Batman and Harley Quinn Review

On this episode of Altered Geek, I'll be talking

geek history, what's going on with the DC Extended

Universe films, movie paths, and a plethora of

other tech. All this and more on Altered Geek.

Welcome back to Altered Geek. As usual, I am

the Altered Geek Steven C. Phillips, and I've

dropped my Megatron moniker for this show. So,

what's new with you guys? What did you enjoy

from last week? We'll get into the feedback later

in the episode, but for right now, I'd like to

throw out this call to action of hashtag What's

Geeky to You on Twitter. Be sure to leave me

comments there and I'll respond to it on a future

episode. But, yeah, it's been kind of an uneventful

week, but it's been an eventful week. So, that

being said, jumping into some of my Star Trek

Online and kind of what I've been geeking out

to this week, I recently got the Kelvin Enterprise,

the Constitution refit for that series, and I've

really been enjoying the ship. It's very powerful

I'm not really sad that I didn't get the the

actual Constitution from the prime universe Because

I kind of doctored it up. So it looks like the

Enterprise a give it my own registry number of

1863 a and So it's the USS future imperfect funny

enough So I saved up all of this like 354 million

credits in the game and managed to get the the

ship and I had about eight or nine million left

enough to buy two keys in the game and I've since

gotten back up to 25 million in game and I'm

trying to collect more of the uniforms now in

game before I go after ships. So I've been doing

that. Podcast movements going on this week. I

wish I was there. Hopefully, like I said, I'll

be there next year. We're starting the GCRN Wars

Tournament. And if you've been paying attention

to GeekCastRadio .com recently, I've been doctoring

up the art on that or the Facebook fan page of

GeekCastRadio. And this tournament will be slightly

different, only in the sense that I'm doubling

the amount of competition in this tournament.

And... The last time we did one it was the the

tournament of the 80s video game icons. Well

now I'm going to the 90s villains. We did the

80s villains back a couple years ago and I kind

of created this 90s villains as the next logical

progression but we just kind of never got around

to it. Well, now we're getting around to it.

The art is ready, the voting is ready. All we

have to do is record the first episode, and then

I can unleash the first voting to you guys, the

fans and fellow geeks. And in this particular

voting, I completely redid the look of it. It's

a head -to -head battle now, so instead of having

random graphics all over the place... and voting,

it's all on one page. I'm not one of those people

that's like, oh, click here, and then vote on

this, and then click on another page, and vote

on this, and click on another page, yeah. And

it's a lot cleaner. I can fit a lot more of them

in the spacing that's provided. That being said,

I have gotten that ready at this point. Just

to kind of tease some of the battles. We'll be

breaking it down into six episodes. They'll be

round one round two of the The sides then they'll

be the quarterfinals the semi -finals the finals

and then the the championship Of overall so Some

of our villains that are going to be in the at

least the first episode are the 90s Skeletor.

So, as you would remember, he was one of our

villains in the 80s, but he's been revamped for

the 90s. Then you have, like, Leder, Mandarin,

Dark Phoenix, Dr. Praetorius, Negaduck, Dark

Cat, Hades, Skull Master. Jafar, Apocalypse,

Lord Zedd, and yes, I allowed superhero villains

to be included in this as well just because there

was a lot of iconic villains of the 90s. King

Koopa, Dr. Doom, Dr. Wily, Cobra Commander makes

a return with his 90s rendition. You get... The

Joker. Hobgoblin. Megatron. Cell. Megabyte. Dr.

Robotnik. I mean, there's, there's, I mean, some

of those are cutting into week two, but still,

it's gonna be interesting. And then the way that

the battles will break down is, well, there'll

be an upset later on, and you'll see as it progresses.

So I'm very excited to be doing this. I got this

thing all ready to go, like I said a couple years

ago. and I've had the art ready since early 2016.

