#president nick miller

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

We're sitting down at the table and Winston is reading an actuarial table. -Lamorne

[coppertophomegurl]

RWRB as New Girl

Zahra

Alex

Henry

Alex seeing Henry in his polo outfit

Alex jacking off another boy in high school

Alex at the Royal Wedding

Zahra

Luna

Nora emerging from her cave after 3 days after tracking down the leak

Alex and Henry

[mlmshipbracket]

Fourth MLM Ship Bracket Propaganda Submissions

Below you will find all of the submitted and approved ships for the Fourth MLM Ship Bracket Tournament along with the form to submit further propaganda at the bottom

This is another opportunity to submit propaganda for your favorite ships. Wether you were unable to submit propaganda for them in the initial form or you spot your favorite ship who has no propaganda submitted. Ships with a strikethrough have propaganda submitted, I will continue to update this post as propaganda is submitted. I will accept further propaganda for ships with already submitted propaganda but please prioritize those with out.

The goal is to have propaganda for all ships but I understand that may not be possible. Therefore I will be leaving the form open for a few weeks to see if we receive propaganda for at least half the ships.

Note: Please reach out to me if you spot any mistakes in character or fandom names, even if it is only formatting or spelling issues.

Monkey D. Luffy/Roronoa Zoro (One Piece)

Kyojuro Rengoku/Akaza (Demon Slayer)

Mikhail”Misha” [Heavy]/Dr. Ludwig [Medic] (Team Fortress 2)

Dave Strider/Karkat Vantas (Homestuck)

Chu Shuzhi/Guo Changcheng (Guardian, 2018)

Oliver Marks/James Farrow (If We Were Villains)

David Starsky/Kenneth "Hutch" Hutchinson (Starsky & Hutch)

Tinn/Gun (My School President)

Loki Odinson/Mobius M. Mobius (Loki)

Jaime Reyes/Bart Allen (DC Comics)

Levi Schmitt/Nico Kim (Grey's Anatomy)

Ren Amamiya or Akira Kurusu/Goro Akechi (Persona 5)

Wallace Price/ Hugo Freeman (Under the Whispering Door)

Daffy Duck/Bugs Bunny (Looney Toons)

Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan (Guardian, 2018)

Isak Valtersen/Even Bech Næsheim (SKAM)

Henry "Monty" Montague/Percy Newton (Montague Siblings)

Nico di Angelo/Will Solace (Camp Half-Blood Chronicles)

Argos/Mr. Plant (The World of Mr. Plant)

Richard St Vier/Alec Campion (Swordspoint Universe)

Klaus Hargreeves/Dave Katz (The Umbrella Academy)

Woody/Buzz Lightyear (Toy Story)

Victor Lawson/Hap (In the Lives of Puppets

Charlie/Babe (Pit Babe The Series)

Fred/Shaggy (Scooby-Doo)

Simon Snow/Tyrannus Basilton "Baz" Grimm-Pitch (Carry On)

Gaius Octavius/Jedediah Smith (Night at the Museum)

Sound/Win (My School President)

Pat/Pran (Bad Buddy)

Mike Wazowski/James "Sulley" P. Sullivan (Monsters, Inc.)

Nicholas “Nick” Bell/ Seth Gray (The Extraordinaries)

Evan 'Buck' Buckley/Edmundo 'Eddie' Diaz (9-1-1)

Sean/White (Not Me: The Series)

Vegas Theerapanyakun/Pete Saengtham (Kinnporsche: The Series)

Runaan/Ethari (The Dragon Prince)

Larry Daley/Ahkmenrah (Night at the Museum)

Tintin/Captain Archibald Haddock (Tintin comics)

Bai Lang/Jin Xun An (My Tooth Your Love)

Napoleon Solo/Illya Kuryakin (The Man from U.N.C.L.E)

Wario/Waluigi (Mario franchise)

Peter Parker/Miguel O'Hará (Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse)

Steve Rogers/Anthony "Tony" Stark (Marvel Comics)

Dave Miller/Jack "Old sport" Kennedy (Dayshift at Freddy's)

Boston/Nick (Only Friends)

Kinn Theerapanyakun/Porsche Kittisawasd (Kinnporsche: The Series)

Satoru Gojo/Suguru Geto (Jujutsu Kaisen)

Craig Cuttlefish/Octavio Takowasa (Splatoon)

Tulio/Miguel (The Road to El Dorado)

Sun Wukong/Neptune Vasilias (RWBY)

Zachary Ezra Rawlins/Dorian (The Starless Sea)

Fox Mulder/Alex Krycek (The X-Files)

Thomas/Newt (The Maze Runner)

Fulgrim/Ferrus Manus (Warhammer 40k)

Kim Theerapanyakun/Porchay Kittisawasd (Kinnporsche: The Series)

Alec Lightwood/Magnus Bane (The Mortal Instruments)

Tan/Bun (Manner of Death)

Qrow Branwen/Clover Ebi (RWBY)

Rhy Maresh/Alucard Emery (Shades of Magic)

Yashiro Isana/Kuroh Yatogami (K Project)

Jaskier/Geralt of Rivia (The Witcher)

Dustfinger/Mortimer "Mo" Folchart (Inkworld series)

Brandon/Sky (Winx Club)

Phineas Taylor “P. T.” Barnum/Phillip Carlyle (The Greatest Showman)

Alfred Hillinghead/Henry Ashe (Bodies TV Show)

Baal/Inanna (The Wicked + the Divine)

Timothy "Tim" Drake/Bernard Dowd (DC Comics)

Vash the Stampede/Nicholas D. Wolfwood (Trigun Stampede)

Anthony Lockwood/Quill Kipps (Lockwood and Co)

Henry Winter/Francis Abernathy (The Secret History)

Crowley/Aziraphale (Good Omens)

Dainix/Falst (Aurora Comic)

Prince Rupert/Prince Amir (The Two Princes)

Finn/Poe Dameron (Star Wars)

Jean Luc Picard/Q (Star Trek: The Next Generation)

Will Stronghold/Warren Peace (Sky High)

Heart/Li Ming (Moonlight Chicken)

Wallace Wells/Todd Ingram (Scott Pilgrim Takes Off)

Sunai/Veyadi Lut (The Archive Undying)

Linus Baker/Arthur Parnassus (The House in the Cerulean Sea)

Aaron Slaughter/Jace Boucher (House of Slaughter)

Hercule Poirot/Captain Arthur Hastings (Hercule Poirot)

Phaya/Tharn (The Sign)

