1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Hi this is David Kaye and you're listening to Altered Geek. Geek. Geek. Geek. Geek. 2 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:41,160 Hello and welcome to Altered Geek. I'm your host Steve Megatron. Joining me on this adventure 3 00:00:41,160 --> 00:00:50,320 into geekdom is just myself. So welcome to 2025. Yes, I fully intended on getting new 4 00:00:50,320 --> 00:00:57,800 episodes out sooner than this. However, life happens. I've been busy, there's been a lot 5 00:00:57,800 --> 00:01:04,720 of things on my plate, getting a lot of stuff done with work that's finally off my plate. 6 00:01:04,720 --> 00:01:12,080 Yeah, and then I've been watching a bunch of new TV shows. I've been kind of watching films. 7 00:01:12,080 --> 00:01:25,440 I've been catching up on stuff. So yeah. How the heck are you guys doing? It's been a while. 8 00:01:25,440 --> 00:01:33,880 It's been quite a while actually. Especially with the month of December being kind of half in, 9 00:01:33,880 --> 00:01:42,400 half out. I took a trip to Michigan, saw some family, hung out there for a bit, came back, 10 00:01:42,400 --> 00:01:49,720 did some work, and then of course, you know, we've got all kinds of other crap going on. 11 00:01:49,720 --> 00:02:01,000 Life in general. So that being said, there's a number of things that have kind of been catching 12 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:07,120 my eye lately. Dragon Ball Dima, been watching that, waiting on Dragon Ball Super stuff to 13 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:19,240 kind of come up with new manga stuff and hopefully new video content. Sparking Zero's got the DLC 14 00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:29,920 drop. It's also got some other basically, they're touting 11 new characters. However, 15 00:02:29,920 --> 00:02:36,040 I kind of hate the way they're doing this. They're making it sound like these are all 16 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:40,160 unique characters and they're not really, they're just different transformations to some of the 17 00:02:40,160 --> 00:02:44,920 same characters. So there's like, for this 11, there's really Cell Max, there's Gamma 1, 18 00:02:44,920 --> 00:02:49,880 Gamma 2, and then you've got Gohan in the various stages on Superhero, and then you've 19 00:02:49,880 --> 00:03:00,560 got Piccolo in the various stages. So there's like four Picolos and five of the Gohan with 20 00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:09,800 Beast Gohan and so on and so forth. So yeah, I mean, there's that. I'm happy about some 21 00:03:09,800 --> 00:03:14,840 of the new changes. They're talking about there's like Quick Match now, there's Perception, 22 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:22,760 Super Perception being nerfed, no more mashing on Super counters. They buffed the Super Saiyan 23 00:03:22,760 --> 00:03:33,120 4 Goku, which kind of I get, I mean Goku was and Gojira kind of overpowered, which I'm 24 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:43,520 a little sad. I liked that. And then the nonstop sweep is gone. So yeah, there were a bunch 25 00:03:43,520 --> 00:03:51,880 of things that kind of happened with it. Aside from that, I'm waiting, I find it a little 26 00:03:51,880 --> 00:03:58,520 crap that Crunchyroll is doing week to week of the English dub drops when we've already 27 00:03:58,520 --> 00:04:08,960 been kind of already seeing the subs week to week of Daima. I find it a little bit frustrating 28 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:18,360 just because it's, I don't know, I don't like the week to week thing. I get it. They're 29 00:04:18,360 --> 00:04:24,880 trying to prevent churn from people being on the streaming platforms. But again, I'm 30 00:04:24,880 --> 00:04:30,680 just not a fan of that, that methodology anymore, especially when we've been kind of suffering 31 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:36,240 