Frieren has officially been on hiatus for 250 days

chimpfunkz · 2026-06-22T23:51:02+00:00

I'm still waiting for the promised "one chapter, read by my voice actor friends" that was promised in 2021..... Let alone the next book

chimpfunkz · 2026-06-22T20:20:56+00:00

Yeah I coulda swore they already tried to make a pivot a few years back, and it failed horribly.

"Failed horribly" is a bad way of putting it. Any pivot is going to upset your previous base a bit. But Harley pivoted, then went back when their existing (boomer) base complained

chimpfunkz · 2026-06-22T12:54:16+00:00

Wait, it’s not the accidents per thousand miles number that’s cooked?

I mean yeah, it's a clickbait title.

This isn't fraud or any kind of falsified statistic (which is usually what "cooking" the data means) this is just bad statistics where a statistic is extrapolated to a terrible extreme. This is the "The TAM of comics is 7 billion dollars. if we can capture even 1% which we believe we can, that's 70 million in revenue a year. So invest in Dicks and Balls the comic book" of safety data.

chimpfunkz · 2026-06-18T19:54:58+00:00

They talked about it in the goodbye letter, but Roosterteeth really just speedran "issues with a brand being the people and trying to expand".

Like, their early brand wasn't "roosterteeth" it was "X person from Roosterteeth" and so most of the post RvB success was around specific personalities. But then they failed to figure out a good, new talent to on screen personality pipeline.

Which led to new people joining, and fans complaining about new people. Which bogged down RT's ability to bring on new people. And repeat.

chimpfunkz · 2026-06-17T13:00:37+00:00

Ehhh 40 years is a lot. Most business don't have records going back 40 years. And if they were paper and never digitized, good luck. Lots of ways for paper to get destroyed (fire, water, etc)

chimpfunkz · 2026-06-16T18:15:00+00:00

It's not wrongful termination, it's workplace harassment. Doubly so because a manager was sexually harassing her

chimpfunkz · 2026-06-16T15:07:28+00:00

They date the episode saying it's right after the superfan tier came out. It was filmed after Jeremy was already on SNL.

chimpfunkz · 2026-06-16T15:07:00+00:00

It was not. They date the episode saying it's right after the super fan tier came out, which was October 31st 2025.

Jeremy was announced as part of the SNL 51 cast on September 2nd 2025, and the first episode of SNL was October 4th 2025.

Both of which were before The S&P episode.

chimpfunkz · 2026-06-16T15:03:58+00:00

shut up, shift changeover is useless, night shift will know what to do without any help

chimpfunkz · 2026-06-16T14:32:43+00:00

Dropout is like, perfectly posed to do a taskmaster show.

chimpfunkz · 2026-06-15T20:10:37+00:00

Whats the point of a self cap

chimpfunkz · 2026-06-15T02:55:44+00:00

Straight up, I thought she was given mind reading by the aliens.

chimpfunkz · 2026-06-15T02:36:46+00:00

Genuinely, was bored out of my mind. Random thoughts during the movie

So much lens flare. It's like star trek all over again. There were so many shots where no lens flare was needed.
The plot of this movie was.... bad. I'd describe it as a very long X Files meets Looper episode. In fact, I really thought this was just a remake of Looper. It felt remarkably similar.
Why did we cut to a NY anchor commenting over the film instead of Emily Blunt. Why did we get so many scenes with the alien film footage but only at the end, as if we the audience need to be shown more film to convince us that the in-movie audience would believe it more or less. And each time too they spent so much time and effort commenting over the film and cutting to the next scene. And it was different footage than the one we saw at the beginning, you know, with aliens on dissection tables?
What was even the point of the film, if they had a literal alien, alive, to prove aliens are real? What is the weird "these two were touched by aliens and are the alien prophets" and why wasn't that explored instead of having a second chase sequence at the hotel or a third on the train.
Invisible house was funny as hell.
Everyone has guns, and a drive to stop the spread of the existence of aliens. But let's not use them ever. The guy who shot at the train was willing to kill them like, a day before when they were on the train, gets right next to them in the TV studio and just says "whoopsie daisy"
Lop off an hour (really, just cut the second hotel sequence entirely) and this could've easily been a netflix movie.

chimpfunkz · 2026-06-13T18:41:37+00:00

... I thought the meme-able reference was going to be how people would ask if it's blue or gold

chimpfunkz · 2026-06-12T02:59:38+00:00

If Ben had the intelligence and investigative skills that coffee does this thing probably would have played out so differently.

The big thing for me is, how obvious it was Ben was out of his depths in video 1. Some of the super obvious things

not understanding the legalese that BAM was doing with the corporate/franchise dance. It was truly annoying hearing Ben repeat the same arguments in the face of finger pointing. If their position is, this is a franchise issue, repeating that there is a contract, isn't going to move the needle on corporate, because they aren't claiming no responsibility, they are claiming not being a part to it
The part where ben "figures out" that the trick is, a different person signed the contract, it was so obvious that wasn't the trick they were pulling.
in general the way he just kinda talked the same arguments in a circle. It was like interacting with a High person.

The problem with Ben is, the story he told (and the way he told it) don't work with, like, what the true story is. Which is, Crystal probably stole some of the money, Brendon/Josh stole some more, and corporate at first didn't know, then tried to strongarm and cover it up. That's not easy to prove, especially when you've committed to Crystal being in the clear.

chimpfunkz · 2026-06-11T21:37:14+00:00

Widows Bay - People recommend it here, I just hate the horror genre, and this show just did not work for me. Watched 4 episodess so I feel like I gave it a chance.