So again, it'll be fun when this comes out. And

then coming right on the tails of that will be

the top 100 villains, which is not just 90s and

it's not just animation. So that'll definitely

be a nice little header up to that. And I'm sure

there'll be some topics and some scenarios where

there's highlights from different podcasts on

the network covering this exact issue. So that

aside, I'm gonna go into the website of the week

in place of the app of the week because I don't

have anything for that right now. It's the Internet

Podcast Database. So it's like IMDB for podcasting.

And what's significant about that? is that there's

this whole website dedicated specifically for

podcasters and it's not necessarily to focus

on the podcast themselves. It's more so to focus

on the hosts and whatnot. I did a search in there

and surprisingly, some of the GeekCast radio

content's shown up. I didn't have an account

until a couple days ago and I've submitted to

get all of them thrown under the same account.

But there's no information on any of them. I'm

hoping that I can rectify that with getting them

under my account so I can edit that information.

But I thought it was kind of neat and the interface

is very simple and very easy to use. Kind of,

in a sense, what I was hoping the GCRN partner

program would be, but it never panned out the

same direction and I really like how this site's

set up. So go over there and check that out if

you're a podcaster and yeah, I'm definitely looking

forward to checking that service out more. So

getting into the this week in geek history I

Instead of doing the the geek history of the

day I opted to do the week because it's it's

the way I record these I record them generally

on the day before the release So the information

would be dated so I'm doing them of that entire

week So I'm gonna do geek history first and then

geek gaming history after so geek history This

week, in 2004, Google holds its IPO selling over

22 million shares at a starting price of $85.

So yeah, that was the start of Google, officially.

In 1911, the New York Times sent a telegram message

to test how fast a commercial message could be

sent around the world, reading simply, this message

sent around the world. It left at 7 p .m. It

traveled over 28 ,000 miles and was relayed by

16 different operators. It arrived back at the

Times only 16 minutes later. The building where

the message originated is now called One Times

Square and is best known for where the ball drops

on New Year's Eve. I didn't even know that before

I looked at it, but I thought it was kind of

interesting information there. In 93, NASA loses

contact with the Mars Observer spacecraft three

days before it was to enter into orbit above

Mars. The reason for the loss of contact was

never definitely determined, but the most probable

cause was a rupture of a fuel tank. Again, another

thing I didn't really know. It's always interesting

to find out NASA stuff. I remember I was in Florida

in the late 90s and they had the Mars Rover.

It was it was such a big deal and they had they

actually had like NASA channels down there, which

is awesome So I I love anytime that space is

involved just from my pure Love of Star Trek

Star Wars content which speaking of Star Trek

myself and Michael Blanchard are covering that

on movie we can review where we're talking about

in the first episode the TOS original series

films 1 through 6 the next generation of 7 through

10 and then we will be doing the Kelvin ones

which is 11 through 13 It was a lot of fun to

cover the ones that we've done so far. I can't

wait to do the next one. Maybe I can Getting

back to the geek history Apple releases Mac OS

X 10 .2 codenamed Jaguar in 2002. So the first

time the happy Mac icon is not a part of Mac

operating system startup process, it replaced

instead by the great Apple logo that is still

in use today. Jaguar was also the first Mac OS

where Apple publicly used the code name to reference

the OS for marketing. And since that release,

it's been referred to by its big cat themed code

name. So. In 2011, Apple's CEO, Steve Jobs, steps

down as CEO because of health issues, which he

unfortunately had to leave for. So, getting into

the gaming history, which I always find this

interesting because I've played a lot of these

games in the past, or at least had some... basis

of knowledge with. Power Stone 2 for Dreamcast

was released on this day in North America 17

years ago in 2000. Golden Eye 007 for N64 was

released in 1997. Counter -Strike was Global

Offensive was released in 2012. Chrono Trigger

for the SNES was released on this day in North

America in 1995. Legend of Zelda for the NES

was released in North America in 1987 and considered

one of the most influential games of all time.

Forerunner of the RPG role playing video game

genre and spawned one of the most successful

series in video game history. Metroid was released

on NES in 87. Sega Genesis was released in 1989.

