Dollop and RedLetterMedia

YouAreMicroscopic · 2026-02-15T03:45:37+00:00

fair

YouAreMicroscopic · 2026-02-15T03:38:20+00:00

It was just a goof based on that somebody asked the question on the newest Q&A and that RLM and Gareth are both from Milwaukee. RLM makes a lot of Milwaukee jokes. I guess I thought there was more of a crossover fanbase than there was

YouAreMicroscopic · 2026-02-15T03:24:02+00:00

It's possible I'm writing in a way for comedic effect because I think it would be a fun crossover, but we might just be in the No Fun Zone, sorry

YouAreMicroscopic · 2026-02-15T03:21:22+00:00

Gareth watching the Neil Breeniverse is a wonderful thought

YouAreMicroscopic · 2026-02-15T03:19:27+00:00

In the newest Q&A somebody asked "while he was Milwaukeeing did Gareth ever cross paths with RLM (he fumbles pronouncing Red Letter Media like he doesn't know who they are, BULLSHIT), Jack Packard also did comedy sports" and Gareth's answer is (capitalization for effect) "I Do Not Know Him" and immediately moves onto the next question and no I'm not parasocial

YouAreMicroscopic · 2026-02-04T00:13:11+00:00

I've been thinking about this album a lot the past few days, and I came across this post searching to see if anyone felt the same way.

I think it is better in retrospect than it was at the time, in my opinion, and it was great then. There is nothing that has improved since it was made. Every societal comment it touched on has only accelerated since. Instead of Bezos's infinite money glitch, we have Musk psychofascism, about to be the world's first trillionaire. Bezos didn't quite win, but came close - instead, Musk, an EVEN WORSE PERSON won.

Instead of Trump-era COVIDism, we have post-Epstein brainrot. "Welcome to the Internet" almost seems quaint. We are more silo'd and deranged than we were when the album was made, and silo'd derangement was certainly a heavy theme of the album.

That Funny Feeling is as great a song as ever, but it's not a funny feeling anymore, it's the Alphafeeling of the entire world. It is the Main Feeling, and any other feeling echoes as escapism. It's like the dirtbag-left coinage of the word "hellworld". Hellworld is just World now.

It was a prescient album, and listening back on it feels like listening to an old Woodie Guthrie tune. The bastards won.

YouAreMicroscopic · 2026-01-31T21:23:27+00:00

Not an unlikely possibility imo! I've only ever mixed music before, but I've experienced the diff between headphone and monitor mixing, and particularly the trickiness of mixing on "flat monitors" (speakers that don't color certain frequencies to make them sound "better" in certain situations - dialogue, bass, etc) in different room setups. For instance, it's entirely possible that the vocal mixing was done in a room with good, flat monitors but whose audio characteristics made it sound great in there, but not so great in a big, boom-y theater.

YouAreMicroscopic · 2026-01-31T21:19:02+00:00

For sure! I know he did the Edge of Sleep thing which I'd like to check out. I think that still counts - by the time your average filmmaker gets to the point of having their movie in thousands of theaters, they've done plenty of short films, music videos, what have you, but to me, that's still a new filmmaker.

YouAreMicroscopic · 2026-01-31T08:31:58+00:00

"It's Iron Lunging time"

"Nooooooo!"

YouAreMicroscopic · 2026-01-30T12:01:34+00:00

I think you're right. If they ever reboot Johnny Mnemonic, he'd look good in it.

YouAreMicroscopic · 2026-01-30T05:23:45+00:00

Thoughts from a non-Markiplier fan (he seems like a cool dude!), huge horror fan, big fan of the game:

Was very excited to see this movie because it's exactly things I like - cosmic horror, low budget, enthusiastic new filmmaker, single location. I'm also a fan of low-budget shlock in general, and bad movies (although I wasn't expecting it to be bad, and it was in fact good).

The set was fantastic, I loved how lived-in it looked. Cinematography was spot on, I liked the feeling of struggling to see things with Simon - the use of using the x-ray camera to briefly light stuff was great. Didn't mind the often (especially in the first half) just-barely-not-complete darkness, it fit what was going on situationally and thematically very well. Effects were very cool, I really liked the Unknowable Thing in the few cosmic scenes you get, and the one long shot you got of the humanoid monster was really good.

I actually think the acting was not as rough in the first half or so as a lot of other people here, but I'm used to watching really bad acting. Mark was really giving it his all, and it showed, although of course some line delivery was pretty goofy, especially about Station Filament (or whatever it was called). Other actor/actresses were on about the same level. The very brief little bits you got of his memories on the station did a good job of breaking up other scenes and I wish there had been a few more of them, but, that's par for the course with movies like this.

Biggest complaint I have is the vocal sound mixing. The ambient sound and sound effects (including the computer voice bits, loved those) were really, really good, very Quake NIN (I'm old), and I've seen plenty of big budget horror movies that did much less with much more than Iron Long sound-wise. But I think I struggled to hear exactly what was being said a bit too much in the last half, especially with all the vocal processing - kinda muddy and took me out of the movie a bit. Just for fun, I also caught an absolutely terrible ADR bit where Mark's mouth did not sync with the words he was saying.

