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Hey folks, Isfahan from the F Plus here. I'm pretty sure Bunnybread and I are the only folks with SA accounts, though I could be wrong. Anyway, I submitted F Plus to the comedy podcast megathread awhile back in the hopes it'd at least get on some new radars. For those of you curious about the updating schedule, we're trying to keep it as steady as possible, but there are periods where we're lean and periods where we have a queue of episodes to put up. There are also recordings which fall flat, meaning the material didn't turn out to be as funny as we'd first hoped, and recordings which are just nightmares to edit. I want to say, of all our readers, only a few of us actually have the time to edit regularly, so it can be a bit of a bottleneck at times. In any case, I'm glad you folks can find something to enjoy! There are some incredibly bottomless sources of content that we have to be careful not to gorge on (Tumblr, most recently) since we try to keep the subject matter varied. We definitely have our favorites too.
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Dramatic-reading episodes are definitely my favorites. The Transformers episode, the Resident Evil/CSI scripts episode, the Kindleporn episode, and the transformation/burp-fetish fanfiction episodes are pretty much at the top of my list. Wesley Crusher: Teenage gently caress Machine was a special edit that Jimmyfranks did, and it received a bit more effort than what is put into our usual stuff because it was shorter and really needed the full audiobook treatment.
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Nov 22, 2012 18:30
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Episode 87 is up now! Go and have a listen!
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Nov 29, 2012 05:39
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Episode 88 is about expanding tits and is up for your listening horror.
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Dec 3, 2012 08:23
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Glitterbomber posted:Yea, that's one of my favorite ones too, I'll never get tired of stupid 'idea men' trying to scam people out of money. Didn't that one also have the weird dude who hated his family but sold inspirational slogans on shirts or something? Yeah, Christian, the guy whose mom is on his loving nerves (Love Notes!).
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Dec 6, 2012 07:57
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When editing, it's definitely a bummer to leave stuff on the cutting-room floor, but we've gotten much much better about it in the past year or so. We used to have raw recordings approaching two hours which editors would then have to pare down into an hour of body material at most, leaving time for stingers, bumpers, and theme-appropriate music to put it at about 70 minutes. Our recordings are much leaner now, and the stuff getting cut is usually stuff you wouldn't want to hear in a podcast anyway, like dead air, folks finding what they're supposed to be reading, long unusable tangents, reactions on visual components, etc. In the past, the extra material would usually be released as a short later on, but nowadays we've gotten good enough that nearly everything worth listening to anyway makes it into the edited episode.
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Dec 11, 2012 01:23
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^^^^^^ Screw you I was typing out a long-rear end post so I still win Episode 89 is up! Kangra posted:I don't find the public shaming or deliberately making people uncomfortable all that enjoyable. I actually didn't really care for the Pokegirl episode. Was it because of Portaxx? Portaxx really likes Pokemon, so hearing one of her favorite game series get sexualized by creepy world-building nerds was rather unpleasant for her. If we ever do a gun-nut/zombie-apocalypse/prepper episode, I'll be in the torture-porn-victim chair. quote:Many of the readings, though, are just fantastic and are my favorite part. It's great to hear it when folks get what we're trying to do. That's an important tone we do try to take with these readings. All of us involved are pretty drat Internet ourselves, and our intended audience are people with nearly equal levels of Internet acclimatization. It's not like we're sitting down in front of microphones and going "Hey, y'all heard of this furry thing? Haw haw!" Aside from being alienating, the point-and-laugh type of comedy isn't very sustainable. Sooner or later you're going to get to the cringe-worthy recesses of enough subcultures that nobody with the requisite amount of Internet exposure will be left to tolerate the podcast. We have fans from the very subcultures we've featured on the show because they're self-aware enough to acknowledge that there are idiots, creeps, and crazy people no matter where on the Internet you go. We don't care if someone gets off on being immersed in mud or holding in their pee, we really don't! The exhibits are more about the people who think nothing of sharing way more about themselves than they really should, whether that's in the form of terrible stories, accounts of stuff that nobody should feasibly believe, or simple lack of social awareness or sanity. Those are the exhibits. The truly reprehensible people that we actually dislike are usually folks making reality worse for other people in the actual non-Internet world, like RooshV and the PUAs. As a personal example, I loving love video games, but I think the Escapist is a terrible site that is up its own rear end. I think this because I've managed to keep a sense of perspective about why I enjoy video games and why hanging out on the Escapist is not appealing to me. Squint fucked around with this message at 06:45 on Dec 11, 2012 |
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Dec 11, 2012 06:26
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's just Bunnybread and me.
