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I can’t buy Capcom Fighting Collection yet

Today is an amazing day in an already amazing month. Steam Summer Sale is upon us and we have games new and old and new that look old to look forward to playing! What a great time to be alive, or so I want to say. I never considered a world, even once, where I would have to choose between Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Darkstalkers, but here I am and there I did.

TMNT Shredders Revenge > Capcom Fighting Collection… kind of? New content vs. Old games… but… ugh… Red Earth! This sucks!  I had not intended to pit 80’s/90’s nostalgia vs. Capcom 1997 white whale of an arcade game, Red Earth, but at almost half of the price of this collection, I did.

cvs moneyI had not realized at the time that money would be this tight for my family during this month, as well as the next couple of months. I really wanted to pre-order Capcom Fighting Collection, but I suppose I can live with playing Darkstalkers on my Dreamcast for now, and I have several Sonic games almost completely untouched for when Sonic Origins comes out… but… The Turtles man…. T-U-R-T-L-E POWER!

I mean… look at this! JUST LOOK AT IT?!?!?!

I’m not proud of myself or my decisions… but it was the right one… I hope.

Why Sean Why?

I recently had to create a portfolio for a job, so I did it as a brand new website. My wife had mentioned that their CIO was a fan of Halo, and I happened to have an edited pic I made so I ran with that for part of it. She thinks that I didn’t take the project seriously and made a laughing stock of it all, but I don’t think she really understands. This was literally the best that I could do.

inabaI don’t know what to do anymore. I gotta go back to school or something because my job is making my wife really sad. It sucks. I just… *sigh*

I won an award for best comedy in my intro to theater class by throwing caution to the wind and having fun with things when writing a morality play. My partners were so upset because it wasn’t supposed to be a comedy. My portfolio got me an interview with her bosses at least because they like my personality. That’s not nothing?

This blog was created on April 9th, 2010

I was just wanting to upload a bunch of old pics to cheer myself up while I can’t sleep, when I realized that today, really now yesterday in my time zone, was the 12th anniversary of this blog. I first started this blog because I had to write some papers for my geography class on some movies, and figured that I might as well post it somewhere.

ANYWAYS! Below are some random pics that make me happy from the last 12 years? Enjoy?

Mer-Monday

I haven’t been posting much this year, so sadly one of my favorite traditions has been neglected… Mer-Monday as well as Mer-May. This sucks, because I love getting all of the the weird reactions when I talk about how mermaids are the cause for all nautical deaths, how they are the most dangerous creature in the ocean, etc..

During Mer-May, I typically take it a step further by attempting to draw stuff every day until life gets the better of me. Sadly, life has… already got the better of me! Work has been sucking a lot.

Apparently a couple of months back, there was a news expose where an aquarium supposedly ‘accidently’ recorded some of their mermaid performers changing. That’s terrible.

I’m a little upset that I am only just now learning about the mermaid Deadpool funko pop.

And here is another image dump. Anyways, Happy Mer-May! If I end up drawing anything, I will be sure to post it here. Later!

Doctor Strange 2 might be the straw that broke the fandoms back

strange-caterpillarDoctor Strange in The Multiverse of Madness might be the hardest challenge for Marvel fans going forward. Up to Avengers: Endgame, everyone had been tasked with watching every single movie either in order of release or when it took place in the timeline. The extreme nerds maybe watched Agents of Shield, maybe Agent Carter, but we had a good sense all we had to do was watch EVERY SINGLE MOVIE in phase I, II, and III and there would be an amazing pay off at the end… game. But where are we after Endgame?

Amazing_Spider-Man_Vol_1_149Spider-Man Into The Spider-Verse was a stand alone film that had the idea of crossing over different Spider-Men™ because… for some reason… that’s always been a popular idea since at least… 1975? When Spider-Man: No Way Home came out, the universe became cracked and we had to deal with The Sam Rami Spider-Verse as well as The Amazing Spider-Man movie-verse. My wife had watched the Rami trilogy in the past, Amazing 1 but not 2, so I decided to have her watch the Sony/Marvel Spider-Man movies to prepare, and starting with 2019’s Spider-Man Far From Home, I saw a huge problem going forward. “Tony Stark is DEAD?!?! I forgot about the other movies with huge plot lines… Okay… that was my bad.