through having the sub and then they're kind of teasing the dub like, Oh, you've watched 32 00:04:36,240 --> 00:04:48,280 the first 13 episodes of the sub. Now you got to start all over on the dub. But that's 33 00:04:48,280 --> 00:04:53,080 neither here nor there. That's just a streaming issue in general. The other thing that's been 34 00:04:53,080 --> 00:05:01,160 kind of cool is I've been watching shifting gears, which is Tim Allen's new television 35 00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:10,040 show on ABC or Fox or whatever, Hulu, the platform in general that he's kind of lived 36 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:20,200 on forever. It's not too bad. It's definitely going to take half a season to get it really 37 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:28,920 going. Kat Dennings is in it. Stifler is in it from American Pie. I can't remember his 38 00:05:28,920 --> 00:05:34,160 name. I think it's Sean Williams Scott or something like that. So he's in it. There's 39 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:40,600 a bunch of different people in it. It's going to be interesting watching how that kind of 40 00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:50,680 plays out. So again, I'm kind of hoping for the best on that. Mike and I have been going 41 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:57,440 through the Sonic films, doing those reviews over on Studio 2009. We were going to do the 42 00:05:57,440 --> 00:06:08,640 second episode of Sonic or the second Sonic film and low and behold, they have no power. 43 00:06:08,640 --> 00:06:15,560 It's the week of January 20th where everything is like an icebox. Negative degrees, just 44 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:22,240 kind of horrible all the way around. So yeah. 45 00:06:22,240 --> 00:06:30,200 So there's that. Overall, I've kind of been just watching various geek culture things 46 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:39,720 change or mutate throughout the week or evolutions of stuff. We've gotten the release information 47 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:47,680 about the Nintendo Switch 2, which is kind of cool. I'm one of those guys. I'm a PC guy. 48 00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:52,560 However, I did like having an Xbox 360 for the while that I had it. I liked the Wii when 49 00:06:52,560 --> 00:07:04,440 I had it. I wouldn't mind having a Switch or a Switch 2. I'm not a huge console gamer 50 00:07:04,440 --> 00:07:14,400 and I wouldn't collect enough to get on it. But yeah, I don't know. I'm more so like 51 00:07:14,400 --> 00:07:21,000 I'll play the Mario games. I played Wii Sports. I play the Super Smash Brothers. I've played 52 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:29,800 the Mega Man stuff, Sonic, things like that. I'm not a huge console. For the most part, 53 00:07:29,800 --> 00:07:37,200 play on my PC. I have Steam. I have EA Play. I have Epic. I have Blizzard. You name it. 54 00:07:37,200 --> 00:07:44,760 I've probably got it. But I've been playing Sparking Zero. I've been kind of taking a 55 00:07:44,760 --> 00:07:48,880 hiatus from Star Trek Online just because honestly, the story hasn't really evolved and 56 00:07:48,880 --> 00:07:55,280 it's been boring as all get up. I don't like the fact that they're paywalling new starships 57 00:07:55,280 --> 00:08:00,320 the way that they're doing it. They're behind a gambling box and then they make you play 58 00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:07,720 these six rounds of missions that you have to play for 14 consecutive days or else you 59 00:08:07,720 --> 00:08:12,880 just lose out or you get to pay money to get past it. I've lost interest in it, which 60 00:08:12,880 --> 00:08:17,560 is sad because I love the storyline of Star Trek Online until they hit the Discovery Era 61 00:08:17,560 --> 00:08:25,960 and the Mirror Universe and things like that. I'm waiting to see what they do next