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I started to lose the plot once there started actually being a coherent, Lovecraft-style plot with the mayoral elections and poo poo. I should get back into it.
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Jan 17, 2019 18:59
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the canonical list of annoying podcast ads is as follows (no particular order) Bombas socks Casper mattresses Squarespace Blue Apron Audible.com Legalzoom additions welcome of course
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Jan 17, 2019 19:02
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Jan 17, 2019 19:03
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Robert Shapiro started Legal zoom, IIRC.
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Jan 17, 2019 19:06
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Nuns with Guns posted:Sorry this was a bit back, but yeah there were two SYAC threads. They both died off quickly because there's something about Dobson that makes people go loving insane and get creepily personal. You can see that one was closed because webdog started digging up picture's of Dobson's girlfriend and getting weird about them. The second one was locked after someone had a meltdown and said Dobson is to art what pedophiles are to children (to bring this all full cycle to other discussions in the thread right now). Man, Webdog got a picture of Tim Buckley's house that one time, didn't he? I remember he would dig up crazy poo poo. It was a little scary.
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Jan 17, 2019 19:12
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Slippery posted:the canonical list of annoying podcast ads is as follows (no particular order) Does Adam and Eve still advertise on every podcast?
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Jan 17, 2019 19:14
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DicktheCat posted:Man, Webdog got a picture of Tim Buckley's house that one time, didn't he? If I recall correctly, Webdog is the reason the CAD mock threads were finally shut down. gently caress that guy. Those threads were a delight. The fact that loss.jpg edits are still around is incredible.
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Jan 17, 2019 19:21
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I agree, I miss those threads.
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Jan 17, 2019 19:28
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I think the doxxing stuff is worse actually than those threads closing
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Jan 17, 2019 19:29
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ju s' having an extreme normal one watching a man who made a bad webcomic ten years ago.
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Jan 17, 2019 19:37
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Does Adam and Eve still advertise on every podcast? Oh god, I forgot them, thanks 
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Jan 17, 2019 20:02
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Slippery posted:the canonical list of annoying podcast ads is as follows (no particular order) THREE US PRESIDENTS bee oh ell ell and branch dot com I'm more of a satellite radio guy, but PRX and podcasts sometimes overlap. 1 8 7 7 Kars 4 kids Kay aaie are ess *slams radio button for anything else* CannonFodder has a new favorite as of 20:39 on Jan 17, 2019 |
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Jan 17, 2019 20:23
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Nobody mention MeUndies yet?
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Jan 17, 2019 20:29
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Webdog shows up in threads every so often to downplay the internet detective stuff and insist he did nothing wrong
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Jan 17, 2019 20:32
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CannonFodder posted:THREE US PRESIDENTS oh god yes, you're right there's a lot of cross over with satellite radio (Especially THREE PRESIDENTS god I hate that one. Ugh, how do they even know...I just have lots of questions. Are these Presidents living or dead???) Same with Kars 4 Kidzzz. I haven't heard it as much on podcasts but while listening to XM on a road trip it came up ALL THE TIME along with BIG LOU...although I like that one. Big Lou, he's just like you...except he's only on number 2.
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Jan 17, 2019 20:44
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I learned the other day that Karz4Kidz donates half its proceeds to an organization that targets Jews and tries to convert them to Orthodoxy lol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oorah_(organization) e: also quote:In 2017, the Minnesota Attorney General conducted a compliance review and submitted a 300 page report to the IRS. The report found that only 44% of funds raised by Kars4Kids went to good works, and that the charity had invested in a Ponzi scheme, in addition to losing $9.2 million from real estate projects controlled by the second cousin of the Kars4Kids CEO. I actually donated my old car to them when it died because it was literally the easiest way to get rid of a $200 car requiring $3000 in repairs, but at least I know they got maybe a couple hundred in scrap off it. Snow Cone Capone has a new favorite as of 20:52 on Jan 17, 2019 |
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Jan 17, 2019 20:49
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Snow Cone Capone posted:I started to lose the plot once there started actually being a coherent, Lovecraft-style plot with the mayoral elections and poo poo. I should get back into it. That's when I stopped listening. I liked it as background stuff, where if you kinda didn't listen to one episode you could just move on to the next. Then again, that was before I was being treated for ADHD. I might be able to actually pay attention to a podcast now.
