no one is fucking with ME

announced at the end of this post: I'm going to be going up to 5 posts a month on Rodent Reflections (one per week plus the roundups). your support has made it viable for me to write full-time and it means the world to me.

imagine going on a family vacation with Kratos and his wife, every 5 seconds they're going "a gas station.....we could stop there and resupply"

the rodent roundup for May is up! featuring Western novels and Western Conference Finals champions, lunatic wrestlers and The Discourse Du Jour. open.substack.com/pub/capybaro...

i know Lillard is voicing the popular take but honestly playing 007 First Light made me realize how much better it can be to just hire real actors. voice actors are often just worse! heard an anime dub lately?

my personal favorite liminal experience: i used to work in a mall and i'd show up for 6am opening shifts at like 4:30am just to wander the building and shoot little videos like this

NEW POLLING: What would be your preferred sex position with Pomni from “The Amazing Digital Circus?” Backshots: 18% Missionary with eye contact: 33% Unenthusiastic handjob: 39% Don’t know / No preference: 10% Rasmussen / May 2026 n=60000

yeah sorry if i don't want to hear about how hard it is to fight in wars or whatever from someone who didn't live through being an M. Night Shyamalan fan between 2013 and 2015

I saw your profile, nothing you could ever say will interest me. Goodbye.

Repurposing this as a pride graphic

chet 4/4/0 with 1 made fg in a game 7 at home

SGA FOR THREE

SGA disappearing in the 4th and Chet having his Ben Simmons moment. is it OverKC

spurs/knicks finals would heal the world

(end of a Columbo episode) there's just one more thing that's bothering me.....i watched you do it. saw the whole thing. filmed it with this camera here.

wrote about the 2004 anime Monster and how it both invented the modern prestige streaming formula and outdid every single show in the same mold. i also disclosed how it inspired me to take part in the stupidest creative project of all time. open.substack.com/pub/capybaro...

For @reverseshot.bsky.social, we have another video gaming roundtable, featuring me, @kambole.bsky.social, @capybaroness.bsky.social, @woahitsjuanito.bsky.social, and @winnersusedrugs.bsky.social

Backrooms embargo is up, so i can officially say: i liked it! Parsons does a good job of porting over the appeal of his webseries, the quiet exploration of those eerie yellow rooms. screenplay is a little rough but overall a thoughtful debut lwlies.com/reviews/back...

i watched The Mandalorian and Grogu, and reviewed The Mandalorian and Grogu, and let that be the last time i ever need to type those proper nouns. this is as bad as it gets as far as movies are concerned. open.substack.com/pub/capybaro...

no fucking way is there a canon star wars character called crakka the hutt are you for real

some are saying that if the knicks #DoTheDouble by becoming dual Cup/Ring champions then they will be ranked above the jordan bulls as the greatest team in nba history

it's awesome how the conference finals this year are 3 teams peaking at the exact right time, all of them in historic ways in some fashion, and then there's the Cavs

i watched The Mandalorian and Grogu, and reviewed The Mandalorian and Grogu, and let that be the last time i ever need to type those proper nouns. this is as bad as it gets as far as movies are concerned. open.substack.com/pub/capybaro...

Love your vibes, Dan! :)

chokelahoma shitty blunder

Mamdani's New York:

finished watching this today. best show ever ???

we were robbed of an insane battle

making plans for an early sunday morning and bailing on them is so awesome........it's like now i get this whole morning for free

did you doubt him?

(reading Against the Day) huh, that name sounds like Pajitnov, like Alexei Pajitnov, the inventor of Tetris (one paragraph later) oh my fucking god

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander Trying To Draw Foul While Shooting Free Throw

Razorbills have the slickest design in the animal kingdom. They look like they were made by Yves Saint Laurent

I love gay men but can you open a Bluesky channel so the rest of us don’t have to watch your work out videos. You look great, btw…I just don’t need to see it in my feed.

rip Barney Frank, i hope they bury you in your disgusting blue shirt

incredible book. a very sad, bitter western anti-myth set in a late 20th America that, like Pynchon's Zone, has yet to settle on the fundamental rules of reality and is unprepared when a decision is made for it. "You know Warlock's second biggest industry? Coffin manufacture."

Woman next to me on the bus saw me tweet this and immediately got up. Fairs

donovan mitchell on this graphic like he's a real draw

victorious wembanyama is opening my third eye tonight

i saw the face of god tonight

i don't say this lightly: they are hooping omg

in like 2 years minimum you'll start seeing posts like "can you remember when we actually had Chet vs Wemby debates?"

finally getting some decent nba talk on this site

i've seen hundreds of episodes of At The Movies and i can promise anyone reading this that both of those men were complete lunatics and fools with a perfectly equal share of deranged and nonsensical opinions. that being said, easily one of the best tv shows of all time.

my free first look review of Jane Schoenbrun’s heady, sexy, utterly beguiling new film Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is up now! open.substack.com/pub/capybaro...