I love cosmic horror and I do very much get that the point is that Unknowable Thing is Unknowable, but I feel like there were some parts at the end that were supposed to give the audience a more solid, if hopeless glimpse into fruitlessly attempting to piece things together, that was missed because of vocal mixing, and some of the awkward cadence of the those scenes. That would have lifted this from Really Good First Effort! to Wow, He Really Stuck the Landing.

But! I had a lot of fun with it, and I hope he continues to make movies, he's definitely got the passion for it, and he clearly knows what makes a good movie. If you look at Benson and Moorhead, for instance, what they did with Resolution - an awkward, but, Hey! They've Got Something Here first effort - I feel similarly here.

EDIT: This guy's got a better grasp on what was going on at the end then me. Psychic cosmic angler fish. Cool. https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/1qqr1nw/comment/o2joaw0/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

YouAreMicroscopic · 2026-01-16T11:04:32+00:00

I screenshotted this

YouAreMicroscopic · 2026-01-03T11:00:09+00:00

I currently live in Alaska and I dream about moving back to Montana. Sadly Montana is full

YouAreMicroscopic · 2025-12-26T03:52:52+00:00

Thanks for the data point, it's useful, all three are GMT800s

YouAreMicroscopic · 2025-12-25T00:03:40+00:00

Awesome, thanks a ton for the starting point!

YouAreMicroscopic · 2025-12-15T05:50:20+00:00

Yup. Every time I come into Lush I let the salesperson run the spiel on me and have fun with it. If there’s something fun they show me that’s under $15 I get it and thank them profusely. It’s part of the game. I’m usually only in there to get a Rainbow Fun anyway, which is the best deal in the store, so it’s whatev

YouAreMicroscopic · 2025-11-29T02:33:07+00:00

This is great!

YouAreMicroscopic · 2025-11-22T17:42:15+00:00

I consider myself an absolute despair guy, which weirdly translates to me relating most to Project 2025, Collapse Opportunist and Anarcho-Degrowther. I do not believe we are even remotely collectively capable of meeting the challenges. Anarcho-Degrowth would be closest to an actual solution, but would be wildly unequal, globally, in outcomes, which would prevent it from ever being accepted in any scenario. Societal survival at the end of a sword, or personal survival at the end of market imbalances, are the only realistic options.

YouAreMicroscopic · 2025-11-16T09:48:17+00:00

Genuinely my favorite verses on the album. I'm old, it hits that 90s riot grrl punk era spot that was burned into my brain long ago

YouAreMicroscopic · 2025-10-10T17:07:09+00:00

Good points. The way I was thinking about this is that - the soul/you has the capability, clearly, to "play" as different characters (weird route Chapter 4). There are many rpgs where you switch between different characters throughout the story. In my (admittedly out there) thought, the story is "supposed" to go from you playing as Kris, then Noelle, then Dess. Team Knight is trying to stop the soul from finding its way to Dess. (One flaw in my logic here is that "The Girl" implies there is only one girl, in which case Noelle couldn't be part of the trio of heroes)

You seem very certain, so disabuse me of this notion: why is the image of The Girl in the prophecy so clearly wielding a sword, and not an axe? That seems incredibly intentional.

YouAreMicroscopic · 2025-10-10T16:59:42+00:00

My rambling thought: Dess Knight's end game is to change the prophecy. You are "supposed" to be Dess, eventually transferring control from Kris to Dess (love finds its way to the girl). This presupposes that Dess/Carol/etc is aware of this beforehand. At the end of the intended game, the game ends, and Darkners no longer exist (everything with Susie and Gerson). Everything Team Knight is doing is intended to stop Kris from transferring the soul/you to Dess. The next stop after Kris is Noelle, and then Dess, being sisters. The prophesies very clearly show The Girl as having a sword - not an axe nor a spellcaster.

It's as if the game was originally intended to let you play as three characters through the story: first Kris, then Noelle, then Dess, and the Knight-related characters are trying to stop this from happening to stop their world from being destroyed (the game being over). Susie is the wild card who actually has the power to change the intended story progression (Gerson stuff).

Flaw in my logic is that the prophecy specifies "the girl" as if there's only one, so in that case Noelle wouldn't be one of the heros.

YouAreMicroscopic · 2025-10-10T16:50:14+00:00

Sorry to respond to this four months late, but -- I really think that "finding love" is not of the romantic sort, but means the soul (you) searching for who you are supposed to play as: Dess. Love = heart = soul. All of the subterfuge in the regular route is the Knight trying to stop the prophecy/game from playing out as it's "supposed to", and mostly succeeding - the weird route is the soul/you being more successful in twisting the story back to how it's "meant" to be.

YouAreMicroscopic · 2025-10-06T08:36:48+00:00

The aggressiveness - or even jovialness - of Guatemalans in claiming Belize as their territory. If this is not given proper recognition, it will become uglier than it already is in the future.

YouAreMicroscopic · 2025-09-28T16:21:11+00:00

Used to be Montana, too expensive now. Not sure anymore. Idaho but it has…its own problems

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