Super Mario World celebrates 26 years. SNES celebrates

26 years, Virtual Boy celebrates 22 years. I

remember the Virtual Boy, that was supposed to

be like the first like, oh, we're in a virtual

world and now look at our holographic technology

we have now. It's, you're staring at a red screen

and the other thing. This, I remember wanting

one, something terrible when those were new.

And my parents were like, one, no. to know They're

like you have a PC. You're good Donkey Kong jr.

Celebrates 35 years as well. So That being said

gonna go to a quick break come back with a review

of Batman and Harley Quinn. We'll be back after

this And we're back so I caught that new Batman

and Harley Quinn and I previewed this and checked

it out and I have to say it's, although it's

got some swearing and some innuendo of what's

going to happen in terms of Harley Quinn and

Nightwing, It's very true to that New Adventures

BTAS kind of look mixed with Justice League so

you get a lot of that in there and a lot of hints

to Harley's other uniforms and I thought that

the film was really good actually all things

considered Even even with the voice change of

Harley and no Joker showing up and no other villains

for the most part You had a lot of the B -teams

there at one point. You get to see Batman. And

then they had some nods of the 60s Batman when

Kevin Conray's Batman gets into a fight with

all of the henchmen at a bar. There's a lot of

stuff in it, but you get to see... There's some

Swamp Thing references. I really liked the animation

style. It was very true to form. They had the

90s Batmobile back in it. Not the ones from the

New Adventures or from Justice League, so that

was nice. I've always liked that rendition of

the Batmobile. No, but I think Bruce Tim and

the team really have it and there was a lot of

comedy in it a lot of a lot of humorous moments

Mostly on the behalf of Nightwing, especially

when booster gold played by Bruce Tim shows up

Or at least is over communication and the Batmobile

and has an excuse why the rest of the league

can't show up and Boosters naming all these people

and Nightwing's taking these hand gestures for

for various reasons why not to have help and

Then he creates a reason to shut off the call,

but it's It's it's very well done. I'm I'm glad

that they came out with it. It's very on par

With the nature of the Dark Knight returns Or

the Batman Under the Red Hood in terms of like

the violence and the swearing and whatnot and

the action but it still feels like a cohesive

part of the BTAS unlike Mystery the Batwoman.

So I would definitely say it's a very welcome

rendition to that universe and honestly it wasn't

that bad considering it had Harley Quinn as one

of the primary characters in it so Yeah, I kind

of wish that they went this route with some of

the DC Extended Universe stuff, but That's neither

here nor there, but I'm definitely glad that

they came out with it so Moving on to film news

Since I've already talked about Batman and the

DC Extended Universe Matt Reeves has basically

said that the Batman trilogy is standalone, it's

not part of the extended universe. Which, I don't

know why that would be allowed, or how that works.

Which means that we may not see Ben Affleck play

Batman in that version of the universe. I don't

know. I don't know, I'm kind of confused on what

DC's marketing plan and how they're planning

on doing all this, because They've got Shazam,

which is gonna be, it's not even a DC Extended

Universe film. They're gonna have the Black Adam,

not gonna be a DC Extended Universe. They're

gonna have the Batman trilogy not be DC Extended

Universe. So you're gonna have a bunch of standalone

movies that don't even tie together, which doesn't

make any sense to me. If you're trying to have

your characters collaborate, Why sidelined them

like that? Why why go to all that trouble? I

mean, I know their DC Extended Universe isn't

very good By comparison to Marvel, but Marvel

they have to create their own thing and and maybe

they're right doing it this way But I'm not entirely

sure I think that because I mean now we're getting

the report that you know, they're they're gonna

do a Joker and Harley movie Suicide Squad 2 which

those are gonna be in that but There's even going

to be a Joker origin film, which I'm not particularly

a fan of. I don't... I'm trying to be careful

with how I say it, but like, the Hangover director

is going to develop the Joker origin film that

won't star Jared Leto. They won't even have Jared

Leto, which I'm at least happy for that. But...

