Brennan Schafer

Incredible game. Definitely the best large scale war shooters on the market. Has a more serious and "mature" playerbase than most popular shooters. No other game comes close to it's immersion and use of teamwork/squad tactics. Has a very good balance of realism to approachability and fun. My one complaint is that servers/matches can be VERY hit or miss. You can have one match where you're in the middle of most chaotic and intense battle for 30 mins straight and then next match go 45 mins without seeing an enemy or shooting your gun. Match enjoyment is very reliant on having good squad leaders, fun squad mates, and experienced armor squads. If Squad leads don't do a good job setting up spawn points and armor squads don't do a good job protecting them the match devolved into a walking simulator where you're forced to walk across a huge map to get the frontline - a frontline that is very often mechanized and moving faster than you. You obvious want to use vehicles but often times you don't have access to anything close/working. So you regularly need to run for 5-10 mins to an objective only to get sniped from god knows where are forced to repeat the whole process again. Which can be annoying and boring but when the game is fun, it's extremely fun! Especially when you find a sever with a solid community and start to get to know everyone - even when the battle sucks you can still have fun screwing around with your mates... a true military experience.

First two episodes we're meh but it goes downhill fast after that. Awful writing, terrible acting, and just boring. While there are some cool sets, costumes, and FXs, there are also a lot of extremely cheap sets, costumes, and FX mixed in which often ruins the vibe and makes show feel cramped/obviously shot in studio. The biggest issue with the Acolyte is there is no logic or consistency behind any of the characters or their actions. The shallow writing, constant plot holes, and sub-par delivery make it impossible to get invested in what happening. So the story sucks and there is essentially no action to keep things exciting. There is literally just one 5 min fight scene in episode one. For the next 5 episodes there is absolutely no action or anything other than excruciately bad dialog until half-way through episode 6. There is a decent fight scene here but as soon as they start talking again you remember how god awful this show. Who keeps hiring these awful writers in Hollywood? With Disney's stock plummeting and Bob Iger recently telling fans and investors the company would be focusing more on quality for the past year, I am shocked Disney execs allowed this to be released in such an awful condition. The Acolyte cost a lot more to produce than The House of the Dragon per minute yet the Acolyte looks like a cheap student film next to it. This is easily the worst Star Wars IP i've ever seen (and i've seen it all). Disney is obviously hiring the wrong creatives (and paying them too much) and the executives have awful taste (not to mention out of touch with their customers) if they think it's acceptable to approve a script like this - let alone release a final product that is this bad for such a storied IP. Really sad to see Disney fall off like this (while dragging great IP down with them). They had such a solid run.

Pretty much a Disney Channel teen sitcom that happens to be Marvel-themed. Not a bad thing but if you're an adult male that is into typical Marvel movies this may not be your thing. Worth giving it a try if you like teen Disney Channel shows but I could not get into it. It was a little too teeny and corny for my tastes. And I don't even mind that stuff sometimes. Encanto was one of my favorite movies of last year. If you're a computer graphics nerd and own a nice OLED/QLED monitor, download (don't stream) an uncompressed 4k HDR version of Encanto, and get ready to have your mind blown by some of the best computer animation and lighting you've ever seen (and some catchy jingles).

If you're serious about sim racing and racing other online, iRacing is the best out there. If anyone says anything different they're either lying or don't know what they're talking about. The only cons I can think of is its that graphics aren't up to par with current-gen games. You easily forget about it once you start playing but they could use an upgrade.