Gavin G Whiz - Egg Deviler
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Podcast journalist, editor, train nerd, unapologetically trans and queer. Will likely rant about a movie or Discworld at some point. Ride or die physical media defender. 35 (they/them).
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The Problem with YouTube Recap (and Wrapped)
I say this with all due respect and love for the thousands of hours of programming YouTube as a platform has provided me over the past twenty years: it’s too late to debut YouTube Wrapped. We live …
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This year YouTube debuted Recap, a Spotify Wrapped-style retrospective of what you watched on YouTube.
Technically this is an op-ed about how Wrapped is janky on a jack-of-all-trades platform. However, it's also a reflection on what media "matters" vs "consumed."
gavingaddis.com/2025/12/06/t...
Technically this is an op-ed about how Wrapped is janky on a jack-of-all-trades platform. However, it's also a reflection on what media "matters" vs "consumed."
gavingaddis.com/2025/12/06/t...
It sucks how many times I see someone queer be like "my book is about a protag who's fat/disabled/lefty/polyam/trans/insert alphabet mafia-bait here" then you immediately find out the writer's using generative AI or voluntarily running a Substack.
December 27, 2025 at 7:04 PM
It sucks how many times I see someone queer be like "my book is about a protag who's fat/disabled/lefty/polyam/trans/insert alphabet mafia-bait here" then you immediately find out the writer's using generative AI or voluntarily running a Substack.
Netflix truly missed the point by making their Originals second screen friendly. That's YouTube's job.
God invented theme park YouTubers for a reason. They contribute to the delicate ecosystem of second-screen's natural predator: subtitle-only food YouTubers.
God invented theme park YouTubers for a reason. They contribute to the delicate ecosystem of second-screen's natural predator: subtitle-only food YouTubers.
December 27, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Netflix truly missed the point by making their Originals second screen friendly. That's YouTube's job.
God invented theme park YouTubers for a reason. They contribute to the delicate ecosystem of second-screen's natural predator: subtitle-only food YouTubers.
God invented theme park YouTubers for a reason. They contribute to the delicate ecosystem of second-screen's natural predator: subtitle-only food YouTubers.
Finished Dispatch, that was an incredible game*
That * has like five thousand words about superhero fiction treating Batman/Spiderman's no-killing rule as a moral waypoint for every character.
That * has like five thousand words about superhero fiction treating Batman/Spiderman's no-killing rule as a moral waypoint for every character.
December 27, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Finished Dispatch, that was an incredible game*
That * has like five thousand words about superhero fiction treating Batman/Spiderman's no-killing rule as a moral waypoint for every character.
That * has like five thousand words about superhero fiction treating Batman/Spiderman's no-killing rule as a moral waypoint for every character.
Culver's Mac & Cheese: truly the blandest fast food Mac and cheese I've encountered.
It's wild to experience given half of the place is built around "we have cheese."
It's wild to experience given half of the place is built around "we have cheese."
December 27, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Culver's Mac & Cheese: truly the blandest fast food Mac and cheese I've encountered.
It's wild to experience given half of the place is built around "we have cheese."
It's wild to experience given half of the place is built around "we have cheese."
Enshittification for specific niche things is harder to demonstrate to the wider world but I think Easy Anti Cheat, the anti-cheat used by SO many huge online games, going down multiple times before, during, and after Christmas is a great example of "things that used to just work are getting worse."
December 26, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Enshittification for specific niche things is harder to demonstrate to the wider world but I think Easy Anti Cheat, the anti-cheat used by SO many huge online games, going down multiple times before, during, and after Christmas is a great example of "things that used to just work are getting worse."
🎶I saw Goody Proctor kissing Santa Claus underneath the mistletoe last night🎶
December 25, 2025 at 3:09 PM
🎶I saw Goody Proctor kissing Santa Claus underneath the mistletoe last night🎶
I can never purchase a Cameo from a celebrity because I love the idea my experience on that platform started and ended with commissioning a gay clown to do a fake tarot reading for my friend with cards he made up.
December 25, 2025 at 12:23 AM
I can never purchase a Cameo from a celebrity because I love the idea my experience on that platform started and ended with commissioning a gay clown to do a fake tarot reading for my friend with cards he made up.
The first song in A Muppet Christmas Carol is truly everyone else in London admitting they're complicit in the calcification of Scrooge by ostracizing him early on.
December 24, 2025 at 6:13 PM
The first song in A Muppet Christmas Carol is truly everyone else in London admitting they're complicit in the calcification of Scrooge by ostracizing him early on.
"Your favorite game dev" is damn near revisionist history ignoring those of us with memories longer than "they updated Cyberpunk to be not broken."
