Solo Geek News: DC Shows, Transformers, and Console Gaming

You're tuned in to Steve Megatron on Altered

Geek Unlimited Hello and welcome to Altered Geek

Unlimited I don't know why I keep saying unlimited.

It's not been unlimited in like a while, but

anyways welcome Yes, I am recording this episode

solo mostly because I didn't want to have to

stay up late I've been taking muscle relaxers

late at night when I record these typically because

of my injury from last week, so Yeah, I am I'm

doing a little bit better this week the the whole

foot thing like I because what happened is I

smashed my toe and I know I mentioned some of

it last week, but I was a little incoherent.

But I smashed my toe against the corner piece

of a wall, like when you're exiting a room. So

it's like when the two walls are adjoining in

the center. And typically underneath all of that

paint, there's usually metal that they're attached

to. And I'm pretty sure I smacked my toe either

upward or downward on that and snapped it at

the knuckle. So in doing that I pretty sure I

did it downward because the rest of my foot on

that side hurts like you know what So yeah that

being said I Managed to smash that whole side

of my foot It's still sore my foot is still swollen

up I was wearing a boot that they put on me at

the urgent care and You know this being a week

later now my foot My toes feeling a lot better.

I mean it's still black and blue. It's still

broken, but it's I managed to tape it next to

the other toe I'm trying to reduce the swelling,

but I got the boot off Because I went to the

doctor and they told me more or less if I don't

take it off I'm gonna have long -term issues

with my leg Which I've already noticed a little

bit of it like my calf muscle and my ankle And

my toes have all lost mobility in a week of wearing

that thing The good point was is I could walk

I had a little bit of a limp, but I could walk

it without pain wearing the boots so it helped

me get to that that first initial stage, which

is great, but now I'm on to stage two and They

they took new x -rays which I'm still waiting

to hear back on but uh Yeah, the the stage two

is getting the mobility back in my leg So I'm

officially starting the second week of recovery

from broken toe So yeah, it's been an interesting

interesting time to say the least But uh Yeah,

so what's been going on in your guys's life lately?

I've I've been doing this, you know, I've been

Kind of MIA from the internet for a little bit.

I've been watching certain You know certain things

kind of pop up Throughout the week like I've

seen the trailer for Supergirl and I've seen

You know the fact that Clark Kent's taking more

of a front -roll which is kind of odd. I hope

that they don't make Him the focal point. I know

he's in the first two episodes which I'm okay

with but at the same time like I don't I don't

want him to be so recurring that it just detracts

from Supergirl herself because I like her being

the primary character and They've shown images

of everybody else and then You know talked about

their capacity to some extent and the trailer

really didn't show anything It was more so the

pictures that have come out after the fact Like

you see Superman beating Martian Manhunter John

Jones So it's it's gonna be an interesting season

to say the least and I know that they've they've

got some Some different production stuff being

that it's CW in Vancouver now Instead of LA so

I'm looking forward to see what they're gonna

do a Supergirl the flash I'm really looking forward

to just because of Not only the trailer kind

of showing the how the alternate life thing is

gonna be but seeing like the reverse flash then

you get You know the the black racer basically

because I can't remember his name right now of

what they're calling him in this and Then you

get kid flash, and then you get you know regular

flash, and so it's gonna be Very fun. I'm looking

forward to a lot of these shows coming back Gotham

I'm kind of holding my breath on I'm kind of

waiting. That's my on the fence show again It's

kind of always on the fence for me I don't know

if I'm gonna drop or keep it at any given point

like there's points and it's great and then there's

points where it's just like please cancel the

show and I hate saying that because like both

ways. It's good and bad, but Agents of shield

looks like it's it's finally stepping up its

game because they've replaced Ward with Mack

and in their lineup like actually fully replaced

and then You know, they've got their team back.

