyable. I understand the criticism that it was rather derivative

It's been a while since I saw this on a plane to (or from?) Greece, but I thought I'd add some short thoughts here. All of the Tron movies, which include Tron (1982), Tron: Legacy (2010), and Tron: Ares (2025), have been on my to watch list for a while now. Tron seemed like one of those culturally defining movies (at least the original 1982 one) that I should watch.I started with Ares first to

Welp... the TV Tracking app I used is no more!  It's actually been a week since it went dark, but I just had the time to sit down and write a couple of in memoriam words for it.I had been using the app for a while now, and back in the day it was called TV Show Time. I guess it emphasized discoverability.  It was fun to see what friends were watching, and also to keep track of what I've

 Continuing on my completionist mission (completing series of games, not necessarily getting 100% on them, I finished Halo 5: Guardians on 5/18/26; a little more than a decade after it launched, and probably 7 years after I bought it on sale 😅According to TrueAchievements, I completed Halo 4 in 2014, so it took a while to get back into the franchise. Where I last left the story, Cortana

Back in the day, we used to watch Mad Men when it was on TV on a week-by-week basis, but by around Season 5 things were too f*cked up, and there didn't seem to be much redeeming value to the main characters, so we slowly fell off.  This year, being the completionist that I am, I wanted to watch the seasons I had missed out after 2010(?) when we stopped watching. Spoilers obviously, but then again

Time does fly!  This year is the 25th anniversary of Star Trek: Enterprise (or just "Enterprise" as it originally aired?), and Star Trek Online has an anniversary ship bundle to mark the occasion.  I don't particularly care for the aesthetics of the ships of that era, but what caught my eye with this advertisement is the way they did it.  The ad for the new ship bundle feels very much

Well now... after completing the first Cobra Kai game, I thought I'd continue with the sequel, Dojos Rising.  I was doing pretty well with this game, but after a few frustrating weekends, I decided that this was going to be a Did Not Finish kind of game for me.  Pronounced DNF on March 22 😹The game essentially picks up after the first game ends, and somewhere in Season 4 (?) of the series.