I will treasure forever the roughly 35 seconds that I thought maybe John Rhys-Davies was the lead in the old Shōgun miniseries. I'm still gonna watch it someday if only for Mifune but it was becoming emergency viewing for a second there.

Sorry I've already depicted you as the Man vs. Machine TNG A-Plot and myself as the Jordy Fucks The Computer While Everyone Else Is Using Emergency Power To Shield From Deadly Radiation B-Plot.

If America could only unite our two diametrically opposed types of cosplayer, there's nothing that would be out of our reach.

I'm watching some kind of How It's Made from 20 years ago on the DQ Blizzard and they real casually mentioned that the Blizzard Flavor Scientists will sometimes spend a year developing a new flavor and they really just let you do anything in the 00s.

Saying Brachiosaurus is your favorite dinosaur is crazy

How dare you try tempt me with a cosmic horror tree thumbnail

I guess I just hope that the blasphemous trump image someday explains its lore. Why is the witch king of angmar in the clouds behind him? How did the flag lose roughly half its stars and is it related to the ship from Wing Commander being there?

As I realize I'd never considered where Polywhirl could even wear a tie, the last spark of prejudice leaves my body. A weight begins to lift from my shoulders as my gluten intolerance evaporates away forever.

This week Labyrinth of Cinema covers William Friedkin's To Live and Die in LA, @lowercasejai.bsky.social and I are joined by @nazzadan.bsky.social to discuss the superlative 80s vibes and even a possible Thrillhouse scenario. Links in the reply!

From the start I've loved this podcast about liking cars when you're a kid and then feeling complicated about it now amidst a crumbling empire but for me this episode really takes it into special territory. Exploring the uncanny dissonance of leaving and returning to the US is so real

This is a great thread but I can't stop thinking about the world of this specific post

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It's truly never the part of a sci-fi book becoming true in your lifetime that you want

Labyrinth of Cinema pod watches one of my all timers - Beautiful Dreamer. Join @lowercasejai.bsky.social @cosmicspooks.bsky.social and I as we try to wrangle what might be the entire sum of human existence. Links in the reply.

look at these two notifications I just received back to back after doing nothing but walking into a room. I have never met a carl

Some of y'all (I eventually realized that airport ads cannot be lost media)

The Atlanta airport is full of pictures of Sofia Vergara kissing a sketchers shoe and now I fear I may be too far into the security line to get a picture of it so I can caption it "some of y'all"

Watched Weapons on my phone on a flight and I really recommend "upsetting rashomon" as a way to quickly pass otherwise unpleasant time.

So weird to play a 40 hour JRPG where the ultimate bad guy is a clown. It's like damn is he not taking this apocalyptic battle seriously enough or am I taking it too seriously? Like Kefka isn't right but like he is maybe reading the room correctly.

Also you can just watch this entire movie on YouTube? Lol youtu.be/Ks9JeoL2z9k?...

Labyrinth of Cinema podcast has tackled what is probably the weirdest Shakespeare adaptation? Listen to @lowercasejai.bsky.social and @bigbeefs.bsky.social talk about when the 90s get perhaps too weird (positive). Links in the reply

Spending International Women's Day remembering those who touched our lives

happy international women's day

Can't believe they predicted the vibe of 80s space anime so early

After months of speculation and discourse I'd like to once and for all confirm that Brendan Frasier DOES play Dreamcast in the movie Rental Family. May we all do such a thing soon with someone we love.

The prescience to write this scene AND see the potential of LL Cool J as a comedic lead?

Duvall was so good, in every minute of every role, throughout the decades. they really didn't come better www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zxqk...

In 2012 your friend would invite you out to a show at a dive bar and the opener would be named this

My deepest held belief is that if the jellybelly company can make a jellybean that can make you smell popcorn in 5D, we should just let them run the government.

Dude it's your job to answer this question

1997 AUSTIN POWERS (LOOKS AND ACTS LIKE IF BROSNAN BOND WAS A RAVER): How's all that end of history going, then? Still da bomb? 2027 BASIL: That's why we thawed you out. It was a bit overblown, I'm afraid. 1997 AUSTIN POWERS (THROWING BUCKET HAT TO THE GROUND): Oh, that's so gay

Two posts a month is huge, I'm tapping in on monthly kofi and so should you! Shy's writing makes the world zoom out for me in the best way.

Every Super Bowl ad is for the door in the forest. It’s annoying. “You must walk through the door.” Yeah thanks, I know that already. I dream of the door every night

A tepid football game means another amazing night for 40 second snippets of the lady that pulls beehives out of people's walls. She truly does not miss

Ok but when video compression figures out confetti it's gonna look like your parent's TV with motion smoothing on and you'll hate it.

Finally we have glimpsed the publisher at the heart of the LLMs

This is the hardest MFK I've ever done

a delayed game is eventually good but a canceled game that never comes out and had cool promotional material will be good forever

Mobile Suit Gundam (1979) Episode 42 - Space Fortress A Baoa Qu 06:28.205

Every 2 weeks I watch an Ultra show with friends (currently Ultraseven) and we are just whooping and stunned every time by how much something can absolutely rock

Breaks my heart to share this, but today is my last day at The Verge and I am looking for work! I'd really like to stay in video games, preferably in some kind of journalistic capacity but I can do PR/Marketing and maybe even a lil Narrative Design. Please get in touch! www.ashparrish.com

Buying this so I can use the Extra Indulgent Panda sticker on various items

Rarely have I read an article that so thoroughly "oh, well there's the problem" as this.

the only good LORD OF THE RINGS pitches remaining are "Silmarillion" and "this guy solves mysteries in the Shire"

Live by these fucking words in 2026. Be SPICY and lend a hand.

Me going into 2025 / 2026

Hey girls. It's my birthday, it's new year's eve, but most importantly: it's buddy list day. For the fourth time, here's my annual tradition where I invite my friends to take up some space on my newsletter and talk about how they spent their year. Thanks for reading. 💜 www.shy.center/p/buddy-list...

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