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flatluigi posted:edit: i'm really torn between wanting a dedicated FATT thread here and knowing that it'd just go the way literally every podcast thread I read on here goes including this one the Critical Role thread lasted a day before devolving into talking about who the worst person on the show is it's better to just not bother
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Apr 6, 2018 19:42
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Listened to the Adventure Zone Zone and some of the stuff they were saying about what they learned from the mini arcs were pretty encouraging. I was only slightly disappointed it was Amnesty, of the 3 it was still the one I thought had the most promise. Once they got together finally it massively improved and I'm interested in seeing what sort of monsters Griffin comes up with. I liked Dust but Travis is way too nice, I don't think he could play an antagonistic force (they actually address this on the podcast, about how it's tough to be jerks because they obviously like each other) whereas Griffin did make some good bad guys in Balance.
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Apr 6, 2018 19:56
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Not Operator posted:By the way, in case it wasn't obvious, Griffin is enormously influenced by other media and Suffering Game started straight after he played Zero Time Dilemma. Explains why the prisoner’s dilemma showed up. Also ZTD was garbage compared to the other two games.
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Apr 6, 2018 20:17
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Mm.. I don't disagree but I don't like the way you said it!
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Apr 6, 2018 20:22
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Nope, ZTD sucked, not budging on that 
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Apr 6, 2018 20:27
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ZTD has significant issues down to just basic structure of the game (why is all dialogue a cutscene???), on top of being a kind of unfulfilling story since its only purpose is to fill in gaps between 999 and VLR
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Apr 6, 2018 20:33
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ZTD was okay, though definitely the worst game of the trilogy. I'm very happy we got an actual ending to the trilogy however especially with how troubled the development of the entire series was
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Apr 6, 2018 20:36
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If you're looking for another comedy actual play podcast, I recently picked up Dungeon Rats. The premise is that the PCs are stuck in an infinite dungeon, and the challenges are actually submitted by listeners, so they get extremely silly. The plot is extremely loose (like, somehow looser than Dragon Friends loose), but the characters are very strongly defined, and the humor is extremely vulgar. Just trust me when I say to skip the third episode; the GM sets up an extremely uncomfortable scenario and it causes the whole session to devolve into bad play.
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Apr 6, 2018 20:45
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inthesto posted:If you're looking for another comedy actual play podcast, I recently picked up Dungeon Rats. The premise is that the PCs are stuck in an infinite dungeon, and the challenges are actually submitted by listeners, so they get extremely silly. The plot is extremely loose (like, somehow looser than Dragon Friends loose), but the characters are very strongly defined, and the humor is extremely vulgar. Just trust me when I say to skip the third episode; the GM sets up an extremely uncomfortable scenario and it causes the whole session to devolve into bad play. You realize that’s just gonna make me morbidly curious, right? 
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Apr 6, 2018 21:06
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Pollyanna posted:You realize that’s just gonna make me morbidly curious, right? The short of it is the suggested encounter was a gnoll frat house. The GM turned this into a gnoll frat house where they kidnapped a young girl and planned on raping her in her sleep. The PCs find this and get so angry that the ensuing combat turns into torture porn that ends with burning the last gnoll alive while they peel off all the other gnolls' faces in front of him. The GM had enough sense to put a warning at the front of the episode, but really he should have axed and redone the entire thing. It left an incredibly sour taste in my mouth and I wouldn't blame anyone if it turns them off from the show entirely, but for what it's worth I'm 17 episodes deep and everything else has been harmless (if vulgar and raunchy) fun.
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Apr 6, 2018 21:29
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Nothing you have said about this podcast has made it sound the slightest bit appealing.
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Apr 6, 2018 21:31
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Ariong posted:Nothing you have said about this podcast has made it sound the slightest bit appealing. That episode is uhhhhhhhh but I guess I’m curious about the rest of them?
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Apr 6, 2018 21:42
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inthesto posted:The short of it is the suggested encounter was a gnoll frat house. The GM turned this into a gnoll frat house where they kidnapped a young girl and planned on raping her in her sleep. The PCs find this and get so angry that the ensuing combat turns into torture porn that ends with burning the last gnoll alive while they peel off all the other gnolls' faces in front of him. The GM had enough sense to put a warning at the front of the episode, but really he should have axed and redone the entire thing. It left an incredibly sour taste in my mouth and I wouldn't blame anyone if it turns them off from the show entirely, but for what it's worth I'm 17 episodes deep and everything else has been harmless (if vulgar and raunchy) fun. Yikes!
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Apr 6, 2018 21:42
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That's uh yeah no thanks
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Apr 6, 2018 21:51
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Mm. Huh. Maybe another time. I finished the last ep of Suffering Game, and I have little to no recollection of this person. 
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Apr 6, 2018 22:02
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He was a very minor character that died during the first arc. People joked about how much they wanted him to come back and how much they missed him, even though he played basically no part in the story. Well, it turns out he played a bigger part than we thought.
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Apr 6, 2018 22:14
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He was also a premade NPC in the adventure that became the first arc and renaming him to a silly name is where a lot of people feel TAZ became TAZ.
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Apr 6, 2018 22:18
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I think I see where the comments about NPCs becoming more pivotal than PCs come from...
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Apr 6, 2018 22:19
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I never really thought about it, but that reveal does kind of lose all impact without experiencing the social media speculation around the character. Must be weird for everyone who has caught up since.
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Apr 6, 2018 22:20
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Poor Miserable Gurgi posted:I never really thought about it, but that reveal does kind of lose all impact without experiencing the social media speculation around the character. Must be weird for everyone who has caught up since. They'd get an idea if they listened to the TTAZZ's when they come up in the chronology, as the character comes up there at least once.
