PixlBit

Well good morning Pixlbiticans, it is a FREAKING WARM 72 DEGREES. Holy Cow, apparently that time change one hour brought an extra 20 degrees to the weather. I spent the past week sleeping with the window open and a fan going before yesterday losing the good fight and turning on the Air Conditioner. Oh yeah this is one of many things I like to blame on moving the clocks an hour forward. The only bright spot was that the majority of the midweek Swapmeet vendors were already setup by my usual time, and the sun was out. I hit the Swapmeet, visited a GameStop, and a Walmart all before the sun went down. I don’t know why that is a big deal, but it felt like one. So how are you Pixlbit? Are you good people ready for the weekend? I am happy it is here but I do have some work to do. I’m trying to create this border for a project, and I have some inspiration, which I finished, but I also need to place something in front of it to complete the look so I am drawing a blank. Hopefully I can think of something before I jump into my thinking room aka the shower. We shall see how it goes. Anyways let’s get started with this week’s Quick Hits!

 

Chris Watches…

 

The Kingsman: The Secret Service – There isn’t any plot spoilers

 

So last Sunday I decided to venture out to the local movie theater, and the last time I was there was in 2013. Yeah I don’t go to the movies often but I wanted to see this flick, and all films before noon were $5 so I can’t go wrong. Apparently my local theater no longer gives boxes so I had to eat my popcorn out of the bag (this feels so odd as someone who dumps their popcorn in a box.)

I liked the movie. It was fun, lots of explosions, fights, and laughs. I especially liked the girl with the blades for legs. I get what the movie was doing so I didn’t think it was as bad as some people said it was. Kingsman was poking fun at the James Bond flicks as well as any other action stereotypes, and at times it was mentioned in the film through witty banter, and daring action scenes. Heck I liked it so much I’m debating on seeing it again this Sunday. When I left the film I realized I do need another suit…and maybe an umbrella.

 

Real World Skeletons

 

In the final episode of this season’s edition of the Real World we see the roommates final week in the house and the story continues from last week’s episode where Tony decided to steal a bottle of wine from the bar of a club. Jason is complaining that his friend Nicole always backs them up, yet would probably yell at Jason. Nicole didn’t take any of this and decided to confront him and then boom, Jason pushes her and lifts her up (I didn’t see this part but it was talked about later on.) MTV Security comes in and splits them up. I don’t have a problem with people airing out their frustrations, and having an argument, what I have a problem with is fools taking it past this point and going physical. Totally uncalled for.

The other storyline is the move out and the other roommate with anger issues Bruno decides to leave the house without saying goodbye to the rest of the roommates. He talks about “letting them think he’s an ass,” and well everyone thinks that about him. I mean c’mon look how he acted throughout the season. He freaked out over a freaking hamburger, a playful slap, and his girl wanting to do something nice for him. Seriously? Why even be on the show? Like one of the roommates said, she’ll remember the house as being six roommates (there is seven in the cast.) I liked this season, and this is the first season I’ve watched in its entire run since the new cast in Las Vegas.

At the start of the season I had Violetta as my MVP because she seemed like the crazy fun one, but after this episode Nicole is my MVP. She stayed true to her word throughout the season, and she was the only normal one in the group.

 

Hells Kitchen

In another episode of You Can’t Cook, the men’s team couldn’t get out of their own way. Again, they are supposed to be professional cooks and they have no freaking idea on how to cook scallops, even after Gordon Ramsay showed them. I’m not the greatest cook but even I know if the dang thing is raw. Hell I should make some scallops for No Meat Friday.

 

Agents of SHIELD

Oh more excitement for Team SHIELD and there is a special guest from Warehouse 13, the show I called Agents of SHIELD without the Marvel License. Warehouse 13 was such a good show. Anyways there is something brewing within the SHIELD team, and it looks like there’s going to be some fun coming up for the season finale.

 

House of Cards

I watched three episodes, which is good because I am spacing them out instead of camping out in front of the TV with a bowl of popcorn like I did for the first two seasons. I’m also watching newly added episodes of Archer sprinkled in.

 

I miss Game of Thrones. With all the trailers and little bits of the story leaking out, the season premier needs to hurry up!

 

Randoms…

 

Random scam caller from Georgia said I won a trip to Vegas and a Cruise. While he was giving me his number I used Google to find out that SURPRISE, it was a scam. Yeah right as I called him out on it and said have a nice day I got another caller from South Carolina called. My favorite part is when scammer guy says "Oh this isn't a scam" Riiight. First indication that it was a scam was that he tried correcting my vocabulary (I always give a non-committal “Ok” when on the phone with these folks.) Both numbers have since been blocked. Next time I should go back to using my old dorm phone number for things…oh and sorry random freshmen that live in my old room.

 

 

I decided to give the Little Caesar’s Bacon Pizza a try. For those who don’t know, Little Caesar’s created this pizza where they sprinkle bacon on top of the pepperoni and surround the pizza with 3 feet of bacon. I bought into the hype and tried it and well its okay but it’s not worth the hype. I do like that every piece was a corner piece and after two pieces I was done. If I’m going with bad take out pizza, Pizza Hut is still my go to. Poppa John’s used to be good but the local spot changed and now its taken a back seat to The Hut.

