rbing to add:
- Bri’s old youtube channel, PlasmaP, which has some fantastic and beautiful solo songs (my favorite is the humble knight but disclaimer is also a BOP)
- Pat and Bri’s shortish eight-episode series Brian’s First Half-Life which includes Brian doing his best to play video games and conversations about things ranging from food crimes they’d commit to Woodstock to bee guns. There’s also some bonus Smash Bros content where you can watch them come up with increasingly dumb Smash Bros loadouts (pinball, anyone?
- The E3 testing streams where you can watch Pat insult an AirBnB, Brian sprint around a pitch-black California suburban neighborhood after having Escaped His Confinement, and Tara talk about feet. This is not a joke.
ALRIGHT
we all know and love polygon’s unraveled series, but you know what else deserves attention? brian david gilbert’s original content!! ive seen people recommend different shows and things that he’s done replying to other posts but haven’t seen a masterlist of everywhere you can find his stuff, so here it is (including links!) :
HIS PERSONAL CHANNEL
a collection of mostly short surreal humor videos with a couple series thrown in for spice.
my personal favorites: how to make jorts, the series Dances Moving (only a ~25 minute series but a true gesamtkunstwerk that will punch you in the gut), and Bri and Jo’s Tryin’ Show (aka what evolved into lmam a few years later. if you look in the descriptions after episode two, you’ll find the link to the full streams!!)
LET’S MAKE A MUSIC
a wonderful series of 30-minute comedy podcasts where Brian, his sister Laura Kathryn Gilbert, and their roommate Jonah Scott take suggestions from twitter users and use them to a write a new song every week! they’re currently on a hiatus (might be coming back at some point?) but there are 41 episodes to feed the content hunger
my personal favorite episodes: Thankstaking with Mr. Dad (2), Smooth as Wax (5), and Horsecar (34). find their music here on bandcamp where you can download the songs for $1 each or $5 for an album to support them
THE ALTOGETHER
a band consisting of bdg, Jonah Scott, and Jonah’s sister Sierra. they recently leaked that they’re releasing an LP soon and ive been thinking about it for days. find their music on youtube (linked above) or spotify. im listening to them while putting together this very long post
my personal favorite songs: Follow Through, Clean Slates State, and Let’s Be Realistic. also every single other song
LESSER KNOWN POLYGON SHOWS
this is last because it’s not necessarily his own content, but content that still deserves attention
Gill & Gilbert: a variety show (sort of) about video games (vaguely) where bdg and Patrick Gill play video games with weird challenges (like having to carry each other when they climb on a colossus in Shadow of the Colossus, or piling bananas on their shoulders while playing Donkey Kong). probably my favorite thing on youtube right now
my personal favorite episodes: the two I just mentioned and cucco nugget feast, though I would recommend watching this in order. they develop a lot of running jokes that are more way fun if you’ve seen it all
Week in Revue: I think one of the first things Brian did for polygon where he rapped/sang about video game news. like most polygon shows, it evolves into a psychological horror. this one I would recommend watching in order as well
Good Cheap Games: only four episodes long but very interesting videos mostly about his thoughts on indie games. a very weird experience as he is outside in one episode, a place I didnt know he was aware of. not listing favorites because there are only four episodes, watch them all
I think that’s everything I know about but if you have anything else, please feel free to add on!
can we talk about how burger was ready to destroy the boat he bought A WEEK AGO so they could get out of the situation they were in unintentionally landing them in an even worse position?????
quarantine got me memorizing bdg’s perfect pokerap.
your local pat pic dealer comin atcha with images that give serotonin from todays stream
idk what shit-eating truscum needs to hear this, but your rhetoric directly harms people with culturally-specific genders. i’m native and two-spirit, that label describes my gender and my attraction. i use they/them pronouns and your “nonbinaries and cringey stargender trenders aren’t valid” bullshit is getting old. our languages were demonized and erased, our gender and attraction labels along with them. my experiences with dysphoria exist because of colonialist ideas of gender. we have been forced into arbitrary ‘male’ and ‘female’ categories by colonizers for centuries and truscum rhetoric perpetuates racist colonialist violence against natives.
your experiences are not universal, you’re not forwarding justice for trans people, and you’re definitely not an ally to natives or other people of color. you’re just a fucking colonizer.
me, in april: wow i can’t wait to waste my junior year indoors and get outside once quarantine ends!
may:
A transparent Gill & Gilbert for your dash!
[Image description: Six gifs of Brian David Gilbert. He is pale with short light brown hair. He is wearing ina dark green button-down and two watches (one tan and one brown). He is sitting in a park with greenery and trees in the background. In all six gifs, he speaks, points, and gestures emphatically about video games. /ID]
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