They've got their little squadron back They're

kind of going back to that season one dynamic

a little bit and away from the Hydra and all

the mess with that Because they've got ghost

rider now So I'm kind of looking forward to seeing

what agents of shield does I know I said I dropped

it But I'm probably gonna pick it up again Just

to see what they're doing And then arrow I'm

I'm hoping that flash takes some repercussions

into that show and kind of does some things with

it But I don't think that's gonna be the case

Legends of tomorrow. I'm looking forward to as

well arrow. Like I said, I'm looking forward

to but it's not like high up on my list I enjoy

the cast I just I Don't know I expect more from

it because it's the the one that set the rest

of the the universe in motion One of the nice

things though, like I know little about this

character, but I think it's interesting that

Berlanti and his crew are creating a show called

Black Lightning, which is based off of the character

of the same name. So yeah, I'm looking forward

to seeing that. Like I'm going to pretty much

anything that Berlanti is attached to that's

a superhero thing based off a comic, I'm pretty

much going to watch it because They're all really

good Even if it's on another station I'll still

pick it up like because I think that a lot of

these characters even though They may not be

like your first -tier characters like I'm like

flash I mean because flash is pretty much the

only one that's like first -tier character. That's

on CW well Superman will be too and like Supergirl

and arrow and in the atom and And Green Arrow

and those like those kind of guys like I see

them as second tier characters like they're not

third tier, but they're second tier justice leaguers

so like I'm kind of Kind of exceeded excited

to see like some of these second tier characters

kind of hit first tier status on television because

the first tier characters are still first tier

on film But uh No, I mean, I'm really looking

forward to a lot of the stuff that CW is going

to be putting out this year. I'm looking forward

to Frequency, because I love the movie, to see

what they do with the television show. I'm looking

forward to Lethal Weapon, because I like the

films, and I'm looking forward to what they're

going to do with the television show, because

again, I like a lot of the actors that are involved

too, so it makes it easier for me to jump ship

to those shows. But yeah, what do you guys think

about that? And then also we had some awesomeness

drop this past week. They dropped from Justice

League the screenshot and it's got Batman inside

what looks like some kind of a cave or some kind

of a ship or something. You don't really get

much reference point to it but he's pulling down

a lever and you see what looks like a Batmobile

kind of damaged next to him and He's wearing

like this tactical armor this new bat suit tactical

armor, which kind of reminds me of It's kind

of reminiscent of Nolan like Christopher Nolan's

universe Batman kind of like the first and second

armor merged with the the Justice League or the

BBS bat suit I like it, but I hope that this

isn't like one of the suits that he keeps I think

this is one of the ones that he's gonna be fighting

deathstroke with Or like some of the parademons

or something like that Which I'm perfectly fine

with that as long as he keeps going back to the

other suit Then I'm I'm cool with it, but he's

got some kind of weird goggles on that kind of

remind me of Batman Beyond So It's very blacked

out, which I'm kind of sad about. I miss the

gray aesthetic from BBS of the suit and keeping

with the black cowl and cape and black gauntlets

and boots, but I mean, I'll get over it, but

I'm kind of sad about that, that they've done

away with the gray and gone all black again.

I think they've killed this black. All straight

black Batman in the films like for the past like

25 years Because honestly, I don't want to see

it anymore so But yeah, I mean I I'm fine with

the suit I I really like it. I just I Don't know

what to think yet. I'm still happy that it's

this version of Batman and not the the bail version

I didn't much care for that because I didn't

find him as He was more of a Gruff gonna beat

him up kind of Batman, which I didn't find interesting

at all. I found him to be I found it to be kind

of yes, it was real world, but it was kind of

lazy because in The third film they finally explained

that Bruce Wayne knows how to fix things on his

own without help and You know I get that he needs

Lucius Fox to some extent but like the same token

like Batman is a tactical and detective genius

And we really didn't see much of that get used

in the Nolan universe So I know that they're

talking about having that happen in this universe,

which I'm excited about plus you get to see a

Lot of Batman's gadgets you get to see a lot

of his fighting style So a lot of that's really

nicely Put together, so I don't know if you guys

have noticed this but IDW Next week is going

to be starting the revolution And what Revolution

is, is there finally is a time, like Revolution

is in conjunction with, it's IDW and Hasbro are

basically making an epic five part, an epic five

part bi -weekly comic book series in September.

Well, in the end of it. And what it's going to

have is Transformers, Ron, Micronauts, G .I.

Joe, Action Man, and Mask. All crossing paths

in a comic. And I don't know if this is already

out. It may already be out at the time of this

record, I'm not sure. I'm really interested to

see how well this plays out. Because it's a lot

of Hasbro's properties, and I know that they're

talking about doing this in the film universe

So if this translates well in comic it might

be a good formula for the films because The only

thing I hope they don't do is screw it up and

make them look nothing like whatever They're

supposed to be kind of like the Transformers

films, and I don't mean to harp on the Transformers

films I just find them to be extremely They're

very poorly written films They're very action

-packed. They're very adventure II and they're

they're fun. They're not intelligent by any means,

but they're fun and It's it's one of those movies

that I'll watch when I want to watch just a film

That's that's got transformers involved and you

know It's kind of a shut your brain off moment,

and and I'm fine with that like I'll I'll that's

that universe I get it. I'm not gonna be one

of those like oh it has to be g1 or I hate it

Which I kind of do, but I give it props for what

it's done and it's revitalized the franchise,

which I'm fine with. I'll live with it. It's

not like I have to be one of the 90 % that enjoy

it. For me, it'll always be the original show

on Beast Wars and stuff like that, which is fine.

