Bob Chipman 🔜PAX East

A sad note I made during "GOOD LUCK HAVE FUN" is that *a lot* of it's 'satirical scifi' ends up feeling like premise(s) that "RICK & MORTY" would bring up in-episode ...but in order to shoot down as too meta-hackneyed for them to consider doing.

pretty much every "AOC isn't far left enough to earn my vote" guy was also a vocal Bernie supporter who would've turned on him immediately had he actually won the nomination or especially became President.

I am anti-capitalist. I am anti-ICE. I think religion should have zero social power in our country. Trans rights are human rights. Put me on your lists, Pam Bondi, and kiss my all-American ass in the process.

This is true for so many senior people in this administration. They're not doing a job, they're play acting the job on TV (for an audience of one).

Good god.

I have to imagine iQIYI ("Chinese Netflix") would have it in most regions, otherwise you can usually find mainland movies from more than a few years ago "around" (officially or otherwise at your own discretion, I obviously can't condone anything off-book)

China's distribution model for everything is different because they're only an intermittently-expansionist power. Their film industry is capably self-sustaining domestically and can produce billion-grossing international releases, but they aren't (presently) TRYING to aggressively export IP.

This is your regular reminder that in the year 2000, Paul Rudd, with frosted tips, appeared in the Hong Kong film GEN-Y COPS as a bad guy (kinda). In the movie, he does martial arts, fights a robot, and, most shocking of all, does an entire scene in Cantonese.

A National wildlife federation job post advertises a position opening for “beaver conflict resolution technician”

I need to know everything about job #6 right now

Playtime is officially over, kiddies!

Dino Crisis and Dino Crisis 2 have finally stomped their way on to Steam. Celebrate this prehistoric occasion by getting both games for 50% off until February 26.

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I know Piker just got off some kind of big Chinese gov/biz-backed tour so I'm sure there's bigger context here - don't really care, I don't pay his sphere that much attention. But "China's entertainment industry isn't influential enough" would be a HILARIOUSLY out-of-touch take for a pundit in 2026

I know Piker just got off some kind of big Chinese gov/biz-backed tour so I'm sure there's bigger context here - don't really care, I don't pay his sphere that much attention. But "China's entertainment industry isn't influential enough" would be a HILARIOUSLY out-of-touch take for a pundit in 2026

Okay, but... does he not know that China ALREADY basically has that? And has had it for *decades?*

China's film industry is massive and massively popular all over the world - since the 2000s, it's been AMERICAN studios bending over backwards to get their product into China, not the reverse

Okay, but... does he not know that China ALREADY basically has that? And has had it for *decades?*

China's film industry is massive and massively popular all over the world - since the 2000s, it's been AMERICAN studios bending over backwards to get their product into China, not the reverse

Heartwarming: Konami Remembers They Can Make Video Games

if you don't say happy birthday to her, you are going STRAIGHT to hell

YouTube video by ONE Media Coverage HANSON AND THE BEAST Trailer (2018) Romance, Fantasy

It's mostly a fantasy rom-com (Chinese genre cinema is kind of weird exactly on-trend with western booktok even before that was a thing) but VERY "Twilight" except it turns into "also X-Men" RIGHT AWAY instead of waiting for Part 4:
youtu.be/ALSjmws8ZAE?...

Reminded for literally no reason that there's a Chinese gender-reverse version of 'Twilight' where a guy is in love with a were-fox called "HANSON & THE BEAST" (say it a couple times)

It's... different? 🤷‍♂️

The poster for Ghost Meets Zombie. The cast poses together around the titular ghost and zombie.

Sometimes you gotta go out on a limb and watch a Singaporean rom-com about a ghost and a zombie.

Walz: "We've got children that a core memory for them will be their classmate being taken away. That will stick with them the rest of their lives. My hope is what sticks with them is human decency wins out, rule of law matters ... "

Trace working with Beez, Jeff Stonehouse, Mike, Kevin and Bill during the production of our Kickstarter video

"There were many Brains that brainstormed together the utterly other-ly thing that became Mystery Science Theater, but I’ve always felt that Trace Beaulieu was the Crazy Heart of it. The dog-bone SOL, the geodesic Bridge, the hot-glue and drywall screw technology that held it together, the Why-Not-Do-This philosophy made Doable, the irresistible madness of his Mad — and to top it all off, his laugh. A laugh used sparingly, a laugh that tells everybody in the room, 'Oh yeah, that’s damn funny.'

"So to have Trace back at the heart of the look of these new episodes delights me beyond measure. I’ve only seen a few scant sketches of what he has in mind, and Holy Cats. I can’t wait to see what he dreams up." - Kevin Murphy

Trace's headshot

In addition to lending us his talents on-screen, Trace Beaulieu will be art director for MST3K: The RiffTrax Experiments!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/rif...

Line graph showing both revenues and spending falling behind old projections.

The most important thing to understand about the debt:

Yes, spending is rising – due to demographics & health care cost growth

But taxes used to be on pace to match that rising spending

Then we cut taxes and now it isn't

Spending is rising slower than expected, so tax cuts bear 100% of the blame

🚨REAL ONE ALERT🚨

ima be at PAX East on business, hit me up!! i know panels are already being solidified, but if any yall got one with space and/or need a real one on deck, hit me up!!

Boston makes me feel good!!

I'm seeing a lot of rich dummies attempting moon travel using a PlayStation controller.

The cover of the graphic novel, a colored illustration by Daun Han depicting King in the foreground, Luz and Harpy Eda behind him, and the other cast of characters framing them including Willow, Hunter, Gus, Papa Titan, the Collector, and Amity.

We've been looking forward to sharing this news for a long time. We're making a graphic novel!

The Owl House: The Long-Lived King
Written by me and the amazing @mikkicrisostomo.bsky.social

Illustrated by the incomparable @dindu99.bsky.social

We're so excited to tell a brand new story.

WATCH: Trump, EPA's Zeldin announce end of scientific basis for U.S. action on climate change The Trump administration on Thursday revoked a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, the most aggressiv...

Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.

There really are THAT MANY completely worthless subhumanoids out there in GarbageLand who genuinely thought there was a great big "I Can Say R*t*rd In The Breakroom Again" switch waiting to get thrown and that was the beginning and end of "Great Again."

Just "War on Christmas" politics for assholes

A recurring thing that you can't unseen once you've clocked it is that a lot of supposedly "universal" biting social-satire tropes in American movies are really just filmmakers all having the same handful of complaints about having to live and work in Los Angeles together

Same thing I said yesterday, Rand Paul is lunatic and I mostly hate him, but he's going hard after ICE today.