Bonus Credit 53 - Deep, Confusing Stuff for Certain People
Added 2025-02-15 23:34:01 +0000 UTCIn these uncertain times, the Insert Credit Bonus Credit just might be the most reliable and delightful thing to exist across all realities. This one features Frank’s opinions on recent Batman and Ren & Stimpy cartoons, exercises in greatfulness that bring the whole panel together, and Swampfeld. Plus, the triumphant return of the Jaffe & Esper Comix Games and Cards Zone for Cool Kids!
A SMALL DESCRIPTION OF EPISODES PULLED FROM:
(Ep. 370) Pre-show. Frank and Jaffe exchange thoughts on Batman: Caped Crusader, the new animated series on Amazon, and the difficulties of standing in the shadow of the original Animated Series. YOU get to take a listen BEHIND THE SCENES as we EXCLUSIVELY REVEAL that we recorded episodes 369 and 370 in the same session for scheduling purposes. Brandon changes clothes to maintain that illusion. That one episode of Seinfeld with a different theme song gets brought up again. Taylor Swift’s podcast is all about sports betting. Beyonce was playing Rhythm Heaven in that Nintendo DS commercial.
(Ep. 370) Post-show. Ash has more to say about hope. Brandon clarifies his feelings on hope. Jaffe thinks the Avatar skins in Fortnite are ugly! An attractive podcast editor wonders aloud if any early Fortnite diehards got upset when they started adding Jango Fett and Captain America. Bluesky is still figuring itself out, but you should block liberally.
(Ep. 371) Pre-show. Ash explains which monster movies to watch while high. Frank got those little Mario Karts with cameras built in as a present for himself and for his cats. Brandon is forced to play games he is unsure about.
(Ep. 371) Extended break. The panel reconsiders their remaining choices for Insert Credit Annual #6.
(Ep. 372) Pre-show. Frank discovers an entire new season of Ren & Stimpy on an internet. Special guest merritt k doesn’t need the link to it, but Ash does. Paramount is just sittin’ on that Popeye license.
(Ep. 372) Post-show. Brandon turned it into Yahoo Wippie. Luigi is dominating the incentives. The Video Game History Foundation has the first ever prize awarded by GDQ.
The J&ECGaCZfCK Returns! Jaffe undergoes an unburdening exercise by revealing his Game of the Year pick, Esper assigns Magic: the Gathering color identity to the Insert Credit panelists, and the two discuss FAR SECTOR, the Green Lantern space noir mystery with sex and drugs and great art and kind of a busted plot.
Comments
All I know is from the commissioned research we did for him and the heterodox community’s reporting on the bluesky controversy so that is interesting to know as most of the information I saw was used to discredit blue sky as being full of extremists
TJ B
2025-02-18 12:39:44 +0000 UTCCommon brandon W (to be clear, this is in response to brandon's thoughtful reply)
Jordan Cummins
2025-02-18 08:45:34 +0000 UTC(brandon:) First of all, not part of any death threat movement. Second of all, definitely mad about his treatment of trans folks in his article and the transphobic people he associates with. there could certainly be a drive from people with other agendas but that doesn't change him being a transphobe who literally gets help from/associates with kiwifarms. so he's definitely not a cool guy for me to be friends with.
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2025-02-17 23:50:24 +0000 UTCThis was fun! Loved hearing about Esper Control and the backstory. That's how I liked to play MTG too. Just kind of control the game and wait for a mistake and slowly win over a long time. The most fun was strategizing how I could make them make a mistake.
David Noo
2025-02-17 19:39:46 +0000 UTCWait, are you guys part of that Jesse Singal death threat movement on bluesky? I’ve been part of his substack for years becuse I contributed research to his “Quick Fix” book. I thought the everyone knew at this point that the reaction to him joining bluesky over his Atlantic trans kids article was extreme, misinformed and used as ammo against bluesky as a better alternative to Twitter
TJ B
2025-02-16 18:21:06 +0000 UTCGood bonus! Shame Esper didn't click with Declan Shalvey's art on Mystique - I'm really looking forward to reading it once it's collected.
Rin
2025-02-16 01:38:10 +0000 UTC
