Update: Recording will be on Tuesdays instead

#MulticulturalMetalMonday week 16: North Macedonia 🇲🇰 www.youtube.com/watch?v=SS39...

#MulticulturalMetalMonday week 15: Venezuela 🇻🇪 Esto es solamente una cancion sobre un relacion malo. Pero su titulo es "Invisible." Considera esto un aviso: cuando alguien malvado esta hacio, es lo mas importante que todos no cerramos los ojos a la injusticia. Viva Venezuela. youtu.be/iST2eTWR6gU

Random plan. Send me anime OP's and ED's. I'll respond with my opinion of them. Or don't. I'm not your teacher, I can't make you do homework.

Shout-out to apples for having a nice distinct core that you can eat around and easily avoid all the seeds. Get it together, oranges.

The homophobes are forcing me to defend a Stranger Things scene I didn't even like that much. More annoyingly, the shippers are forcing me to defend a Stranger Things scene I didn't even like that much.

#MulticulturalMetalMonday week 14: Botswana 🇧🇼 Botswana has, without a doubt, one of the coolest metal subcultures around the world. Skinflint was founded with the ideal of exploring the potential of the metal scene in Africa, taking inspiration from African mythology. youtu.be/IcPLcjnS2iM

Sometimes when I'm trying to get a country to do #MulticulturalMetalMonday, the random country picker I use plays a prank on me.

100% would have to do Mastermind Rogue for this. Spying, blackmail, being able to read a situation, Hiruma lives and dies by those abilities. Personally I would also multi class into Battle Master Fighter for his contributions on the field, which are through facilitating his teammates.

Few sounds in life more satisfying than an opposing team's fans complaining about the refs.

#MulticulturalMetalMonday (very belated) week 13: Phillipines 🇵🇭 Razorback has been around for like thirty years, and some of their stuff is really fun and funky. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW3-...

You will be visited by three spirits (and their dog)

Coming out of the theater after seeing Wicked this weekend: Me: I don't like how the ending was written. Nicole: That IS how things happened in the Broadway musical. Me: WELL THEN I DON'T LIKE HOW THE MUSICAL WAS WRITTEN!

So here's the plan for the extra monthly WMR episode: -Every series normally discussed on WMR -The new series that we have already dropped -I will cover three MORE series, based on my personal preference AND ALSO YOURS So if you want me to talk about a series we normally don't cover, let me know.

#MulticulturalMetalMonday week 12: Qatar 🇶🇦 So this is tricky because Qatar barely has any published ROCK music, let alone metal specifically. There are a few underground bands with a handful of songs posted online, though. But there's someone I should make additional note of. youtu.be/RB5RzK0ub3U

Fine day for mayoring.

#MulticulturalMetalMonday week 11: Nicaragua 🇳🇮 Nicaragua doesn't have many successful bands, to the point I was more often running into the same American album with "Nicaragua" in the title. Then I eventually came across this beautiful track by the unsigned group Excelsyum: youtu.be/0duUuxqaMPg

#MulticulturalMetalMonday week 10: South Africa 🇿🇦 It's spooky week, so let's get gothic with Terminatryx. youtu.be/NeiJPjnqfkM

My hand slipped.

General shipping opinion: Enemies-to-lovers is not an inherently good ship dynamic. This is because not all adversarial relationships in fiction are built on contrasts. For example, Protagonist x The Protagonist's Evil Clone is almost always a garbage ship.

#MulticulturalMetalMonday week 9 is Italy 🇮🇹 which means I have an excuse to post my favorite Rhapsody (of Fire) songs. To start with, here's the track that first got me into power metal. FACE ME EVIL BASTARD SMELL THE BLOOD OF ANGELS GLORY PRIDE AND BLOODSHeEeD youtu.be/GyHPK0m6orI

My wife @dirtynerdygirly.bsky.social asked me what Randy Savage's team would be if he were a Pokemon trainer, and I took her prompt far too seriously. Here is the result.

#MulticulturalMetalMonday week 8: Maldives 🇲🇻 Fasylive has been active for over twenty years, and their music is a bit wide-ranging to be characterized as purely metal. But screw it, the guitars are good. youtu.be/8Jxw1trJDQU

Sparky gets to live and Mr. Whiskers doesn't. Fuck this movie. letterboxd.com/nikftime/fil...

Hey all! I have some expensive events coming up, and have put together a package of podcasts on Patreon to help me offset those costs. It's available here for just $5, and you get five bonus podcasts and an incredible piece of art from @dirtynerdygirly.bsky.social (18+ feed).

