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"Are the Critics Ever Wrong?"
Mar. 27th, 2026 09:50 pm"Lani and Jesse try to figure out just what rotten tomatoes score several popular movies received!"
This was a lot closer than the blowout it seemed like it was going to be at first.
"Lani and Jesse try to figure out just what rotten tomatoes score several popular movies received!"
This was a lot closer than the blowout it seemed like it was going to be at first.
"Was Anything Sold on TV Useful?"
Mar. 23rd, 2026 08:36 pm"The guys get back together to watch more informercials, ranging from stuff sold by the late-great Billy Mays to those metal bands that were apparently magical."
"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."
"Ranking Stupid Infomercials"
Feb. 13th, 2026 08:54 pm"The guys remember the dumb stuff that hit television screens at either late hours or when nobody was paying attention."
( Brief reactions to each segment, but it's still a lot, so behind cut )
And that's it. For now, at least. Apparently, there may be another like this in the future.
I had zero interest in ever watching The Sopranos before seeing this clip, but now? Now I have maybe a whole 0.001 interest in ever watching The Sopranos.
"And now we present to you: some atrocious ideas for reboots. Just absolute trash. You're welcome."
I would watch none of these. *thumbs up*
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.)
"The Hawkins kids were the next generation, so why didn't they talk about The Next Generation?"
I have not (yet) seen the final season of Stranger Things, though I've seen the first four. If and when I ever do get around to watching the final season of Stranger Things, which will probably be soon-ish, I'd almost assuredly go back and rewatch the whole rest of it first, because that's just how I usually roll with things like that.
Anyway, that out of the way, I was hesitant to go into this article, due to the spoiler warning, but the only "spoilers" in the article are that Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is apparently mentioned in the final episode. It's also apparently a spoiler that they didn't have a specific Star Trek: The Next Generation Cheerios box in a breakfast scene or that nobody ever mentioned Stand By Me or Reading Rainbow. And I guess it's a spoiler from season 4 that Robin apparently wore a knock-off of a knock-off Star Trek-themed shirt that *gasp* didn't directly reference Scotty, explicitly.
Here's the thing, at least as far as I'm concerned... while I agree that that's the tiniest bit weird, I probably never once would have thought about the fact that they didn't mention Star Trek: The Next Generation during Stranger Things, had it not be directly pointed out to me, nor would it have bothered me. It only ever so slightly bothers me, now, because, yeah, you'd think that would be something they would have at least indirectly referenced at least once, but it's not some kind of dealbreaker that will prevent me from watching it.
Maybe there was some kind of licensing issue between Netflix and Paramount that prevented Stranger Things from being able to directly reference TNG the way they did Ghostbusters and whatever else? Who knows? *shrug*
I have not (yet) seen the final season of Stranger Things, though I've seen the first four. If and when I ever do get around to watching the final season of Stranger Things, which will probably be soon-ish, I'd almost assuredly go back and rewatch the whole rest of it first, because that's just how I usually roll with things like that.
Anyway, that out of the way, I was hesitant to go into this article, due to the spoiler warning, but the only "spoilers" in the article are that Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is apparently mentioned in the final episode. It's also apparently a spoiler that they didn't have a specific Star Trek: The Next Generation Cheerios box in a breakfast scene or that nobody ever mentioned Stand By Me or Reading Rainbow. And I guess it's a spoiler from season 4 that Robin apparently wore a knock-off of a knock-off Star Trek-themed shirt that *gasp* didn't directly reference Scotty, explicitly.
Here's the thing, at least as far as I'm concerned... while I agree that that's the tiniest bit weird, I probably never once would have thought about the fact that they didn't mention Star Trek: The Next Generation during Stranger Things, had it not be directly pointed out to me, nor would it have bothered me. It only ever so slightly bothers me, now, because, yeah, you'd think that would be something they would have at least indirectly referenced at least once, but it's not some kind of dealbreaker that will prevent me from watching it.
