Asteroid G Keeps on Keeping On

It’s another year down, marking a full seven that the current iteration of Asteroid G has been in operation (and closing on 25 that I’ve been doing some kind of movie review blog online, which just feels crazy to me). We’ve been tracking a lot of media, from movies to shows to games, and it’s been a fun year of covering random topics and having fun with whatever comes our way. Plus podcasts! So much content, so little time.

As it’s been another year, I wanted to do the customary check in and discuss things that are going on and what I expect will happen for the coming year.

First, let’s address the fact that I took a week off last week. That was unexpected, to be sure. I had a very stressful weekend catch me, and that turned into a pretty hellish week and to be able to crank out all my content and keep things moving at a proper clip I have to be in the right headspace. Since it’s primarily just me working on the site (although Ghoul Mike continues to be a great co-host on the podcast) if I can’t handle stuff, things aren’t getting done and, last week, I just couldn’t handle it.

But hey, that’s why breaks are good. Breaks are great for mental health, and self-care is always a good idea. Occasionally I have to take a week off here or there, for mental health or just to relax and recuperate on a vacation from, well, everything, and I like to think that the regular readers of the site (there are dozens of you! Dozens!) understand when those times come up. So thanks for understanding.

Since I mentioned podcasts above, let’s address those. This season (starting in February) saw the introduction of full video to the podcast. You get myself and Ghoul Mike on cam, chit-chatting about whatever along with visuals and funny gags. I have seen that viewership of the podcasts has improved on YouTube in comparison to just the audio with a single still picture (again, dozens of viewers I say!) which is great. I like to think more of you are out there watching the videos and reading the sites. It does take a lot of work to make those, upping the editing time from about an hour to make the audio for the cast to most of a day of editing. Its effort, for sure.

While I’m not gonna push for anyone to support this site or the podcast (I do it free of charge just because I like staying busy) if you wanted to like or comment on the videos so I know people are out there enjoying them, that’s cool. It makes the extra production time and effort feel like it’s going somewhere worthwhile. Thanks.

Because I did take that week off, I’ll still cover a few of the movies I was looking to review for Action Adventure April in the coming weeks. I want to watch the two other Escape Plan films, and there were some movies starring Pam Grier that I’m interested in reviewing. That would lead nicely to rewatching and finally reviewing Jackie Brown which is, hands down, my favorite Tarantino movie. That feels like a win all around.

Since it’s been another year, this would be the point where I say, “hey, so I’ve decided to redo the site again.” Normally I’m a serial website redesigner and I’m almost never happy with anything I do. Except, actually… I really like the site in its current form. Its design and function are great, and every time I look and say, “maybe I can improve this,” I struggle to find a way to do it that’s better than what the site is doing right now. I’m sure at some point I’ll finally get tired of looking at it in its current form and I’ll have to redo it then, but we’re not to that point yet. One day, maybe, but not today.

I think that actually means that by 2026 this site will have the longest single design of any of my active websites (not counting an older version of The Inverted Dungeon that sat unchanged for nearly ten years). That’s really weird to me. I’m sure that alone will cause me to renovate some day, haha.

Now, onto the future. I’m still part of the Final Fantasy Randomizer community, and coming up in June we have the first ever live marathon event. We’ve been hosting marathons for charity since 2022, Summer and Winter editions, but this is the first year where the event isn’t just online only. We’ll have our setup going on in Charleston, WV, and will be bringing it live from the Four Points Sheraton there. I’m sure it’ll be a learning process for us since this is the first time we’ll be doing something like this. It’ll be crazy, I’m sure.

If you’re interested in checking out you can find the stream on the FFR Twitch. If you’d actually be interested in attending, more details are available on the FFR Wiki. All proceeds of the event go to charity, with the marathon in support of the LIAM Foundation, an LGBTQIA+ outreach and support community organization.

And, yeah, I think that about covers me for this year. My movie collection grew by over three hundred films, so even with all the reviews I wrote I think I’m actually further away from my goal of reviewing everything in my collection than I was last year. But hey, that’s a problem I like to have. I’ll keep reviewing, and we’ll see how far we can get each year, building this site into something impressively full of content.

Until next year, you keep reading and I’ll keep reviewing!