on it. 62 00:08:25,960 --> 00:08:33,440 Speaking of old games being around, Donkey Kong Country Returns, the Nintendo's re-released 63 00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:43,040 a third run of this, which is kind of a remaster, redo of the 2D side-scroller. It was fun 64 00:08:43,040 --> 00:08:50,320 at the time. I'm one that played the original Donkey Kongs and my wife was actually better 65 00:08:50,320 --> 00:08:57,440 at it than I was. I was better at the Mario games. That was something that was in the 66 00:08:57,440 --> 00:09:04,480 news. Then of course Nintendo, since we're on that diatribe there, they recently released 67 00:09:04,480 --> 00:09:12,680 that although they've shut down a bunch of emulators, emulators are legal. But I still 68 00:09:12,680 --> 00:09:18,600 wouldn't get caught playing one on a stream because those people, they went after them, 69 00:09:18,600 --> 00:09:24,000 they've gone after different stuff. But legally, they don't really have a leg to stand on in 70 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:28,520 some regards. Yes, it's some of their IP, but at the same time, it's not like they're 71 00:09:28,520 --> 00:09:36,040 going to ever re-release any of this stuff. I'm waiting to see how this plays out because 72 00:09:36,040 --> 00:09:41,560 emulators, you can pretty much buy knockoff Game Boys and consoles all over the place 73 00:09:41,560 --> 00:09:50,520 with all these old games on it, specifically from China. I've looked into it because I've 74 00:09:50,520 --> 00:09:54,920 toyed around with it. My kids got into the Pokémon stuff for a little bit. We were toying 75 00:09:54,920 --> 00:10:07,800 with the idea of having the games and stuff like that. But I don't know. We'll see. We'll 76 00:10:07,800 --> 00:10:18,840 see. I'm going to wait for it and see what happens on that before I jump on the... Let's 77 00:10:18,840 --> 00:10:27,760 play emulators because I have a lot of them from way back in the day when I ran an emulator 78 00:10:27,760 --> 00:10:40,760 website early 2000s. But that's, again, not something I plan to go heavy into when I do 79 00:10:40,760 --> 00:10:51,720 start streaming stuff. That all being said, that all jumping in there. Then we've got 80 00:10:51,720 --> 00:11:00,720 news about the Supergirl Woman of Tomorrow. They've cast everybody. They've started filming. 81 00:11:00,720 --> 00:11:09,280 It's going to come out in June of 2026. It's got Millie Alcock playing Supergirl. What's 82 00:11:09,280 --> 00:11:17,000 funny is they've preserved Jason Momoa from the old regime and he's going to be playing 83 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:23,520 Lobo. Which, honestly, it fits. It really does. Then, of course, they have the Green Lantern 84 00:11:23,520 --> 00:11:31,000 HBO show that's starting to film. They've got the Superman film dropping in six months. 85 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:35,560 All the way around, it looks like James Gunn is going to take DC places that it's never 86 00:11:35,560 --> 00:11:43,160 actually felt before. I estimate that, like, yes, the Batman, the Matt Reeve stuff. I doubt 87 00:11:43,160 --> 00:11:49,800 they're going to use that version of Batman in their new cinematic universe with James 88 00:11:49,800 --> 00:11:57,120 Gunn. They'll probably let him finish it out as a trilogy and then bring Batman into the 89 00:11:57,120 --> 00:12:04,400 fold with a younger actor or another Batman, or maybe even an older Batman. It's hard to 90 00:12:04,400 --> 00:12:15,560 say into this new regime. I'm cautiously optimistic to see what happens just because we've been 91 00:12:15,560 --> 00:12:25,840 burned many, many, many, many, many, many times before. Then there was, of course, people 92 00:12:25,840 --> 00:12:37,680 saying that the reason the Flash failed was because, one, they spent $200 million making 93 00:12:37,680 --> 00:12:44,120 it. One of her brothers wanted to bring everybody to it. Then, one, a lot of people didn't care 94 