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Jan 17, 2019 21:08
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Araenna posted:That's when I stopped listening. I liked it as background stuff, where if you kinda didn't listen to one episode you could just move on to the next. Then again, that was before I was being treated for ADHD. I might be able to actually pay attention to a podcast now. I tried to follow it and the last I remember is Cecil went into I think a painting and was trapped with his boyfriend in a lighthouse in the painting? Or something similarly bizarre. An army of zombies or something gets summoned? I want to say the mayoral election, and the reveal that the white dude who claims he's a native american shaman is actually a native american shaman, were where I started dropping off. e: less "the glowing cloud's nefarious long-term plans are REVEALED" and more "the glowing cloud is dropping animal carcasses instead of rain so go on down to the hardware store where they're having a sale on heavy-duty umbrellas!" I guess
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Jan 17, 2019 21:15
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If you like wrestleman podcasts, the best for ads is the Jim Cornette Experience / Drive Thru, because they do a fun spot for their same one or two sponsors at the head of the show, maybe shill some of Cornette's merch, and that's it. The worst wrestleman podcast is Bruce Prichard's, where they interrupt the show to cum over whatever hot garbage is throwing them a dollar, a minimum of four times each episode, and for two and a half minutes a pop. Also the super fat co-host has to say "rumor and innuendo" at least two hundred times an hour.
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Jan 17, 2019 21:41
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the escape goat posted:If I recall correctly, Webdog is the reason the CAD mock threads were finally shut down.
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Jan 17, 2019 22:04
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Nuns with Guns posted:Sorry this was a bit back, but yeah there were two SYAC threads. They both died off quickly because there's something about Dobson that makes people go loving insane and get creepily personal. You can see that one was closed because webdog started digging up picture's of Dobson's girlfriend and getting weird about them. The second one was locked after someone had a meltdown and said Dobson is to art what pedophiles are to children (to bring this all full cycle to other discussions in the thread right now). Good lord that sucks. I like the start of them when you get a glut of terrible comics, edits, and posts etc. So I at least have that to look forward to
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Jan 17, 2019 22:09
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Dillbag posted:If you like wrestleman podcasts, the best for ads is the Jim Cornette Experience / Drive Thru, because they do a fun spot for their same one or two sponsors at the head of the show, maybe shill some of Cornette's merch, and that's it. I don't remember what Steve Austin or Jim Ross have been shilling lately, but their ad reads are always amusing.
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Jan 17, 2019 22:18
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Snow Cone Capone posted:I started to lose the plot once there started actually being a coherent, Lovecraft-style plot with the mayoral elections and poo poo. I should get back into it. I jumped off when it started to focus less on creepy town stuff and more on the romcom that is Cecil and Carlos
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Jan 17, 2019 23:33
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EmmyOk posted:Good lord that sucks. I like the start of them when you get a glut of terrible comics, edits, and posts etc. So I at least have that to look forward to The current mock thread has none of the weird stalkerish poo poo. It's mostly a chat thread for like fifteen people where we also posted bad comics to laugh at.
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Jan 17, 2019 23:44
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I think it was someone on these forums who said "Nightvale couldn't decide if it wanted to be funny or spooky so it settled for neither" and that always summed it up pretty well for me.
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Jan 17, 2019 23:56
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like all podcasts, night vale is better if you just read the transcripts
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Jan 18, 2019 00:06
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Moon Slayer posted:I think it was someone on these forums who said "Nightvale couldn't decide if it wanted to be funny or spooky so it settled for neither" and that always summed it up pretty well for me. That under sells it though, it's not another podcast that sucks. It's a new concept and is well done in its own right, neither lolrandom or SO SPOOPY, it's actually worth listening to
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Jan 18, 2019 00:07
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I loved the first...50? Then, like everyone else, it got into the mayoral election with Hiram McDaniels (i still don't know who this is, but they repeated his name every ten seconds) and I stopped giving a poo poo.