Hercules/Iolaus (Hercules: The Legendary Journeys)

Todd/Black (Not Me: The Series)

Julio "Rictor" Esteban Richter/Shatterstar (Marvel Comics)

Wen Kexing/Zhou Zishu (Word of Honor)

Siffrin/Isabeau (In Stars and time)

Kendall Knight/Logan Mitchell (Big Time Rush TV Show)

Yuichiro Hiyakuya/Mikaela Hyakuya (Owari no Seraph/Seraph of the End)

Palm/Nuengdiao (Never Let Me Go)

Khatha/Dome (Midnight Museum)

Asterix/Obelix (Asterix Comics)

Bowser/Luigi (Mario Franchise)

Lucien "Luc" O'Donnell/Oliver Blackwood (London Calling)

Kazuki Kurusu/Rei Suwa (Buddy Daddies)

Benjamin “Ben” Tennyson/Kevin Ethan Levin (Ben 10: Alien Force)

Lumière/Cogsworth (Beauty and the Beast)

Damian Wayne/Jon Kent (DC Comics)

Spy/Dell Conagher [Engineer] (Team Fortress 2)

Shanks/Buggy (One Piece)

Jesper Fahey/Wylan Van Ecks (Six of Crows)

Harold Finch/John Reese (Person of Interest)

Ulrich Stern/Odd Della Robbia (Code Lyoko)

Vincent Freeman/Jerome Morrow (Gattaca)

Eustass Kid/Killer (One Piece)

Christopher Hitchcock/Jalil Sherman (Everworld)

Frodo Baggins/Samwise Gamgee (Lord of the Rings)

Edgin Darvis/Xenk Yendar (Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves)

[returnsandreturns]

“Oh, speaking of devils, he figured all our hijinks out immediately and was still totally fine with me living here,” Jess says, “and he was also weirdly interested in whether or not we’re a couple.” 

“Why would he–even think that?” Nick asks, sitting up immediately, scoffing. “That would be–wrong.” 

“And bad!” Jess says, nodding. “Yeah, that’s what I said.” 

“. . .did he happen to say what would happen if we were?” Nick asks, not meeting her eyes, running a hand anxiously through his hair. “In this, frankly, crazy hypothetical?” 

“He told me to follow my heart,” Jess says, laughing, starting to unpack the bags. “I have never gotten feedback like that from Heaven before. It’s normally stop doing so many knitting-based miracles and why is your budget request mostly going toward glitter glue?” 

“The last time I talked to Hell, they told me that I was a sorry excuse for a demon,” Nick says, sighing and lying back down again, “and they were going to destroy me forever in a baptism of holy water unless I got my act together.” 

“. . .when did you talk to Hell last?” Jess asks, eyes wide. 

“I don’t–I think Nixon was president?” Nick says. “I’ve just been making shit up on my reports and they apparently haven’t checked. I don’t even remember how to get down there. It was in an old parking garage but. . .I mean, who knows, really.” 

He waves a hand aimlessly in the air.

“You kind of are a sorry excuse for a demon, Nick Miller,” she says, fondly. 

“I do what I can,” Nick says. 

[saywhat-politics]

Vincent James, the unapologetic racist, antisemite, misogynist, conspiracy theorist, and fascist who currently serves as the treasurer of white nationalist Nick Fuentes’ America First organization, has a helpful habit of clearly laying out the radical intentions of the far-right America First movement.

From “kidnapping the children away from gay people” and throwing gay people off of buildings to stripping women of their rights and establishing a Christian Taliban in this country that will “dominate without mercy,” James is hardly subtle about the fascist Christian dictatorship he, Fuentes, and their ilk would like to see imposed on this nation.

On his Tuesday night livestream, James celebrated the recent dinner that Fuentes had with former President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago last week and made note of Trump’s steadfast refusal to condemn Fuentes, taking it as a sign that if Trump were to be reelected in 2024, Fuentes and others in the America First movement could be poised to play key roles in his administration.

“[Trump is] still refusing—at this point right now that we’re recording this—refusing to disavow Nick,” James marveled. “Can you imagine if they keep this close to their vest? All of a sudden Trump wins, gets elected, all of a sudden we find out Nick Fuentes is the new Stephen Miller, Nick Fuentes is the new adviser.”

[carolinemillerbooks]

New Post has been published on Books by Caroline Miller

New Post has been published on https://www.booksbycarolinemiller.com/musings/a-curmudgeon-in-the-family-of-man/

A Curmudgeon In The Family Of Man

I was grateful to my neighbor for helping me with a technical problem.  He’s the resident guru on computers at the retirement center and far too modest about himself. Aware that I might need his advice in the future, I asked if he’d care to adopt me despite my advanced age.  A smile parted his lips as his gaze dropped to the carpet. “We’re all family here,” he said. I walked away thinking he’d uttered a beautiful notion, though I tend to reject sentiments that are warm and fuzzy.  I’m old enough to know that the history of “the “family of man” is dysfunctional. Since Caine slew Able we’ve worked to perfect the art of violence. Murder isn’t the kind of glue to hold society together, so we attempt to contain it by inventing rules. Murder on a grand scale we call war.  The rules on those occasions are those of The Geneva Convention. The smaller stuff we leave to religion, laws, politics, and the whims of tyranny. But, like the potter who leaves his fingerprints upon newly shaped clay, because we are flawed creatures, the systems we create can be weaponized and used to threaten others. Justice, after all, is the gloved fist of vengeance. Bill Clinton, our 42nd President, sees philanthropy as a better way to promote social cohesion. Philanthropy can help bust through political and cultural gridlock by showing what can be done. He has many true believers, so many that at his last conference on philanthropy, a thousand do-gooders had to be turned away.   Enthusiasm on this scale is heartwarming, but I’m a curmudgeon. I’ve never been keen to turn the world over to philanthropists.  Who are they, after all, but people otherwise known as oligarchs? Nick Caraway in The Great Gatsby told us about them. They are people who don’t think like the rest of us. I doubt any butcher, baker, cowboy, or tailor would choose to live in a Martian colony under Elan Musk’s rules. I place my faith in “we the people.” Democracy’s collective mind is where we are most likely to find common ground. Alexei Navalny, Vladamir Putin’s murdered opponent, was a man of the people. Having survived attempts to assassinate him, he warned his followers their fate didn’t depend upon his survival but upon their will. If it happens, if they decide to kill me, it means we are incredibly strong.  We need to use that power. (“A  Hero of Our Time,” by Mariam Elder, Vanity Fair, April 2024, pg. 34.) His words may seem like a whistle against the dark, but the Ukrainian people are a living example of that courage. Their David and Goliath story can set this curmudgeon’s heart to racing. Even so, dreams can become fodder for blind ambition.      Our Republican House has placed a chokehold on future aid to that country, reversing their past support.  They did it to placate their revenge candidate, Donald Trump, in the upcoming presidential election.  Trump holds a grudge against Ukraine and is happy to curry the favor of their invader, Vladimir Putin.  If elected, our former president promises to leave Ukraine to the Russians. The predatory world in which we live is Nature’s doing, but humans have wasted no time in making a hell out of the heaven they inherited.  Some attempt to escape the violence by turning to drugs or alcohol. Others rely on religion, mysticism, or conspiracy theories for the dopamine high that makes them happy. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and augmented virtual reality could provide other avenues of escape. Their illusions might help us create worlds so satisfying, that many won’t return to planet Earth. For proof of that possibility, observe how people are mesmerized by their smartphones. We humans aren’t algorithms, however. Wherever we go, we drag our dark side behind us like a beloved toy.  That’s a drawback to consider as we cheer the coming of augmented reality. Despite the challenges ahead, like Navalny, I have hope because….well, what else is there?  Fraternity, equality, and liberty are pretty good ideas. To obtain them all we have to do is curb our tribal nature, though some have argued it doesn’t exist. Whether Instinctive or learned, history confirms that group-think seems natural to us.  We desire to be among people who look like us and share our values.  That passion for conformity rivals our growing need to respect diversity and sometimes makes democracy seem like a fool’s dream.    Given my doubts about the future of mankind, I left the caring gentleman at the retirement center with one request.  “please don’t include me as a member of the community.  I prefer to be the resident alley cat.”

