The finale of the Beanie Babies trilogy is out, and The End is approaching. shows.acast.com/im-from-the-...

Declaring assassination attempts to be fake based entirely on vibes and your distaste of the target is the kind of thing past generations needed a Fox News to coach them through.

If Mr Beast wanted to buy his way into some kind of organic fandom, he could just anonymously bankroll tons of small independent games and films. Then if one of them is good enough to achieve fandom on its own he has an in with that fandom as the guy who saw its potential from the very beginning.

Dudes who live for calling keyboard and mouse "the best controller", upon hearing that launch of the Steam controller is imminent

Iran had our number when they said we don't have any actual cultural heroes to look to. We're building them out of Legos now.

Listening to the BtB about Jimmy Saville. American listeners saying things like "how have the Brits not burned down parliament by now" when at this very moment a Michael Jackson hagiography is in theaters here and Americans have much more pressing reasons to be burning things down but still aren't.

As something of a muckraker myself, I was pleased as punch to have Frost of Rivia guest on an episode today

I couldn't remember the name of Moonbase Alpha

As someone who used to carry nailpolish remover wipes in my glove compartment to take down InfoWars stickers, I wish the Onion luck and know they'll be very funny but I really can't imagine paying money for a shirt or tote bag with an InfoWars logo on it no matter who the money goes to.

Andy Serkis seems to think that since he's good at dancing around in a ping-pong ball suit he must also be good at satire

It is very funny that after all that struggling and hype, Coyote vs Acme is yet another "CGI cartoon character interacting with live action celebrities in the real world" movie and it's doing Bee Movie's plot of building a legal drama around a wacky cartoon concept.

I wish more Disco Elysium fans internalized the moral about it being bad to be an insane communist taking potshots at innocent people instead of getting therapy, but the fact that I still see them angrily invoking Witch Alps years after the fact suggests otherwise.

"Humans weren't built to live in concrete boxes" We used to be cavemen, caves are literally stone boxes. You got your cause and effect backwards, we long to return to the cave. That's why all those liminal underground pool images are so popular, it reminds us of caves.

The Twilight Zone told me that a casino where you can't lose is hell, but the popularity of Vampire Survivors and Vampire Crawlers would suggest otherwise

Part two of our Beanie Babies trilogy is out! Lina Trivedi, the young woman who designed the Beanie Baby website, is still being paid $12 an hour. Ty Warner is now a billionaire. A generation of McDonald workers are traumatized. shows.acast.com/im-from-the-...

As someone who doesn't follow manga/anime, learning about BLAME! and realizing that the reason half of all indie games take place in a giant brutalist megastructure is because they're all copying each others' homework is so depressing.

A site that peaked in the 2010s labelling itself "old internet" is like how there are now three different generations claiming to be the last one without participation trophies.

Recording the Ouya episode tomorrow.

An asexual AD account for yelling at people who don't tag their nudes without putting it on your followers timeline.

Steam users, if you're tired if the top of your Library page being a parade of ads for sequels and crowdfunding campaigns for plush toys you can click the little gear next to What's New and turn it off. Developers, this is why nobody wants to give you their email address or register an account.

Astroneer's UI-less interface takes a while to get used to, but once you do it feels like playing with toys in a good way. Everything snaps together in standardized ways that are clearly signalled and translate easily across all the different gameplay systems.

MR BEAST: My explicit stated goal is to make entertainment that is as frictionless as possible to get as big an audience as possible. I intentionally remove as much personality as I can from the media I make because I view that as friction. PEOPLE WITH COLLEGE DEGREES: This man has no personality

We all need to buy the Internet Archive book because this whole thing started when authors thought that burning down the library of alexandria would improve their sales. So what better way to stick it to them then beating them at their own game and making the Internet Archive a bestseller?

