Twitter revoking access to its third party clients is so utterly shortsighted and, beyond that, the way it’s being handled is childish.
Suffice I’ll be here far, far less than I am even now. Potentially zero ☹️
A reminder that I’m
@Graham_LRR
@kind
.social on the mammoth site.
It’s true! No more lymphoma!
I’m so relieved. Kathleen and my parents are too, they—esp. Kathleen—have been absolute rocks through this, despite the massive stress it’s put them under.
I won’t be back to full strength, stamina, or, uh… hair, for 5-6 months, but hey… I’m here!
Reminder that, conversely, Offspring lead singer Dexter Holland has a PhD in molecular biology, with his actual thesis on mRNA and viral infection.
Anyway… y’gotta go get vaccinated.
As a Youth I literally got MADE FUN OF by other boys for preferring She-Ra to He-Man, so it’s pretty funny how those boys have grown up and now think they somehow hold domain over She-Ra??
wait not “funny” what’s the other thing?
profoundly sad and idiotic?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Thank you everyone for the kind words ♥️
If you’re not sure what’s up, I currently only have the mental energy to point you to this video, the first 25mins of which explains my current situation (and the rest of which is VERY funny).
I’m gonna be ok.
Today I spoke to Penelope’s class about my job “making videos for YouTube” and the first question, before I’d even finished introducing myself, was, “how many subscribers do you have?”
Followed by, “do you have merch?” which floored me. This is Grade 2, these kids are 7.
Please
@Hasbro
do not do NFTs.
And this “team out of the west coast”… is that
@Wizards
??
Are we going to see Magic NFTs?
TO BE CLEAR: NFTs are a baffling waste of time, money, and energy.
Today we said goodbye to Khaavren, who’s been
@Kathleen_LRR
’s little kitten for 17 glorious years.
(Kidneys. He’s always been tough—and stubborn—but daily(!) injections were only ever palliative and eventually it was his time.)
I miss you so much already, you tremendous crank.
Twitter’s actually been an amazing investment for him.
Instead of just taking the L and paying that fine for walking away from the initial offer, he’s managed to compound his investment into a series of much larger and more numerous Ls.
I’m so tired. Which is always the case after
@DesertBus
, but we don’t always raise $1,134,283 for charity so I think a bit of exhaustion is a reasonable trade.
Thank you everybody, what a week.
(📸:
@JChinnock
)
Thrilled to finally announce that I was on the Creative Text team for Unfinity! Along with LRR’s own Kathleen & Cameron, and others! We got to write names and flavour text for a comedy Magic set, ahhhh! 😃😃😃
Here’s a whole thread from team lead and Good Dude, Ari:
Unfinity is finally out in the open (cold vastness of space)! I was fortunate enough to the Creative Text lead for the set, and I want to brag about the star-studded, out-of-this-world (space puns) writing team 🧵
#wotcstaff
*adjusts waistband*
Listen up, you gremlins… we don’t put people in our videos BY ACCIDENT, so I don’t know how you THINK it’s gonna go for you to complain in the YouTube comments like, “stop putting X in your videos” as if they somehow SNUCK IN.
Stop being assholes.
My Apple Watch is being a real butthole this week.
“Usually you’ve exercised more by now, Graham”
Yeah no shit, and I bought a box of Oreos for the first time in years, what’re you gonna do about it, you’re a watch.
In the last 24 hours I’ve learned of NFTs based on Bob Ross, Stan Lee, and George Floyd, and… I’m just immediately exhausted.
If any of you try shit like that after I die, I’m haunting your ass, and not in a fun way.
So if Nestle got nominated for Brand Engagement Award at the
@streamys
for their “Hot Pockets for Twitch Bits” promotion… but their official site linked to OUR PARODY WEBSITE making fun of the promotion… then who’s the real Best Brand, HMMM??
These PokémonGO trainers finally caught a shiny Dragonite!
(Colossal shoutouts to
@AiAmethyst
for P’s amazing “rare shiny green Dragonite” costume, that was requested with total conviction. She LOVED it and only looks stoic because of the camera timer.)
Gettin’ in on the “post pix of yourself at age 21” trend with an early LRR “promo” photo.
I am KEENLY aware that this facial hair choice was A Mistake, kindly hold your comments.
Heading in to get filled with my final round of Misery Juice today, so reading the replies to this has been bolstering.