[fandom-kiddo]

I’m gonna start doing requests for agere fics!! I can write cg! Reader or regressor! Reader! I can even do a ship! Just specify which character is which!

No goes

-nsfw of any kind, agere is not a kink!!

-minor X adult ships!! Only platonic stuff for those things! Like regressor! Eleven and CG! Hopper, nothing icky

-no themes like graphic SH(patching up the reader is okay but no like actual hurting themselves depictions!! That’s really triggering for me! I won’t do any ED ones either as I am a recovering bulimic, reminding the reader to eat is fine, just no depictions of it!!

-incest

-no assault, sexual or otherwise

-no dubcon, once again, no dark themes like corruption!!

-absolutely no kink of any sort! Agere blog!!!

Can dos!

-sensitive themes like nightmares, being kidnapped, punishment

-literally anything not in the no goes, if I don’t respond to your ask, it most likely means I’m either gonna write it or it’s out of my comfort level.

Fandoms

-the black phone

-stranger things

-spree

-ferris buellers day off

-top gun

-marvel

-Star Wars

Characters I’d love to write!!

-Vance hopper, the black phone

-finney Blake, the black phone

-Robin Arellano, the black phone

-Bruce yamada, the black phone

-Steve Harrington, stranger things

-Eddie Munson, stranger things

-Robin Buckley, stranger things

- Nancy wheeler, stranger things

-billy Hargrove, stranger things

-Jonathan Byers, stranger things

-argyle, stranger things

-kurt kunkle, spree

-Ferris Bueller, Ferris buellers day off

-Cameron Frye, Ferris buellers day off

-sloane Peterson, Ferris buellers day off

-Pete ‘maverick’ Mitchell, top gun

-Nick ‘goose’ Bradshaw, top gun

-Tom ‘iceman’ kazansky, top gun

-most marvel characters

-kylo ren, Star Wars

-Han solo, Star Wars

-leia organa, Star Wars

-Luke skywalker, Star Wars

-anakin skywalker, Star Wars

-obi-wan kenobi, Star Wars

-padme amidala, Star Wars

-Finn, Star Wars

-Poe Dameron, Star Wars

-Rey skywalker, Star Wars

-Alex delarge, a clockwork orange

-Jack Daniels or Agent Whiskey, Kingsman:The Last Circle

-Joel Miller, The Last Of Us

-Pedro Pascal in general tbh

Ask box is closed for now!!! Once I finish the queue of requests(if you have requested anything it is getting written!!! I’m in my last month of senior year so that is taking presidence right now but once I’m done I’ll be more than happy to write all these amazing fics!! Thanks for understanding!

[laresearchette]

Friday, November 10, 2023 Canadian TV Listings (Times Eastern)

WHERE CAN I FIND THOSE PREMIERES?: FOR ALL MANKIND (Apple TV+) THE CURSE (Paramount +) EVERYTHING CHRISTMAS (W Network) 9:00pm

WHAT IS NOT PREMIERING IN CANADA TONIGHT? AFTER THE BLAST: THE WILL TO SURVIVE (ABC Feed) BELLE COLLECTIVE (TBD - OWN Canada) THE CURSE (TBD)

NEW TO AMAZON PRIME CANADA/CBC GEM/CRAVE TV/DISNEY + STAR/NETFLIX CANADA:

AMAZON PRIME CANADA 007: ROAD TO A MILLION DINA HASHEM: DARK WHISPERS KANDAHAR TREVOR WALLACE: PTERODACTYL

CBC GEM CRIME (Season 2) LE COYOTE TRAMPOLINE GYMNASTICS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS (starts today, goes until November 12th)

CRAVE TV A CHANCE FOR CHRISTMAS EVE AND THE FIRE HORSE FOUR CHRISTMASES GODFATHER OF HARLEM (Season 3, Episode 1) INTO THE DEEP THE JOURNEY HOME LAMBORGHINI: THE MAN, THE LEGEND MIRACLE IN MOTOR CITY ONE WEEK PUSS IN BOOTS: THE LAST WISH SISU STILL MINE VIOLENT NIGHT

DISNEY + STAR BOBI WINE: THE PEOPLE’S PRESIDENT

NETFLIX CANADA AT THE MOMENT (TW) THE KILLER TEAM NINJA WARRIOR (Season 2)

2023 FIFA MEN'S U17 WORLD CUP (TSN/TSN4) 6:48am: Spain vs. Canada

GRAND SLAM OF CURLING (SN) 11:00am: National - Draw 14 (SN) 3:00pm: National - Draw 15 (SN) 7:00pm: National - Draw 16

NHL HOCKEY (SNWest/TSN4) 7:00pm: Flames vs. Leafs (SN1) 7:00pm: Wild vs. Sabres (SN) 10:00pm: Sharks vs. Knights

NBA BASKETBALL (TSN/TSN3/TSN5) 7:30pm: Nets vs. Celtics (SN Now) 8:30pm: Clippers vs. Stars (TSN/TSN3/TSN5) 10:00pm: Lakers vs. Suns

AMPLIFY (APTN) 7:30pm: Anishinaabe electro-pop artist Wolf Saga draws inspiration for his music from a painting his grandmother bought, which connects him to his culture. This episode features Richard Gracious, Janis Monture, Elder Mary Lou Smoke and Betty Albert.