00:12:44,120 --> 00:12:55,240 for the Flash. But two, I think a lot of it had to do with Ezra Miller and the fact that 95 00:12:55,240 --> 00:13:03,360 the film just didn't appeal to anyone. Yes, there was nostalgia in it. However, with Michael 96 00:13:03,360 --> 00:13:10,960 Keaton and George Clooney, however, and all the other multiverse things that were in it, 97 00:13:10,960 --> 00:13:15,680 people didn't hate the Flash. People didn't like Ezra Miller as the Flash. People liked 98 00:13:15,680 --> 00:13:25,920 Grant Gustin as the Flash, which is why the CW had nine seasons. If done right, it will 99 00:13:25,920 --> 00:13:40,800 do well with the wrong people in play. Yeah. The cinematics for that film were crap, too. 100 00:13:40,800 --> 00:13:48,360 I felt like we got better out of the Flash CW show than we did that film. My favorite, 101 00:13:48,360 --> 00:13:55,080 the only saving grace for that Flash movie was Michael Keaton as Batman and the 89 universe 102 00:13:55,080 --> 00:14:05,560 being there. I didn't care about anything else with that film. 103 00:14:05,560 --> 00:14:16,920 So yeah, otherwise, I've been trying to get my hands on the Deadpool vs Wolverine figure 104 00:14:16,920 --> 00:14:24,680 from Hasbro, which, BBTS, I think it's gotten pushed twice as far as the release. I'm a 105 00:14:24,680 --> 00:14:29,880 little sad. I hope that it comes out because I'd really like to get my hands on it. But 106 00:14:29,880 --> 00:14:33,680 it seems like I've gone to all the Walmart's, I've gone to the Targets, I've gone to stuff 107 00:14:33,680 --> 00:14:43,520 like that. None of them have ever carried any of that film's merchandise. So literally 108 00:14:43,520 --> 00:14:47,320 the only place you could get it was online. And now, of course, it's all over eBay with 109 00:14:47,320 --> 00:14:55,560 the scalpers and everything else. So I'm a little perturbed that we've not seen them 110 00:14:55,560 --> 00:15:00,160 in the store because I really do prefer to buy stuff physically in the store. One, it's 111 00:15:00,160 --> 00:15:04,440 cheaper, two, there's no shipping, three, I like the instant gratification and I like 112 00:15:04,440 --> 00:15:17,840 the hunt. But at the same time, I don't feel like Hasbro really cares about any of the 113 00:15:17,840 --> 00:15:24,200 properties they have their hands on right now, which is sad, honestly. Like, I mean, 114 00:15:24,200 --> 00:15:28,960 I look at Transformers and I mean, the only saving grace there and I'll end up talking 115 00:15:28,960 --> 00:15:36,000 about it on all things Transformers, they've released Rattrap, or at least the information 116 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:43,080 about Rattrap, he's called Rattle, which is his name over on the other side of the pond 117 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:51,280 there. And anyways, he's a masterpiece figure, looks awesome, but it's like a hundred bucks, 118 00:15:51,280 --> 00:15:55,840 a hundred and five bucks or something. I'm very interested in it, I want it. However, 119 00:15:55,840 --> 00:15:59,720 I do have the thrilling 30 version and I have the Kingdom War for Cybertron version, so 120 00:15:59,720 --> 00:16:09,240 it's not something that I'm going to run right out unless like I can get it for 50, 60 bucks. 121 00:16:09,240 --> 00:16:13,680 And then sadly, like TransArt toys, which has been producing the knockoff like TransMetal 122 00:16:13,680 --> 00:16:20,720 season two and three Beast Wars figures have decided to pull the plug on it because of 123 00:16:20,720 --> 00:16:25,160 some fans being overly critical over the figures. I've honestly loved them like, yeah, there's 124 00:16:25,160 --> 00:16:29,680 some I haven't cared to purchase, some of them are too big, some of them are a little 125 00:16:29,680 --> 00:16:34,840 bit out of my price range, or just honestly, it's mostly the size. Like I just don't have 126 00:16:34,840 --> 00:16:40,040 the shelf space for them. Their optimal optimus should have been bigger, but I'm fine with 127 00:16:40,040 --> 00:16:51,840 where he ended up. And then we have numerous other ones and I'm happy for them, like I'm 128 00:16:51,840 --> 00:16:58,680 happy for the the the figures that I got because I mean, I have TransMetal Primal, I've got 129 00:16:58,680 --> 00:17:05,200 Optimal, I've got TransMetal Rat Trap, I've got TransMetal Megatron. And then that was 130 00:17:05,200 --> 00:17:12,480 as far as I went with TransArt. And then I have regular masterpiece, Optimus Primal Cheetor. 