Watched the last episode of #DeadLikeMe last night, and watched the direct-to-DVD movie early this morning.

The final episode was a nice capper to the series, although it left a lot of questions unanswered (understandably, though).

The movie (Dead Like Me: #LifeAfterDeath)?

Absolute #shovelware. It did not make a lick of sense, whatsoever. The new actor played Daisy Adair with all of the subtlety of a dump truck, Henry Ian Cusick's talents were wasted on a character with zero perceptible motivation, Roxy somehow lost all of her street smarts in an instant after schmoozing with the police commissioner, and while George's character got some nice closure (although not entirely believable), the whole thing felt really off and bewildering.

I think the only character that was fully true to the original was Mason, my personal favorite. Pretty hard to mess up a character that's already so utterly morally bankrupt 🤣

But overall the character development for George, her mom, and her sister was nice. I'm thankful Joy finally became a tolerable character in the last view episodes. I kinda wanted to slap her throughout the first season. Just very typical unhappy wife schlock. She was actually likeable and sympathetic in the movie.

Also the #Palm #Treo product placement in #2009 was hilarious.

But yeah, don't ask me to summarize the plot, because I really couldn't find it. Nothing made a lick of sense.

Not direct quotes, but they could have been:

"Oh man, he gave us these new high-tech smartphones, but he gave me some bad info. I need to get a hold of him. I wonder HOW!!!"
"You're such an evil person, because all you care about is money, even though you're treating us to this really lavish lifestyle, and you're not actually making money from any of this... this is so confusing, we're going to kill you!"

This could very well be the worst movie I've seen, omitting things seen on #MysteryScienceTheatre3000 and Christian #glurge films like "God's Not Dead." (Christian Pop-Eschatology movies deserve their own category in the lowest circle of hell, appropriately enough)

Every #SoftwareDeveloper makes #lowQuality #Software but their Reason for making it changes how morally good the #Project is.

If the Goal is to get #Money and/or #Attention fast, the Project is bad — #Slop or #Shovelware.

If the Goal is to #practice and #experiment for creating much better Software, that’s good and important.
The #Word for such Software is #Prototype; that sounds too unknown, so **i like to call it #Practiceware.**

#StrangerWord #Jargon #Linguistics #Developer

🧹 Another PURGE: Sony pulled a bunch of shovelware from the PS Store, spotted on PSNProfiles, titles like Jesus Simulator, Urban Driver Simulator, Water Blast Shooter, Wet Gun, Racing Car Chaos and Supermarket CEO Simulator vanished.

Shovelware = cheap, quickly made games, often trophy farms; earlier this year over >1000 projects were removed. Observers link this wave to the Shared Commitment to Safer Gaming. On Steam Je...

#SteamAndEpic #Simulator #Shovelware #Jesus #PSNProfiles #Supermarket

*said in allegro*

♪ Content, content everywhere.
Bait and switch and shovelware.
Farmers cranking out the wares.
AI multiplying spares.
Content, content everywhere. ♪

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