Just 'cus Witcher 3 was an okay open world game doesn't erase the bonkers shit CDPR's managerial class have done for many MANY years.
Just 'cus Witcher 3 was an okay open world game doesn't erase the bonkers shit CDPR's managerial class have done for many MANY years.
"Our usage of AI is only the productivity areas" oh thank god i thought it was somewhere important like the c-suite
Your Favourite Game Dev Is Probably Using AI; CD Projekt Red Joins Larian In Claiming There Are "Meaningful" Benefits To The Tech
CDPR is already implementing AI technology into "productivity areas".
www.thegamer.com
December 23, 2025 at 10:15 PM
"Your favorite game dev" is damn near revisionist history ignoring those of us with memories longer than "they updated Cyberpunk to be not broken."
Just 'cus Witcher 3 was an okay open world game doesn't erase the bonkers shit CDPR's managerial class have done for many MANY years.
Just 'cus Witcher 3 was an okay open world game doesn't erase the bonkers shit CDPR's managerial class have done for many MANY years.
We need a remake of Timeline (2003).
It was SO close to being an incredible movie, it just needs a little tweaking and a couple roles recast. Hell, all of the character actors could just play the exact same roles again no problem. All of the "old" characters were aged-up 40/50-somethings.
It was SO close to being an incredible movie, it just needs a little tweaking and a couple roles recast. Hell, all of the character actors could just play the exact same roles again no problem. All of the "old" characters were aged-up 40/50-somethings.
December 23, 2025 at 10:10 PM
We need a remake of Timeline (2003).
It was SO close to being an incredible movie, it just needs a little tweaking and a couple roles recast. Hell, all of the character actors could just play the exact same roles again no problem. All of the "old" characters were aged-up 40/50-somethings.
It was SO close to being an incredible movie, it just needs a little tweaking and a couple roles recast. Hell, all of the character actors could just play the exact same roles again no problem. All of the "old" characters were aged-up 40/50-somethings.
Tonight I've jumped back to the beginning of season 4, the episode just before this one, and it immediately has one of my favorite all-time Columbo moments.
Oh my god, the life leaving his eyes when he realizes he's fucked.
"If I hadn't taken that camera... you were counting on that..."
"If I hadn't taken that camera... you were counting on that..."
December 22, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Tonight I've jumped back to the beginning of season 4, the episode just before this one, and it immediately has one of my favorite all-time Columbo moments.
I'm gonna jump ahead in Columbo a tad to finally watch the episode where Dick Van Dyke is the villain of the month.
December 21, 2025 at 4:04 AM
I'm gonna jump ahead in Columbo a tad to finally watch the episode where Dick Van Dyke is the villain of the month.
The downside to Mullvad being basically THE privacy-focused VPN is the kind of influencers who will tell you about Mullvad are some of the most obnoxious, conspiritorally-minded people you'll encountered online.
Mullvad's got great business and privacy mentality. But it's cursed by its fanbase.
Mullvad's got great business and privacy mentality. But it's cursed by its fanbase.
December 20, 2025 at 2:54 PM
The downside to Mullvad being basically THE privacy-focused VPN is the kind of influencers who will tell you about Mullvad are some of the most obnoxious, conspiritorally-minded people you'll encountered online.
Mullvad's got great business and privacy mentality. But it's cursed by its fanbase.
Mullvad's got great business and privacy mentality. But it's cursed by its fanbase.
Ale-8 zero sugar: for when you want a bottle that vaguely looks like Ale-8-One but tastes nothing like it.
December 19, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Ale-8 zero sugar: for when you want a bottle that vaguely looks like Ale-8-One but tastes nothing like it.
You can tell the labubu trend is thriving by how I saw like 20 of them locked in a glass case at a local vendor mall.
Right next to sun damaged baseball memorabilia and ancient in-box Barbies.
Right next to sun damaged baseball memorabilia and ancient in-box Barbies.
December 19, 2025 at 4:11 AM
You can tell the labubu trend is thriving by how I saw like 20 of them locked in a glass case at a local vendor mall.
Right next to sun damaged baseball memorabilia and ancient in-box Barbies.
Right next to sun damaged baseball memorabilia and ancient in-box Barbies.
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i've been making original logos for sondheim shows for some reason so uhh please enjoy
December 18, 2025 at 12:00 AM
i've been making original logos for sondheim shows for some reason so uhh please enjoy
Me: I'd love a little older truck, if I were to get a not-car.
Facebook Marketplace: HERE'S THE LONGEST BED AND WIDEST BODY EVER MADE IN 1995. ALSO MY PET RAT LIVES IN THE CARB.
