Hi this is David Kaye and you're listening to Altered Geek. Geek. Geek. Geek. Geek.
Hello and welcome to Altered Geek. I'm your host Steve Megatron. Joining me on this adventure
into geekdom is just myself. So welcome to 2025. Yes, I fully intended on getting new
episodes out sooner than this. However, life happens. I've been busy, there's been a lot
of things on my plate, getting a lot of stuff done with work that's finally off my plate.
Yeah, and then I've been watching a bunch of new TV shows. I've been kind of watching films.
I've been catching up on stuff. So yeah. How the heck are you guys doing? It's been a while.
It's been quite a while actually. Especially with the month of December being kind of half in,
half out. I took a trip to Michigan, saw some family, hung out there for a bit, came back,
did some work, and then of course, you know, we've got all kinds of other crap going on.
Life in general. So that being said, there's a number of things that have kind of been catching
my eye lately. Dragon Ball Dima, been watching that, waiting on Dragon Ball Super stuff to
kind of come up with new manga stuff and hopefully new video content. Sparking Zero's got the DLC
drop. It's also got some other basically, they're touting 11 new characters. However,
I kind of hate the way they're doing this. They're making it sound like these are all
unique characters and they're not really, they're just different transformations to some of the
same characters. So there's like, for this 11, there's really Cell Max, there's Gamma 1,
Gamma 2, and then you've got Gohan in the various stages on Superhero, and then you've
got Piccolo in the various stages. So there's like four Picolos and five of the Gohan with
Beast Gohan and so on and so forth. So yeah, I mean, there's that. I'm happy about some
of the new changes. They're talking about there's like Quick Match now, there's Perception,
Super Perception being nerfed, no more mashing on Super counters. They buffed the Super Saiyan
4 Goku, which kind of I get, I mean Goku was and Gojira kind of overpowered, which I'm
a little sad. I liked that. And then the nonstop sweep is gone. So yeah, there were a bunch
of things that kind of happened with it. Aside from that, I'm waiting, I find it a little
crap that Crunchyroll is doing week to week of the English dub drops when we've already
been kind of already seeing the subs week to week of Daima. I find it a little bit frustrating
just because it's, I don't know, I don't like the week to week thing. I get it. They're
trying to prevent churn from people being on the streaming platforms. But again, I'm
just not a fan of that, that methodology anymore, especially when we've been kind of suffering
through having the sub and then they're kind of teasing the dub like, Oh, you've watched
the first 13 episodes of the sub. Now you got to start all over on the dub. But that's
neither here nor there. That's just a streaming issue in general. The other thing that's been
kind of cool is I've been watching shifting gears, which is Tim Allen's new television
show on ABC or Fox or whatever, Hulu, the platform in general that he's kind of lived
on forever. It's not too bad. It's definitely going to take half a season to get it really
going. Kat Dennings is in it. Stifler is in it from American Pie. I can't remember his
name. I think it's Sean Williams Scott or something like that. So he's in it. There's
a bunch of different people in it. It's going to be interesting watching how that kind of
plays out. So again, I'm kind of hoping for the best on that. Mike and I have been going
through the Sonic films, doing those reviews over on Studio 2009. We were going to do the
second episode of Sonic or the second Sonic film and low and behold, they have no power.
It's the week of January 20th where everything is like an icebox. Negative degrees, just
kind of horrible all the way around. So yeah.
So there's that. Overall, I've kind of been just watching various geek culture things
change or mutate throughout the week or evolutions of stuff. We've gotten the release information
about the Nintendo Switch 2, which is kind of cool. I'm one of those guys. I'm a PC guy.
However, I did like having an Xbox 360 for the while that I had it. I liked the Wii when
I had it. I wouldn't mind having a Switch or a Switch 2. I'm not a huge console gamer
and I wouldn't collect enough to get on it. But yeah, I don't know. I'm more so like
I'll play the Mario games. I played Wii Sports. I play the Super Smash Brothers. I've played
the Mega Man stuff, Sonic, things like that. I'm not a huge console. For the most part,
play on my PC. I have Steam. I have EA Play. I have Epic. I have Blizzard. You name it.
