The new Mortal Kombat II trailer is out, and tickets are officially on sale for the May 8 release. I wasn't a big fan of the 2021 reboot — it had a couple of good fights, but overall it didn't have the cheesy magic of the original.
This new one looks a lot closer in tone to the original 1995 Mortal Kombat directed by Paul W.S. Anderson and starring Christopher Lambert. That movie was cheesy, but it had a style and energy the reboot didn't capture. The MK2 trailer feels like it's leaning back into that mix of martial-arts fantasy and big, colorful characters, which honestly fits the series better.
Also, Karl Urban is back as the voice of Sub-Zero. I remember the first MK movie, and I loved Karl Urban. This is what gets me to want to see MK2. He was great in Dredd, Doom, and a whole bunch of other movies.
I'll see if I can find the 2021 movie just to refresh my memory, but based on this trailer, MK2 already looks like a step up. Could be a fun theater watch if they keep the '95 tone all the way through.
Silo is back for another season, and the official teaser for Season 3 is here! I have to go back and watch season 2 beacause I thought they still had more of book 11 to go but it looks like season 3 will focus on how we got here. You will need to know this stuff if they can make it to book 3 and while the cast will change, if it is like the book, you shuld be able to get into it once you figure out what is going on. You have until July to go back and get caught up only on Apple TV!
AI Update: Work has fully embraced AI and is encouraging us to use it as much as possible — which honestly works in my favor. This project has a ton of new moving parts, and without AI helping me troubleshoot and crank out code, I'd be buried. Even naming variables slows me down; I swear every name I pick makes me cringe later when I revisit my code.
The nice part is I find myself adding features I would normally push to a mythical ‘future update' that never actually happens because other new features keep coming down the pipe. I'm almost out of Claude tokens, so I'm trying to ration them as much as possible. If I have any left at the end of the month, I'm unleashing Claude on all my ‘any' types or telling it to generate any missing unit tests.
GPT‑4.1 has been surprisingly helpful — it even solved a couple of things Claude got stuck on — but sometimes it just can't see the path forward. That's when spending a few Claude tokens saves me from explaining the same thing to GPT for three hours straight.
On a side, I'm working on a game with FU and Gemini. It's coming along, but it still needs sound effects and some cleanup on the intro and outro screens. Progress was slowed by Gemini's default ‘clean and optimize' mode. I'd ask it to change a color, and suddenly my file goes from 800 lines to 273. Apparently you have to start your request with ‘zero-refactor' if you want it to behave. I haven't done major updates since learning that, so I'll test it this week — assuming I'm not still working until 9:17 at night again. Also, Gemini seems to get really slow when you keep cutting and pasting 800+ lines of code into it. I tried adding Gemini to Visual Studio Code but that was even slower.
Season 4 of FROM is now streaming on MGM+. The new season kicked off yesterday, and it's already off to a strong start. The premiere introduced a few new characters and set up some intriguing threads for what's coming next.
I'm glad MGM+ has continued supporting this series — shows in this genre don't usually get this kind of longevity. Looking forward to seeing where the story goes in the next episode.
Only 9 days left until Season Four of "FROM" returns. If you haven't started this series yet, you're genuinely missing out. The mystery keeps getting deeper, and it's hard to tell whether the residents are finally closing in on the truth or if the others are becoming even stronger and more dangerous.