I don't... I don't know. I don't really know

what DC's marketing plan is for this. I mean,

I guess if you're wanting all these individual

films, why not do them animated? Why go to all

this trouble? I mean, we already got the killing

joke, which already basically had the Joker's

origin. Because you're not really supposed to

know who he is. So why we're gonna get this Joker

origin movie, I'm not entirely sure but they're

saying that it's supposed to be a really grounded

hard -boiled crime film set in the early 80s

and Isn't meant to feel like a DC movie as much

as one of the Scorsese films from the era like

Taxi Driver Raging Bull or King of Comedy Todd

Phillips and and Scott Silver are writing already

and there's nothing firm on when it will fit

into the DC schedule. I don't like Leto as the

Joker, but I don't really see the need to do

this either. What are you guys' thoughts on it?

I mean, I'm not a fan of the Joker and Harley

Quinn film that's going to be coming with Leto

and Robbie either, which is supposed to be done

by people that did This Is Us or Crazy Stupid

Love, and they're going to reprise the role in

Suicide Squad 2, which is being fast -tracked.

I wasn't a fan of the first one, so a lot of

this stuff kind of pales by comparison. The Hollywood

Reporter made apparently a blunder, though, in

the Batman information, saying that they've updated

their story with the following correction. An

earlier version of the story stated that Matt

Reeves' Batman was part of Warner Bros.' new

label and would star a new actor as Batman, but

it is unclear where the project will fall. The

original story was that Ben Affleck will not

star in the Batman. And that it would not be

a part of the universe. So it's all kind of up

in the air. I'm so sick of these stupid rumors

and all these news sites coming up with this

clickbait. That basically they don't know anything.

It's kind of... It's kind of all disappointing

all the way around. Because I definitely want

Ben Affleck back as Batman, Bruce Wayne. But

I don't, I'm not sure DC even knows what they're

doing when they're handling any of this information.

I don't even know anymore. So Transformers Bumblebee

is set to, it reveals that they're going to go

back and do the origin of Bumblebee more or less

when he first hits Earth. And he's going to be

in his classic Volkswagen Beetle form that they...