 

So DeMarco Murray left Dallas. I am bummed but look the team decided it wasn’t going to pay what he thought he was worth. His only options were to take their offer, or go for more money on the open market. There was no chance he would go to Jacksonville, or Oakland/Los Angeles because those teams are black holes right now with a lot of holes to fill. He went to Philly, which is a division rival, and he get’s to play in their crazy Duck offense with his former roommate Sam Bradford.

I get why he left, and I don’t fault him. If a team is willing to give you 21 million guaranteed you have to take that kind of money, but leave saying “it wasn’t about the money.” It was about the money. If it wasn’t you’d still have a star on your helmet. Also this lie he’s telling people that its an opportunity to win Super Bowls. Really? A bad defense, offensive line, and a QB and fellow RB who get hurt with a gust of win your best chance to win a Super Bowl? That is better than a monster offensive line, pro bowl QB, TE, WR, along with other viable weapons on the offense? C’mon now. Dallas needs to fill holes in their defense and that money that was supposed to go to DeMarco will be better suited on the defensive side of the ball. Let’s not forget that this NFL Draft is filled with top running backs. You grab one of these kids, and platoon them with Randle, and Dunbar if he re-signs. Congrats Eagles fans, you got a hell of a player. I’m bummed that he left but I understand why he left and what the Cowboys had to do. Also to the fans that burn jerseys, what does this prove? Congrats on spending $100-300 on a jersey and then setting fire to it. Sports are not that serious.

UPDATE: There seems to be a story that Darren McFadden might be taking his talents to JerryWorld. I like this move. I think he is a good running back that will share the ball with Randle and hopefully a drafted running back cough Todd Gurley, Melvin Gordon, Jay Ajayi, Duke Johnson, Tevin Coleman, or TJ Yeldon cough

The Article from the Dallas Cowboys Website

 

Twitter made some folks around the country mad when College Basketball tweeted this

 

I like our student section. They’re fun to follow on Twitter because all they do is talk trash, and they turned Viejas Arena into one of the toughest venues to play at in the NCAA.

 

I thought about buying this

 

I don’t have any Oyo Hockey players but I do have the Lego Ice Hockey set from a couple of years ago, and how freaking awesome would it be to have a Zamboni? I’ll wait for another price drop.

 

Once again Reddit makes me laugh

 

 

Pickups

 

Games

After the midweek Swapmeet I went to the local GameStop. I was looking around and a couple was camped out in the Wii section buying a ton of games. Good for them. Take advantage of the Buy 2 Get 1 Free deal going on right now. I thought about checking it out but I just don’t play enough of the Wii to justify adding more games. I like the games I currently have, and I think I only finished one of them. Anyways my local store finally had this game in stock

 

It was the last copy so I got the display box and GameStop employee said he wasn’t going to add that clear sticker to the box because collectors don’t like sticker. We both laughed and I said don’t worry I never return stuff unless its broken. So far I am already more than halfway through the story mode and if I really tried to finish this game, I could probably platinum it in a weekend, but I’m going to spread the gaming a bit.

 

Music

I bought this EP because the single Electric Love is used in the Hulu commercial, and that dang commercial was constantly playing this past week. Of course the minute I buy the EP, the commercial disappears. Seeing Stars is actually my favorite track and made it onto my gym playlist. They kind of sound like Passion Pit which I like and it wasn’t bad for $3.

 

Lego

Target has a lot of sets on Clearance, and Toys R Us is also having a Lego sale, and if you order more than $25 worth online for store pickup they drop $5 from the price (Yay no tax!)

 

From Target

The set itself isn’t bad, but I really wanted the figures. I would like Lego to release different costume Spider-man figures because this is my third or forth figure and they are all the same.

 

Not a bad set for $22.

 

I also added motorcycles to my Police Force

 

I’m thinking about using them in a motorcade, or Lego biker gang.

 

So after a couple of days I decided to grab these battle packs from Toys R Us. The in-store price is $13 each, and I am a sucker for Storm Trooper figures. I built one of the troop transports and it’s a solid little set. I was going to use the parts for something else, but this is a quality little set.

 

Fake Lego Lady didn’t have anything new other than League of Legends and Minecraft figures, which I don’t play either game, but a vendor in another aisle had a small table with a bunch of Hot Wheels. They were a $1 each so I picked these two up

 

Again I’m not a trying to jump into Hot Wheels collections, but I can’t say no to Batman. I also saw that there is a new “black chrome” Michael Keaton Batmobile so I’m on the lookout for that, hopefully the collectors here missed it. There is also a monster truck that I’d like to find but I think might be all sold out already.

 

Alright Pixlbit I am off to finish up my graphics project before I go out and enjoy the start to my weekend. Have a good weekend!

 

That’s all for now, more later!

-Chris

Some Pop Music for Friday!