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Dec 11, 2012 21:03
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Ulli Haarbürste (his last name means literally "hairbrush" in German) is not a real person, no. Some of us were aware of him before the episode, as the clingfilm stories enjoyed something akin to the Web-1.0 version of viral fame. Others were not, but even after being brought up to speed on the background of the Ulli persona, everyone agreed that the material was delightful and worthy of a read. After the episode was released, some folks tripped over themselves to point out "Hey you know that guy's not real, right?" but again, we were reading the stories on their own merits. "Real" or not, the stories have a charm and genius to them that can't be faked. Consider, for example, the famous worst-fanfiction-ever: My Immortal. People have long debated on whether or not this thing is "real," but I think they're missing the point. The work is famous for reasons entirely separate from that. Two possibilities exist: Either My Immortal was written as a "real" story and shows off the degree to which modern young people can aggressively reject education, criticism, and their own impulses to feel satisfaction with the quality of their work, or My Immortal was written poorly on purpose, so masterfully balancing elements of the genuine and the absurd that, even if you believe it's fake, you could still see some teenage girl writing it "for real" and posting it in blissful ignorance. In that way, the fake story rings true, and that's a warped but nonetheless valid display of skill all its own. The story can draw notoriety from either possibility—and it has for both, which is why it's so well-known. I've read "bad" fanfiction which is obviously, obviously a self-aware writer trying to write poorly for a quick grab at e-fame. These writers think writing bad on purpose is easier than writing well, or at least that it takes less effort. That isn't exactly the case, and we can all of us smell a phony from a mile away, even if we're not entirely sure how we do it. My Immortal muddies and confuses that sense, if only a bit, and that in itself is an accomplishment. Squint fucked around with this message at 09:54 on Dec 12, 2012 |
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Dec 12, 2012 09:50
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I would have sung a marijuana-themed rendition of Carol of the Bells, but I fell through the cracks when the e-mails were sent out and didn't even know it was going on until the day before I'd be away from my recording equipment for five days. That's my excuse. A sexy submarine posted:My favourite episodes are the fanfic ones, so I'd love to listen to an fplus reading of My Immortal. A few years back, Acierocolotl read the entirety of My Immortal into our TF2 server's alltalk voice chat. He could only record his side of the audio, however, so all of the reactions and laughter and discussion which made it extra magical are unfortunately lost. 
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Dec 23, 2012 05:53
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That similarity has been mentioned to him before, so no worries, he knows. I'm pretty sure he's glad of it, too.
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Dec 28, 2012 09:18
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Calaveron posted:Say, are there any plans for an F Plus Live 3? I love the interaction you guys create with the audience, and I really need to witness Lemon's Craft Corner. I have no idea! 
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Jan 3, 2013 19:50
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Maybe some? Probably not too terribly many, since it's hard to passively show off and, like so many Internet things, plenty of people are into this just for the attention.
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Jan 5, 2013 22:11
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I think if gravity itself is telling you you're too fat to participate in something, that should be a sign that perhaps the problem is with you after all and not with, you know, everything that isn't you.
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Jan 13, 2013 17:34
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New episode up at last. I choose to interpret this as the tale of children who will eventually grow up to succeed despite their mothers.
