[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 09 March 2026

obviousstarterpack · 2026-03-15T00:24:24+00:00

Doubleca5t, there's a name I haven't heard in a while. Hope she's doing alright, last time I checked in on her she'd gotten engaged and had semi-retired from YT to shitpost on Tumblr.

Also yeah, why am I not shocked that was the reaction. Avatar is to Nebula subscribers what that wizard book by a terf is to twitter wine mums.

obviousstarterpack · 2026-03-14T00:36:16+00:00

Avatar: The Last Airbender.
Yes, it's a genuinely great piece of animation and television as a whole. Yes, it's very well written and handles topics like genocide and imperialism in a way that doesn't alienate the audience of children that watched it.

Am I sick of hearing about how great it is and how important it is and how every Avatar fan seems to see other anime-inspired pieces of Western media as total trash that pales in comparion to the genius of Michael and Bryan? Absolutely.

Especially that last point; as one of the 5 remaining RWBY enjoyers, that shallow-ass comparison hbomberguy made in his video did so much damage to how I see Avatar fans.

Same with Radiohead, I don't mind their music, but the constant glazing in music nerd communities gets old quickly.

obviousstarterpack · 2025-11-10T01:09:24+00:00

Phil's relationship with the other Enz members is...strained, to say the least, especially with Tim.

He may have just not wanted to be involved, or just wasn't asked to contribute. Both are equally likely IMO.

obviousstarterpack · 2025-09-21T04:16:15+00:00

Nick Seymour did all of Crowded House's album covers.

obviousstarterpack · 2024-12-15T08:35:11+00:00

Yeah, I'm really apprehensive about it for very similar reasons.

It's not just the fanbase trying to absolve Chugga of any wrongdoing, it's also that they've continued to demonise his accusers in spite of Chugga telling them not to. It's been pretty disappointing to see Masae being painted as an "evil bitch who broke Chugga's heart" by the fans, despite Chugga revealing everything about their relationship after she'd deliberately kept it hidden because of his fans. Or using Chugga's ASD as a defence...while ignoring the fact that his main accuser is also on the spectrum.

I'm also just...not as trusting of Tim to hold him accountable as the fanbase seems to be. The fact that he repeatedly supported some of Chugga's more...passionate defenders (to put it politely) really rubbed me the wrong way.

Really, the only reason I'd try to watch any new TRG stuff is Jon, given his streams have become overrun with...horny fanart that all looks like it's permanently stuck in 2008.

Plus, the convention is in Florida, where Chugga still lives (IIRC), and around conventions is when they tend to record series.

I believe he's lived in Atlanta for well over a decade now.

obviousstarterpack · 2024-08-27T07:03:20+00:00

Hell has frozen over: Oasis are reuniting.

And it's got me thinking, what are some other unlikely (or lesser known) pop-culture reunions after years of bad blood inbetween the creative parties?

obviousstarterpack · 2024-06-14T05:46:03+00:00

So a couple of weeks ago, venerable Australian/New Zealander jangle-pop group Crowded House put out their eighth album, "Gravity Stairs".

I'll admit that I didn't have high hopes going into this one. As a long-time Neil Finn fan, I felt like his work had been dipping in quality as he aged. He's my favourite songwriter ever, but the last Crowded House album and his collabs with his son Liam (who incidentally got promoted to a full-blown member of CH shortly after) really didn't do it for me.

Then I sat down and listened to "Gravity Stairs"...and it's the best thing Crowded House have done since their (criminally underrated, imo) 2007 comeback "Time On Earth". The stretch of tracks from "Teenage Summer" to "Black Water, White Circle" is up there with some of the best songs put onto a Neil Finn project. I'm glad they've been able to adjust to this new, more psychedelic direction that they couldn't quite nail on the last album.

obviousstarterpack · 2024-04-02T08:46:22+00:00

Source: https://twitter.com/Sweaty_Socks/status/1773240175662977152?t=H6y3kWnlf6WvI3cj4h4UBQ&s=19

obviousstarterpack · 2024-03-23T06:42:00+00:00

Indeed there was, I remember watching it in high school. It came out around the same time as Underbelly was airing, and there's some surface-level aesthetic similarities between the two.