Maybe there was some kind of licensing issue between Netflix and Paramount that prevented Stranger Things from being able to directly reference TNG the way they did Ghostbusters and whatever else? Who knows? *shrug*
I post this not (just) for the discussion of Lavender Town or even for the brief tangent into Stranger Things, as interesting as all of that was, but for this brief bit here. Hearing that, just those eight seconds or so, I was suddenly flooded with memories of the original Revelations: Persona on the original Playstation. It's not quite the same, but it was enough to bring it all back.
I wonder what Charles Cornell would make of something like Awakening Legend (i.e. the theme that played whenever someone's persona awakened for the first time). It's probably my favorite track in the whole series, and it was an almost literal crime that deserved capital punishment that they didn't have an updated version of it in the PSP remake.
As much as I liked the JPop stuff in the later games (Persona 3 and onward), I'll always have a soft spot for the first two games. (That said, the later games had some real bangers, too. [Still haven't touched Persona 5 at all, yet, thanks to it still to this day being infested with Denuvo on Steam, so can't really say anything about the music from that one.])
"Hi. You may think things were better in the '80s or '90s – when things weren't so gosh darned political – but what you're forgetting is that you were 12. Nostalgia, while fine in small doses, is also readily used as propaganda for fascists."
Fuck you, Cody. Vic Fontaine was one of the best things about Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
And... almost literally halfway into the video, the political stuff started. Fucking Ben Shapiro is on my computer screen now, or was before I switched tabs to write this paragraph and also add the "middle-finger-worthy" tag to this post. I am already nostalgic for the first half of this video where Cody was talking about Star Trek and Star Wars and in which Ben Shapiro was not involved in any way whatsoever. I'm guessing that Cody will probably also make a joke at the end of this video about being nostalgic for the beginning of this video. We'll see.
(Pre-post edit, about twenty minutes later) And, there it is, the joke about being nostalgic for the earlier parts of the video. It wasn't quite at the end, but more like three-quarters of the way through. I will never be nostalgic for Warmbo, though. Thankfully, Warmbo wasn't really in this video, except as a brief reference to the movie (in which, as Cody pointed out, the puppet was there, but it wasn't being called Warmbo yet, i.e. one of the beforetimes for which I am nostalgic). (/pre-post edit) (Pre-post edit 2) And again, at the very ass-end of the video, in the after-credits part, when Cody picked up the inert puppet and made a nightmare-inducing noise with his mouth. (/pre-post edit 2)
Okay, so I'm not necessarily nostalgic for 2014 or anything, but I will say that the era before Dumbshit Jackass Trump came down that golden escalator was literally, objectively better than the era we live in now. Pretty much all I have been doing for the past decade or so now is looking forward to the era to come, after Dumbfuck Jizzstain Trump is finally dead and gone, which will probably start in, like, 2027 or something, hopefully, if not sooner, even more hopefully. It won't be better than what we had pre-2015, but it will be... maybe, probably... less horrendous than what we have now, at the very least.
(EDIT) And yes, as someone in the comments under the video mentioned, what MAGAts are experiencing is not nostalgia, but a uniquely United Statesian form of the Welsh hiraeth, which, roughly translated, means "homesickness for a place that never was." MAGA wants to return to "good old days" that were never actually good. Hiraeth is somewhat similar to the German Weltschmerz, which is a sort of depression or apathy that comes about as a result of trying to compare what the world actually is to what the world could have been (e.g. "can you imagine how much better the world would be right now if Trump had never come down that goddamned golden escalator and entered presidential politics?") (/EDIT) (EDIT 2) Apparently, the English equivalent of hiraeth is anemoia, which was made up in 2012 by some American guy who seems to have never heard the word hiraeth, considering that said American guy's project "aims to come up with new words for emotions that currently lack words." Or fauxstalgia. You know what? I'm going to stick with hiraeth, thanks. (/EDIT 2)
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"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.
