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TelevisedInsanity posted:According to the episode he "knew it before anything was recorded" and I think that was what was going through his mind during the game but didn't speak up in time that's not what he said trapp asked him to say that he was "sweating a river" and brennan replied with "i said that right before the cameras started rolling"
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Apr 9, 2024 06:25
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MikeJF posted:It surprised me we didn't get a Brennan rant about how the game's lack of agency didn't make sense early on. (Because each ball applied to all three, it didn't matter if you completed a challenge or not - it would help the game end sooner, but wouldn't give you any advantage over the other two. There was no way for the base level players to actually try to win. That had to have been bugging him) i mean, he doesn't have to lampshade that there's going to be a twist for him to still suspect there's a twist him bringing it up later was more in confusion that the twist hadn't actually been revealed yet
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Apr 9, 2024 21:28
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i've seen the man chained to an overhead pipe and zapped with an electric gun a couple dozen times for a breaking news episode, as well as people venmoing themselves a few thousand dollars total for another episode. i think getting a game changer sprung on himself is on the table, it's just figuring out exactly how to organize it
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Apr 10, 2024 00:16
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personally I'm rooting for it to be Brennan's revenge
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Apr 10, 2024 01:49
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what exactly would they be able to say or do I'm as impressed as any of y'all that dropout has enough clout to run a show at madison square garden at all but I don't think that extends to being able to overrule a monopoly
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Apr 12, 2024 20:19
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for people outside the us, MSG is up there in terms of instantly recognizable named venues in the entire country & I firmly believe Ticketmaster and scalpers do their thing for literally every event that gets hosted there
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Apr 12, 2024 20:41
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bunnyofdoom posted:Yeah I saw that. I give them ~6 months. It was such a tone deaf move and my god Dropout works because of the variety of content, not just the same two goofballs being goofs in different settings they do have a decent sphere of funny people around them/regular guests on their content so they could pull stuff like Puppet History off so I don't think they're gonna be DoA, but yeah I hope they're going to expect a pretty low conversion rate from their channel that said, their patreon is 11.5k members with a minimum tier of $5 so they certainly already have people that are willing to pay them for their content
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Apr 19, 2024 19:32
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Apr 23, 2024 00:43
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i'm glad i successfully predicted that participating in the wenis dance was entirely optional and awarded no points
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Apr 23, 2024 03:20
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what I wouldn't give for an entire taskmaster season done as a game changer spinoff
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Apr 23, 2024 16:58
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Gaz-L posted:It's odd that in the US, Taskmaster and Game Changer are kind of on the same level, in that both are basically available on YouTube or Vimeo-based subscription platforms only. eh, it's mostly that for whatever reason nobody's made an effort to just air uk panel shows and the like unchanged in the US (probably because US TV tends to have very different energy and baggage around what a game show/reality show should be like). the attempt at making a US taskmaster just had weird energy and I'd love to see them try it again in general, but I think you could get a couple seasons of dropout taskmaster easily
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Apr 23, 2024 17:16
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yeah no they're not going to license it, but dropout's already done not-survivor and not-the-bachelor previously for game changer and 'the game changer challenge' or w/e would work out fine
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Apr 23, 2024 22:50
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inthesto posted:I agree that Jeremy Wells is a pretty bad Taskmaster, but I had enough goodwill for the contestants that I sat through season 1 and I wasn't mad about the time I put into it. thankfully the strength of a taskmaster version is who's the "assistant" and paul williams has the exact correct energy and willingness to be up for anything like alex horne does
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Apr 26, 2024 00:27
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powerpoint parties aren't exactly a new thing but it's always fun to see a highly produced one
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Apr 27, 2024 10:40
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bdg just seems to be around in general, which is good because being part of the dropout talent pool is such a better fit for him than wringing what he could out of being employed at polygon (even if i do love what he did over there and wish that all that stuff could've continued. i miss videogame theater) i think the filming schedule has him guesting for game changer before his longer role as um actually fact checker, and i think we've seen clips of him guesting on other things (including a clip of him hanging out of the window of a speeding car on a race track that i BADLY want to know the context of). it'd be very cool if he could produce something on his own with access to a bigger budget and a bigger cast given how much he was able to do with his horror shorts, but i think for now he's just in the talent pool personally i wanna see him on dimension 20, especially since he already was on an early live episode of fantasy high
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Apr 30, 2024 02:21
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i do like just about everything bdg's done but after digging through his youtube for the links above i found myself watching this another half dozen times again, so i figure i should link what might be my favorite https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmFGbBmlyKQ
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Inkspot posted:Tom Cardy + BDG (+ Montaigne?) = $$$ you've got a beautiful mind
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Apr 30, 2024 05:45
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i wanna know all the ones they didn't find and solve
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May 7, 2024 01:35
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nah I think it's not the right game for a game samer, and even if it was it doesn't make sense to repeat the same buttons
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May 7, 2024 16:20
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I think it'd be hard to structure it in a way that ramped up when the whole concept was that the buzzers were anywhere in and around the building.