Here’s to many more years of internet goof-times!
Happy Birthday to us! Today is LoadingReadyRun's 19th anniversary (That legit means, at least in BC, LRR is old enough to drink... wild)
To celebrate please share with us your first memory of when you were initially introduced to us!
Penelope: [makes joke]
Me: Hey, that was really funny!
Penelope: [points to her head] Big brain. Bigger brain than yours, actually.
Me: wow okay rude
(
@WakeUpSuper
this sounds like your doing somehow, but I wouldn’t be able to prove it in court)
@DatEspino
@Graham_LRR
Ok ok - You can go ahead and tell everyone Graham. I’m tired of getting bugged about it 😜
And release date for the episode is June 12.
In prep for tomorrow’s
#LRRSTX
Pre-prerelease, I’ve opened a bunch of Strixhaven product. And while I know a lot of factors affect foils, I *have* to share this…
This is a pile of Strixhaven pack foils.
Also, that same pile next to non-foil cards, and again FIVE days later 😯
Big-time Fuck 2020, but “the new year” is a wholly arbitrary time stamp for things like self-improvement.
My point is: I’m gonna keep eating like garbage until I can hug people again.
In case you missed it, we have reacquired ownership of UNSKIPPABLE, the show where we riff jokes over video game cinematics.
I’m VERY excited about this.
Here’s a (brief?) thread about the show’s history, and what it means to us.
Over the last few years—between covid and cancer—I’ve learned WAY more medical trivia that I’d ever thought I would.
The nurses always say, “wow you’re really up to speed on this!” which is very nice of them, but also how could I not??
It’s my body! I keep all my organs in it!!
Wow, correct, I got absolutely made 😄
Also, I never expected this flavour text suggestion to go to print but I’m thrilled it did!
(the name was a collaborative effort)
Very excited about this card being revealed. I named Duskana 😃
My inspiration was the (slightly differently spelled) Dusanka, a Slovak name that means “spirit”—because the art reminded me of the Kermode “spirit” bear of British Columbia, my home province.
Currently trying to stick to RTs when I can bear to look at Twitter—my voice isn’t one you need to hear right now.
But I wanted to be clear and say this one myself:
Black Lives Matter
Me: so if there are no animals that AREN’T Pokémon... do people EAT Pokémon?
Game Freak: ...
Me: ok
Game Freak: this new Pokémon is a pile of strawberries & cream
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Is there a specific desired response when someone says, “May the Fourth be with you”?
Because I’ve just been saying, “And also with you,” but that feels like Roman Catholic gimmick infringement.
Love and shoutouts to
@Kathleen_LRR
on four years of being married to this goofball. You’re amazing.
FOUR MORE YEARS!
And then, MANY MORE YEARS!
(technically it was yesterday, but you folks didn’t need timely messaging 😄)
If it were true that you’re “a big fan of [our] content creation” then you’d know that we are Zero% interested in doin’ a collab with an F2P blockchain game that has players grind for NFTs.
I hope that one day I can be a big enough YouTuber that I can colossally fuck up and irreparably damage the livelihoods of smaller creators, but suffer no ill effects myself.
It’s the dream, really.
😡
Myself and everyone on the LRR video team have worked SO HARD to get everything ready for the
#LRRSTX
PPR today. So it’s been a mixed day.
LUCKILY, I also have the best video I’ve made in ages: Baxter Groggily Wakes Up from Dream…
After the new Kiki-Jiki reprint was previewed, Kathleen told me, “I instantly read this flavour text in your voice,” which I suppose makes sense, since I wrote it 😄
Excited to have been on the (verrrry small) Creative Text team for Jumpstart 2022!
I’ve realized that when a stranger says “nice shirt!” I can’t just say “thanks,” and instead have to look down at what I’m wearing so I can better determine from context if they’re making fun of me or not.
So I guess I’m still holding onto THAT from high school.
5/5
And of course, all of you!
Whether you backed this ambitious project, or just watched it unfold over the last 12 weeks. Thanks for being a part of this.
Look, everyone thinks their own kids are special, but my daughter is the only person in history who’s favourite Pokémon is apparently Nosepass, so…
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Shoutouts to YouTube for another demonstration of passive voice in their statement objecting to “the video that was shared”
…by Logan Paul. His name is Logan Paul, he’s been an asshole this whole time, and you STILL put him in your 2017 Rewind video.
