systemmastery – System Mastery

Movie Mastery – Life-Size 2 (2018)

In a hard turn from the original movie that was about the acceptance of loss and moving on from grief, this movie is about how dynastic corporate wealth is a good thing, actually. And it’s a Christmas movie!

Expounded Universe 271 – Press F to Torture Human Dad

I’d like to say that this is the start of a depressing trend of torture in this book, but at least the book seems aware of it, and it’s just Alleria and Turalyon both times, so maybe it’s part of the story and will be dealt with. We can hope it gets fixed instead of getting the 24 treatment. Meanwhile, Mathias Shaw is sailing along with Flynn Fairwind, who is actually from the games! And Nathanos is meeting up with Apari the Blood(?) Troll again for various dark purposes.

Expounded Universe 270 – Right Click to Torture Orc Mom

Yep, it’s one of the classic staples of the WOW genre, That kind of justified torture that your favorite heroes just can’t help but do, because of the greater good. Oh and also Zekhan meets Bwonsamdi and … I’m sure there must have been a third thing.

Movie Mastery – Christmas Icetastrophe (2014)

A SyFy Original TV movie where an asteroid freezes everything around it and also it’s Christmas time. I don’t know, I let Jef pick this one.

System Mastery 267 – Mörk Borg

Whoa, the art and layout in this thing is cool! What about the rest of it? Is it also cool? Can love bloom on the retroclone-style battlefield? Well, let’s read it and find out.

Movie Mastery – Black Dog (1998)

A movie about a man willing to commit several major felonies and some light murder just so his family doesn’t have to move from their home to an apartment. Dude loves him some suburbs.

Expounded Universe 269 – Zekhan A Mission From God

In which we figure out who’s likely to be our primary Horde protagonist, we send him on his way to adventure, and also Anduin continues to fret in well-known locations.

System Mastery 266 – Cozy Town

Welcome to a charming little community where the townsfolk are all made up and the real world doesn’t matter. It’s Cozy Town, a game that we figured could not have a better title to fit the Sweater Weather time here at the show. Make a whole adorable village, populate it and plan their year of events and charming happenings. It’s cute, basically. Super cute.

Movie Mastery – Swamp Thing (1982)

You’ll come to see Ray Wise be a manic sex pest and then stay because you already turned it on and it would be effort to put on something else.

Expounded Universe 268 – Flame War of the Trolls

Sheesh, I thought we knew some stuff about World of Warcraft but we’re completely in the weeds here. We don’t know about Battle for Azeroth era trolls, and that’s what we seem to have blundered into. Oh well, at least Bwonsamdi is cool. We’re meeting some maybe-important Blood Trolls, hanging out with Talanji, and meeting WOW’s ultimate wife-guy energy man, Nathanos Blightcaller.