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May 8, 2024 17:24
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there's a lot of very good dimension 20 seasons but the seven is up there
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May 8, 2024 18:07
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good news is that i'm caught up to dimension 20 for the first time, after months of binging it bad news is that now i have to sit and stew on "blimey" until the next episode comes out
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May 11, 2024 00:42
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i didn't watch the behind the scenes episodes until now but y'all should at least go rewatch emily's for a particular behind the scenes shot
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May 11, 2024 00:51
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found the dirty laundry ep with zac and ally on it 
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May 12, 2024 22:41
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Gaz-L posted:Someone commented that that episode felt the most like there had been a fair bit of pregaming going on. i think that's just ally's energy, constantly, and it's infectious
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May 12, 2024 23:19
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May 16, 2024 01:16
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Morrow posted:With all due respect, they didn't even need to show up to this battle. I feel like the villains need the divine name to succeed and can only get it from the heroes, while the heroes could probably have spent that hour evacuating Elmville or something instead. Villains would get pulled into hell but Porter can't ascend. there was a short scene on the ship while it was still in the air where after they attempted to summon with the fake name, three of the villains stealthed and landed on the ship, cast something that brennan implied was a detect thoughts spell, and then teleported away & i think everyone assumed that the true name was given up at that point. it either wasn't the case or brennan forgot he did that foreshadowing, but either way that necessitated their intervention plus they had to get the ballots in before midnight
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May 16, 2024 21:59
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'boy, some people have some strong opinions elsewhere that i don't agree with' is a pretty weak way to start a conversation
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May 17, 2024 05:14
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Froghammer posted:I've noticed a very strange dichotomy at play with fans of D&D actual play shows. They correctly identify a lot of the problems inherent with D&D (a fixation on violence as the ultimate way of dealing with problems, a historical link to extractivist colonialism, extremely regressive ideologies regarding races being inherently better or worse at things) yet completely lose interest when the hosts pivot to different systems in order to avoid those problems entirely. It's an extremely weird Oberoni Fallacy by proxy ("I need to watch you play D&D or else I lose interest, but also I need you to fix all of D&D's problems or else I'll get mad at you"). i think this falls into the fallacy of assuming these are the same people complaining, instead of a shift leading into a different subset of voices becoming louder.
