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Loeb CL posted:And I will buy Onideus' book, for sure. I need to know what he thinks about Ron Paul and eating pedophiles. Consider, though, how this course of action involves giving him money. His opinion is whichever gets him the most negative attention, I can tell you that for sure.
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HipGnosis posted:BVegas1982 Dude's a fuckin' pogue, he ain't never shot nobody. We can smell our own. As it happens, I was in South Korea in 2001 and OIF in 2003 and he's got the pogue chub going big time. His Korea picture's way zoomed out and tiny and he's not wearing his DCU blouse in his OIF picture so you can't see his unit patch. Also those pogue-rear end wire-frame sunglasses, gimme a break. Even if he was 11 series, I guarantee you he was the smug barely-passing-his-PT-test shitbag nobody liked.
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Aug 2, 2013 20:37
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Calaveron posted:What's the average ridiculist age anyway? Isfahan's comment makes me estimate ~really loving old. I'll be 32 in a few weeks. Not that old, but old enough to remember seeing the Nintendo cereal commercial firsthand. Also eating it. As I recall, it had the texture of Cap'n Crunch, but more airy and flavored like Froot Loops. Also it was shaped like Mario and Zelda things in that same extremely vague way that they shape fruit snacks and Spaghetti-Os like things. Squint fucked around with this message at 21:47 on Aug 4, 2013 |
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There's a new episode out now about a role-playing forum called Chicken Smoothie. Role-playing is not, so far as I know, the main feature of the site, something about adoptable neopets-type stuff? Anyway, stupid role-playing characters and premises. Go listen.
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Awesome stuff to hear, I'll definitely pass it on. As for content, I know we have a couple of episodes floating about in Editing Hell, and as I don't have anything on my plate currently I'll be getting in touch with Lemon to see if I can help roll out a new episode.
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QuestWhat posted:I've been marathoning the newest episodes recently and they've all been great so far but I've noticed that Portaxx hasn't been in any of them. Is she too busy to take part in the podcast right now or did she decide to quit because of the MRA episode? RL stuff has demanded more of her attention of late, so she's had to shift more of her time to that.
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Sep 22, 2013 21:50
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Tatum Girlparts posted:Nope he has a whole 'album' (I loving guess???) about him loving Reshiram and how she's stronger than him and takes care of him and he really sounds like the most Downs Syndrome man in the world. I don't think JustinRPG is full-on Downs, but he is perhaps one of the most concentrated, aggressively unsocialized people I know of on the modern Internet. That aside, it's also apparent he does have something wrong with him upstairs, but I'm not knowledgeable enough to guess what the specific condition is. He does repeatedly press on how, in his fantasy, Reshiram takes care of him and looks after him. He does it during that radio call-in skit he wrote, which we read for Episode 100. During that recording I even say "Oedipus, what's that?" because it's pretty obvious this guy is already looked after in every aspect of his life and has to do nothing for himself. From his perspective, the only thing which could improve his situation is if his caregiver was also a gently caress-buddy. Enter Reshiram.
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We actually all love Ulillillia, and JustinRPG would never be an episode-spanning focus of ridicule like the more deserving RooshV and Mike-Bike. David Gonterman could also be an episode unto himself, and he'd deserve it.
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For those curious about what Lemon's referring to in the end bumper regarding "ponies with guns," and then me complaining about pony guns, it's because of an image posted in the funny image thread with someone out there trying way too hard to make their pony self-insert badass: I wondered aloud why ponies, who do not have fingers, would develop weapons with human ergonomics. Then someone posted another image with a more pony-friendly gun and I went a little TFR:  That's about the long and short of it. Squint fucked around with this message at 10:51 on Oct 4, 2013 |
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Tatum Girlparts posted:That's not just someone trying way too hard, that's someone (I have no idea if it's 'official' or not) making art of a fanfic crossing MLP into Fallout world that spans like, four real sized novels worth of pages (we know this because they printed it as four books and sold it) that's all about ponies shooting ponies and taking all the humor out of both MLP and Fallout and trying to be as over the top grimdark and serious as possible. Yeah, the genesis of such a thing is completely baffling to me, and knowing how much material there is effectively saps any enthusiasm I might have had for researching it.
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Mighty Dicktron posted:I swear I'm hearing Fragmaster in the "F Plus Jingle". It's exactly like something he'd do. I thought so too! The audio was definitely evocative of the Flash stuff he and Lowtax used to do back in the Jeff K/Fireman Comics days.
