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eke out posted:also this episode was great, everyone did their thing very well I agree, they're actually acting out their characters being serious during moments that call for it, yet it never becomes maudlin or boring, or goes too long without a joke. Very promising start.
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Justin’s realization about how thoroughly they’d beaten Griffin into submission with the Littlest Baby thing was a joy to listen to. This season has been super fun so far.
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Aug 20, 2021 23:48
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I was a bit nervous about this season after Griffin setup an obvious ship combat tutorial mission and immediately they all wanted to negotiate a peaceful resolution with the pirates. It felt like Graduation again where no one wants to be even a little bad. Instead of like Balance where they were not afraid to murder a lot of guys if the need arose. It's boring if DnD doesn't have fights! It was good to hear this week when it was very clear they wanted to find and kill the guy who betrayed them. Then I got a bad feeling again when Travis wanted to upgrade the pirates to series regulars immediately. At least Justin seemed to be against it. Zero One fucked around with this message at 01:37 on Aug 22, 2021 |
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Aug 22, 2021 01:10
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Yeah Justin really needed to create some dipshits in the city to make sure there was room in this essentially post scarcity commune. Founders Wake would be incredibly boring as a setting without that influence.
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timp posted:I loving knew he’d be a catfish, and I was just waiting for the name at that point. The recycled Fantasy Costco moniker fully took me by surprise though I just finished the episode, and this was exactly my experience. I stopped listening to Graduation pretty early. Did Travis have a character that followed this pattern, or has it only been a thing in Griffin’s campaigns?
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Aug 23, 2021 15:42
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Diabolik900 posted:I just finished the episode, and this was exactly my experience. Graduation had a double-wide store run by a cat and mouse named Tom and Jerry, also I think they only went to that store twice in the entire campaign. E: Justin saying on this week's MBMBAM that he hates the smell of flowers because he associates them with funerals is both the saddest and maybe the most psychotic thing I think I've heard on this show. C-Euro fucked around with this message at 20:58 on Aug 23, 2021 |
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Aug 23, 2021 16:03
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It has officially, finally, finally dawned on Justin that fast food companies routinely do incredibly stupid poo poo because doing incredibly stupid poo poo in hopes of it going viral (and giving you free advertising) is cheaper than traditional advertising
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Aug 23, 2021 22:22
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Froghammer posted:It has officially, finally, finally dawned on Justin that fast food companies routinely do incredibly stupid poo poo because doing incredibly stupid poo poo in hopes of it going viral (and giving you free advertising) is cheaper than traditional advertising They've talked about this countless times before.
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Aug 23, 2021 22:56
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Did he still play the ad?
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Aug 23, 2021 23:15
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ahahahahahahaha holy loving poo poo, that's a stupid callback I loving love it
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Aug 23, 2021 23:45
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Justin's Guy Fieri needs sugar water
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Aug 23, 2021 23:50
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Gotta post some live for Sawbones as its really the only McElroy content I listen to anymore (incidentally my introduction to the brand as well) The past few episodes have been pretty good and the latest on thalidomide educated me on a drug that I had heard about but had no idea what it really was or what it did. Good podcast. That said "pregnant people" will never not sound weird to me especially when referring to things that happened on the 50s and 60s. Just say women.
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Aug 24, 2021 23:24
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Previa_fun posted:Gotta post some live for Sawbones as its really the only McElroy content I listen to anymore (incidentally my introduction to the brand as well) It's an issue of consistency, and it's not like there weren't trans people before 2010.
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Aug 24, 2021 23:32
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 it just hits my ear weird idk. Like I don't hear it even in other medical contexts but I live in the south and am a dummy. I thought it was more a "mcelroys afraid of their fans" thing but maybe not
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Aug 24, 2021 23:37
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Maybe one day you'll get used to it
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Aug 24, 2021 23:50
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AzureFlame posted:Maybe one day you'll get used to it Probably
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Previa_fun posted:
Well, as a trans guy, I generally expect to be misgendered in conversations about reproductive health. I am used to people using "women" in that context because I'm used to people forgetting that we, people assigned female at birth who don't identify as women, exist and can get pregnant. (Some of us, especially trans men, do not want to ever get pregnant, but others do. These are individual things.) I'm used to people forgetting that there are women, cis and trans, who don't have uteruses/can't get pregnant. A lot of the time, I'm okay with just letting it go because I think the focus of the conversation sometimes being on cisgender women, who do make up the vast majority of people who have uteruses or carry children, is fine. But it feels a little lovely every time, because it essentially says, "having a uterus means you're a woman" and therefore either disrespects our identities or says we don't exist. So someone going out of their way to specify what they actually mean--it's irrelevant what gender someone identifies as if what we're actually talking about is biologically carrying children--means a lot. It means they recognize this problem of AFAB non-women being excluded and ignored from important conversations about our health and bodies, and have gone out of their way to address that. So while I understand the feeling that it's odd or tortured to say these things, the purpose of it is to be respectful, and it makes a big difference to people like me.
