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Echo Bizarre @echobizarre.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Probably a hot take but I think Tim Robinson hot dog man is a bad meme because it relies entirely on context from the source that the meme version never provides. You have to already know that in the original context he's talking about a hot dog car crashing through a window or else it's nonsense

Pictured: Tim Robinson in a hot dog costume saying "we're all trying to find the guy who did this", a popular meme. Never pictured: the "this" he's talking about, a crashed hot dog car, without which the joke doesn't make any sense

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Echo Bizarre @echobizarre.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Okay hold on, "Snow White and the Seven Samurai" actually rules (at least conceptually)

Recent Asylum movie "Snow White and the Seven Samurai"

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Echo Bizarre @echobizarre.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Fool that I am, I'd assumed that The Asylum had eased off on doing their Mockbuster "trick people into watching" movies after Sharknado took off, but they've still been going strong, even more shameless than I remember. "Pandora: Fire and Ice" and "Road Wars: Max Fury" are especially funny to me

List of recent Asylum movies "New Toy Story," "Alien Disclosure Day," and "Master of the Universe."

Asylum movies "Immortal Combat" and "The Last Hail M.A.R.Y."

Asylum movies "Pandora: Fire and Ice," "A Winnie-the-Pooh Christmas", and "Predator: Wastelands."

Asylum movies "The Twisters," "War of the Worlds: Extinction" and "Road Wars: Max Fury"

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Echo Bizarre @echobizarre.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Big weekend coming up! Tomorrow, 6/27, I'm releasing my next video essay, a review/short analysis of Zero Parades: For Dead Spies And Sunday, 6/28 at 1:00 PM EST/10:00 AM PST, I will be doing my first ever livestream, playing Dread Delusion! Come hang out if you can

Thumbnail for my Zero Parades video, with Hershel in front of the Quest For It splash art with the text "A Replica About Replication." Ooh, wonder what that means

Thumbnail for my first livestream Sunday the 28th, with the cover art for Dread Delusion and the text "My Favorite Elder-Scrolls-Like" on it

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Echo Bizarre @echobizarre.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

My Veilguard video has hit 100K views! Still one of the videos I'm proudest of

Screenshot of my "A Nuanced Critique of Veilguard" video at 100K views hooray

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Echo Bizarre @echobizarre.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

If this is about sharing underappreciated games then let's go truly underappreciated, here's nine very cool games I've played with fewer than 1500 Steam Reviews (most only a few hundred). Let's pump those numbers up

9 Steam Games I want to spread, featuring Magenta Horizon, Mediterranea Inferno, Wishbind, Panthalassa, Malys, Betrayal at Club Low, Elsinore, Solar Ash, and Masquerada: Songs and Shadows

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Echo Bizarre @echobizarre.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

My contribution to Odyssey discourse is that when I read it in 9th grade I wrote an essay saying Odysseus slaughtering the suitors showed he was trapped in a warrior's mentality and my teacher said she never thought of that before and now I make YouTube video game analysis to try to relive that rush

That small domino to big domino meme with the small domino labeled "9th Grade English Teacher saying my Odyssey take was unique" and the big, final domino labeled "3.5 hr Deus Ex Video Essay"

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Echo Bizarre @echobizarre.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

There are so many good alternate choices for each category because there were, are, and will be so many good video games

That trendy-ish "About Me: Video Games" grid with the following games for each category:
Favorite Game: Outer Wilds
Best Story: 1000xResist
Favorite Art Style: Transistor
Biggest Personal Impact: Disco Elysium
Best Combat: Nine Sols
Overhated: Avowed
Underrated: Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire
Overrated: Red Dead Redemption II
Needs a Remake: Piglet's Big Game
Criminally Underrated: Pyre
Favorite Protagonist: In Stars and Time
Favorite Antagonist: Knights of the Old Republic II
Best Soundtrack: NieR Automata
Best Multiplayer: Halo 3
Not Usually My Thing, But...: Age of Empires III
Turn my Brain Off: Skyrim
Best With Friends: Deep Rock Galactic
Best Retro Game: Deus Ex
Nostalgic Childhood Game: Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Game Everyone Should Play: Portal 2

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Echo Bizarre @echobizarre.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Know no shame (for shilling for indies)

A screenshot from the TV show Black Sails of a book open to a page in which someone has scrawled "My truest love. Know no shame. T.H." No further elaboration in case of spoilers

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Echo Bizarre @echobizarre.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Hornet in Silksong when it turns out there's another bug kingdom enthralled by some sort of higher power

A screenshot of Maui's song from Moana on the line "I see what's happening, yeah" but the "yeah" is replaced with Hornet's bark line (from Hollow Knight 1 but not in Silksong but whatever) "shaw" and Hornet's head is over Maui's face and Lace's head is over Moana's face

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Echo Bizarre @echobizarre.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Tomorrow (unless I rewatch it late at night and notice something I somehow didn't notice during my last two final rewatches and panic and take it down to edit even more)

A possible thumbnail featuring the Versalife hand around the globe statue with the text "How a Classic Has Aged" placed between the globe and the hand

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Echo Bizarre @echobizarre.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Or maybe I should mean to criticize one specific creator

MauLer promoting his 18 hour Star Wars Outlaws ramble or whatever it is on X the Everything App with a pastiche of End of Eva (though when I saw the video in my recommended it had a different thumbnail so either he's A/B testing or thought better of this thumbnail)

