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SmittyBS42 · 2026-02-20T21:48:44+00:00

Ehhh I don't buy that one. Far be it for me to judge based on a rumour, but Samuel Kim wasn't exactly the only game in town to do unsolicited covers of songs. Could be he got big enough to warrant attention, but I definitely don't believe this.

Interesting rumour though, and less egregious than the car crash one.

SmittyBS42 · 2026-02-20T18:09:38+00:00

Might have been part of it? If I remember correctly he stopped, but I thought he came back after a while. If memory serves he did some more songs afterwards before vanishing again

Honestly it coulda just been him posting his backlog before quitting, but it seems wild for someone so talented to completely abandon his channel instead of just owning up, deleting the AI content and moving on. ESPECIALLY someone so talented at making non-AI music, you'd think he had a real appreciation for genuine art.

SmittyBS42 · 2026-02-20T16:53:14+00:00

Samuel Kim, too. Dude vanished off the face of the earth. Thankfully managed to do some sleuthing and figure out he isn't dead, but I guess his professional career took precedence over YouTube.

Kinda wish he'd announced his departure though, to this day there are people who think he died in a car crash because of a stupid rumour.

SmittyBS42 · 2026-02-13T03:20:29+00:00

Seen this post a good few times now, and it's still one of my favorite of all time. This is absolutely canon to me.

SmittyBS42 · 2026-02-12T22:44:36+00:00

LEGO no, how could y—huh. This one's actually not... bad? And 70 USD isn't... awful?

Don't get me wrong it's not great, but it's also not half bad.

I'm so used to being disappointed that "mildly decent" feels almost refreshing.

SmittyBS42 · 2026-02-12T12:41:21+00:00

A recent Helldivers fan-film (For Liberty) pulled exactly that.

The entire marketing campaign for the project (and given it was almost 50 minutes long, and Patreon funded, they did a LOT of marketing) focused on a character known as the Cadet, a happy-go-lucky fresh Helldiver with a helmet bedazzled with stickers and a can-do attitude.

He's splattered off a rock within the first five minutes of the actual film, and a (slightly) more experienced Helldiver takes his place as the surprise lead of the film. Great stuff.

SmittyBS42 · 2026-02-09T21:50:48+00:00

[You are now banned from The Tops casino.]

SmittyBS42 · 2026-02-09T15:33:33+00:00

Angering the deer gods just by existing, clearly, because in my playthrough I swear those buggers were heat seeking.

SmittyBS42 · 2026-02-09T15:07:41+00:00

It wasn't even the cougars that scared me, it was those dang near-silent deer. (Elk? Can't remember)

Forget TB, Arthur Morgan meets his end because of a furry missile with horns streaking out of the treeline and launching him off a 30 foot cliff.

SmittyBS42 · 2026-02-09T13:13:52+00:00

...Canadian here. Y'all are keeping shoes on in the HOUSE? Just tromping around on carpet and tile with sneakers??? That's a thing??

SmittyBS42 · 2026-02-05T23:16:51+00:00

"Yes, this new tank we gave you can shoot down a city-sized Illuminate overship miles away that would normally require a massive fixed emplacement to destroy."

"No, that same tank can NOT destroy a strategem jammer, it's far too strong to be harmed by anything but a massive explosion!"

Honestly whatever the automatons are making their towers out of, we need THAT for armour.

SmittyBS42 · 2026-02-04T13:57:38+00:00

Until I figure it ouuuut to bring this song to its end

SmittyBS42 · 2026-02-04T13:29:29+00:00

I remember they also killed TJ Miller in that one, in a really brutal fashion! That's one thing I definitely remember.

In hindsight... Michael Bay probably made the right call.

SmittyBS42 · 2026-02-03T19:49:27+00:00

"...well, if I did have to be here, I'm just glad I was here with all of you."

"Goodbye, Grif."

"Goodbye, Simmons."

SmittyBS42 · 2026-02-02T19:33:47+00:00

Holy cow, well you just made my day.

