Jake

It’s crazy that in the rarest drop you can get from the alternate universe blind box machine, David Lynch directed Return of the Jedi.

Important If True 41: A Very Happy Cow There are certain pieces of knowledge, things one has observed or learned, that become like a single grain of sand in the folds of the brain. An itch you can't scratch, can't make go away. Something you know to be true but no one else sees, or the tiniest word out of place, a colloquial phrase misused by a friend. For you and your itchy brain, we are here. Rub your face up against this podcast and we'll grind those grains of mental sand away (while only adding a few new ones in the process). Discussed: Canadian politeness, Nick Breckon, sincerity, phenomena, pedanticism, sentience and sapience, TN.FN.CN, the smartest animal, less vs. fewer, encouraging grocery store express line improvements, removing the sand from my brain, Jibo the friendly robot, Jibo's obsessive desire for your love, Jibo's political agenda, sapience vs. sentience vs. love vs. robot love, cat pillow that purrs, Qoobo, dangerous capitalistic self-medication, Happy Cow bovine self-grooming device, electric automatic shoe polisher machine, extraordinarily dubious menswear advice, Important If True Bad Gift Special Chris' Endorsement: Indochino made-to-measure menswear (you can also use my referral link for $50 off, if you desire) Nick's Endorsement: Nintendo Switch video game console Jake's Endorsement: Red Giant Universe gratuitous effects to make your videos look like old VHS tapes and stuff Listen on the Episode Page Listen on Soundcloud Listen in iTunes

That’s the real microphone nick uses to record! We tried placing a real mic in front of the screen but it doesn’t hold up to the different camera angles - nick is either blocked by it or it appears to be hovering in front of nothing.

I almost started talking about that after realizing what I’d said, but didn’t want to sidetrack and then missed the window.

Yeah incredible.

This being the Marvel thread I think it’d be on theme to say that if we ever meet in person, I’ll fight you.

It’s such a relief that the new map is not only good, but in many ways an improvement over the first map. It makes me feel confident that PUBG has some legs.

I wonder how much of that is an audience second guessing every appearance of Fisher because of her death and how much is really a post-production scramble.

Idle Weekend December 25, 2017: Merry Night In the Woods Christmas Rob and Danielle survived a truly, comically terrible fall to podcast again! We chat about the too-realness of Night in the Woods, going home for the holidays, and the games and movies that have made the last few months vaguely tolerable. Merry Holiday time to you all! (Mild content warning for discussion of domestic abuse in I, Tonya) Discussed: Night in the Woods, Dishonored: Death of the Outsider, Tacoma, Prey, I, Tonya, Thor: Ragnorok, A Christmas Gift Listen on the Episode Page Listen on Soundcloud Listen in iTunes

I think it was 100% her - they said she completed principal photography before she passed - but also I think they applied “digital touch up” to all of her performances, which every blockbuster seems to do to every older actor now, to smooth out their face. Maybe that wasn’t happening, but it really looked like it was.

Sorry to be pedantic but don’t you literally mean “subjectively” here? This is how I felt as well. (Other than the Telltale part but I get what you mean!) It was longer than I’d have liked, and a few scenes or arcs I thought were edited down to the bone and could have been dropped entirely for something simpler, but I liked what was there and was glad it was willing to mix up a lot of the big Star Wars ideas in ways I couldn’t always predict.

This is wholly accurate.

I saw it a second time and liked it more the second time. The rough parts I felt even more than before (both Finn and Poe’s stories are rough for very different reasons imo), but the high highs, and the overall structure of “meticulously set up a ton of things and then spend the final third of the movie paying them off one after the other” really worked for me the second time around. It was fun watching the audience sit literally on the edge of their seats from the on through which got an outrageously huge cheer.

Yes this.

Yeah there was way more in here than there needed to be. It felt like half a season of a Star Wars television show edited down into a 2.5 hour movie.

I liked it.

Fixed!

Our art director is Claire Hummel, who is a boss.

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It literally never helps to be an asshole when “helping.”

Idle Thumbs 275: The Robot's Lips The cockpit lid closes, the engines fire up, the atmosphere melts away, and the infinite vastness of space is laid before you. "VHERH THOO?" flap the disgustingly real rubber lips protruding from your cockpit dashboard. "STHOMWHER NICE I THOOPE." You know the lips are still learning, but this knowledge does not endear you to them. You zoom out to check the galactic map, enter a destination for yourself, and prepare for a long trip. "DTHID YOU KNOW" the lips started, "I KNOOW THREE DITHVERENT PLEPLE NAMMED SEAN MURRAY?" You violently claw at the cockpit lid, spring it open and are sucked into the void, barely missing a resplendent space whale that happened to be cruising by. You think there's something written on the side of the whale, but before you can read it, you die in space. Discussed: No Man's Sky, Overcooked, Spaceteam (card game), Pandemic: Legacy, House of the Dying Son, RimWorld, Wakeboarding Unleashed Featuring Shaun Murray Listen on the Episode Page Listen on Soundcloud Listen in iTunes

Oh man I knew it was from pretty close after the Kickstarter (which was ep 65). That’s one of the heaviest hitting episodes from that fresh-back-from-the-dead era imo.

Yay I’m so happy Tone Control is back! (Also people should be able to reply to threads in here again, sorry about that.)

Important If True 16: The Pizza, the Bee, and the Trash Can We cannot sanction your buffoonery. But we can, and will, personally hand-deliver your questions to Lord Hoistmas. Questions like: What is the true secret of the real 90s? How do you cleverly cover up an regrettable tattoo? And would you eat the best pizza you've ever had in your life if it came with bees? Send us email at questions@importantiftrue.com. If you enjoyed this and would like to subscribe to an ad-free feed, please consider supporting Idle Thumbs by backing our Patreon. Discussed: The Real Ghostbusters, good web addresses, Amazon bookstores, Boss Coffee, Tommy Lee Jones, Jim Carrey, trash can robots, Sony Bravia ad, Google Home/Blade Runner 2049 mashup, techno-seniors, tattoos, a history of the Peeing Calvin, crisper, CRISPR, Lord Hoistmas, pizza, bees Chris' Endorsement: Shoe care products: saddle soap for cleaning, Saphir Renovateur for treating and polishing (usage tips) Nick's Endorsement: Garth Marenghi's Darkplace (Amazon, YouTube) Jake's Endorsement: Learning about the interoperability of the multimedia devices in your home Sponsored By: Quip electric toothbrushes, Casper mattresses Listen on the Episode Page Listen on Soundcloud Listen in iTunes

Idle Thumbs 313: Takeless Jake This episode is an artifact of a simpler time. Buried in the ground for mere days, when you excavate it now, you barely understand what is discussed. "Why aren't they talking about the new Mario game for half this episode?" you wonder, your brain unable to see what is right before you. Eventually, you settle in and enjoy what you have and are a better person for it, but only because you listen to the episode while playing Mario. Discussed: the past, Cuphead, Battlestar Galactica Deadlock, Super Mario Odyssey, Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle, video game curricula, [Half-Life 2:] Epistle 3, Marc Laidlaw, Mike Laidlaw, Laidlaw & Laidlaw, The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask Listen on the Episode Page Listen on Soundcloud Listen in iTunes