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These Behind the Scenes for VIP are a delight but they also highlight (in a good way) how important the editing at Dropout is--and they do such a good job with it. They excise a lot of the corpsing to make the final product tight, funny, and professional. They're clearly some of the best at what they do--shooting and producing improv comedy. There's so much funny poo poo that was left on the cutting room floor that I'm sure there was quite a bit that JUST DIDN'T WORK in each interview, which goes to show how well they must have budgeted their time and directed the whole thing. I really appreciate the show as a whole more now.
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I do think the new york new york humping a lamppost from Nana woulda worked in the episode but there was so much gold in that ep anyways
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Smartypants is great but trying to decipher the filming schedule and picking up on who is or isn't in the room at one time keeps distracting me.
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I like smartypants but it feels a little half baked to me. Something’s missing. I feel sort of the same with thousandaires.
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Jun 8, 2024 03:14
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between this presentation and the Uber Dirty Laundry story Paul has gotta have the highest batting average on the service. like having back to back four homer games, an unrivaled performance
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You cannot convince me that Denzel's son is not a dildo e: Paul's presentation is great but Janie's quietly ignored punchline on Roberto Benigni is such an absolutely understated moment. e2: Those comments were about separate shows, just to clarify e3: Paul's Q&A is better than his presentation but also raises so, so many more questions Pleads fucked around with this message at 09:48 on Jun 8, 2024 |
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The first two didn't do much for me but Paul Robalino's presentation was the best yet. Absolutely superb both in conception and in the Q&A improv.
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That Paul presentation was so good, very smart and funny and imaginative in the dumbest way. I was in tears laughing at the conversation during/after it. Some of the cast seemed visibly uncomfortable during the bird presentation. It started off fine but then he kept throwing in weird gender/sexuality stereotyping that was clearly not impressing them. The VIP bonus stuff was fun. I think my favourites were Izzy, Brennan, and especially Lisa. Hope they make more of that.
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run on sentience posted:That Paul presentation was so good, very smart and funny and imaginative in the dumbest way. I was in tears laughing at the conversation during/after it. Yeah, the bird one felt like really broad straight guy comedy with a bit of absurdity sprinkled on top. I really disliked it for the same reasons, but also just not a lot of great jokes in there.
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Dungeons And Dragon Queens (3-4) This ends so loving strongly. Just multiple people getting genuinely teary eyed at the table, and several people talking about how much they enjoyed the game in ways that either make me an easier mark than I thought or with a shockingly frank level of enthusiasm. I don't tend to watch this kind of thing, and the intimacy of this kind of performance can be loving scary in the exact same way watching (and performing) in live theatre can be. The proximity is scary sometimes, in that there's something about that closeness that just straight up bypasses by cynicism in ways I find a bit shocking. Which is to say that when everyone suddenly started crying I started crying and I don't really think I was expecting that. Anyway, some of the arcs here are gorgeous. You can see Brennan really latch onto the whole fairy angle and mine ways to keep adding new elements of mythos and momentum, so I think it's unsurprising that it ends up dominating the narrative flow. From the way I've seen him talk about philosophy and storytelling I suspect the life/death parallels were just something he latched onto. But a big part about why it works is because Jujubee keeps meeting him in the middle on so much of this. I dunno if either of them expected to find that rhythm -- I certainly didn't catch it until partway through the second ep -- but it's very real creative connection, and powers a lot of drama. I also got surprisingly moved by this arc that Bob The Drag Queen's character goes through. I dunno if she really starts as particularly selfish, but there's this movement towards being generous (supported by a lot of helpful dice rolls and a smart DM) that I really loved. The hot mess party dynamics are a great, deeply fun part of this kind of thing, but I loved seeing the game allow for opportunities to roleplay empathy, curiosity and generosity. Watching BTDQ start to realise that there are other ways to play and finding ways to bring it back to her character and her arc, while taking the setting seriously. I usually only see that kind of thing mocked (Britta in the DnD episode of Community) but it's how I've always wanted to play the game. Some real squad goals for when I get back into it. Also Brennan is so generous here. Just fully letting his players break so many rules because frankly who gives a loving poo poo. At this level it's not a better game for being strict. It's interesting what he will and won't break -- he's really unrigorous about movement -- and I dunno if that's just personal bias on his part or if his far greater familiarity with the game means that he innately understands which crossed lines would completely break the game if he set a precedent by breaking them. Reminds me of the few times I've DM'd, and how fun it just is to say "gently caress it" and let people do whatever. I haven't played in any capacity for a very very long time, but I remember this being something I was more comfortable with early on, and as I got into more grog-y groups it was something that fell away. Not for the best. It's really nice, watching this show, and getting some perspective on just how toxic some of the creative environments I've been in have been. Even though this is a space that's mediated by money and contracts and cameras and such, it's still nice to get a different perspective on what collaborative storytelling could be like. Android Blues posted:Yeah, the bird one felt like really broad straight guy comedy with a bit of absurdity sprinkled on top. Yeah, I don't remember who it was, but I appreciated that the post talk discussion sort of got at the bird talk for being a little gender essentialist.