"Hi. CNN anchor Kate Bolduan joins Cody and Jonathan to talk about the state of the news media, how she tries to get real answers, and how to combat alternative facts with actual facts. After that-- Katy, Cody, and Jonathan discuss the Epstein survivors' news conference and Florida's decision to end all vaccine requirements."
Hmm, Stephen Miller is on my screen. Time to pause the video and add the "middle-finger-worthy" tag to this post.
For the interview as a whole, the gist was basically "shit's fucked, and I do the best I can." It would be interesting if she actually asks the questions that Cody and Jonathan asked her to ask if she ever talks to Ted Cruz or JD Vance or whoever. I'll never know, because I don't watch CNN (and I recently blocked them in my Google News reader, because when I tried to read on of their articles the other day, they had a full screen, non-dismissable pop up about creating a free account or some shit, which is almost as bad as the paywall shit), but still, interesting interview, I guess. *shrug*
(EDIT) People in the comments are far less charitable about this interview than I was. I didn't particularly care for it, but I didn't hate it as much as everyone else seems to. That said, I'm not going to suddenly start watching CNN now because of that interview, either. (/EDIT)
Back to the news.
Hmm, who do I believe? Trump? Or Trump's/Epstein's victims? Gee, that's a toughie. *eye roll*
Jonathan: "Like Trump was out there, and they asked him about it today. Uh, because he's alive, by the way."
Katy: "What a bummer that was, right?"
Jonathan: "Yeah. He's just fine. He's normal. Whatever. *blows raspberry*"
Cody, making air quotes: "Oh, he's fine and normal. Yeah."
And then Trump's disgusting face took up half my screen and I just couldn't not throw up the middle finger again.
It should be clear now. Anything that even potentially implies that Trump is a criminal or a bad person or a pedophile rapist or whatever, even if those things were not actually outright said at the thing but merely somewhat implied, then said thing is just a "Democrat Hoax." Doesn't matter what it is. If it says something bad about Trump, then it's merely "fake news" by the Lügenpresse. If Trump doesn't like it, then it's not real. It's magic, he ain't gotta explain shit.
Meanwhile, in the real world, all that does is just make him look guilty as hell, and the more he doubles down on spewing the word "hoax" from his too moist face anus, the guiltier he looks.
As for Marjorie Taylor Greene being involved in this... yeah, I'm ambivalent. On the one hand, she's a stupid moron like every other Trumpanzee politician, but on the other hand, if she's helping to expose Trump (intentionally or otherwise), then great, let her keep doing that. If nothing else, it distracts her from all of her other raging dumbfuckery. And, as Jonathan says, if Marjorie Taylor Greene, of all people, were to be one to finally stand up and full on rebel against Trump over this, then that "would really be something." No breath holding from me, either.
Also Florida is refusing to be a slave to preventing easily preventable diseases. Whodathunkit? *eye roll+smdh+weary sigh*
And yeah, we did used to (and still do) laugh at anti-vaxers the same way we laugh at Flat Earthers and Young Earth Creationists and whoever, but people (typically) won't literally die if some dipshit in a position of power loudly brays that the Earth really is flat or really is only 6000 years old or whatever.
When was the last time that Rob Schneider was relevant? *shrug* I'unno.
Man, Jonathan is right. No vaccines required in Florida plus Disney World (and Universal Studios Florida and SeaWorld and so on and so forth) is a recipe for disaster stew. A whole hell of a lot of children are going to die, for no fucking good reason, and that goddamn sucks.
Fuck Donald Trump.
"On May 1, 1969, Fred Rogers, host of the (then) recently nationally syndicated children's television series, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (named Misterogers' Neighborhood at the time), testified before the Senate Committee on Commerce Subcommittee on Communications to defend $20 million in federal funding proposed for the newly formed non-profit Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which was at risk of being reduced to $10 million. Subcommittee chairman, Senator John Pastore (D-RI), unfamiliar with Fred Rogers, is initially abrasive toward him. Over the course of Rogers' 6 minutes of testimony, Pastore's demeanor gradually transitions to one of awe and admiration as Rogers speaks."
