LogFAQs > #909101606

Two random things:

1) I forgot how mediocre Avengers Assemble is. When I saw episodes listed, I mistakenly started watching thinking it was the same as Avengers Earth's Mightiest Heroes (which was generally pretty good). The show is mostly notable for bringing the cast, etc, more in line with the MCU. (Although the humor, stories, etc, skew younger than the MCU and previous cartoons)

2) I don't want to think about how much money I've spent on Funko's Mystery Minis and other blind-boxed items (although, again, more Mystery Minis) than anything. It mostly came to mind because I caved and bought a Walgreen's exclusive Nightmare Before Christmas pack (they've had at least *two* previous NBC series, but this one is meant to commemorate the 25th anniversary and the style is more cutesy than the previous offerings). I mostly bought it *because* I thought the pack contained Oogie (it weighed a little more and seemed to not move around as much in box when shaken), but I was disappointed to see that it was pajamas Jack... until I realized that the Walgreen's-exclusive version had flocking. I'm a sucker for flocking. Turned it from a disappointment into something neat.

Amusingly enough, if Walgreen's had been selling them for the usual $6 MSRP (charged at Target and B&N, but not places like HT and GS), I probably wouldn't have given it much thought. However, when I saw they were $7, it got me thinking. I've gotten so used to the $6 MSRP (which once struck me as a bit much) that it don't think much about it.

WhiskeyDisk posted...

Zeus posted...

omg, this so hard. Some titles seem borderline unplayable since the graphics make it difficult to register what's happening (although part of that might be an issue with the ps3's emulation of ps1 games)

Ignoring most RPGs of the era, when you look at something fairly high contrast graphically like say, Spyro or Brave Fencer Musashi, its still relatively playable. SotN, still holds up quite well.

But look at something like Syphon Filter or Tony Hawk's Pro Skater and they're damn near unplayable now just because of how far controls have come since then. Forget literally any Street Fighter type game from that era.

Trying to think of the name of the especially awful title I was playing. It was some ninja game where everything just kinda blended together and I couldn't see my character half the time (although the fact I was playing on a ps3 with a monitor probably affected things). The Inuyasha fighting game -- which used 2D characters -- I remember still looking fine.
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