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Jan 18, 2019 00:09
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Who What Now posted:The current mock thread has none of the weird stalkerish poo poo. It's mostly a chat thread for like fifteen people where we also posted bad comics to laugh at. I always loved a good mock thread before it ate itself. I lurked CAD mock threads for years before I regged (the first one had the most fantastic timing, it was posted like two days before Loss came out and everyone just lost their poo poo about it).
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Jan 18, 2019 00:11
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I wanted to like nightvale but it's bad. Every joke is like "normal thing. Normal thing. Extremely weird and spooky thing. (long pause) Different normal thing" and "weird twin peaks wanna be townspeople did something weird, but we're sure it's not anything weird (long pause)" It's bad, Todd
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Jan 18, 2019 00:21
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Who What Now posted:The current mock thread has none of the weird stalkerish poo poo. It's mostly a chat thread for like fifteen people where we also posted bad comics to laugh at. The dream
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Jan 18, 2019 00:23
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purple death ray posted:I wanted to like nightvale but it's bad. Every joke is like "normal thing. Normal thing. Extremely weird and spooky thing. (long pause) Different normal thing" and "weird twin peaks wanna be townspeople did something weird, but we're sure it's not anything weird (long pause)" 
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Jan 18, 2019 00:23
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EmmyOk posted:The dream Hogge Wild is also there, complaining that people don't post the good bad comics and nobody makes edits anymore, so it's not perfect.
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Jan 18, 2019 00:33
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Moon Slayer posted:Hogge Wild is also there, complaining that people don't post the good bad comics and nobody makes edits anymore, so it's not perfect. ah yeds well that makes sense because have you ever tried reading or punching in a dream, not everything is perf
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Jan 18, 2019 00:34
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Moon Slayer posted:I think it was someone on these forums who said "Nightvale couldn't decide if it wanted to be funny or spooky so it settled for neither" and that always summed it up pretty well for me. yeah the desire to add an overarching plot and not just keep on the "AM radio from the Twilight Zone" path was what led to a lot of the boring stuff Oxxidation posted:like all podcasts, night vale is better if you just read the transcripts I have the transcript books and they are great. Haven't started the actual separate novel though (It Devours) but I'm not super-enthusiastic, since the desire to form a coherent plot is what made the show stop being good in the first place. Queen Combat posted:I loved the first...50? Then, like everyone else, it got into the mayoral election with Hiram McDaniels (i still don't know who this is, but they repeated his name every ten seconds) and I stopped giving a poo poo. Like the mayor, and the indian chief, Hiram was a one-off throwaway that they shoehorned into the big plot, and while the concept of a 5-headed dragon voiced by Jackson Publick is OK, the whole "lol he's a gigantic 5-headed dragon but nobody reacts like that's a weird thing" was really bad in execution (there's only so much you can listen to a dude argue with himself in different voices). I think he originally shows up in an early episode simply as someone who ran from the cops after a traffic stop.
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Jan 18, 2019 00:40
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purple death ray posted:I wanted to like nightvale but it's bad. Every joke is like "normal thing. Normal thing. Extremely weird and spooky thing. (long pause) Different normal thing" and "weird twin peaks wanna be townspeople did something weird, but we're sure it's not anything weird (long pause)" this is a valid opinion I think. To me it's a great combination of fairly funny but also incredibly relaxing. I don't listen to podcasts usually but Night Vale always mellowed me out. I dunno, there's just something I find generally humorous and endearing about a town where weird poo poo happens on the reg and people just roll with it. Snow Cone Capone has a new favorite as of 00:44 on Jan 18, 2019 |
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Jan 18, 2019 00:42
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Everyone who likes Night Vale and has never listened to Joe Frank needs to fix that right now.
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Jan 18, 2019 01:18
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I've heard the novel actually does make the whole thing come together incredibly well. Have not confirmed but the guy who said that hated the podcast and only hate-read the novel.
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Jan 18, 2019 01:25
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purple death ray posted:Webdog shows up in threads every so often to downplay the internet detective stuff and insist he did nothing wrong Yeah, he has retconned all of the stuff about pictures of people's houses and the jokes about his creeper van to that he had nothing to do with it. Unrelated people just stalked these people, completely on their own, and gave him the information for no reason, unsolicited.
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