It Does Truly Take All Kinds
And it’s been very surprising to see which corners of my social feed have discovered this game. So this really spoke to me and is a nearly-perfect summation of everything I’m seeing online right now.
- “Tom Nook a pinp”
- “My relative has been hospitalized”
- White feminists doing rape apologia
- Bread
Fifth bullet point would be “I’m unstoppably horny right now” which deserves its own break out newsletter. At the end of all of this, any realistic relief plan for America has to involve giving everyone a way to expunge their online activity during these lockdowns because from what I’m seeing, the inability for people to congregate in places of worship is doing a number on the immortal souls of just about everyone. Not that that’s a bad thing, but everyone’s first day out of this is going to be an adventure.
Watch This: A SERIOUS MAN - available via Netflix
You may know the Coen Brothers from…really, any number of things. From FARGO to THE BIG LEBOWSKI to NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, they have just about the highest hit rate for masterpieces that I can think of for any contemporary directors, with very few films even below the ‘excellent’ line. That being said, if you know them only from one of the three above, you’re missing out on a whole other layer of greatness, and the films in there could cover a whole week’s worth of recommendations from me. For now we’ll just cover one, 2009’s A SERIOUS MAN, which is best described as a more modern take on the biblical Job.
After a cold open that, depending on how you take it, has either nothing or everything to do with what follows, we join Lawrence Gopnik (a stellar Michael Stuhlbarg), a physics professor who is on the brink of gaining tenure, as his life begins to completely disintegrate. As injustices and tragedies begin to pile up, he looks to religion (I think there’s a whole other layer of appreciation of this film that I’m missing by not being of the Jewish faith) and has to reconcile with either the malevolence or indifference of a higher power, while being uncertain which would be worse between the two. You know, a comedy. Really though it’s very funny, and your views on religion and the idea of a higher power will really inform how you view the film.
I couldn’t even begin to figure out half of the things going on in this The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild supercut that features some world-class players absolutely wrecking some enemies in there. As someone who fell off the game pretty early on, seeing people play this, or any game really, at god levels is astounding, and the abilities of everyone involved in this video is already overwhelming even with my basic knowledge of the game.
I swear if anyone does this to me I’ll haunt them for at least 1 eternity:
Papyrus probably required too much work to get into marble, but seriously, what a bit for someone you secretly disliked.
This explainer on why we’re seeing a toilet paper shortage is one of those things that makes a ton of sense when it’s laid out like this. In short, while there are some instances of hoarding, it’s mostly because a greater percentage of your trips to the bathroom are no occurring at home, which is ultimately serviced by a different supply chain that’s now trying to divert resources from making toilet paper for public areas like arenas and businesses that is now muuuuch less necessary.
This video explainer on why dark video deteriorates very quickly is fantastic and I’m very curious about the behind-the-scenes on how they achieved some of the effects in there.
In more Animal Crossing news, April sees the start of the Bunny Day event, ostensibly an Easter event without the grisly cross time that some folks are very into. Apparently the mascot, Zipper T. Bunny, has been in previous games before, which I can’t recall (maybe I’d fallen off daily play at that point…) because boy would I remember this fella, with his lifeless eyes and real horror movie vibes.
Finally, this article on how comedian Brandon Wardell pretending to tweet as Joe Biden broke some of the softer centrist brains on Twitter is a good examination of how some of the most humorless morons can ruin an otherwise uneventful joke. Initially making light of the fact that Biden has been a complete non-entity as the Trump administration whoopsie-doodles their way to a five/six-digit body count on this crisis, it of course gets twisted into another Clear Sign of The Russians by some truly breathtaking dolts.
