The day the Plus died...

It's April 2, 2019 so no this sad tiding is NOT an April Fool's joke. It is a day that Many digerati were probably ignoring but now have to circle back and pay their final respects. There is nothing like sending a farewell to a digital home. When you first discover them it is always an odd feeling out process, you are either too good for it, not sure about it, don't know anyone, or find out EVERYONE that is there were people you were trying to avoid any damn way.

And then, you mess around and hit your groove on said site. Google plus was that speakeasy, that juke joint that you found cool cats at who GOT IT unlike some of the other social media sites that were chock full of ads, games, and various time sinks monetized to the gills and selling access to you to the highest bidder AND at the expense of your privacy.  Normally the end of a site comes when it's parent company falls off or sells Googling ain failing no time soon so, what happened?
I think the very thing that drew so many folks to G+ was ALSO the very thing that sank it: Super Privacy. While you could post publicly most of us had HIGHLY ORGANIZED circles, I could post music videos, Movie trailers, porn, a blog post, and nerd fare within the same 30 minutes and unless you were in said circles you either barely saw anything (thus judging me an uber: perv, nerd, audiofile, or self promoter) or else you saw it all and realized I was some random ball of meta. Which if you are looking to poach good ideas, take the "pulse" of society, or else just be nosey IT SUCKED. I think I personally may 4 public posts a year on my MAIN page, the page tied to this blog of course got an update every time I posted to this blog. I won't deny that I tailed off towards the end of my time on the plus the same as the sparsity of me blogging on my various sites but I did still check in pretty much every few days. I got into great conversations met some awesome people and even got into fun arguments about: Sports, Movies, Comics, Politics, Music, and a million other things.

But if we WEREN'T friends like that or connected in other places, CRICKETS. which even though I see pieces of the things introduced through Google plus all over the internet (I bet your favorite youtube podcaster uses Hangouts on Air) some how the media narrative for Google plus that it was dead. Which yes if you WEREN'T in a lot of circles it could seem that way. Or if you didn't know the name that a good friend of yours decided to use on G+ you may never find them, which might have been the plan. You could be YOU without having to worry about family and friends finding out exactly how deep the YOU rabbit hole went. You could be responding to a religious person scroll down and HEY BOOBS, and yet the religious person would be none the wiser unless they were sitting over your shoulder.

For those who don't know I am Primaldata everywhere : Sameoldprimaldata on youtube, Primaldata_2005 on twitch and mixer, Primaldata on Twitter. Not so much "Brand Recognition" more like I just feel easier to find that way. I mean I could get all mushy about this but I like many other tailed off with social media in the last few years. I don't want to blame 2016 or the toxicity that seems to have bubbled up since then. I think like a lot of folks I just needed a mild step back from some things digital. I refound twitter, I am gaming more now and there are only so many hours in a day. I will have to find a new social media home and I will get right on that, just like I will get right on to writing my next movie review(and yes I have been to the movies a few times already this year)..

Second verse same as the first or..

The OPEN Beta for Anthem just started Feb 1st, so of course I am playing that too. as my first thoughts post just dropped I will also be getting into what changes/fixes they may have accomplished(so far setting out on expeditions ain a problem no more so that was cool) while in the INITIAL VIP demo they only wanted you to get 2 javelins to try out(you started out with the Ranger and then once you hit level 12 you got ONE unlock token for the second Javelin of your choice, I chose storm) but now in the OPEN demo/beta they are allowing you to drive all of the Javelins. So I will ATTEMPT to use all 4 and see what happens as I stomp around as a Colossus(Meat Shield no Jutsu), flit around in the Interceptor(Ninja Death Fairy), continue sending elemental pain with the Storm(Dr. Strange's Iron Man armor), and damage deal with the Ranger(basically War Machine, lots of guns decent armor, lots of BOOM).

I do like that there isn't too much handholding in Anthem yes they may show you where to fly to but once the fighting stars do you boo boo, BUT they may want to provide better quest maps, we couldn't finish the strong hold last night because either someone else had just defeated the damn big bad or else we couldn't find where it expected us to go. Either way a decent in dungeon map would fix that. Maybe in the next update. As I mentioned in my PREVIOUS post, I am not fully sold on Anthem yet, but I am intrigued. If they had Origin Premier available on Xbox it would probably be worth the hundo a year to be able to play this game on the 10th, but as far as dropping 55 or 72 on it we gone have to play it a little bit more which I plan to do today. See you in the skies freelancer

First Thoughts: Anthem Demo

Okay, so if you have been reading EITHER of my blogs for a while you know I am a gamer, I own an Xbox one, Pay for my Xbox Live Gold yearly, and my EA Access yearly(on my Xbox, Sony does not yet allow EA Access on PS4). One of the BENEFITS of EA Access is that if there is a DEMO for a game coming on, EA will give you VIP early access to it just like you had PRE-ORDERED the game. I made use of it for Battlefield V caused me to buy the game at launch. I liked and still like it, I haven't played it as much recently as I have gone back to Forza 7 a little AND I am grinding on Black Ops 4 but I do like the game it is still fun. I use the 10 hr previews when games launch as well that EA gives with saved progression for if or when you buy the game. So if I decide "Hmm, this game is okay BUT MY BACKLOG DOH..." I don't exactly have to start from scratch.