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May 17, 2024 22:56
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Neito posted:Eh, this kinda thing happens in a lot of fandoms. I know Wrestling had a problem for a while where people were saying "I want wrestling, but with/without $thing", and when people happily pointed out that there were promotions that did $thing, or didn't do $thing, they resisted. there's a pretty fundamental difference in that, though: if you have a group that you're a fan of doing something that you're not a fan of, what you're talking about is essentially dropping the group entirely, versus wanting the group to change what they're doing so that you can enjoy the group more. it's just a matter of whether you like the group more than you dislike what they're doing, as well as how likely the group is to switch up what they're doing in the future if i personally want to go dive into some actual play that doesn't use dnd, i'll go listen to friends at the table (which i'm horribly behind on). simultaneously i do also really like the dropout crew, and as much as 5e is entirely serviceable for what they're doing most of the time i'd love to see them play different systems that might suit both storytelling and gameplay a bit better (when pbta) -- but also i don't think i need to have them do it because they've been entirely up front with why they're using 5e & how aware they are of its weaknesses and strengths. i really liked hearing aabria say that 5e was chosen for burrow's end *because* it fundamentally centers combat and therefore colors how the stoats interact with the world at a baseline edit: scary ghost dog posted:the desire to shift systems confuses me because d&d is a good enough sim system for complex social interaction, especially if you have the patience to reskin skill and stat names. the problems inherent with d&d that you listed dont really have mechanical origins, or at worst are mechanically irrelevant now and can be easily ignored. but maybe the alternatives youre referring to are like super-advanced sim engines like GURPS and im approaching this from the wrong angle it's 'good enough' for a lot of things (especially the more house rules you throw on top of it), but there's absolutely systems that provide better support for noncombat situations as well as frameworks to introduce interesting complications to gameplay in general. it's a bit hard to explain until you've seen people play with different systems and seen what can spring up from being on that different foundation. one of the most fundamental things to me is that d&d is very pass/fail by default; you meet a threshold and you do the thing or you don't hit the threshold and nothing happens. roll badly enough and you're just never moving the narrative forward. a lot of alternative systems address that flatluigi fucked around with this message at 23:43 on May 17, 2024 |
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May 17, 2024 23:32
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i mean the answer is that you use those systems for the things they're suited for and you don't use those systems for the things they're not suited for
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May 18, 2024 01:08
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i'm excited for season 2 of vip now that people have more of an idea of what works and doesn't work when exploring the setup of the show and yeah, brennan's ep is easily the best
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May 18, 2024 01:19
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I'd just go from the top and watch chronologically, all the seasons are fun. you can skip monster high though for a few reasons Macdeo Lurjtux posted:No, its very much a thing that a lot of Real Play troupes deal with. People engage more when its a system they're comfortable with and once you get out of DnD its kind of a fractured wild west. DnD is most peoples intro to the hobby so its kind of the baseline. Its rarely anyone's favorite but most are okay with it. Like when you and your friends argue all night about where to go for dinner and just sort of give in and get the pizza from the joint across the street for the 800th time. I don't think you're responding to the same thing I was responding to, which was the suggestion that the people that want other systems to be tried are also not going to watch if other systems are tried
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May 18, 2024 11:08
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sure, but he's also talked about hating when a dice roll doesn't fit the roleplay he's being given by his players & he's also house-ruled in several things other systems do when d&d is lacking in those respects i know systems conversations tend to take the form of arguing at ghosts of other conversations that happened in the past with other people, but I do want to make it clear that I personally think it's fine that brennan is doing what he's doing with dungeons and dragons in dimension 20 and just would like to see what's already happened continue where other systems are brought in and shown off sometimes
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May 19, 2024 16:09
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lava, honorary bad kid
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May 23, 2024 00:46
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great finale, i wish i didn't have to wait a day for the afterparty are there any teases as to what the next d20 season will be? i don't even know where to look
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May 23, 2024 02:31
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Blockhouse posted:all we know is it's called Never Stop Blowing Up and there's like one clip of Brennan in a suit behind the screen with a cityscape on it going "BOOM!". Absolutely no other information yet. apparently dungeons and drag queens season 2 was also in that teaser which means i should probably go back to the only d20 season i skipped
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May 23, 2024 02:44
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Trevor Hale posted:A Ross monologue makes perfect sense because I don’t think many people can match his specific blend of weirdness. The Make Some Noose with Brennan as the two guards is probably as close to a perfect match as he can ask for. make some noose is an entirely different program
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Gologle posted:Is the reason Emily wants to ditch Fig because she only gets a single attack per round? nah, that's something solved by a character rebuild/taking levels in other classes. you'd have to hear the definitive answer from Emily herself but it feels to me as simple as fig is in a place where her arc is kind of finished and has trouble narratively justifying sticking around the academy. it was the case before the season started and is even clearer after this season now that the emotional loose ends have been tied up as well. whenever they get to senior year I wouldn't be surprised if Emily still plays fig, though, since it feels like you could get away with a new character with two seasons of arc but less so just with one, and with presumably years before the next fantasy high revisit she might have a better idea of what she could explore with the character
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