June 14, 2026
Programming Note
Above is next week's streaming schedule.
The reason for two ZZZ streams is that Monday is the LAST day to pull S-Rank Billy, which will require a spot of grinding, and, late Wednesday night, Version 3.0 drops what promises to be a thermonuclear lore bomb. Definitely looking forward to that!
No science, history or movie streams because the IRL RNG is being a gremlin.
(All times listed are EDT ie: UTC -3)
The chaos is all happening at https://twitch.tv/brickmuppet
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Chaos Via the IRL RNG
Banality skulks listlessly below the fold.
more...
As compensation here is some cheesecake featuring the Former Acting Goddess of Water and Courtroom Dramas.
Former Acting Goddess of Water and Courtroom Dramas is by Chabi009
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Descent
Yeah.
For folks who don't know, Ken White used to be a really reasonable guy, and an excellent lawblogger. I read Popehat Blog a lot back in the day, but his descent into...this...Has been genuinely scary. "Gradually, then suddenly..." to paraphrase Hemmingway.
Thing is, he's a really intelligent guy (he has to be, he passed the Bar Exam).
His writings can't be an inspiration anymore, but they can be a horrible, horrible warning that even the smartest of us can be swayed by the darker angels of our nature and will end up in the same place if we aren't alert.
Here's a hot take: as a general rule, calling for a political opponent's death, even obliquely, is not a best practice as long as elections still happen.
Here's a hotter take. It's easy to just point and laugh at Ken White because he is on BlueSky, a leftwing platform known for celebrating and advocating for the death of people like me. His arguments in this matter are silly and his desired outcome is evil. He is marinated in one rather wacked worldview on a platform that does not abide dissenting views and this has driven him clean out the Overton Window into the online equivalent of a Jacobin lynch mob.
BUT:
He is a guy who passed the bar exam.
Even smart folks can fall into the same murderous frenzies of chimpanzees on the warpath, because we are all fallen sinners and the great apes are not a peaceful lot.
I say this not to excuse White's abhorrent views, but to warn people that his path to perdition is only politics indicative and not politics exclusive.
I've seen, in the last few days, smart folks I admire, having been blackpilled by some recent events start to mutter things that are nearly as bad and taken to their logical conclusion would be far worse.
There is much stupid right now.
Don't yield to it.
Don't be online at all times.
Touch grass and talk to people.
And remember:
If one finds would-be despot from Eternia can have a humane and nuanced take on what's black-pilling one, then there is no need for one to embrace the darkness.
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OH RIGHT!
I've got a blog.
I should maybe post there.
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June 06, 2026
82 Years Ago
USS Nevada (BB36) fires the first shots of Operation Neptune, the Naval component of Operation Overlord (D-Day) 82 years ago today.
Photo from a German gun battery in Normandy making life stressful for a U.S. Coast Guard 83 foot patrol boat from Rescue Flotilla One 82 years ago today.
An 83 foot patrol boat from the U.S. Coast Guard's Rescue Flotilla One tows the wreckage of a landing barge lorded with survivors out of the range of German guns, 82 years ago.
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June 05, 2026
37 Years Ago Today
37 years ago today, the student know to history as Tank Man stood up to murderous oppression and for a brief moment gave the whole world hope, before Tiananmen Square became an abattoir.
An ironic footnote: Tiananmen Square is the park outside the Tiananmen Gate into the old Forbidden City. Tiananmen means 'Gate of Heavenly Peace'
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Special Event
Tonight at 9pm EDT 1am UTCs (9pm, EDT 1am UTC) Join Myself and Hyasynth Live over at https://twitch.tv/brickmuppet for a break from the usual as we screen aa absolutely superb documentary film from 1925. GRASS: A NATIONS BATTLE FOR LIFE follows a tribe of nomadic Iranian herders as they do their annual trek as they chase the seasons that provide them with the key to their survival: Grass.
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June 01, 2026
This Weeks Schedule
Here is the schedule for next week (ending June 6). While the early part of the week is my usual muddling through video games with delusions of adequacy, Friday will see a special treat! We're doing a collaboration with Hyasynth Live and screening a 101 year old film that is genuinely historic.
