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I just saw the DC live show. They definitely need to amend "You have to ask a question" to the rules, but the boys rolled with the long stories very well. They also came out while we were all waiting to get in and at least high fived everyone. Griffin took the time to take pictures with almost everyone who asked too. I refuse to believe that these guys are not legit good people.
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Deeters posted:I just saw the DC live show. They definitely need to amend "You have to ask a question" to the rules, but the boys rolled with the long stories very well. At the very least, they need to point out that no matter how funny your story might be (and it's not) the name of the podcast refers to only three brothers so you're still not going to get invited to tour as 4th Brother Sadbrains.
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Sep 10, 2017 03:20
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New Butt Order posted:At the very least, they need to point out that no matter how funny your story might be (and it's not) the name of the podcast refers to only three brothers so you're still not going to get invited to tour as 4th Brother Sadbrains. I don't think you understand - I can't solve VERY basic social situations, they need me on the show
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Sep 10, 2017 03:22
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Someone tried to sneak a bummer into the liveshow and I was always wondering how they handled those The answer is: in a very wholesome manner
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Sep 10, 2017 03:46
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YggiDee posted:I'm curious if Oh No Ross and Carrie is any good. The only one I listened to was the one about products that make your dick/boobs bigger, and they managed to make it boring.
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Sep 10, 2017 03:59
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ImPureAwesome posted:I learned of the mcelroys through the giant bomb e3 streams through the Sherlock Holmes saga. That was Justin!? Apparently I was a fan of a McElroy 3 years before I was a fan.
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Sudden Loud Noise posted:That was Justin!? Apparently I was a fan of a McElroy 3 years before I was a fan. I found about them through this year's E3 where the two of them were laughing nonstop about Sea of Thieves. edit: Also the Sherlock Holmes thing is one of my favourite things ever.
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Sep 10, 2017 04:28
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My first McElroy-ish encounter was when Justin submitted a story for a Breaking Madden character. I re-read them a few days ago and realized it was him!
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Pastrymancy posted:Someone tried to sneak a bummer into the liveshow and I was always wondering how they handled those I enjoyed that and basically calling out the toilet paper girl about being bad at talking to people
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Sep 10, 2017 05:17
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My first encounter with McElroy content was Joystiq and their old Game Awards drink-alongs, though I didn't realize that was them until this thread The second time was with the Bart monster factory, and that was probably the hardest I'd laughed in years
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Earlier in the thread someone was asking which bro was having a new kid. I just listened to the Sawbones about tickling and Syd let it slip that she was trying to find maternity clothes. The awkward pause that followed it kinda confirmed that she realized she accidentally said it, but they left it in, so they must not care too much if people figure it out.
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Sep 10, 2017 06:30
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YggiDee posted:Is there another thread for the other Max Fun podcasts or am I allowed to bring them up here? I'm curious if Oh No Ross and Carrie is any good. It's a pretty good show, and it's gotten a lot better over the last year. The UFO conferences that they went to should be a good place to start then just pick topics that sound interesting or try out their Scientology series. There's maybe 2 inside jokes, so you're fine going in any order. It is more about the experience than comedy though. The humor comes from bad psychics, quark doctors and stories about Trump's plan to disclose all the secret alien portals in a hot new documentary. If you're not interested in the topic they're covering it's safe to skip it, usually. Also you can usually skip the interviews they do. I think the only worthwhile ones were the ex-Scientologist and ex-Mormon.