#MulticulturalMetalMonday week 7: Andorra 🇦🇩 Andorra is one of the smallest nations in Europe, with a population of less than 90,000. One of the biggest musical acts from the nation, period, is prog metal band Persefone. youtu.be/rSlYrbibiD4

Forgot to post #MulticulturalMetalMonday because I was wiped out yesterday. Week 6: Ethiopia 🇪🇹 Nishaiar's music is strange and engrossing, ambient black metal with elements of shamanic music that combine to make something almost hypnotic. youtu.be/AExcC3BriQ8

The problem with Brave, ultimately, is that we're supposed to see Merida and her mother as equally to blame for the rift that forms between them, but one of them is a parent with full control of her daughter's life. letterboxd.com/nikftime/fil...

#MulticulturalMetalMonday week 5: Costa Rica 🇨🇷 Honestly got choice paralysis from this one. Hundreds of small metal acts have uploaded their songs online, but at the same time none of the really big acts seriously appealed to me. In the end I decided to go with Dream of Fire: youtu.be/6gHx173AbEk

Israel has been accused of rigging the televote in order to boost its entries, to serve as a form of propaganda on an international stage. It really shouldn't have taken so long for people to start taking these measures.

#MulticulturalMetalMonday week 4: Timor-Leste, aka East Timor 🇹🇱 Sanctuary Golgota isn't to my usual taste for metal, but it's fun to see bands that metal growl in other languages - in this case, Tetum. youtu.be/VjrQSAko_8Y

My viking heritage entitles me to say that neither of you dipshits are getting in.

Slightly belated #MulticulturalMetalMonday week 3: Solomon Islands 🇸🇧 An Oceanian archipelago with a population of about 750,000, the nation recently produced metalcore band Sons of Solomon. If they ever actually record an album, I will absolutely buy it, because damn. youtu.be/CpIYsBtdLAw

"I'm never going to finish this video idea I had, so I might as well turn it into a topic for a WMR bonus episode." (I have to read a 500-page non-fiction book in preparation for the eventual discussion.) "HOW COULD ME DO THIS TO ME!?"

#MulticulturalMetalMonday week 2: Lebanon 🇱🇧 It turns out that Lebanon has no shortage of metal bands, but the hottest act out of the nation right now is the queer all-female thrash group Slave to Sirens. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaZd...

Going to try doing a small thing for my own amusement: MULTICULTURAL METAL MONDAY Every week I'm going to try to find a metal act from a different country. The one that came up on the random country picker this week was Monaco 🇲🇨 so here's Black Knight Symfonia: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hd8d...

I dunno man I just don't like jazz that much. letterboxd.com/nikftime/fil...

This is an actual thing that actually happens in an official one-shot spinoff by the original creators of Death Note.

I don't know what the hell is going on with the sound production on Kaiju No. 8 S2. It's like there are literally audio tracks missing for multiple sequences. It's insanely distracting for intense action scenes to sound so quiet, it's like they're hollow.

The spaghetti scene from Lady & the Tramp takes on a different context when you realize the restauranteurs don't know animals are sentient. They put on this fancy dinner for two random dogs and try to get them to bone, presumably because it's 1909 and TV doesn't exist yet so they're bored as fuck.

I find it hilarious that one of the most important creators in the history of the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise happens to share names with a wrestler who would poke people in the throat with fake metal fingers. (Takashi Iizuka)

Ravi is not feeling well, and we're quite worried about him right now. Very low appetite, and blood work at the vet shows he has a low white blood cell count. Hoping the medication they gave us improves his appetite.

Over the last several months I replayed all the mainline Arkham games. I don't have any opinions on them as a whole that I would consider groundbreaking or surprising, but I just wanted to get out some thoughts on Riddle-hunting across the series.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=02EK... Neither @rollot.bsky.social nor myself had watched Evangelion before reading the manga for this review. It was an odd feeling to go into this discussion knowing we had so little experience with the franchise, but I think it turned out great.

HAPPY DIGIMON DAY! Today is August 1st, which means it's time to announce my return to YouTube. I'll be launching multiple new video series this month, in better quality than I have ever been able to achieve before. Thank you to everyone who patiently supported me while I worked away at this thing.

I think it's difficult to quantify what a ridiculously gross and selfish person Hulk Hogan was. The dude screwed over his peers any chance he got for the sake of ensuring his own pockets were lined. He killed pro wrestling's best chance at having a union - indirectly costing people their lives.

Ozzy had to leave this mortal plane because Hell needed someone to oversee the arrival of Hulk Hogan.

When I went to see Superman yesterday, there was an older guy there, probably in his 60s, wearing a T-shirt that had the cover of Action Comics #1 printed on it. Very neat way to begin the viewing.

I get that we want to comment on the fact that the world's biggest asshole is likely hiding a serious illness, but please stop being so eager to put gross images of his skin on my timeline.