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Jason Pargin, author of John Dies at the End, etc
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Jason Pargin, author of John Dies at the End, etc
@JasonKPargin
Author of John Dies at the End & the Zoey Ashe series. Former Editor at Cracked.com, now: jasonpargin.substack.com
Joined March 2009
- Front page Reddit post today: “I found my dad’s PlayStation from when he was a kid.”
- Ok was there really a Jumanji 3‘JUMANJI 4’ has begun filming. In theaters in December, 2026.
- As a kid these pencils are what taught me that sometimes a new technology can be bad
- Do Gen Z kids just show up each others' homes unannounced or is that not a thing anymore? When I was a kid there was no texting or cell phones so you'd just be eating lunch or whatever and suddenly a friend would be at your door, without warning. It was awful
- Wife told me she'd been "really getting into animal security camera videos" recently and I had her show me one to see what she meant. You'll need sound:
00:00 - I seriously don’t think anything like this has ever happened even once anywhere in the world
- Remember that there are elements of your personality you are totally unaware of that are immediately apparent to any stranger within five minutes of meeting you
- I mean this is objectively true just from a money and industry standpoint, right? Iron Man was a C-level superhero and the movie overperformed based entirely on what RDJ brought to the role. An entire industry pivoted on this.Christopher Nolan says Robert Downey Jr. playing Iron Man is “one of the most consequential casting decisions that’s ever been made in the history of movies.” (Source: @colbertlateshow)
- Another current media trend I'd have never predicted: Lots of people watching with the captions on because sound mixing is so shitty that you can't tell what people are saying, and instead of studios adjusting the audio, audiences gave up and started reading their shows instead.
- Confession: I thought there was some kind of technical definition of a "weed" like I thought you could show it to a plant expert and ask "is this a flower or a weed?" and they could tell you. But no, weed is just a slur for any plant you don't personally want around
- My brain is so poisoned that it took me several minutes to figure out what the actual joke is here
- Does gen Z understand that the 80s wasn’t like Stranger Things, that in reality it was just this, all the time:
00:00 - "No I can't do thursday, that's my day of falconry with RFK jr and Don Jr"