Volkswagen previously swore, no, we can never

have that in the films. But I guess after, you

know, money kind of talks with having the yellow

Camaro for so long, that they're kind of ready

to let it happen. So, yep, they've got a couple

of the yellow Volkswagen Beetles on set and they're

already starting to... Starting to film that

and they're saying that's gonna be the year 1987

and Bumblebee finds refuge in a junkyard small

California beach town They're gonna have Charlie

highly Steinfeld on the cusp of turning 18 and

trying to find her place in the world discovers

Bumblebee and she revives him I Just don't know

what films anymore. I don't have the enthusiasm

I used to have which is unfortunate Because I

really do like watching films, but at this point

I'm between between the reboot sequels and all

of that and then coming back and having Just

more of this and more I don't know. I think Hollywood's

pretty burnt out So remember when I kind of I

may or may not have brought this up, but the

movie past thing Which is supposed to be... It's

this new subscription service anyway. It's been

around for a couple of years but it's kind of

really hit the mainstream. It's been around since

2011. It's just more so getting a lot of notice

now because a lot of places take it. But it's

hit a stumbling block apparently because AMC

Theaters are blocking users from being able to

purchase e -tickets at locations in Boston and

Denver. And it's saying that they have this $10

a month pricing model because they introduced

it and it allows subscribers to see a movie a

day in theaters. So you can see any movie you

want, no blackouts. It's just for a regular 2D

movie, not 3D, not for IMAX, which I think is

fine because most of the time, at least at theaters

around here, they're like five, six bucks up

to eight. But anyways, they're saying that Because

they lowered this price AMC is having a statement

saying that it would be consulting with its attorney

to see if it could block movie pass because They're

saying that it's unsustainable it would be giving

moviegoers Disappointment down the road when

it goes under So they don't really want that

becoming an issue although I don't see how ticket

sales are gonna make a difference because the

theaters don't really make much off of that anymore

anyway and They make more off the concessions,

which I rarely buy concessions anymore because

they cost so blasted much I Just go see a movie

and then I'm done And don't get me wrong, I still

love having a large coke and a big Buttery popcorn

sitting in front of me, but it's I'm not spending

ten dollars on concessions and then another ten

on the film But yeah, they have this ten dollar

thing and and you can spend that amount and see

any movie Seven days a week every day of the

month But you cannot see the same movie more

than once and you can You can, like I said, you

can watch anything, it's just you can't watch

the movie more than once. You can watch a different

film every single day of the week and you can

only do it once per day. Which is sufficient

because most people, I don't even barely go to

the theater anymore so it's not really worth

it for me, but there's been issues with it. Some

people are saying that it's more trouble than

expected and... Because it's an e -ticket more

or less. I have heard from various sources that

it just works No problem, and then I've heard

from other sources that it doesn't work very

well But I I don't know. What are you guys thoughts

on a movie past and kind of like like a Netflix

or a I mean, because it's basically what it is

for going to the theater. I think it's interesting,

like I said, but it's not something that I'll

probably subscribe to just because I don't go

to the film, see a lot of films. So, moving on,

gonna get into some miscellaneous news. Coca

-Cola is replacing Coke Zero with... It's basically...

It's Coke with sugar. It's Coke Zero Sugar. It's

a new improved Coca -Cola, apparently. Because

they're trying to do away with the artificial

sweeteners. So they're just reinventing Coke

Zero and just putting sugar because it's closer

to the taste of the actual standard Coca -Cola.

But with Zero... It's supposed to be... I don't

know! To me, it seems like they're trying to

do diet coke and not diet coke, but have it diet

coke and have it regular coke. It's very confusing.

I know this has been out for a while. I haven't

gotten a chance to kind of touch on it. I'd be

willing to try it. I haven't tried one yet, and

I'm a big proponent of coke. I like coke. I'm

a big cola drinker, so it's... Despite the...

the bad health aspects, I still like a cola.

So, I'll probably try it at some point, but it'd

have to be cheap enough for me to want to do

that. So, I don't know if anybody's seen this,

but Geek and Sundry? It's the collaboration,

well... I should say that they have Alpha, which

is the collaboration of Geek and Sundry and Nerdist.

They have this RPG show called Shield of Tomorrow,

which I've never seen a live action roleplay

before on video or in person. I have to say that

it's the most awkward thing I have ever watched

in my entire life. It makes some of the reality

TV conversations look normal. And the guy they

have DMing this... He sounds like he's podcasting

like he sounds like I do when I'm sitting here

talking to you guys and He's kind of like and

this happened and he's he's DMing the whole thing

or GMing the whole thing and They're just all

sitting there with blank stares like they have

everybody shown. He's in the one side of the

screen They have the other six people on the

other side. They had this this interesting intro

and it looks the most cheesiest thing in the

world, and I get it. I'm a fan. I would love

to do something like that, in a sense, and I

would love to have the uniforms, and I'd love

to create my Star Trek characters, because they're

using Star Trek Online as the test bed, and it's

called Shields of Tomorrow. I was watching it

more so because at the time I didn't have the

Kelvin Enterprise yet. I was trying to win like

the new Geordie Bridge officer holographic character

and I was trying to win a majority of other things

by watching and that aside I don't have anything

against Geek and Sundry and Nerdist but because

I'm a geek as well and and I enjoy a lot of content

but some of the stuff that Nerdist specifically

comes out with is the most awkward stuff in the

world. aside from their news. I can't help but

feel that this is partially influenced by that.

