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bunnyofdoom posted:It honestly feels like cutthroat kitchen the vending machine challenge from BDG was lifted wholesale The promise of something that can capture part of CTK’s spirit is what got me to finally subscribe instead of just watching the never-ending stream of YouTube shorts. If nothing else I got my money’s worth by watching MSN multiple times.
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Pleads posted:I'm glad they called out how similar he is to an adopted stray cat. The preview is what drove me to sign up, so I assume the flood of shorts will bring in more people.
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scary ghost dog posted:honestly the other two cooks were dumb because as soon as the challenge was “heaviest meal” the answer was obviously pasta I wouldn't say dumb, but it was fun seeing how they (mis)read the situation. Chef Jessica - got it spot on; gave Brennan exactly the kind of family-sized comfort meal he wanted while fancying it up just enough. Chef Mark - also pretty on target with a big-rear end sandwich; would have had a fair shot at winning if Chef Jessica hadn't hit the bullseye. Chef Trevor - completely off the mark. Created a technically impressive meal that he then had to try to sell via presentation.
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My nightmares are made flesh as Very Important People is getting a second season.
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CatstropheWaitress posted:VIP felt very hit or miss for me. Vic is always on point, but found a decent amount of the characters a bit flailing. The two-guest ones in particular felt like pretty standard improv show activities rather than interesting stories. Still looking forward to the next season. I haven't finished season 1 yet, just because some episodes really hit for me and then some made me feel incredibly uncomfortable. kidcoelacanth posted:another loving slam dunk of a make some noise episode, good lord One of my greatest joys in Make Some Noise is when people just jump in to help out on prompts that aren't assigned to them, and this episode was fantastic for that.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:The horniest episode is live. From heavy food to horny food.
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eke out posted:insane energy to start this make some noise, really good group What an absolutely unhinged episode.
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scary ghost dog posted:the right answer is actually escape from the bloodkeep That’s the only Dropout D&D campaign I’ve watched and it was fantastic.
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FSFunky posted:First of all, thank you all for the impromptu sexual dynamics lessons. The Dropout YouTube channel will post a “this week” short if that’s more palatable to you. I would still prefer a weekly email though.
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bunnyofdoom posted:.....you don't get the weekly emails? I do. I get merch emails but I don’t seem to be getting schedule emails. I’ll have to poke around my account when I get home.
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claw game handjob posted:Same. Good to know that's a setting I can trigger.  There only appears to be 2 options, and both were checked. I unchecked them both, saved, then checked them again and saved one final time. Monday I'll check to see if get an email and if it's going into the Spam folder.
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NinetySevenA posted:i think you have to sign up for the newsletter. I've now signed up for this as well; hopefully one of these things will send me the content schedules so I know what to look forward to (instead of rewatching all of MSN for the 1000 time).
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Sudden Loud Noise posted:It's also important to note that, by Sam's own admission, Dropout usually does a "buzzer" in the form of editing, cutting out the majority of what's actually attempted. That becomes far more difficult in longer scenes. Honestly, it's a testament to both the performances and editing of VIP; Pretty seamless edits, and an awareness by both performers to not make any bit too long. Josh: “Do you think this will be part of the 30 percent?”
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I love how the dumbest food challenges are the ones that turn out the best.
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I Am Fowl posted:I love an episode where they immediately take the independent portion as just a suggestion. It's fantastic when they all decide that a prompt is just too good not to pitch in.
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Not sure what made me more uncomfortable: the Teslas or the hands dipped in butter. Overall I thought it was ok; I'll give it another episode or two to see if it can really hook me. flatluigi posted:i liked it, though i do think it's another show that's gonna get improved by getting feedback on what works and doesn't work in the first season Pretty much my feeling as well. It's a fine concept but I think it needs either weirder questions or weirder experiments to be really interesting.
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This is a strong contender for my favorite episode of Gastronauts. Everyone has great chemistry, and the challenges are weird enough to be interesting but not so weird that the chefs turn out complete duds.
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I knew how Vic would act as soon as I saw the instrument come out, and I was not disappointed.
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claw game handjob posted:Did... Did you not get the joke when the gift for the favorite judge was "a piece of the sun"? They're silly trophies. I just want Sam to be spending my money on actual pieces of the moon; is that too much to ask?
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ArtVandelay posted:Vic in full chaos gremlin mode on Gastronauts. I love Vic's particular brand of weirdness, especially when you give them people like Jacob and Zac to bounce off of.
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TakenForGranite posted:"I don't think Vic has ever had food before" That's a lie; they've clearly had one (cursed) food.
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MikeJF posted:Can we really call that food? It provides calories, some amount of nutrition, and isn't inherently poisonous so I think it counts.
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ArtVandelay posted:The funny part is, there's a restaurant near me that makes food with pretzeled bread. Just about everything on the menu is pretzeled in some way. They even make pretzel pizza, it's very good, and certainly not whatever the hell Vic was talking about The Auntie Anne's pretzel chain has a pretzel they top with cheese and pepperonis, so that's also an option. With Vic I am never sure if they had an actual pretzel pizza from somewhere and then made the weird story up to keep getting reactions, or if they legitimately did try to cobble something together out of pretzels, marinara, and cheese as a kid.
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hiddenriverninja posted:Deep Blue Ink has some stiff competition in the sketch animating space as it seems that Dropout just premiered "Game Changer Animated", starting with a banger from the Karaoke night episode "To Do List" This is your reminder to buy silly string.
