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I think there’s two categories of artist - the kind who do better work the less people say no to them (Nathan Fielder) and the kind who do better work the more people say no to them/worse work the more of a blank check they get (for instance, George Lucas, or more recently, Taika Waititi)

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Free tip for video editors: showing an intense conversation between two people and then cutting to Nathan Fielder observing them from the shadows is going to be funny to me every time

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He has a whole language of ‘okay’ where he’s able to layer an ‘okay’ with like 20 different emotions depending on whether he’s more amused, disgusted, shocked, dismissive, horrified, etc

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I really want Nathan to interview every tech bro now, except that after YCSE, I fear it would be like watching an NBA player dunk on children

Mike Halls @mikehalls.bsky.social · 22h

Listen if $30k is nothing to you, I’ll take it off your hands

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If Avengers Doomsday bombs, this year will have officially saved cinema

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Scariest to explore: bottom of the ocean Scariest to be stuck: caves

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You ever think about how one of Spielberg’s sons looks like an attempt to fuse Josh O’Connor and Brendan Fraser?

Also season 2 is better generally, but it’s transitioned from a show about running a Haunted Hotel to ‘Rick and Morty lite’

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Mike Halls @mikehalls.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I’m glad Haunted Hotel didn’t come out when I was like, 13, because young me would’ve made Abaddon his entire personality

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Maybe it’s just getting older and having less free time, but any “Our game has X hours of content!/Our game has Y miles of terrain to explore!” promises just actively make me not want to buy the game. Like if a book’s main marketing was how many pages it has, that’s not going to draw many readers

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Mike Halls @mikehalls.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Everything in the world seems terrible right now, but it’s somehow been a fantastic year for movies

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Mike Halls @mikehalls.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The most annoying thing about Discourse is there’s no sense of history and everyone thinks they’re having these discussions for the first time, when in reality Jewish scholars were criticizing Zionism long before there even was an Israel, at least since the late 1800’s

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Mike Halls @mikehalls.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Company advertised their weekly Yoga Wednesday by photoshopping a pumpkin into the typical ‘yoga pose’ hand gesture on their poster, unintentionally making it look extremely suggestive

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Alternately, we built a system where money matters more than anything, they did what they were told was the ‘correct’ playthrough and functionally ‘won the game’, and now they’re like gamers throwing a fit, yelling at the devs when they realize there’s no endgame/New Game+

Lena’s dark doppelgänger, Ms. H, is actually pretty chill and well-adjusted

I think it’s also them realizing that it’s the one thing money can’t get them. Like, when you can get whatever you want except for *one* thing (immortality), it’s all the more upsetting (and harder to stop thinking about) when you can’t get it, and what we’re seeing is their tantrum

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Rewatching The Rehearsal in advance of You Can See Everything, and season 2 episode 3 really might be the greatest setup/punchline of all time

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As a fan of most Eggers movies, yes get his ass

Guys finding impossible infinite spaces in House of Leaves: “The physical impossibility of this space horrifies me, this should not be, yet strangely it compels me forward.” Guys finding the Backrooms: “Neat!”

Feels like it would also take very little effort to convince Tom Cruise to show up to a podcast in full Digger costume and makeup and stay in character for 3-4 hours

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Me watching anything made by Vince Gilligan: “wow this is a cool opening, I wonder where he’s going with this” Vince Gilligan making an episode of anything: “wow this is a cool opening, I wonder where I’m going with this”

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“The first rule of Fight Club is you do not leave Google reviews about fight club.” “The second role of Fight Club is you do not leave *bad* Google reviews about fight club.”

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People trying to break into my lair never expect the pack of 12/10 heckin good doggos to tear them limb from limb

Mike Halls @mikehalls.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

You could pay a thousand comedy writers to come up with a parody conservative billboard and only a small percentage would get this ridiculous, and idk if any would get to the “Cherokee Guns” punchline

Mike Halls @mikehalls.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Everyone just ignoring the obvious here:

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Mike Halls @mikehalls.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

“Half-assed face swatting” is a top tier play-fighting move regardless of the animal

Replying a few days later to say I have definitely been seeing more of the ‘restorative justice’ people who seem like they’re just looking for an excuse to keep watching his content, but it seems like you and other big creators pushing back against that rhetoric is having an impact

Unfortunately we now have just as many ‘no comedy allowed, just gross horror’ Evil Dead movies as we have ‘original Raimi gross and wacky’ Evil Dead movies. At least we have the TV show continuation, but the battle for keeping the original Evil Dead vibe in the movies is well lost at this point

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Many such cases both on the internet and off, unfortunately (or fortunately, in the case of Nathan Fielder specifically)

Now whenever Ryan Murphy actually makes a good season of TV it’s like when Twitch played Pokemon - technically human-controlled but seemingly entirely random, and extremely unlikely

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It’s weird watching the first couple seasons of American Horror Story and being like “oh Ryan Murphy was never a good writer but he did know how to make a good season of television once”

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Mike Halls @mikehalls.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The main reason I’ll be sad when the MCU dies in a year before they’ve rebooted the X-Men again is that we’ll never know which actor from Kick-Ass (2010) they would have cast as new Quicksilver

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They have a version of this, it’s called Futurama

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Mike Halls @mikehalls.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Have you tried Everything Sad is Untrue?

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Mike Halls @mikehalls.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That’s him. Thats the Hogfather.

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Mike Halls @mikehalls.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I agree but (maybe it’s just my algorithm) I’ve seen exactly two people take the ‘restorative justice’ angle and 50 taking the ‘this fucking sucks, get this guy out of here’ angle, so this seems like an extreme minority position, at least to me

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It’s really funny how little my instagram algorithm knows about me. It somehow has picked up that I like ‘weird movies’ (despite never posting about movies there, thanks surveillance state) so it advertises David Lynch and House (1977) T-shirts and nothing else

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He already did that in the Jack Reacher movie, when he impersonated Reacher despite being a much smaller man, and enacted a brutal campaign of violence against international treasure Werner Herzog

Should just tell the writers every episode is a series finale, to motivate them. What are they going to do, say “you can’t have more than one series finale?”

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Not 80, but he definitely kills a few people in The Tragedy of MacBeth