Michael J Dolan
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A lot of people coming out in defence of the Avatar movies this year but I think the most damning indictment of the franchise is that the Lego Avatar line got shitcanned almost immediately.
December 28, 2025 at 9:52 PM
A lot of people coming out in defence of the Avatar movies this year but I think the most damning indictment of the franchise is that the Lego Avatar line got shitcanned almost immediately.
Sometimes there's a thing in my head and it has to come out.
Fried eggs are what you have after thursd eggs and before saturd eggs.
December 27, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Sometimes there's a thing in my head and it has to come out.
Fried eggs are what you have after thursd eggs and before saturd eggs.
December 27, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Fried eggs are what you have after thursd eggs and before saturd eggs.
Sometimes I wish I'd done this with The Wire, what a perfect single season.
These days if the first season of something is fun and perfectly satisfyingly self contained I'll try not to watch any more, and the first show I did this with was Stranger Things.
Stranger Things started out as a fun, clever, well-made little distraction from the hellscape of 2016. Then we all started living full-time in the Upside Down, a franchise-thirsty streamer stretched one season's worth of story into four, and—much like our brains—the show never recovered.
December 26, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Sometimes I wish I'd done this with The Wire, what a perfect single season.
These days if the first season of something is fun and perfectly satisfyingly self contained I'll try not to watch any more, and the first show I did this with was Stranger Things.
Stranger Things started out as a fun, clever, well-made little distraction from the hellscape of 2016. Then we all started living full-time in the Upside Down, a franchise-thirsty streamer stretched one season's worth of story into four, and—much like our brains—the show never recovered.
'Stranger Things' Was a Casualty of the Franchise Machine
How the nostalgic, well-made treat we couldn't help devouring amid the traumas of 2016 devolved into a content factory
time.com
December 26, 2025 at 7:42 PM
These days if the first season of something is fun and perfectly satisfyingly self contained I'll try not to watch any more, and the first show I did this with was Stranger Things.
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Imagine if these companies spent all this time and money making stuff that was cool and good, and paying human beings to do it!
Hollywood cozied up to AI in 2025 and had nothing good to show for it
Hollywood bet big on generative AI slop in 2025.
www.theverge.com
December 26, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Imagine if these companies spent all this time and money making stuff that was cool and good, and paying human beings to do it!
An ex used to tell me I looked like Charles Hawtrey which is already annoying because I don't think it's even accurate, but she found herself so funny with it that it was impossible to hide the irritation. Which was obviously fucking catnip to her so it just kept happening.
What's an insult you'll never forget?
December 26, 2025 at 12:22 PM
An ex used to tell me I looked like Charles Hawtrey which is already annoying because I don't think it's even accurate, but she found herself so funny with it that it was impossible to hide the irritation. Which was obviously fucking catnip to her so it just kept happening.
13 full days, might try and double that next year.
December 26, 2025 at 12:05 PM
13 full days, might try and double that next year.
I think I might have Will Arnett's hair, I would like his career to go with it.
December 25, 2025 at 10:08 PM
I think I might have Will Arnett's hair, I would like his career to go with it.
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The na'vi in the avatar movies remind me of the dirtbag Mario you get from when you eat a skinny mushroom in Mario Maker 1
December 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The na'vi in the avatar movies remind me of the dirtbag Mario you get from when you eat a skinny mushroom in Mario Maker 1
"do I want to click on this?" I think even as it has already loaded in my browser
What did we get stuck in our rectums last year? defector.com/what-did-we-...
What Did We Get Stuck In Our Rectums Last Year? | Defector
This is the time of year to be grateful for not having things stuck in our asses, and to think of those less fortunate than us. So spare a thought for those Americans who misjudged the capacity of the...
defector.com
December 25, 2025 at 4:21 PM
"do I want to click on this?" I think even as it has already loaded in my browser
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*whispering* that's the brainiac
January 19, 2024 at 7:22 PM
*whispering* that's the brainiac
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Found out today that in the Animal Crossing animated film Pascal the otter was voiced by Takashi Miike, director of Audition and Ichi the Killer
August 24, 2023 at 11:20 PM
Found out today that in the Animal Crossing animated film Pascal the otter was voiced by Takashi Miike, director of Audition and Ichi the Killer
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I've always been rather ambivalent about the movie, but really enjoyed this piece about it including the early words about its place in cultural tradition.
December 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I've always been rather ambivalent about the movie, but really enjoyed this piece about it including the early words about its place in cultural tradition.
The na'vi in the avatar movies remind me of the dirtbag Mario you get from when you eat a skinny mushroom in Mario Maker 1
December 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The na'vi in the avatar movies remind me of the dirtbag Mario you get from when you eat a skinny mushroom in Mario Maker 1
Cameron's commitment to 3D is commendable though and I'll take that over Nolan's IMAX boner any day.
I got halfway through the first Avatar movie and, as I always suspected, it's not for me. I will now go back to ignoring them.
December 24, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Cameron's commitment to 3D is commendable though and I'll take that over Nolan's IMAX boner any day.
I got halfway through the first Avatar movie and, as I always suspected, it's not for me. I will now go back to ignoring them.
December 24, 2025 at 10:51 AM
I got halfway through the first Avatar movie and, as I always suspected, it's not for me. I will now go back to ignoring them.
lmao what
We've got a book of toxic wallpaper that can kill (arsenic I think). It was made as a reference to avoid toxic wallpaper but I guess when they made it they didn't think about the fact that the samples were also toxic
Archivists/librarians please share the coolest thing in your collections that will never be digitized.
December 22, 2025 at 7:19 PM
lmao what
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Tired: Die Hard is a Xmas movie.
Wired: Die Hard is a Metroidvania.
Wired: Die Hard is a Metroidvania.
December 7, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Tired: Die Hard is a Xmas movie.
Wired: Die Hard is a Metroidvania.
Wired: Die Hard is a Metroidvania.
lmao
Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage
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Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage
Sandfall Interactive and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has been stripped of its wins at The Indie Game Awards due to use of generative AI.
insider-gaming.com
December 20, 2025 at 11:47 PM
lmao
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I'll save the full review for my toilets channel.
June 23, 2025 at 11:39 AM
I'll save the full review for my toilets channel.
Let's fucking go.
December 20, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Let's fucking go.
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It's not just David Walliams who should suffer professional ruin, it's all the senior staff at his publisher involved in implementing a policy whose only possible interpretation is that they believed that he represented a danger to their employees but continued to work with him anyway.
December 20, 2025 at 12:01 PM
It's not just David Walliams who should suffer professional ruin, it's all the senior staff at his publisher involved in implementing a policy whose only possible interpretation is that they believed that he represented a danger to their employees but continued to work with him anyway.