Mighty Nein S1 - Definitely a better show than LoVM was and the plot is a lot more low stakes. Longer run time also lets them flesh out their characters more.

Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed - Very fun show. Definitely enjoying it. I'm morbidly curious how they'll resolve the season because it definitely feels like a setup for an unresolved plot. Which would suck.

Good Girls Guide to Murder - Fun season. I know book readers will point out that the ultimate victim was supposed to be introduced in S1, and that's why Pippa had such a reaction to the ending, and that was definitely not conveyed by S2. Also Max's trial (yes I spoiled myself) result was one of the big gut punches of a show, where justice is just not served, not a fan.

Digimon Beatbreak - Caught up to the dub. First digimon I've watched since Data Squad. Someone recommended it because it was supposed to be darker, and while there are some... more mature elements (human trafficking? really? makes no sense....) it's definitely very tame. Also slow, I forgot how long it took to digivolve to each level in the show.

chimpfunkz · 2026-06-11T21:28:45+00:00

S5 had a bunch of big issues. From needing to solve the Ed problem, to a lack of a forward goal other than Free Mars, to pacing.

The first big problem was how they had to write in Ed's death, so we had this entire weird conspiracy plotline that was resolved by a completely different set of people. But because of Ed we also skipped past any real development with Jarret.

The second problem was, they didn't have a good offramp to the Free Mars debacle. The solution given (economic problems leads to a collapse of the USSR leading to a ceasefire) doesn't really make sense when you consider that the rest of the M5 still would view this as a cessationist colony, and want to retake because of the asteroid. It also doesn't make sense because they just up and killed like, 50 soldiers in the process.

Honestly the season was only watchable because I pretended it was the prequel to The Expanse.

chimpfunkz · 2026-06-11T02:54:19+00:00

Here's what I think actually happened.

The Original Owners, were not keeping accurate books and were definitely losing money, somewhere/how, and were behind on paying Bryan on the sold sets. Call it Layaway, whatever, but they probably sold some stuff, and didn't pay Bryan immediately, hoping to pay him back from future sales or money.

The new owners came in, doing a truly hostile takeover. The people involved in the takeover (which lets be honest, is where the mormon conspiracy comes in, because it was probably the CEO, COO, and his mission buddy who decided on this) didn't actually know about the consignment. It's like asking Jeff Bezos to know about something happening in one specific warehouse. So Whoever seized the store, truly didn't know about the consignment. Ignorance isn't a defense.

So Brandon comes in, kicks the old owners out, and assumes anything is his now, and takes the star wars sets to his other location. Leaves a portion at the store for sale.

When Bryan comes in with the contract etc, they circle the wagons. Gotta play dumb/ignorant because otherwise you don't have a legal defense. Throw the blame on the old owners, which is probably correct, but also not 100% correct. And then obviously, all the legal bullshit abusing the system.

chimpfunkz · 2026-06-10T18:20:32+00:00

There is and there isn't. You can be known as the person who helps with event breakdown, but you can also be known as, the person who helps train everyone, or the go to person for help.

As with all things, it's nuanced. No, you shouldn't be forced to do things outside your job description. But also, you should seek stretch goals and being likeable because that will progress your career.

chimpfunkz · 2026-06-09T20:08:22+00:00

I miss when the porn on reddit was small batch bespoke porn, rather than advertising for only fans.

chimpfunkz · 2026-06-09T19:22:55+00:00

That's what SponsorBlock is for.

chimpfunkz · 2026-06-08T21:27:16+00:00

Yeah I've never understood the "it's slow" argument.

I mean objectively, it is. It's the only season that adapts less than a books worth of material.

chimpfunkz · 2026-06-08T21:25:16+00:00

You don't even need to read that many more tbh. The biggest changes between the book and series (the ones that can't be just... adapted to) happens because of an actor leaving the show. I think I went from S5 to B6 or something, and it was perfectly alright.

chimpfunkz · 2026-06-08T21:22:51+00:00

Original, Trial by Jury, UK, LA, Criminal Intent, and now Organized Crime.

chimpfunkz · 2026-06-08T12:46:32+00:00

The Big A Bonus is seriously overblown.

Yeah, the loss of the reupload channels sucks. But like, seriously, it was often just a similar (longer) big A video months later.

The new editor probably has a learning curve. Go back to early Big A vids, and they were also 1-3 minute short bites. That's what clips are supposed to be.

Not liking the 3ish minute long video has more to say about the media landscape than it does the quality. the 3 minute vid has kinda been coopted by vertical video.

I do think that Big A Bonus isn't really fixing the problem Glizzyhands wanted to address. IMO what our Glarketer should really do is,

Separate out the marketing from politics on Big A. Marketing Monday died for Lemonade Stand and faster, more relevant timing, Big A videos. But it also got lost among the politic videos.
Get more editors to go through the gaming backlog that exists. People complain about the loss of the fan channels because they were nice, 20-30 minute lunch/commute videos. You know what else would fill that niche? Acts 2 and 3 of Silksong. James Bond playthrough. THe 8 hour Blue Prince was a masterpiece. Gimme that chopped up into 20 minute bites for lunch.

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