What does Donald Trump do with the mad that he feels? He takes it out on the rest of the world, and we all suffer for it.
Donald Trump is probably the closest thing to an "anti-Mister Rogers" as humanity has produced so far.
Anyway, in conclusion, to hell forever with Donald Trump, as usual, along with all the Congressshitsmears who did this.
"On May 1, 1969, Fred Rogers, host of the (then) recently nationally syndicated children's television series, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (named Misterogers' Neighborhood at the time), testified before the Senate Committee on Commerce Subcommittee on Communications to defend $20 million in federal funding proposed for the newly formed non-profit Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which was at risk of being reduced to $10 million. Subcommittee chairman, Senator John Pastore (D-RI), unfamiliar with Fred Rogers, is initially abrasive toward him. Over the course of Rogers' 6 minutes of testimony, Pastore's demeanor gradually transitions to one of awe and admiration as Rogers speaks."
What does Donald Trump do with the mad that he feels? He takes it out on the rest of the world, and we all suffer for it.
Donald Trump is probably the closest thing to an "anti-Mister Rogers" as humanity has produced so far.
Anyway, in conclusion, to hell forever with Donald Trump, as usual, along with all the Congressshitsmears who did this.
While I'm on the topic of AI stuff, I just want to say that I watched through all eight (so far) episodes of Terminator Zero about a week ago or so now. Without getting heavily into spoilers, basically the entire gist of this short-ish story was about a guy who was creating an AI (named Kokoro) to be intentionally free of human bias (so that it would eventually oppose Skynet, when Judgment Day came, and this story starts the literal day before the prophesied Judgment Day, with said Judgment Day happening a little ways into the story). Let's just say... this anti-Skynet AI initially does not react the way the creator expected it would.
Oh, and before that, I watched through all of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Two things I'll say about that. First, it was mostly good... except that itendedstopped on a blatant cliffhanger at the end of season 2, after which it was unceremoniously canceled by FOX. Also, the first season was heavily truncated and fucked up as a result of the writers' strike at the time, and very few of the plot hooks (or side characters) introduced in the first season carried over to the second season. Second, most of the second season dealt, at least in part, with things similar to Terminator Zero. I.e. someone was creating an AI (named Project Babylon/John Henry) for similarly "Skynet rival" purposes, and a lot was shown of the training and teaching of this AI. I really wish that T:TSCC hadn't been canceled or, at the very least, had been continued in a book/comic format, if nothing else.
(Oh, and before that, of course, I watched all of the movies.)
Oh, and before that, I watched through all of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Two things I'll say about that. First, it was mostly good... except that it
(Oh, and before that, of course, I watched all of the movies.)
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"Wil Wheaton on His Star Trek Family and His New Podcast Storytime with Wil Wheaton"
"Hi everyone, happy Tuesday! I am so excited for this week’s episode. I’m talking to the one and only Wil Wheaton! You know Wil from his roles as Wesley Crusher on Star Trek: Next Generation, Gordie in Stand By Me and his appearances on The Big Bang Theory. Wil is also a super-nerd and a prolific audiobook reader. He has a new podcast called Storytime with Wil Wheaton, where he reads a new short speculative fiction story each episode and I highly recommend it! We had such a lovely conversation— Wil is a deep thinker and one of the kindest people I know. I can’t wait for you to get to know him a little bit better! Stick around after the interview for the hindsight, where my producer Jeph and I talk about the episode, as well as some upcoming live podcast recordings, our new Patreon and oh yeah, time travel!"
Apparently the only thing you have to do to get me to watch an entire hour and a half episode of your podcast is simply to have Wil Wheaton on as the guest for that episode. Like so.