THE FATHER (CTV2) 8:00pm: A man refuses assistance from his daughter as he ages. As he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind and the fabric of his reality.

7TH GEN (APTN) 8:00pm: Matthew Monias - Mattmac: Many people know Matthew Monias by his stage name, Mattmac. Discover how this Oji-Cree blind recording artist from Garden Hill First Nation is taking the world by storm with his music and blazing a trail with his advocacy work.

THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF JERSEY (Slice) 8:00pm: La Finn

PLANET WONDER (CBC) 8:30pm: How the language used about climate change affects the motivation to do something about it.

A DASH OF CHRISTMAS (CTV Life) 8:00pm: To apply for her dream job at a foodie startup, an executive must learn to bake. When she recruits a handsome baker to help her, she inadvertently ends up in a Christmas Bakeoff.

FRIDAY NIGHT THUNDER (APTN) 8:30pm: The inaugural NASCAR Pinty's race finally arrives at Ohsweken Speedway and Aaron Turkey proves to be a hometown hero in the historic event. Meanwhile, Joshua Hill hustles to get his car back on the track after getting into a wreck the night before.

THE FIFTH ESTATE (CBC) 9:00pm: The Girls Around Robert G. Miller: In partnership with Radio-Canada's investigative program, "Enquête," "The Fifth Estate" examines troubling claims that a Canadian billionaire had a long history of paying teenagers for sex.

TRANSPLANT (CTV) 9:00pm: Bash reconnects with the man who got him to Canada.

BEAT BOBBY FLAY: HOLIDAY THROWDOWN (Food Network Canada) 9:00pm (SEASON PREMIERE): Katie Lee Biegel cracks the wishbone with Turkey Day classics and makes this holiday reunion a surprise family affair. Chefs Darnell Ferguson, Bryan Voltaggio and Michael Voltaggio attempt to squash Bobby Flay with a new turkey tradition.

CATWOMAN: HUNTED (Cartoon Network Canada) 9:00pm: Catwoman attempts to steal a priceless jewel.

VIOLENT NIGHT (Crave) 9:00pm: An elite team of mercenaries breaks into a family compound on Christmas Eve, taking everyone hostage inside. However, they aren't prepared for a surprise combatant: Santa Claus is on the grounds, and he's about to show why this Nick is no saint.

W5 (CTV) 10:00pm: The Mystery Bomber: "W5" investigates the identity of a would-be bank robber who exploded in a dramatic heist.

CRIME BEAT (Global) 10:00pm: Nothing is What it Seems: Part 1: A man walking his dog comes upon a neighbor's garage engulfed in flames; when the smoke clears, a woman is found dead with drug paraphernalia nearby; nothing is what it seems, and police are left combing through a web of lies to find the killer.

[typingtess]

Tiptoeing through the "Hard for the Money" guest cast

Erik Palladino as Special Deputy U.S. Marshal Vostanik Sabatino Did our boy Vostanik change agencies?  In his last episode, season 12's "A Fait Accompli", Sabatino was CIA as he was in most episodes except where he was Roger McAdams in season three’s "The Watcher".

Kavi Ramachandran Ladnier as NCIS Reserve Agent Shyla Dahr Back from "MWD".

Duncan Campbell as NCIS Special Agent Castor Was in "Genesis" last week.

Gregg Binkley as Navy Lieutenant Commander Gary Hudson Played Kenny James in My Name is Earl, Barney in Raising Hope, Bernie Beirness in Hitting the Breaks, Mr. Jenkins in Kirby Buckets and Dr. Cooper in Diary of a Future President.

Had guest roles in Head of the Class, Murder She Wrote, Civil Wars, Out of the This World, Quantum Leap, Full House, Coach, A Whole New Ballgame, Night Stand, Family Matters, The Drew Carey Show, Working, The Hughleys, Grown Ups, Wheels of Justice, The Michael Richards Show, Sabrina the Teenage Witch (2001), Malcolm in the Middle, Yes Dear, Gilmore Girls, CSI, The Bold and the Beautiful, Wizards of Waverly Place, The Millers, Transparent, Stuck in the Middle, United States of Al, Brooklyn Nine-Nine and Roar.

Trailer selfie.   

Gavin Houston as Wesley "Big Wes" Roberts Was Remy Boudreau on Guiding Light, Sly Thomas on General Hospital, Tony Foster in The Bay, Jeffery Harrington in The Haves and the Have Nots and Theodore in Roswell New Mexico.

Guest roles include The Singles Table, Wizards of Waverly Place, Without a Trace, Rizzoli & Isles, Grey's Anatomy and Shameless.

Making a comeback – the set photo with LL Cool J.

Aliza Pearl as Maxine "Max" Collins Played Willow in Side Kick Girls, Michonne in BAMF Girls Club, Lynette in Yellow, Oya Ghillen in Callisto 6 and Dr. Monica Chamberlain in Heartbeats.

Had guest roles in episodes of Samantha Who?, The Further Adventures of Cupid and Eros, House of Lies, Hello Cupid, Days of Our Lives and New Girl.

Trailer selfie on page one, photo with ECO on page two.  

Nick Cassidy as Martin Thomas Played Thad in The Birch and had guest roles in Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists and The Girl in the Woods.

Cyd Strittmatter as Ms. Janice King Longtime working actress with guest roles in episodes of Cheers, Beauty and the Beast (1989), Quantum Leap, Full House, On Our Own, The Pretender, Party of Five (1997), Murder One, Ellen, Good vs. Evil, Seven Days, Any Day Now, 7th Heaven, Diagnosis Murder, The Tick, Boston Public, Leap of Faith, The X-Files, Nip/Tuck, Crossing Jordan, Grounded for Life, The Shield, Eyes, Close to Home, Monk, Weeds, Back to You, CSI, Trust Me, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, The Mentalist, Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior, True Blood, American Horror Story, Bones, the Last Ship, Colony, Get Shorty, General Hospital, Good Girls, Grey's Anatomy and The Rookie.

