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"Let's Pitch Anime Adaptations"
Mar. 13th, 2026 08:57 pm"Lani, Stephan, and Jesse discuss what kinds of anime could be adapted, and what form those adaptions could take."
"Lani, Stephan, and Jesse discuss what kinds of anime could be adapted, and what form those adaptions could take."
One Piece is yet another one of those "hearing the music from outside the room" things for me. And things like this make me hesitant to ever want to step inside said room.
I haven't seen anything past the original Neon Genesis Evangelion and The End of Evangelion movie. Nothing from Rebuild (yet). And I remember almost nothing about what I have seen, since it's been probably at least two decades since I watched NGE. So... if I want to watch this new stuff when it drops, I feel like I have a lot of catching up to do first, which would probably include rewatching all of the original stuff as well.
Here is the trailer they are referring to in the above video. Yeah, that sure sounds like Nier. (I also should probably get around to starting a new playthrough of Nier Replicant someday, since I never finished it [Steams says I played it for around 20 hours, as of June 2025], and then play Nier Automata, since I haven't touched that one at all, yet.)
"Ranking 'Filmbro' Movies"
Jan. 23rd, 2026 05:40 pm"Who needs to have actually seen a movie to have opinions on it?"
Around 20 minutes in, right after they talked about Back to the Future...
Stephan: "It's so funny to have our shitpost takes on movies mixed in with really digging into a movie we've actually seen."
Nick: "Genuine takes, yeah."
Jesse: "This video is manufactured to be rage bait."
Nick: "I didn't even know we were doing this before I sat down."
Jesse: "I'm excited to see what the fuck happens, cuz I think people are going to be too upset, and it's a joke. We're not serious at all."
That's this entire video, in a nutshell.
So... I watched this whole video. I'm not sure I would recommend watching this whole video. This video made me wonder if I need/want to watch more movies or fewer movies. I don't watch all that many movies, in general, and the vast majority of movies on this list are movies I've never seen, some I've never even heard of, a few that are on my "to watch someday" list, but most of which I just don't give a shit about, whether I've heard of them or not.
I'm leaving the subject line of this post as "Ranking 'Filmbro' Movies" as that's what the video was called when I started watching it, but at some point during that timeframe, it apparently got retitled to "Ranking Classic Films (That We've Never Seen)." I think "Ranking 'Filmbro' Movies" is the more accurate title. (Pre-post EDIT) And now it's just "Ranking Movies We've Never Seen" so who knows what it'll be renamed to later on. I guess it's just engagement shit, trying to figure out what draws in more clicks or whatever. It's kind of lame, honestly. (/Pre-post EDIT)
They're talking about TV shows and anime, but that very specific definition of "filler" sounds like "Man, what's with all these side-quests in this video game that have nothing to do with the main quest? Get that shit out of here."
(Also, another "out of pocket" misuse in this clip. And this one was uniquely strange. "'Out of pocket' is the correct term to describe that move." No, it's not, and it's exceedingly strange to hear someone say that it is, at least to me. It has real "When Obama threw me under the bus, he threw me under the bus literally!" vibes to it.)
Oh, wow, that Spider-Man thing Woolie mentioned is real. It just wasn't a Spider-Man comic. It was a She-Hulk comic.
"The Joy of Anime w/ Rob Boss"
Dec. 27th, 2025 08:50 pm"Rob Boss takes us through how to paint anime the right way."
That's probably the skeeviest thing I've watched in a good long while that wasn't Donald Trump talking about his daughters (or about women who apparently happen to look like his daughters).
For what it's worth, the video embedded above has the dubious virtue of being intentionally skeevy, at least.
What.
(EDIT) Same as Woolie, I have also never heard of Cookie Run Kingdom or whatever, prior to watching the above video, probably because it's just some free-to-play mobile game, and I've only very rarely, and very briefly, ever given the slightest shit about such things. (/EDIT)
The gist:
- Shitty AI slop is obviously shitty, but also even potentially "good" AI slop will still be shitty.
- It's much funnier when human actors act weirdly or fuck up than when a LLM/AI fucks up.
- "EA is on a fucking death clock."
- If you're going to plagiarize, better to only plagiarize one person you can easily pay off and thus make the issue go away forever, rather than hundreds of thousands.