I mean, every one of us has our own generation

we enjoy. Hope that they don't screw it up. You

know kind of like the first GI Joe movie kind

of like all the Transformers films. You know

it If they do it right, I think that it could

be done Well, I animation would probably be the

way to go for it all unless you're doing like

Transformers Combiner Wars the that show on io9

I think it's io9 But um I don't - I don't know

what - What is that site? I can't remember the

name of it. Is it IO - No, it's not IO9. Anyways,

I don't remember - It's - It's done by Machinima

and - and Hasbro, but um... The... The Combiner

Wars... Um... I - I enjoy them. I enjoy the comics,

or the uh, the videos that they've put out. Um...

But... Don't enjoy a lot of the voice acting

if that makes any sense like I feel like I Feel

like they just grabbed people because they were

YouTube famous and they threw them in the videos

To do the voices and a lot of the voices just

sounds so freaking off or very Weak for the characters

that they're portraying. I mean you get you get

standouts like you know The female cast is pretty

much great. I have no no Backlash for that Megatron

I'm kind of I don't know I feel like they could

have got its go 90 by the way that site that

it's on But I feel like they could have gone

and found somebody that can do the voice better

And as of this point they've got seven episodes

out Think I've watched up through six. I still

gotta watch seven but uh I Mean don't get me

wrong animations great. I like the cell shade

it kind of reminds me of the the video game Transformers

devastation which I loved very similar animation

style. I really like it but Yeah, a lot of it's

just the voice acting I can't stand plus the

five minute videos that just kind of I don't

know It just kind of irks me I feel like I mean

this is very much in the vein of GI Joe resolute

like they had you know interesting voice acting

But they all sounded the same pretty much and

then they had like really great animation And

they had what GI Joe should have been the entire

time if it was like more realistic And then they

were five minute episodes or two three to five

or three to six minute episodes And you put it

all together and get about an hour So I feel

like that's what they're doing here with transformers,

which is fine. I just I'm not Yeah, I don't I

don't know I'm trying to pit like I'm trying

to play devil's advocate and it's kind of hard

for me to do I Really enjoy them. That's I should

just leave it at that. I really do enjoy them.

I think you should check them out but If you're

expecting the g1 voices other than optimus prime,

you're not gonna get it or with Rotimus. It's

a nice plotline. I like it. I like the style

and everything. It's great. But yeah, that's

about my only pet peeve with it. So moving on.

If you're a fan of Battlefield 4, you've been

playing Battlefield 4 at all, if you've bought

the actual like just regular core game and not

bought any of the expansions, Origin and EA are

giving them the expansions away all five of them

for free as a part of their Battlefield 1 promotion.

There's there's no more you don't have to pay

$15 or $13 an expansion at this point They're

all free. So as long as you buy the core game

for like 30 bucks You get the entire game for

free like the rest of it, which is awesome I

myself am still waiting I don't know when I'm

gonna be able to purchase Battlefield 1. I'm

hoping on Black Friday. It goes on sale for like

$29 .99 on like Origin because I would love to

buy it then. And then I wouldn't feel so bad

about buying the game because it'd be half off.