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Sep 10, 2017 06:44
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Really good TAZ animation, contains major spoilers for the Wonderland arc: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=77LZJCb26Mw
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Sep 10, 2017 11:27
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I think I first heard of them from Jim Stearling's Podcast. It was my first summer working as a mail carrier. Still a CCA and still working the worst route in our office. It was made up of parts of other routes that were carved off because the carriers for those routes didn't want to do them. I was pretty much just starting to get really into podcasts and was taking what ever suggestions I could get. At this point the MBMBaM was still a "I'f i'm bored i'll listen to it" Podcast. THis was the bit that made me a fan for life.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJoR1ySRrZ4
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Sep 10, 2017 12:21
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I have a weird, vague memory that also reminds me of a similar situation involving Breaking Bad. Was there any sort of recent (past year or so) controversy involving Griffin, where people really didn't like him over something game-related? I ask because before I became a fan, I sort of remember hearing his name with regards to something bad, but that might've been someone with no sense of humour complaining. I haven't been able to find anything, though. The reason this reminds me of Breaking Bad is because, before I got into that show (which was between seasons 3 and 4), I could have have sworn I had heard a ton of negative things about it. And I don't mean regular goon compliants (goons love and hate everything, of course), I'm talking about the general public making GBS threads on it. Of course, I can't find anything about that now, either. Sure, some people didn't like it, that's expected. Basically, I'm really weird and bad with that whole transition of "What's this thing about?" to "I need to experience everything about this thing now". Understandable, once I'm into something, my ability to notice and remember related things (like news about the thing) improves greatly. Before that, maybe I conflate it all with something similar.
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Sep 10, 2017 12:28
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Jim the Nickel posted:Earlier in the thread someone was asking which bro was having a new kid. I just listened to the Sawbones about tickling and Syd let it slip that she was trying to find maternity clothes. The awkward pause that followed it kinda confirmed that she realized she accidentally said it, but they left it in, so they must not care too much if people figure it out. Very happy for them, but Justin has been the most ambivalent of the three about how much access fans have to his personal life. Even if the references stay in, these inadvertent slips are probably causing him some stress.
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:I have a weird, vague memory that also reminds me of a similar situation involving Breaking Bad. His nuzlocke run revealed him to be bad at pokemon
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Sep 10, 2017 15:44
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Beef Jerky Robot posted:His nuzlocke run revealed him to be bad at pokemon Lol is that really a takeaway people had? He purposely kept himself from being overlevelled in every area to make a more entertaining product by keeping the stakes high, and somebody took that as him not knowing how to play? Wonderful. Personally I never imagined enjoying a Pokemon playthrough but the fact that he had constant crises about his dudes dying off made it fun.
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Sep 10, 2017 15:50
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I thought it maybe referred to the accusations that the Assassin's Creed 2 remake comparison video wasn't a fair assessment?
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Sep 10, 2017 15:56
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Judge Schnoopy posted:Lol is that really a takeaway people had? He purposely kept himself from being overlevelled in every area to make a more entertaining product by keeping the stakes high, and somebody took that as him not knowing how to play? There were people flipping out that he didn't know all these dumb little tricks that frankly the game doesn't actually indicate to you- like spending time grinding out cakes and pets in pokemon amie might give your dudes a chance to survive when they hit 0hp, a certain move he should have taught to certain pokemon, basically gamefaq poo poo like that- but frankly gently caress it, it was a really fun video series and that's all that matters.
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Sep 10, 2017 15:58
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Kojiro posted:There were people flipping out that he didn't know all these dumb little tricks that frankly the game doesn't actually indicate to you- like spending time grinding out cakes and pets in pokemon amie might give your dudes a chance to survive when they hit 0hp, a certain move he should have taught to certain pokemon, basically gamefaq poo poo like that- but frankly gently caress it, it was a really fun video series and that's all that matters. Any web series that has grinding in it is just a waste of everyone's time.
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Sep 10, 2017 16:55
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Kojiro posted:There were people flipping out that he didn't know all these dumb little tricks that frankly the game doesn't actually indicate to you- like spending time grinding out cakes and pets in pokemon amie might give your dudes a chance to survive when they hit 0hp This one the game explicitly tells you with nnpcs in a few towns. They really tried to push Amie super hard.
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Sep 10, 2017 16:55
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Sep 10, 2017 17:53
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Wonderland - Round Three, the theme of the climactic battle of The Suffering Game.
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:I have a weird, vague memory that also reminds me of a similar situation involving Breaking Bad. Aside from the nuzlocke run showing Griffin not being good at pokemon, the only Angry At McElroys About Video Games thing I remember was that people got really mad at Justin for his Nier review a few years back?
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Sep 10, 2017 18:06
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I still don't understand why people care about reviews for games they have already bought and enjoy.
