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dantheman650 posted:I know we aren’t supposed to like Nick anymore but I’ve been working my way through the back catalog of cool games inc. and it’s so goddamn hilarious and good. I miss it so much! I don't know if anything he ever does could be as hilarious as CookForCube basically happening to him in real life. He disrespected the cube and suffered social permadeath.
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Apr 24, 2018 18:02
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Yes! Now we don't have to talk about polygon anymore! Maybe he can do something with Nick again!
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Apr 24, 2018 18:04
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I can’t believe Polygon is loving dead
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Apr 24, 2018 18:05
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Apr 24, 2018 18:05
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wow, of all the people i thought would leave polygon, they were not among them. they must be close to shuttering the site completely
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Apr 24, 2018 18:06
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I was wondering because they didn't really seem to be doing much for polygon anymore
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Serf posted:wow, of all the people i thought would leave polygon, they were not among them. they must be close to shuttering the site completely They did kill a few of the video segments off the youtube channel last week. I'm a little concerned
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A.I. Borgland Corp posted:Yes! Now we don't have to talk about polygon anymore! If Griffin ever "does something" with Nick again I will burn the entire McElroy empire to the ground.
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This just makes me want to be a max fun donator more now. Edit: or is it 'donor'? Rupert Buttermilk fucked around with this message at 18:12 on Apr 24, 2018 |
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A.I. Borgland Corp posted:Yes! Now we don't have to talk about polygon anymore! gently caress off. Pastrymancy posted:They did kill a few of the video segments off the youtube channel last week. I'm a little concerned I'm actually hopeful this means they'll be able to keep everybody else on staff. Clearing off some cap space, as it were. But who knows.
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Well assuming Polygon isn’t going under, it seems that not much is actually going to change. They’re still going to do Monster Factory whenever they feel like it, still going to do awful squad, and still going to do Besties. So basically what they’re doing now. Just...without getting paid? But yeah the prognosis for Polygon is not great at this point.
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I said it in the polygon thread but the biggest surprise about the announcement to me was that they were still working full-time at polygon on top of everything else they've been doing. I kinda assumed they'd gone part-time years ago. They're also not ending anything they were still doing regularly at Polygon:quote:Our footprint isn't completely going to disappear from Polygon. We're in talks to continue doing Monster Factory on ... some kind of schedule, though we're still ironing out exactly what that's going to look like. We're also going to keep doing Awful Squad on an ad-hoc basis, and are in the process of figuring out a way to keep doing Besties, mostly because I refuse to let Chris and Russ win the tontine we all paid into years ago. so who knows, really. glad they're finally getting some more hours in the day to spend with their kids
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Apr 24, 2018 18:17
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Yeah, Justin and Griffin are scheduled to be in an Awful Squad today. This is sad, and a little concerning given that the McElroy empire pulls in most of the views on Polygon
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Apr 24, 2018 18:20
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Justin's been Editor-At-Large for a few years now, so I don't think that he was full time. But Griffin was on just enough stuff that I thought he was maybe still recovering from the babby, and I guess it's just something he can't allot time for anymore. I get it, and don't blame them at all.
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Apr 24, 2018 18:20
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In conclusion, Polygon sucks, and now will suck slightly more
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Also everyone insisting that polygon is dead without the mcelroys hasn't actually been watching anything polygon has been putting out b/c they've been in very few things in general in recent years + the non-mcelroy crew has been putting out a ton of great stuff recently, especially the new hires (brian is a treasure) I also really really doubt that Griffin would be saying how much he looks forward to the stuff Polygon is going to be putting out in the future if the site was dying (just like they wouldn't have been actively looking for new hires if the site was dying) edit: also also this is your weekly reminder to put Borland on ignore and never look back
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Apr 24, 2018 18:22
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The last monster factory has 198k views, which is more than all the most recent episodes of polygon shows put together
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Colonel Whitey posted:So basically what they’re doing now. Just...without getting paid? I get your point here, but don't they have something like 20k+ paid max fun donors? Were they referring to just MBMBAM or across all max fun shows? Minimum donation is what, $5? So minimum $100k/month is definitely incredible. Especially for a podcast.
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flatluigi posted:
Dude thinks Polygon content is bad AND thinks Griffin should work with Nick again. I mean god drat
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:I get your point here, but don't they have something like 20k+ paid max fun donors? Were they referring to just MBMBAM or across all max fun shows? Oh I just meant not getting paid for the Polygon stuff
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Apr 24, 2018 18:30
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Nicks biggest crime was not being very funny, tbh. When he was funny he was usually just aping Griffin anyway. Hot take, I know.
