Jonathan Callan

I write and do comedy. Television. Game design. Backyard shows, etc.

Developing Video Game Narratives Course:

[Jonathan Callan @JonCallan]

The average human eats a 100 spiders every time I cook for them.

[very tall bart @TallBart]

Guinan: I know this guy. He's called The Noid. Watch yourself, Captain, or he'll ruin your pizzas

Picard: We mean you no harm. We are explorers

[robliefeld @robertliefeld]

I think he’s brilliant and fearless. Frank is in his Underground era. Enjoy it.

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@SandyofCthulhu The object work from that drama teacher is awful.

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Wonderful news!

[John Semper Jr. @johnsemper]

I'm thrilled to announce that with the upcoming Spider-Man '94 Annual #1, I will be returning to the world of Spider-Man. After 30 years, I'm finally getting to resolve the ending of my iconic animated series and tell the story of Peter finding Mary Jane. I want to thank everyone involved at Marvel for making this possible, especially my editor, Danny Khazem. I was given free rein to tell the story that I've always wanted to tell, and it has been a real blast!

[Anika @AnikaSomaia]

and the fastest way to turn on neuroplasticity is replacing “this is hard” with “what’s the first step?” you literally shift brain activity from your amygdala (fear) to your prefrontal cortex (problem-solving)

[Paul Rugg @pkrugg]

Had I known Warners did this…we would have used this every episode of Freakazoid.

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It’s amazing how many of my depressed days are like 6-7 hours of feeling miserable followed by doing ONE THING that’s good for me and INSTANTLY feeling better. It’s like, “I can’t just start this way???” And I can’t. I really can’t.

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The problem is we can no longer imagine a young man living in New York and working a job like “newspaper photographer” or “pizza delivery guy,” so we instinctively transplant him into a world we do recognize, which suggests jobs like “day trader” or “streamer with a trust fund.”

[Nick @ItsJustN1ck]

This is just the most corporate spider man iteration there is. "Broke", "rock bottom" but living in a big ass loft with high tech machinery that could feed a family of 6 for weeks. Toby was a working photographer, delivered pizzas for a living & still couldn't make rent

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Obviously the answer is Penelope. Not only would the audience riot at the idea of Kermit married to anyone else, it’s a comedic goldmine to act like Miss Piggy is trapped and menaced by the suitors, meanwhile she’s karate chopping them and throwing them across the room.

[Matt Dinan @second_sailing]

I am considering one of the most pressing questions of our era: in a Muppets Odyssey, who would Miss Piggy play? There's an argument for: the cyclops (appetite and mēnis), Circe (native empiggification), Calypso (won't let Kermie go), Penelope (loyal, vaguely spurned)

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@Dryssa4 @k3nn3h @ArtemisConsort Cool, speaking personally, that’s my takeaway? I had no idea how many studies could not even attempt reproducibility for this reason. Seems bad.

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@Dryssa4 @k3nn3h @ArtemisConsort I don’t think studies based on data not available to the public for checking is itself very good for science…

[Jonathan Callan @JonCallan]

The two kinds of cinephile.

[Deniz Camp @DenizCamp]

One of the best editors ever. Responsible for the Fraction/Aja Hawkeye and the Waid/Rivera/Martin/Samnee Daredevil, etc.

[UtterlyInteresting @UtterlyInterest]

Here is Roger Ebert's first paragraph of his review for "The Mummy" and it is why he was the greatest film critic to ever live

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All of them?

[Meesh Hell @waziot]

Was thinking yesterday about how the tutorial is unique to video games as a medium, but are there any movies that teach you how to watch them at the beginning of the movie?

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Mel Brooks turned a 100 years old today. He might make 2,000 after all.

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Economics needs to be reclassified within philosophy departments and treated with the same general disregard by respectable members of the public as if one tried to discuss Kant at the dinner table.

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@keithubermensch @rah_66_comanche Crazy that the term blue check has so totally inverted meaning.