Like I said, I tried to watch this and this guy

was just so awkward. Now, his impressions were

interesting. He can do a holographic doctor impression

pretty much spot on, which I thought was really

cool. I really like impressions. That part was

at least fun, but they're doing it on Twitch

and I don't get Twitch all that much. I prefer

YouTube and So they're sitting here doing their

game and I watched for about half an hour and

I couldn't listen to it and Like I said, it was

the most awkward thing I've listened to and I'm

sure there are people that are fans of it and

thought it was cool and I mean, I guess if I

was partaking in it, I would feel it was cool

but so I'm a little bit of a hypocrite there,

but the whole thing just, I would have preferred

that there was more like structure to it. And

they had everyone kind of actually interacting

and kind of playing at the same level instead

of you feel and look like this and the other

person's doing the facial reactions and saying

exactly what the other guy says. And then. He

goes on to somebody else or he'll continue with

that same person and then kind of give the backstory

and then and narrate and There was very little

interaction from everyone on the panel So Again,

I just I felt like it was weird I Don't know

who else has checked this out or something like

it So moving on to other awkwardness Somebody

actually bought and I saw this on Twitter. They

tagged McDonald's it and it was on what's trending

someone actually bought a a nothing burger yes

somebody actually spent money it was it was Twitter

user rikuyo bought a nothing burger from McDonald's

how exactly do you get a nothing burger by ordering

and paying for absolutely nothing And they showed

it on the screen. They ordered a cheeseburger

and put no onion, no ketchup, no mustard, no

pickle, no cheese, no regular bun, no beef patty.

And they paid 99 cents for nothing. I mean, I

guess it's funny in the sense that they ordered

a nothing burger, which is kind of a cool phrase

that goes around. but Why would you spend 99?

I mean, I guess it's it's fun if you're doing

it for you know It's 99 cents you're throwing

away anyway, and you're just kind of like I just

want to see if I could do this and then they

paid for it I I can see myself trying to do something

like this in that regard and then and then just

kind of Doing it so I can show the receipt Which

is what they did. Other stupidity things, though.

Because, I mean, that's not really stupid, that's

just funny. But there's been reports all over

the place that a man was... there was people

arrested or whatnot. And this has been going

on for years. For some reason, websites are just

now picking this stuff up, which is... It's kind

of alarming that the internet is so full of garbage

because there's a site called phys -ax .com that

reports four days ago a man was arrested for

using $2 bills at a Best Buy. Well, if you Google

that, man arrested for using $2 bills, it goes

back to an article in 2005 saying a man tried

to pay a fee using $2 bills was arrested. and

taken to jail after clerks at a Best Buy store

questioned the currency's legitimacy. But it's

all over the place. It was in a documentary called

the $2 bill documentary and they talk about it

and it came out this year. It's kind of, and

I don't know if this crap's true or not, but

the fact that This is just all over the internet.

Even five days ago, Geek Tyrant covered this

because it's saying, a man was arrested for using

two dollar bills at a Best Buy because the employee

and cop had never seen one before. And they thought

it was fake. And the way that the article goes

is it says that the Secret Service got involved

and they confirmed the bills were legit and they

let them go, but they all had the same video

clip. Interesting, but the the clipping in it

is horrible like the way that they edited this

thing with the clip It's just it's not edited

very well but For one I mean yeah, you don't

see a $2 bill go around very much anymore but

I at the same time I think that if you don't

pull out your phone and Look it up You're just

asking for trouble anymore Especially if you've

never seen like that currency So I Don't know

I'm The the world has gotten so much dumber my

wife even says that despite we have these smartphones

and All of this information at her fingertips.

People have gotten so stupid. There are people

that don't know how to spell because they rely

on spell check. There are people that think that

a $2 bill is fake because they've never seen

one before. I've seen silver certificates working

at McDonald's and Little Caesars in the past.

