#rj: taskmaster

[reluctantjoe]

"Kiell, tell me about your childhood friend. What was his name?"

Kiell Smith-Bynoe on TASKMASTER (2015-) | 15.06: It's My Milk Now

[incorrectpnatquotes]

Ed: Is your name gender-neutral?

RJ: Yes.

Ed: Does your name begin with an S?

RJ: No.

Ed: ...is your name Pimpernickel?

RJ: ...

[blackberryjambaby]

i'm watching taskmaster au & in episode two for the 'bravest thing' task they very quickly flick by julia's paper with her opinions, one of which is 'people who don't connect or even try with other people's pronouns need an electric shock' LMAO

[rjjameshiii]

RJ's Platinum Collection #5: Marvel's Spider-Man

Achieved on 7/21/2022 at 4:52 PM

I had already played this game when it came out on my PS4, but I knew I was DEFINITELY going to replay it and get the platinum a second time on my PS5. This is, without a doubt, one of the BEST superhero video games that has ever existed. I would call it the best Spider-Man game ever made too!

Like Detroit: Become Human and Jak & Daxter, I have already played this game once before, and I knew everything I needed to do to unlock the platinum. So I decided to take a, shall we saw, cinematic approach to this game. I wanted to get certain tasks done before the end of each of the games three acts, and I wanted to get EVERYTHING done before the final battle. That may be weird and not make sense, but it's how I played!

Of course I started with the game's fantastic opening sequence where you take down Kingpin.

1/51: Knocking Down Kingpin - Defeat Wilson Fisk.

And then I decided to just get the trophy for greeting people on the street out of the way.

2/51: Spider-Man About Town - Greet 10 citizens.

And THEN I made sure to activate every single surveillance tower so I could get the entire map from the beginning. Seriously, I watched a few videos of people playing this game, and so many just DON'T activate the towers. Do you like having an unfinished map in an open world game? Cuz I don't.

3/51: Amazing Coverage - Activate all the Surveillance Towers.

After that I just continued playing the game, doing collectibles and side stuff in-between the main story missions.

4/51: Lost and Found - Collect 5 backpacks.

5/51: The Scientific Method - Craft your first upgrade.

6/51: Spider-Sensible - Perfect dodge 10 attacks.

7/51: Ace The Base - Complete all objectives in a base.

8/51: Hero For Higher - Perch atop Avengers Tower.

9/51: And Stay Down! - Complete a Level 1 combat benchmark.

And just a quick side note: I still have no clue how the heck the "Wing It" trophy works. I feel like I spend the entire game traversing across the city rooftops. What is the trophy's exact unlock requirements? I dunno.

10/51: Wing It - Traverse across the city rooftops.

Anyway, back to playing Act 1.

11/51: King of Swing - Complete a Level 1 traversal benchmark.

12/51: Snappy Dresser - Wear 5 new Spider-Suits.

13/51: Shock and Awe - Defeat Shocker.

14/51: Cat's Out of the Bag - Collect a Black Cat collectible.

15/51: Arachnophobia - Perform 75 stealth takedowns.

Before doing the final mission of Act 1, I decided to finish all of the Fisk Hideouts to symbolize how Fisk is taken out of the picture for good so that Li and the Demons can become the big threat of the story.

Look, I know the way I'm getting this platinum is weird, but I was a theatre nerd, I like to do things DRAMATICALLY.

16/51: All The King's Men - Take down each Fisk Hideout.

17/51: Demons Emerge - Complete Act 1.

Since you start Act 2 in a graveyard, I decided to go say hi to Uncle Ben to get a quick miscellaneous trophy out of the way.

18/51: With Great Power... - Pay your respects to Uncle Ben's grave.

And then I started playing through Act 2. Basically, I decided I wanted ALL of the side content done before I finished the second act, because knowing what happens to New York City in Act 3, I felt like all the fun stuff needed to be completed first for the best dramatic impact possible.

19/51: Science FTW! - Craft 15 upgrades.

20/51: Born to Ride - Ride the Subway five times.

21/51: Backpacker - Collect all backpacks.

