What makes Clarkson's Farm work long-term as a show is they quickly realized this isn't The Office But A Farm. I presume the crew are veterans from The Grand Tour who can put up with Clarkson on a daily basis, but there is a marked tonal shift in the first season as they find the emotional core.

Letting video games fry my brain so much I refer to rewatching a TV show as "starting another run."

The oldest thought I've had this year has to have been "I wouldn't mind a book of sudoku puzzles."

Good Luck Have Fun Don't Die is the anti-generative AI movie we needed and it's wild it came from Verbinski.

$5 says this is a built in safety feature that prevents users from effectively DDoS-ing ChatGPT with intentionally long tasks. At the risk of giving GenAI any credit, it feels more like it has a maximum time limit to a vocal task response than it genuinely being incapable of answering.

Everyone in the world: Discord's age verification sucks and is worth dropping the platform. Bluesky: haha yeah. Anyway, here's exactly that.

Welcome back to the Reach-Around podcast, your favorite week by week recap of our favorite show: Reacher. Folks, I don't like starting episodes like this any more than you do but we really have to stop with the inappropriate sexual comments in the Jack Online Introspection forum we set u-

tfw the new game of the moment is actively unengaging to watch someone else play and every freaking gaming content creator you follow is playing it so you're screwed for new fun video game videos for at least a week.

Meal Replacement Bars: For when you want to exchange the chore of preparing breakfast for worse midday bathroom trips.

Listen, it's not particularly creative or original to play through Bioshock being like "I sure hope there's gods and kings here" just before walking into the NO GODS OR KINGS room, but it's still pretty fuckin' funny in the moment.

I see Michael Hobbes is doing that evil thing again where he [checks notes] proposes something that would be a net public good and everyone yells at him.

my names ozymandias and im here to say, look upon my works in a major way

There's a joke in Nirvana The Band The Show The Movie where Matt stops Jay from humming the Back to the Future theme then spikes the camera to say "if you're watching this in theaters it is a copyright miracle. It'll never be shown again." My audience of 10 people in a 200 seat theater GUFFAWED.

Steam has let companies organize "[niche genre] Fest" sales so many times it's lost all spark. It's like like when you open Windows and it's like "Today's National Chicken Sandwich Day!" and you feel nothing inside 'cus you're 75% sure Wendy's paid them to make that up five minutes ago.

"Don't worry about the Discord thing, it's only NSFW servers and channels that will require age verification! :)" I could remove every speck of risque imagery/topics from my community and there's still a 50% chance we'd get flagged just because we're openly queer. It's not actually about the kids.

I like that instead of having to see the M&M bomb defusal ad before every movie, now I just get to hear J.K. Simmons say "wait, there's a peanut inside me? NICE."

Not to be the boring cynic but the fact that Discord even has a half-assed 18+ channel label despite being actively terrified of NSFW content being posted on the platform was the biggest, boldest writing on the wall that they would be taking the easy way out and pre-emptively complying to face ID.

Doing some psychic damage before bed by telling @gemstonejester.bsky.social it's almost been 20 years since Bioshock released.

This hit so fucking hard today.

For the first time I've heard someone pronounce the Schuylkill River as "the school-kill" and it felt like a gear locked in my head.

You can tell The Pitt has the juice to be the best show on TV by how there are 206 Langdon x Robinavich fics on AO3 in a little over a year, and more are rolling in as season 2 convinces more people to get into the show.

happy Whiskey Fridays with Tony Dokoupil everybody

If we're about "posting facts" you could just say it's Weekend Update and post the clip. It took all of 20 minutes for me to grab the actual April 7th, 2001 footage instead of screenshotting a hand-typed fan transcript. Let him be gross in true context: him nervously reading a teleprompter.

Animal crackers just don't hit the same if you don't have the smell of the cardboard box too.

I love the semi-intentional running bit that Homer is surprisingly well-read, just in hyper-specific ways he never talks about. youtu.be/rKHyaMy2BEM

Out here winning every day* *the tuna casserole I baked a few days ago has made for excellent work lunches during an incredibly stressful week.

"I can't believe Hans Zimmer is doing the Harry Potter soundtrack!" Why? He's the James Patterson or Brandon Sanderson of music composition. He's the kind of rich where he has a team whose job is to do the grunt work of scouting sounds/instruments so he can JUST assembly-line compose projects.

