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Graduation had absolutely no idea where it was going for 15 or so episodes, and then they kind of reset and are doing one Big Major Conflict before the end, but it's still pretty rambling. There was a pretty cool heist sequence that just wrapped up, but even that went like 5 episodes, which is literally months of real time. It's fine, but running a long campaign like this is clearly not Travis' strong suit, and I hope they move on to something else pretty quickly. Amnesty was great. Justin's characters are always great.
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taco show posted:I somehow have been living under a rock and have never listened to any MBMBAM ever but my roommate turned me on to Adventure Zone via the first arc (six eps?) of Amnesty. Balance is really good, it starts with them goofing and not taking it seriously, and organically turns into a really great story while maintaining the goofiness.
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Undead Hippo posted:Why does the new theme song for MBMBAM end with the lyric "It's better, it's better with 2"? Montaigne is subtly campaigning for them to disown Travis
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The World Inferno posted:'dawwww. There's already the Charlie & Daddy show
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If y'all are interested in woodworking, I've also done the course Justin did and it's great: https://theweekendwoodworker.com/ The woodworking thread in HCH is also a great resource, so check that out too.
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It's been a while since I listened to Dust, from what I remember he set up a whole whodunnit, the PCs went down a bunch of rabbit holes that ended up being red herrings, and then Travis just gave them a note that said "Bingus did it" and then they wrapped up. Obviously they had limited time to wrap it up, but you can just make poo poo up! You're running out of time and your players think it must have been Scrumbus? Ok, yup, it was Scrumbus, let's RP to figure out how that happened and how you figure it out.
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misadventurous posted:Like, Balance ended with them getting to use the bond engine to do powerful Final Fantasy summons but they got to choose basically whatever characters they wanted from all the NPCs they met Magnus summoned a PC from a different game! It was rad as hell.
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😭y'all want that final😭
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Oh my god they just dropped ep #420
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Ainsley McTree posted:Feels like a slap in the face to do this just after Ron Funches was on I assume they did that because griffin didn't want to record two episodes
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Zero One posted:All those unsold Bean Juice mugs... DON'T TALK TO ME UNTIL I'VE HAD MY PODCASTS
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hollis from amnesty is a great example of nonbinary representation. they show up, the DM uses their pronouns organically, and they proceed to have a whole-rear end development arc that has nothing to do with their gender.
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Colonel Whitey posted:Hollis’ identity must have been done in an organic, subtle way because I remember literally nothing about that character I don't think their gender ever actually came up, griffin just used they/them
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Pham Nuwen posted:"Ron, great to have you back, everybody loved the MBMBAM ep and we're excited to have you on TAZ" yeah that's the image for either "human" or "fighter" in 5e which is at least an improvement over a human fighter always being Sir Fenwick of Avonshire, King's Prestiged Knight
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Waterbed Wendy posted:I can't listen to that rn. Did they say who is running the show this time? They've said previously it was going to be Griffin.
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my favorite podcast, featuring brothers tyler, patrick, and andy mcelroy
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dantheman650 posted:I enjoyed the first episode of Ethersea well enough but I didn't really understand the goal. I keep hearing The Quiet Year being called a "game" but there don't seem to be any goals or consequences. Nothing seems to really matter. There's not really a goal or success metric to any tabletop role playing game. The goal is to have fun and tell stories, this is just a different way of doing it. And for their purposes, it creates context, backstory, and a shared understanding of the world they're going to be playing in. I think it's got a lot of potential.
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change my name posted:Is the work they put into worldbuilding then going to become the backdrop for their D&D campaign? I really like that approach Yes.