I've probably got it. But I've been playing Sparking Zero. I've been kind of taking a
hiatus from Star Trek Online just because honestly, the story hasn't really evolved and
it's been boring as all get up. I don't like the fact that they're paywalling new starships
the way that they're doing it. They're behind a gambling box and then they make you play
these six rounds of missions that you have to play for 14 consecutive days or else you
just lose out or you get to pay money to get past it. I've lost interest in it, which
is sad because I love the storyline of Star Trek Online until they hit the Discovery Era
and the Mirror Universe and things like that. I'm waiting to see what they do next on it.
Speaking of old games being around, Donkey Kong Country Returns, the Nintendo's re-released
a third run of this, which is kind of a remaster, redo of the 2D side-scroller. It was fun
at the time. I'm one that played the original Donkey Kongs and my wife was actually better
at it than I was. I was better at the Mario games. That was something that was in the
news. Then of course Nintendo, since we're on that diatribe there, they recently released
that although they've shut down a bunch of emulators, emulators are legal. But I still
wouldn't get caught playing one on a stream because those people, they went after them,
they've gone after different stuff. But legally, they don't really have a leg to stand on in
some regards. Yes, it's some of their IP, but at the same time, it's not like they're
going to ever re-release any of this stuff. I'm waiting to see how this plays out because
emulators, you can pretty much buy knockoff Game Boys and consoles all over the place
with all these old games on it, specifically from China. I've looked into it because I've
toyed around with it. My kids got into the Pokémon stuff for a little bit. We were toying
with the idea of having the games and stuff like that. But I don't know. We'll see. We'll
see. I'm going to wait for it and see what happens on that before I jump on the... Let's
play emulators because I have a lot of them from way back in the day when I ran an emulator
website early 2000s. But that's, again, not something I plan to go heavy into when I do
start streaming stuff. That all being said, that all jumping in there. Then we've got
news about the Supergirl Woman of Tomorrow. They've cast everybody. They've started filming.
It's going to come out in June of 2026. It's got Millie Alcock playing Supergirl. What's
funny is they've preserved Jason Momoa from the old regime and he's going to be playing
Lobo. Which, honestly, it fits. It really does. Then, of course, they have the Green Lantern
HBO show that's starting to film. They've got the Superman film dropping in six months.
All the way around, it looks like James Gunn is going to take DC places that it's never
actually felt before. I estimate that, like, yes, the Batman, the Matt Reeve stuff. I doubt
they're going to use that version of Batman in their new cinematic universe with James
Gunn. They'll probably let him finish it out as a trilogy and then bring Batman into the
fold with a younger actor or another Batman, or maybe even an older Batman. It's hard to
say into this new regime. I'm cautiously optimistic to see what happens just because we've been
burned many, many, many, many, many, many times before. Then there was, of course, people
saying that the reason the Flash failed was because, one, they spent $200 million making
it. One of her brothers wanted to bring everybody to it. Then, one, a lot of people didn't care
for the Flash. But two, I think a lot of it had to do with Ezra Miller and the fact that
the film just didn't appeal to anyone. Yes, there was nostalgia in it. However, with Michael
Keaton and George Clooney, however, and all the other multiverse things that were in it,
people didn't hate the Flash. People didn't like Ezra Miller as the Flash. People liked
Grant Gustin as the Flash, which is why the CW had nine seasons. If done right, it will
do well with the wrong people in play. Yeah. The cinematics for that film were crap, too.
I felt like we got better out of the Flash CW show than we did that film. My favorite,
the only saving grace for that Flash movie was Michael Keaton as Batman and the 89 universe
being there. I didn't care about anything else with that film.