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Apr 6, 2018 22:23
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There’s only been one so far, from May 2016. Is there more? I see one more coming up after this next interlude.
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Apr 6, 2018 22:33
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Blasmeister posted:They'd get an idea if they listened to the TTAZZ's when they come up in the chronology, as the character comes up there at least once. I listened to a lot of the jumbotrons and TTAZZ while catching up on the series and I was tweeting #BringBackBarryBluejeans like the best of them before The Suffering Game ended. Pollyanna you totally skipped TTAZZ didn't you
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Apr 6, 2018 22:36
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Is there more than one TTAZZ by episode 58??????  I do not see them anywhere. Unless this podcast app doesn’t have them for some reason. E: no, no there aren’t. I listen to the podcasts during work and my commute, so maybe I just zoned out at some point. I definitely skipped the Jumbotrons lately though.
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Apr 6, 2018 22:37
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Pollyanna posted:Is there more than one TTAZZ by episode 58?????? Honestly you could have listened to the one and missed it. I think the one was it until they did another post-Suffering Game.
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Apr 6, 2018 22:39
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The first TTAZZ I think had a question asking if Barry was coming back, and all Griffin said was he was "definitely dead", which turned out to be him being coy about it.
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Apr 6, 2018 22:43
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They way they're doing Amnesty as the main arc and sprinkling in Dust and Commitment when they have time is going to make it extremely difficult for people who come to the podcast later to follow each story as its own thing. They won't be neatly organized into storylines, they'll all just be mixed into the main TAZ podcast feed in whatever chronological order they do the episodes. I could see someone new being very confused if they, say, just want to listen to all of Dust.
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Apr 6, 2018 22:46
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Poor Miserable Gurgi posted:I never really thought about it, but that reveal does kind of lose all impact without experiencing the social media speculation around the character. Must be weird for everyone who has caught up since. I know I was definitely confused when it happened since I don't really participate in any the social media anything other than to say when I enjoyed an episode so it was like "Do I know this guy?" followed by "Ohhhh riiiight" 
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Apr 6, 2018 22:50
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The usual podcast app makes it a pain in the rear end, yeah, unless it’s got some nice playlist and tagging features.
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Apr 6, 2018 22:51
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I guess as long as they clearly label every episode (e.g. Dust Episode 6) people will figure it out, but it's going to be a bit cumbersome and possibly irritating for future new listeners.
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Apr 6, 2018 22:54
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpWbQgc8b-0 Holding a poo poo ton of mics on the red carpet suddenly makes a lot more sense
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Apr 6, 2018 22:59
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Colonel Whitey posted:I guess as long as they clearly label every episode (e.g. Dust Episode 6) people will figure it out, but it's going to be a bit cumbersome and possibly irritating for future new listeners. Unless... (Unless...) Unless they like things cumbersome and irritating, in which case, check out Acquisitions Incorporated! The only actual play show I can think of to actively antagonize guest players, only done in a way to not make it funny or entertaining whatsoever. (The myconid episode is pretty great, and Kris Straub can basically do no wrong on it, but christ, Jerry is the exact kind of dm I'd walk out on.)
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Apr 6, 2018 23:03
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mikeycp posted:i listened to like 5 episodes of counterweight and it definitely was toilet audio and also there were just huge lengths of dead air left in Yeah the first season and first five-ish episodes of the second are very bad to hear. They switch who the editor and producer is after that, it's her full time job at this point (as opposed to the first guy, who was fitting it in around whatever his insane work schedule was). At this point Marielda (including the two setup episodes) is the best place to start, and then drop back to Counter/weight when you actually know who any of these people are. It's short, the music is great, and Blades in the Dark is a fun system. If you want pretty solid player-driven stuff FatT is worth the effort imo, but there is 100% something to be said for TAZ being easy to start from the beginning and also have it be good audio. Anyways thats my post about a podcast this thread isn't about.
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Apr 6, 2018 23:23
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Ainsley McTree posted:That episode is uhhhhhhhh but I guess I’m curious about the rest of them? i listened to the first two episodes and aside from middling audio quality they were good, though it turns out the podcast is a spinoff of some twitch streams so i felt like the characters/some dynamics had been established without me. some point early on they got a better recording setup though, so audio issues should be alleviated.
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pseudosavior posted:Unless... (Unless...) I feel really conflicted about trying AI because in theory it sounds like my jam but Gabe and Tycho are such dirtbags that I don't know if I could enjoy any of it That plus Wheaton leaving on bad terms and Scott Kurz leaving to take his character and make his own IP makes the whole thing seem completely mercenary in a way I'm not cool with
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Gabe and Tycho made PAX and then went full asshead. It's a beautiful timeline. Gone are the days where they made a rinky dink webcomic with a writer that got reeeeally soapbox-y over everything.
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Since its also kinda thread relevant, can someone post that penny arcade e: n/m it was just a tweet https://twitter.com/cwgabriel/status/978416392004280320 double e: I appreciate that Gabe's art seems to have gotten more grotesque to match his personality. Not Operator fucked around with this message at 00:06 on Apr 7, 2018 |
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Kurtz thinking in any group, D&D, web comic, whatever, he's the one who can go solo is loving adorable. What was the Wheaton thing? I know he hasn't been on in forever but I didn't know he had bad blood there I figured he was just, ya know, Wil Wheaton, and busy with stuff.
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Not Operator posted:Since its also kinda thread relevant, can someone post that penny arcade comic that's just "Polygon hated Far Cry 5?/gently caress them i'm going to buy it right now" because it was hilariously petty. Oh god are people trying to do another Witcher 3 thing where they're taking a positive review with a little bit of 'yea there's some problematic elements though' and turned it to "THE SJWS HATE OUR GAMES"?
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