Questionable Gourmet – Secret Origin!

May 19th, 2013

Welcome to Questionable Gourmet, a new feature on MattBooker.info where I post about the things I like to cook. Most of it will be original recipes. All of it stuff I find interesting.

For a bit of background (and a warning), I’m self taught when it comes to making food. I grew up with meat and taters, and my mom did the vast majority of the cooking.

It wasn’t ’til I moved out on my own that I started cooking, but even then it was just to get me through those times when fast food wasn’t feeling much like food. Box mixes weren’t too difficult, just mixing the stuff and baking it for how long it suggested. Canned food was even easier. :)

Then I was dating a girl that said she liked to cook. Notice how I worded that? Saying you like to cook and cooking well are different things. Most of it wasn’t bad, even if it wasn’t good, but the last culinary straw came when she tried to make burgers. They looked like hockey pucks!

If hockey pucks were raised in the middle.

So, kind of like a mix of a football and a hockey puck.

That I could not stand for. Meat should be butchered, but not that kind of butchered. Over the course of a few weeks, I started cooking burgers. I hadn’t done it before, and it took a few tries to get the method where I wanted it. There were some that didn’t come out right, but all of them were various kinds of tasty.

And during that, I realized something.

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The MOAR You Know – Wildrider Prime

May 15th, 2013

Fansproject’s evil version of their Protector Armor, Shadow Scythe, makes more sense thematically when combined with Shattered Glass Rodimus… but it also comes with a faceplate to match it up with Henkei Wildrider.

Maybe it’s supposed to represent an alternate reality based on that G1 episode where Wildrider found the Matrix of Leadership, only he used it instead of taking it to Galvatron.

Or maybe it’s easier to sell an armor for two exclusives than one for each.

But even if it doesn’t make that much sense, it does look good.

I was thinking about that when playing around with Fansproject T-Bone…

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Ages WHAT and up? – Animal Squirts

May 9th, 2013

Welcome to another new feature here on MattBooker.info, called Ages WHAT and up?, where I post pictures of seemingly innocent products and show you how perverted they actually are.

You know the phrase, “Whatever trips yer trigger?”

Ever thought that sounded a bit pervy?

If you said “No…” to that question, you’re too innocent to be reading this blog. Or the internet.

But since you’re already here, let me show you a picture of this seemingly innocent frog-shaped water squirter.

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DigiBash – ToyWorld TW-02 Optimus Prime IN COLOR

May 5th, 2013

ToyWorld has shown a prototype for TW-02, a product that a lot of TF fans have been wanting to see ever since it was teased in silhouette. Just like with Hedgemon\Megatron, they’re not fooling anybody with this design, as it’s clearly the recent and very popular IDW look for Optimus Prime.

Rumor was that HasTak had an IDW Optimus coming out, and fans wondered how it would compare to even the shape of ToyWorld’s teased offering. And then Hasbro showed it off, and the big reveal was very, very small.

Smaller than Cyberverse Commander class kind of small.

But hey, there was still ToyWorld’s TW-02!

And now they’ve shown it!

And some people think it looks boring.

What the heck is wrong with them? Perhaps it would help to see it in color.

BEHOLD!

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How Do I Transformer? – The MOAR You Hardbone

May 3rd, 2013

OR

How To Hard Bones And Master Heads

OR

Hardbone Soup For The Duros

OR

Hardbones are from Mars, Nebulons are from Australia

Really, I could go on. Just look at this list of the top 10 most popular self help books. They’re not even trying! Living a fuller Hardbone. Embracing your Hardbone. Tapping into your best Hardbone.

I could go on, you know.

Quick, I need to say what this is about before the jump! It’s a new feature here on MattBooker.info, that’ll pop up every now and then. If I see people having a lot of problems with a certain TF and those problems aren’t actually caused by the TF, then behold How Do I Transformer?!

It’s also for features that aren’t in the instructions, so you can tell people to STFU when they tell you to RTFM.

And now, Hardbone!

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CRAFT! – Smallest Minecraft Pig

April 29th, 2013

This is a Minecraft pig. Made of paper.

It is standing on a dime.

Two of them can stand on it.

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Fansproject Car Crash and T-Bone – Leg Mod \ Knee Fix

April 25th, 2013

I kind of wanted to call this guide, Fansproject Stunticons – Fix ‘em if you got ‘em, because really, if you got ‘em, they need fixin’. But I’m also trying to be more specific with the titles for friendly interweb searching.

If you have them, you probably already know what I’m talking about. Transforming them makes you feel like you’re breaking them.

Fansproject has done a great job with these two. Really, they have. They’re not deluxe size, but they are bigger than scouts, and I’m a fan of smaller TFs. They’ve got great articulation, and that with the excellent robot sculpts mean FP Car Crash and FP T-Bone are just begging to be put in dynamic action poses.

And who doesn’t like sexy race cars?

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MattBooker.info – The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

April 20th, 2013

Alright. This post has been a long time coming. I’d meant for it to be a kind of New Years Resolution, but April still counts, right?

Damn right it does. If we don’t try to better ourselves every day, then what’s the point in getting up?

“You gotta pee sometime, man.”

You’re not helping.

^_^

Point is, there are some things I need to address, and some resolutions that I need to enact. Don’t worry, it’s nothing bad, but just because it isn’t bad doesn’t mean everyone reading this will think it’s good. I’d like to think you will, at least for those of you who come here for more than just the TF guides.

And that leads into…

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Stream of Conscious Sweat

April 10th, 2013

I sleep during the day. Unless I wake up and can’t sleep.

I was plastered to the sheets by sweat, so when I pried myself loose I slouched over to the computer and tried to distract myself. This is the result. It’s grumpy. It rambles.

But I found it worth posting.

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Fall of Cybertron Kickback – Leg Mod and Better Alt Mode

March 12th, 2013

The Insecticons are favorites of mine, and Kickback is my favorite of those. I even have the rerelease G1 versions in my Classics display.

So naturally Generations FOC Kickback was going to be awesome. Right?

It’s not like HasTak would give Kickback an alt mode that looked like an apathetic jumble of bug parts that decided to take a nap, and would completely ignore the most important part of his alt mode and the reason for his name…

 

Right?

 

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