So yeah, otherwise, I've been trying to get my hands on the Deadpool vs Wolverine figure
from Hasbro, which, BBTS, I think it's gotten pushed twice as far as the release. I'm a
little sad. I hope that it comes out because I'd really like to get my hands on it. But
it seems like I've gone to all the Walmart's, I've gone to the Targets, I've gone to stuff
like that. None of them have ever carried any of that film's merchandise. So literally
the only place you could get it was online. And now, of course, it's all over eBay with
the scalpers and everything else. So I'm a little perturbed that we've not seen them
in the store because I really do prefer to buy stuff physically in the store. One, it's
cheaper, two, there's no shipping, three, I like the instant gratification and I like
the hunt. But at the same time, I don't feel like Hasbro really cares about any of the
properties they have their hands on right now, which is sad, honestly. Like, I mean,
I look at Transformers and I mean, the only saving grace there and I'll end up talking
about it on all things Transformers, they've released Rattrap, or at least the information
about Rattrap, he's called Rattle, which is his name over on the other side of the pond
there. And anyways, he's a masterpiece figure, looks awesome, but it's like a hundred bucks,
a hundred and five bucks or something. I'm very interested in it, I want it. However,
I do have the thrilling 30 version and I have the Kingdom War for Cybertron version, so
it's not something that I'm going to run right out unless like I can get it for 50, 60 bucks.
And then sadly, like TransArt toys, which has been producing the knockoff like TransMetal
season two and three Beast Wars figures have decided to pull the plug on it because of
some fans being overly critical over the figures. I've honestly loved them like, yeah, there's
some I haven't cared to purchase, some of them are too big, some of them are a little
bit out of my price range, or just honestly, it's mostly the size. Like I just don't have
the shelf space for them. Their optimal optimus should have been bigger, but I'm fine with
where he ended up. And then we have numerous other ones and I'm happy for them, like I'm
happy for the the the figures that I got because I mean, I have TransMetal Primal, I've got
Optimal, I've got TransMetal Rat Trap, I've got TransMetal Megatron. And then that was
as far as I went with TransArt. And then I have regular masterpiece, Optimus Primal Cheetor.
And then the rest of them are either like thrilling 30 figures or Kingdom figures or
legacy type of figures there. So I would have loved to get my hands on some of the other
ones, both masterpiece and not. However, again, it's just it kind of boils down to a budget
thing and it's a size thing. Like I wanted more of them. They're beautiful figures and
they they they definitely one up Hasbro every step of the way. Like they've got electronics,
they've got, you know, full mobility, they've got articulation, they look exactly like they
were printed from the show. And that's something that I really love. But that's that's kind
of like the sonic films, like I really love Jim Carrey's rendition of of Robotnik, I love
the portrayal of the other characters. I'm hoping Jim Carrey comes back for the fourth
film. They did spoil some certain characters, like Amy Rose and Metal Sonic at the end of
the film as kind of the end of the show teaser. I mean, we're a month out if you haven't seen
it, I'm sorry about the spoiler. But I mean, it's really not it's not a heavy spoiler because
like they're not I mean, they've done this every film is introduced the next whoever's
going to be in the next film. So yeah, I'm I'm hoping that we get our Robotnik back.
But we shall see, we shall see. So I'm not going to like drag this episode out. But I
do want to know what you guys would like to see on this podcast. I'm planning on doing
some video renditions of this as well. I really want to try and do a little bit of a mixed
media here. Trying to kind of jump between the two different versions of the show. So
what would you guys like to see as far as like a differentiation between the audio podcast
and the video show? So that's that's something I'd like to kind of know like I have I have
I can do like custom figures or 3D print things or painting of some of my figures for like
the altered geek episodes where it's kind of just having fun. I could talk about some
of my figures or some of my collections like I've Dragon Ball Z. I have Transformers, I
have Beast Wars, I have Power Rangers, I have, you know, Star Trek. So let me know what you
guys think. Like I would really like that. So you can comment on this episode on the
website GeekcastRadio.com. You can of course email me feedback at GeekcastRadio.com subject
line altered geek. And so with that, the next thing you'll probably see from me is movie
we can review on our YouTube channel. So until next time, get altered, get geeky with the
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