Current/Last Thing You Watched?

[ShiraNoMai]

The first two seasons apparently are on Disney+ in the UK? If you got that, you can watch there. Also airs weekly on BBC Two. Source

Yeah, it's been pretty stellar for Bleach. There's still some plot points I find silly/don't agree with, namely The whole Yhwach being "Zangetsu" the whole time, and Ichigo having latent Quincy powers, with his "true power" being suppressed I'm aware it's shonen and to try not to roll my eyes too hard at how silly it is but it is just so god damn anime it hurts

[Mr EliteL]

Nah, I don't have Disney+ either. I'm not really after something new to watch anyway so if I come across it someway, somehow, I'll give it a go.

John Wick: Chapter 2, last night and was good. Rightfully set up for the 3rd movie, so wonder if the next one sets up for 4 (don't tell me)
....*sigh* No one wants to leave things at trilogies to they? Hope there's a good reason for 4.

[Maniakkid25]

A video reviewing a bunch of stuff that happened in 2022. It's good and interesting. Also, when was someone going to tell me that Iran is basically going through a revolution?!

[Moonface]

A video reviewing a bunch of stuff that happened in 2022. It's good and interesting. Also, when was someone going to tell me that Iran is basically going through a revolution?!

I just watched this and decided I was going to play a fun game of listing off every single thing that gets mentioned I didn't know or remember happened:

1. A pig heart gets successfully transplanted into a human being for the first time, albeit only allowing the recipient to live for another sixty days.
   
2. West Elm Caleb incident. Not surprised I avoided this one, since it's dating advice + TikTok which I'm not going to go near.
   
3. A 400lb gold cube placed into Central Park, NY as some crypto stunt that makes zero sense to me.
   
4. Some crypto Bahama's conference...thing. Tony Blair was there?!
   
5. Pink sauce? o.o
   
6. Some UK roadside chippy going viral. o.o
   
7. Tractors all over the gaff in Amsterdam sowing all sorts of seeds of protest.
   
8. A 269k hand at Hustler Casino being played during a game of poker. I did see the footage at the time but didn't know what any of the actual context was for this.
   
9. Some chess championship game or something that got notable for the imbecile of an opponent who went against the champion and all the other stuff that went on with it too. This part of the video had way more meat on the bones than I would have ever expected.
   
10. Rihanna's head being projected onto a building very badly.
    
11. Some brand going to hell in a hand basket over...something. Dunno who they are or what this was really about nor care enough to check.
    
12. FTX going bust. lol bye bye
    
13. China having protests by factory workers which spread to more people revolting against the restrictions and bullshit the CCP loves to churn out 24/7 onto their people.
    
14. 25 men being arrested for plotting to overthrow the German government.
    
15. 200 people invaded some French cement plant and sabotaged it.
    

Also, a list of things I knew happened but find funny/interesting/depressing to be reminded of or just see again:

1. Boris Johnson being the total twat he is as always and throwing parties during Covid lockdowns that he tried to pass off as a work event.
   
2. Facebook/Meta share price taking a historic plunge (keep going down please and die already).
   
3. The Freedom Convoy in Canada.
   
4. Russia getting their absolute shit shoved in by Ukraine.
   
5. Snake Island telling that Russian warship to go F itself. XD
   
6. Will Smith slapping Chris Rock. I don't even know what Smith has been up to since that happened actually.
   
7. r/place will always be a cool thing Reddit does.
   
8. Dall-E. I never got to make one because the website was always overloaded. ;w;
   
9. Sri Lanka protestors getting into the Presidential palace.
   
10. Teenage boys wearing suits to the Minions movie. Fun when it was just that, utter shite when those people would be disruptive in the movie showing.
    
11. Boris finally stepping down as PM.
    
12. China tearing down dozens upon dozens of high rise apartments due to lack of interest in a dead housing market or whatever it was to warrant keeping them up.
    
13. Holy moly it was September the Queen died?! I thought it was later than that.
    
14. Liz Truss lasting only 44 days as UK PM. The lettuce competing against her tenure was a great highlight. XD
    
15. Two anglers caught cheating in a fishing competition stuffing their fish with metal balls.
    
16. Iranian protests revolting against women covering their heads. I did forget entirely about the hacking of the broadcast during all this though that was really funny. On a serious note, I hope anyone against this movement gets their arse kicked in.
    
17. Twitter users impersonating verified accounts to cause complete chaos for a few days.
    
18. Donald Trump NFT's that....somehow sold out.......
    

What's crazy is that I won't be shocked to learn something got left out of this video as a big deal in 2022, and I'm also surprised that for as much stuff that happened I didn't really end up with that much stuff I had no idea about happening, since normally I tend to be under a rock about most world stuff.

[Maniakkid25]

I'm actually surprised you didn't hear about FTX goung bust, given that it's insanely important to Crypto in general. It didn't destroy as much money as Three Arrows Capital, but it was much more devastating to the average consumer. The basics of what happened is that their competitor Binance orchestrated a Bank Run on FTX, and this finally caused their scheme to collapse.

Also, I had heard of the Chess cheating scandal randomly when I saw an article about how the writer learned about a scandal about chess and anal beads because of Elon Musk, and I ACTIVELY had to look up whether this was a parody site to make sure I wasn't just being trolled. But no, it was real!