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Echo Bizarre @echobizarre.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

I don't mean this to criticize any one specific creator, but I feel like I've seen more than enough YouTube thumbnails riffing on the End of Evangelion to last me a year at least

An image I made as a goof of the poster for End of Evangelion with the title edited to be "The End of The End of Evangelion" and the giant Rei face replaced with a smaller End of Eva poster turned on its side

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Echo Bizarre @echobizarre.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Then the Fantastic Four leaves in defeat and Johnny Storm compares Reed to Neville Chamberlain and Doom to Hitler. Frankly a bit insensitive considering Doom is Romani and his regime has never been ethno-supremacist but clearly Godwin's Law was alive and well in 1976

Four comic panels.
Panel 1: wide shot of the Fantastic Four approaching their Fantasticar in the distance.
Human Torch: "You may call me hot-headed, leader man, but it seems to me that the government's made a big mistake here! We know Doc Doom a lot better than Henry the K does!"
Mr. Fantastic: "That may be, Johnny, but I'm sure Dr. Kissinger feels this is the best way to neutralize Doom's threat!"
The Thing: "Neutralize Doom? Har de har har!"

Panel 2: close up of Mr. Fantastic looking pissed off.
Mr. Fantastic: "Listen to you two! You talk like revolutionaries! If you don't like the way I'm running this team, you can always go it alone!"

Panel 3: Two-shot of Torch and Mr. Fantastic arguing.
Human Torch: "Maybe we just will, Reed! You talk about how Ben and I sound, but you sound like Neville Chamberlain before World War II! He said Hitler wasn't going to bother anybody-- and Doom's just a modern-day Hitler!

Panel 4: Torch is really mad, while Invisible Woman holds him back from behind.
Human Torch: "He's sitting up here in the middle of Europe with only one goal, the conquest of the world! And now that he's got Namor--"
Invisible Woman: "Johnny, please! Let's not fight among ourselves! It's Reed's decision to make!"

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Echo Bizarre @echobizarre.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Shout out to the time Dr. Doom stopped the Fantastic Four from kicking his ass by negotiating an America-Latveria non-aggression pact with special guest star Henry Kissinger (Super-Villain Team-Up #6 and 7)

Three comic book panels.
Panel 1: Dr. Doom stands at the top of a staircase with the Fantastic Four below. A man stands in the shadows of a doorway up behind Doom.
The Thing: "It's Doom -- Waitin' for us!"
Dr. Doom: "I warn you, Fantastic Four: Leave my castle immediately!"
The Thing: "We'll leave, all right-- after we've fixed your little red wagon!"

Panel 2: the shadowed man is HENRY KISSINGER! He steps in front of Dr. Doom.
Kissinger: "No, Mr. Grimm-- you will do as Dr. Doom says-- for as your secretary of state, I have just concluded a non-aggression agreement with Latveria! From this moment on, no Americans may interfere in this nation's internal affairs! We need Latveria on our side-- to maintain our national security and world peace!"

Panel 3: Mr. Fantastic and the Thing are shocked and disturbed.
The Thing: "Wha-at? If you think--"
Mr. Fantastic: "Don't, Ben! We've never bucked the government before, and we can't start now-- no matter what our feelings! This is over our heads!"

A big splash panel for the next issue with the big title "Who is... the Shroud?" at the top. The image depicts Dr. Doom chatting with Henry Kissinger while Namor the Sub-Mariner sulks in front of them. The Fantastic Four walk out past Doom's portcullis in the background.

Dr. Doom: "Well done, Dr. Kissinger! Your timely intervention stopped those hot-headed fools in their tracks!*"
*Last Issue. --Marv.
Kissinger: "These superheroes have enjoyed too much freedom to this point, Dr. Doom! It's time they learned that despite their great powers, they are still subject to the policies of their government!"
Namor (thought balloons): "So! Latveria and the United States have formed a non-aggression pact. Barring the Fantastic Four and all other Americans from interfering in Doom's affairs! I fear the secretary of state has put expediency ahead of sound judgment-- but I am sworn to say nothing-- for the Prince of Atlantis is still Doom's slave!"

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Echo Bizarre @echobizarre.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

As it turns out there's an in-game glossary for all the terms, very convenient especially since so much of the game uses 2010 Japanese Internet memes. I haven't watched the anime adaptation so idk how all this is incorporated there

Screenshot of Steins;Gate in-game Tips List showing the definition of "chuunibyou": "Chuunibyou, which is often abbreviated 'chuuni,' also refers to the fictional tropes that teenage males often enjoy, such as ancient conspiracies, superpowers (especially powers sealed in a character's eye or arm), Norse mythology, battles for the fate of the multiverse, etc. The consummate chuunibyou case will work such elements into his own personal 'backstory.' Okarin is a textbook example.

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Echo Bizarre @echobizarre.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

ok is this too cluttered for a YouTube thumbnail or not? I'll probably do A/B testing with two others first and only add this in later if I feel it's necessary but if it's too much of a mess I won't bother

a recreation of the "Drake pointing" meme with the Detective from Disco Elysium in place of Drake, looking stern up top next to images of XXX Nightshift, Hopetown, and Project [C4] (announced successor projects) indicating disapproval and pointing with a smile on the bottom next to images of NORCO and Slay the Princess indicating approval

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