Also, it's kind of funny, because I'm sure most other geeknerds (or is the proper term "nerdgeeks"? *shrug*) like me would know Katee Sackhoff from Battlestar Galactica. Here's the thing, though... I have never seen anything of Battlestar Galactica, either the 2004 version or the original show or anything else, outside of maybe an occasional clip on Youtube or something that I don't even remember now. (I always tend to get it confused with Babylon 5, as well, which is another geeknerd show that starts with the letter "B" and of which I have yet to see a single episode. How far in the toilet is my geeknerd cred now?) Nor have I seen any of that other nerdgeek stuff like all that Star Wars stuff mentioned on her Wikipedia page there. What I have seen a fair bit of her in, though, is Longmire, because there is an over-the-air TV channel which I don't recall the name of right now that my sister watches, and it airs a metric assload of Longmire episodes, back to back, on at least a weekly if not daily basis, and I see bits and pieces of it whenever I happen to exit my room to go the kitchen or something (also stuff like Stargate SG-1 and The Closer/Major Crimes and Rizzoli & Isles and NCIS and whatever else that channel [those channels?] tend to air, but that's beside the point). Beyond that, I have no other experience with pretty much anything Katee Sackhoff has done, unfortunately. At least as of right now. So far. Yet.
Okay, so...
There's a fair bit of overlap here with what Wil said in the Mayim Bialik podcast and what he has said on his own blog, but there's a lot of stuff that's new, too. That's one of the cool things about Wil is that even if he's telling largely the same story as one he's told before, elsewhere, he's still able to put a new spin on it. It's not just the same thing, over and over.
At one point, early on, Wil says that if he could give up all of his acting success if it meant that he would instead have a normal childhood where he had parents who weren't terrible, he would do it in a heartbeat. However, later on, about halfway into the episode, when asked about if he could time travel and change something, would he do it, he says that if he could go back and change the bad things about his childhood, he would not do it, if it meant that it led to him never meeting Anne, his wife. It was an interesting contrast. His acting career he would sacrifice in a moment, if it meant he could instead have had a good childhood with loving parents, but not his wife and her kids that he later adopted as his own. By the way, his stories about his wife's children, separately, asking him to formally, officially adopt them when they were each 18 was very touching.
Oh, and the short story they were talking about is Wikihistory. I'm glad Wil mentioned it because it gave me an excuse to read it again (this will be the fourth of fifth time now). In fact, I literally paused the video, then went and read it again, before returning to the video. It's definitely as good as he says it is (though he did get some of the details about it wrong, i.e. there was no "baby Schlimmel" or whatever).
And the fish story is this one or one of several like it told by Michio Kaku.
Finally... I haven't gotten around to it as of yet, but I think I'm going to start actually making the time to go through It's Storytime with Wil Wheaton now. Perhaps even getting started right now, in fact.
"There's always going to be shitty people in the world, that's just how it is, but we can choose whether we're going to be one of them."
"Wil Wheaton on His Star Trek Family and His New Podcast Storytime with Wil Wheaton"
"Hi everyone, happy Tuesday! I am so excited for this week’s episode. I’m talking to the one and only Wil Wheaton! You know Wil from his roles as Wesley Crusher on Star Trek: Next Generation, Gordie in Stand By Me and his appearances on The Big Bang Theory. Wil is also a super-nerd and a prolific audiobook reader. He has a new podcast called Storytime with Wil Wheaton, where he reads a new short speculative fiction story each episode and I highly recommend it! We had such a lovely conversation— Wil is a deep thinker and one of the kindest people I know. I can’t wait for you to get to know him a little bit better! Stick around after the interview for the hindsight, where my producer Jeph and I talk about the episode, as well as some upcoming live podcast recordings, our new Patreon and oh yeah, time travel!"
Apparently the only thing you have to do to get me to watch an entire hour and a half episode of your podcast is simply to have Wil Wheaton on as the guest for that episode. Like so.
