Sad news everyone, I’m officially pulling the plug on Brightsiders, my super fan podcast for the 2017 movie Bright. I still feel like there were many interesting topics left to discuss but after 7 years of weekly episodes I’ve learned that no one has ever listened to the show.

the far side should have panels before and after the main one so you know what led up to it and what happened after

Up Corcaigh 🤙

A real city mouse opinion I have is that schools should never be one story - they should be five levels tall and leave a towering psychic image-imprint in its aluminium who will always vaguely dread stairs

There are like dozens of people here who think this guy is endorsing "blood and soil" rhetoric who are just too mad to read. Do you think he's endorsing the use of "untermenschen" too? Or making a rhetorical point in a way you've seen a thousand people make one before

I could never take Goofy serious as a child, something about him made me ill at ease

And a lot of great stuff has come out of this sort of thing, but it does get a bit samey and a bit "Oh, bohoo you" after a lot of them. There are other ideas out there, even ones writers can comment on

(30 years ago) ADULT: Careful with the Internet, whatever you say is there FOREVER KID: My Geocities page about Discworld will be a monument for eternity (5000 years ago, Sumeria) SCRIBE 1: Think anyone in the future will ever read this temple inventory on a clay tablet SCRIBE 2: Lol fuck no

we've never seen portland frog, superman, or clark kent in the same room

The Cult of the Supreme Being and the 100 days campaign are probably the most ludicrous events of the Revolutionary-Napoleonic era, softened only slightly by them both failing hard

Broke: Frankenstein's Monster is a murderous abomination Woke: The Creature is his abandoned son, with righteous grievances Bespoke: The Monster is Frankenstein's son and therefore a Swiss Aristocrat and must be dealt with by the Revolution

The Gulf of Aqaba has such weird fucked little borders, there are four countries around this narrow little edge, for a gulf that then is not clear at all in bigger maps. There's the Israel of it all ofc, but still

So there is inter-gamer Discourse between people who skip cut-scenes and those who vehemently don't right?

Fine Gael has never won the Presidency? Ireland... Always something

Maybe not the most original "It was all a dream"-bit but maybe the most visceral is Red Dwarf's classic "It was all a game and you were playing it all wrong" Spall's perfect "It's a blatant clue isn't it!" jumps around in my head all the time www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVup...

Going back to the 90s to warn various sitcom and cartoon producers about this thing called 'Streaming' and how their show will be forgotten and fade into obscurity if they include too much licensed music in it

Really, the nerve of that reddit post title assuming *I* had never heard of Perry Rhodan. Come the fuck on man

I have read zero LitRPGs but I hate them already. Sorry. If I wanted to worry about stats I would play an RPG.

American superhero comic readers saying that the bloated continuity isn't off-putting seems untrue to me: the sales figures keep declining! Something about the combination of hyper-continuity but with basically no mortality/character loss across multiple works is clearly not working for most readers

Novel solution for theodicy: God doesn't know if he's really omnipotent and unsure if maybe there's another God above him? I guess that's just a screwier non-omnipotence

Fuck, I'm not going to get much more use out of this image OTOH this will still be just over 20 year since the first film, by 2 days

Lizard people coming from a Robert E. Howard story is my favourite version of this, and not even a Conan story, a Kull story

Are Jesus siblings the only indisputedly Biblical figures who are nonetheless non-canonical in every major Christian sect?

I love so much of 50s illustration- this style of loose confident work especially

Jesus Christ Mahathir is somehow still alive

Bellerophon never got overexposed like Prometheus has, I guess his heavenly treason is less clear OTOH it is very imagistic But them's the break when the vagaries of history don't preserve your play

So did they ever catch George Lucas?

I would like to see a map of where in Europe the English-language announcements on public transport are done in an English versus where in an American accent

Surely there's some organisation out there that is Quixotically trying to reunite the Catholic and Protestant churches

The Book of the New Sun.

The scene in the Hobbit where Gandalf tricks Beorn to let the Dwarves stay by introducing them one at the time ends up presaging not just the LOTR but also the entire fantasy genre of increasingly expanding trilogies

Rare surprise for me; I thought Veep had just 6 seasons, get to go one more season now

Yes thats right

In this dystopian future people are ranked on a 1-10 scale from Hot! to Not! but then one plucky 10 finds it in herself to maybe dream... About being a zero

It is the 21st century, the Catholic Church should be having more schisms than ever before or it should be healing schisms so big its swallowing up other religions too

People use "one of the most" way too frequently, often an unnecessary hedging. "Jesus is one of the most important people in Christianity" - of course we can't neglect mentioning doubting Thomas or the pope Cletus

Lives rent-free in my mind - oppressive, parasitic, financialisation of everything Bounces around in my head - fun, dynamic, bounce-house theory of mind

Ken Marino as the therapist in Happy Endings saying "Therapy is a two way street David" comes up in my head all the time

My politics remain clear and unchanging: Czechoslovakism now and forever

Black square (“and so on to infinity…” inscribed in Latin around its edges) representing the nothingness that was prior to the universe, as pictured by the great occult philosopher Robert Fludd, who himself passed into infinity #onthisday in 1637. publicdomainreview.org/essay/b... #OTD

I mean we don't even know if Victor Frankenstein created that monster maybe those body-parts just did that

radical Tolkien scholar who believes he translated the LOTR but did write The Hobbit, sort of a Kalevala situation

Every word in this long weird explanation is so funny

So what's going on here

Finally cleared the old HSE Covid vaccination card out of my wallet - only, what, three years since the one and only time I was asked to show it?

what's crazy about the Drew Carey show in season 4 he absolute pulls off that dye-blonde hair goatee more suspicious tho

Bojack Horseman the actor should appear in more movies