Umm. I just got a random encounter…with a Nazgûl?

Jordan Meiller@noplotr.certainofeventualfailure.com · 11h ago

Anyway then you immediately encounter Eomer and he does the “elf a man and dwarf” line except at this point your party is an elf, three men, and a dwarf. And one of those men is literally a Rider of Rohan.

Anyway then you immediately encounter Eomer and he does the “elf a man and dwarf” line except at this point your party is an elf, three men, and a dwarf. And one of those men is literally a Rider of Rohan.

Jordan Meiller@noplotr.certainofeventualfailure.com · 11h ago

I thought this happened either right before or right after Helm’s Deep, supposedly I’m only 28% of the way through the game. Why does one disk hold 28% of the game and the other disc has 72%.

I thought this happened either right before or right after Helm’s Deep, supposedly I’m only 28% of the way through the game. Why does one disk hold 28% of the game and the other disc has 72%.

Jordan Meiller@noplotr.certainofeventualfailure.com · 12h ago

The level after Moria has some weird choices that are making me wonder if this game was also a rush job. Like, within the first few minutes you get Epic Scenes telling you “Here’s the lowdown on Littleton,” “The Fellowship has gone ahead on the river,” “Ope, Boromir’s dead,” “Here’s Eomer.”

The level after Moria has some weird choices that are making me wonder if this game was also a rush job. Like, within the first few minutes you get Epic Scenes telling you “Here’s the lowdown on Littleton,” “The Fellowship has gone ahead on the river,” “Ope, Boromir’s dead,” “Here’s Eomer.”

Jordan Meiller@noplotr.certainofeventualfailure.com · 5d ago

Beat the Balrog first try. Didn’t even grind beforehand. By the time I get to the next big boss Idrial will have Frenzy and at that point it’s basically over.

Feel like this will be good for when I’m very bored and very tired. You can like if you want but I’ll probably answer all of them eventually regardless.

A Perfectly Reasonable Review of The Odyssey (2026) letterboxd.com/noplotr/film...

A ½ review of The Odyssey (2026)

Feel lots of different ways about this movie so this is just a series of notes that I don't think I can wrangle into a cohesive whole: 1. A decent action movie with delusions of grandeur A. The action...

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It’s Event Horizon. They just did Event Horizon.

It's Friday Music Time Day! Today's randomly selected album from my backlog is...Julien Baker & TORRES—Send a Prayer My Way (2025) julienbakerandtorres.bandcamp.com/album/send-a...

Send A Prayer My Way, by Julien Baker & TORRES

12 track album

julienbakerandtorres.bandcamp.com

Jordan Meiller@noplotr.certainofeventualfailure.com · 2w ago

It's time for Friday! Just Friday! But with music! Today's randomly selected album from my backlog is...Damien Jurado—I Lost My Wig: The "Motorcycle Madness" Home Demos (2025) damienjurado.bandcamp.com/album/i-lost...

Beat the Balrog first try. Didn’t even grind beforehand. By the time I get to the next big boss Idrial will have Frenzy and at that point it’s basically over.

Jordan Meiller@noplotr.certainofeventualfailure.com · 4w ago

The main problem with replaying Third Age is that, as a fairly linear turn-based game, the main form of skill expression is knowing which stats and skills to focus on for each character. And if you know all that from the beginning the game becomes trivially easy, even on Hard mode.

Oh my god how is this still going around. You could do this with literally any show aand have the same effect, the problem isn’t the jokes not being funny (though in this case, I mean, sure) the problem is THEY ARE PACED FOR THE LAUGH TRACK.

Kenny Lauderdale@kennylauderdale.bsky.social · 7d ago

I remember showing friends those (no laugh track) edits & it broke them straight out of the matrix. I basically ruined TV for a ton of people. Like OBVIOUSLY these shows weren't filmed in front of a live studio audience, but you'd be surprised how many people were fooled youtu.be/jKS3MGriZcs

Pitching an article to The Atlantic titled “Sarah Palin Deserved Better.” Gonna be a millionaire.

If Americans ever found out what Miyazaki thought about 9/11, Spirited Away would’ve been removed from theaters and Ghibli would’ve been blacklisted, and we never would’ve gotten Billy Crystal as a talking fireplace.

Junior year of college, me and my roommate both recently single and finding ourselves with a lot of free time all of a sudden, so we start having regular jam sessions. One of the first songs we ever try to play together is “When Your Mind’s Made Up,” him on guitar, me on keys.

