jamesderiven
James DeRiven
jamesderiven

Podcasts. Like a normal person.

“You know Sweet Anita. You’ve seen her streams, stumbled across her Twitter account, or watched clips of her on TikTok.”

No, I don’t, and no, I haven’t. I have never heard of this person before now. The whole twitch-streamer sphere really doesn’t grasp how insular it is, does it? If you’re not parts of that ecosystem,

So is there a Sonic waifu? That’s a Sega property, yes? hat about a Yakuza waifu?

The ReBoot reboot was already terrible, now we’ve got a short-lived ReBoot reboot that isn’t even a reboot or about ReBoot?

This is so not alphanumeric.

I am confused. Is King of the Hill a satire of South and Southerwest Texas or North Texas? Or both? You say one then the other.

complete with neatly trimmed landing strips”

Cowards.

See I think they’re shit, straight-up. The second is infiniey worse than the third, but they have such tight pacing and prfect emotional weight in the first movie and the other two films fuck it up (becaus they make th mistake of killing the villian at the end of the first movie, where if they wante sequels he should

So we get a great big movie showcasing the versatility and power of animation - demonstrating, effectively, that it’s a better fucking medium for Superhero stories if we could all just stop acting like being animated means it is not as big and serious as watching Brie Larson faff-about in poorly-lit sets - and the

Ms. Marvel’s issue was that all the best parts of Ms Marvel involved zero superheroics. (And watching her painfully boring Tech Friend pine for her when she showed no interest in him in any shape or form but the narrative seemed to expect me to feel for his plight landed with a thud. Fuck off, kid. She ain’t into you,

Everyone always praises Mystery Inc but I always bounce off it because... I don’t like Scooby Doo! I find the dog annoying! I find dim-witted Shaggy annoying! They are not characters around which I desire to spend any time, and MI being the ‘good’ one can’t escape the crushing weight of its central character being a

I have always — alwayshated that fucking stupid dog and his obnoxious voice. Dropping the dog is the only good choice Velma made!

People keep showing up in greater and greater numbers for John Wick sequels so who the hell knows?

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Because, well, they are. Animation is (usually) drawn on twos - 12 frames a second played at 24 frames per second (well, traditionally 23.976 but who’s counting?). Very xpensive animation is drawn on 1s 24 frames playd at 24 frmes per second.

“Rendered” 60 and 120 animation (with is grotesque in the first place because

Sometimes, modern AMVs are even rendered at 60 or 120 frames per second thanks to video software like Adobe Premiere Pro.”

This is not a good thing. This is a stupid thing that fucking idiots who don’t understand animation do. This is like writing ‘sometimes fans of songs upload them at ten-times speed thanks to the

I really hate how we have to use ‘isekai’ now and have an expert come explain this strange and exotic idea.

Points to 1950's The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe.

Point’s to 1900's The Wizard of Oz.

Points to 1666's The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing-World.

Points to 1321's The Divine Comedy.

No, no. The Gunslinger is competent.

“We’ve got to do something to stem our declining revenue problems! What if we triple-down on twenty-years of making the movie-going experience so viscerally unpleasant and expensive that we’ve produced a customer base with virtually no brand loyalty?”

No, Spike Lee has just tried pinching Will’s only to have Questlove fart on his hand while he was reaching across.

I was going to make a crack along the lines of “All those Funko-Pops and grumpy Batman figurines—gone! Gone! Oh the humanity!” but then clued-in that this was an indie retailer with the novel idea of selling videogames.

Doom co-creator John Carmack, abusive pet owner who abandoned at elderly cat to die in a shelter because he’s piece of shit human being who couldn’t be arsed o look after it any more.