Not surprised, not shocked. Disappointed. For me and many others who've invested time into... well, let's see, I haven't read them lately but up until '05 or so, probably a hundred books... the new movies will be the alternate timeline, not the twenty-odd years of books, comics and games that worked hard to keep a consistent timeline.

Alex, that was probably the best description of a delay for quality purposes that I've heard, ever.

Ooh! I'll definitely get the chance either tomorrow night or on Thursday sometime.

Edit: Actually, quick question. When you say he visits New York, do you mean primarily New York City or around the state a bit more? I live upstate and am wondering how precise I can be identifying where I'm from, or if I should just keep it to "upstate New York".

While location scouting yesterday, there was a puppy, and I took a picture of it.

13 Empty Jacket Location Scouting-00179 by Boter Bug, on Flickr

What I didn't realize until I got home was that I had panned with the dog, so he's (she's? Pretty sure it's a boy) in perfect focus while everything else was slightly blurred. Kinda like it. You'll have to click through to see it better, though, Flickr won't let me direct link the image.

At the moment Euro Truck Simulator 2 is my baseline game. Which to everyone sounds like a joke but then five hours in you're building your company from the ground up and timing your runs to deliver ahead of schedule and get paid quickly.

Played South Park: The Stick of Truth last week and loved it, great game. And started playing Mini Ninjas for my first Let's Play series, we'll see how that goes.

Because I know of the decidedly mixed reception the song has garnered around these parts, here's Patton Oswalt belting out Frozen's "Let It Go" in rage.

Thank you, so much. The world is better for what you have brought here today.

Aw, I'll be on the road at that time, but it sounds like it'll be...

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...awesome.

YEEEAAAAHHHHH

I think the first movie did a good job of distinguishing characters in a fight; Optimus vs. Bonecrusher, when the Apache drops into the city, and so forth. Later films, especially Dark of the Moon, just went to protoforms that were nigh-indistinguishable.

(I find it interesting that Vapes and I are probably the two on here who enjoy these films the most but we have very different opinions on DotM.)

On the topic of this movie, I'm very interested to see where it goes. No longer are we following around a bumbling idiot and his improbably hot girlfriend. Now we're following around a caring father and his... improbably hot daughter? Looks like there's another kid in there too but not the type that'd get butts in seats. And instead of government types trying to get in the way, we've got... ugh, fine, pass.

So that part, as well as the idea of Cybertronians (were hey ever referred to as "Transformers" up to now? For that matter, is that the line in the final movie or will he say "Autobot"?) being public news, and apparently old news.

After three movies of Shia "nononononono" LaBeouf, I'm interested to see where this takes it.

Oh, and the big robots look like they'll f- some s- up, so I'm down.

First episode filmed with my new Sony a99 camera. The difference is night and day; we're still working out the kinks (gonna close down the aperture on future episodes as Steph gets more diligent with focus) but I am very, very pleased with the results.