22/51: Overdrive - Complete 10 vehicle takedowns.

23/51: Short Fuse - Get a Spectacular or better in a Taskmaster Bomb Challenge.

24/51: Sightseeing - Photograph all Landmarks on the map.

25/51: Tombstone Takedown - Defeat Tombstone.

26/51: Hug It Out - Knock together 10 pairs of enemies using Trip Mines.

27/51: Inner Sanctuary - Take down each Demon Warehouse.

28/51: Cat Prints - Track down Black Cat.

29/51: A Bit of a Fixer Upper - Complete all the optional projects in the lab.

30/51: Pigeon Hunter - Catch all of Howard's pigeons.

31/51: Spy Hunter - Get Spectacular or better in a Taskmaster Drone Challenge.

32/51: Fists of Fury - Get Spectacular or better in a Taskmaster Combat Challenge.

33/51: R&D - Complete all of the Research Stations.

34/51: Ninja - Get Spectacular or better in a Taskmaster Stealth Challenge.

35/51: Schooled - Complete all of the Corrupted Student missions.

36/51: Challenge Finder - Complete every Taskmaster Challenge in the city once.

37/51: Master of Masters - Defeat Taskmaster.

38/51: Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man - Complete all side missions.

With the final side mission done, I finished Act 2 and got to enjoy the incredible cinematic shot of Spider-Man looking over a New York City that had descended into complete chaos.

39/51: The Six Assemble - Complete Act 2.

With almost everything done, Act 3 was spent doing the main missions while also taking care of all the faction crimes to make progress toward 100% each district, taking down the Sable Outposts and Prison Camps, and getting enough XP to finish buying all the suits and skills.

40/51: Grounded - Defeat Electro and Vulture.

41/51: Neighborhood Watch - Complete all Faction Crimes in a district.

42/51: Sticky and Tricky - Chain 4 unique tricks before landing.

43/51: A Suit For All Seasons - Purchase all the suits.

44/51: Superior Spider-Man - Unlock all skills.

45/51: Mercenary Tactics - Take down each Sable Outpost.

46/51: Sting and Smash - Defeat Scorpion and Rhino.

47/51: Staying Positive - Defeat Martin Li.

48/51: Back in the Slammer - Take down each Prisoner Camp.

49/51: I Heart Manhattan - 100% complete all districts.

And voila! With the game basically at 100% completion, I just had to do the final fight against Doctor Octopus and BOOM I got me a spidery platinum trophy!

50/51: End Game - Complete Act 3.

51/51: Be Greater - Collect all the trophies.

Spider-Man for PS4 is, without a doubt, one of the BEST video games of all time. And it is SO MUCH FUN to platinum. I recommend this game to ALL.

Rating: 15/10

[giveamadeuschohisownmovie]

Hypothetical scenario: In an alternate universe, Marvel decided to split the TV and movie universes apart. With more leeway to do what they want, Marvel TV greenlights the “Captain America” live-action show. It is not connected to the movie version of Captain America at all.

Plot: Pretty much follows the Captain America origin story. The show starts with him being thawed out in the present day. The rest of the season follows Steve’s attempts to deal with modern life. 

The main cast:

1) Teddy Sears as Steve Rogers / Captain America

2) Wentworth Miller as Clint Barton / Hawkeye (acts as the comic relief / “heart of the show” main character. Think Cisco Ramon or Winn Schott)

3) B.J. Britt as Sam Wilson / Falcon (the secondary hero on the show)

4) Shantel VanSanten as Sharon Carter / Agent 13 (the main love interest)

5) Ryan Hurst as Tony Masters / Taskmaster, the main villain of season one. He’s only in the main cast for the first season. 

6) Shannon Purser as Rikki Barnes, Bucky Barne’s granddaughter (one of the “teenager” main characters. Bucky doesn’t appear in the first season. He shows up as the anti-villain / secondary villain of the second season, which is focused on the Winter Soldier arc)

7) Lyrica Okano as Kate Bishop / Hawkeye II (Clint’s apprentice / daughter-figure and one of the “teenager” main characters) 

8) RJ Cyler as Jeffrey Mace / Patriot (Steve’s sidekick on the show and one of the “teenager” main characters. His arc on the show is to eventually become the Patriot)

[bookclub4m]

Episode 132 - Recent Media We've Enjoyed

This week it’s another episode where we talk about Media We’ve Recently Enjoyed! We talk about woman’s basketball, resource mining, musicals, translations, and more! 

