TIL that 3-point turns can be weaponized

Has anyone ever done a wide scale psychological study of active Threads users? I feel like it’s important to study such a rise in sociopaths.

It’s safe to say that online fandom is just terrible for everything right? Toxic positivity, toxic negativity. You have to really dig into obscure corners of obscure interests to have nuanced chats. Reminds me of how Dis Twitter was when we all first got on vs the influencer culture it spawned.

Using AI for “you’ve heard of Elf on the Shelf…” memes is the ultimate combining of two of the most insufferable social media trends.

The thing about this point in history is that when they look back at this insanity, it wont be from grainy footage or a few memoirs or some government cases. The proof is literally everywhere. People will be just dumbfounded at all of this idiocy.

The impacts that having such openly vile opinions while your indiscretions and indecency towards others are championed will be virtually irreparable in whatever moral foundation is left for the future. How are we to raise children to be respectful of humanity when they rarely see it in adults?

Time to find a new baseball team. Or maybe just a new sport since this one sucks.

One of the great things about Better Call Saul was how much it sidestepped what so many prequel stories seem to do lately. Sure it gave depth to Jimmy/Saul that we didn’t always see in Breaking Bad, but it didn’t attempt to justify his flaws. He made bad choices.

Me, 2 minutes into Wicked, Part 1: “ugh why are they singing!?” Me, listening to my wife and son describe Wicked: For the Sith: “That’s a total retcon! It doesn’t make sense! She wasn’t misunderstood. Well at least tell me they eventually showed her as nasty and ugly?”

Has a movie studio as legendary as Warner Bros had a harsher, more mind-boggling plummet?

To me, modern Christmas music era starts around Little Saint Nick. Basically once who we know as classic rock bands and Motown started making Christmas songs. All the crooning and choir crap before that is traditional. Contemporary is a different meaning. To me that’s just always recent years.

U2 Billy Joel & Elton John The Police The National Depeche Mode

Everything is stupid.

The box office is validating Disney’s worst filmmaking trends. It’s just going to be “live” action remakes and inferior sequels from here out. Meanwhile two great Marvel movies didn’t conquer at the box office and we need to hear about stifling their output.

How are these movies going to make a profit?

So much symbolism

50!!

1. I honestly didn’t think Cheney was still alive. 2. We all agree that the President will simultaneously honor him and insult him, right?

Damnit Canada

I’ve never actually been to D.C. (which is absurd having lived all my life in NJ). My friend took his family there recently and I said I couldn’t see myself doing it anytime soon. I just can’t reconcile the history with the volume of terrible people operating there and what it’s become a symbol of.

"Sad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart with the removal of our beautiful statues and monuments," he tweeted.

Drew Struzan posters made any movie look like it was going to be great. Today’s posters make great movies look like they could’ve sucked.

The amount of bullpen games that happen in short playoff series in baseball is embarrassing and just makes me want to abandon the sport. How do teams get this far and then think this is a sound strategy, particularly when they gas their bullpens by pulling their good starters so early?

12 years old, you say?

Please don’t take medical advice from a couple of unnaturally-colored cokeheads.

Iger realized they were going to have to cast Scott Baio as Wolverine and finally caved.

Big News at D23: We got to see the Avengers logo! People are Miro boarding ideas for lands! A cartoon logo! A bunch of sequels! Walt Disney’s favorite film Ice Age’s 18th sequel gets a subtitle! Castle returning to original color! New garbage bag colors! A sidewalk! Something something story!

Good lord I need to get rich quick

When Chadwick Boseman passed away, the MCU lost both a charismatic actor and a character that would’ve been at the core of the heroes moving forward. Some heroes have been undermined by the quality of subsequent stories (Thor, Sam/Cap) while some aren’t meant to be at the core (Shang Chi, Spidey).

Some variation of “Under no circumstances look to the right, men!” from MST3K, whenever watching other movies ‘hide’ characters in plain sight. And another MST3K gag: whenever a character points at another (in dramatic tone): “Pull my finger.”

I would boycott CBS but it’s a trash heap I already go nowhere near. But maybe I’ll find another way to watch Strange New Worlds and avoid Paramount’s shitty streamer.

I’ve had virtually every major reveal in Ironheart spoiled because Instagram insists on dumping Threads teases in my feed. I’m just there to look at photos, not ragebait and spoilers. These techbros and their inventions are the worst.

Is it the 5th of July yet?

History books & classes are helpful in providing context & analysis to things that happened in the past. They will do the same in the future looking back to today. But the thing is…we already know this crap is absurd. I don’t need to wait 100 years to read about the psychology of cultists.

So many Brian Wilson tributes seem to have no idea which songs he wrote lyrics to, which songs he sang, or which songs he was a part of at all.

When your trips to WDW are infrequent like mine, the changes always feel more jarring. Last visit was 2022 and Future World was an absolute mess. Parts of DHS felt so foreign to me. Next time I walk through Frontierland, it’s going to be depressing.

I need to ask the All Mighty Algorithm, why the hell do you think I want to read about Bill Belichik and his girlfriend? EVERY. DAMN. DAY???

It’s kinda cool that in the span of a few weeks we got a Marvel thing that got pretty deep into some internalized psychological things and a Star Wars thing that dove into externalized psychological things. Neither that far removed from efforts that ham-handedly stuck Red Hulk or Leia into stuff.

Somehow, the sequel trilogy returned

The more Andor we get, the more annoyed I get at the overwhelming majority of other Star Wars stories that ultimately botched all the directions they could’ve gone from the original trilogy.

Happy Quattro de Mayo! Algorithms incessantly send me posts from people with the dumbest Star Wars takes. Mostly too dumb to be ragebait. I miss when all of this was quieter and more thought provoking.

It’s exhausting that people still point out issues with the MCU that have been inherent to comic books for over 60 years. I never read a Spider-Man comic book and thought “why aren’t the X-Men helping? Where’s Daredevil?” You don’t need to wonder where other heroes are during Thunderbolts.

Everything is awful, Day 103

The state of things right now feels so on brand for Gen X. We were born in the shadow of Vietnam and civil unrest, middle age was punctuated by war and 9/11…we’ll spend the rest of our lives watching the country fall apart and be unable to retire.

Every time I read about Morgan Wallen, I wonder why we as a society go to such great lengths to keep him relevant. You’re telling me there isn’t some other cowboy lined up behind him willing to also write about whiskey or whatever.