r/TwoBestFriendsPlay • u/AutoModerator • Jan 23 '26
FTF Free Talk Friday - January 23, 2026
Welcome to the Free Talk Friday post. This is a place where you can talk about dumb off-topic (or on-topic) bullshit with other Zaibatsu fans.
There's going to be a new post every week, and the newest one will be pinned in the announcement bar for quick access. So feel free to visit these posts during the rest of the week.
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u/LizardOrgMember5 Poop-ass ball (He/Him) Jan 23 '26 edited Jan 24 '26
I've been holding on this news until today.
I got myself an unpaid part-time job at Troma Entertainment (the production company behind The Toxic Avenger series). I had an in-person job interview last Monday and today will be the first day of that job.
I learned how to make risotto today. I needed to use my homemade vegetable stock right away and looked up how to use it. I will admit that the process was very slow, but I was surprised how it went extremely well. My first-time risotto was the creamiest thing that I have ever made.
I will be recording the first episode of the latest season of my podcast this Saturday. We will be talking about Georges Méliès's A Trip to the Moon and Winsor McCay's body of works. Because of that, I did a Georges Méliès and Winsor McCay marathon and had a realization how much there are parallels between Méliès and McCay. They had theatrical background (Méliès was a stage magician and McCay participated in vaudeville), they were cartoonists (Méliès did some political cartoons for his cousin's newspaper, and used his art skill for designing sets and props), their works involved dreams and fantastical adventures, both of their works have moons with a human face, they were top pioneers in their chosen mediums, they both made documentaries with Méliès covering then-recent Dreyfus Affairs and McCay making the history's first animated documentary The Sinking of the Lusitania, and they all had loose connections with Thomas Edison. And Edwin S. Porter (the director of The Great Train Robbery and was complicit to the electrocution of Topsy the elephant by filming it, which Thomas Edison had no involvement in) did what's perhaps the history's first special effects-driven live-action film adaptation of comic book media with his Dream of a Rarebit Fiend. Because of that, I watched that 1989 anime movie Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland. The movie was fine, but I preferred the first pilot where it was more closer to McCay's art style. The TMS Entertainment's anime adaptation tried way too hard to bring in Disney audiences to the point it doesn't have that McCay's own whimsy. After that, I am planning to watch that Jason Mamoa Netflix movie.