It's almost *too* fitting that Smiling Friends has become host to what may or may not be an ARG featuring half a dozen Youtube channels, some, all, or none of which may be run by the show's creators/staff, where it's now impossible to tell what, if anything, is or isn't "part of it".

As usual, everything Stephanie Sterling has ever said about video game executives and the scumbag business models they promoted was completely correct. If anything, her suppositions *under*estimated their depravity, if only because the true scope was so utterly incalculable.

I don't know what was more painful: Tonight's game, or all the AI slop ads it was filled with.

I don't think the Patriots' plan of letting a Make A Wish kid QB for them worked out tonight. Perhaps once he's gone through puberty, he'll start to come into his own.

Okay #Marvel, the MCU now officially contains Mr. Immortal, Doorman, Monica Rambeau, and Elsa Bloodstone. So, I assume once you've officially added mutants to the MCU, you'll complete the teams and finally give us Great Lakes Avengers and Nextwave, right? RIGHT?!

The only review of Melania you, or anyone, will ever need.

Hey, you want to see a man on Youtube talk about an upcoming movie about a nostalgic nerd property, but *not* be a brokebrained weirdo about it? I know, it sounds too good to be true, but here it is, a normal, well-considered take on the new He-Man movie! (also he could use the clicks)

People all over the internet are cracking wise about this, but honestly it's pretty cool that the sometimes-actually-good Virtual Boy games are getting another chance, after the original console flopped (including unreleased titles!). www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVva...

Bob is the first person to clue me into this particular reading of HP, when he brought it up years ago. Totally flipped my understanding of the series on its head, and really adds weight to the argument that it was never as good as we may have thought.

Hot take: Nintendo's habit of referring to games as "The (game's title) game!" makes them sound like *fucking pod people*. Just say the game's title!

Currently thinking about that time Dickie Goodman invented Youtube Poops thirty years before Youtube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeYC...

Hey @humblebundle.com why are you emailing me about some AI slop """"coding"""" tools? Are you in the snake oil business now? I remember when you guys used to be really big into supporting artists, but I guess capitalism makes fools of us all. (and no, I'm not linking it, it doesn't deserve it)

If you've ever wanted to say to yourself, "Chris Pratt is too good for this movie", it appears your very specific wish has come true.

@causeimdanjones.bsky.social I can't believe I'm @ing corrections at someone, but Cowboy Bebop, Yu Yu Hakusho, and Inuyasha were on *Adult Swim*, not Toonami (though YYH *did* move to Toonami around the Dark Tournament arc, and was then shunted to the Saturday 6 AM death slot for the Sensui arc).

Hey @gallego.senate.gov I'm one of your constituents, and I'd just like to say, keep it up. This is a good look for you. Very electable. @captmarkkelly.bsky.social You're doing alright, too, but let's see some more hammering on the "disobey illegal orders" front. I wanna see some hustle!

Sounds like Bob's technical issues pushed the review from being precisely the next day to being... 28 hours later. 😎

Bob's a damn good film critic, but it's stuff like *this* that's really why I've been following his work ever since his earliest days on Youtube. Some of the best video essays you could ever treat yourself to.

Nick Knacks is one of the best things on the internet these days, and it's now entering what may be one of its most important runs of episodes. Give it a watch, and if you're in position to do so, maybe slip him a few bucks to help keep the lights on.

I'll be honest, I didn't think ICE would finally go mask-off as a modern day Einsatzgruppen until at least after the midterms. Well, hopefully we're all prepared to defend ourselves and each other from the death squads.

The worst/only bad thing about playing a game by Kotaro Uchikoshi is that it's impossible to talk to anyone about it unless you've both completely finished it, or by chance meet someone in the *exact* same place as you, because, even just a few hours of playtime makes a *galaxy* of difference.

Happy New Year, all! www.youtube.com/watch?v=92tl...

I once braved the throng of Homestuck fans to greet Andrew Hussie at a convention, jokingly (though sincerely) lauding all sorts of comics he'd made *before* MSPA, as though I were unaware of his vastly more well-known work. I hope he got the joke.

I watched this one a few weeks ago, and it was fantastic. Bob's review isn't quite as glowing as mine would be, but I'm a big fan of mysteries in general so I'm very much the target audience. Also if you want more Rian Johnson mysteries, go watch Poker Face, it's excellent.

Pretty sure most of us were gonna sleep on this one, so props to Bob for highlighting that it's actually pretty good at what it's going for. Also, just give the man some clicks; Youtube is a hellscape right now and he ain't makin' that Mr. Beast money.

Merry messy Kweznuz, everyone!