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Jan 21, 2013 20:19
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Victor works in medicine, which is why he was specifically tapped to be in on the fatty episode and the mothering one too, since there was plenty of people being Wrong About Medicine in both. He's such a mild-mannered person, however, that he just gets sad and depressed instead of angry.
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Jan 23, 2013 05:34
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The  thing is mostly a barrier to entry to keep out the spammers and purveyors of Internet vengeance. The size of the listener base has pretty much outgrown the comments section, since they've been trying to use it for off-topic discussions and spitballing on new episode ideas rather than actually commenting on the episode and its relevant subject.
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Feb 2, 2013 22:48
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One of Maximum Fun's columnists just released a sort-of review of F Plus, though in fine DiCrescenzan tradition he sort of meanders off to name-drop 4chan and an XKCD comic strip. Still, he seems to have more or less enjoyed the recent episodes while simultaneously being a bit scared to explore our backlog. Have a look.
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Feb 11, 2013 22:38
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broken pixel posted:Say, how do you all collect guest readers? I don't know if I'm actually funny, but it'd be pretty cool to work on an episode with you guys. Adam Bozarth from Left-Handed Radio is the only really recurring guest we've had, and that's because our podcast and his went both participated in the Earwolf Challenge contest nearly two years ago. As participants, the experience sort of left a bad taste in our collective mouths, and there was a bit of commiseration there. Other readers you've heard were likely content submitters for the Race for Ridiculism contest we held last year, and the "prize" for that was coming on and reading along with us as a one-shot guest. Early on we'd bring in folks we knew outside of the podcast to guest here and there if we were short, but it looks like we've moved away from doing that as often. I guess what I'm trying to say is we don't really take guests out of the blue.
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Feb 18, 2013 12:18
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She's still around and with us! It just that she had a daughter, so she kind of has something more important going on than reading inflation porn in silly voices. On a side note, if anyone's on the fence about taking the plunge into our forums, I've compiled our own uglynoodles's series of stories about Denise into one easy-to-read digest thread, along with whatever I can archive from the golden age of Portal of Evil before Chet took it down. The money goes purely to take a small chunk out of server costs—nobody ever sees a dime of it, so don't worry that we're selling out, maaan.Please come; we're starting to get some folks who found us through word of mouth that we read the poo poo they're into and decided to stick around.  I'd like to see the ratio stay somewhat skewed to the side of somewhat socially-aware people with perspective....but I guess goons will have to do 
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Feb 19, 2013 09:51
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Emasculator posted:Is Portaxx actually a woman? I assumed Portaxx was just an unfortunate man with a really high squeaky voice like me, and if he's a woman, than I really have no idol to look up to. uhh what Portaxx is a woman.
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Feb 20, 2013 10:32
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This episode and Sissykiss actually affected me physically during the recording, and like most folks here I'm no stranger to horrible Internet poo poo.
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Mar 5, 2013 19:35
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A new episode about magic spells is up. Now you too can turn into a baby after summoning food and making that pro wrestler you hate totally lose his match due to gut pain!
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Mar 19, 2013 03:36
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I just tried downloading the latest episode again and it's not doing that for me.
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Mar 29, 2013 08:38
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omnibobb posted:Are there any episodes dealing with the comments these people have left you? That'd be wonderful. Not yet, but some of 'em... man. Anyway, there's a new episode up! It's about when people latch onto a fictional character and then strip away all of the characterization to fit their own preconceived notions. You should listen to it because I'm in it. Don't worry, it's hardly as educational as I just made it sound.
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Apr 1, 2013 05:09
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Calaveron posted:You know, for asexual people, there sure was a lot of face loving and general loving going on in those stories. A lot of these Tumblrites don't really know what being asexual actually means or entails, and the evidence is that nobody can seem to loving agree on what the term means. Some of them try to say that it means different things to different people, but all that says is that everybody's just making poo poo up about themselves, most commonly for the attention. Attention is the currency of Tumblr.