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Sep 10, 2017 18:38
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inferis posted:I still don't understand why people care about reviews for games they have already bought and enjoy. skub.jpg
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ZenMasterBullshit posted:This one the game explicitly tells you with nnpcs in a few towns. They really tried to push Amie super hard. I guess, but he wasn't talking to every single NPC, and ultimately it was an entertainment series rather than a walkthrough? I dunno, it's really hard to care how good he is at Pokemon since either way it was enjoyable viewing. Rewatched it the other day and I was still extremely sad about Ms B. A hundred talons, a thousand eyes, rest in peace.
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Sep 10, 2017 18:51
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inferis posted:I still don't understand why people care about reviews for games they have already bought and enjoy. People in niche fandoms attach way too much of their sense of self to the things they like. Any person in a position of 'authority' like a professional reviewer liking what they like reaffirms them as people and proves them right to like the thing. But any reviewer who dislikes a thing they like is personally attacking them and disparaging them as a person for liking a 'bad' thing. The internet isn't good for people's mental health.
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Sep 10, 2017 18:52
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Poor Miserable Gurgi posted:People in niche fandoms attach way too much of their sense of self to the things they like. Any person in a position of 'authority' like a professional reviewer liking what they like reaffirms them as people and proves them right to like the thing. But any reviewer who dislikes a thing they like is personally attacking them and disparaging them as a person for liking a 'bad' thing. I mean also there's the thing about how the average consumer puts a depressing amount of weight behind review scores and meta critic data and because of that gems with less than AAA presentation or sensibilities tend to get hammered on both ends since most game reviewers are just churning out reviews and might not have time or the inclination to sit and digest a game like Nier. For example: Jim Sterlings hilariously dumb Vanquish review or that great IGN 3.0 Godhand review.
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Sep 10, 2017 19:00
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ZenMasterBullshit posted:I mean also there's the thing about how the average consumer puts a depressing amount of weight behind review scores and meta critic data and because of that gems with less than AAA presentation or sensibilities tend to get hammered on both ends since most game reviewers are just churning out reviews and might not have time or the inclination to sit and digest a game like Nier. True, but I was responding more to the question of why people even look at reviews for things they already own/have experienced. The state of media reviews online is loving weird, and the people who care the most about them don't seem to understand how they're supposed to function.
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Poor Miserable Gurgi posted:True, but I was responding more to the question of why people even look at reviews for things they already own/have experienced. The state of media reviews online is loving weird, and the people who care the most about them don't seem to understand how they're supposed to function.
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My first McElroy podcast was MBMBAM. Two folks I knew on Twitter who were dating bought a jumbotron message and were all lovey-dovey about it (they broke up a couple months later). I was like "okay they're always talking about this dumb thing I might as well listen to it." This was maybe... I'm not sure exactly when. Several years ago. Not that long after Spaghettageddon, as that was one of the first ones I listened to. After that I just sort of went with whatever they ended up doing.
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Sep 10, 2017 22:04
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dang that high school taz adventure was good and cool
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Judge Schnoopy posted:Lol is that really a takeaway people had? He purposely kept himself from being overlevelled in every area to make a more entertaining product by keeping the stakes high, and somebody took that as him not knowing how to play? I was kidding friend E: haha I didn't realize there was any actual backlash wow
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Beef Jerky Robot posted:I was kidding friend Some of it came from inside the thread. People were scoffing at Griffin for not maxing all his IVs or whatever and not treating the run like he was playing on a professional tournament level. Some people get very worked up watching someone be only okay at a video game.
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Poor Miserable Gurgi posted:Some of it came from inside the thread. People were scoffing at Griffin for not maxing all his IVs or whatever and not treating the run like he was playing on a professional tournament level. Some people get very worked up watching someone be only okay at a video game. no one was doing that here. there was probably an unreasonable level of emotional investment from people watching the series, but i think the worst it ever got was when he got Filbert killed in a very obvious way. If I remember correctly, someone said that he took a hit equivalent to five hyper beams.
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minmaxing pokemon games is the most tedious poo poo, i have no idea why anybody expects people to do it.
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I think it's less that Griffin wasn't min/maxing and more that he was forgetting basic type matchups
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kidcoelacanth posted:I think it's less that Griffin wasn't min/maxing and more that he was forgetting basic type matchups the introduction of fairy totally hosed up my matchup knowledge and i have never recovered. i have no idea what matchups he was having issues with though, it's been too long since i watched it.
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