Castle Magus

"Time to judge yet another collection of product ads for products that probably shouldn't exist."

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Even the ones that had nothing to do with sex, TFS managed to make, like, 90% of them relate to sex in some way.

(EDIT) This is another video for which they keep changing the video's title, presumably for "gaming the algorithm" purposes. I guess this is just the way it's going to be now. (/EDIT)

All I'll say (for now) about this dumbshit is that if the milquetoast things that Jimmy Kimmel says on late night TV is continuing to disproportionately rustle the jimmies of Dumbfuck Jizzstain Trump, the members of his hideous family, and his tumid horde of snowflake lickspittles, then Jimmy Kimmel is doing something right, and he should continue doing it and be allowed to continue doing it.

Shit like this is explicitly what the First Amendment is there to prevent. The United States government should never be applying pressure on a media company to fire someone, just because what that someone said merely happened to hurt the President's wittle fee-fees. Trump can publicly seethe and make himself look like a tantrum-throwing manbaby all he wants, but the moment he actually applies governmental pressure to get Kimmel fired, he's gone too far. (Not that "going too far" isn't a thing Trump does all the goddamned time, of course.)

Anyway, in conclusion, to hell forever with Donald Trump, as usual, and the sooner the better. I think that Trump should be the one who is fired (and also thrown into prison), but failing that, may he accidentally tumble feet-first into a(n) (in)conveniently placed industrial wood chipper.

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Relevant, I suppose.

Also relevant...


Link to comic.

And also relevant...

"Capital has the ability to subsume all critiques into itself. Even those who would critique capital end up reinforcing it instead."

-- Joyce Messier, Disco Elysium

In the end, it's all garmonbozia. It's why I put "perpetual Weltschmerz" as my custom mood so often lately, especially on posts such as this with similar topics.

(Honestly, I'm seriously considering subbing to Nebula and have been for a while, at least for a month or two as a start. And not just because of Jacob Geller plugging it in his video description, the pinned comment, and at the end of this video.)

Here's a video in which two dads criticize four different pieces of media meant for small children.

"Lani and Jesse try to figure out just what rotten tomatoes score several popular movies received!"

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This was a lot closer than the blowout it seemed like it was going to be at first.

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

"The guys remember the dumb stuff that hit television screens at either late hours or when nobody was paying attention."

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( 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.

"And now we present to you: some atrocious ideas for reboots. Just absolute trash. You're welcome."

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I would watch none of these. *thumbs up*

"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*

"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."

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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)