Last year I was really enjoying the Dimension 20 Misfits and Magic roleplaying game clips that came up on YouTube. Today I found a very well done animatic of one of my favorite scenes from it. You can see the original table reading for it within this clip, which is titled "Evan Ruins a Kid's Whole Career."

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Yay! Bo Burnham has released Inside outtakes to YouTube, which means I can see it for free, unlike Inside itself, and a deluxe version of the Inside album. My favorites songs in the outtakes are "The Future," "Five Years," the Joe Biden song, and the chicken song ( Read more... )

It used to be a thing where Marvel excelled at live action movies while DC ruled in animation, but seeing the Batman animated films aired on Toonami as a tie-in to DC FanDome 2021 on the last two Saturday night/Sunday mornings have seriously made me question this since they mostly really bored me.

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Netflix has posted another clip from Bo Burnham's Inside. Here's "How The World Works." This man is writing music for the next Sesame Street movie but I doubt it'll be quite like the second half of this. (Probably NSFW.)

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Pearl River Mart had to move its flagship store again, due to another rent increase and problems from lockdown and rising anti-Asian bias affecting sales figures. They're now at 452 Broadway between Howard and Grand, returning to SoHo. I've long suggested Pearl River Mart as a fun and interesting place to visit during a trip in Manhattan.

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As someone who doesn't have any streaming services, I often pick up scraps of things on YouTube when possible. I'm so glad I watched a lot of YT bits of Bo Burnham's Inside last night because Netflix has already struck all of them down. Which is a shame, because they were really good and interesting. Release an Inside album, Netflix, you cowards. " ( Read more... )

I don't know how many folks will be interested in this, but it's about writing in its own way, so....

Falling down the YouTube hole, watching a recent Epic Rap Battle of History, Elon Musk vs. Mark Zuckerberg (I felt that Zuckerberg won that one), led me to the beef that arose between Eminem and Machine Gun Kelly, particularly with Eminem's ( Read more... )