We had silver certificates show up at the cash

registers. Some old guy paid with 1927 $1 bill

silver certificates to buy his coffee or something

and the manager was like Took it and showed everybody

in the back and was like who would like to buy

this because At face value just you know the

the same $1 or $2. I can't remember what they

they used but I know I have a $2 bill silver

certificate and I have a $1 bill, a couple of

those that I bought at McDonald's when I worked

there years ago. But yeah, I was the one that

spoke up when I bought them. I'm like, if they're

worth nothing, they're worth nothing. If they're

worth something, they're worth something. I mean,

yeah, they were in circulation, but it was still

cool to say I have one. So, I mean, I'd never

really seen them all that much before. I worked

at fast food, so I mean I kind of get it, but

if you're working around a cash register, you

should kind of know that they exist. So, getting

into a little bit of tech, FTC basically allowed,

they greenlit, Amazon to buy Whole Foods, so

you'll probably see more food trucks going around

with Amazon on them now. So getting into a little

bit of tech news apparently Microsoft won't be

secretly shoving Windows upgrade files onto your

PC anymore Hallelujah took them long enough Funny

thing was I was having a conversation with somebody

about this a couple days ago, and now it's a

thing So the whole thing is is like they would

say on older PCs your PC is ready for your free

upgrade and a lot of people were kind of mad

about it. I installed this program to block it

on my Windows 8 computer, plus I disabled Windows

Update because I just didn't want it on that.

And when I tried it on there, it killed my battery

and heated the computer up. So I took that off.

It's run fine under Windows 8, although I might

be reconsidering because my 8 is getting a little

bogged down. So yeah, they... They've backed

down from their little tactics on that. And they'll

at least never do it again in Germany, because

apparently a German consumer rights group in

2015 filed a lawsuit against Microsoft for the

downloads. And it says they'll never download

and install files for new operating systems,

so even though 10 may be the last operating system

until Microsoft decides otherwise. So anyways

this this particular article says that they won't

force updates because of the fact that it was

blowing data caps on people's ISP accounts causing

people to spend thousands of dollars on overages

Like companies That's why you load it onto a

flash drive, and then you install it at your

leisure, but the one thing I can't stand about

Windows 10 is the fact that if you have the most

up -to -date one, yes, there's a lot of features

that are nice about it. I have an older build,

I'm not sure which build, but I have an older

one. I disabled my Windows update on that as

well because I got tired of Microsoft strong

-arming my PC and telling me when I was allowed

to update and when I was not. And that was kind

of a problem for me because it would update while

I'm in the middle of something. And Microsoft

was removing software from my computer because

it deemed it not good enough for Windows 10.

And so I had to go through hell to get it back.

And that was the other conversation I was having

with this user. And they were saying that 7 is

the best that they used. Yes, it was at the time,

but I think 10 is much faster and there's a lot

more capabilities with it. But if you can get

your hands on an older build of Windows 10, I

would go that route. Mine's probably a year out

of date. which comparing mine to Blanchard's

Blanchard has all these like it forces updates

and it reboots and it does its own thing during

certain hours I mean you have blackout hours

where it's not allowed to touch it but if your

computer is on after that it's kind of like hey

I'm gonna do the update whether you want me to

or not you know I can't stand that so being that

Microsoft took all the control away from me I

took the control away from them so it's it's

kind of a win -win for me Unfortunately, they

don't let you do that hack anymore. It's actually

locked down. I tried it on a couple PCs that

haven't built in. And when they do these upgrades,

they actually wipe out your system restore. I

don't know if anybody else has noticed this issue,

but I haven't had to deal with any of these tech

issues in maybe a year. And I think that's because

I don't do this kind of work anymore, working

on PCs. Yeah, that's that's uh That's kind of

some fun crap there Western Digital unveils a

new monsters 20 terabyte hard drive external

and it looks about the size of a PC I Would love

to get my hands on one of those It's it's five

pounds. It's seven by four by six point three

inches It's the size of a rather large book probably

the size of like a Lord of the Rings And they

show on geek .com, this person sitting there

with a 20 terabyte drive, plugged into their

computer, their laptop, and with their webcam,

and they're just sitting there and it's plugged

in. Price starts at $279 direct from Western

Digital. Oh no, that's my fault. That's for the

four terabyte. The 20 terabyte... is $849. If

it were cheap enough, which I'm sure it will

in some capacity in the future, I would sure

love to have that, and I would plug it into my

router. Because most new routers, most modern

routers anyway, have a USB port on them, which

I think would be actually very helpful to have.