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Apr 3, 2013 19:43
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toanoradian posted:EDIT: One of the phrases on the top of the page is 'The podcast can be heated with a blanket to approxomate skin warmth'. What is the origin of this phrase? That phrase is from the RealDoll episode. Some dude discussing warming up his fuckdoll. Terrible news on the Tumblr front, folks: Watchful Entity, steadfast archivist of Tumblr asexual/otherkin/multiple/SJW stupidity, has had their blog taken down by people crying about how their publically-available posts were reblogged on a site where reblogging stuff is a major feature. Everyone can guess at the reason. The Tumblrites have abused the report system and claimed "harassment" even though all W-E ever did was silently reblog posts and provide some snark in the tags. The F Plus community have been sending civil, level-headed e-mails to support@tumblr.com asking them to review the content of W-E's blog for reinstatement, as it's quite obvious that W-E is neither harassing these people nor encouraging anyone else to do so. I'm trying to signal boost to get more people to write in, but oddly enough all of the Tumblr/SJW threads I know of here on SA are closed, with no current ones that I can find. I encourage anyone who enjoyed or followed W-E's archive to petition Tumblr support to overturn their decision and encourage others to do the same in threads and places where it's appropriate. This is a bad precedent being set where apparently silently reblogging people is grounds for deactivation as long as enough people make a stink about it.
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Apr 10, 2013 20:44
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omnibobb posted:Just so everyone knows, thefpl.us is blocked by the Air Force as "pornography" Hah! Yeah, I remember Lemon mentioning that some other web-filters out there had it flagged as a pornographic or offensive site. I guess there's not too much to be done about it, and the episodes themselves do often consist of some really blue subject matter.
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Apr 16, 2013 02:54
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Bunnybread posted:Isfahan is Officer Tackleberry. You're... poo poo, you're right.
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Apr 17, 2013 01:46
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Don't you worry about episode 100! It should be ready for release soon.
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May 14, 2013 11:41
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Lou's brain must be made of something not yet on the periodic table to be able to withstand the stuff he reads. He's too good for this world.
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May 16, 2013 10:59
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A couple of us petitioned to have the bug episode titled as "That Episode," because in the weeks leading up to its release we kept alluding to a challenger to the Sissykiss episode.
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May 18, 2013 02:54
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drat it, I got scooped. We've got some classic Internet here, folks. It's right up goons' alleys. check it out!
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Jun 2, 2013 20:47
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toanoradian posted:Also it's the perfect moment to register and pay HOWEVER, the extended material is about Matt Moulton (the adult baby fetishist in part 2), so let that temper your decision.
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Jun 3, 2013 04:21
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King Lou posted:I also recently had a 15 year old kid email me saying he listened to that episode (with his parents permission) and that he's a fan... Not really sure how I feel about that one. They say every time God closes a door, He has some 15-year-old kid discover his love of cumming on food.
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Jun 4, 2013 17:01
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It was a collaborative effort, kind of a brainstormy thing. We did the same thing for the long list of improv troupes Lemon names in the Mix'd Nuts/Meetballz short. Regrettably, I cannot take credit for "Chortle Kombat."
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Jun 5, 2013 08:06
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I seem to recall suggesting Skandau Ballet, but I don't think it was put in the F+ Live promo video or the episode 100 stuff.
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Jun 10, 2013 01:16
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A new episode is up, and it's all about Men's Rights Advocates! Before listening, please take the necessary precautions to prevent your punching whatever speakers the podcast will be coming out of.
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Jun 13, 2013 16:27
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Yeah, we don't really touch unadulterated horrible. There has to be something there to laugh about, otherwise it's just signal-boosting stuff we shouldn't be signal-boosting.
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Up now, a new episode where are few of our readers get together on location in San Francisco and try out some strange hippie raw-food recipes. It was recorded live, but it is not F Plus Live. Sorry. Squint fucked around with this message at 02:55 on Jun 18, 2013 |
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