After a sudden underwater tremor sets free scores of the prehistoric man-eating fish, an unlikely group of strangers must band together to stop themselves from becoming fish food for the area’s new razor-toothed residents.
Source: IMDB
So we’ve watched Piranha 3D in 2D because we don’t have a 3D TV (yet), nor do we have 3D glasses (which would be cool, if we had a 3D TV). So if, like me, you’re a sad person who’s looking for the movie in its 2D version, the title is “Piranha”. It’s as simple as that.
Where most Jaws-like movies only tease with a few kills but fail to deliver on any real confrontation, Alexandre Aja created a fantastic gore fest at the beach. I won’t spoil anything by saying that some scenes look as if a giant lawnmower was being used under the water, where hundreds of teens are swimming.
Eli Roth spraying water at the girls during the wet t-shirt contest
There are few happy surprises in the cast: Elisabeth Shue (as the sheriff), Steve R. McQueen (Jeremy from Vampire Diaries) and Eli Roth.
We went with low expectations but we had a total blast. Now, we’ve read that the sequel is far from being as good… However, we’ll watch it because 1. David Hasselhof plays in it 2. It’s getting warm again and there isn’t much to do with such a heat.
This week, after crossing a very cool Goblin Hunter who was running with Stinky at his side, I realized that I couldn’t tame all the pets in Azeroth. I don’t know how this happened, but I completely forgot about the existence of the taming tomes.
After running the macros below, I noticed that I was still missing Gargons, Cloud Serpents and Blood Beasts.
/run for k,v in pairs({['Blood Beasts']=54753,['Undead']=62255,['Cloud Serpents']=62254,['Gargon']=61160})do print(format('%s: %s', k, C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(v) and '\124cff00ff00Yes\124r' or '\124cffff0000No\124r')) end
/run for k,v in pairs({['Direhorns']=138430,['Mechanicals']=205154,['Feathermanes']=242155})do print(format('%s: %s', k, IsPlayerSpell(v) and '\124cff00ff00Yes\124r' or '\124cffff0000No\124r')) end
Here is the lists of all the tomes and where to find them (from Wowhead):
Tome of the Hybrid Beast is sold by Pan the Kind Hand in Trueshot Lodge for 1000 Order Resources. You need to have completed your class Order Campaign in order to buy this. Your hunter alts can buy it without having to re-do the campaign.
Blood-Soaked Tome of Dark Whispers drops from Zul in Uldir on either Normal, Heroic or Mythic difficulty. It unlocks the taming ability for your other hunter(s) on your account.
Simple Tome of Bone-Binding is a world drop obtainable from elites in Maldraxxus and Plaguefall. It unlocks the taming ability for your other hunter(s) on your account. Undead hunters do not need this tome to tame Undead beasts.
The first new pets that I tamed were Stinky and Precious from Icecrown Citadel. After taming these magnificent pets, I continued to the Lich King and he dropped a Drudge Ghoul, yay!
Ever heard the expression “Zen as an Orc”? No? Me neither. It’s because such a thing doesn’t exist or didn’t exist… If you would have told me, a few years ago, that I would join the Night Fae with Sardoken, I wouldn’t have believed it. Yet, my time with the forest folks was entertaining and relaxing.
I don’t have much more to say about it, I only needed an excuse to post this amazing screenshot.
Last Friday, we’ve been camping the Fallen Charger for 4 hours 25 minutes before giving up and finally going to sleep. Almost 5 hours of our lives, spent doing nothing else than watching our screens, waiting for an elite mob, not knowing if it would even spawn while we were online.
A few weeks ago, that thought would have frightened us but, in the end, we had an amazing time. We joined a wait group and chatted with people while popping our best toys and being our goofy selves.
The next day, after a lot of whining, we went back to WoW and stumbled upon a group that mentioned that the Charger was up. We both had the time to tag it and, by doing so, complete the meta achievement “Breaking the Chains”.
Not only did we receive the amazing mount, The Hand of Salarangor, but we’ve also learned that, no matter how long it takes for an rare to spawn, the feeling of finally killing it is awesome!
By the way, this hand mount is the second one we received in a few weeks. The other is the Hand of Nilganihmaht, which we could craft after looting 4 different Quartered Ancient Rings scattered across the Maw.
A widow begins to uncover her recently deceased husband’s disturbing secrets. – iMDB
I’m writing this post not to forget that we’ve watched this movie. Weird thing, we did, and I already forgot about its’ existence. If it weren’t for Sardokens’ infallible memory, this one would have gone straight to oblivion. Makes me wonder what happened that night though.
After watching the trailer, I now remember it was an entertaining watch. There was this eerie vibe throughout the entire movie, but I wouldn’t have called it scary. As a reference, I haven’t jumped once, and coming from me that means something.