Was Joanne Wright in the "Stakeout" NCIS episode in season five, Kimberly Murdock in the season one "Master of Horror" NCIS: New Orleans episode.

Selfie with Daniela Ruah.

Betty Barnes as Rosie Had guest appearances in Sex Ed and several online series.  Barnes is a stand-up comedian.

Terra Strong as Officer Julie Thompson Guest roles in episodes of Theirbnb, Conversations in LA and Betrayed.  Provided the voice of Shari Underwood in The Fairly OddParents.

Director's chair shot.

Brian Silverman as Angus Played Det. Alan Edwards in Central Division and guest starred in episodes of The Guardian, E-Ring, Sleeper Cell, 24, Monk, Jericho, Cold Case, Life, Grimm, Leverage, Ray Donovan, Good Girl and SWAT.

Written by: Matt Klafter & Indira Gibson Wilson

Matt Klafter co-wrote "Smokescreen Part II" and "A Fait Accompli" and was the sole writer for "Where Loyalties Lie".

Indira Gibson Wilson co-wrote both “The Frogman’s Daughter”  and "Signs of Change" in season 12 and was the sole writer for "Lost Soldier Down".

Directed by: Rick Tunell  The program's longtime production manager/producer directed "Revenge Deferred", "Se Murio El Payaso" and "Where Everybody Knows Your Name".

Set photo.

[brrose-apothecary]

RULES: POST YOUR TOP FIVE FAVOURITE COMFORT CHARACTERS then tag five others to play

tagged in a roundabout way by @stereopticons 😀

1. Patrick Brewer

2. Nick Miller

3. Harry Potter (specifically as written by my fave HP fic writer)

4. President Bartlet’s West Wing staff

5. The Bake-Off tent

Please consider this your tag if you want to play!

[bllsbailey]

Biden Meets With Irish PM, Uses Cheat Cards With Photos And Pronunciations Of Ireland’s Leaders

On Friday, President Biden was seen with cheat cards that had images of Ireland’s leaders along with pronunciation guides and other jotted-down notes while he and an Irish official discussed topics at the White House. 

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In attendance with Varadkar was Ireland’s government Press Secretary Nick Miller, Chief of Staff Brian Murphy, Deputy Chief of Staff Philip O’Callaghan, and Ambassador to the United States Geraldine Byrne Nason, all of whom were captured on camera.

Varadkar also visited the White House in 2023 for St. Patrick’s Day.

Throughout his presidency, Biden has been known to often employ cheat sheets, including cards that list details about reporters and the questions they are anticipated to ask.

“It is entirely normal for a president to be briefed on reporters who will be asking questions at a press conference and issues that we expect they might ask about,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said, standing up for Biden.

Additionally, Biden has been spotted holding cards that provide precise instructions on where he is supposed to stand and if he is supposed to smile or frown, etc.

“YOU enter the Roosevelt Room and say hello to participants. YOU take YOUR seat,” one detailed crib card read in 2023.

As the annual St. Patrick’s Day reception at the White House was shadowed by the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, Biden and Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar promised on Friday to “work toward securing a ceasefire” in the Israel-Hamas conflict.

However, as separate reports have insinuated that Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu is not willing to work through Hamas’ recently proposed ceasefire agreement, many online users scratched their heads as to why Biden and Varadkar would be so confident in publicly announcing such a statement.

“Like you, we call for the unconditional and immediate release of all of the hostages, a very significant increase in humanitarian aid, food, medicine, sanitation, electricity, and an end to the fighting by both sides, Israel and Hamas,” Varadkar said. “And we support the work of the United States.”

Ireland maintains a long-standing policy of military neutrality but has historically been among the most vocal critics in Western Europe of Israeli policies toward Palestinians.

The Northern Irish Nationalist Party, the SDLP, declared that it would not be sending any delegates to Washington this week.

Ireland is now in talks with other EU members who want a review of the EU-Israel Association Agreement on the grounds that Israel may be violating its human rights clause. Ireland announced last month that it would be providing more than $21 million in support for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) even though the group was shown to be comprised of many Hamas supporters and even Hamas terrorists.

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The end of this episode I will say is one of the funniest tags I feel like we did in the entire series. -Hannah

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The Towns of Thornbury development has fallen into receivership and will soon be sold to the highest bidder. The prominent development adjacent to the Foodland grocery store has been under construction for several years and was recently placed into receivership by Ontario Superior Court Justice Peter J. Cavanagh. The project’s lenders, Foremost Mortgage Holding Company and Foremost Financial Corporation, asked the court to place the property in receivership after the property’s owner defaulted on mortgage payments.

Foremost says it is owed $8.8 million on the property, with costs and interest continuing to accrue.

In late December, Justice Cavanagh appointed KSV Restructuring Inc. as interim receiver. A representative from Foremost told Collingwood Today via email that the company’s plan is to sell the property to the highest bidder sometime in February if the loan owed to the company was not paid by the end of January.

The Towns of Thornbury property is owned by a numbered company: 2521311 Ontario Inc., owned by Nick Sampogna, the president of the Janik Group. The Janik Group’s website for the Towns of Thornbury project is no longer active. Court documents filed in the case reveal multiple issues with the ongoing construction of the 23-unit subdivision in the heart of Thornbury.

KSV reported to the court that the project requires several million dollars more than its initial budget. KSV also told the court that the developer had pre-sold 21 units and collected $1.64 million in deposits from purchasers. According to the receiver’s report, all but $53,000 of those deposits were spent on construction costs. A notice posted on the fence surrounding the property says the lenders have taken control of the property. Court documents state that the Foremost was anxious to take control of the property to protect the buildings from the looming winter.

With significant portions of the buildings on the development unfinished and exposed, Miller said there is construction activity on the site as they work to protect the buildings from the winter weather.

From Collingwood Today to Sampogna requesting a comment on the not returned. In Justice Cavanagh’s decision, the property owner’s lawyer – R. Brendan Bissell – responded to Foremost’s petition for a receiver to be appointed and said the lender had acted prematurely.

The response also stated that the mortgage company was aware of many of the issues with the project, that two of the three liens on the property had been settled, and that any stop work orders from the municipality had been addressed. The response and all related court documents can be found online here.

Tim Hendry, manager of communications and economic development for The Blue Mountains, said the town has no formal comment on the current status of the development monitor the issue.

CollingwoodToday spoke to one local resident who had purchased a home in the Thornbury Towns development and asked that her full name not be used in this story.

After purchasing a unit in 2020, she described a stressful situation and multiple delays waiting for her home to be finished and having to move several times when it didn’t happen.

