"People dope... yeah.... You know this is a sport with literally hundreds of dollars on the line and dozens of fans... STAKES ARE MEDIUM!"

Seeing John Cena keep up with comedy heavy weights convinced me that he's a pretty good actor.

I have to watch this, thank you!

It's an excellent show.

But don't be mad at Netflix. It aired on ABC, and they cancelled it (presumably because it had lower ratings than the network's other comedies). Netflix just picked up streaming rights after the fact.

I've never met someone IRL that has seen this show. I work in the biotech industry so I recommend it to all my coworkers.

Great show, but the Veridian Dynamics commercials are my favorite part.

A lot of the classic scifi authors were assholes one way or another it seems. Frank Herbert was homophobic.

Loved Hyperion, but I bounced off the sequel. The first book was just such a perfect story, told perfectly... Then it just seems to kind of transform into just another space sci-fi affair with book 2. Like the entire structure of the first book was thrown out, and now we're just telling a space story.

I'm sure it's good, people have told me it's good. It just didn't seem like it fit together as a sequel to such a perfect novel (that maybe never needed a sequel).

Kubo was really good. Only reason it isn't better known is because it wasn't a major studio. If they slapped a Pixar logo on it, it would've been huge.

yes! Kubo was such an amazing movie. And while on the topic of amazing stop-motion I'll add Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio.

"Cauliflower"

Adam Driver in LL was great

Came here to talk about his show Wonder Falls. It only aired 3 episodes on Fox, but the whole season was released on DVD later. I think I'm one of thr few people who watched the live broadcast, because I was recovering from 2 surgeries for like a month, and had nothing to do. Led me to discover the whole Fullerverse.

If I had a mouse for every time I'd seen Pushing Daisies mentioned on Lemmy, I'd probably have like hundreds of mice, because I've seen it mentioned twice and those things breed. It was absolutely excellent though and I was so gutted it never got another series. Maybe it was hit by a writers strike? Can't remember how long ago it came out now.

I kinda bounced off the books. I read all three, but I felt like they were just trying a little too hard to be vague. The second in particular is an absolute slog. I thought the movie was much better than the books, and I'm 99% of the time the other way-round.

His next book: Borne was amazing. Probably my favorite of his.

I haven't read the books, so I can't comment on that, but wow, Lee Pace kills it as Day.

And shout out to Jared Harris for being in this and The Expanse

As a fan of the books, I was initially pretty upset with some of the changes, but I'm glad I stuck with it. The show is it's own thing that goes to some fascinating places.

This show keeps popping on my radar and I mean to snag it, and then, as with many things in my life, it disappears into the void.

have you read the books? because the show does not follow them at all.

That said, the show is pretty interesting and incredibly beautiful.

Armando Ianucci is a genius

Loved that show! Wife and I laughed so hard at it.

I remember wanting to watch this at some point, but I think I got it confused with The Orville. I should check it out again.

Rewatched it with my wife recently

Sat on the edge of my seat as the stories came together... Wife was completely non-plussed

Couldn't stop thinking about that film for weeks after watching it.

I went into it blind, and immediately had to go read the book.

This isn't alone as a movie steering me towards a book. But nothing else has spurred a drop everything else response like that.

I enjoyed this game but I didn't love it as much as I see people gushing about it do. It makes me wonder if I might have enjoyed it more not having heard it hyped up all the time. I did manage to completely avoid spoilers so it wasn't that

I heard amazing things about Outer Wilds, was under the impression it was an adventure game but "make sure to go in blind!" was the universal advice so I didn't look up more, downloaded it, started to play, and really struggled with the controls. I wasn't raised with video games as a kid and I don't play platformers and such so my coordination is shit. When I went to the net to find a solution (because a lot of games have at least mods you can download to make things easier) but all I got was "get gud." I asked a friend who was like "oh yeah, I watched a stream of someone playing and it seems like a technically difficult game." So that's a pretty important warning to include with any Outer Wilds recommendation.

"There are so many games out there that feature space travel and yet none of them really get it. The horror of an endless dark vacuum so intent on killing you that just 90 seconds in its inanimate presence is more than enough to freeze, suffocate, and explode you inside out. Space is literally the worst place in the universe.

People always think of space as above us, but it's not really; you don't have to look up to see space, you have to look away from safety to see space. Then, when you're out there in the nothing, there are jewels; un-process-ibly large balls of fire and light held together by our own fucking anger, rocks that can range between husks of nothing or everything some life ever knows, and an endless amount of phenomena that would take our scientific knowledge and fuck it from arsehole to breakfast.

