Jason Soto: The Blog

I just found out that a very good friend of mine, named Rachael, just passed away. I met Rachael years ago on the now almost defunct website LiveJournal, when we bonded over episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000. Rachael loved movies both good and bad. She had a fantastic sense of humor that was unique to her and she was a very caring person. She especially loved cats and ferrets. And Sasquatch. Every year, around Christmas, she organized a gift exchange that involved giving people something with Sasquatch on it. I was tempted to give in and do it but I never did and I may never get the chance to again. Rachael was, from what I saw, an excellent cook. She and her husband Tom rarely went out to eat and each day she'd painstakingly plan a meal and cook it. She'd take pictures of them and every damn thing she made look delicious. I said to her "I swear one day I'm gonna come over and try your cooking! It looks so damn awesome!" and she welcomed me to do so...

Back in, I wanna say, 2014, I made a video with the help of some friends. The idea came to me as I was binge watching "Breaking Bad" in preparation for the final episode. The idea was take "Breaking Bad" and make it about bootleg movies. It took almost a year from conception to finished product but it was worth it. During that time I got a new camera and new editing software. I uploaded it back then and had no problems. Flash forward a year later and I start the CineGamer YouTube channel. Since I wanted to make that my main focus, I switched my video "Burning Bad" over to that. And almost immediately I got a copyright strike and the video had to be taken down. Also, my channel got suspended and I couldn't upload certain videos or do certain things. I disputed this and eventually I won, with my suspension coming to an early end. I thought about this video and how much fun it was and decided to try uploading it again without the song that caused ...

15 years ago last week (yeah, I'm a bit late to the game, my personal life, uh, got in the way, so to speak) the movie Freddy vs Jason came to theaters. And I wanted to give it some love. Currently on Rotten Tomatoes , a site I'm not a fan of anyway because it scares and confuses me, it sits at 41% from "critics" and 50% from "fans". Whereas on IMDb , it's got a 5.8 out of 10. People don't seem to like this movie and I'm not sure why. Lemme explain why, for me personally anyway, this movie was a big deal when it finally came out. We need to go back in time to 1991. Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare was released and everyone involved said this is totally the last Freddy movie, we swear, ignore us crossing our fingers behind our backs. We found a way to kill Freddy and he was dead for sure. It involves a 3-D gimmick that won't hold up but he's dead, you guys. Promise. Flash-forward to 1993 and we get Jason Goes To Hell . This...

Introductions. Introductions are there to get you, the viewer/reader, prepared for the thing you're about to watch/read. Take this introduction for example. You're reading this now, and you're thinking "this is a terrible introduction but why is he talking about introductions? And how many times can he use the word 'introduction'?" I was feeling nostalgic and went down a rabbit hole of introductions to various things from my childhood. It made me realize how creative they were and how they sucked you into whatever you were gonna watch. As you can tell, I'm not great at them so let's just move on, shall we? First up, HBO. This really takes me back. When my parents were together, we had cable and my parents use to watch HBO every night. When they broke up, my mom got custody of me and we couldn't afford cable until I was a teenager. But upon watching this, this makes me think of when I was a little kid, sitting on the living room floor, ...

Here's a fun thing about blogging, to those of you who don't blog: there's a setting where you can schedule a post to go live way in the future. I've done it a whole bunch of times (typically the Trailer Tuesday posts) and you probably have never noticed. Yes, I'm shattering the illusion. Call me the Penn and Teller of blogging! Your favorite blogger who wrote that post about putting yogurt on your face while you sleep? That was written WEEKS before it went live! That blogger was out swimming in a cave as the post went up! And you thought the person got up at 3AM, wrote a post, and hit publish. Nope!! I'm mentioning this because I'm setting this post to go live RIGHT as I arrive at the Indiana Convention Center in downtown Indianapolis to start my Gen Con adventure! This post is going to be the start of my gaming adventure and while you're at home reading it, I'm sweating my ass off in Indiana heat, possibly listening to Local H and drinking...