Fortnite's Humongous Simpsons Update Raises an Awkward Question

The Besties

Leisure, Video Games

4.9 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Fortnite’s new Simpsons update reimagines the entire experience through the decades-old cartoon. You can select from Homer, Lisa, Flanders, Moe, and other playable characters, then skydive into a faithful recreation of Springfield. The detail is absurd, down to the operable trap door button in Mr. Burns’ office. It feels like the culmination of Epic Games’ efforts to be the black hole that pulls in every corner of mainstream pop culture. Fortnite has become so big and so appealing that it raises the uncomfortable question floating around the rise of similar Forever Games: are most people motivated to play anything else?

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0:00.0	I think that I hit the right note in,
0:04.0	um,
0:05.0	let it go in the shower this morning and no one was there to witness it and I don't know.
0:09.0	Oh no.
0:10.0	I think I hit it.
0:11.0	I'm like 90.
0:12.0	Are you talking about the past is in the path?
0:15.0	That one?
0:16.0	Do you harmonize with it?
0:18.0	Are you right there with Adina?
0:19.0	Are you guys cresting the wave together? I can't sing it now because I'm worried from just a rights issue. Well, that's bullshit. It would be a tonal match that AI would match it perfectly to Adina. Yeah. I think it would be okay. Actually, we, uh, Rachel has like a filter. She can apply to songs to make them not get snagged by the Algo. I think that's too close to AI and I don't trust it quite honestly. No, it's all physical, like it's, she puts it in a crank and she cranks it through it. And so you should sing. Yeah, so give me a past is in the past. Like, I've done it like three times now and it's not. I know, but it's not... I'm sick too, so like...
0:55.0	Acoustically speaking,
0:56.4	I know I set this
0:57.3	recording booth up
0:58.4	for that specific purpose,
1:00.1	but acoustically...
1:00.8	So yeah, there's post-processing for that too.
1:02.4	She can add reverb and like...
1:03.9	I know what the problem is.
1:05.7	You want to feel like you're in the shower.
1:09.7	No, I don't... Wet water.
1:12.3	Russ, honey, I'm about to flush.
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