Delays forced her and her family to move out of their first rental home in Collingwood after six months and find another place to live while the construction continued.

She said the final straw for her was a request for the builder on a Monday for another $100,000 for the project to be paid that Friday. She pulled out of the project in May 2023 and said the deadline for her deposit to be returned was the end of January 2024. She is now renting a home in Thornbury.

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Oscars 2024 Nominations

The 2024 Oscar nominations have been announced. Best Picture American Fiction (Ben LeClair, Nikos Karamigios, Cord Jefferson and Jermaine Johnson, Producers) Anatomy of a Fall (Marie-Ange Luciani and David Thion, Producers Barbie (David Heyman, Margot Robbie, Tom Ackerley and Robbie Brenner, Producers) The Holdovers (Mark Johnson, Producer) Killers of the Flower Moon (Dan Friedkin, Bradley Thomas, Martin Scorsese and Daniel Lupi, Producers) Maestro (Bradley Cooper, Steven Spielberg, Fred Berner, Amy Durning and Kristie Macosko Krieger, Producers) Oppenheimer (Emma Thomas, Charles Roven and Christopher Nolan, Producers) Past Lives (David Hinojosa, Christine Vachon and Pamela Koffler, Producers) Poor Things (Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone, Producers) The Zone of Interest (James Wilson, Producer) Best Directing Justine Triet (Anatomy of a Fall) Martin Scorsese (Killers of the Flower Moon) Christopher Nolan (Oppenheimer) Yorgos Lanthimos (Poor Things) Jonathan Glazer (The Zone of Interest) Best Actor in a Leading Role Bradley Cooper (Maestro) Colman Domingo (Rustin) Paul Giamatti (The Holdovers) Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer) Jeffrey Wright (American Fiction) Best Actress in a Leading Role Annette Bening (Nyad) Lily Gladstone (Killers of the Flower Moon) Sandra Hüller (Anatomy of a Fall) Carey Mulligan (Maestro) Emma Stone (Poor Things) Best Actor in a Supporting Role Sterling K. Brown (American Fiction) Robert De Niro (Killers of the Flower Moon) Robert Downey Jr. (Oppenheimer) Ryan Gosling (Barbie) Mark Ruffalo (Poor Things) Best Actress in a Supporting Role Emily Blunt (Oppenheimer) Danielle Brooks (The Color Purple) America Ferrera (Barbie) Jodie Foster (Nyad) Da’Vine Joy Randolph (The Holdovers) Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay) American Fiction (Written for the screen by Cord Jefferson) Barbie (Written by Greta Gerwig & Noah Baumbach) Oppenheimer (Written for the screen by Christopher Nolan) Poor Things (Screenplay by Tony McNamara) The Zone of Interest (Written by Jonathan Glazer) Best Writing (Original Screenplay) Anatomy of a Fall (Screenplay by Justine Triet and Arthur Harari The Holdovers (Written by David Hemingson) Maestro (Written by Bradley Cooper & Josh Singer) May December (Screenplay by Samy Burch; Story by Samy Burch & Alex Mechanik) Past Lives (Written by Celine Song) Best Animated Feature The Boy and the Heron (Hayao Miyazaki and Toshio Suzuki) Elemental (Peter Sohn and Denise Ream) Nimona (Nick Bruno, Troy Quane, Karen Ryan and Julie Zackary) Robot Dreams (Pablo Berger, Ibon Cormenzana, Ignasi Estapé and Sandra Tapia Díaz) Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller and Amy Pascal) Best Documentary Feature Film Bobi Wine: The People’s President (Moses Bwayo, Christopher Sharp and John Battsek) The Eternal Memory (Nominees to be determined) Four Daughters (Kaouther Ben Hania and Nadim Cheikhrouha) To Kill a Tiger (Nisha Pahuja, Cornelia Principe and David Oppenheim) 20 Days in Mariupol (Mstyslav Chernov, Michelle Mizner and Raney Aronson-Rath) Best International Feature Film Io Capitano (Italy) Perfect Days (Japan) Society of the Snow (Spain) The Teacher’s Lounge (Germany) The Zone of Interest (United Kingdom) Best Animated Short Film Letter to a Pig (Tal Kantor and Amit R. Gicelter) Ninety-Five Senses (Jerusha Hess and Jared Hess) Our Uniform (Yegane Moghaddam) Pachyderme (Stéphanie Clément and Marc Rius) War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko (Dave Mullins and Brad Booker Best Live-Action Short Film The After (Misan Harriman and Nicky Bentham) Invincible (Vincent René-Lortie and Samuel Caron Knight of Fortune (Lasse Lyskjær Noer and Christian Norlyk) Red, White and Blue (Nazrin Choudhury and Sara McFarlane The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (Wes Anderson and Steven Rales) Best Documentary Short Film The ABCs of Book Banning (Sheila Nevins and Trish… https://chorus.fm/news/oscars-2024-nominations/

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Games Media in Review: Kinda Funny & Kinda Funny Games

Kinda Funny had multiple starts before its official start as Kinda Funny and Kinda Funny Games on Patreon on January 5, 2015. It really started on Greg Miller’s personal YouTube channel, GameOverGreggy, on August 16, 2012 when the first Conversation with Colin episode was uploaded. In it, Greg gives roommate and coworker Colin Moriarty a random topic to discuss. The first topic: ants. This continued for over a year, being joined by an Oreo review show, Greg’s own vlogs, and occasional behind the scenes clips of his job at IGN. On December 9, 2013 Greg and Colin were joined by Nick Scarpino and Tim Gettys on the first GameOverGreggy Show podcast episode. The topics: which Disney princess would you like to fuck, Tim Allen, fat people, and being either Marty McFly or Ferris Bueller. On September 15, 2014 they launched their first Patreon under the name Kinda Funny. Within two days they had 894 patrons and were projected to be earning $10,042.32 (gross) per month. At the start of 2015 the four would reveal they had left their jobs at IGN to relaunch Kinda Funny full time and launch a new channel: Kinda Funny Games, both with separate Patreons and shows to go along with the separate channels. As of January 7, 2015 they had grown to 2667 patrons and projected to earn $15,253.81 (gross) per month, with Kinda Funny Games accruing 2325 patrons and was projected to take in $14,306.19 (gross) a month. Kevin Coello would aid them in lots of behind the scenes production and officially join the team in 2015. All of their content was filmed in Greg and Colin’s apartment, with a majority of the shows being hosted in their third (spare) bedroom. This continued until the summer of 2016 in which Kinda Funny launched their new studio space.