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Nemo2342 posted:The Auntie Anne's pretzel chain has a pretzel they top with cheese and pepperonis, so that's also an option. Looks like she was serious, here's a reupload of her tiktok where she makes the pretzel "pizza": https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Lu_W1gvHsM0
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feedmyleg posted:What are some good Game Changer episodes to jump into? First one I tried was the musical episode with Zach and Jess, which is fun but obviously the show just letting them do Off Book rather than really doing a game. My hot take: Anything but the Survivor episodes
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Escobarbarian posted:Becca Scott is one is the most gorgeous people I’ve ever seen tbh I'm doing the same and I've been completely sold on Ross Bryant's push for a swing revival revival.
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Sudden Loud Noise posted:And I think it highlighted one of the things that I hope they do less of in the upcoming season - Contestants trying to subvert the premise of the game. Anything that fucks up the awful Survivor episodes is fine with me; I really hope they leave that one behind again.
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flatluigi posted:i think it was fine for what it was. it was also three years ago, so if it was going to be a reoccuring bit it would've happened by now Fair; I binged them all after the fact so it didn't click just how long ago the seasons were. I was fine with it the first time, but got really tired of it when it came back around a second time and took up multiple episodes.
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Pleads posted:Double posting to say the MSN Cut For Time episode is phenomenal. Brennan's "It's not my job to stop, it's the buzzer's job" is definitely a threat to Sam.
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eke out posted:feel like if it was any of their regulars, a lot could be solved with a little additional shooting of talking head cutaways or some ADR lines. but here it absolutely felt like "welp we are stuck with just this footage of Eric and we cannot get any more and we just have to make it work" My personal opinion is that while Game Changer hits far more than it misses, when it misses it *really* misses. It's unfortunately the big weakness of the format; there's only so much they can do to fix issues, and since most concepts don't repeat they can't refine concepts that were close but not quite there.
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bunnyofdoom posted:NEW SHOW ALERT! I've been missing Tabletop (and to a lesser extent Game the Game) for years, so this is a welcome surprise. CatstropheWaitress posted:It is perhaps the most ingenious thing about Taskmaster. You really get to meet comedians throughout the ten episodes, and I don't think anyone's done it "playing a character". A few have dropped their act to be on it. It's great. Pinwiz11 posted:e: nm, the correct starting series is UK13. Inkspot posted:Can't remember which one it is, but the Taskmaster series with Dara O Briain, Fern Brady, and Sarah Millican can't be recommended enough. Since I just started watching Taskmaster thanks to this discussion I wanted to add my own thoughts. I started with UK13. As an entry point I thought it was a very solid season, though I didn't find that it hooked me the way Game Changer or Make Some Noise did. Good cast, fun episodes, but it was very tempting to stop with just that season now that I could say I understood what everyone was talking about. Thankfully I then moved on to UK14, and that one had me in stitches. Dara's competitiveness bouncing off of John's helplessness, and then mixed with Fern's delightful quirkiness really hooked me on seeing just what was going to happen in the next episode. Due to the constant references to the "knappet" in those seasons (and in the comments) I then ended up jumping back to UK7. As an entry point to the series I think it's a poor choice; real or feigned, the anger and combativeness in the first couple of episodes would have been extremely offputting and I likely would have not finished the season if I wasn't already familiar with the show. However now that I knew how the show "should" work, it provided an interesting contrast to the other seasons and I was more willing to ride it out. And I am glad I did, because all the contestants were phenomenal and Rhod's combination of neurodivergent thinking mixed with his desire to "defeat" Alex/Greg always left me on my edge of the seat. Sure the feuding with Greg got a little tiresome, but it was always awe inspiring seeing how he would short-circuit any given task.
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NinetySevenA posted:the only board game content i have seen before is when will wheaton had a show on youtube. i only watched a few episodes. from what i remember is was kind of dry. not much excitement. this one seems way more chaotic and exciting. I think it's a matter of having different goals for the series. Tabletop wanted to promote playing more tabletop games by showing entertaining people having fun playing them, and while episodes weren't what I'd call "exciting" they were usually interesting and entertaining. This show seems to be leaning more into people being wacky and chaotic. I'm expecting less "this is how you play the game" and more "watch these people go off the rails". Sudden Loud Noise posted:And I think the biggest key to success with board game content is remembering that the game almost never matters, and it's just the purest form of "get together with my (not real) friends and watch them have fun and play a board game." So, getting a new group together for a new game every episode seems like a bit of a risk. I strongly disagree; while you do need a good host (and possibly theme) to tie episodes together, I don't think changing casts and game each episode is any kind of risk. Back in the Geek & Sundry days both Tabletop and Game the Game thrived on changing out the games and most of the players each episode, so I think this show will do fine as long as you like Becca Scott.
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Wungus posted:What are you doing in this thread if you don't. Becca Scott is fuckin' hilarious and weird and I will watch drat near anything she does I like her fine in other things, but in the past I've found that her competitiveness rubs me the wrong way when she's on tabletop shows.
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At the start of the episode I was going to say that Vic was playing to win, but she was playing an entirely different game than what Sam had planned. Little did I know they all were.
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https://store.dropout.tv/collections/game-changer Vic and Jacob's shirts, the Game Changer tote, and the Samuel Dalton pin are up in the store now. Still missing Lou's watch though.
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Escobarbarian posted:Sam really is a sick, sick man This was a masterclass in sadism.
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rydiafan posted:Lisa Gilroy's episode is absolutely amazing, but I know it's a tough watch for some people, because it hits a million trauma triggers depending on your childhood. It was definitely the point where I bowed out of VIP, and I don't even have any of the childhood traumas it could touch on.
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