June 17, 2026

 

 TIMELINE OF THE WORLD/LITERATURE

The book: The Bible

Today's entry: Proverbs 30

- Proverbs 30 is a unique chapter in the Book of Proverbs composed of the sayings of Agur son of Jakeh, shifting away from the traditional authorship of King Solomon. It is highly regarded for its profound expressions of humility, its famous prayer for contentment, and its distinctive "numerical proverbs" that draw spiritual lessons from nature and human behavior. -

 "Give me neither poverty nor riches;

feed me with the bread that is my portion.

9Otherwise, I may have too much

and deny You, saying, ‘Who is the LORD?’

Or I may become poor and steal,

profaning the name of my God."

 

I'm right there with you, Agur!

NEXT UP: Proverbs 31: King Lemuel's Proverb

Since I am looking at this all in timeline fashion, I took a glance at the world history timeline to re-establish myself. The last thing to happen was in 1000 BC: The second stream of Bantu expansion reaches the great lakes region of Africa, creating a major population centre. The next thing to happen will be in 814BC. Right now these Proverbs take place in 950BC.

 GOING THROUGH THE YEARS OF FILM/EARLY 20th CENTURY WORLD EVENTS

Today's film: Back to Hardy with "Dull Care" (1919)

I have to say that I have much admiration and respect for Larry Semon. Dude be jumping out of (or falling, rather) out of high things and letting big things run over him. I also dug a gag where he shot a car full of thieves so that it leaked fluid. He lit the fluid which trailed the fleeing car and eventually caught up with it before it exploded over a cliff in spectacular fashion for 1919.

BONUS ENTRY: Bungs and Bunglers (1919)

This was a 49 second clip. Some dude was shot up high in the air by a fire hydrant and was stuck there so another dude went and got a pair of what looked like weedwackers and...uh...snipped the water (?) thus allowing the trapped guy to come back down.

With that concluded I am now now back in 1920 which I had just about completed before I started my Laurel and Hardy solo features detour.

BONUS ENTRY: Maids and Muslin (1920)

This was only a few minutes with Bebe Hardy's villain character pushing people around.

NEXT ENTRY: Squeaks and Squawks (1920)

 

DRAGON BALL Z

NEXT EPISODE: Welcome Back, Goku

Trunks completely squashed Frieza and his dad. The rest of the episode is just Trunks and the Z fighters waiting around for Goku who arrives at the very end of the ep.

 STAR WARS

YOUNG JEDI ADVENTURES 

NEXT EPISODE IS: The Prince and The Pirate

Woah, it turns out that Tabor is actually Prince Cyrus from a bunch of episodes ago. Neat little reveal that kind of rewards the returning viewer.

This episode also had a full fledged trash compactor scene sans dianoga. Only this time we see the compactor close all the way (the kids escaped in time of course). This might be the first time since A New Hope where I've seen another full fledged trash compactor scene. A little on the nose but neat nonetheless.

Tabor and Kai had kind of an epic little battle on the catwalk of a very Cloud City, Luke vs Vader-esque setting. Only no paternal revelations or dismemberment takes place. With the on-the-nose trash compactor scene, I was expecting Tabor to reveal himself as Cyrus.

This episode is heavy with the visual depictions of High Republic stuff I've only seen in books and comics like Chancellor Lina Soh. Bell Zettifar and Ember are back along with Master Maru. The Jedi are having some sort of celebration on Starlight Beacon and Cyrus runs into Yoda who gives him a little nugget of wisdom. Yoda's a Mike Tyson-level heavyweight power puncher so I wonder if his words will end up affecting Tabor in a big way.

That was the end of season 1 and it looks like there will be a small break from YJA coming up with books such as Into The Dark and Light of the Jedi that are set in 232 BBY. I've already read those books but it's all a blur so I'm going to wookiepedia the plot summaries even though those can be a bit daunting as well. 

NEXT UP: Sky Parade Rescue

 

WEDNESDAY

DEMON SOUL'S DAY

SEGA GENESIS DETOURS: PHANTASY STAR III: GENERATIONS OF DOOM/M.U.S.H.A.

M.U.S.H.A. is just cheating at this point by filling up the screen with a hundred enemies which shoot a billion bullets at you. My aching fingers. I finished a level nonetheless.

In Phantasy Star III: Generations of Doom, took a ship over to a moon-looking place called Satellite.

In Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, I don't know what it is about sleeping on something but I came back today with a careful vengeance and beat the Vertical Bird mission although it took a TON of carefully AWKWARD maneuvering. I never want to fly again. (I wouldn't mind irl too).

I took a major, MAJOR step today. I BOOTED UP Demon's Souls (PS3). I spent the session using an old YouTube walkthrough playlist to re-orient myself on where I was, what I was trying to do and what I should do next as well as re-familiarize with the controls.

When I was playing this full-time, I remembered the encumbered system was really kicking my ass and somehow I managed to LOSE the dragon long sword entirely. As a result, I looked for a plan to craft one for my next session. I feared that I should scrap my run completely.

HALO NIGHT

HALO: THE MASTER CHIEF COLLECTION

HALO: COMBAT EVOLVED

Tonight's mission was Truth and Reconciliation and it KICKED MY ASS. I had a sliver of health, little to no ammo and had to keep ducking for cover to recharge my shield. It was almost on some Dark Souls shit as the simple grunts, elites and shield bird dudes kept mirking me.

When I finally got past them they sent out the hunters which kept dusting me. That is until I figured out that little green covenant gun that you can do a charge shot with. The rest of the level basically played out like that. I'd get my ass handed to me, then finally get past it, expecting the end and then the shit just kept going.

When I finally rescued the captain I put my controller down expecting the end but NOPE! Level's not done yet. Now I have to escort the weak ass captain to the end of the level and that dude has like 1% HP. Tonight's session was admittedly a frustrating one but in the end my success felt rewarding. Unlike WWE 2K26. 

PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING/PRO WRESTLING GAMING

WWE 2K26

I got into MyFaction after being in The Island and the game crashes trying to load up a live event. Then I reboot the game and the live event hits me with a cooldown even though I hadn't even started the match. Before I had gone into The Island I played a live event for an Eddie Guerrero oddity card with Lyra Valkiria and El Ordinario against Liv Morgan and Borderlands CM Punk and Liv hit Lyra right off the rip with her finisher and got the pin.

My urges want me to call it a trash ass game but I'll definitely call it a trash ass mode. Why? I find myself frustrated most of the time and as someone with not a lot of time on their hands, I'm not about to spend it being frustrated. I bought the most expensive edition so I'm not going to look at any MTXs. 

 WWE 2K20 UNIVERSE MODE

(Going through what would've been 2K21's Universe calendar) 

WWE Legends brand's Mae Young Classic