Also, it's kind of funny, because I'm sure most other geeknerds (or is the proper term "nerdgeeks"? *shrug*) like me would know Katee Sackhoff from Battlestar Galactica. Here's the thing, though... I have never seen anything of Battlestar Galactica, either the 2004 version or the original show or anything else, outside of maybe an occasional clip on Youtube or something that I don't even remember now. (I always tend to get it confused with Babylon 5, as well, which is another geeknerd show that starts with the letter "B" and of which I have yet to see a single episode. How far in the toilet is my geeknerd cred now?) Nor have I seen any of that other nerdgeek stuff like all that Star Wars stuff mentioned on her Wikipedia page there. What I have seen a fair bit of her in, though, is Longmire, because there is an over-the-air TV channel which I don't recall the name of right now that my sister watches, and it airs a metric assload of Longmire episodes, back to back, on at least a weekly if not daily basis, and I see bits and pieces of it whenever I happen to exit my room to go the kitchen or something (also stuff like Stargate SG-1 and The Closer/Major Crimes and Rizzoli & Isles and NCIS and whatever else that channel [those channels?] tend to air, but that's beside the point). Beyond that, I have no other experience with pretty much anything Katee Sackhoff has done, unfortunately. At least as of right now. So far. Yet.
Okay, so...
There's a fair bit of overlap here with what Wil said in the Mayim Bialik podcast and what he has said on his own blog, but there's a lot of stuff that's new, too. That's one of the cool things about Wil is that even if he's telling largely the same story as one he's told before, elsewhere, he's still able to put a new spin on it. It's not just the same thing, over and over.
At one point, early on, Wil says that if he could give up all of his acting success if it meant that he would instead have a normal childhood where he had parents who weren't terrible, he would do it in a heartbeat. However, later on, about halfway into the episode, when asked about if he could time travel and change something, would he do it, he says that if he could go back and change the bad things about his childhood, he would not do it, if it meant that it led to him never meeting Anne, his wife. It was an interesting contrast. His acting career he would sacrifice in a moment, if it meant he could instead have had a good childhood with loving parents, but not his wife and her kids that he later adopted as his own. By the way, his stories about his wife's children, separately, asking him to formally, officially adopt them when they were each 18 was very touching.
Oh, and the short story they were talking about is Wikihistory. I'm glad Wil mentioned it because it gave me an excuse to read it again (this will be the fourth of fifth time now). In fact, I literally paused the video, then went and read it again, before returning to the video. It's definitely as good as he says it is (though he did get some of the details about it wrong, i.e. there was no "baby Schlimmel" or whatever).
And the fish story is this one or one of several like it told by Michio Kaku.
Finally... I haven't gotten around to it as of yet, but I think I'm going to start actually making the time to go through It's Storytime with Wil Wheaton now. Perhaps even getting started right now, in fact.
"There's always going to be shitty people in the world, that's just how it is, but we can choose whether we're going to be one of them."
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*considers making an additional observation about Trumpanzees and their obsession with Donald Trump, oh wait, I just did*
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.
A post on WIL WHEATON dot NET.
Also, this, which he has embedded in that post there:
"'I Survived Being a Child Star' Wil Wheaton: How to Heal Trauma & Believing Aliens are Out There"
"Wil Wheaton (TBBT, bestselling author, award-winning audiobook narrator, host of It's Storytime with Wil Wheaton) is back in the MBB studio, and he's opening up like never before about his deeply personal journey as a trauma survivor. From grappling with the scars of being raised by emotionally immature and narcissistic parents to surviving abuse on a movie set, he shares the emotional tools and therapies that have helped him heal, including EMDR and IFS therapy. He dives into the mind-bending connections between quantum physics, nonlinear time, and reparenting your inner child, while exploring fascinating topics like extraterrestrial life, simulation theory, and telepathy. Get ready for an eye-opening conversation on how trauma has shaped every aspect of Wil's life, his thoughts on the dangers of spiritual charlatans, and his cautious approach to psychedelics. Don't miss this thought-provoking as we connect the dots between science, spirituality, and the unknown!"
