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Veib posted:Reminder that Ant Man decided to go full nazi because Polygon gave Witcher 3 the terrible, horrible, awful score of 8/10. That's pretty dumb on Polygon's count. What a loving great game.
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Also, when they bring up moments they liked in Balance, it's usually with the context of "that was super fun and I'm happy to have done that with my family." It's not "I'm a literary genius because the internet tells me so."
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Yeah, the latest ttaazz was a bit of an eye opener in terms of "the brothers v. criticism." They're not perfect, but they certainly don't come across as bad as I've been told they do on occasion. Griffin likes to make music and create worlds. Nothing wrong with that. Also, I know he was just loving around again but I do hold out hope that Justin will, in fact, DM a game again. Surprised to hear his take on Augustus, as I can't picture him as a jerk. Too much of a gentle spirit.
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Shinjobi posted:Yeah, the latest ttaazz was a bit of an eye opener in terms of "the brothers v. criticism." I'm much more excited about the brothers challenging themselves to play characters who's attitude don't match their own rather than their identifiers. Like, Justin struggling to make Augustus a jerk is waaaaaay more interesting than making sure any character is a $minority $minority $minority wizard.
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Judge Schnoopy posted:$minority $minority $minority What the hell does $minority x 3 mean?
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Fill in the blank, like a madlib of identifiers
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Justin did play a minority in Commitment and knocked it out of the park
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mlmp08 posted:That's pretty dumb on Polygon's count. What a loving great game. Combat and inventory management are trash. 8/10 is fair.
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Inventory sucks; combat is a lot of fun if you’re not looking for a Dark Souls helldeath experience. Easily the most memorable game I’ve played in the last... five or even ten years?
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Vargs posted:Combat and inventory management are trash. 8/10 is fair. Also, it was a buggy mess at launch
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MTV Crib Death posted:Griffin really needs to stop hammering arms outstrecthed as some kind of grand literary achievement. for a moment I thought you were talking about the original livejournal post from which "arms outstretched" is pulled, and I was gonna say "no, gently caress you, it is that good"
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I have never heard Griffin pimping arms outstretched, for as far in as I am. Don’t confuse the fandom for official speech.
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Apr 7, 2018 19:38
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This is what I mean when I say some of you just need to step back and unsub from TAZ for a bit.
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Pollyanna posted:Don’t confuse the fandom for official speech. This message should be appended to the front of every piece of media.
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I don't really know what Arms Outstretched is cause I think that was during the bit where I stopped paying attention
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Tears In A Vial posted:I don't really know what Arms Outstretched is cause I think that was during the bit where I stopped paying attention Allow me to enlighten you. http://www.coldplaycrybaby.com
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Oh, I thought arms outstretched was Merle and Taako pulling Magnus from death into his mannequin body.
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Ariong posted:Allow me to enlighten you. This may be the best $200 spent to shame someone ever
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Pollyanna posted:Oh, I thought arms outstretched was Merle and Taako pulling Magnus from death into his mannequin body. I think it’s fair to say that moment, while nice, is a pale imitation of the Coldplay poem. Pastrymancy posted:This may be the best $200 spent to shame someone ever Don’t forget hosting fees. Every month the proprieter of that website puts down cold hard cash to continuously shine a spotlight on their poet friend. Ariong fucked around with this message at 22:41 on Apr 7, 2018 |
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Pollyanna posted:Oh, I thought arms outstretched was Merle and Taako pulling Magnus from death into his mannequin body. The music for that moment is called Arms Outstretched, which is a reference to the Coldplay thing. When people use the name, they're probably talking about the TAZ moment.
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I will always treasure being at the live show for John Hodgeman’s dramatic recital, looming over me like a gargoyle. It was awesome. I also got to ask the author how high she was during that and her response was “I wasn’t, I was just 14.”
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Also re: people thinking Lup is too much like Taako, I think Griffin just liked Taako and wanted to try his hand at playing a character like him because it sounds fun as hell, and a twin is a good excuse v v And just by virtue of being puppeted by Griffin, Lup is quite distinct from Taako.
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Coffee And Pie posted:I will always treasure being at the live show for John Hodgeman’s dramatic recital, looming over me like a gargoyle. It was awesome. Hodgman played Newman in a production of Nigerian Seinfeld and "Gargoyle" is exactly the right term.
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Just finished the Amnesty mini-arc. Was fun! Enjoyed most of it, and it's weird how interested I am in seeing more of the West Virginia.
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Pollyanna posted:Jesus loving christ this arc is They never do though is the thing They're totally cool with it
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Blockhouse posted:They never do though is the thing Justin Travis and Clint were 100% on board the storyline train, waiting to see where it would end up just like the audience. It's a great arc for the show.
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I think there comes a time where the DM has to take the reigns in order to make the story progress toward a conclusion. Can anyone with actual DnD experience confirm?
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Ariong posted:I think there comes a time where the DM has to take the reigns in order to make the story progress toward a conclusion. Can anyone with actual DnD experience confirm? If playing with friends, no. If playing for a paying listening audience, almost always yes unless doing it extremely part time or doing little one-off adventures.
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Ariong posted:I think there comes a time where the DM has to take the reigns in order to make the story progress toward a conclusion. Can anyone with actual DnD experience confirm? I think most actual DnD story progress is "what kind of monster should I put in their path this week?" And there's no conclusion ever you just play for 30 years.
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Ariong posted:I think there comes a time where the DM has to take the reigns in order to make the story progress toward a conclusion. Can anyone with actual DnD experience confirm? it depends on a lot of things, as well as how you do it. a D&D podcast is a different beast as well since you've got to work things for an audience. There's no real hard and fast rules to it.
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Ok, thanks. I always find it interesting to hear how the dynamics of TAZ compare to a typical DnD game.Pollyanna posted:Finished Stolen Century. This is it!
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I haven't played in over a decade, but I can say that at one point when I DM'd, my players decided to stand up a weird-rear end society where they were rebuilding a largely agrarian society to do some heavy industry, leaning very heavily on the abilities of a necromancer to raise skeletal or zombie slaves. We had a bunch of sessions of just building up a city while the most bored of the players roamed around the town and hunted treasure, barmaids, and broke into other players' chests of loot. This was all to build up resources to leapfrog directly to a big baddie I'd laid out before by avoiding all my intended quests on that path, but I gotta say, when one option is to go on a massive quest with a few people and hope to god you live, building a society of relatively advanced tech backed up with companies of low level wizards and division-sized elements of undead to clear out all but the biggest baddies for you makes sense. It was really fun for the group. It would've been the worst thing to listen to.
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Ariong posted:This is it! I can’t imagine what it was like for people listening live, but if it was anything nearly as hype as I’m getting, ho ho hooooly poo poo.
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Stolen Century and the ending definitely paid off for me when I binged it, even if there were parts beforehand that were clunky
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Pollyanna posted:I can’t imagine what it was like for people listening live, but if it was anything nearly as hype as I’m getting, ho ho hooooly poo poo. As you listen to the few remaining episodes, when you get to the end, imagine if you had to wait two weeks before listening to the next one. That should put you in a similar headspace.
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