So I saw the Anthem Demo was out, downloaded it, played an hour or so of CoD and then was like okay, lets take this Javelin for a test run

Movie Goals: 2019

Since 2018 was a pretty decent year for me movie going wise I figured lets see if I make a lists at the start of the year how it goes near the end. Of course there will have to be CATEGORIES for movies. I don't know if I will say the defnites cause I thought Equalizer 2 would have been a definite last year but I missed it. But at least for now they will be plan to see, Depends on the Trailers, and POSSIBLES. Now for some Possibles and depends on the trailer would be the same thing, but for me possible means that I either have an opinion about the project that is so so but I might warm up to it where as depends on the trailer is more like okay I have to see what they are working with because REGARDLESS of I like the actors involved TRASH IS TRASH. And in that sense I rate depends on the trailers higher than possibles because if the trailers blow me away(like the second and third venom trailers did) I might turn into a plan to see or it could turn into a meh, like Crimes of Grindlewald did. I don't know I think the inside baseball of the mystery of DumbleDore and Grindlewalds relationship didn't appeal to me since it was a mythical thing from the Harry Potter series. I will probably watch it on Amazon though and figure out if it was a miss thus look for the Sequel.

I know I haven't written a movie review in well over a year and the "lazy bloggers trailer Masterpost pt 2" is still sitting in draft but if nothing else this can be an end of the year thing in 2020. Who knows maybe the writing bug will hit me again with it's absent self. But yeah as always enough stalling lets get into the meet of it after the jump

Movie Goals: 2018 So how'd I do?

Obviously I didn't do one of these last year but I can get into how many movies I watched. I think I hit most of my "want to see in theaters" movies in 2018. I know I missed a few due to schedule, funds, sibling availability, and forgetfulness. A few movies came out under the radar and thus were missed completely. A few fell into "let me play a few more matches" hole of I was having more fun gaming and it wasn't THAT much of a must see for me. I will use this blog as the format for how I do these posts in the future INCLUDING the Movie Goals for 2019 list. Which I will try and type up by FRIDAY (yes I am marking this post as well as putting a DEADLINE on myself for 2 posts) because I think ONE of the movies I want to see for 2019 comes out this week so BOOM.

Now as far as 2018 is concerned(enough with the stalling) I went to see 15 movies last year, I hit MOST of the movies I wanted to see ESPECIALLY the big comic book movies. I still haven't finished all of the movie trailers posts I need to get back to those, but yeah will do it this way the movies I actually went to first, movies I was first high on but then kind of chilled later, and then the movies I was still high on but just missed. So lets get into it

Well it took 7 days...

I finally hit 10k steps, I know it's just an artificial arbitrary goal still:

First it was 2 days late. I wanted to get it done by Saturday of course everything is schedule and weather permitting. And as the mid south had a lot of rain, I did a lot of driving, and I didn't realize I was only 1900 steps off on Thursday(Doh!). That's always how it works though right, you don't remember to check or your view is obscured and its like right there.

I of course follow up this "missed it by THAT much" event by also having it take me 8 days before I ATTEMPTED my first blog post. Let's be clear, I have no clue when and if I will even post this missive. Not because it is some super private, amazing or world shattering thing, nope I'll just probably forget to edit it and leave it in draft(I will notate it if I remember). Most things I do when the spirit moves me and not a second sooner. Mainly because if I force it my contrarian nature makes me procrastinate more. Now I might fight through it once I get started. But I ain starting til I get good and damn ready.

And no this isn't a "2018" recap or "plans for 2019" blog if I get around to them I do. For now it's just me noting that I did it 10k steps and how long it took. I'm at 6k currently so I might make it 2 days in a row 

And once again SPAAAAAAAM

I swear every time I take these Hiatuses, I always come back to people leaving spam comments, I guess that means I need to head to wordpress and clean THAT out. I mean yes I get it, the blog/web admin ain been there in a while so IF you so happen to get a few hits off of someone else's site why not right? Except WHEN I come look, if I see you putting a bunch of link comments on my blog REMOVED. I am not even checking them, if you didn't ASK could you put a link in my comment I am gonna treat you as spam. I can link in my comments and some of my friends can link in my comments. Randos "thas a NO" folks be killing me with that.

Anyway, I can't say this is the strart to a new writing kick because I am mainly here killing time til the squad pops on. Things I NEED to get off my duff and learn: How better to manage my time, how to set up more commands on my various livestreams, how to better use my Discord(which due to the fact that I just HAVE a discord I don't properly USE my discord I ain dropping it here), to be more diligent about uploading game footage to my Youtube channel, and possibly to blog more. Work and a general malaise has kept me from tapping the keys but that happens, it's just how it goes sometimes.

Once again Merry Christmas to all and to all a good Surf as it were