Chris Posted July 24, 2017 Idle Thumbs BONUS: Ruination Online July 2017 Enjoy this bonus episode drawn from our Idle Thumbs Patreon Ruination Online! Each month, we do a livestream where all topics have been posed by high-tier backers of our Patreon campaign: patreon.com/IdleThumbs. This month it's a lightning round: two minutes an answer for maximum efficiency. Due to popular demand, we're releasing the audio of that stream to the main podcast feed for easier listening. We'll be back with a regular episode of Idle Thumbs next week! Discussed: The future of VR headset adoption, indie comic books and adapting comics to other mediums, the origin of the "baboo" sound, making an RPG character sheet for yourself, Legion, vowels, visiting and living through an event from history, the moon, Lord Nelson's final words, what makes for a good ruination question?A note: One answer on this podcast makes reference to Important If True Episode 24, a podcast which has not yet been released. Whoops! We forgot how our schedule works. Look for that episode on Thursday, July 27 for the answer to Reggie Clark's intriguing question, "If you were really a robot would you want to know?" Listen on the Episode Page Listen on Soundcloud Listen in iTunes Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jennegatron Posted July 25, 2017 Alright, I have to come clean about Minion Thong. I don't want to say that I'm responsible for it, but I will admit that I created the circumstances in which Minion Thong could happen and thrive. Bear with me, as this is a lot of tweets: It all started out innocently enough but it quickly spiraled out of control https://storify.com/jennegatron/minion-thong-i-m-so-sorry I collected the crimes in a storify. My heart goes out to the dear thumbs that suffered with me. A couple highlights: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jennegatron Posted July 25, 2017 Storify is having a hard time handling the sheer magnitude of minions tweets, so I recommend clicking through some of the links for a full experience. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dium Posted July 25, 2017 When you were answering the greatest Thief question and Nick started with "there was that one guy who stole all that money..." I was genuinely surprised when he didn't continue with "...and wasn't going to give it back". Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jake Posted July 25, 2017 God we whiffed on that thief question. How did we not say Kangaroo Jack?? Or... https://mobile.twitter.com/Yibn/status/889613799774445571 some big misses on our part. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Salacious Snake Posted July 25, 2017 I think the real question is which one of you is Dark Admiral Jean-Luc Hyperriker. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Deadpan Posted July 25, 2017 Steve is Reginald Barclay, I think. At the very least, somebody in this crew has to be Reginald Barclay. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Beasteh Posted July 25, 2017 That part about the wipes... so good! Reminds me of this meme: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SuperBiasedMan Posted July 25, 2017 I think Steve would be Chewbacca, seemed pretty obvious to me. And Danielle would be Wash. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lork Posted July 25, 2017 Steve is Q. Source: I thought of it before Chris did. Clearly there must be some Qness about him for the two of us to independently come to the same conclusion like that. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gormongous Posted July 26, 2017 I'm going to give this my best shot. For the sake of challenge, I'll name characters from both shows for each of the Thumbs: Chris is Worf and Odo. Jake is Geordi and Rom. Nick is Barclay and O'Brien. Sean is Riker and Bashir. Steve is Guinan and Jadzia Dax. Danielle is Tasha Yar and Kira. Woof, that was tough. And that list is bad, but whatever. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gormongous Posted July 26, 2017 9 hours ago, Jake said: Who is Spaff? Crap, I knew I forgot someone. Spaff's... uh, Data and Garak? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TheLastBaron Posted July 26, 2017 22 hours ago, Gormongous said: Nick is Barclay Excellent. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Patrick R Posted July 27, 2017 "The greatest diamond of them all...democracy!" made me laugh really really hard. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ben X Posted August 7, 2017 Apparently, and I may have read this here, the Mona Lisa was not very well-known by the general public until it was stolen and later recovered. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
twmac Posted August 8, 2017 Damn it those Minion tweets... Also, subscription services are already a thing. EA has EA access, Microsoft has the Game Pass, and Sony has PlayStation Now. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites