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I just realized the thread title change and it should be Buzz's Atrial Clobbering.
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swickles posted:I just realized the thread title change and it should be Buzz's Atrial Clobbering. Aortal is also a word... they refer to different parts of the heart.
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Mar 24, 2014 02:07
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thexerox123 posted:Aortal is also a word... they refer to different parts of the heart. The aorta is one of the great vessels, the largest artery leaving the heart, and technically not part of the heart proper. The atria are actually a part of the heart and in the case of a heart punch, the left atrium would take the brunt of it (along woth the left ventricle) due to the orientation of the heart.
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Mar 24, 2014 02:15
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I reckon more people immediately understand what aortal is referring to than atrial.
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Mar 24, 2014 02:18
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Angry Walrus posted:I reckon more people immediately understand what aortal is referring to than atrial. And that's what Community's all about.
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Mar 24, 2014 02:22
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Dan Harmon and his friends do that DnD podcast thing, Last year i was asked to develop characters for a possible animated series about that. They never did anything with my designs, but I thought you guys would appreciate them. Its Dan, Erin, a guy from workaholics and Jeff Davis.
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Mar 24, 2014 02:32
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D&D is a bad and boring game, the only role-playing game that looks any fun at all is the fake "True American" game from New Girl that is a mix of American trivia plus the floor is lava thing from this season of Community plus excessive beer drinking.
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Mar 24, 2014 02:56
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Typical posted:
That is super tight butthole!
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Mar 24, 2014 03:05
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1st AD posted:D&D is a bad and boring game, the only role-playing game that looks any fun at all is the fake "True American" game from New Girl that is a mix of American trivia plus the floor is lava thing from this season of Community plus excessive beer drinking. True American isn't really a role-playing game anyway.
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Mar 24, 2014 03:26
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I rather play Pile of Bullets.
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Mar 24, 2014 03:26
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Error 404 posted:Uh... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVCtkzIXYzQ
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Mar 24, 2014 04:42
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I enjoy Dungeons and Dragons, these days, although I could never take it seriously when I was younger. Now I realize you don't have to take it THAT seriously to do it (although it helps to have a great DM who let's you roll your own dice and is very adaptive to player decisions), but just more seriously than "and then I fart!"
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Mar 24, 2014 05:03
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D&D is as fun as the DM and players make it. This varies. This episode was good but it seemed to really fly by. I do think I'll use the "you'd better think to not use fire on this old bridge" trap in my next D&D session this week.
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Mar 24, 2014 12:47
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superjew posted:D&D is as fun as the DM and players make it. This varies. Exactly. If you have a good DM and some fun people to play with, D&D can be a blast. A decent campaign helps too. If I still had the free time I used to, I'd probably still play. I need to rewatch this episode. I wasn't feeling it like the original D&D episode, but I was also trying to do some work at the same time so I may have not been paying enough attention.
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Mar 24, 2014 14:00
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I loved the first D&D episode and this one just felt like an unnecessary rehash. The emotional stakes felt a lot more high-stakes in the first D&D episode. They were literally trying to keep a kid from committing suicide. It really mattered that Pierce was loving with the game, because Neal's emotional stability and maybe, life was at stake. In this episode, who cares about Hickey's run-of-the-mill family drama? In addition, the "in-game" gags were mostly just second-rate rehashes of the first episode, and the D&D in-jokes (if they matter, which they don't) were way worse. Nothing beats Pierce cheating by reading the sourcebook, I'm sure that came directly from Harmon's experience with the game. In this episode we got... ragging on Hobgoblins? Yeah, you tell them Jeff. Everything the Dean did was funny, although I wish they would have just left the "I rub the hilt while you rub the blade" joke alone instead of running it into the ground. gently caress it, I'm watching the original episode tonight.
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Mar 24, 2014 17:14
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My only issue with the episode (as well as the Meowmeowbeans and ACB episodes) is how abruptly they end. It felt like they needed just a little more time to wrap the episode up. I really hope they release "extended episodes" for the DVDs.
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Mar 24, 2014 17:20
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superjew posted:D&D is as fun as the DM and players make it. This varies. Please make Crouton the name of an NPC. I've been in RPG campaigns that were a blast, because the Game Master (we were playing Shadowrun at the time) allowed for the players to be as surreal and silly as they wanted to be. Hence, I played Govan, the Ninja Librarian. I've also had Game Masters take it so seriously that he treated it like a method acting course. Which made it extremely dull extremely quickly.