Fast-forward to last month. My wife explains that she has never seen Doctor Strange and up really of The Marvel Cinematic Universe. She wanted to watch Doctor Strange 2, because I guess Cumberbatch was her new goateed idol? I myself had not seen Eternals or Shang Chi because after a decade long movie arc, I had decided to treat the movie-verse the way I used to treat the comic-verse… on an issue by issue basis. I had already started skipping things like Netflix’s Luke Cage or any of the basic TV shows, but Wandavision? Loki? Falcon and Winter Soldier? I was still mostly up to date, so I should be golden! The wife however… can I demand that she watch What if?! so she can even know to care about random character encounters, such as Agent Carter’s time-displaced and roided out form possibly making a cameo?

female-thorShe hasn’t even seen a Captain America wielding another universes Mjolnir yet, let alone seen the MCU’s Odinson’s magic hammer he summons with twinkle hands be destroyed by Hela… and Thor Love and Thunder comes out in JULY! Dear Lord!

For many, the global pandemic starting in 2019 did give us a ton of time to focus on fictional movie realms because we had to keep society running. Marriages happened, houses were purchased. 

“What is the pre-requisite to watch Doctor Strange 2?”

Insider lists the following as the pre-requisite: X-Men (2000), Age of Ultron, Doctor Strange, WandaVision, Loki, What if?!, and Spider-Man No Way Home.

I, however, would argue that you just need to see the cover to the original X-Men movie and that should be enough, because that should not be that universes Professor Xavier! He has the flying hover chair he got in the comics after going to SPACE, but always casually had in the animated series from 1992! So… yeah.

Also, Loki? Maybe? Maybe not. What if?! Err… Cumberbatch claimed that the alternate Strange from that was NOT the one from that, but eagled eyed people have seen other characters who could be… so…

Ultimate Spider-manUltimate Spider-Man was a comic book series that came out after the original Sam Rami Spider-Man series. It was a new universe that took ideas from the older comic series, and made it approachable for newcomers. It made a lot of changes, but it strived to be something that people could pick up and read. It later had spin off comics, dipped it’s toes into a different universe creating The Marvel Zombie universe, and even had an Ultimate Spider-Man video game before Peter Parker had to exit that convoluted mess. That universe folded in on it-self. A Spider-Verse happened in the comics at some point, long story is that the younger character Miles Morales Spider-Man came to the main comic universe, and a lot of his world became their world.

Spider-Girl_Vol_1_10All bets are currently off. I do not know where The Marvel Cinematic Universe is going to go or if fans will all follow or not. Things are getting crazy, and I kind of just want to be able to see a cool trailer, watch a movie, and just turn my brain off again. Hopefully I can (mostly) do that again, sometime soon. I’m getting to old for this stuff.

Capcom Fighting Collection

darkstalkersbeenawhileAll of the Arcade Darkstalkers games, Hyper Street Fighter II are not as exciting as the fact that we are FINALLY getting a home port of Red Earth. That’s AWESOME!

Now, I could dream up a volume 2 or a speculate that the games included were meant not to overlap with the Street Fighter collection that’s also existing this console generation… but I wont! I want more new Darkstalkers. I even made a roster for Darkstalkers 4 that could be easy to make considering Darkstalkers 3 never had an Arcade port and while it has all of the characters in the roster except Dee, IT DOESN’T GET PORTED OUTSIDE OF PS3?! Whatever. Here’s Darkstalkers 4’s roster I guess, and a bit of a roadmap.

Darkstalkers 4

Anakaris

Bishamon

Demitri

Donovan

Felicia

Hsien-Ko

Huitzil

 

Jon Talbain

Lord Raptor

Morrigan

Pyron

Rikuo

Sasquatch

Victor

Anita

Baby Bonnie Hood

Jedah

Lilith

Q-Bee

Dee

Lilligon

Ingrid

Ruby Heart

Amingo

Son Son

Cyber Akuma

Dark Sakura

Shadow Lady

Charlie (SFV)

Adult Anita

Female Lord Raptor

Civil War Train Conductor

Ghost Knight

Little Cat Girl

Emily

Arthur

Dark Talbain

Marionette

Oboro Bishamon

Shadow

 Megaman

Roll

BATS

Ghost Girl

Queen Morrigan

Darkstalkers_Resurrection_BBHood

End Bosses: Evil Ryu, Shin Akuma, V. Ken,

Chibi Morrigan, Chibi Hsienko, Chibi Felicia

Abyss

Road Map:

Darkstalkers 4,
Street Fighter vs. Darkstalkers (2D w/ 3D animated cutscenes)
Darkstalkers vs. Street Fighter
Capcom Versus
Capcom Vs. WB

P1150361I just… want more Darkstalkers, but less re-releases of the arcade games unless it’s EVERYTHING including characters exclusive for certain versions, features from PSP games, etc. Here’s a better build the roster from Thorgi’s Arcade. But seriously… Darkstalkers. Do it Capcom, you cowards.