Grass: a Nation's Battle for Life is a fascinating documentary and is generally considered to be only the second ethnographic documentary ever made. Telling an epic story about the migration of a nomadic tribe in Iran, the film itself also has a wild story, which we will be delving into on stream. Don't miss this. It's neat! As usual, streams start at 6pm EDT / 9pm UTC except Friday's stream which will be at 9pm EDT / 1am UTC at https://www.twitch.tv/brickmuppet
*****
Tonight though, at 6pm EDT / 9pm UTC, in the aftermath of last Thursday's unfortunate turn of events, we will be spending the evening in a desperate search for polychromes, as we continue to explore New Eridu in the bombastic, high-energy, fighting gacha, Zenless Zone Zero.
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Project Hail Mary
I had not been to a theater in about 2 years.
However, I had heard good things about this film and against my better judgement I spent WAY more than movies used to cost to go see it.
I'm really glad I did.
This film is excellent, being a very enjoyable thriller that keep providing twists and surprises.
Thing is: This review has been sitting in draft for 2 weeks because the film is SO full of twists that's it's hard to review without spoilers. (The audience is not told what is going on at the beginning of the film and figuring it out is a major part of the movie).
The film is a surprisingly hard sci-fi flick, and features some aliens that are genuinely alien...and yet relatable...frequently....mostly. Except when they aren't.
The film is a thriller and after a bit of tension build-up it delivers the thrills in rapid succession and in great quantity. However, the movie is also literate, thoughtful, and poignant.
This film is Absolute Cinema.
It's one of the best films I've seen ever, and despite my aforementioned hiatus, I used to go to the movies quite often.
If you can find it in theaters I HIGHLY recommend it. It really is best viewed on a big screen. If you can only find it streaming, well I STILL recommend it. And you won't pay as much.
Just go watch it.
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May 30, 2026
Theories & Questions
...about Genshin lore, magic mechanics (ect. ect.)
UPDATE:
Sorry...paragraph breaks nullify the spoiler tag.
Perhaps I should hire some specialists in arcane magic, OH. LOOK!
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May 25, 2026
Remember
A U.S. Military Cemetery in...Tunisia
The U.S. Military Cemetery in Normandy, France.
Arlington
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Back From the Outer Regions
I'm back from a sudden trip to visit family.
This week's Twitch schedule is up: For those following the Discord, Yes, the Hiatus is over early. Tonight's stream is actually starting 30 minutes late (6:30 EDT/ 10:30 UTC). Friday's programming is currently in a state of flux. These 3 discrepancies are all due to REASONS. The channel is at https://twitch.tv/brickmuppet
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May 20, 2026
IT. IS. HAPPENING!
Tonight at 6pm EDT /10pm UTC /3pm Pacific Join us over at https://www.twitch.tv/brickmuppet for FIRWORKS!
(both dramatic and actual)
Space-X is launching the third and reportedly definitive version of their Starship space transportation system. This will be HISTORY or this will be FUNNY! Then we'll geek out a bit
(over humanity's future in space or awesome pyrotechnics)
BUT STICK AROUND! Because, the much anticipated Genshin Impact 6.6 is here and WE'RE ON IT!
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May 18, 2026
Oh Look: Content.
My Life has been blown-up by yard work and vibe-coding.
Here's some interesting Science news while I sort all this out.
IDK why this fellow uses an A.I. narrator. I assume it's A.I. because a person is unlikely to pronounce Titan "Teeton".
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May 17, 2026
A Question for Folks Who Do Video Editing
This isn't so much a question, or even a blog post as it is a screech of rage and despair:
I was finally confident enough of having licked my audio issues that I had decided to expand and professionalize my channel, resuming multi-streaming, returning to Kick.com and dipping my toe into You Tube & X. Last nights stream (mentioned below) seemed to go reasonably well. However, watching the V.O.D. of what had appeared to be a near perfect stream, the GAME AUDIO cut off 3/4 of the way through the broadcast. As near as I can tell, this was associated with a scene change (I activated a BRB screen, and, on the V.O.D., after said scene was closed out, my game audio was taken by the Fae.)
My sound board looked right, chat said nothing ( Yes I actually had chatters and interacted with them during this time) yet the V.O.D. shows no game audio...just me commenting positively on Yo Hoyo's "gnarly sound design" which is, of course, not in the V.O.D. audio.
