permanently exhausted

Let's do a quick survey of Brennan's episodes for the past few seasons. Season 5: Brennan is two episodes. As a Cucumber and Escape the Greenroom, while both are fairly straightforward challenges that reward doing your best at the task presented, As a Cucumber contains the infamous Rosate Spoonbill moment, and Escape the Greenroom very much falls into the "Sam Reich's Torment Nexus" category. Both involve putting Brennan in high-stress situations. Season 6: Excluding the big-cast finale of Ratfish, Brennan is in two episodes. Second Place where the game specifically discourages trying to do the best at the presented task, and Bingo, where Brennan, as part of the first layer, is presented with a game that he cannot in fact win. Yes, Brennan was a last minute replacement on Bingo, but the fact remains that in both of his episodes he was in a contest where "Do the best at the presented task" was NOT the path to victory. Season 7: If we exclude the planned finale of Outvoted, Brennan is a contestant in one normal episode this season: You-Lympics. While You-Lympics is about doing well at the given task, Brennan notes that the contestants are actually punished for having done their best on the previous rounds, so this one counts. Season 8: Matching his usual quota, Brennan has so far been in two epiosodes Kangaroo Court and Noise some Makes. While certainly twisty, both episodes center around being presented with a task, and then earning points by doing well at that task, rewarding full effort towards the presented task. In addition, the episodes are pretty tame as far as treatment of the cast goes. Oddly enough, the episode in between, Count The Rice, centers around a series of games that the contestants are required to lose before they can win, and surprise traps them in a series of stressful situations. It would have been a classic "Torment Brennan" episode were he there. Conclusion: Masterminding a conspiracy to kidnap your boss and put him through a revenge-gauntlet of difficult but merit-based challenges is a good way to get what you want.

Oat milk was discovered much more recently than you may have known. Like many now-familiar technologies, it was found by accident during the Apollo program when NASA learned what a zero-g environment does to goat milk.

i wish usb ports were several magnitudes larger and made a hefty "kerchunk" sound when you plugged stuff in

i understand why writers keep their alien worldbuilding relatively simple for story practicality reasons but its always a lil funny to me when a sci-fi series is like "this alien species is a culture of bounty hunting warriors" like damn all of them? the whole planet? a whole planet-scale society built on bounty hunting? that seems highly impractical but i'll believe it for you bestie.

The fact I had no fucking clue which euphemisms were about sex and which ones were about playing banjo