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Mar 24, 2014 19:35
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Watched the finale. It pretty much encapsulated season 4 in that it was fine. Not bad, not great, but fine. There were some decent jokes, and the core story about Jeff being afraid of both becoming a better person and of reverting to his old self made sense to me. Bringing back paintball was dumb, but I thought the Darkest Timeline worked as a metaphor for Jeff's concerns so as long as they never bring it up again, I'm cool with it. Also I liked Jeff's graduation speech. Ultimately I feel kind of conflicted about season 5, or at least the Repilot, now that I've seen that season 4 wasn't nearly as bad as I was led to believe. I remember hearing once that the original plan was that the show would continue beyond graduation, and we'd get to see the characters out in the world, I think would have been interesting (though admittedly potentially disastrous) and considering the optimistic note season 4 left on, the Repilot seems kind of cynical and almost spiteful to its predecessor by sticking everyone back in the school and telling them all that they failed life and need to start over. Anyway, the rest of season five is great and they hardly spend any time at the school anyway, so there's not much to complain about, but I just kind of like the Repilot less now. SwimmingSpider fucked around with this message at 19:33 on Mar 25, 2014 |
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Mar 25, 2014 19:28
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I feel like half the people in this thread watched a different season 4 than I did, because I found most of the episodes so painful to watch that I spent most of the air nights after the show drinking heavily to try to remove the plots from my brain. That's not an exaggeration, and I don't want to start (or continue) a fight, mostly because I just realized, I think, why there's never going to be any reconciliation on the topic. For me, Community is the best showcase of the humor of Dan Harmon (Rick & Morty is rapidly rising, but it's really only half-Harmon), now my favorite TV comedy writer, and I suppose more broadly one of my favorite modern comic minds. His grasp of good story structure, his reflexive questioning of social mores and obligations, and his loving insane insistence on actual character development in a sitcom while still swinging for the fences conceptually all compelled me to seek out more of his stuff - Harmontown, Laser Fart, etc. etc. For those of us who know his work, Community is Dan Harmon, from each of his characters to his (as I see it) beautiful overarching theme of attempting, and often failing, to become a more complete, less selfish human being. For me, his absence could be felt palpably in every episode, and I'll go out on a limb and guess that many of those who share similar feelings as myself about S4 share a similar affinity (whether they realize it or not) for the Harmonness of the show. So, all this is to say that it's OK to be a Community fan without being a Dan Harmon fan, but I think the last several pages of mystified back-and-forth are probably the result of everyone focusing on the symptoms of their hatred or acceptance of S4, rather than the cause, which I posit boils down to either love of or ambivalence to Harmon's unique style.
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Mar 26, 2014 03:33
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Lord Of Texas posted:I loved the first D&D episode and this one just felt like an unnecessary rehash. I prefer the first D&D episode too, but simply because I think it was funnier (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons was very good though). However, while realistically, there was more at stake in the first D&D episode, it didn't really have any impact on me as a viewer because Neil was (and still basically is) a non-character (Jeff even has a line in reference to his status as a background character in Adv. D&D, while Neil is literally in the background doing something). Hickey has had more development in one season than Neil has had in all seasons combined, which is natural because he's in the main cast. I'm more invested in even very minor concerns of Hickey than I am in anything concerning a Neil tier character. Nichael fucked around with this message at 03:47 on Mar 26, 2014 |
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Mar 26, 2014 03:45
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JesusFists posted:So, all this is to say that it's OK to be a Community fan without being a Dan Harmon fan, but I think the last several pages of mystified back-and-forth are probably the result of everyone focusing on the symptoms of their hatred or acceptance of S4, rather than the cause, which I posit boils down to either love of or ambivalence to Harmon's unique style. Maybe this is just me projecting, but I also feel like you can really tell that the cast isn't having as much fun during season 4. They're just not into it in the same way, and the things that they were saying/tweeting after Dan Harmon returned sounded like sighs of relief all around.
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Mar 26, 2014 03:50
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Nichael posted:I prefer the first D&D episode too, but simply because I think it was funnier (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons was very good though). However, while realistically, there was more at stake in the first D&D episode, it didn't really have any impact on me as a viewer because Neil was (and still basically is) a non-character (Jeff even has a line in reference to his status as a background character in Adv. D&D, while Neil is literally in the background doing something). Hickey has had more development in one season than Neil has had in all seasons combined, which is natural because he's in the main cast. I'm more invested in even very minor concerns of Hickey than I am in anything concerning a Neil tier character. See, for me, I don't think it matters that Neil had been a non-character up to that point. That cold open puts us with him, emotionally. We understand immediately what's at play. Neil is going to commit suicide unless the group can intervene. Stakes don't get any higher than that. Life and death. The second episode has high stakes in as much as a child-parent relationship torn apart and attempted to be resurrected. I think where it runs in to trouble is that there already isn't a relationship there between Hickey and his son, so the negative outcome is that there will continue to not be a relationship, which is a little passive. Life and death, man. It's what it's all about.
