Saturday, May 31, 2025

Jalen Brunson lookalike contest

@bleacherreport Jalen Brunson look-alike contest is WILD 😭🤣 (Via @yerr.nyc) #nba #nbabasketball #basketball #nbaplayoffs #knicks ♬ original sound - bleacherreport

Plush claymore mine

Webstore.


Friday, May 30, 2025

Softball pitch turns a dirt clod into shrapnel

This is one of the wildest thing I've ever seen

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— CJ Fogler (@cjzero.bsky.social) May 30, 2025 at 10:08 PM

New video game Humble Bundle is the PRIDE Bundle

"Run the cutest sticker shop on the planet!", "Create your own thriving community in Honeywood in this cozy farm simulator with radically inclusive features."

Marvel Legends Fantastic Four and Silver Surfer figures up for preorder

Based on the upcoming movie designs. Two versions of the Human Torch.

Urban camouflage paintjob on this GQuuuuuuX Zaku II model






You can buy stickers specifically for this purpose:





Thursday, May 29, 2025

New Humble Bundle featuring Cyberpunk and Witcher comics

Starts at one volume for $1.

Andor Stunt Team hoodie

@nicsgamesandbooks Thanks Marc! One of the best Star Wars moments! The Rebellion Continues… #starwars #andor #stuntman #scifi #fantasy #booktoker #gamer #disney #battlefront ♬ original sound - Star Wars Extras

Wednesday, May 28, 2025

Fun commercial for the "Kaiju Slime Battle" figure (spoilers I guess--the figure's filled with slime)

Listed as 17% off at Amazon FWIW.

New Humble Bundle featuring fighting video games

"Bad Ass Brawlers" with Steam scores displayed.

New McFarlane Superman figures up for preorder, including a delightfully ridiculous Metamorpho

Baby Kaiju and more.

Amusingly violent scene from Lilo and Stitch

Tuesday, May 27, 2025

Mountaineers violated "climbing ethics" by dosing themselves with xenon gas to make it easier to climb Mt. Everest

Long article (that questions whether the gas even does anything meaningful):

The British group, which included four former special forces members, took a different approach.

About 10 weeks before the expedition, the men began sleeping in hypoxic tents, which lower oxygen levels in the air and gradually acclimatized the hikers to conditions on Mount Everest, [the organizer] said.

While hypoxic tents have been used by some climbers for years, the big innovation for the British expedition came two weeks before the excursion, when the men flew to Limburg, Germany, outside Frankfurt, where a doctor ... had been experimenting with inhaled gases in his clinic.

The men wore masks hooked up to ventilators as an anesthesiologist slowly introduced higher levels of xenon into their systems.

NECA's The Count figure with candelabra and other silly accessories up for preorder

Along with three new ninja turtles.

Disturbing print ad for a housekeeping service

New cleaning service in the neighborhood sent me a flyer. Might give them a shot

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— jam (@socialistboat.dad) February 8, 2025 at 5:14 PM

Monday, May 26, 2025

Micro Galaxy Squadron Snowspeeder with Luke and Dak is 40% off

at Amazon.

37% off Ultimates Crimson Guard trooper with donut and coffee mug

At Amazon. Dinozord is down to $25. And so is the Cobra BAT.

20% off sale at the BBTS, including the SDCC 2024 Exclusive "Invisible" Sheila the Thief from the D&D cartoon

Here's the landing page. And Ultimates Sheila in roller coaster packaging.

Bubble protest in New Orleans after man complains about potential damage to his Porsche

NOLA:

Earlier this week, [a man] went on WGNO and threatened to sue [a French Quarter bar], arguing a stray bubble from the bar’s delightful bubble machine could get in his porch cocktail.

[He's] also worried about his Porsche SUV that he parks across from the bar on St. Phillip



@olsenventures Bubble protest! #frenchquarter #nola #neworleans #bubbles ♬ original sound - Chris Olsen

Sunday, May 25, 2025

"Skies of Thunder: The Deadly World War II Mission Over the Roof of the World" is $1.99 right now

at Amazon. (It's been on my wishlist)

From the NYT review:
Demeaned as “Hump drivers,” ostensible noncombatants at the bottom of the aviation hierarchy, they flew an inadequately charted route over baffling terrain, its surreality intensified by their frequent refusal to wear oxygen masks.

The popcorn bucket for Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning requires use of the fancy key to The Entity

@xhmyfoever Not a popcorn bucket.It’s a mission tool🤣🤣🤣#missionimpossible8 #missionimpossible #popcorn #moive #miviemerch #cinemahaul #tomcruise #tiktok #movietok #filmtok #coolstuffonly ♬ 原创音乐 - .





(Currently sold out online)


Good poster concept, too:




I looked up to see if there was a post credits scene and the first result was an AI article that said yes (it was wrong) so chalk up another one for the Entity

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— Jordan DeVries (@jordandevries.com) May 24, 2025 at 8:51 PM

Saturday, May 24, 2025

New Humble Bundle features comics written by Brian Michael Bendis

Starts at $1 for two volumes, including one illustrated by Alex Maleev.

Folio Society made a deluxe illustrated edition of The Culture novel Use of Weapons

Lots of illustrations posted here. The cover should have been the simple chair that inexplicably sets him off. 