[ShiraNoMai]

Yeah that Chess thing was wild. Catching cheaters in today's space is such a scandal and feat to pull off, but who knows, it could perhaps be the type of attention these folks are looking for in the end

[Maniakkid25]

Some brand going to hell in a hand basket over...something. Dunno who they are or what this was really about nor care enough to check.

Okay, it just clicked for me, so allow me to break down what happened. The video makes reference that the adverts by Balenciaga -- a fashion company -- look like ones for "Cheese Pizza". Take the initials of that two word phrase. Yeah, that other phrase your thinking of right now? It looked like that!

To spell it less esoterically: the fashion company decided to make adverts that had little girls holding teddy bears wearing BDSM gear. Yeah, that ain't kosher!

[Moonface]

Some brand going to hell in a hand basket over...something. Dunno who they are or what this was really about nor care enough to check.

Okay, it just clicked for me, so allow me to break down what happened. The video makes reference that the adverts by Balenciaga -- a fashion company -- look like ones for "Cheese Pizza". Take the initials of that two word phrase. Yeah, that other phrase your thinking of right now? It looked like that!

To spell it less esoterically: the fashion company decided to make adverts that had little girls holding teddy bears wearing BDSM gear. Yeah, that ain't kosher!

Despite watching the video twice I didn't once make that connection, likely not helped by having no idea about the company in any way to even know the cheese pizza thing was meant to be anything but literally cheese pizza, and wondering why pizza would be offensive.

I'm genuinely surprised that sort of marketing managed to get through what I imagine is a decent number of people before being put out to the public. The only way I can see it is some head honcho being behind the idea and telling everyone below them who speaks up about it to shut up.


As for the last thing I watched since my double dip on that video, it was this:



I'd already watched this movie about a week ago with @ShiraNoMai so I didn't go into this for the kill count since I know this movie really doesn't have any (this channel doesn't usually count non-human deaths but did in this case it turns out) but knew this video would probably have a lot of insight into the production of the movie, which it did and was really interesting, especially seeing the effort put into it when the director purposefully went into this movie intending to make a mockery of this sequel existing only for money.

[Maniakkid25]

Qualcomm Brew Conference Promo

Ooooh my god, this is so cringe. Okay, so the context of this video is that Qualcomm, at the time a cell phone developer, is having a conference to unveil its new O.S. for phones, Brew. This is before Android and iPhone, so this is WAAAAAY back. But the best way they thought to introduce the conference...is a 5 minute long rap/song bragging about the new O.S. I promise you, this is cringe. This is absolute mid-00's cringe.

Edit: I have to insert it as a link, because the video is flagged so that it doesn't allow embedding.

[ShiraNoMai]

...why did companies think this was a good idea to do, at this time? It just takes me back to those cursed E3 press conferences that did very similar things. Just... ugh.

[Moonface]

Holy moly it's like a phone company teamed up with Ubisoft to promote a Just Dance app coming exclusively to their phone service. What's with the random lyrics being put on screen too?!
I found the video to be painful to watch before the singing even started though. That opening segment to put together the "Brew Your Way" slogan takes so long that when the second word came up I briefly got confused why "Your" was being shown until I remembered the word before it and realized I was seeing a three word slogan come together over a 90 second period.


I started watching a little bit of this run from this year's AGDQ since I heard it's an amazing run, and so far it hasn't disappointed:

[Mr EliteL]

Ooh nice a Worms Armageddon speedrun, watched some and yup have to see the rest. Didn't know the bungee rope could be used like that for one thing, haha.

Watched Liar Liar (haven't seen fully before), Ace Venture: Pet Detective (have seen), some Vicar of Dibley episodes (have seen), and The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin Series 1 and most of 2 (never come across before). All good.

[Moonface]

@Mr EliteL: Yeah some of the tricks that guy does are insane, such as using momentum from the ninja rope to knock worms about. I can't even imagine how much time had to go into figuring out where to hit worms and with what weapons to put them into spots that create all those setups. It really makes me curious to look into runs of the 3D games just to see how these strats got adapted into that format.
Of course by 3D games I don't include Forts. I will continue to believe my headcanon that that game still takes a lifetime even when speed running it.

Besides Twitch streams the last thing I watched was some King of the Hill episodes. Man I never got into that show when I first came across it years and years ago but it's so good!

[Moonface]

Not fully because I'm not paying for the poor experience that is Peacock, but I've been watching clips of notable moments from WWE's Royal Rumble event that aired last night, mostly of anything to do with the main event because even though I'm not actively watching WWE I just have to keep an eye on their Bloodline storyline. It's easily the best story that company has had in years and I'd go so far as to say one of the best the company will ever produce in their entire history, and the crowd reaction to a story payoff last night really cements it:

Hopefully this isn't taken down by copyright...

If you just want to get to the crowd pop without the build skip to roughly when the video has 4:55 left (this video player counts the time left instead of amount watched).

I wish I didn't have to wait until tomorrow to see what the next step is going to be for all of this.

[Mr EliteL]

Watched the video Moony posted above. Was confused why the Rumble wasn't at the end, thought this Bloodline bit was meant to be a part of the Rumble when I read your post but it's a singles match for the title, then it's the aftermath of that. I haven't been following much but know he has been a heel for a while, but good to see Roman get such heat for being an actual heel, and of course saw the turn happen, plus another which look like it breaks that stable down possibly two members, definitely one.