ducktales really cranked the Found Family Is The Real Family dial until it snapped off -R
also featuring cameos by Age And/Or Maturity Have No Correlation With Your Capacity For Fun and It's Okay To Fall As Long As You Never Stop Getting Back Up Again -R
why do I need to talk up this show? david tennant gets to use his real accent! how does anyone need more motivation than that?? watch ducktales and bask in the brogue already -R
they also have a character whose entire personality premise appears to be "what if vegeta was a lesbian" and it's amazing go watch it -R
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so guys. guys. I've actually watched very few classic horror movies on account of fear not making my list of top five favorite emotions. but I've got nothing else going on tonight and I'm thinking it's about time I start educating myself - so what would you recommend? -R
allllll righty you all know the drill by now -R
all righty I need to real quick upload a video for the fourth time today (warner bros is being RUTHLESS with the copyright claims) but then it's Thing time
Historical accuracy in popular media is one issue, but today's "Unleash Your Inner Viking" trailers for Assassin's Creed Valhalla peddle disproven misinformation that supports dangerous ideology – we're talking toxic masculinity at best, and white supremacy at worst.
Here's how:
The trailers follow a group of caryoonishly-inept losers going to a camp in the woods to learn how to solve their life problems by placing AC:V and then Acting Like A Viking – in practice, this means: being angry and rude, threats of violence, and actual violence.
It's played for laughs, but this perpetrates the ideas that: 1) Vikings were angry brutes who solved everything with violence. 2) Vikings had to use violence because if they didn't their enemies would (most viking violence was directed at innocent monks at sacked monasteries)...
Some stories are all buildup to a final payoff, and some stories are a series of smaller buildups & payoffs. Smaller buildups and regular payoffs are considered risky because they don't FORCE the audience to keep watching - but they don't risk it all if the ending disappoints. -R
So many series seem to believe the first approach is the only way to hold an audience. A finale can never be unconditionally satisfying - it leaves the audience wanting more payoff. And then if (when) those series fail to deliver in the finale, they leave nothing behind. -R
This was brought up by @Hbomberguy in his Sherlock video as a series that promised an ever-increasing series of increasingly arcane questions and then wildly disappointed when its finale didn't actually give a satisfying resolution. Game of Thrones had the same issue. -R
In order to avoid compulsively checking the news tonight, I'm thinking of doing a bad movie night! Anyone got any suggestions for a terrible movie? Maybe one that could have and SHOULD have been good but somehow absolutely crashed and burned? -R
Hokay let's narrow this sucker down -R
oooookay lemme just get my snacks ready for this one, be back soon
I was minding my own business playing minecraft when something went "BZZ" right next to my ear and flew into my hair. This is NEVER good, but then I discovered it was a Fucking Wasp, and things took an abrupt right turn into shitsvillle… -R
But the thing is, a bug doesn't wanna be in your hair ANY more than you want the bug in your hair. They can't move very well, and the human the hair is attached to normally starts freaking out and swatting them, which is bad. So, despite our differences, we had similar goals… -R
I tease out the lock of hair the wasp is stuck in and it starts regaining its footing, but it's not flying. I gently grab it in a tissue, check the rest of my hair for Bonus Wasps, then carry it outside, at this point worried that my frantic swatting might have injured it… -R