Having seen him do Shakespeare live I can confirm this is really close to being there. He's not pulling out any stops or adding a extra mustard 'cus he's on a talk show. His monologues to the audience as Falstaff in Player Kings (modernized Richard IV) felt like this, it was electric.

My car goals in life are to always have a fun lil' manual transmission at my disposal. If I can keep that up, I'm doin' alright. My MKV Jetta may have a loud exhaust leak that sounds like I deleted the muffler and a busted CD player, but it's fun as fuck to drive.

Shoutout to the conservative at AMC who's fuming so hard about Woke they took the poster for Glory and cropped it to JUST to Matthew Broderick's face. A crop so tight to take the two Black men out of the poster that you see THE EDGE OF THE POSTER.

Sony patented the idea of a gen-AI "podcast" (fake news report) that pops up on your PS5 in the morning to give a rundown of "news" about the gaming you did the day before. One idea was a newscaster insulting you for not beating a boss. "Try a spin attack next time!"

The secret to Jeff Bridges being a fun villain in Iron Man (2009) is they signed a good actor on for one role, once. Had he shown up even one movie later he would've had to commit to a vague schedule of at least four movies playing at least two different multiverse versions of Obadiah.

If nobody else got me, I know my boy Sonic Large Sprite Zero, Add Lemon at 50% Price Because I Ordered It In The App got me.

Getting a Valvoline oil change which means I get to cycle through the script of excuses I give for minor problems on the car they're duty bound to alert me to.

Patient: But Doctor, I am Pagliacci... Doctor: Yeah, Stewart. I'm literally holding your chart. Did you not consider maybe I was doing a confidence-building thing? Stewart Pagliacci: Oh I didn't think- Doctor: No, you didn't think, that's your problem. You want me to fix your problems for you.

Two favorite parts here: 1. He's running on fear and adrenaline when he walks to the truck. If they'd held his ass long enough for that temporary boost to wear off, he'd still be in that ditch. 2. The life-endingly funny image of and adult man being scared of a kid wearing a Minecraft backpack.

Genuinely scary thing to consider: the modern "I type faster than I think" buffoonish rich guys have chatbots Epstein didn't have that act as their underpaid assistants, ensuring nobody actually sees any new "i ned someone to redo my wikipeieia" Almost like the tools are specifically for that.

The trailer for Psycho Killer (2026) dares to ask the question "what if a cop broke the rules and killed people *and we like her for it*?"

It is a testament to how bad writing-by-committee is that I just saw a Dracula movie where: - The Christian God is confirmed real. - The movie agrees with Dracula that God was being a dick to him specifically. - Dracula develops a perfume that makes you incredibly horny. And it still sucks.

It's easy to hate on Nicole Kidman as the worst part of the preshow at AMC but I propose it's this panopticon promoting Vivint jackass.

Cinema is dead: my local AMC only screened Shelter on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. They're still showing frigging Anaconda twice a day but the fun Jason Statham John Wick career reboot? Nah. Need space for more Melania screening.

One downside to not having TikTok on my phone anymore is I'm not seeing as many queer creators cus most of them, for whatever reason, happily cross post to Instagram but wouldn't dream of posting YouTube Shorts.

You might've seen the (excellently named) new trans car podcast from @victoriascott.bsky.social and @jordanjamboree.pittbert.gay bouncing around the skyline. I finished the first episode this morning and, whoops, here's a 2k word review. gavingaddis.com/2026/02/01/t...

Catherine O’Hara SCTV thread youtu.be/990OaFr8EYw?...

In addition to being Whiskey Friday with Tony Dokoupil, it's #LetterboxdFriday and I've got my #LastFourWatched. And, for once, all four are from this week.

Iron Lung is the Phantom Menace of horror.

The jarring realization you're the oldest person at the Iron Lung premier and there's 25 year olds acting like they're Old Heads.

Guys I'm scared what if something happens in that theater tonight and I stumble in at 11pm with a 5 star review of Iron Lung

What strikes me most about going back to episodes of Stargate SG1 that SHOULD have been good, on paper, is how rushed they are. Take Solitude from season 1. The A plot is Jack/Sam trapped in a glacier with a stargate that just won't work. Jack's dying, Sam's fighting the fact she can't save him.

I see someone on the team had Feelings about Misato