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Pat's actual "am I crazy?" thing around 6 minutes into the video was not all that crazy. Pat's "real" take near the end of the video, around 14 minutes in, was off the wall bonkers, and I'm glad Woolie told him he was "batshit." I think (or at least hope) he was just being facetious with the latter thing, though.

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They only talk about it briefly in the video above, but despite what Woolie says there, it is most certainly not "the reality" that Stanley Kubrick's movie The Shining is "way, way better" than Stephen King's novel The Shining. "Kubrick's changes" absolutely did not make "a better product than the source material." It's certainly different, and good in its own way, but it's not better than the novel. The only thing that is "hilarious and kind of insane" is Woolie's dumbfuck claim to the contrary.

The movie The Shining by Stanley Kubrick is, however, better than King's own TV adaptation of his novel The Shining.

(I've only read the book version of Doctor Sleep, so I can't compare it to the 2019 movie, which I haven't seen. I've heard it makes changes to what was in the book, though. [For instance, in the book, the Overlook Hotel had burned down. In the movie... no, not so much.] In general, King is not averse to changes made in adaptations of his stuff, e.g. his love for the ending of the film version of The Mist, which King has claimed he wished he'd come up with it for the novella. He just really hated the changes Kubrick made in The Shining, and I don't blame him.)

"Lani, Stephan, and Jesse discuss what kinds of anime could be adapted, and what form those adaptions could take."

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.)

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.

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)

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 gotchagacha games like the plague, no matter how "good" they may be. I mean, outside of that one Hololive fan game that Steam says I played for 35.7 hours as of September 8, 2023, I suppose. I played that knowing jack shit about Hololive (and I still know jack shit about Hololive, to this day), simply because it was one of the earliest Vampire Survivors clones, so I dunno. Maybe this horse girl game is at least worth a shot, too, even though I know jack shit about these horse girls, since it's apparently free (minus any in-game purchases, which I wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole, even if I did ever break down and give it a try).

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.

"Nick, Jesse, and Stephan take a trip to Universal Fan Fest 2025 and see what the fans are festing about."

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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.