Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈

counterpoint: no you aren't

For the song's bridge, Withers had intended to write more lyrics instead of repeating the phrase "I know" 26 times, but then followed the advice of the other musicians to leave it that way. Withers stated: "I was this factory worker puttering around. So when they said to leave it like that, I left it."

i was curious about this and TIL (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ain%27t...)

yes we talked for two hours about one 26-minute episode of a 1980s children's cartoon. some are calling it the greatest podcast of all time

it remains hilarious the extent to which bobby drake just still seems gay even back on the 1981 tv show on which he couldn't possibly have been written as gay. but he is gay on there

our episode about "Spidey Goes Hollywood" (Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends) is here and it is good soundcloud.com/themutantage...

.@foxharper.bsky.social, who has covered the topic of fatphobia in games often, wrote about the Chunks from RE: Requiem 👏 not glad to see characters like this; glad to see more people writing about them

the themes of this series (especially silent hill 2, which we’ll get to) have always been crystal clear to me and yet there are segments of the fandom that don’t see them which is always a wild thing to watch

Silent Hill was always feminist, Part 1: The cult, the witch, the burning girl When horror speaks in code

sooo psyched about this four-part series on silent hill! part 1 is, naturally, all about silent hill 1 www.mothership.blog/silent-hill-...

Oh my gods, this is so cool!

you’re convincing me……..

my wife and i still wear them to stores! solidarity!!

yeah, i have a vague memory of mom and dad coming to the sound of music performance but that might not have actually happened

I had to fix a laptop issue but I'm walking around GDC now.

I'm on assignment and particularly interested in talking to folks about what you think the future of the industry needs to look like from here. What's going on? How do we fix it?

If you're around and down for a 3-4 minute chat, plz DM.

yes!! this was like that, but for some reason, parents didn't go to this play? i'm not sure why exactly. mom would have loved to go i'm sure

there were actual auditions for the play, which is wild to me. i remember auditioning to be the chicken and practicing my cluck and being so mad that laurel got it. this was in my phase of ONLY wanting to pretend to be an animal at ALL TIMES. the chicken was the only animal in the play

three? i think? it's pretty normal for a play with kids in it to double-cast the roles that have a lot of lines because kids can't memorize that many lines

you wouldn't have seen it because it was at plowshares and you were already "graduated" from elementary school by this point. it wasn't a play that anybody got to see other than the other kids at plowshares. aparna was the witch and laurel got to be the chicken lmao

it's pretty depressing how the solution to stuff like the pandemic completely changing society for the worse and now AI changing society for the worse would be "universal basic income" and then we just don't ever do that

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it is at least pretty funny that mitch continues to roast him for that for literal years afterward. i mean he's still doing it in the episodes i'm listening to now!

because you get to hear all of the naivete all over again and remember how clueless everyone was. "this will be over soon" no it won't. it's only ever going to get worse, in the sense that the pandemic changed society and it could have been for the better but we didn't do that. we did the other one.

i have been listening to all of doughboys from the beginning and i just got to the first covid-19/remote episodes and it sucks so bad to be forced to remember that time period. that and the 2016 trump election are just like... brutal when relistening to any weekly podcast/show

question for my adhd brethren: what are the DIGITAL planners/calendars/reminder apps y'all like to use? (i don't really like paper planners)

i was dorothy for the first third of the play which is very obviously a fantastic part and i spent the entire time being pissed off to hell that i didn't get to play the talking chicken because that was the role i wanted for some reason.

YES

so now every time people talk about that movie, i think about the set we painted with a ton of little boxes that were meant to represent all of the voices that the witch had stolen. way more kid-friendly version of the scene. not as powerful, but still

because there was no way to present the witch who wears all of the different heads, the little actress who played her (who was one of my BFFs btw) put on a series of different comical voices instead. but of course the full cast of kids DID all watch the movie first and that scene traumatized us all

at my elementary school for some reason a teacher decided to adapt Return to Oz (the notoriously scary sequel) into a play that all of us performed and i think back on that and seriously wonder why on earth she watched that movie and thought "THIS is it. we're doing THIS"

fwiw this is a compromise i'm fine with ("split the difference") as long as it's the same time year-round! (not sure if that's what adelaide is doing though?)

it IS hilarious that an individual state solved this but it can't be achieved federally