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Mar 26, 2014 07:26
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I could never give a poo poo about the stakes of the first one because I cannot buy that playing just one game of D&D with a fat nerd is just going to magically clear up his issues and depression and make him magically not-suicidal. Whereas the second D&D episode's hook was trying to find a starting point for Hickey and his son to start reconnecting, something easier to swallow.
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Mar 26, 2014 07:43
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Angry Walrus posted:I could never give a poo poo about the stakes of the first one because I cannot buy that playing just one game of D&D with a fat nerd is just going to magically clear up his issues and depression and make him magically not-suicidal. Whereas the second D&D episode's hook was trying to find a starting point for Hickey and his son to start reconnecting, something easier to swallow. Yeah, if you think this episode was better than the first D&D episode you're loving wrong.  First was better in every way.
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Mar 26, 2014 07:45
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Frostwerks posted:Yeah, if you think this episode was better than the first D&D episode you're loving wrong. He raises a good point though. The first one was unrealistic in its end goal, while this one was plausible. I still prefer the first one, but I this one's main problem, and subsequent solution made more sense, and had more weight for the audience.
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Mar 26, 2014 09:08
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Counterpoint : the Dean playing.
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Mar 26, 2014 09:12
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Nichael posted:He raises a good point though. The first one was unrealistic in its end goal, while this one was plausible. I still prefer the first one, but I this one's main problem, and subsequent solution made more sense, and had more weight for the audience. It's strange, then, that this one's goal was completely arbitrary. In the first one they were simply trying to include an outcast in a social situation by introducing an element to make him feel safe, while in this one they arbitrarily said "if we win DND I get to go to my grandson's birthday". That the outcome of DND somehow had a direct effect in a relationship, as opposed to essentially an ice breaker, was something that immediately made me feel the setup was contrived.
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Mar 26, 2014 11:22
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Baltazar Robotnik posted:It's strange, then, that this one's goal was completely arbitrary. In the first one they were simply trying to include an outcast in a social situation by introducing an element to make him feel safe, while in this one they arbitrarily said "if we win DND I get to go to my grandson's birthday". That the outcome of DND somehow had a direct effect in a relationship, as opposed to essentially an ice breaker, was something that immediately made me feel the setup was contrived. Although that wasn't the original goal, that's just what it eventually turned into after his son hosed up everything. And at the end they seem to have forgotten about that whole bet at least at the immediate moment.
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Mar 26, 2014 11:51
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According to TV Guide talks have begun about making the movie, and "NBC and Sony insiders say they're optimistic that a final, 13-episode season is in the cards for Community" The article contains spoilers for the season 5 finale. http://www.tvguide.com/News/Community-Season-Renewal-1079686.aspx?rss=breakingnews
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Mar 26, 2014 19:03
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I am both excited that they're achieving their goal and disappointed that this show is not continuing forever.
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Mar 26, 2014 19:14
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I am dumbfounded at the idea of actually getting "six seasons and a movie". Seriously? I remember when it looked like the series might end after season 2 with Pierce leaving the study group after paintball. Community is the most up-and-down relationship I've ever had.
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Mar 26, 2014 19:23
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ladyboy pancake posted:I am both excited that they're achieving their goal and disappointed that this show is not continuing forever. I'm just glad we are getting another season. I remember hoping we'd get a third.
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Mar 26, 2014 19:24
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What about 6 Harmon seasons and a movie?
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Mar 26, 2014 19:30
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Ratjaculation posted:What about 6 Harmon seasons and a movie? Season 3 is so Harmon it counts as two.
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Mar 26, 2014 19:39
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Were they looking at doing another law and order type episode? I thought I'd read a while ago about annie having more forensic science stuff to do and just assumed that meant another L/O spoof.
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Mar 26, 2014 21:11
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Kingtheninja posted:Were they looking at doing another law and order type episode? I thought I'd read a while ago about annie having more forensic science stuff to do and just assumed that meant another L/O spoof. They kind of redid it with the ACB episode. I bet they'll mock CSI next season though.
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Mar 26, 2014 21:27
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Or maybe they'll stop rehashing tired gimmicks and come up with something new for a change.
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Mar 26, 2014 22:25
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Irish Joe posted:come up with something new for a change.
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Mar 27, 2014 01:20
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Irish Joe posted:Or maybe they'll stop rehashing tired gimmicks and come up with something new for a change. You're one to talk.
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LividLiquid posted:Seriously? You're saying Community doesn't do original things? Do? No. Did? Hell yeah. Its not a coincidence that this season feels more like Community's Greatest Hits than a fresh new start. We already had L&O 2, Paintball 4 and D&D 2. In two weeks we're getting Cartoon 3. It'd be nice to get an episode featuring stuff that wasn't done better in the first three seasons once in awhile.
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