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Hank Green(aka The Fix) has a new YouTube show where he talks to people about their college/learning experiences and the debut episode guest is Brennan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F572OcpTcKY
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Mob posted:Hank Green(aka The Fix) has a new YouTube show where he talks to people about their college/learning experiences and the debut episode guest is Brennan This interview broke me in several different ways. Found myself, like, short of breath a few times hearing him put into words feelings I had had that I had either forgotten or have never been able to vocalize. Trevor Hale fucked around with this message at 02:06 on Jun 9, 2024 |
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Mob posted:Hank Green(aka The Fix) has a new YouTube show where he talks to people about their college/learning experiences and the debut episode guest is Brennan This interview threw into sharp relief how little I advocated for myself as a kid. Forget that story about letting eight people enter a donut shop before him, it sounds like he did a really good job of asserting the viability of his nontraditional path.
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Open Source Idiom posted:… several people talking about how much they enjoyed the game in ways that either make me an easier mark than I thought or with a shockingly frank level of enthusiasm. I don't tend to watch this kind of thing, and the intimacy of this kind of performance can be loving scary in the exact same way watching (and performing) in live theatre can be. The proximity is scary sometimes, in that there's something about that closeness that just straight up bypasses by cynicism in ways I find a bit shocking. Which is to say that when everyone suddenly started crying I started crying and I don't really think I was expecting that. The ttrpg space is still trying to figure out whether “bleed” (uncontrolled flow of emotions/personality from character to player and player to character) can be good or bad. If I’m recall, actors have similar issues, and bleed tolerance varies from person to person. If someone isn’t expecting it, sometimes the emotions are upsetting or overwhelming. Some games have flirted with causing bleed intentionally, but usually those ones have been more experimental and have thought put into cooldown and “aftercare” for players at the table. Human empathy and sympathy are weird. Why is it possible to accidentally flood our bodies with good/bad chemicals by imagining feeling what a made up (or real external) entity is feeling?
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Cheston posted:This interview threw into sharp relief how little I advocated for myself as a kid. Forget that story about letting eight people enter a donut shop before him, it sounds like he did a really good job of asserting the viability of his nontraditional path. On the inverse of this I understand better now how I kept getting labeled as an instigator for the crime of asking questions
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRK_gNfFdP0 Great interview with Sam about the business of Dropping.
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Goth Katie looks like Robert Smith in the best way possible
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the first segment of this thousandaires episode is one of the best things they've ever done
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eke out posted:the first segment of this thousandaires episode is one of the best things they've ever done I am laughing my rear end off at their genuine joy
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This Thousandaires episode is miles away better than the first.
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If I hadn't realized I was Bisexual 20 years ago from the double punch of David Bowie and Annie Lennox Sam's drag version woulda made me realize.
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I Am Fowl posted:This Thousandaires episode is miles away better than the first. It's loving incredible
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These were a more participatory and less bit-driven, I think? Also: absolutely correct winner. My god that was funny
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Trevor Hale posted:These were a more participatory and less bit-driven, I think? Hang the gently caress on PR training beat the drag show? what the gently caress
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bunnyofdoom posted:Hang the gently caress on PR training beat the drag show? what the gently caress Yeah they were all pretty great, but that threw me for a loop-de-loop.
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I think it would probably make more sense if you personally knew the target of the winning bit
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It’s also so incredibly out of left-field. The idea itself is hilarious
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0/2 for the right winner being chosen. PR thing was cute, but the actual lesson was pretty impersonal and generic. Vs. the drag show that was great and tailored to each of em' really well.
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I need a making of/behind the scenes feature on the thousandaires prize, stat.
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It is very triggering for me, personally, that the theme song for Thousandaires has been the introduction music for the podcast Decoder Ring by Willa Paskin for years now. It's claimed!
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Low key, my favorite moment was Tao's segment. Yeah, it sucked on paper but Katie unintentionally made it gold
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I need to know who made the songs for the drag bit.
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CatstropheWaitress posted:0/2 for the right winner being chosen. PR thing was cute, but the actual lesson was pretty impersonal and generic. Vs. the drag show that was great and tailored to each of em' really well. Both me and my husband felt the same
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So what's the story behind Katie needing PR lessons? Is there any truth to her taking on a larger role with the company?
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Well she is the bosses' cousin.
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I've finally watched Mentopolis. Dan Fuxx was like some sexual James K. Polk at the end, I see. A single brief term, got Elias laid, left office.
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Man, imagine working for Dropout where your job is to just do dumb bullshit all day. That was great Thousandaires episode.
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I want the full Dirty Laundry Drag Remix.
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Morrow posted:I've finally watched Mentopolis. Dan was easily the best part of Mentopolis and that's an accomplishment. I can't think of many D20 seasons that I absolutely loved each of the characters but every player in Mentopolis absolutely killed it. Almost as much as saying Stacy Fakename absolutely killed Trapp every time he did it
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Ah I see I'm another member of the 'just watched Mentopolis' club. I'm very excited for Never Stop Blowing Up, since not only is Alex back I think it's using the same system?
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