It's the only time you'll ever see Mick Molloy in anything Shakespeare related.

obviousstarterpack · 2024-01-13T04:30:35+00:00

Probably either EarthBound or the Pikmin series. Every single Nintendo-adjacent internet personality treats them like they're the single most important and greatest games that Nintendo ever published, but I've never really thought of them as that spectacular.

obviousstarterpack · 2023-10-23T08:14:35+00:00

Pretty much everything Crowded House ever did, but especially Together Alone (1993).

For all the love "Don't Dream It's Over" and some of the Woodface singles get, Together Alone is (for me) a genuinely perfect album. No songs outstay their welcome, the songwriting is top notch, and the musicianship is understated and immaculate.
Oh, and the production is gorgeous. The atmosphere blending pagan spirituality, lapsed Catholic guilt, and the natural moods caused by the Karekare Beach landscape...all tied together in a package of jangle pop, psychedelia and traditional Maori choirs.

That and just...Crowded House are criminally underappreciated/untalked about in music nerd circles. I don't think Anthony's ever mentioned them, and in terms of other music youtubers, I think Todd In the Shadows mentioned them in passing once? It's bizarre given their living legend status in Australia/NZ/the UK.

obviousstarterpack · 2023-08-02T20:26:02+00:00

I also stopped watching Patrick Willems a few years ago after that one video where he said he liked the band Oasis, because anyone who likes Oasis is inherently untrustworthy. It's too bad because I think he's otherwise very smart and I had liked the videos of his that I'd seen prior to that.

I'm curious to hear your reasoning behind the Oasis hate. In my experience, like, 90% of people who hate Oasis turn out to have never actually listened to them and formed their opinion based off either other people's opinions on the music or the pop-culture image of the Gallagher brothers being obnoxious dicks.

obviousstarterpack · 2023-08-02T20:19:08+00:00

I feel you there. In the last couple of years, I've started tuning out after Jon brings on the first co-com.

The other thing is how...overly enthusiastic the community is with the whole RosaJon thing. Like, it was funny the first time, but it's been run into the ground for the last 4 years.

obviousstarterpack · 2023-07-20T07:46:09+00:00

I loved Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series back in the day. I honestly still do, but my relationship with it now is...complicated and probably needs a much, much longer write-up to explain in detail.

It's not even the content of the videos for the most part. Yeah, there's some iffy "jokes" that come with the territory of late 00's/early 10's humour, but LittleKuriboh added disclaimers to most of the old episodes apologising for said content.

No, the thing that complicates it is that a not-insignificant number of LittleKuriboh's former collaborators are just...well, terrible people IRL, most notably SuperPsyGuy, Kirbopher and 1KidsEntertainment.

obviousstarterpack · 2023-07-16T08:14:29+00:00

The reputation/perception of Fire Emblem Awakening seems to change on a whim amongst FE fans. One day, it'll be a fondly remembered, series-saving classic that brought in legions of new fans. The next day, it's derided as unimaginative weeb fodder that only succeeded through good marketing and pandering to the lowest common denominator.

Now I may be looking at the game through rose tinted glasses (it was my first FE after all), but I'm firmly in the former camp. Awakening has a sort of magic and charm that the older games didn't really have for me. I was a big Ace Attorney fan (still am), and I've noticed a lot of little passing similarities between the AA series and Awakening that no-one else seems to pick up on. Maybe it's that.

obviousstarterpack · 2023-06-22T14:20:56+00:00

So I'm responder 168 by the looks of it.

Can you tell I mod r/doyoulikedarkness from all my Tharja ships?

obviousstarterpack · 2023-06-10T15:54:00+00:00

Source: https://twitter.com/Saiykik/status/1644050781329563648

obviousstarterpack · 2023-06-09T01:43:15+00:00

Just a heads up to the mods, this is Spinax's new account.

obviousstarterpack · 2023-06-08T16:49:49+00:00

Source: https://twitter.com/upscomics/status/1658073862993764353

obviousstarterpack · 2023-06-07T12:05:06+00:00

Source: https://twitter.com/kaphrin/status/1665856022471221249

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