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Think of those drug commercials that are like "Do not use _______ if you are pregnant or may become pregnant". That's saying it in a completely nongendered way, and commercials have said it that way for decades, not to be woke or politically correct, but to be medically precise. Because your gender doesn't have anything to do with your ability to become pregnant, your biology does.
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Aug 25, 2021 15:45
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FYI it's worth listening to the first ad this week if you usually skip the money zone.
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Aug 25, 2021 17:40
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John Wick of Dogs posted:Think of those drug commercials that are like "Do not use _______ if you are pregnant or may become pregnant". "if you may become pregnant" has always struck me as kind of funny though, because it's like "hey, if you like to gently caress, don't use this".
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Aug 25, 2021 17:43
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I've come to call them preggy-folk.
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Aug 25, 2021 18:50
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I prefer “host vessels” tbh. The notion of gender != biology is pretty new in the social consciousness so it’s going to be weird for a while. Just do your best, it’s all that can be done.
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Aug 25, 2021 19:40
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IIRC Thalidomide’s side effects can also manifest if you impregnate someone while taking it. Pretty hosed up.
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Aug 25, 2021 19:49
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if you're confused about the subject of forum drama from this past week, mcelroy adjacent (well.. they were on it once or twice and so were Polygon people) Drawfee has you covered (animated by deepblueink who animates the MBMBAM shorts) (that's the main reason i'm posting it) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knMr_gs29o8 The 7th Guest fucked around with this message at 23:54 on Aug 25, 2021 |
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Aug 25, 2021 23:48
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Pekora was the fourth brother all along.
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Warbird posted:I prefer “host vessels” tbh. The notion of gender != biology is pretty new in the social consciousness so it’s going to be weird for a while. Just do your best, it’s all that can be done. My best friend, Ken Bone, likes to use the term Human Submarines
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Ariong posted:IIRC Thalidomide’s side effects can also manifest if you impregnate someone while taking it. Pretty hosed up.  e: people containing people. Previa_fun fucked around with this message at 02:49 on Aug 26, 2021 |
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The 7th Guest posted:if you're confused about the subject of forum drama from this past week, mcelroy adjacent (well.. they were on it once or twice and so were Polygon people) Drawfee has you covered (animated by deepblueink who animates the MBMBAM shorts) (that's the main reason i'm posting it) this was very good. i liked this a lot.
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Aug 26, 2021 03:31
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lol @ travis suggesting they use all the extra money on helping whoever that dude was and justin immediately getting extremely salty
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Aug 26, 2021 15:44
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Since this is the de facto Polygon thread I just wanted to put out a PSA that they’re streaming Chivalry 2 on twitch and it’s almost as good as classic awful squad
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Justin just wants to have fun for once, and not cultivate another fan favorite McElroy character
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Aug 27, 2021 14:28
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eke out posted:lol @ travis suggesting they use all the extra money on helping whoever that dude was and justin immediately getting extremely salty Yeah, that was a great decision. First we got exasperated Justin, then we got a great character moment (Devo and Amber explaining their different perspectives on charity), then we got a great comic payoff (Amber's Place.) Very promising!
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Aug 27, 2021 16:36
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Catching up...change my name posted:Doctor Shaq Can't wait for him to become a fan favorite.
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I remember a while back Justin was on a different podcast saying they may stop Monster Factory, was that confirmed they were gonna do it?
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Aug 27, 2021 22:30
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Good Listener posted:I remember a while back Justin was on a different podcast saying they may stop Monster Factory, was that confirmed they were gonna do it? They’re not going to make them just to make them if there aren’t any interesting character creators in games is the gist
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Aug 27, 2021 22:37
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inferis posted:They’re not going to make them just to make them if there aren’t any interesting character creators in games is the gist That makes sense to me. Even though some of their stupid experimental ones have been some of my recent faves like the wood working and the gymnastics one. Still hoping they finish CK3 too.
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Aug 27, 2021 23:16
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Jim Jonman is among their greatest creations and it's disappointing that more sports games don't have that kind of character creation. I want a series of the boys learning various sports with Ol' Jim and maybe Daz
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Aug 27, 2021 23:18
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I don't think they'll ever do another one unless something absurd comes out that they're already playing.
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Gotta be honest, i use to come here for the hot takes about graduation being not great and then eventually stopped coming cause i stopped listening then i saw ethersea and said 'sure why not' and i really like it. It's goofy when it needs to be and not so up its own rear end. It's fun and Justin is so good at being the dm.
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