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Poor Miserable Gurgi posted:I think they ended up not having the drive last year for obvious reasons. This one may have been an attempt to make up some numbers, but is obviously ill timed. May be bad news for some shows on the network. Hopefully they save Mission to Zyxx at all costs. No, they still had it last year, they just emphasized how much they weren't having maximum fun drive at maximum fun dot org forward slash join because of how rough things were, but if you still want to support the network you can go to maximum fun dot org forward slash join, and then they had an Actual maxfundrive in like August, except they did it for a month
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Entropic posted:I gotta try listning to this Ethersea intro from the start again, because I feel like I retained nothing from Griffin's infodump at the beginning and I have no sense of what they're trying to actually do in this world-building minigame. The world is ending because everyone did too much magic (it is a climate change allegory). There's a big storm coming that everyone knows is going to make life uninhabitable on the surface, but a bunch of people heard this call from the ocean in the form of a little poem that basically says "why don't you build a new life underwater?" Some folks from each of the four regions came together at this shore to figure out how they're going to build an underwater society, so now they're doing that. At the end of TQY, they ought to have a salient history of how these people built this new society. Then they'll make characters and have somewhere to jump in to. Ideally, this means that the audience is at least a little invested in the world they've created from the jump, and they've sort of created the setting organically instead of jumping in with a fantasy trope and trying to make it work.
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Marsupial Ape posted:The song has grown on me as it is a ‘bop’, as the kids say…but it’s a song about a burgeoning teenage lesbian crush and very atonal for a trio of cis-heterosexual middle-aged brothers making fart jokes. How is it less suited than "hey good girls do you wanna just say yeah I wanna" with the most awkward rhythm transition of all time
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The best McElroy show theme is Sawbones, that song legit slaps.
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flavor.flv posted:I like that it's the live track, because the lead singer flubs the hell out of the line 'that exquisite macabre for the mouth' and now millions of people listen to that thirty seconds every week and have never heard the rest of the song He doesn't flub it, the word is "esculent" and the studio version sounds almost exactly the same. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHyclFNBxyM&t=27s
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"Do they have Coke products" honestly when Travis hits he hits hard
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Justin is 100% the best role player in the group, both for being true to his characters and creating good story moments because his characters do things that are not always the best mechanical option
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General Dog posted:Seems like a 2-hour video on the decline of the McElroy media empire would have room for at least a mention of Nick Robinson Talking about the origin of polygon she mentions all the great creative people who worked there and "some people we won't mention"
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John Wick of Dogs posted:I thought the first work of fart was Mr Holland's Penis That would have made way more sense!
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Wasabi the J posted:I liked Celebrity Wine Why Not? and That's a Christmas to Me. I was so upset that there was no That's A Christmas To Me in the Candlenights live show.
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Also IIRC from reading the rules, you're not supposed to talk an awful lot in The Quiet Year, you basically just draw something on the map and say what it is. They're using it in a pretty different way, where they're playing it to flesh out a world, and they're doing it on a podcast, so it makes sense that they'd talk a lot more.
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the hat trick!
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Crosspost from Cursed Images thread: The true curse here is that apparently cotton candy in French is "dad's beard"
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misadventurous posted:It will always be a shame that 20 Funny: Fill Your Life With Laughter and Love got undone by the year completely sucking rear end Honestly in a gallows humor way it's absolutely hilarious
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Graduation is honestly best binged. I listened to a lot of it on a road trip and it made it much easier to stomach, since there's often three episodes in a row where they're planning how they're going to get ready to plan to do the thing. That gets real old when it's 2 months, it's not as bad when it's 3 hours and you're driving anyway.
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I ordered a "grip it and rip it" pin to be sent to my office just before covid. I can't wait for the underwater explorers who brave both the depths of old Chicago and the no-longer-novel coronavirus to extract it from its package in 2036
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Ok Comboomer posted:is that the flophouse pin? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3D1FmfN98I
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I haven't listened to the Besties ep, but what did Griffin say? He was just talking about how great the new Ace Attorney is on Wonderful.
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Holy poo poo it's an inoffensive fun pop song that is supposed to feel like high school. This thread, I swear to god.
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eke out posted:i wonder why they haven't committed harder to live performances or other ways to get income. as far as i've been able to tell, quite a lot of people paid for the shows they've done over pandemic They did do a live ep of TAZ, another run of Honey Heist.
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