And then if they did half off the expansions,

then I could feel good spending $60 buying the

entire game. Whereas spending 120 I feel like

I'm getting jet and that kind of goes back to

the DLC thing that we talked about many episodes

ago But I just I Can't justify I have a hard

time justifying $60 on a game let alone 120 like

it's it I And I understand everybody's got to

get paid somehow. I feel, you know, I know that

everybody's got to make money off it. That's

that's kind of the way the world works. But like

when you're you're one of those people that don't

make a lot of money, you know, like myself or

and I'm sure like some of you guys don't make

a whole lot either, which it's fine. And I'm

not knocking anybody for it because like we're

all at different places in life. And. I. I feel

like a lot of this stuff is so. Insanely overpriced

it makes it so hard for people to actually participate

in a lot of the activities which When stuff's

cheaper I feel like you can get a lot more people

hooked and on board like maybe if they gave Battlefield

one for like $30 and then had you spend the 50

bucks for the expansion I would feel great about

it, but I can't I I don't know I'm like And then

the expansion thing being really like the information

of it being dropped so soon before the game even

has come out I feel like it's kind of like a

slap in the face like yeah We got all this stuff

prepared for you, but um buy the game and then

spend this extra money to buy this instead of

just You know all all kind of separated But what

do you guys think on that like I'd be kind of

interested to know How you'd think of the The

whole expansion DLC type thing with with that

so as odd as this may sound Fox is going to make

Stan Lee's life story to become 1970 set action

-adventure movie I have no idea what this is

supposed to mean There's like everybody's reporting

on it, and I'm having this I'm having this weird

Wondering of what they're going to do with this

Yeah, I don't know yeah, they're planning on

making it kind of like a biopic Centering on

him, but it's supposed to be a heavily fictionalized

account of Lee's early life that will aim You

know to be kind of unbelievable, but I don't

see how it's gonna be like I have no idea where

to even go with this. I think I'm just gonna

leave it, but that's yeah, that's That's in the

news right now But yeah, it's there's no idea

whether he's gonna be like a full -fledged superhero

himself or engage in some other type of heroic

profession but They're gonna kind of do that.

Well before I get into some other awesome news

Unicorn .com mentions that new Transformers robots

in disguise episodes are airing in Canada, which

That's the continuation of Transformers Prime

Don't know if it's continuing season 2 if it's

on season 3. I think it's season 3 I know season

1 was longer season 2 was like half and then

At 13 episodes and I think season 3 is gonna

be 13 episodes Prime and ratchet left and it's

pretty much bumblebee and his crew And Yeah,

so I know Starscream is gonna show up in this

season I know that We may see some other familiar

Autobots and Decepticons show up But it doesn't

really say what's going to happen as far as that's

concerned yet But yeah, I Am I'm gonna be checking

that out because I like the actual show. I mean,

it's very kind of in between rescue bots like

in in tone and Prime so like you get some heavier

hitting but it's like episodic and it's Like

this overall storylines kind of there, but it's

it's very episodic week to week and then it's

Not as dark and it's cell shaded it's made by

the same company as transformers prime, but it's

got like that trend Legacy or not trying legacy

try an uprising animation And then in other news

Adam Nimoy's documentary for the love of Spock

Is out so Check that out. I'm going to be checking

that out because I would be interested to see

the documentary on it and seeing how His son

paid tribute to him and you know put this together

But it says live long and then it's got a picture

of you know the 1960s Spock on it With some kind

of space effect over them with white in the background.

This is for the love of Spock But yeah, definitely

check that out. I'm I'd be interested to know

who's watched it and what you guys think on that

because It starts right in its 50th anniversary

So switching gears a little bit I've been As

you know live streaming on YouTube and I finally

Finally figured out why my audio was Doing the

echo effect and it's because I didn't realize

my microphone Was double in there. So it was

also like slowing me down with lag, but I was

also getting double microphones So I had an echo

effect But once I got that figured out I was

able to do that last battlefield one stream before

the game went off on September 8th and I've gone

back to battlefield for I haven't really played

a lot of it Since I've injured my foot because

I just can't sit for very long. It makes it difficult

for me. So Because I can't keep my leg from fidgeting

with I've been having muscle spasms since I messed

my toe up so and my foot But um Yeah, if you

guys want to play the game with me on there,

I'm Steve Megatron on the game So it should be

kind of easy to find me That's my name on origin

I Play I'm gonna be playing primarily PC. I'm

gonna I'm debating And I'd be curious to find

out what people are thinking on this too, but

Have you guys ever thought about stop getting

the consoles and what I mean by this is Consoles

at this point are basically PCs. They're glorified

PCs that you're paying You know four or five

hundred dollars for for this machine. That's

no longer a console It's an entertainment device

that does what a PC does and so Like my personal

thought on this is I'm not buying a next -gen

console I bought the last one the Xbox 360 when

it hit the the black edition the elite Style

when it came out with the Kinect I bought it

the 4 gig and then I later bought a 250 gig hard

drive for 30 bucks at a used gaming store So

While I enjoy my 360, I've decided when it dies,

or I may get rid of it sooner, I may sell it,

that I will not be buying another console. What

I will be doing is I probably will be buying

a custom controller, an Xbox One controller,

because I have Windows 10 on my PC, and I'm using

a 360 controller that plugs in right now to my

computer. Because I play I've been playing my

games with the controller which has been very

helpful for my hands my Basically almost carpal

tunnel without being carpal tunnel And what I

mean by that is they didn't diagnose me with

carpal tunnel But my hands throb worse when I

play games on the keyboard and mouse than if

I play on the controller So I've switched to

a controller and I've lost most of my hand pain

So I'm thinking about getting one of those controllers

like custom altered geek controller that I designed

and because they let you do that now on Xbox's

site they let you create your own controller

like the color scheme and the design and then

you can have it laser engraved and it costs you

about 90 bucks. So I'm thinking about doing that.