- Apparently, Quentin Tarantino released some new Kill Bill thing... ...in Fortnite. *facepalm*
- Tommy Tallarico is now known as Sammy Salazar, apparently?
Pat is correct in that the concept of "tachyon" was not invented by Star Trek. However, to be fair to Woolie (and Woolie's English/Drama teacher), 99.9% of the times I've ever heard the word "tachyon" used has been during Star Trek. The other 0.1% was during non-Star Trek related sci-fi books and movies and video games that had faster than light travel. I'm not sure I've ever heard the word "tachyon" mentioned in a non-science fiction context.
And if you want to know what any of that has to do with horse girl anime, I guess you'll just have to watch the above clip.
I'm in the "hearing the music from outside the room" set for the whole Umamusume thing. I'm not yet inclined to actually enter the room, but I'm also not yet moving away from the room in disinterest, either. I'm pretty sure what very little I know about it at all has come exclusively from the Castle Super Beast podcast, anyway. I have not (yet) watched Woolie's two-shot Let's Play of the game, though. Maybe I'll actually do that at some point relatively soon, possibly.
That said, regardless of any other considerations, I tend to avoid
Wait...
"Uses Kernel Level Anti-Cheat
CrackProof®"
Oof. Never fucking mind, then. *weary sigh*
I suppose I can still watch Woolie play it later, perhaps. And I guess you don't have to install kernel level DRM in order to potentially watch an anime movie, either. *shrug*
It's a bit weird that they (correctly) have Jecht in the thumbnail, but I don't think they actually mention him in the clip itself.
"We try to see if Jesse actually knows anything about the thing that made his coworkers famous."
Out of context quote from the video: "Would fuck God like a raw chicken."
This is way funnier because Jesse knows at least some bits about Dragon Ball than it would have been if Jesse had known nothing about Dragon Ball.
"Nick, Jesse, and Stephan take a trip to Universal Fan Fest 2025 and see what the fans are festing about."
I've been to Universal Florida once, back when the Back to the Future ride was still there, and... that's about the only thing I remember about Universal Florida.
The above video was at Universal Hollywood, though, not Universal Florida.
I'm mostly like Woolie in the above video in that I haven't seen the Devil May Cry Netflix thing yet, but I'm also not like Woolie (or Pat or Gene) in that the only Devil May Cry that I've played at all is the first one, and also I have little to no interest in seeing the Netflix Devil May Cry thing to start with (and even less, now). I've seen some LPs of the later games, but I haven't touched them myself. Basically everything I know about the later Devil May Cry games comes almost solely from these guys.
So anyway... apparently, this new Devil May Cry Netflix show sucks balls, I guess? They do compare it (unfavorably) to the first Netflix Castlevania show, and I would probably agree with most of what they said about that, here.
"Does Mortal Kombat Still Hold Up?"
Jan. 27th, 2025 05:51 am"Lani, Jesse, and Stephan test their might with 1995's Mortal Kombat!"
It's almost 6am, so instead of going to bed like I should be doing, I will instead post this. And then go to bed.
Yeah, the first Mortal Kombat movie is probably what I would consider to be the first ever video game movie that was actually passably good. Before that was Super Mario Bros: The Movie, then Double Dragon, and then Street Fighter: The Movie (and I forgot that the DD movie actually came out a month or two before the SF movie). I still say that SMB:TM was a kinda sorta okay movie... it just wasn't really Super Mario Bros. at all. Double Dragon was dogshit, and not even in a "so bad it's good" kind of way. Street Fighter, on the other hand, was so hilariously bad that it kind of rounded the corner to being good again. (I am so there when TFS reviews that one, which they said in this video will probably be the one they do next.) And after that... well... a metric assload of other movies based on video games, a few of which were okay, most of which were garbage, and also most of which I have not seen myself (and most of the few I've seen skewed more toward garbage than not).
Again, though, Mortal Kombat was the first one that actually felt like it did justice to the game it was portraying, for the most part. But... then along came the sequel, Annihilation, which was pretty much Double Dragon-level dogshit. Aside from those two, I haven't seen any of the other movies (animated or live action) or the TV shows (or "web show" in the latter case) that were based on Mortal Kombat.
I've done this with far too many video games and some anime (e.g. Hajime no Ippo), usually more for Pat's reasons (just getting distracted by the next shiny thing) than the other ones.