Current/Last Thing You Watched?

[Mr EliteL]

Invincible Season 4 Episode 1

Decent start to the season, many big moments coming up. Didn't realise there's two more episodes already out but will watch in the days before next week.

[Moonface]

I was under the firm belief that some of the challenge levels themed around the PlayStation symbols in this game would be impossible to do without hovering, so to see that isn't the case and it doesn't even require crazy strats to pull off might have been the most impressive thing I saw in this. There were also some other fun facts about the game I didn't know like being unable to purposefully run off the edge of tall ledges because I just never dared to try doing it in the first place.

[Kyng]

Beyond Paradise, but it's just on in the background. The last thing I watched that I actually paid attention to was The Chase .

[Mr EliteL]

Invincible Season 4 Episode 5

Pretty good episode. Actually, I shouldn't really call it "pretty" though, as they spent quite a while on a certain moment that definitely wasn't that word.

[Kyng]

A snooker match, between Judd Trump and Neil Robertson (which Trump won 10-4).

Trump was 7-1 up at one point, before Robertson came back a bit - but it was too little, too late.

[Moonface]

Currently watching a streamer playing through a game called Class of '09: The Re-Up and... it's something that's for sure. Turns out it's part of a whole franchise too. If anyone wants to relive some of the type of dialogue teenagers used in 2009 this seems pretty on point although everything else going on is utterly unhinged.

[Kyng]

A David Attenborough documentary about some animals in a garden in Oxfordshire.

Quite a big garden, though: it had ducks, otters, kingfishers, and various other animals. But I think, after 70+ years, he's mastered the art of making these kinds of documentaries interesting !

[Maniakkid25]

Iconic Arms (series) -- Stuart "Ahoy" Brown

A series of videos about, well, iconic firearms, the basics of their history, and their usage through media, with particular focus on video games (Ahoy is really a gaming channel). The first few videos are extremely basic (having been made nearly 12 years ago), but all of them have absolutely stellar writing, and have easily become among my comfort videos. Stuart Brown is a master of dramatic documentaries and writing, and its clear he puts a lot of time and effort into this.

My favorite has to be the FAL episode, because I still get tears when I think about his description of it. For those that don't know, the FAL is a mid-Cold War weapon -- "The Right Arm of the Free World" for how ubiquitous it was. So ubiquitous, that the Falklands War featured FALs (British) fighting against FALs (Argentinian). A weapon of war that was brought up during a time of (uneasy) peace. Anyway, each episode uses a set of punchy phrases to cap off the weapon being discussed, and the particular choice for the FAL is "Pacifier, Sentinel, Stalwart Friend." Those lines, for me, really anthropomorphize the weapon to one that just wants what's best for everyone, and is willing to give the shirt off his back to help the people it knows. It's not a glory hog like its older brothers (the bolt actions of yore), nor is it the new kid on the block, but it's fine with its lot in life, and it doesn't mind if no one knows it, as long as the job's done right. I wish I could write this well lol.