But video games just don't get it. They just don't get space. Video games set in space are either just men with big swinging dicks firing at bug-eyed monsters or fucking truck driving simulators. If exploration does happen to be the focus, you'll find out that the main difference between the endless majesty that is life in this universe is the colour of the fucking grass. Yeah, you're in space but it feels inaccessible like a fingerprint wouldn't take on it; like it's behind glass.

The Outer Wilds - fucking hell - the Outer Wilds gets space. It doesn't care about scale or scientific accuracy, it gets the feel right. Yeah, your ship's made from wood and the majority of planets are the size of of a badly stocked IKEA, but watching all the stars in the sky go out one by one like far off fireworks and knowing that each one could be destroying an entire history and having to do that fucking every 22 minutes -- nothing. Nothing has made me feel like that before. No game, no book, no movie. It's beyond extraordinary.

Its planets - fuck - its planets; each one a bizarre impossible place riddled with life and death and decay and nonsense. Each one dense in history and vandalised by time. Each one nightmarish and so, so beautiful and in 22 minutes, they're gone

because the Outer Wilds isn't even really about space, it's about the question, the most important and terrifying and unanswerable question anyone ever asks: Why? Why bother? Why bother with any of this? People die, stars burn out, the universe will go quiet and dark and cold and in the longest run, nothing - absolutely nothing matters. Everything dies, the universe included. So why sit around the fire, playing music into a void that doesn't care? Why huddle around the light? Why play?

Because, well - look at it. It's mad, all of it. Life is a big stupid blob of meaningless nothing. Yet from that, we find meaning. People, things, animals, art, sofas, cereal, Rubik's cubes, silly little games about space, whatever. None of it matters in the grand scheme but fuck the grand scheme! There's no logical reason for life and nobody's gonna mourn it when it's gone, but that's what makes it fantastic. Life is a little song that we hum to ourselves and, I wouldn't want it other way.

The Outer Wilds is an optimistic game about nihilism. It's a game with no invisible walls, you can complete it in ten minutes if you know what to do - which you won't for hours - and the only limit is knowledge. It's a game literally like no other. The universe is big and long and impossible and daft and you, you happen to be experiencing it at the exact same point that you can play the Outer Wilds as well. Embrace that coincidence. Come on, what are you waiting for? The sun could explode tomorrow."

• Daniel "NerdCubed" Hardcastle - 2019 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkA5a8ov8Dw&t=1655s

Which is my candidate for the most underrated youtuber, yeah he has 2.4 million subscribers but the videos bring in like 50k views, so it's obviously wrong.

An absolute masterpiece.

I like outer wilds, but I just don't have enough time to play games unfortunately

It’s actually purely logical!

What's the logic that can guarantee your first move won't be a mine?

Edit to add: Norsemen was great, loved it.

I recently played a roguelike minesweeper that was really interesting https://store.steampowered.com/app/3719980/BroomSweeper_Demo/

Tametsi is my favorite Minesweeper clone. Every level is crafted - not randomly generated - and is completely solvable by logic. Some of the later puzzles are insanely difficult. It's so satisfying to take one down.

I had a friend that was amazing at minesweeper. Watching him play the hardest levels and clearing them in under 30 seconds was incredible.

Tetris beats minesweeper every day. People pack their vacation cars/suvs and refer to tetris-ing them. No one every says, "I minesweepered that."

One of my favorite games of all time!

I just need to get off my ass, install the various 'modernization' mods and play again.

Just like I already did with Master of Magic.

Relevant Mitchell&Webb

the bodies keep washing up cloth!

Not to mention, the titles a poop joke.

Hey, a fellow Ayreonaut in the wild!

Yeah, how could I forget about him. Anyone who's into science fiction and prog rock should check it out, and his other projects like Star One too.

The Protomen are my favorite band and it's not even close.

God said to Noah, "I am going to put an end to all people, for the Earth is filled with violence because of them. You are to bring into the Ark two of all living creatures to keep them alive with you." [eats a Frito]

I dunno' I rematched that one not long ago and thought that it didn't age very well

It's interesting that Super with Rainn Wilson was developed pretty much in parallel considering how similar they are in concept. There are scenes in the office where Dwight is looking over paperwork, but in reality it's just Rainn reading the script of Super.

Personally I found Kick-Ass to be a better overall film. Super had a lot of uncomfortable elements that just left a bad taste in my mouth.