131 00:17:12,480 --> 00:17:18,920 And then the rest of them are either like thrilling 30 figures or Kingdom figures or 132 00:17:18,920 --> 00:17:26,160 legacy type of figures there. So I would have loved to get my hands on some of the other 133 00:17:26,160 --> 00:17:35,800 ones, both masterpiece and not. However, again, it's just it kind of boils down to a budget 134 00:17:35,800 --> 00:17:41,320 thing and it's a size thing. Like I wanted more of them. They're beautiful figures and 135 00:17:41,320 --> 00:17:47,640 they they they definitely one up Hasbro every step of the way. Like they've got electronics, 136 00:17:47,640 --> 00:17:53,600 they've got, you know, full mobility, they've got articulation, they look exactly like they 137 00:17:53,600 --> 00:17:59,960 were printed from the show. And that's something that I really love. But that's that's kind 138 00:17:59,960 --> 00:18:06,320 of like the sonic films, like I really love Jim Carrey's rendition of of Robotnik, I love 139 00:18:06,320 --> 00:18:12,680 the portrayal of the other characters. I'm hoping Jim Carrey comes back for the fourth 140 00:18:12,680 --> 00:18:21,040 film. They did spoil some certain characters, like Amy Rose and Metal Sonic at the end of 141 00:18:21,040 --> 00:18:27,600 the film as kind of the end of the show teaser. I mean, we're a month out if you haven't seen 142 00:18:27,600 --> 00:18:33,120 it, I'm sorry about the spoiler. But I mean, it's really not it's not a heavy spoiler because 143 00:18:33,120 --> 00:18:37,200 like they're not I mean, they've done this every film is introduced the next whoever's 144 00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:47,600 going to be in the next film. So yeah, I'm I'm hoping that we get our Robotnik back. 145 00:18:47,600 --> 00:18:55,840 But we shall see, we shall see. So I'm not going to like drag this episode out. But I 146 00:18:55,840 --> 00:19:01,800 do want to know what you guys would like to see on this podcast. I'm planning on doing 147 00:19:01,800 --> 00:19:09,280 some video renditions of this as well. I really want to try and do a little bit of a mixed 148 00:19:09,280 --> 00:19:16,480 media here. Trying to kind of jump between the two different versions of the show. So 149 00:19:16,480 --> 00:19:22,080 what would you guys like to see as far as like a differentiation between the audio podcast 150 00:19:22,080 --> 00:19:28,400 and the video show? So that's that's something I'd like to kind of know like I have I have 151 00:19:28,400 --> 00:19:33,920 I can do like custom figures or 3D print things or painting of some of my figures for like 152 00:19:33,920 --> 00:19:38,800 the altered geek episodes where it's kind of just having fun. I could talk about some 153 00:19:38,800 --> 00:19:43,080 of my figures or some of my collections like I've Dragon Ball Z. I have Transformers, I 154 00:19:43,080 --> 00:19:50,000 have Beast Wars, I have Power Rangers, I have, you know, Star Trek. So let me know what you 155 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:54,440 guys think. Like I would really like that. So you can comment on this episode on the 156 00:19:54,440 --> 00:19:59,800 website GeekcastRadio.com. You can of course email me feedback at GeekcastRadio.com subject 157 00:19:59,800 --> 00:20:08,240 line altered geek. And so with that, the next thing you'll probably see from me is movie 158 00:20:08,240 --> 00:20:15,120 we can review on our YouTube channel. So until next time, get altered, get geeky with the 159 00:20:15,120 --> 00:20:16,120 altered geeks.