Well yeah if anybody is an expert on how cloistering yourself from the rest of society and obsessing over fake shit makes you a monster that doesn't care about other people it's the Catholic church

If you are writing an article where you declare the fandom of a super popular thing to be toxic, and that their toxicity is an illustration of a greater societal ill...but your proof of said toxicity is four tweets? Then you are in no position to be lecturing other people about information literacy.

Caveman Scientists Horrified to Discover Unprecedented Levels of Microagriculture In Environment. "Good Sun, There's Cow Milk In Their Bones" Despairs Lead Researcher Boogum Humbus of Yon Cave

I just found out about the podcast Search Engine and was wondering why it was so much worse than Reply All despite being the same guy. Sure enough, the Anthropic episode is the host talking about how AI is his first stop for researching shows and he doesn't get why people are so skeptical of it.

I just got confirmation that I'm getting state health insurance next month, so if my posting drops off that means they found something that works for me.

gonna be real, if I had Mr Beast level power and money (and the lack of scruples necessary to achieve that), tricking someone into spending a whole trip in the proximity of someone they had done a scathing takedown of and publicly dislike is exactly the kind of thing I would want to do

Boomer Shooters are following the same arc they did the first time: A big breakout title with a singular vision puts the genre on the map, we get a few years of imitators, then the genre gets bloated with gimmicks and licenses and flashy graphics while ignoring fundamentals until it collapses.

Thinking of pivoting from mean commentary on internet history to digestible, Jeff Foxworthy-esque catchphrase humor about social media. "If you are tagging your senator, the president, the local news anchor, and Buffalo Wild Wings all in the same post...that's a block."

Despite ostensibly being about reverse-engineering motivation for the show, FoldingIdeas' new video on Beast Games is paradoxically the one time I've seen an in-depth critique of Beast Games that isn't mostly armchair psychology about how everyone involved is a sociopathic narcissistic psychopath.

The making fun of Marine Todd to sincerely espousing Antifascist Bartender pipeline

Record store people celebrating record store day by making fun of their customers is a great encapsulation of why people don't like going to record stores.

Blue Maga seeing Maga proper get into their assassination hoax conspiracy theory and instead of going "shit maybe I should rethink things now that the dumbest and most evil people in America think I'm right" they go "finally some common sense, WE THE PEOPLE are waking up!!"

Baby Yoda

I can't find it because the thread is 725 pages long, but after months of this horribly unfunny forced meme being run into the ground one guy finally goes "why are you still doing this it isn't funny" and then everyone stops at once for the rest of the thread's life.

Every Tomodachi Life screenshot on here looks like one of those graphic tees where Megatron transforms into a Tardis only with anime and shipping

I'll never forget seeing The Incredibles in theaters with my father and him complaining about Frozone being "another token black character" when Pixar had never had a black character before and Disney's first animated black protagonist was just three years earlier in Atlantis.

I just found out that Jonathan Coulton has been hosting nerd celebrity cruises for 11 years, which is great because I was just thinking how much I need to spend $6,000 to exist in the same space as the lesser Burch and a side character from a problematic sitcom

It is incredibly on brand that the Krassensteins' favorite video game is Double Dragon, a game about two brothers fighting over the same woman

As someone who talks about people on the internet in an audio medium, I will always be a little jealous of how much more elegant and effective a simple visual callout can be

we're recording the Ouya episode next week, I'm really looking forward to going down the list of failures its designer worked on

When's the last time Dave Chappelle told an actual fucking joke, he's been doing Nanette For Transphobes for like half a decade at this point.

complaining about the performance and moderation of Bluesky on Bluesky

Art student holding a lifelong grudge against their art teacher because the teacher keeps making them draw anime when they just want to practice anatomy.

Bike lane obstruction pictures are the new manspreading pictures.

The Amazing Digital Circus breaking theatrical records while Avatar: The Last Airbender's stab at a movie gets leaked to mediocre reviews is what it looks like when the new generation has arrived but the old generation is running the big studios.

Say what you will about Clavicular, he never killed anyone in a drunk driving accident so by default he is a better role model than Jackass was to my generation