Hellraiser

I don't think I mentioned it yet, but I did enjoy Thor: Love & Thunder for the most part. Not as good as Ragnarok, but an entertaining way to waste two hours nonetheless. And Christian Bale definitely stole the show.

It is official: Phil Anselmo and Rex Brown will reunite as Pantera and go on tour in 2023. No word yet on who the guitarist and the drummer for the tour are going to be. They only thing they confirmed in that regard is that Zakk Wylde will not be part of the reunion. https://www.billboard.com/pro/pantera-reunion-tour-2023/

IIRC, the focus of the current phase was supposed to be on shit going on in space and James Gunn was supposed to oversee that endeavor. But that was before he got axed and it seems like plans have changed a lot since then.

I don't think there has been a SmackDown game whose roster has been as outdated by the time it was released as Just Bring It other than maybe the first one. The game was released on the day of Survivor Series 2001 but almost none of the WCW and ECW guys the WWE brought in for the Invasion angle were part of the roster thanks to the cut-off date for the roster usually being around WrestleMania. But unlike the first game of the series, this one had a decent (for the time) create-a-wrestler mode. The first was released around the time of WrestleMania 2000 and featured neither Kurt Angle, Too Cool or The Radicalz. And it had a terrible create-a-wrestler mode as well. You could only select pre-created head, upper-body and lower-body parts with little to now customization. Fortunately the 2nd game came out later that year and the roster was pretty decent in that one.

My favorite games per console: SNES: WrestleMania The Arcarde Game (the LJN games kinda sucked) PSX: SmackDown 2: Know Your Role (good game and a great improvement over the first one. The load times were godawful though) PS2: SmackDown: Here Comes The Pain (with an honorable mention to the original SmackDown Vs RAW and SVR 2006). GameCube: Day Of Reckoning 2 (it sucked that they stopped making console-exclusive games just as they had finally perfected the formula for their GameCube games. Day Of Reckoning 2 was great!) XBox 360: SmackDown Vs RAW 2010 PS4: WWE 2K19 PC: Fire Pro Wrestling World

Didn't this already happen with another movie a few years back? I can't remember which movie though. Edit: It was Avengers: Endgame with a Stan Lee tribute, a Bruce Banner scene with unfinished CGI and a scene from Spider Man: Far From Home. Apparently they did it with A Star Is Born (12 extra minutes) too.

Episode 3 spoilers

The series is coming back on July 11th. Why did they break the season in two parts anyway? Simply because that is what they also did for the final season of Breaking Bad? At least the break is significantly shorter than the one between parts 1 and 2 of the final season of Breaking Bad where we had to wait almost an entire year.

New Avantasia and Arch Enemy: There is also a new Queensryche album coming in October.

Evángelos Odysséas Papathanassíou aka. Vangelis has died at age 79: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/may/19/vangelis-greek-composer-chariots-of-fire-blade-runner-dies He is mostly known as the composer of the Blade Runner and Chariots Of Fire soundtracks. The first song of him I remember hearing was the title melody of 1492: Conquest of Paradise as walkout music by German boxing champion Henry Maske back in the 90s. The movie is terrible, but that song is amazing. R.I.P.

San Marino were robbed.

My favorites of the first semi finale are Latvia, Bulgaria, Denmark and Moldova. Edit: Welp, at least Moldova made it.

Former Children Of Bodom members Janne Wirman, Henkka Seppälä and Jaska Raatikainen have given their first joint interview about the breakup of the band and Alexi Laiho's death. Among other things they reveal that the split in 2019 had nothing do with them wanting to spend more time with the families like Laiho claimed at the time but was caused by Alexi's substance abuse problems: https://www.hs.fi/kulttuuri/art-2000008804579.html Also Judas Priest will be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame this year: https://www.rockhall.com/judas-priest-0

I did some googling and found a reddit post on that matter and in in the replies someone links to interviews with the cast and crew in which director Mohamed Diab mentioned that he only directed a few scenes with Ulliel and Oscar Isaac says that he worked with him on set for 2 or 3 days. So it really was just a one-off appearance by the looks of it.

That has to be the weakest final episode of a Disney+ Marvel show yet. Feels like half the episode is missing.

I'm still not hyped up about this at all.

Nope. But at the end of the credits they show you and URL that leads you to a website supposedly run by the Riddler on which you can solve riddles to unlock some in-universe supplementary material.

Is it as bad as the Fatal 4 Way Steel Cage match in the Day Of Reckoning 2 story mode?

I'm not saying the game is a catastrophe. I put like 60 hours into the game and I wouldn't have done it if I hadn't enjoyed it. I'd give it a 6.5-7 out of 10. That isn't bad in my book. But the original was a 9/10 for me. That is why I was a bit underwhelmed.

So I finished Horizon Forbidden West and I was kinda underwhelmed by the whole experience.

On a more positive note, new Blind Guardian!

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