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Binary Logic: Dec 28, 2000; Fun Shoe

Vernacular posted:

Dan genuinely seems like a good dude, but lacked a ton of social awareness in those first few episodes (his wardrobe choices in the show were pretty foolish, too). However, he might just be the kind of guy who mellows out after a week or two when he gets used to the swing of things.

Having said that, he's EASILY the most likable person on that tribe. Mike was likable until he started going blue collar aggro on everyone. Rodney seems just like a pretty dislikable guy all around. The women haven't had much of an edit so far, but what we've seen from them is less than impressive.

A good dude by definition has social awareness. A good dude would not yell at women for trying to build a shelter and then sulk when they call him on his bad behaviour.
When was Mike likeable? When he acted like Jethro Bodine's idiot brother and ate a scorpion on the first day?!

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Binary Logic: Dec 28, 2000; Fun Shoe

Fast Luck posted:

Rob Cesternino works pretty hard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcxnjScLYzM

Thanks for posting this. He can't stop talking Survivor, and has the technical skills to produce entertaining podcasts.It's been great seeing him develop from a guy talking in his apartment to the Rob Has A Planet media empire, with his group of contributors covering reality shows + scripted series.
Could probably drop the Seinfeld rewatch, it's not like describing each episode from that series is time-sensitive and needs to be done right now.

He might have expertise in video and online broadcasting, but this is not the right way to put up acoustic tiles:

But I'm sure the new studio was set up just enough to get going, and will be improved as he settles in.

Binary Logic fucked around with this message at 12:13 on Mar 9, 2015

# ? Mar 9, 2015 12:08

Lone Goat: Apr 16, 2003; When life gives you lemons, suplex those lemons.

I raw dog it in jeans every day, it's actually fine.

I'm not a big fat fatty, so it might by different for me.

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Anonymous Zebra: Oct 21, 2005; Blending in like it ain't no thang

Yau-man flat out said that their outfits are picked out for them so that every player has a distinctive color combination and so that starting tribes are color coordinated. Do you really think that people show up on the island in a suit and tie intentionally? Some producer decided that Dan was going to wear jeans, and he was basically hosed on that front from then on.

# ? Mar 9, 2015 12:44

SLICK GOKU BABY: Jun 12, 2001; Hey Hey Let's Go! 喧嘩する
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Vernacular posted:

Dan genuinely seems like a good dude, but lacked a ton of social awareness in those first few episodes (his wardrobe choices in the show were pretty foolish, too). However, he might just be the kind of guy who mellows out after a week or two when he gets used to the swing of things.

Having said that, he's EASILY the most likable person on that tribe. Mike was likable until he started going blue collar aggro on everyone. Rodney seems just like a pretty dislikable guy all around. The women haven't had much of an edit so far, but what we've seen from them is less than impressive.

The problem with Dan is he's a mailman... which means he works by himself most of the time. Thus he is clearly lacking the social awareness that others would have.

# ? Mar 9, 2015 14:15

oneof27: May 27, 2007; DSMtalker

I also think Dan is a superfan. I can imagine he has spent countless hours driving his mail truck visually every aspect of his winning gameplay. and now he arrives on the island and his dream is not a reality.

# ? Mar 9, 2015 14:56

Nihonniboku: Aug 11, 2004; YOU CAN FLY!!!

Lone Goat posted:

I raw dog it in jeans every day, it's actually fine.

I'm not a big fat fatty, so it might by different for me.

He's also in the heat on a beach.

# ? Mar 9, 2015 15:18

oneof27: May 27, 2007; DSMtalker

-with constantly wet pants. a perfect storm of crotch rot.

# ? Mar 9, 2015 15:32

Binary Logic: Dec 28, 2000; Fun Shoe

SLICK GOKU BABY posted:

The problem with Dan is he's a mailman... which means he works by himself most of the time. Thus he is clearly lacking the social awareness that others would have.

Dan is a post office equipment technician.

# ? Mar 9, 2015 16:21

Lone Goat: Apr 16, 2003; When life gives you lemons, suplex those lemons.

Nihonniboku posted:

He's also in the heat on a beach.

We have summer here, too.

# ? Mar 9, 2015 18:32

BGrifter: Mar 16, 2007; Winner of Something Awful PS5 thread's Posting Excellence Award June 2022

Congratulations!

I don't like the guy myself, but wet denim is pretty uncomfortable and would cause some ridiculous chafing after a few days.

# ? Mar 9, 2015 19:12

derp: Jan 21, 2010; when i get up all i want to do is go to bed again; Lipstick Apathy

I remember reading this article about how people can detect within five or so minutes of interaction whether the person they are talking to is missing a certain social gene. I remember reading that paper and thinking 'huh, i bet i know some of those people'. People who just seem not to fit in and you can't say why. They may say and do the right things in the right situation even, but when they do it it seems wrong or forced. I thought of that article after seeing Dan.

Also I did some googling and couldn't find the article so if anyone knows what I'm talking about help me out please thansk.

# ? Mar 9, 2015 21:18

cock hero flux: Apr 17, 2011

uranus posted:

I remember reading this article about how people can detect within five or so minutes of interaction whether the person they are talking to is missing a certain social gene. I remember reading that paper and thinking 'huh, i bet i know some of those people'. People who just seem not to fit in and you can't say why. They may say and do the right things in the right situation even, but when they do it it seems wrong or forced. I thought of that article after seeing Dan.