Facebook Marketplace: HERE'S THE LONGEST BED AND WIDEST BODY EVER MADE IN 1995. ALSO MY PET RAT LIVES IN THE CARB.
December 18, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Me: I'd love a little older truck, if I were to get a not-car.
Facebook Marketplace: HERE'S THE LONGEST BED AND WIDEST BODY EVER MADE IN 1995. ALSO MY PET RAT LIVES IN THE CARB.
Facebook Marketplace: HERE'S THE LONGEST BED AND WIDEST BODY EVER MADE IN 1995. ALSO MY PET RAT LIVES IN THE CARB.
The existence of OFTV is darkly hilarious.
OnlyFans tried to be like "no nooo, we're not stabbing sex workers in the back and pivoting."
At the same time they have a platform that's over-paying creators to make safe-for-work accounts that never mention sex work to kick-start their own YouTube
OnlyFans tried to be like "no nooo, we're not stabbing sex workers in the back and pivoting."
At the same time they have a platform that's over-paying creators to make safe-for-work accounts that never mention sex work to kick-start their own YouTube
December 17, 2025 at 4:46 PM
The existence of OFTV is darkly hilarious.
OnlyFans tried to be like "no nooo, we're not stabbing sex workers in the back and pivoting."
At the same time they have a platform that's over-paying creators to make safe-for-work accounts that never mention sex work to kick-start their own YouTube
OnlyFans tried to be like "no nooo, we're not stabbing sex workers in the back and pivoting."
At the same time they have a platform that's over-paying creators to make safe-for-work accounts that never mention sex work to kick-start their own YouTube
The name Burnie Burns is wasted when it's not being used by a fitness themed wrestler.
December 17, 2025 at 1:25 PM
The name Burnie Burns is wasted when it's not being used by a fitness themed wrestler.
I have... perhaps a controversial opinion about John Wick having just finished it for the first time.
After a decade of only having seen the first half, there's an argument to be made maybe I saw the best half. letterboxd.com/gavingwhiz/f...
After a decade of only having seen the first half, there's an argument to be made maybe I saw the best half. letterboxd.com/gavingwhiz/f...
A ★★½ review of John Wick (2014)
John Wick succeeds in literally everything he does in the same way that a D&D character succceeds at everything when the Dungeonmaster only applies wrist-slap punishments for failures. He has plot arm...
letterboxd.com
December 17, 2025 at 5:11 AM
I have... perhaps a controversial opinion about John Wick having just finished it for the first time.
After a decade of only having seen the first half, there's an argument to be made maybe I saw the best half. letterboxd.com/gavingwhiz/f...
After a decade of only having seen the first half, there's an argument to be made maybe I saw the best half. letterboxd.com/gavingwhiz/f...
I forgot about the shot in John Wick where it does a cool action movie music sting and then it's just him taking the bus.
December 17, 2025 at 3:51 AM
I forgot about the shot in John Wick where it does a cool action movie music sting and then it's just him taking the bus.
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when the potter game came out and trans ppl were saying not to buy the game bc it would fund our own oppression there were fucking think pieces about how mean we were about that and meanwhile ive seen someone get blocked from a bunch of their favorite artists for sharing ai benis pemps memes like
ive said it like a trillion times but i wish ppl brought this kinda energy to trans rights
December 17, 2025 at 12:55 AM
when the potter game came out and trans ppl were saying not to buy the game bc it would fund our own oppression there were fucking think pieces about how mean we were about that and meanwhile ive seen someone get blocked from a bunch of their favorite artists for sharing ai benis pemps memes like
How can there be an Ice Age Christmas special when Ice Age predates the Christ for which to hold a Mass by thousands of years?
December 17, 2025 at 12:03 AM
How can there be an Ice Age Christmas special when Ice Age predates the Christ for which to hold a Mass by thousands of years?
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"we USE ai, but our game wont CONTAIN it" is a clarification that no one has ever cared about & now CEOs are using it as a wedge to get their foot in the door as a part of a long term plan into normalizing AI, just like how 'it's just placeholder' was used with E33. dont cede even an inch of ground
December 16, 2025 at 9:12 PM
"we USE ai, but our game wont CONTAIN it" is a clarification that no one has ever cared about & now CEOs are using it as a wedge to get their foot in the door as a part of a long term plan into normalizing AI, just like how 'it's just placeholder' was used with E33. dont cede even an inch of ground
I am BEYOND not normal about this
PITT SEASON 2 TRAILER PITT SEASON 2 TRAILER PITT SEASON 2 TRAILER www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xq8x...
The Pitt Season 2 | Official Trailer | HBO Max
YouTube video by HBO Max
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December 16, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I am BEYOND not normal about this