Ok, more sophisticated criticism: How is it a reveal that that's a dinosaur. Like, what is the impact of that supposed to be. "Where on Earth in the past, see, there's a dinosaur." Ok, well, you started this episode on an alien pre-warp planet riding horses, so. Seems like dinos could be anywhere.

They did not just do an incredibly artless and pointless Doctor Who reference?! Lower Decks-ass joke.

It's time for Friday! Just Friday! But with music! Today's randomly selected album from my backlog is...Damien Jurado—I Lost My Wig: The "Motorcycle Madness" Home Demos (2025) damienjurado.bandcamp.com/album/i-lost...

I Lost My Wig: The "Motorcycle Madness" Home Demos, by Damien Jurado

9 track album

damienjurado.bandcamp.com

Jordan Meiller@noplotr.certainofeventualfailure.com · 3w ago

It's time for Tunes Tuesday, the day when it's Tuesday! Today's randomly selected album from my backlog is...Vetiver—Tight Knit (2009) vetiver.bandcamp.com/album/tight-...

1 of 15,000: “You’re only killing time and it’ll kill you right back” from “Out of the Frying Pan (And Into the Fire)” by Meat Loaf (written by Jim Steinman of course)

Secret Drug Addict@scrtdrugaddict.bsky.social · 2w ago

If you post a song cover using the “<song title> (<artist> Cover)” format, you can either use the artist whose version your cover is closest to, or the original artist. What you cannot do is use “Hallelujah (Jeff Buckley Cover)” as the title for what is very obviously a Rufus Wainwright cover.

If a team makes a game that gets great reviews and doesn't sell, that's a biz failing but the silver lining is you caught lighting in a bottle -- protect that team! It's worth its weight in gold. If you jettison the team but keep the biz people, I don't know what to tell you

Over 30 people got fired from ZA/UM because Zero Parades didn't sell well but CEO Ilmar Kompus didn't step down. President Ed Tomaszewski didn't take a paycut. Is Head of Studio Allen Murray leaving or losing out on a bonus at all? Head of Finance Lira Jolkina? Head of Operations Patrick Norberg?

Look, man, sometimes I just start a sentence because of oratory inertia, it doesn't mean there's anything there.

This was going to be difficult and then I remembered I saw The Hebrew Hammer (2003) in a theater.

Defector@defector.com · 3w ago

What's the worst movie you've ever watched in a theater? defector.com/whats-the-wo...

Re-listening to Newts! and just now registering that it was co-created by Ian Coss?! So he created or co-created Newts!, The Big Dig, We’re Doing The Wiz, and Forever is a Long Time. That is one hell of an oeuvre.

Really seems like he wants children to fall down into a pit with a high risk of either drowning or breaking their legs.

I never stop myself because someone not getting a reference is merely an opportunity for them to have that reference explained to them in exhaustive detail by me, and who am I to deny them that?

Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · 3w ago

What’s the cultural reference you must frequently have to stop yourself from making at work, because no-one else would get it? Mine is “ze price stabilité is ze most important thing”.

It's time for Tunes Tuesday, the day when it's Tuesday! Today's randomly selected album from my backlog is...Vetiver—Tight Knit (2009) vetiver.bandcamp.com/album/tight-...

Tight Knit, by Vetiver

10 track album

vetiver.bandcamp.com

Jordan Meiller@noplotr.certainofeventualfailure.com · last mo.

It's time for Music Monday, on a Monday even! Today's randomly selected album from my backlog is...Damien Jurado—Sometimes You Hurt The Ones You Hate Home Demos (2025) damienjurado.bandcamp.com/album/someti...

Finished Long Story Short. Incredible, 18/10. The most Jewish show I’ve ever seen. Very funny, made me cry multiple times.

Oh I thought it was McConnell but I guess this is something. To be clear: Lindsay Graham was a coward and a hypocrite and died in the service not to state or country but to a man he once claimed to loathe, simply because it was politically inexpedient for him to have any principles whatsoever.

Found an old journal where I said "Just a note: The Cyanide & Happiness for today is brilliant." So with not a small amount of trepidation I looked up that day's Cyanide & Happiness, and you know what? It's pretty good. explosm.net/comics/rob-s...

The main problem with replaying Third Age is that, as a fairly linear turn-based game, the main form of skill expression is knowing which stats and skills to focus on for each character. And if you know all that from the beginning the game becomes trivially easy, even on Hard mode.

Jordan Meiller@noplotr.certainofeventualfailure.com · last mo.

Crafting in this game is horrible though, I have to craft 51 Kingsfoils to unlock Lembas?? That’s 51 turns! Turns that I’m not doing something actually useful! And the rest of the items have even higher requirements?? Never gonna happen, waste of an elfstone slot.