Despite the success there was turmoil in the beginning of 2017 when in March Colin announced he was leaving Kinda Funny. It was clear Colin’s political leanings and thoughts did not sit well with the larger games media crowd, especially after Trump won the 2016 election. His infamous tweet of, “Ah. Peace and quiet. #ADayWithoutAWoman” in response to women at large not tweeting in protest of the Trump presidency was a breaking point and he would soon depart to found Last Stand Media which continues to this day. Later that month Andy Cortez would join the team as a video editor alongside Joey Noelle and Greg Gettys. Barrett Courtney would join in January 2019. Blessing Adeoye joined in January 2020. Roger Pokorny joined in January 2021. Other’s have come and gone. Alanah Pearce, Danny O'Dwyer, and Andrea Rene were regulars for some time before moving forward in each of their own careers. Currently Snowbikemike (2020), Janet Garcia (2021), Parris Lilly (2021), Gary Whitta (2017), and Tamoor Hussain (2021) are all listed as Kinda Funny members in all of their video descriptions. It was in October 2022, after the years of Covid and remote work and a lengthy tease of a new space, that they moved into a larger studio that has been utilized since.

Much like when writing about IGN (a profile, which upon looking back, seems much shorter than it should be now), I have a long history with Kinda Funny. I was there as a Podcast Beyond fan following Greg and Colin’s every article, podcast, and tweet. I was a big fan and wanted to do what they did. This led to launching the YouTube channel IllustriousMagic with my then closest friend Matt, a channel whose 10th anniversary is quickly approaching in November. I followed Greg and Colin, and later Tim and Nick, as they launched Kinda Funny, gave them money via patreon, attended Kinda Funny Live 2015 (that’s me at 55:24), and even made my own fan videos such as my own Oreo reviews and a skit based on a podcast conversation. I was somewhat involved in the community and made many friends, including now staff member Barrett Courtney, some of whom I still talk to to this day. Kinda Funny helped connect me to someone who I would somehow convince to move across the country to live in Las Vegas with me and remains to this day. As with IGN, I eventually drifted away as tastes changed and I found myself wanting something different from games and media coverage than Kinda Funny was offering.

So what do you get watching Kinda Funny? Well you have two channels: one for general entertainment and another purely for video games. Their daily games news show lists out the stories of the day with their commentary and frequently will feature guests from their friends in the industry. Afterwards there will be a stream that could be anything from streaming games to going in a car to drive around and rank fast food french fries. The vibes are very casual, laid back, just a bunch of friends hanging out, shooting the shit, trying to get the biggest laugh. Lots of self promoting throughout their videos talking about what’s live, what’s going live, how to support, and where to find them.

Most videos are tied to a specific show, you have the standard video podcasts covering everything from the latest franchise IPs being watched and recapped in order to complete a ranking list, you have current shows being discussed the day after with Star Wars Ahsoka, a conversational podcast, a PlayStation podcast, an Xbox podcast, a throwback to the IGN Let’s Play days with Greg and Brian Altano playing Tears of the Kingdom for short periods, reviews, previews, and archives of live streams such as Snowbikemike playing Kingdom Hearts for the very first time. Kinda Funny is all video, on Twitch and YouTube, which makes it easy to follow, and they have an offering of Patreon exclusives as well which I wasn’t able to get into as I wasn’t contributing during my two week period of watching everything they were putting out and going backwards when the new stuff ran dry. The production pipeline is somewhat similar to outlets such as Giant Bomb: long uncut and unedited footage of a group playing, commenting, talking over, or reacting to games and other such topics. Livestreams become videos on demand on YouTube, there is rarely the heavy editing you see in some other channels as videos frequently are close to an hour or more, though thanks to their new studio they have a massive video wall that they can place graphics and videos onto in real-time to provide additional or info for both the hosts and viewers.

Unlike IGN becoming more regimented in structure, which directly contributed to my no longer following them closely, Kinda Funny encouraged getting off topic at all times, which is what kept me around for so much longer than I thought. Checking through my YouTube likes it appears to be sometime around 2018 that I stopped really following Kinda Funny closely, whereas I thought it was closer to 2016/2017.

I was, and still am, a fan of RedLetterMedia and their conversations about movies ever since I started watching videos on YouTube. RedLetterMedia in January of 2017 launched a comedy series called “The Nerd Crew” which satirized the geek culture podcasts whose mentality are, as Jay Bauman stated in one episode, “Don’t ask questions, just consume product and then get excited for next product.” This sentiment can broadly be applied to a lot of enthusiast press culture, and I think Kinda Funny can often fall under that sentiment as well. In a recent series covering the latest Star Wars show, Ahsoka, while discussing Episode 5 guest Saige states, “I’m a simple Star Wars fan and Carson also references Leia. We have to acknowledge that Carson also says Senator Organa is running interference, Senator Organa. I’m a simple Star Wars fan, I hear Organa and I go *clap* Yay!” Carboni, “We know who that is!” This bit is pretty much 1:1 the conversation RLM paradies in Nerd Crew and is the number one reason why I don’t find much insight amongst their critical stuff then, and now.

Another recent example of differences in opinion showing the opposing mindsets would be Bethesda’s latest game, Starfield. Kinda Funny had an extra long 48 hour stream dedicated to Starfield and their review and further coverage have been mostly positive in talking up the size, scope, and breadth of the game. However where they see the quantity of things to do I see a procedurally generated level of quality in most of its activities. They talk about high highs and low lows and I write in my notes how three out of the nineteen main quests had anything genuinely interesting or fun or thrilling or evocative to offer. They share “fishing stories” about cool things they’ve come across and I upload a video of bunny hopping amidst a barren wasteland to my objective as “The Starfield Experience”. I don’t think Starfield is very good and align most with Blessing and his complaints, especially when it comes to “exploration” being a load of bullshit as you’re pretty much going to go into your fast travel menu to get anywhere efficiently. There is just a chasm between the way we think about games. Microsoft’s internal marketing for a mid-generation console refresh is that it will use slightly less power. Who cares! Your Xbox using less kilowatts is not going to combat climate change in any meaningful way. This is like the individual shaming of failing to recycle, meanwhile corporations are dumping truckloads into the ocean. Microsoft has trillions of dollars worth of assets, they could more directly combat climate change than through a low power rest mode in their consumer device. These things are not celebratory.

