2018 TGIOKDI Year In Review

This is a first time thing for me, I’ve never done a year in review on my own personal site before, but I figured with all the books, games, and movies that I’ve been posting about, I might as well do one.

In 2018 I have:

• Read 37 books
• Finished 26 games
• Watched 308 movies

I’m counting the comic books that I listed on the site, they were large enough and of enough importance to make a post, so they’re getting counted.  Obviously a few of the movies were watched more than once (mad max: fury road was watched like 10 times!).

I built some cool LEGO, my kegerator froze over, I had a horrible stomach bug, and Hurricane Michael caused a week long power outage that I survived by using my grill and reading a lot of books.  At the beginning of the year, I dug my comic books out of storage in the closet and re-bagged and boarded them, then just a month or two ago, I completely redid my home office. It has a ton of shelving now, all of which is in use.  Went to MegaCon and met a bunch of celebrities.  There are pictures somewhere.

There’s times where I feel like I don’t do much, but then looking back, there it is.

My plans for the next year:

• Have kids
• Make more better money from my side gigs
• Pay off debt
• Replace the carpet in my house
• Unhook myself from all corporately owned social media, I think all I have left is facebook, but I want to save all my content to my own personal website, so that’s going to be a project in of itself.

Justice League (corrected)

Iron Damage

Triple Frontier

Make no mistake, this is not a military operation.

Star Trek Fleet Command

A mobile game that uses the way overused “timers” method of gaming, in which the players have multiple countdown timers that they manage and get time reduction tokens by completing mundane tasks. As you might imagine, you can purchase an in game currency to in turn purchase those same reduction tokens. It’s all very boring, very repetitive and a complete waste of time. Here’s an ingame screenshot, in it there’s a “winner” countdown with 4 counters inside, a lootbox count down with 3 counters inside, then on the left is a wrench that has the two upgrade countdowns.

Here’s the trailer that sold me on trying the game out.

The trailer is a complete lie, at no point is there FPS space combat, it’s all automated and pretty damn boring.

It’s a great trailer though, mad props to studio that made it.

Megan Fox in red

Christmas Balls

Anna Faris goes roller skating

jousting cannons

2018 my[confined]space year in review

For the first time ever, an official End of Year, Year in Review!  Three weeks early too, so I wonder if any of these stats will change in any meaningful way in the next 20 days!

In 2018, there were over 21,889 posts (down from 2017’s 23,001), which received 3,320 comments (down from 2017’s 4,873).  Traffic was sorta stable at 2,163,753 page views for 2018, slightly down from 2017’s 2,321,227 page views.

We had several theme days!

• January – Marta Wierzbicka – NSFW
• March – Stefania Ferrario – NSFW
• May – Deadpool – Solo: A Star Wars Story
• July – Yellow Diggers
• September – Sexy Ladies
• November – Natalie

Top 20 Commenters for 2018
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tiki god	723
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Saborlas	419
jediadept	242
Soong	146
Gropegrope	143
RalphTheDog	84
fatherdougal	81
Greenman037	67
przxqgl	64
marcuserektus	63
storminator	60
bloth	55
flood123	35
mightyconan	34
oldnoob	31
Marrock	29
Innocent Bystander	29
smeg	26
Jac	26

Top Post Submitters for 2018
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jediadept	6
smeg	6
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RalphTheDog	4
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Red Flower Dress Downblouse

Kaley Cuoco in fancy sunglasses

fallout 76

Sabrina Lynn on the street

Oblivion Cityscape

My Daily Routine

Lonely Cat

why is this product rated 3 stars

Reaching Past the event horizon

Social media

Miles in the air

The Brooklyn NineNine All Action Trailer

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Future Shooter

Ghost Rider

Spider-Venom

WinRAR beer

How much would this beer cost?  Free? $25 suggested price but no one ever pays that?

Juices

War Machine with large shoulder Cannon

iPhone 8

waited inside

how airplanes fly

Pacific Rim 4k

I’ve heard that this movie is pretty great in 4k and I found it for $9 at Target, so I jumped on it as quickly as possible, which it turns out was not as easy as I had assumed. We have several Targets here in town, and while the Target.com website suggested that the closest store had a couple copies, they did not, in fact, have any. They checked their internal inventory system and saw that there were two copies on the far far side of town, so I called that store and asked them to pull one for me, which they had no problem doing.

When I got down there though, I found they had pulled me the HD version and not the UHD version, so the guy had to go hunting for it, luckily finding it without much fuss.

I’m here to tell you, this is by far the definitive version of the film, and if you really want to put your new 4k tv through it’s paces, this is the movie to do it with. That scene with the plasma sword while in orbit? Absolutely breathtaking. That scene where they punch the other thing? Absolutely breathtaking. It’s a great film to begin with, but the 4k transfer is nearly flawless as far as I’m concerned and highly suggest seeing it in that format.

The Incredible Hulk 4k

Academy Award nominee Edward Norton stars as scientist Bruce Banner, a man who has been living in shadows, scouring the planet for an antidote to the unbridled force of rage within him: the Hulk. But when the military masterminds who dream of exploiting his powers force him back to civilization, he finds himself coming face to face with his most formidable foe: the Abomination -– a nightmarish beast of pure aggression whose powers match the Hulk’s own!

A perfect example of a terrible, horrible, no good, lack luster, incompetently and badly done 4k transfer. All the colors are muted, all the dark parts of the movie are inexplicably darker and more difficult to see, and I get the sense that there is no HDR on this disk. The audio track is still great, the surround sound features during the soda bottling fight are awesome, but all those great audio effects are for nothing if you can’t see anything at all on the screen.

Skip this 4k version, I’m sure they’re going to go back to this well again to make better choices.

Brightburn

Imagine what he could become.

Maya Rudolph’s angry smile

Venom laughing

Godzilla and helicoptors

Nightwing in white

Titan’s Robin is all messy

Emoji Horror

Katy Perry looking Pink

Income vs Bills

Sabrina Lynn sports bra downblouse

Drow Ranger DOTA

Maya at the SAG Awards

Electric Thug

Lone Wolf

Fire Dragon

daredevil swinger

Meg Myers 2016