From Mr. Wheaton's post above:
"You also get to see me get triggered in real time, realize it, recover from it, and address what happened. It’s a little embarrassing to see myself fuck up like that, in public no less, and be reactive when I want to be responsive, but I feel like it could be a valuable teaching moment and that’s worth a little embarrassment, if it’s helpful to literally anyone else in the world."
Anyway, outside of occasional full episodes of Some More News or Last Week Tonight (which I usually watch at 2x speed), or shorter clips from things like Castle Super Beast (which I also usually watch at 2x speed), I don't normally make time to just sit back and listen to podcasts like this. But I did that for this one (at 1x speed, even), and I'm glad I did.
And it seems like I, too, have some "homework" now, which is to watch Arrival at some point and maybe also look into Sugar.
Also, this, which he has embedded in that post there:
"'I Survived Being a Child Star' Wil Wheaton: How to Heal Trauma & Believing Aliens are Out There"
"Wil Wheaton (TBBT, bestselling author, award-winning audiobook narrator, host of It's Storytime with Wil Wheaton) is back in the MBB studio, and he's opening up like never before about his deeply personal journey as a trauma survivor. From grappling with the scars of being raised by emotionally immature and narcissistic parents to surviving abuse on a movie set, he shares the emotional tools and therapies that have helped him heal, including EMDR and IFS therapy. He dives into the mind-bending connections between quantum physics, nonlinear time, and reparenting your inner child, while exploring fascinating topics like extraterrestrial life, simulation theory, and telepathy. Get ready for an eye-opening conversation on how trauma has shaped every aspect of Wil's life, his thoughts on the dangers of spiritual charlatans, and his cautious approach to psychedelics. Don't miss this thought-provoking as we connect the dots between science, spirituality, and the unknown!"
From Mr. Wheaton's post above:
"You also get to see me get triggered in real time, realize it, recover from it, and address what happened. It’s a little embarrassing to see myself fuck up like that, in public no less, and be reactive when I want to be responsive, but I feel like it could be a valuable teaching moment and that’s worth a little embarrassment, if it’s helpful to literally anyone else in the world."
Anyway, outside of occasional full episodes of Some More News or Last Week Tonight (which I usually watch at 2x speed), or shorter clips from things like Castle Super Beast (which I also usually watch at 2x speed), I don't normally make time to just sit back and listen to podcasts like this. But I did that for this one (at 1x speed, even), and I'm glad I did.
And it seems like I, too, have some "homework" now, which is to watch Arrival at some point and maybe also look into Sugar.
Blackwell Cartoons
Feb. 16th, 2025 02:30 amSo... I just finished my 4th to 6th playthroughs of the Blackwell series of point-and-click adventure games (4th of the final game, 5th to 6th of the previous four). Played them all with the commentary on again.
I'm not going to say a whole lot about the games again here, as I've already done that. Instead I'm just going to embed a couple of Youtube videos, containing short cartoons that were created 15 years ago as promotions for the games, but which I only learned existed about twenty minutes ago or so.
"Blackwell Cartoon #1: 'On the Town'"
"Joey encourages Rosangela to get out more, with interesting results."
"Blackwell Cartoon #2: 'Television'"
"Rosa teaches Joey about television reruns."
I'm not going to say a whole lot about the games again here, as I've already done that. Instead I'm just going to embed a couple of Youtube videos, containing short cartoons that were created 15 years ago as promotions for the games, but which I only learned existed about twenty minutes ago or so.
"Blackwell Cartoon #1: 'On the Town'"
"Joey encourages Rosangela to get out more, with interesting results."
"Blackwell Cartoon #2: 'Television'"
"Rosa teaches Joey about television reruns."