As an example of those that I do find insight from nowadays I really enjoy Noah Caldwell-Gervais’ video essays, as well as Tim Rogers dba Action Button. For podcasts it’s places like Bad End, Abnormal Mapping, and Insert Credit. I also still have a love for the written word, both for what it can do that the video medium can’t, and because translating an essay into a video is time consuming and hard work. Text sites I frequent include: Bullet Points Monthly, Deep Hell, No Escape, Radiator Blog, and other individual blogs such as Autumn Wright, Liz Ryerson, Grace In The Machine, and Bobby Schroeder. The main difference between people like these and Kinda Funny is that Kinda Funny are entertainers first and critics second, whereas the others are only ever critics. And Kinda Funny are good entertainers, I found many literal laugh out loud moments watching them again, reminders of why I had such a love for the channel earlier. When it comes to sitting down and talking about a game critically though, is where the aforementioned differences appear. We are ever evolving, as every year I look back at my beliefs and work from a couple of years ago and think, “What a fool!” which I believe is a good thing and gives hope that others are ever evolving and changing as well. I do find it depressing how entertainment is valued over criticism by the general audience. I keep a spreadsheet of gaming-centric Patreons and even based on their 2020 data before it became private, Kinda Funny’s two channels were the top earners when it came to gross estimated income from Patreon alone. Meanwhile a good majority of the critics I follow closely would never be able to sustain themselves full time doing the work.

Reluctance to be critical of a work has been recurring when watching conversations at IGN and GameSpot. I’m not deluded enough to believe in the moneyhat but I think being friends with so many within the development side of the industry, as well as frequently doing marketing events on behalf of publishers within the industry, does create a reticence to be very critical save for when the occasional stinker like Gollum comes out. As many others have written out before, criticism is done out of love, and I partly write this piece out of love for Kinda Funny and what it could be, in my mind, in terms of promoting a diverse range of critics.

As with any modern YouTube channel there are sponsored ads that are edited into the shows, though one in particular caught my ear. Draft Kings, a sports betting website (aka gambling), has a sponsored ad in which the final section is a sped up disclaimer about help for gambling addiction. It doesn’t sit well with me for several reasons. The presumed audience for Kinda Funny, to me, is a reflection of what I was at the time of my fandom height, a young 20-23 year old looking to show my support any way I can. Kinda Funny has for a long time referred to its audience of fans as “best friends,” a sentiment that conjures up the worst aspects of parasocial relationships online as detailed by Shannon Strucci in their two part series on the term and its elements. Engaging your audience as best friends, asking them for support, and offering one of the ways of support as a Draft Kings offer designed to get you into gambling, a pastime well known for its preying upon those susceptible to addiction, isn’t right. A pastime that has been slowly making its way into games and has been the main subject of a recent Twitch competitor, Kick, whose main draw, and potential funding, has been to encourage gambling after Twitch finally came down against gambling streams on its platform. All of this is to say, I don’t like that they’re advertising for a gambling website, even if it earns them some income, and other fans have also voiced their concern.

If you pay close attention to the faces behind the list of Kinda Funny members you’ll notice there’s a higher ratio of people of color compared to most gaming media outlets, namely the two I’ve profiled previously: IGN and GameSpot. Tamoor Hussain even doubles as an employee of GameSpot. Seven out of the fifteen staff members listed by Kinda Funny are people of color, a proportion I don’t believe is even close to being matched by any of the other gaming media sites out there. It reminds me of the little incident of Dan Stapleton tweeting out, “I think I can speak for just about everybody in games journalism when I say that we’d love to hire more black and other minority writers. But we can’t if we don’t hear from you. When you see job postings go up, apply apply apply - or recommend someone who should.” To which Blessing responded, “I applied to IGN more times than I can count. If you think not enough black and minority content creators aren't putting themselves out there, you're not looking hard enough.” Whereas most sites fail to bring on diverse talking heads to be featured on camera, Kinda Funny frequently has lots of diversity in their cast and who they bring on. People such as Imran Khan, Kahlief Adams, and Belinda Garcia have also been featured numerous times on their various shows.

Kinda Funny has a history of collaborating, bringing on, and featuring, other online personalities, from larger ones like Comic Book Girl 19 to smaller ones like LiteWeight Gaming. Some of their staff were recognizable figures in the gaming space prior to being brought on, and some were not so well known. This approach of platforming and promoting smaller personalities as equals is commendable and I think does help to foster a cooperative and helpful community of people.

I have found that when it comes to Greg Miller most have long made up their mind, they either like him or hate him, find him charismatic or loud and obnoxious. Beginning to watch Kinda Funny again for this profile I found myself being reminded why I had become a Podcast Beyond fan so long ago, the man is simply entertaining to watch. It is obvious that being entertaining is the main goal of all Kinda Funny content, and while I’ve mentioned my issues with this approach, I would like to commend Greg for creating a channel that frequently raises and promotes other voices. As I mentioned in my write up of IGN, they are siloed off and rarely acknowledge that there is other stuff out there to read and watch. GameSpot had a different approach, and Kinda Funny is one of the most willing, I believe, to work with and bring on smaller talent onto their platform. Obviously there is the parasocial criticism of their naming of the audience as the best friends, and despite the best attempts at fostering a loving and cooperative community, with any large enough audience you’re going to find some snakes and segmented opposing groups within that audience. Still, I think Greg as an individual has proven he is willing to listen and learn and attempt to make up for what mistakes he may make. Despite attempts to turn opinion against Greg, such as Bob Mackey’s failed attempt in 2020, the industry at large continues to embrace him. Without him we wouldn’t have Blessing’s wonderful video about how We Need To Fix Black Hair in Video Games.

Despite my criticisms I still find myself jealous of those who work there. Kinda Funny comes across as offering a type of place that allows their creators to chase after what interests them at the time and what they find meaningful. Having a daily talk show to espouse my own views on the news and encourage the change I’d like to see would be a great opportunity, and by all appearances it does seem to be a place where everyone is friends and enjoys each other's company. A fear would be that this familial relationship brings about long overtime hours of unpaid work (whether knowingly or simply felt as an implicit responsibility). Still, watching the Games Daily with Sam Lake I find myself, a huge Remedy fan, chomping at the bit thinking, “That could have been me!” and once again daydreaming of all the things I could do was I working there. As a source of entertainment, Kinda Funny is strong, though as with anything, is quite dependent on taste. I do think that their willingness and history of platforming and promoting smaller, and more diverse, people is a great help to an industry predominantly white and full of insulated staff lists where names transfer between IGN, GameSpot, Polygon, before the ultimate end of most games media: public relations or game development.