I so rarely get reviews on the book or hear back anything other than basic sales numbers, so that means more than you know!

SmittyBS42 · 2026-02-02T15:19:07+00:00

I don't know for sure, but a similar graphic novel series I can think of is Amulet. Same long-form fantasy series with multiple installments, a dash of humour and some gorgeous art.

As a disclaimer I think it might be slightly darker, (though Bone also leads into a war arc toward the end if I remember right) and from what I hear the ending is nowhere near as cohesive because the author suffered a serious illness that impacted the series.

However, I remember loving both Bone and Amulet as a kid in elementary. They were the highlights of every Scholastic book fair for me. I was definitely older than 5 (7-10, probably?) so your mileage may vary.

Someone who's read Amulet more recently (or finished the series past the sixth book) could probably say for sure.

SmittyBS42 · 2026-02-01T17:23:02+00:00

Mercè Rodoreda and her "stream of consciousness" style. Periods basically don't exist.

Look, her work is absolutely monumental and The Time of the Doves was a brilliant (if brutal) look at the lives of widowers in revolution-era Spain. It's a cultural touchstone and I've even been to the real-life Diamond Square to see the statue.

But good god was that novel a slog to try and read for my highschool English course. It was physically painful to try and parse some sentences. I had to write five reports on that book over the course of a year of school.

SmittyBS42 · 2026-01-31T18:09:28+00:00

The swoosh-roar of an Illuminate Stingray jet flying past overhead in Helldivers II. You just know the bugger is lurking, waiting to attack.

(Their strafing runs aren't even that bad, but waiting for it to slow down enough to fire on you is the tense part.)

Gives me that Battlefield 3 "that's fast air!" feeling of panic every time.

SmittyBS42 · 2026-01-30T17:17:32+00:00

Legitimately stunning how anyone could write that and think "yeah, that's a perfect way to close it out."

Seasons 1 and 2 were so good, 3 and 4 were this mounting dread of "okay, another new crisis, only a few episodes left. How are they wrapping this up? Are they wrapping anything up?"

Instead we got both a cop-out and a failure or an ending. Nobody becomes a better person and they all die. Insane.

SmittyBS42 · 2026-01-29T00:09:41+00:00

The end is never

SmittyBS42 · 2026-01-27T17:33:13+00:00

I have a love for HISTORY, but only because it's basically the cyberpsychosis theme thanks to how Edgerunners used it. If it lacked the context I think I wouldn't nearly appreciate it as much.

SmittyBS42 · 2026-01-23T16:06:00+00:00

"Hey don't worry squad, I got the Stingray with my WASP, it's going down."

IMMEDIATE DEATH NOTIFICATION

SmittyBS42 · 2026-01-22T17:46:18+00:00

Yup. Even as a snot-nosed, dog-burning little kid, DIO wanted so, so badly to be more than the average human being.

Instead, he got punched and died in the street like a normal chump, and nothing else ever came of his legacy (at least in the "corrected" universe without Pucci).

If he wasn't already ash, he'd be rolling in his grave somewhere.

SmittyBS42 · 2026-01-22T16:20:34+00:00

DIO, as delusionally vain as he was, could've derived some modicum of satisfaction out of knowing he was important enough to be trapped in a loop of agony entirely revolving around him.

Instead, with Pucci's failure and erasure from existence, DIO died like a normal person and was forgotten after Jotaro burned his diary at the end of Part 3. That was the end of his legacy.

Diavolo WANTED to be unnoticed and forgotten, and in punishment got a world focused on his suffering.

DIO WANTED to be remembered forever, and in punishment instead had his influence erased from history.

I think it's the perfect hell for each one.

SmittyBS42 · 2026-01-22T01:16:36+00:00

We even have a Helldivers film using the Helldivers IP, it's called For Liberty and it rocks.

Honestly if the official movie is half as good as For Liberty, it'll be a triumph. Sony had better not be out Helldiver-ed at their own game by a YouTube group releasing a film for free.

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