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Drunkboxer posted:Nicks biggest crime was not being very funny, tbh. When he was funny he was usually just aping Griffin anyway. Hot take, I know. I never thought Nick was very funny, I’m right there with you. He was still a good enough wall for Griffin to bounce off though. The stuff they made was good.
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flatluigi posted:Also everyone insisting that polygon is dead without the mcelroys hasn't actually been watching anything polygon has been putting out b/c they've been in very few things in general in recent years + the non-mcelroy crew has been putting out a ton of great stuff recently, especially the new hires (brian is a treasure) I was mostly sad that Video Game Theatre was ending. At least they got the Tetris episode in
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Apr 24, 2018 18:37
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Apr 24, 2018 18:39
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Drunkboxer posted:Nicks biggest crime was not being very funny, tbh. When he was funny he was usually just aping Griffin anyway. Hot take, I know. It is known: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovRR1lK7vgw&t=1228s
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Apr 24, 2018 18:40
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RIP to those sweet sweet boys. I can definitely relate to having to give up a part of your life that you really enjoy just so you can have time to live the other parts of said life.
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Colonel Whitey posted:I never thought Nick was very funny, I’m right there with you. He was still a good enough wall for Griffin to bounce off though. The stuff they made was good. This was exactly his merit. He was never funny on his own, as you can see in the Quiplash clip that Half of Dracula linked, but he did dumb poo poo that made Griffin laugh, and was able to come up with things that Griffin could make funny. He was an ideas man, at best, but there was merit to it. Too bad he ended up being a creep.
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Nick was definitely there to make Griffin funnier. I did laugh a few times at a Nick joke though. I don't think Griffin working with Nick again would be a good direction to go in now that he has to double down on having a super inclusive audience. Not that it would have even a small chance of happening.
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The best thing Nick ever did was have a Loss joke fly over his head, and then get really mad about it. The second best was saying "On the rocks" when naming their bartending kiss simulator.
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Griffin is one of the least likely people to ever want to work with Nick Robinson again, right after every one of the dozens of women that Nick creeped on and harassed over the years. I don't know how clear it is these days, but for people who weren't around at the time it was clear how loving betrayed Griffin was by the news coming out.
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Like many harassers getting outed Nick took advantage of people that wanted to get into games media/comedy, which honestly seems like a big loss in terms of what we could've had. https://twitter.com/griffinmcelroy/status/988827878686064640 What could this be???
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flatluigi posted:Griffin is one of the least likely people to ever want to work with Nick Robinson again, right after every one of the dozens of women that Nick creeped on and harassed over the years. I don't know how clear it is these days, but for people who weren't around at the time it was clear how loving betrayed Griffin was by the news coming out. I'd love to read anything about this. Not that I don't believe it, I absolutely do. I just want to read about it.
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Pastrymancy posted:Oh goodness Voice work begins on Trolls 2.
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Bard Maddox posted:let’s go to hell was wretched it was also a concept straight-up stolen from [url="https://"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHTnEwQKNwm49CQeCVZogMw"]someone else on youtube[/url] that Nick had to backpedal about when people immediately pointed it out
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I love that quiplash episode because of how salty nick gets over his losses, they didn't do another one until he left flatluigi posted:Griffin is one of the least likely people to ever want to work with Nick Robinson again, right after every one of the dozens of women that Nick creeped on and harassed over the years. I don't know how clear it is these days, but for people who weren't around at the time it was clear how loving betrayed Griffin was by the news coming out. I don't remember Griffin saying anything about other than not knowing about it Raserys fucked around with this message at 18:58 on Apr 24, 2018 |
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flatluigi posted:Griffin is one of the least likely people to ever want to work with Nick Robinson again, right after every one of the dozens of women that Nick creeped on and harassed over the years. I don't know how clear it is these days, but for people who weren't around at the time it was clear how loving betrayed Griffin was by the news coming out. Yeah, I think that happening was the last nail in the coffin for Griffin leaving Polygon. His letter said he brought up leaving two years ago, but was still one of the biggest video producers up to the exact moment the Nick news hit. I'm sure that soured things for him, and gave him a lot less of a reason to keep trying to make the balance work. Raserys posted:I don't remember Griffin saying anything about other than not knowing about it He made some statements condemning the behavior as strongly as he could with Polygon having a lid on all employees discussing it for a couple weeks. Since then, he has never mentioned Nick again on anything. Considering the guy was his main producing partner outside his family at that point, it's pretty clear he cut him out of his life. Poor Miserable Gurgi fucked around with this message at 19:04 on Apr 24, 2018 |
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