The Wikipedia entry for the book says, "According to Banks, he wrote a much longer version of the book in 1974, long before any of his books (science fiction or otherwise) were published. The book had an even more complicated structure ('It was impossible to comprehend without thinking in six dimensions')"

(My favorite Culture novel is Matter, but this one is good too)

Friday, May 23, 2025

Oscar Mayer Wienermobile 500 streaming now

Good Haliburton illustration

Some true nightmare fuel from Grant Thomas on the Y! Sports design team to run with my ECF Game 1 story: yhoo.it/3ZoRPld

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— Dan Devine (@yourmandevine.bsky.social) May 22, 2025 at 12:34 PM





Breaking down the last play:










Thursday, May 22, 2025

The Devil and Sherlock Holmes is $1.99 right now

at Amazon (been on my wishlist forever). ("In the course of researching the book, I got to know an array of astonishing characters. They include a marine biologist named Steve O’Shea who was trying to be the first person to ever to capture a giant squid and grow it in captivity; sandhogs digging an intricate maze of tunnels hundreds of feet beneath the streets of New York City; a Polish detective investigating whether an author planted clues to an actual murder in his postmodern novel...")

There's a free Warhammer 40K typing game called Boltgun - Words of Vengeance

Steam link. (I hope there's a view that shows the marine wearing a keyboard strapped to his body.)

15% off all in stock items at Entertainment Earth

Landing page. For example Damaged Mazinger Z (Soul of Chogokin figure); Potbellied Ultradad (S.H.Figuarts); Lego Tie Bomber (with Gonk Droid)

Very cool custom linked Megatron and Laserbeak figure based on Daniel Warren Johnson's recent run

A customized version of the Blokees model. I just finished assembling one myself. Fun figure with lots of articulation, a bunch of accessories, and easy to assemble. BBTS has it in stock, and EE for preorder.




Check out how young these familiar actresses look in Albert Pyun's "Down Twisted"

The diner workers at the end of their shift starting at 8:40:

Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Hot Toys Stitch (2025 ver) up for preorder

Sunglasses, floaties, lei.


New Humble Bundle features video games with dinosaurs

Ranging from "Turok 3" to "I Wani Hug that Gator" (98% positive on Steam)

Absurdly narrow elevator

@theu_sao

claustrophobia final boss

♬ som original - Sophi



Also, this:

@jonmc87 #304 #westvirginia #mountains #tiktok #wv #foryoupage #bluecollar #beltlinetrash #coal #mine #vulcanizer #2025 #beltline ♬ original sound - SamDonaldMusic

Tuesday, May 20, 2025

The latest super obscure Star Wars concept maquettes are Bubble Head and Light Man

Up for preorder:

Ghost in the Shell movie concept art










(Concept artist for Marathon)

Monday, May 19, 2025

The novel "The Mountain in the Sea" is $1.49 right now

at Amazon. (Won/nominated for lots of big awards, and I enjoyed the author's novella The Tusks of Extinction)

Also, John Scalzi's novel Zoe's Tale is $1.49 right now. I've enjoyed several other books in the series.

Clever way to advertise audiobooks to runners

@jono_low @Audible @HOKA #hokahalf #hokahalfmarathon #hokahalfmarathonsydney #fyp #audiobookjunkie #susrun #halfmarathonvibes #booktok #runnersoftiktok #audiobookswhileirun #susenergy #longrunthings #listenwhileyouhustle ♬ murder on the dance floor - 🎸🪩

Sunday, May 18, 2025

Good concept for Apple's AI assistant



Hellfire Gala Magik custom action figure

Saturday, May 17, 2025

Khonshu and Moon Knight poster

Friday, May 16, 2025

29% off GI Joe Classified 60th Anniversary figures

Diver and Sniper are both down to $24.99 at Amazon.

New video game Humble Bundle including Sam and Max Save the World and Telltale's Batman game

Steam scores displayed, the connection between the mix of games is developers concerned about type 1 diabetes

Good concept for a Star Wars storyline

My 'similar energy' Star Wars concept has always been to follow the crew of a single rebel capital ship (maybe a Neb-B cruiser) through the OT-era, beginning with a mutiny, so the crew is a mix of Imperial officers-turned-rebels and new rebel recruits, with the drama that implies.

— "Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux (@bretdevereaux.bsky.social) May 12, 2025 at 5:57 PM


My own twist on it is for most of the series, a hero-ship Nebulon B is going to have to run away from Star Destroyers a lot, but you could make the show's Neb-B be the one we see in the Battle of Endor in RotJ in desperation going broadside to broadside with an ISD as the big series climax.

— "Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux (@bretdevereaux.bsky.social) May 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM


So you get to spend, like, 3-4 seasons establishing that the hero ship can Do Stuff, but Star Destroyers are big and scary and require running away, only to end up - after all of your character development - squaring off against one in a badass moment of valor.

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— "Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux (@bretdevereaux.bsky.social) May 12, 2025 at 6:01 PM



Or...

A Star Destroyer glides amongst the glittering firmament, when suddenly two giant space logs swing down from each side and smash it. The Yubnub song swells and the yellow text begins to scroll into the distance.

— Hamiltwan (@hamiltwan.bsky.social) May 12, 2025 at 7:02 PM

Good illustrations for the Colts' schedule release