I would definitely not call this a horror fest, it’s more of a haunting mystery thriller. The story was pretty solid and original, maybe not the best movie, but worth the watch none the less.
After many hours in AC Odyssey, getting lost in many quest lines and exploring the huge map, I’ve finished the main story line. It was fun, but it’s far from over. While I’ve killed many cultists, they haven’t all been slain. As long as my cultist page isn’t fully tainted red, I won’t give up on the game.
Apparently, there are nine different endings of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey depending on how many of Kassandras’ (or Alexios’) family members remain alive at the end of the game. Here is the short version of how I got to “a happy ending”:
In Chapter 2 “The Wolf of Sparta”, spare your father, Nikolaos;
In Chapter 6 “Catching Up”, tell your mother, Myrinne, you will save your brother, Deimos, from the cult;
During the quest “Ashes to Ashes”, save the baby;
In Chapter 7 “Paint it Red”, be kind to Nikolaos and tell him to help Stentor;
Don’t kill Stentor;
During the quest “A Bloody Feast”, tell Myrinne that you’ll bring Deimos back;
In “A Bloody Feast”, tell Deimos to hold on after you fight him;
During the quest “Doing Time”, convince Deimos the cult is manipulating you both. Deimos will say “I am not your puppet,” if it worked;
Continue to convince Deimos the cult is using him and refuse to fight in “Where it all Began”.
As a bonus for saving all of your family members, you’ll have them unlocked as Lieutenants for your ship. At first, I wasn’t too happy about having to do naval battles to progress in the game, but upgrading my ship changed that. It was pretty fun cleaving through ships as if they were butter.
Also, the end of the “Daughters of Artemis” quest line broke my heart, but I won’t spoil it in case Sardoken would decide one day he’d want to play Odyssey. While it was fun killing all those legendary beasts, I still can’t believe that the developers came up with an end like that. Ubisoft, sponsored by prozac.
For a game that I was so prejudice about in the past (I’d never play it, even if hell would freeze over), I’m having a lot of fun. Even AC Valhalla made it to my backlog, who would have thought that? Certainly not me.
The other day, as we were (re-re-re-)watching Breaking Bad during diner, I noticed the song Waiting Around to Die by The Be Good Tanyas. I already knew this great cover of the original song from Towns Van Zandt thanks to a game that we both completed not so long ago: The Walking Dead – The Final Season.
Lately, video games make me discover more music than… Well, it seems that video games are my only source of music since, you know, radios are dead.
A mother and her daughter live a life almost in seclusion in a mountainous area of the United States. The adolescent Izzy only has as a friend, her mother, a woman full of secrets with whom she shares a primitive rock band. The mother does not want people to come near daughter , but Izzy manages to escape to the city several times. There she will discover that her family has a past related to witchcraft. (source: IMDB)
The movie is definitely on the slow side but it manages to create a special ambiance without ever getting too slow. It’s also different than the usual witch movies because of the special relationship between the girl and her mother.
The actors are great in their roles, Zelda Adams is perfect as both a drummer and a witch and Toby Poser manages to create a real aura of mystery around their family. The movie is written and directed by Zelda Adams (the daughter), Toby Poser (the mother) and John Adams (the uncle). Zelda Adams and Toby Poser are mother and daughter in real life too. Now I get how they managed to create such a great chemistry between them. Also, parenting done right!
I love witches and I love stories with witches, so the movie theme earns extra points for giving me a Saturday eve filled with dark magic.
All in all, I’m a fan and I hope that the Adams family (lol) makes more movies in the future.
Christmas Eve. On his way to his in-laws with his family, Frank Harrington decides to try a shortcut, for the first time in 20 years. It turns out to be the biggest mistake of his life. (source: IMDB)
While Ray Wise did a big mistake to try a shortcut, leading his family to a grim end, I did a big mistake trusting Youtube reviews, leading our Saturday horror eve to a ditch.
Never trust Youtube comments!
It wasn’t so bad that we wanted to stop watching before the end, but we had more than a few (maybe even too many) “What the fuck?” moments. We even cried of laughter, so bad it was. It felt as if we were tripping.
I wouldn’t advise this movie to anyone, unless you’re a die-hard Twin Peaks fan and you want to see Leland Palmer cry one more time “Lauraaaaa”. Yep, his daughter in the movie is also named Laura…
A bunch of teens get trapped in an escape room, but is it really designed to let them escape? If you need a synopsis to know what this movie is about, I wonder how you even made it to the internet.
Both movies were entertaining enough for our Saturday horror evenings. They aren’t bad movies but Taylor Russell (Lost in Space) did most of the heavy lifting.
Since I don’t have much to say about these movies, here is a trivia:
After the death of five Polish teenagers, killed by fire in a real-life tragedy which occurred within an escape room in Poland, the release date of the film was pushed back a few months in a number of countries out of respect for the girls who died. (source: IMDB)