It I think I think it's wireless. I think you

can do Bluetooth and hook it up to your computer,

which that would be awesome but I want to switch

to that gear and I'm thinking about getting rid

of my console and all the games because You can

get all the same games for the PC Normally, they

cost half the price or they're like they go on

discount a lot sooner because people are more

You know console gamers But the hardware inside

the new consoles are basically the same thing

as my computer. And I can upgrade my computer

little by little as I need to tweak things to

play the newer games. So like, if I need faster

graphics card or more processing power, I can

upgrade my graphics card and my processor without

spending... I can do it incrementally. I don't

have to spend it all at once to get this game

console and then buy these $60 games and then

buy DLC. Whereas for the PC, I feel like everything

goes on sale a lot more and there's a lot more

going on where you can Basically work with it

a lot better and I I would be Interested in seeing

How well like the next set of consoles play out

because I know that that Xbox is coming out with

the slim s or something or Xbox one slim or Xbox

one s and the PlayStation 4 slim or something

like that, but and I know that they're upgrading

some of the specs on it, but I don't think that

It's that big of a bargain and I could just be

me personally I don't know I've looked into some

of the stuff. I don't think that they're that

great of a value I'm thinking about getting rid

of my consoles though so that I can cut a hole

in my wall from my office because my desk is

directly behind my television and putting a Socket

in the wall where I can hook up basically I can

have an outlet where I can hook up HDMI and USB

and so with doing that I could turn my computer

on in my office I can have my computer plugged

USB and HDMI into this wall socket and then from

there plugged into my television or The USB I

could have my like a Bluetooth receiver Or a

YouTube or a USB hub because I had one of those

two Hooked up to my entertainment center and

then I could plug in all of my wireless Like

whether it's a wireless mouse wireless keyboard,

you know Bluetooth Thing for my my controller

that I plan on getting and then I can play my

game from my couch and It'll be a stronger workhorse

Yes, I would be using it as a console, but I

could also log off the games and Still use my

computer from the couch And not necessarily have

to go to my office to play where it's a little

bit uncomfortable and then in the winter it's

freezing so Definitely thinking about doing that

I've been I've been pondering that for months

Doing this setup. I just got to figure out how

I can get a How I can get it set up. I know Lowe's

sells a lot of the stuff So I'm I'm thinking

about going that route But I might look online

see if I can find what I'm looking for because

I did that with my my cable and my ethernet About

a year ago so that I could get all of it channeled

from my office to my my television and my blu

-ray player and it's worked great since I just

I'm I'm thinking about going that route because

I don't really want to spend I can spend $20

or maybe $25, $30 and do this upgrade to my wall

and I can play the games from my couch rather

than spending $300 to $400 to get the console

and the games I want to play from my couch. I

mean granted I could just buy the games from

my computer and it'd be the same thing, but I,

you know, I don't know how many of you guys have

actually thought about doing it this way rather

than Buying a new console or what do you think

of the value of a new console is? So Yeah, I

mean that's that's kind of what's been going

through my head lately. I've I've been kind of

thinking about the whole You know the the new

Saving money and everything and I get it Those

that that do save money on or have to save money

on a lot of stuff That's why I had to quit collecting

comics, that's why I had to quit collecting toys,

that's why I had to quit collecting or playing

games, like I played the same game for like almost

a year because I can't afford to keep buying

them. Like when Arkham City came out, I think

I played that for about a year. Had almost everything,

I didn't do any of the Riddler stuff unless it

was directly in my path and I could figure it

out, but I played that game for a year. Same

thing with Arkham Origins, did the same thing.

And then I play Unreal Tournament 3 a lot on

my console, or I did until I got Battlefield

4. And then I get all the upgrades as they've

released them. But yeah, it's been an interesting

year, to say the least. So if there's anything

you guys want me to talk about on the next episode

with Whoever I happen to get to host with me.

I'm not entirely sure what I'm going to be doing

next week, but Yeah, just leave your comments

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