Just because you can stream all your media from

any device in the house as long as it's connected

to that network So What are you guys thoughts

on it? What would you do do with it? I would

back up all of my my films onto it. I would back

up all my my Computers I would back up My site

I would back up my games just about everything

on it. I would probably mirror my PC to it so

I don't have to reload it if something happens

to my hard drives. Next week I'll probably talk

about, and I know I missed the Wednesday edition

of the show this week, but next week I'll probably

talk about stuff to kind of guide a geek's overactor

of imagination, Elon Musk's new spacesuits, Verizon's

unlimited plans that throttle and the best streaming

devices and why that may not be an actual streaming

device that getting a portable PC to plug in

would actually be a better option. I'll also

probably talk about some Star Trek discovery

because I'm sure that information will be coming

soon along with Star Wars and I'm sure there'll

be some DC news coming down the pipe as well.

So... The last bit of kind of news that I have

is gaming and that's EA unveiled Battlefield

1 Revolution and Battlefield 1 Recursions at

Gamescom in Germany. Revolution is available

worldwide right now for Xbox One, PS4, and Origin.

I'm not entirely sure what the deal is with it.

With with Battlefield 1 Revolution I Think that

it's it's it's like the complete game. I want

to say like everything is included I'm not entirely

sure it's it retails for $60, and it's the okay,

so it's the base game with the premium pass so

it comes with basically everything So if you

bought the premium pass in the pet in the past

and the full game you just got hosed essentially

because it gives you all the DLC expansions with

it as well. And those that purchase the Revolution

Edition will also receive Red Baron, Lawrence

of Arabia, and Hellfighter Packs, which, again,

were extras that you got if you pre -ordered

in the initial release. Another reason why it's

better to wait a year and a half to get a game

instead of buying it on release because, ah,

you get it. The other thing that they're coming

out with is the Battlefield 1 new 5v5 incursion

mode, which has been unveiled and it's alpha

signups now available, which I am attempting

to get my hands on. Hopefully they let me in

and I'll try it out. So it's saying that it's

fast strategy gameplay despite the low player

count, vehicles are present. It won't be as commonplace

as standard matches. They're saying that one

major change is the draft system used to select

your kit before a match begins, which places

additional emphasis on teamwork and coordination.

Meaning probably you don't get an option unless

you're one of the first people. So basically

every point matters and it's got a new scoring

system. They're saying that it's going to provide

access to eight kits, trench surgeon, control

leader, AT assault, battle mechanic, mortar support,

raid leader, shock assault, proximity recon.

So, and a modified version of the Giants shadow

map. Like I said, I'll check it out when it comes

out. And then somebody else posted on Twitter

and I thought it was kind of funny. They had

a, hey Nintendo, here's a 1996 news story of

Nintendo not making enough Nintendo 64s to meet

demand. and says I'm happy those days are behind

us well every Nintendo that's come out since

the 64 has had that problem I mean go think about

the Nintendo Wii that was a huge issue then the

Wii U was not as much but the NES classic and

the SNES classic are the same way so not much

has changed at least not with Nintendo and somehow

they're still around Getting into listener feedback,

since this episode's gone on a little long, I'll

probably cover a topic in the next episode or

the following one depending on the content. Some

of this was supposed to be on the Wednesday edition

of the show, I just didn't have a chance to record

it this week, so next week I'll hopefully have

both. One for news and one for more topical based

content. Brad Mull says, in feedback I was going

to compare Apple with Nintendo, but although

the Switch seemed popular, are they as good as

they once were? The Wii was the last system I

bought, so I haven't been following the game

scene since. I haven't bought a Nintendo system

since the Wii, and I probably won't buy another

one again. I probably won't buy another console.

I'm kind of done with that. My desktops are my

last line of defense there. He says, love the

word quantum? I guess we know your favorite Bond

film. Never watch the Bond films, but maybe I'll

try and watch it because of that word. This is

on Terminator 6. I like the idea of Ernie not

being a Terminator. Check out the behind the

scenes video from T3 where he plays a slack -jawed

army man used to model the T -800 off. That would

be kind of interesting as well. I didn't really

know that, but I'll have to look for it. So,

that's it from me. Until next time, get altered.

Get geeky. With the altered geeks. See you next

time!