Protip: If you use an adblocker (and if you're on the internet, you should), you can manually block website elements from the right-click menu, and this includes all the AI bullshit Google and other companies keep trying to force onto every website.

Another sign that human civilization has hit a dead end: People are now "stealth camping", which is basically just roleplaying vagrancy. Some motherfuckers just do *not* have enough problems in their lives. Literally gentrifying the concept of homelessness. The fuck are we even doing as a species?

If you're craving some *positive* talk about Star Wars, or films in general, given the current state of Youtube, Moviebob's Really That Good (and its sibling series, Good Enough Movies and This Movie Exists) are all very much worth your time!

I honestly missed or forgot the first film even got finished and released, but apparently the sequel's out, and Bob's got a review! (also if you're in a position to do so please give him money, I would like for him to be able to keep making videos)

I guess big thanks this year to @secretsleepoversociety.com for their assistance in my never-ending battle against insomnia. Without you, @jonbois.bsky.social, and @foldablehuman.bsky.social, I'd *never* get to sleep!

Hey @danfloydplus.bsky.social @causeimdanjones.bsky.social my Youtube recap says my most-watched type of content is "Elden Ring *strategies*". Guess who the only Elden Ring players I've watched this year are. Feel like they're using the word "strategy" pretty loosely. 😋

Prompts that no plagiarism machine could possibly fulfill satisfactorily: "The Gochizo and resultant Kamen Rider form Gavv would get from eating Anton Berg chocolates."

Hey, the lady what did the Vampire Survivors bestiary is doing videos on the Youtubes now? Feels vaguely familiar, like some long-distant memory of something that used to happen on a weekly basis, but either way it's a good video!

He looks like Gore Vidal's Earth-3 counterpart.

You know, tedious "leftists" love to say "I'm sure the Middle Eastern children would be glad to know that the bombs are being dropped by a woman" but let's flip that around a sec. "I'm sure the innocent man being sent to El Salvador is comforted that it's a white man sending bombs to Netanyahu."

Like it or not, we exist in a two-party system. The way to get a third party to be viable, is to vote one of the two parties into irrelevance. Vote Democrat until the GOP no longer meaningfully exists, and we might finally get a truly progressive party in the US.

I wanna make something clear: The folks responsible for shit like this? We ain't on the same side. Go back to Twitter and hang out with all the Nazis you seem so desperate to meet up with at the other end of the horseshoe.

You, an idiot: "If the AAA industry collapses, how will we Game™?!" Me, a genius:

oh my god

New Big Picture: "FINALLY, THE EPISODE ABOUT 'SUPERMAN'" - featuring Special Gues @tluz.bsky.social 😁 www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWM3...

Hey @bsky.app @safety.bsky.app @support.bsky.team, there has literally never been a situation in which "less Patton Oswalt" has been a good idea. Put him back. #FreePattonOswalt

Hey, just a reminder that Republicans stealing SNAP from struggling families right before Thanksgiving due to their shutdown may have caused you to miss that Republicans are also stealing SNAP from struggling families right before Thanksgiving through work requirements. Fun!

Republicans in America argue that poor people shouldn't be allowed to eat candy, and *this* is the situation in Australia. Kinda feel like we need to do some make-up work if we wanna keep claiming to be the "greatest country in the world".

Remember, kids: Stay off Twitter, or this could happen to you!

On the one hand, it's pretty nice Dick Cheney's dead. On the other hand, would have been a lot better if it had happened twenty-five years ago.

Hey, just a friendly reminder, when the economy tanks, stock prices fall, and billionaires can buy shares on the cheap and make a profit when the market corrects, wealth they will then hoard forever, meaning the rest of us are just permanently poorer. So that's reason #3 the GOP likes the shutdown.

Another excellent deep-dive into Nickelodeon's past, and especially meaningful to me since we're finally getting more into my childhood with the 1991 season. Shame there wasn't time to talk about the show's *in-universe* crossover episode, the Gary/Frank two-parter, The Tale of Cutter's Treasure.

The worst part about all this bullshit going on is that all the smug assholes who claimed that the only way people would finally wake up was if Trump made their lives bad enough have been completely an unequivocally vindicated. Christ, they're gonna be insufferable next election.

Kinda weird how more people in the media aren't pointing out that Republicans are planning to starve more than forty million people to protect a bunch of pedophiles and make healthcare more expensive. Oh right, news media gets better ratings when people are suffering, so they want it to happen.

@captmarkkelly.bsky.social @gallego.senate.gov Hey, guys, I know we're not one of the affected states (yet), but it might be worth getting on-mic and talking *a lot* about how the GOP is willing to let poor families starve from loss of SNAP benefits just to avoid releasing the Epstein Files.