Looking at my OBS archival recording, the game audio after that point is audible, but only * just* barely.
Saturday had been a very long, physically demanding day and I do note that towards the end of the stream, I had begun to slightly slur my speech (a sign of exhaustion that is a lingering side effect of the stroke), so a P.E.B.K.A.C. error is certainly possible. However, I cannot imagine what that could have been. I assume, that the audio channel for the V.O.D/archival recording is ONE channel, and not split up in some bizarre way by OBS sources.
So: Those of you that do AV editing:
Has anyone had anything like this happen? This is so odd and specific that it almost HAS to have been an error on my end, but it seems to be running fine now. (At least the archival recording is). I'm sorry to bother everyone with my interminable derpitude. I'm just grasping at straws. Now I'm slurring rather spectacularly, so I don't want to do a test stream.
Going to get a nap.
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May 16, 2026
A Rare Saturday Stream
TOO KNIGHT! @ 9pm EDT/1am UTC Join us in chat over at https://www.twitch.tv/brickmuppet for the very first animated dinosaur film ever! Gertie (1914). This short was actually filmed by the great cartoonist Winsor McKay. While not quite the first animated film ever, (it's 3rd or 4th) he debuted in it most of the techniques that made modern cartoons / anime possible. The film is only about 6 minutes long, so after geeking out on it. we'll stick around and do a thorough discussion and play through of the thermobaric cluster-bomb of lore that is Zenless Zone Zero 2.8.
My illness cut into the number of streams this week so as compensation we will be doing a Saturday broadcast.
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Panic.
Panic now.
It's over.
Buy gasoline and toilet paper.
It's the end.
Or it's interesting.
One of the two.
(These two were the least hysterical coverage of this story that I've found)
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April 26, 2026
Again...
I was streaming during the event, I was unaware of it until much later.
There is not much that is known at this time. What is known is that a Teacher of the Year from California ran the scanners at the White House Correspondent's Dinner and got off several shots before being subdued.
Thankfully unlike the Butler shooting, no one was killed. One Secret Service Member was shot but his bulletproof vest's manufacturer is going to have a field day with advertising.
Not counting the Iranian backed attempt from 2024 (which was disrupted during the planning phase and seems to have gotten nowhere near the president), this was the THIRD assassination attempt. The third time shots were fired at him.
At this point, I think it likely that Trump does not finish out his term, and think it likely that he joins Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, and Kennedy.
I also think that will be a disaster, as it will normalize political violence in a way the 4 others did not. The opposition party is openly calling for this, the protesters outside the WHCD cheered when the news reached them.
IDK who Jason Howerton is, but he's correct. almost everyone doing politically motivated assassinations right now is on the far left. The only one I'm aware of in recent years that was an assassination of a left winger was the brutal murder of the leader of the very left wing Farm-Labor Party. However that turned out to be a leftist who was angry that Melissa Hortman had voted against a measure to bring more Illegal Immigrants into her state.
I fear the we are entering a period of political violence we haven't seen since the late 1960s and early to mid '70s. This was a cycle that has played itself out in many other American countries, and turned many of them into abattoirs. The U.S. has been lucky in that regard, but is not immune to the immense currents of historical trends and human nature.
We are in for a rough ride.
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April 21, 2026
Inconsequential Interlude
Take a break from the dystopia countdown to watch this.
Even if you know nothing about Genshin Impact, it's fun.
...and after Mauvika's motorcycle....it doesn't seem so out of place to people who are anymore.
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BETCHA' DIDN'T KNOW....
Today is election day in Virginia.
On the ballot is this:
Question: Should the Constitution of Virginia be amended to allow the General Assembly to temporarily adopt new congressional districts to restore fairness in the upcoming elections, while ensuring Virginia's standard redistricting process resumes for all future redistricting after the 2030 census?
The wording is ....I haven't taken a civics or poly-sci class in years. I don't have access to the style guide...There's a technical/legal/academic term for this that
OH RIGHT!
It's BULLSHIT.
Sorry for the francophone digression but this amendment is Grand Theft State.
Constitutional amendments are NOT in anyway temporary measures.
The before and after if this gets passed is here:
If you are in Virginia and can legally vote please vote no.
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