Kontroversial Keith

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  • The Black Hole: Science, Technology and Possibly Technical Failures in the Movie

    Recently, I had been thinking more about Disney’s The Black Hole as a result of some discussions on a Facebook group I belong to. One person posted an image of the infamous fireball/meteor scene and described it as “the best VFX ever!” Another person retorted something like, “Let’s not get ahead of ourselves” while someone…

  • The Black Hole: Deconstructing the Infamous Hospital Rescue Scene

    Possibly one of the most frustrating and infamous scenes in 70s sci fi movie history was the hospital rescue scene from Disney’s The Black Hole. I have done way too much research and thinking about this scene from a variety of angles to the point that I can probably write a full dissertation on it.…

  • The Black Hole: What Happened Before?

    A frequent question that occurs in a Facebook The Black Hole group I follow is the idea of a prequel to address what actually happened to the crew, Reinhardt’s usurping of the ship, the sentries and Maximilian’s creation as well as the fate of Frank McCrae. In truth, I think that Disney would not be…

  • Diablo 4: Full Season 12 Information Released with Patch Notes and Warlock Info

    Today, the Diablo 4 developers did a deep dive about the Warlock class with regards to the design and skills. A few YouTube videos popped up along with a glance at the new skill tree, which in addition previews what the other skills ought to be shaped as for the expansion. In addition, more season…

  • Diablo 4: Ideas for Updating Old Content

    I started writing a post about changing how Seasons and Events work. In particular, I began writing about re-doing events after examining Seasons from Diablo 3 and Diablo 4 in how they operate. As I started jotting down my thoughts, what I realized was that my ideas were better suited as an update for old…

  • Bard’s Tale 3: Party Combination Comparisons

    After doing some heavy grinding in Malefia, I managed to level up my latest party to a satisfying degree. In having gone through numerous combination of party types, I wanted to put my thoughts down both in terms of the starting game and moving towards the end game with regards to various combinations.

  • Tailwind, Next.js and Monorepos with Multiple Frontends

    I encountered a frustrating issue recently that caused me to go around in circles and twist my hair in how my latest repository code wasn’t picking up Tailwind CSS class changes in a shared directory. The answer was actually quite simple but it took some digging to get to the bottom of this issue.

  • Bard’s Tale 3: Latest Party with Three Geomancers

    With Diablo 4 being two months away and in trying to save my money while not going completely insane from boredom, I decided to boot up the old Bard’s Tale 3. Last time I checked though, I seem to recall being able to play it on a Mac. This time, it won’t run and says…

  • Diablo 4 Dev Q&A Reveal Review

    On my birthday, there was a Discord Dev Q&A session where they went into a little more depth about the upcoming changes/features, decisions and a few surprising future pieces. Because of the new information, I felt some of it was worth writing down and reflecting upon.

  • Diablo 30th Anniversary Spotlight Review

    Yesterday, Blizzard livestreamed their Diablo 30th Anniversary Spotlight where they showed updates to three of their major games in Diablo 2: Resurrected, Diablo:Immortal and Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred. Diablo 2 probably received the biggest noteworthy thing where they released a new DLC that included some end game components, QoL updates and a new class:…