not a fan of how people overcorrected on a lot of the things synonymous with Nintendo YouTubers (i.e. the idea that Mario 64 actually had very little impact on the 3D platformer, Banjo being irrelevant garbage). i don't like the western skew with online VG history either but it's gotten a bit absurd

(40 year old nintendo youtuber voice) Sonic was fucking awesome when I was a kid, but so was Fred Durst. heh, and we all know how THAT one turned out, fellas. at least Fred Durst didn't have edgy anime hedgehogs carrying guns, i guess.

i think my worst vocal stim is calling Amazon "Amerzon" like in these videos youtu.be/DZuzZIirRus?...

if you want to argue against Popular YouTuber and BigToadFan1987 then make it clear that that's what you're doing. a lot of this is just rooted in gotcha's and yet i swear they insist it's meant to be something else (it usually isn't)

also to be blunt, if being a terrible company means Nintendo shouldn't be considered important or culturally relevant to talk about, then video game history would be an incredibly fucking short thing to discuss lol.

for me it feels less like course correction and more like a slight towards Nintendo YouTubers™️ which just kind of spits in the face of the intent. for example, "Banjo sold less than Croc" is an argument that's rooted in Smash discourse as it was a response towards the backlash towards Byleth.

a lot of online VG history is very Nintendo-centric because a lot of it is written by people (mostly in America) who only grew up with Nintendo but the recent trend i've noticed of their importance being severely downplayed (i.e. Mario 64 isn't ACTUALLY notable guys) is kinda fucking ridiculous lol

Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010)

Seen on Mastodon. This is by Dutch cartoonist Tjeerd Royaards.

This movie is not making itself easy to like.

My favorite reply guys

my positive review of The Muppet Show (2026)

It's The Muppet Show with our very special guest star Segata Sanshiro!

I'll accept that Gaiman had elicited some consent-shaped statement from his victims regarding a BDSM relationship. I just view that consent as about as worthwhile as the last quarter century of Gaiman's career. It may have weight legally; it has none whatsoever morally.

Past that, to my mind there's very little refutation to be done here. Even if you disbelieve the more salacious details, you've still got a long term pattern of Gaiman adding a BDSM dynamic with poor to nonexistent safety measures to relationships that already have massive power imbalances.

I find the entire genre of "tens of thousands of words minutely refuting every point of an abuse clam" intrinsically unpersuasive. If any of the evidence were actually damning they'd just highlight that instead of doing a tedious Gish Gallop.

Lisa Simpson is like this cursed time capsule of neoliberal optics because you can see all of these episodes where she’s pointing at elon musk or jk rowling or to tony blair and then she looks at the camera with these shining eyes almost as of to say “look at how special this cameo is!”

While I still have my doubts (there's only so much actual risk-taking a modern CEO can do), him saying this outright feels like a very cheeky way to rebuke the biggest critique against Iger, as someone who plays it safe. It's basically throwing him under the bus without mentioning his name.

“Then again, it’s the whole Reagan program isn’t it- dismantle the New Deal, restore fascism at home and around the world, flee into the past, can’t you feel it, all the dangerous childish stupidity - I don’t like the way it turned out. I want it to be my way.” Pynchon in “Vineland,” 1990

PTA and Pynchon somewhere

pretty funny that it was during Nimoy's 'I am Not Spock' phase too, his idea for escaping being typecast as an emotionless alien was to play an emotionless human controlled by aliens

it is great how Nimoy in Invasion of the Body Snatchers is basically what if Spock was evil

Excited for the Iron Lung Movie

To all those who say protests and walkouts don’t matter. Here are people in private gnashing their teeth about the prospect of a protest against people that in public they put a front to dismiss. Protests matter, and if they say it doesn’t they are lying.

The Markiplier situation with Iron Lung shows just how efficiently movies can turn a buck into two, but the entire industry is on fire because no one wants to just get rich, they want to turn fifty cents into a billion.

"microtransactions in games started by cabal of pedophile elites for the purpose of indoctrinating kids into an economy" Ok. Well, we all knew it was evil somehow but I really didn't expect Epstein to be responsible for why video games are bad now. That's just not what I would've thought.

that said, the Ashkenazi Intelligence Hypothesis is the only type of skull-measuring shit to unaccountably still have an audience in mainstream academia

the token "Jewish people are smart" thing is such a prime example of how stupid all the race science stuff is wow i wonder if there might have been any confounding circumstances that might make Jewish people more likely to value education and other intellectual pursuits nope, must be the skulls

the socialism of fools eventually converges on the socialism of fools

If we still have cultural historians in fifty years, it is just going to become received wisdom that Sean Penn's character in "One Battle After Another" was written as a Greg Bovino parody, and no one is going to believe otherwise.

Jeffrey Epstein, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and Marc Andreessen share an enduring fascination with eugenics, race science, and transhumanism and there is an entire generation of public intellectuals who benefited and continue to benefit from their patronage. Pinker, Huberman, Attia, Weinstein, etc.

Like holy shit "Jeffrey Epstein is the reason /pol/ exists" is a maximally insane statement, but at the same time it also makes the last fifteen years make so much more sense.

darren aronofsky spamming google gemini enough times to get on this day 1776

There's been a persistent rumor on the internet that Darren Aronofsky bought the live-action rights to Satoshi Kon's Perfect Blue, but that was never true. Kon himself stated in his blog that discussions took place, but fell through. Aranofsky never paid, and even had the gall to deny inspirations.

aranofsky ran out of satoshi kon material to copy, huh

My hot take is that at minimum a domestic violence conviction should carry a lot more of the shame and restrictions of a sex offender; it should ban you nationally from gun ownership, jobs in law enforcement, schools, pretty much any public sector work. It’s our clearest red flag for future violence

Found a reminder to myself.

The other site recently had yet another pointless, USA-centric discourse surrounding the topic of “why manga sells better than comics” thanks to DC Comics president Jim Lee. Decided to make a list of factors for anyone looking to have a productive conversation about said topic. (1/2)

Also, it would be deeply freaking if the folks interjecting had genuine involvement and/or interest in both the mediums of graphic novels/comics and manga, especially for any titles currently being made. Otherwise, you just end up doing this Tom Gould cartoon unironically. (2/2)

Never forget the cameo a certain someone had in Iron Man 2, just in case there’s any doubt about who Tony is supposed to represent.

It genuinely keeps coming back to misogyny when it comes to how these twerps think, that it's always somehow the woman's fault for getting assaulted.

kevin feige is so fucking dumb one of the filmmakers who works for him briefly left to make his own vampire movie in a fraction of the time it took for them to fail to figure out a story, and it got nominated for the most oscars in history

Kevin Feige somehow did not understand the appeal of this

You Best Start Believing In Thomas Pynchon novels, Bluesky Friends, you're in one!

People cite 1984 constantly but our future is MUCH closer to Children Of Men

Important context here: Louise Perry is notoriously a TERF, and is openly supportive of JK Rowling’s antitrans crusade.