Back in the day people used to have to write into magazines and call radio show hosts to talk about their encounters with the most explainable unexplainable things and it created a weird subculture where it became more and more difficult to determine whether or not the people involved were incredibly stupid or incredibly unwell.

And then the internet came along and made it even harder to tell.

r/Experiencers is a place on Reddit for people to go and share their “experiences” with the “transrational.” If your eyebrows are raised by that word, don’t you worry! It doesn’t make sense in context either. Mostly the transrational is still just about aliens and psychic bullshit. Experiences seem to largely be incidents of “sleep paralysis” or “a thing my kid told me.” So that’s all fun.

This week, Extra Credit needs to bite of 50 heads by Friday or else we’re not getting a cost-of-living increase at our APR.

So back when we read about Goodreads reading the classics, we were introduced to the 7th most popular book reviewer on the site, a one Miranda Reads.

She likes to pull her hair and make wacky faces to indicate she didn’t like something, and then she applies that same approach to the words she writes down and calls a review.

Sounds interesting and cool, right?

This week, Extra Credit hopes to get sorted into Piggledor.

TRANSFORMATION FETISHES

Yeah we did that again. This time on Reddit. You’re welcome?

Let’s have fun reading between the lines as we discover what life is like for the fine folks at r/TransformationRP. Here’s a hint, they ain’t so fine…

This week, Extra Credit is solving for f([(m4b),(F4m-F)]-futa4ne1).

Smoking is bad for you.

It makes you smell. It makes it hard for you to run marathons. It stains your teeth. It can even kill you.

And isn’t that kinda arousing?

r/darksidesmokingfetish is the subreddit for Darkside Smoking Fetish, a subfetish of the Darkside Fetish family of fetish communities. They are really into the part of smoking that makes you die young and cough up tar or whatever. Mostly though they seem to be inundated with models advertising their own sites and people writing totally true stories about their own very real addictions and maybe they have tb? Heelies would like it if they had tb.

This week, Extra Credit found the thing that makes most of its readers go “nope!”

If you ever needed more proof that user-submitted reviews were useless garbage well… Have we got an episode for you!

Yelp is filled with self-important, unworldly losers who are low-key (or high-key) racist on the regular spouting opinions that will never truly impact anyone and accomplishing little but generating a small amount of smug satisfaction as you hit the submit button and go “Heh, gottem!”

Join us as we read insufferable people describe insufferably bland experiences as terrible hellfire (4 stars) or great except for one problem (2 stars).

This week, Extra Credit is some real Twin Peaks shit.

We spent all day talking about gambling in a room at a lake house in our mind and though we started with periodicals on blackjack, we ended on a book that was full of crap.

It was also about craps. But like… Where it’s not explaining the rules of craps (which of course we don’t read because who fucking cares there’s no strategy to win at craps!), the author teaches all about something that definitely isn’t karma or The Secret or anything else mystical. It’s all about the law of averages and how you can learn how to understand them and read tables through… looking at the tables and… Guessing.

Yeah we don’t know it’s a long book full of nonsense.

This week, Extra Credit is putting all our money on Dagwood.

You know how every gambler insists they have a system and they know what they’re doing? Well those people are idiots. Ploppies! They aren’t the true geniuses that write for and read the quarterly publication Blackjack Forum.

That’s right, we’re going back to physical media yet again to find some of the most obnoxious, embarrassing, insufferable blackjack addict player experts or whatever they are. Frank, Shell, and Other Voice are primed to become card counting, chip palming, imbecilis predatoris imposteri and no pit boss is gonna stand in our way.

This week, Extra Credit is above your stupid “penetration” jokes, thank you very much.

I know that sounds harsh, but it’s the truth.

Flights of Fantasy–featured on Gaming in the Clinton Years, hosted by the NAVGTR channel, and largely presented by a one George Wood, a baffling man with a confusing “sense” of “humor”–was a cable access show about video games. What’s cable access you ask? Well, it’s a variety of reserved channel intended for individual/public use. It typically lead to shows like Flights of Fantasy being created.

Though it also created Mystery Science Theater 3000, and it’s almost guaranteed that both this show and the F Plus would not exist as they do without that, so… Take from that what you will.

Anyway, you probably encountered George Wood over on the Retsupurae youtube channel. Well now encounter him here.

This week, Extra Credit hopes one of the lovers dies.

EDIT: What a foolish description. MST3K did not start on public or cable access. Absolute fools! George Wood inspired nobody.

Tulpas are… We’ve done this before you guys come on… FINE. Tulpas are a projection of spiritual focus and meditation to attain uh… Something or other sorry, it doesn’t matter here because we’re talking about how children online create really shitty imaginary friends by doing some bullshit that someone else on the internet told them to do with varying degrees of ‘success.’

Anyway they inevitably have Japanese names and talk in 2010s meme humor.

So let’s read from the most boring looking forum we’ve ever read from!

This week, Extra Credit is putting Descartes before the horse.

Spongebob Squarepants is a subject we’ve somehow discussed heavily already on a prior episode, but what if instead of tedious debate regarding the vital statistics of this cartoon character we just moseyed on over to AO3 instead and read about his private life with Squidward?

Much like how andersd5 wrote exhaustive stories about Chris Redfield fucking an OC, sandersedge writes exhaustive stories about Spongebob and Squidward railing each other and also having tense domestic dramas play out in their lives as a committed couple.

Come with us as we find out where the mating arm goes when the sponge in question got so many holes!

This week, Extra Credit wonders when Diablo Cody is going to reboot Spongebob.

Note: We are aware of Stress’ audio issues.