Tales In Mushroom Village is a Chinese computer-animated TV series from 2009. It's considered partly lost media. 2009 was 15 years ago, but that was the year Pixar's Up came out, and Toy Story was 14 years old by then, so the animation can't be that bad... right? Here's a trailer (2 minutes). Two compilations have been uploaded to Youtube (A, B, both 1h40m, Chinese with terrible English subtitles) How long can you survive them? There's also a trailer for a sequel series called Tales In Mushroom Village II: Alien Visitors, which you'd be forgiven for thinking was a completely different bad CGI thing edited into the original, but its oh so all too very much real.

I won't mince words: it's baaaaad, y'all. But it can be enjoyable to watch bad things, if you're of a certain diseased frame of mind. I have had that illness for a long time; maybe some of you are sufferers too. Each of the two long videos has five episodes. Things to look/listen for in the first episode alone: Disturbing character design throughout "What a bad lucky day! You will be accused by me." Unexpected cameos by Zelda music Unnecessary transitions in a shot, to the same shot Four Chinese sentences that get translated into "Ugh..." The ice cream cone that becomes a banana in an edit The door step that's clearly too tall for any character to climb "Bad brother, compensate us..." "Mum, he must compensate us." Endless rabbit whining Rabbits here have tapering tails instead of cottontails Baby rabbits suddenly spinning around the Fox elder's head Sheriff Volcano-head "Village head, my grandpa has said the misunderstanding is the devil! Or you'll be the devil!" "I have heard that impulse is the devil." Naonao sleeps at night resting stiffly on his bed in his clothes with his baseball cap over his face "Get up everybody...! Do cleaning...!"

Whether you're a wizard looking for a dark lair or a dragon needing a place to hoard gold, sorcerers and monsters alike need the Dungeon Flippers, fantasy real estate agents Maulie and Cleaveland. It's a new cartoon by Travis Fowler, and the pilot episode, "The Ace of Wands," is on Youtube. (17 minutes)

Punch Punch Forever is (currently) a two episode cartoon parody of both fighting tournament anime and fandom subbing culture, arising from out of Newgrounds (remember them?) and made by animator speedoru. It presents itself as a lost anime series from the 90s; it also goes by at 90 miles an hour. It's in Japanese with subtitles. So far there's the pilot (8 minutes) and the second episode, My Little Slasher (12 minutes). CW: juvenile humor, cartoon violence and gore. It's very silly.

The premise: Indestructible 11 year old martial arts prodigy Gogo faces off against laughably overpowered demon opponents in a VHS kind of world, supported by her mother Mama, her half-demon sister Nono, and her pet frog Coolfrog. She fights in a tournament run by Demon Emperor Koro, who seems to have some connection with Mama. The outer premise: These episodes were "found" on videotape in a box in speedoru's dad's basement. Ostensibly taped off of Japanese television there's bits of commercials and other programming as framing material. They're subbed by "xX_geocitiesSUBCREW95_Xx" and their virtue jealously guarded by DarkGod87. It isn't for everyone. If you've watched a ton of Dragonball Z then you might really enjoy, but if your brain has never marinated in the sweaty brine of 90s Western anime fandom you might not get it. Or maybe you would anyway? It really is very silly. Please don't take it too seriously. About the links: although this is a Newgrounds presentation, they've been officially posted to Youtube as well, and that's where I've linked them. Newgrounds certainly has its problematic elements, but this bit of it is pure, at least as pure as something involving cartoony child endangerment can be.

Google demanded of jwz a Privacy Policy for their Android port of XScreensaver, which collects no user data, despite their own privacy missteps. He's crowdsourcing a list of things XScreensaver will never do that Google does, with source links.

I was going to post this in the current linkthread, but then figured, it's fine as a post as-is, so let's just throw it at the front page instead. It made a sound like splat!