Had to log in to Overwatch and check out what I got in my loot boxes for watching participating Twitch streams last weekend. Lots of sprays, a couple of voice lines, some Overwatch League skins. I did get a legendary Zenyatta skin at least. Not one of my better heroes to play but I would play Mystery Heroes and try to do well with him when I got him. So many new characters. I was watching the intro video and I did not recognize a lot of them besides Moira. Are there multiple mechs now? And there's a flying cat? It looks like 6v6 is a regular thing again too. Nice! All I know is I'm glad Blizzard let me keep my level 5 rank. It probably only shows up in my game but I like to see it. Gives me a sense of accomplishment.
Amazon MGM Studios has dropped the official preview for Ali G: Who Iz I?, and Ali G is finally back after two decades of chilling, tokin', and avoiding real life.
This time around, his long-term girlfriend Julie drops a bombshell that she's eight months pregnant — right after Ali accidentally hits her pregnancy test thinking it was a vape. Realizing he actually needs to earn some money to support a kid, he sets off on a documentary crew trip to America to reclaim his former glory, interviewing military generals about Iran and getting into fierce rap battles.
Somehow I managed to use up all my Claude and Copilot Claude tokens three days shy of the end of the month. And this was with two days off! Plus I was using the harness agent that takes from another token pool for a lot of front end stuff and Gemini and Rovo for documentation stuff! I bet it was that Scores slider that was having issues that needed Playwright to recreate the issue to solve. Or maybe the AI providers are sneakily changing how many tokens you get for your money. I don't know. I'm only on the medium tier so I can request more but that stinks! Three days left and I have to upgrade?
Marvel just dropped two big trailers back to back and both look pretty sweet.
First up, check out the special look at Avengers: Doomsday. The trailer focuses heavily on Victor von Doom, giving a little backstory about how he went from being the smartest guy in the room to completely broken after losing everything. Now he's coming back to take back stolen lives. This has to hold the record for the most stars in one movie with all the heroes we see in the trailer and no doubt that is not all of them.
And then Marvel also released the official trailer for Marvel Television's VisionQuest coming to Disney+ on October 14. This one follows the white Vision trying to figure out his identity and memories after the events of WandaVision. He states he's not a hero anymore and only has Vision's name, and if that wasn't enough, Ultron seems to be trapped inside his head chatting with him like an unwanted passenger.
The Marvel Rivals Ignite 2026 Mid-Season Finals are going on right now and Twitch and NetEase Games are giving away a bunch of free swag to celebrate.
To connect your Marvel Rivals gaming profile to Twitch, go to the official Marvel Rivals Twitch Drops page, log into your chosen platform — Steam, Epic Games, PlayStation, or Xbox — and authorize the link to your Twitch account. Then watch participating Twitch streamers that display the 'DropsEnabled' tag.
I don't know what Chrono tokens are and don't really care about emojis, nameplates, or sprays, but you can get Ignite Daredevil and Elsa Bloodstone (no idea who she is) costumes.
Don't forget to log in to Marvel Rivals after unlocking your new loot as it only stays in your game inbox for a limited time to be claimed.
For some reason I can't get into the game. I really dig the art style, but some of the costumes kind of take away from the characters. I don't know who some of these heroes are and not having their official hero attire makes it even harder to tell who is who. Also, the melee combat is not my favorite genre. I prefer the more stand-back-and-shoot style, and while some heroes can do that, there is usually a big mess of a brawl going on in the middle and I can never tell what is going on.
Ubisoft is giving away free PC copies of Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Future Soldier. Command an elite squad of highly trained special-ops soldiers with the latest military technology in deadly warzones to hunt down enemy targets. Log into Ubisoft Connect and grab your free copy before August 13 at 1:00 AM.
UPDATE: I managed to hunt down my original Quake CD-ROM in storage, and after jumping through a few hoops getting the PAK files extracted off the disc, I finally got the game up and running smoothly with Ironwail, but DOH! Turns out there is no standalone download for Dawn of the Machine. To actually get the modern expansion files, you have to download the official remaster directly through a digital storefront where you bought the game online. Since I'm running off my old 1996 physical retail disc, I'm out of luck on that one unless I decide to re-buy it on Steam. It is only $3.99 so not an expensive purchase but I am the real OG having my physical disks!! I managed to get both of the official mission packs — Scourge of Armagon and Dissolution of Eternity — working as well. Ironwail picked them right up in the built-in mods menu without any extra hassle. I think playing through the main campaign and the classic expansion packs will have to do for now while we wait and see if the develoeprs release a stand alone download.
Thankfully it is a new month. I managed to run out of tokens for Claude Desktop and Copilot with Claude at work on Wednesday night and was worried I would have to try to figure out what Claude had done to make my current page work and try to update it. I was able to fall back to Rovo in Confluence to ask some questions but it doesn't integrate with Visual Studio Code to make the changes and the new AI harness one of my teammates made still worked using his tokens so I was able to do some updates. I need to be more careful with my token useage this month. I think I let the context get a little too large. And sure, I could bump up my token usage to the next higer tier but I was already called out once for using too many tokens so I'll show them. I'll do better with less. It's all about the prompts you give the agents. Be clear, detailed, and keep it short.