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Media We Talked About This Episode

Maintenance Phase

The Wellness to QAnon Pipeline

Spy x Family, Vol. 1 by Tatsuya Endo, translated by Casey Loe

Witch Hat Atelier, Vol. 1 by Kamome Shirahama, translated by Stephen Kohler

The “Brimmed Hat Group” are the ones who use forbidden magic

Women's National Basketball Association (Wikipedia)

(There are twelve teams!)

Taskmaster (Wikipedia)

Series playlists (YouTube)

Paint The Best Picture Of The Taskmaster, Without Touching The Red Mat (YouTube)

Let’s Game It Out (YouTube channel)

I Was Sponsored to Explore New Ways to Torment Colonists - Oxygen Not Included (YouTube)

Oxygen Not Included (Wikipedia)

D&D x Magic One-Shot Adventure (Dungeons & Dragons x Magic: The Gathering) by LoadingReadyRun

Map of NCR Libraries / bibliothèques 

Tour de Libraries (Twitter)

StarKid Productions

The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals (YouTube)

Black Friday (YouTube)

Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation by Anne Helen Petersen

Having and Being Had by Eula Biss

19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei by Eliot Weinberger

Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin, translated by Megan McDowell

Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori

Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: Stories by Grace Paley

Napkin by Carta Monir

Other Media We Mentioned

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

Your Fat Friend

You're Wrong About

The Sims (Wikipedia)

On Immunity: An Inoculation by Eula Biss

Links, Articles, and Things

Library Punk episode 022 - Nonfiction Comics

Manga in Libraries: Defending the Collection

Watch the previous webinars

Madison (cycling) (Wikipedia)

Women's Madison Final - 2020 UCI Track Cycling World Championships

Six-day racing (Wikipedia)

Heritage Minutes: Basketball

“But I need these baskets back!”

California Sues Activision Blizzard for Being 'Breeding Ground for Harassment'

(Content Warning for sexual harrassment, sexual violence, and suicide)

Activision Blizzard Employees Are Walking Out in Protest of Work Conditions

Alliance française (Wikipedia)

Bardic Inspiration

Tickle Me Elmo (Wikipedia)

Hark! Podcast

This Little Art by Kate Briggs

20 Historical Fantasy books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors to help our listeners diversify their readers’ advisory. All of the lists can be found here.

The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water by Zen Cho

Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho

The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo

The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo

A Dead Djinn in Cairo by P. Djèlí Clark

Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark

The Sea Is Ours: Tales from Steampunk Southeast Asia edited by Jaymee Goh & Joyce Chng

These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong

Bacchanal by Veronica Henry

The Salt Roads by Nalo Hopkinson

Dread Nation by Justina Ireland

The Impossible Girl by Lydia Kang

The Poppy War by RF Kuang

The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle

Celia’s Song by Lee Maracle

Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse

The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri

The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo

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Join us again on Tuesday, September 7th when we’ll be talking about the format of Flash Fiction.

Then on Tuesday, September 21st we’ll be reading and discussing Piranesi by Susanna Clarke.

[reluctantjoe]

"Erm, Kiell, how confident were you in the not-pot-pot-not system?"

Kiell Smith-Bynoe on TASKMASTER (2015-) | 15.03: I Love to Squander Promise

[incorrectpnatquotes]

Ollie: I mean, we might be overdoing it here.

RJ: *attempting to inflate a red balloon by stretching it over the end of the leafblower*

Stephen and Johnny: *helping them by holding the leafblower's nozzle*

[incorrectpnatquotes]

Mr. Garcia: "These aren't all chickens, right?"

Mr. Garcia: You kids! You're so obsessed with you iPads, you don't know the difference between chickens and ducks.

RJ: You can see it on the Internet! I don't need to see chickens in real life!