Fellatio del Toro posted:

imagine you do a podcast with your brothers and become a father and make dad jokes and then eat nothing but beans for like a year and talk about it all the time on your podcast but then the guy who wrote your theme song stabs you in the back and snatches the Bean Dad moniker right out from under you

eke out posted:

update: griffin says he's using 5e rules but also some homebrewed stuff about ships for both combat and living?

unclear what the technology level is, i assume he means old-timey and not spaceships but the latter is possible

Mr Phillby posted:

Tbh I'm glad he didn't double down on the slurs even if his given explanation for those posts is extremely dumb.

I'll probably continue to listen to friendly fire with the new knowledge that one of the hosts is an enormous idiot but probably not a chud. The last episode I listened to before the bean hit the dad they joked about people online calling John a 'liberal cuck' all the time and after 'I can reclaim these slurs myself!' I can see why lol.

It was about time for a new theme song anyway, impecable timing to meltdown on twitter just before the first episode of the year came out.

DoombatINC posted:

I have also been thinking about this a lot, about the usurping of Bean Dad

Piell posted:

Could be spelljammer??????

eke out posted:

update: griffin says he's using 5e rules but also some homebrewed stuff about ships for both combat and living?

unclear what the technology level is, i assume he means old-timey and not spaceships but the latter is possible

Ok Comboomer posted:

and then imagine that in one star-crossed evening you catapult your recognition into the stratosphere, an audience one hundred thousand times larger than your previous base becomes aware of your existence in the blink of an eye

a podcaster’s deepest wish come true—

but, alas, they know you not for your years of podcasting or music, your omnibus of work...not even Omnibus—

[...]

there is only bean dad now

Sivart13 posted:

For what it's worth, Omnibus' Patreon has bumped up its earnings a cool $1000/mo over the last three days, from which you could draw multiple potentially contradictory conclusions. It would seem in the short term becoming a Bean Dad is not bad for business

(minus the possibly temporary loss of Friendly Fire income and burning goodwill with his friends)

Ok Comboomer posted:

imagine spending over a decade building your brand online, painstakingly leveraging professional and personal relationships to integrate yourself in several podcasting and internet media communities, slowly increasing your take-home pay from small donations and memberships until you can essentially quit your former career making music and become a full-time internet entertainer. It’s a modest income, but it’s all you—your blood, your sweat, and your tears

and then imagine that in one star-crossed evening you catapult your recognition into the stratosphere, an audience one hundred thousand times larger than your previous base becomes aware of your existence in the blink of an eye

a podcaster’s deepest wish come true—

but, alas, they know you not for your years of podcasting or music, your omnibus of work...not even Omnibus—

“bean dad!” they call you

“bean dad!” they cry from atop the houses

“somebody call CPS!” shouts one bystander

“it’s abuse!” cries another

“look, it’s a bunch of horrible horrible race jokes!” yells a man, pointing to a sack of red meat that appears ~8 years old. “Come see! Come see the Bean Dad’s secret crimes!”

“bean dad is a nazi!” jeers a woman

you take your head in your hands

the monkey’s paw has curled a finger, you got your wish of great online fame....but at what cost?

whatever happens to you now—you know not

some high-profile friends have already turned on you, others with more at stake gamely try to defend your honor from the onslaught

John Roderick has been eclipsed and buried by his new, true form

there is only bean dad now

Ok Comboomer posted:

There’s no way Jesse doesn’t burn Roderick and give Ben+Adam the ultimatum to drop him from FF or lose the support of MaxFun for that podcast (they’d keep Greatest Gen on, of course).

I fully expect Jesse to go exactly the way the McElroys did, and to go about it in the most classically “woke Jesse” way—big and performative.

Fellatio del Toro posted:

imagine you do a podcast with your brothers and become a father and make dad jokes and then eat nothing but beans for like a year and talk about it all the time on your podcast but then the guy who wrote your theme song stabs you in the back and snatches the Bean Dad moniker right out from under you

Zero One posted:

there was a mentioned but never done Space setting that I think Griffin wanted to do as a short after Balance.

Bugsy posted:

Hate to continue bean chat but

https://twitter.com/mathewolson/status/1345955014825680897

Pham Nuwen posted:

The existence of this book, and especially the sample tweet in it, has turned my opinion from "John Roderick is a dumbass who tells exaggerated stories, makes music I dislike, and has bad ideas about ironic racism" to "gently caress John Roderick, cancel the podcasts, salt the earth."

wizzardstaff posted:

Do you mean the one they did for the Hootenanny live show or is there a different space setting they talked about?

That one was real fun for a joke but I don't know it has campaign material.

wizzardstaff posted:

Davedave24 posted:

good thing nobody I like has ever made dumb merchandise for a laugh

GoldenJoe posted:

Yeah, maybe we'll also discover that he's friends with LMM, or that he has some lame bit in his podcast where he just reads off entire ads for free, then we can really dunk on this guy.

Ok Comboomer posted:

lol at Roderick having his milkshake duck moment eclipsed by a goddamn attempted coup

Colonel Whitey posted:

The big dog is really runnin today. no bones about it

Entropic posted:

lol it made the BBC https://twitter.com/bbcworld/status/1346075985385582594?s=21