Post 13 # Millie the Duck, Spider-man for PS4, R Bar and Taylor Swift, Playing with a Flame Thorwer,
- Marc Von Ahnen
- Sep 13, 2018
- 6 min read
Millie the Duck
I got home from work on Friday with a surprise package in the mail. My good friend, and all around best person, Amanda made Millie the Duck buttons for Kaylin and I. I just wanted to share them because you may see them again in this post.
Spider-man on PS4
It's here. It's finally here! Is it Amazing? Yep! Spectacular? You know it. Sensational? Damn straight! Web of? What? Like everyone else the second I saw the first trailer for Spider-man on PS4 I was sold!
As soon as I could preorder this game I did. I had it paid for and ready since last February. And then my PS4 went on the fritz. Every so often while building a Jurassic Park or watching a movie I would lose a picture. I couldn't have that so I splurged and ordered the Spider-man PS4 system.
Even though Travis told me "I bet you just need a new HDMI cord. Those things are $15." I responded with "Fuck off Travis!"
So the day finally arrived. Spider-man is here! Contrary to how I my come across on my blog I'm not to big into video games. I enjoy games that I don't have to think or stress about over something state of the art and revolutionary. Those games lose me but I am an old man so what can I say.
I've been seeing the reviews of this and everyone is saying this is the greatest Spider-man game ever made. So far I'm only about 30% in so I can't really say for sure, right now that honor still goes to Spider-man Shattered Dimensions, IMO.
Not to take anything away from this game though. It reminds me of Spider-man Web of Shadows or Spider-man 2 (from the movie) based off the gameplay or the missions and side missions. There's a lot of fun stuff to do...and some tedious. Sorry I'm not to convinced in going out and catching a mans pigeons is going to a fun past time.
The graphics on this game is what really stands out. New York City is just gorgeous. I am dumbstruck by how amazing it looks. I have never in my life wanted to be there more than I have after playing this game! I can see why Frank Sinatra would write a love ballad to it.
When it comes to a game like this the most important thing is the cast of characters, the best is probably a personal favorite of mine J. Jonah Jameson who is a host of a Rush Limbaugh style radio show and having a show dedicated to attacking Spider-man makes me laugh. But even more important than that are the villains. Spider-man has one of the greatest, if not the greatest rouges gallery in all of comics, so his villains are important. And it was strange to me because for most of the year the only villain we saw in any press release was, a relatively new character, Mr. Negative.
I love Mr. Negative. He's a great addition to the Spider-man mythos but I of course wanted to see classic villains. And it seems like this game is ready to deliver when they announced that this game will also include their own Sinister Six!
There are a few moments where I had to pause and think that's not correct. First off collecting Spider-man's old backpack that are webbed to walls. I'm such a nerd because my first thought, the webbing should have dissolved. But whatever. I wasn't able to keep up with Dan Slott's Spider-man run but there are a few things I don't remember happening. First: Norman Osbron is Mayor? Did that happen? Also, why is Mary Jane working at the Daily Bugle? Ultimately this is pretty hair splitting because there is a number of times Spider-man just tossed goons off the side of the building which is very out of character for him!
R Bar and Taylor Swift
Last December I get an email from Ryan that read "Hey, if I get tickets to Taylor Swift would you go?" Ryan being a 40 year old dude and me in my late 30s most people would think. "Oh what a hilarious joke. Two old men going to Taylor Swift alone." Well you don't know Ryan and I very well I said "Yep!" And tickets were bought.
Were we out of place? Well, the day finally arrives. I show up at Ryan's at about 10:30 in the morning and he's wearing a shirt that reads "Bundy" and I said "I didn't know you were into Married with Children. He said "I'm not. This is Ted Bundy." Oh the serial killer.
I brought some books for school but we ended up having some deep conversations about where we are in life and where we are going.... No. I'm fucking with you we mostly just laughed at having to drive through Cumming Iowa.
She was playing at Arrowhead stadium in Kansas City. But Ryan skipped every KC exit. Now I should be worried that a man wearing a Ted Bundy T Shirt has decided to drive to the middle of no where Kansas but he told me in advance that he wanted to pit stop at the R Bar in Lawrence Kansas.
A restaurant and bar owned by air guitarist CoprAIRation (sorry I couldn't find a picture) secret identity Brian Reeves. We get there and get free round of beers because people know to treat Harvey Wahlbanger and Mean Gene Simmons like kings, or maybe they were just being nice. While playing a game of shuffleboard I ordered us some food, a couple tacos and some wings. After allowing Ryan to beat me in shuffleboard 15 - 0 our food arrived.
He went to the bar to get another beer but I couldn't wait and dug into those wings. Holy shit! They were so good I thought to myself, I don't want to share these with him. I thought about taking the basket to the corner and eating them like a troll. Just shoving food in my face. The wings were so big and that I had to snap them in two and the bones just slide out! I kid you not these are the best wings I have ever eaten! I did share some with Ryan and he agreed.
We felt we had to get a larger order and this time test our Herculean strength by trying the Facemelter (named after LT Facemelter from Air Guitar).
It did not go well. At one point I said, I'm sure I was crying "I have to get another beer to eat this." And one was left uneaten.
We then made the trek to Arrowhead
We were a little out of place. I have never been to a concert where there was 0 people in line for a beer.
And also my favorite photo of the night. A bunch of young girls with their moms buying Taylor Swift merch and a creepy old tattooed dude with a Ted Bundy T Shirt and a samurai hair cut.
Getting to our seats I found some die hard Taylor Swift fans. On kid who made himself a Disco Stu style Taylor Swift jacket.
And my personal favorite. One kid that went as the Pope. Or maybe it's just the Pope. He could be a fan, plus there were a lot of little boys there.
She had two openers. First Charli XCX and then Camila Cabello both were good. Although I don't know much about them. Then she hit the stage. Let me say one thing. I completely underestimated the power of Taylor Swift. I knew she was a big deal but I was shocked. She broke the attendance record for Arrow Head stadium that night. To put that into perspective, that's a lot more people then my Huxley show!
The stage itself was a marvel. At first I thought it was just a giant screen but when she started singing it would break apart like tetris in reverse and revel a people playing instruments behind the screen. On top of that they their customary fireworks and pyrotechnics.
At one point giant inflatable cobras came out of the stage, which caused me to remark "Oh No this is a Cold Slither Show!" If you don't get that you need to bone up on your G.I. Joe lore.
Overall I was incredible impressed. It was a great show and I am glad I went. It was exact opposite level of enjoyment that we had leaving Arrowhead stadium.
Flame Thrower
My neighbor Christian bought a flame thrower. There isn't much to say about that but I like scaring people with a picture of me with a flame thrower.
Newsweek Simpsons 30th Anniversary
I haven't had time to thumb through this yet but I am sure that spending $10.99 on a magazine that doesn't tell me anything I didn't know was a wise investment. Just like pumpkins.
