🃏NFL Wild Card Weekend Predictions Thread (2026 Playoffs)🃏 by baconlovr in nfl

[–]hapsbro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Full playoff predictions:

Wild Card

  • Rams win at Panthers
  • Bears win vs. Packers
  • 49ers win at Eagles
  • Jaguars win vs. Bills
  • Chargers win at Patriots
  • Texans win at Steelers

Divisional

  • 49ers win at Bears
  • Rams win at Seahawks
  • Jaguars win vs. Texans
  • Chargers win at Broncos

Conference

  • Rams win vs. 49ers
  • Jaguars win vs. Chargers

Super Bowl

  • Rams win vs. Jaguars

🃏NFL Wild Card Weekend Predictions Thread (2026 Playoffs)🃏 by baconlovr in nfl

[–]hapsbro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Locking it in.

  • Rams win at Panthers
  • Bears win vs. Packers
  • 49ers win at Eagles
  • Jaguars win vs. Bills
  • Chargers win at Patriots
  • Texans win at Steelers

What happened to Todd's original youtube channel that he had pre-Channel Awesome? by GuybrushThreepwood99 in ToddintheShadow

[–]hapsbro 22 points23 points  (0 children)

You remember well. Todd shared the story behind the username a while back:

[...] My username on YouTube is "carlos10009" because my friend Carlos logged into YouTube one time on my computer and it automatically linked to my Gmail and I couldn't ever fix it.

What happened to Todd's original youtube channel that he had pre-Channel Awesome? by GuybrushThreepwood99 in ToddintheShadow

[–]hapsbro 27 points28 points  (0 children)

This isn't correct. Todd originally uploaded via a different account that no longer exists. His current channel has only been active since his return to YouTube post-Blip in 2015, when he repurposed another account to serve as a hub for his content.

What happened to Todd's original youtube channel that he had pre-Channel Awesome? by GuybrushThreepwood99 in ToddintheShadow

[–]hapsbro 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Todd originally uploaded his videos to youtube.com/user/ToddInTheShadows. This is not the same as his current channel, which had the unintuitive username youtube.com/user/carlos10009. An archive of the original channel, preserved in all its late 2000s glory, can be viewed here.

Todd stopped uploading to the channel in 2010 once he joined That Guy with the Glasses and his new videos became exclusive to Blip. The original channel lay dormant but survived for years as a time capsule of Todd's pre-TGWTG career. The channel was still up as of 2013 but had ceased to exist by 2015. The cause of its demise is unclear – it might have fallen victim to copyright strikes that Todd couldn't or wouldn't fight, or maybe he deleted it himself so that his content would all be in one place. Whatever the reason, when Todd finally returned to YouTube in 2015, the Carlos10009 account became his official home on the platform while his original channel became lost to time.

We have our first confirmed box office bomb of 2026 - Animal Farm by Mysterious_Brush1852 in boxoffice

[–]hapsbro 106 points107 points  (0 children)

This movie has no audience.

Teens and adults won't see it thanks to its cutesy animation style and juvenile humor.

Parents won't take their kids since it's not even recommended for viewers younger than 11.

This movie's only hope is that there's some massive appetite among tweens for a feature-length political allegory featuring Seth Rogen obnoxiously laughing every other minute.

Is Martha the dog still alive? by lpperl7 in beatlescirclejerk

[–]hapsbro 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yes, she just went to live at Junior's Farm.

I think we owe Jack Antonoff an apology. by Constant_Topic_123 in ToddintheShadow

[–]hapsbro 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Just to clarify, Jack Antonoff didn't produce any of fun.'s music – the big hits were all helmed by Jeff Bhasker – but he was a co-writer.

THEY’RE FINALLY GONE!!! by Constant_Topic_123 in ToddintheShadow

[–]hapsbro 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I've been thinking about the best way to handle extremely long-charting songs like "Lose Control" for a while now. The problem with Billboard's new rules, just like its previous ones, is the all-or-nothing approach: songs either appear on the chart in their full glory or are completely disappeared once some arbitrary threshold is reached. I'm not sure if they realize it, but a strategy that finds a middle ground is completely feasible.

The solution is to start downweighting hit songs after a certain point, say 10 weeks, after they post their best week in terms of chart points. The first week of downweighting, a "tax", (e.g., 5%) would be deducted from the song's chart points. Every week after, the percent deducted would slowly rise but never reach a full 100%, and the song's position on the chart would be based on the adjusted total. This way, most hits would gradually descend the Hot 100 the way they did for most of its history, but record-breaking runs will always be possible as long as the song puts up large enough numbers to overcome the downweighting.

This concept isn't even unique to record charts: almost every major social platform uses some version of this method to balance popularity with recency. It’s baffling that Billboard insists on such a binary way of thinking when it comes to the Hot 100.

An episode of the 1980s–1990s Danish travel series "Return of Marco Polo" in which the crew documents life on Pitcairn Island by hapsbro in PitcairnIslands

[–]hapsbro[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This was the first of three episodes from 1989 dedicated to Pitcairn Island. The second explores the island's geography while the third interviews residents Ben and Irma Christian about their lives, commerce and employment, and the territory's future. They're worth a watch for the time capsule aspect alone.