Also I did some googling and couldn't find the article so if anyone knows what I'm talking about help me out please thansk.

Are you thinking of Williams Syndrome? Basically a small genetic defect that makes the person very talkative and outgoing but also makes it very difficult for them to read other people's emotions leading to them irritating the poo poo out of everyone.

# ? Mar 9, 2015 22:47

derp: Jan 21, 2010; when i get up all i want to do is go to bed again; Lipstick Apathy

I don't think so. what im thinking of was not a disability of any kind. you know i'm probably thinking of a cracked article or something that was complete bs.

# ? Mar 9, 2015 23:41

Looten Plunder: Jul 11, 2006; Grimey Drawer

BGrifter posted:

Finally got a chance to catch up on the first couple episodes. Pretty bland unoffensive episodes so far, nothing too awful, nothing particularly great.

Binary Logic posted:

Are we even watching the same show?!

# ? Mar 10, 2015 01:09

TMMadman: Sep 9, 2003; by Fluffdaddy

Anonymous Zebra posted:

Yau-man flat out said that their outfits are picked out for them so that every player has a distinctive color combination and so that starting tribes are color coordinated. Do you really think that people show up on the island in a suit and tie intentionally? Some producer decided that Dan was going to wear jeans, and he was basically hosed on that front from then on.

So does that mean that some producer decided to put Dan in a mankini? :v:

But seriously, I have to imagine that the only reason he decided to wear that type of underwear is to be remembered for wearing that type of underwear. I don't think it would be a comfortable pair of underwear for that body type. The only type of underwear I would wear on Survivor are some kind of microfiber mid length boxer briefs.

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Robnoxious: Feb 17, 2004

TMMadman posted:

The only type of underwear I would wear on Survivor are some kind of microfiber mid length boxer briefs.

While I'm with you on the boxers 100%, we would both be too much in our comfort zone, so our luxury undies would be tighty whities with some strange brown paint we did not apply to represent skid marks on camera.

# ? Mar 10, 2015 08:10

STAC Goat: Mar 12, 2008; Watching you sleep.

Butt first, let's
check the feeds.

Stephen and Rob talked about it a little but on a recent RHAP and the impression I got from them was that the producers pick out your outfit but you provide the outfits. So basically if you don't want to wear a thong don't pack a thong. If you don't want to wear some impractical dress that doesn't allow you to wear a bra then don't pack it. Pack smart because the producers are going to try and screw you if it makes for good TV. But they're using your clothes so much like the way people say "the edit can only use the footage you give them" the produces can only give you the impractical and embarrassing outfits you give them.

So like Stephen and Rob basically said "don't pack jeans because the producers will pick them out and you'll be stuck with them."

Also I'm listening to the Vince interview on RHAP and the only thing I can make out from his rambling about how his edit was unfair is that his edit was 100% fair. Dude sounds nutty as hell.

# ? Mar 10, 2015 16:07

Nystral: Feb 6, 2002; Every man likes a pretty girl with him at a skeleton dance.

STAC Goat posted:

So like Stephen and Rob basically said "don't pack jeans because the producers will pick them out and you'll be stuck with them."

Alex from the haves vs have nots season had at the stupid green tank top. He DIDN'T pack it, production went out and bought it for him according to Yau Man when he posted here years ago. Apparently he hated it too.

# ? Mar 11, 2015 20:58

SalTheBard: Jan 26, 2005; I forgot to post my food for USPOL Thanksgiving but that's okay too!; Fallen Rib

Nystral posted:

Alex from the haves vs have nots season had at the stupid green tank top. He DIDN'T pack it, production went out and bought it for him according to Yau Man when he posted here years ago. Apparently he hated it too.

Yau Man also said he kept trying to "lose" it in the water but that it would always end up washing up back on the beach. That was probably my favorite anecdote that he told us.

# ? Mar 11, 2015 22:32

pokeyman: Nov 26, 2006; That elephant ate my entire platoon.

Is there an archived thread or other collection of these posts? I'm a more recent fan.

# ? Mar 11, 2015 23:13

SalTheBard: Jan 26, 2005; I forgot to post my food for USPOL Thanksgiving but that's okay too!; Fallen Rib

pokeyman posted:

Is there an archived thread or other collection of these posts? I'm a more recent fan.

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2475395&perpage=40&pagenumber=20#post327803323

Don't take this as bragging, but I was the one who got him his account. I think I found his work email address and sent him an email not thinking he would ever respond. Not only did he respond but we struck up a semi regular correspondence with each other. He actually sent me an autographed picture via mail which I thought was really cool. Unfortunately over time I lost it

He is a really cool person and I'm glad he took a few minutes every Friday to email me back.

SalTheBard fucked around with this message at 23:29 on Mar 11, 2015

# ? Mar 11, 2015 23:20

DaisyDanger: Feb 19, 2007; Sorry, a system error occurred.

That's really awesome. Definitely worth reading, everyone! Thanks for the link.

# ? Mar 11, 2015 23:46

SalTheBard: Jan 26, 2005; I forgot to post my food for USPOL Thanksgiving but that's okay too!; Fallen Rib

DaisyDanger posted:

That's really awesome. Definitely worth reading, everyone! Thanks for the link.

I wish I had archived those emails, but I was using my Air Force email address and couldn't. I found a few between us from my Gmail but it was all post Fiji and was mostly like "Hey that was awesome when you tackled Jonny Faireplay!"

# ? Mar 11, 2015 23:55