@JimSterling
In CheckPoint comments, when we’re critical of EA or Bethesda or Riot or Blizzard or Rockstar: “haha yesss drag them!”
When we’re critical of CDPR: “well, now this is kind of a different situation”
Since someone grabbed the screenshot and posted it to Reddit without even mentioning us, thereby circumventing the whole *point* of getting a preview card, please watch our video 😃
#MTGTHB
Tonight’s LoadingReadyLIVE comedy show (starting in approx 25mins) is gonna open with a different kind of cold open than we usually do.
I hope you can tune in for it.
(it’ll still be in the VOD if you miss it)
Love that I’m having to patiently explain to a rep for a YouTube copyright strike claimant that the artist they claim to represent DOESN’T EXIST, and actually the music we OWN A LICENSE FOR is by somebody else.
Beautiful system you’ve built
@TeamYouTube
.
On Monday 6/1 there will be an update to the Banned & Restricted list impacting the Standard and Historic formats that will also address the Companion mechanic.
Dear 2019,
I am proud of what I accomplished during your time, but I do not wish to see your kind again. Goodbye, don’t call.
Dear 2020,
You‘ve been handed a low floor but a high ceiling, don’t bungle this.
Me: Why does the Netflix fireplace log “show” have EPISODES?? Why does it say SEASON ONE?!
Kathleen: Yeah, why limit themselves? It’s… evergreen content 😏
Me: 😑
Just saw one of these trucknuts drive their F150 over a flower bed rather than perform a simple three-point turn to exit a parking lot, so that’s kind of a microcosm of the selfishness on display today.
Jog on, you absolute turnips.
Sure SUBtember is cool but remember when a bunch of folks took a day off Twitch because of all the hate raids and then nothing changed and people (especially bipoc creators) are still getting flooded with malicious bots?
Yeah that’s still happening.
SUBtember on Twitch is almost over…
But there’s still time to support your favorite creators with 20% off new monthly subs and gift subs, delivered by Grubhub!
Get out there and sub before the magic runs out until next year!
More info and terms:
Taxi Driver: “So! Any plans for the weekend?”
Me, having a furious mental debate on whether or not I have the energy to explain
@DesertBus
and all the associated terminology required to understand it:
“Naw”
“After a thorough investigation of who ate the entire sleeve of Oreos, I’ve determined that it wasn’t me,” I say, frantically shaking crumbs out of my beard.
“And furthermore, my family’s being real wieners about it.”
Penelope has a Munchlax toy, and “Baa Baa Black Sheep” is in the bedtime repertoire.
Tonight we mashed them together:
🎵 Nom nom Munchlax, have you any snacks?
Yes miss, yes miss, three full stacks.
One for Jenny, one for Joy,
One for every girl and boy. 🎵
etc
Elon’s had such a record-shattering run as Twitter’s Main Character that I don’t know who could credibly challenge him for the title. In kayfabe, at least.
I think the writers really booked themselves into a corner.
Had a chat with Paul last night after the stream, about how LRR’s growth compared to the top-subbed YouTube idiots, and how our relatively slow growth has allowed us to better evolve, as people, over time.
Obviously I’d welcome their success, but I like the people we’ve become.
Unironically love the Seattle Kraken branding, and while the primary logo is awesome and makes a great Trogdor, the secondary logo is absolutely *chef kiss* with its SPACE NEEDLE ANCHOR.
I have seen the Star War!
I enjoyed it a lot!!
…I’m almost afraid to ask, why is this supposedly so divisive? Or, is it the thing where it’s NOT actually esp divisive, but a small group of loud people are Mad Online™?
Thanks everyone who tuned in to the PPR today (or who’s intending to watch later on YouTube). We put a lot of work into them, and I’m really proud of what we make.
We had a blast with the new cards, and I hope you also had fun watching!
Wow! 30k views already 😃
Thanks everyone who’s watched ROAD QUEST!
If you haven’t: we’ve been working on this for essentially years, it’s the biggest thing we’ve ever made, and I’m so proud of it.
lol, one of our CheckPoint TikToks (the story on NFTs in video games, and Peter Molyneux’s “plans” in particular) got reported for “Harassment & Bullying”
Didn’t know Peter watched our stuff 😂