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It's the comment equivalent of putting a couple of bucks in the tip jar so that it isn't completely empty and thus affords you some credibility. Their problem is they forgot to log out first. Speaking of which, I'm absolutely certain people do that with their own Kickstarter projects too. I have no difficulty believing that the five dollars put up for the Hip Clip came from Jeremy Fernandez himself.
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Tatum Girlparts posted:You guys the new episode is about loving clowns. Indeed it is! Too lazy to go there on your own? Have a link!
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Here's a late episode on incel nerds, including one sorry batshit guy who doesn't know the difference between writing a story with a plot and writing a technical overview.
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Nov 2, 2013 21:56
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2house2fly posted:Oh my God you guys have to do a NaNoWriMo episode! Guess what we recorded Friday night.
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It's not even a story, though, really. It has no plot or characters. It's just world-building for one very specific aspect of some alien society which then immediately gives way to the author announcing that it's wish-fulfillment and if a bunch of software developers could get to work on the dating-without-socializing wank in this "story" he just wrote, that would be awesome.
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TetsuoTW posted:Bullshit, girls just wait for a seat on the cock carousel to open up. I hear it's rarely worth it. Rotten Red Rod posted:Say it with me: DATING TAKES WORK. THERE'S NO SHORTCUTS. no but you see COMPUTERS
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Nov 4, 2013 23:57
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DoctorWhat posted:Was that Squint doing the Lou impersonation at the end? Squint does the best impersonations and you should have him do his Otacon voice whenever appropriate. Yeah, it was me. Really, though, you'd be surprised how difficult it is to work something Otacon is known for saying into the flow of commentary.
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QuestWhat posted:Speaking of Irregular, why did you guys stop making it? Did you run out of subjects to talk to or are people afraid of coming onto the show because it's a spinoff of a podcast that would normally mock them? Squint mentioned at the end of the recent episode that the gang tried to do one of Bronies but it didn't happen in the end. How long ago was that when it got canned? My assumption is that the name of the project scares people off, especially in the case of bronies ("What, 'Irregular?' I'm not irregular! They're just gonna make fun of me!"). I was the one trying to put together the brony episode. I got close: I had a fan artist and a fan composer lined up, but even they relied on other people referring me to them because it's not like I have a who's-who in bronydom written down on a Post-It next to my monitor. The fanfic writer thing is where it fell apart. I wanted at least somewhat prominent content creators in the brony fandom; not just any bronies would do for me. This was because content creators tend to have a more well-rounded impression on the ins and outs of a fandom rather than the hooting peanut-gallery platitudes and cheerleading of the pure consumers. I even tried sending Robcakeran53, the writer of My Little Dashie, a Skype message, but he never replied. Neither did the other two or three authors I'd been told about. Aside from that, I was having a hard time finding a good couple of hours to schedule for the two bronies I did have on board and it just sort of fizzled. The time frame for all of this was from November 2012 to February 2013. But yeah I guess now that we skewered My Little Dashie a bit, I'd hazard a guess that Rob's probably not interested in being interviewed. Squint fucked around with this message at 04:33 on Dec 11, 2013 |
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Grondoth posted:Man I'd be so down for a Fallout Equestria episode. I'm only slightly familiar with Fallout Equestria. My knowledge mostly extends to how long it is (over 600,000 words) and how it was one of the first fanfics to make "put happy colorful ponies in a super grimdark setting and then have them kill each other" a Thing™. Also my inner TFR poster disapproves of its weapon designs.
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steinrokkan posted:Don't you look stupid now, Isfahan - the pistol is chambered for 10 mm because that's the standard caliber used in Fallout 3 So... does that mean 10mm Auto cartridges wouldn't be snappy just because it's in a fantasy setting?  Also, Portaxx just posted a lovely rant over in the ballpit: portaxx posted:Ah, it's good to be back! Squint fucked around with this message at 01:47 on Dec 12, 2013 |
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DD": Thanks, I'm glad the silly art I did for a friend's birthday aided you in your sexual dysfunction. I'm even more glad that you loving told me all about it!
": At this point you may be wondering why I haven't become a serial killer. And at this point, I'm wondering the same thing myself.
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Flython posted:I'm glad to see there's some possible milsperg, gun porn enthusiasts coming up. I've gotta be in on that episode. Gotta be. I know we have the mall ninja posts, those would probably be required reading.
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Dec 12, 2013 02:43
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I see my pitched episode title of "Wiki Wiki Wild Wild Mess" didn't make the cut. Oh well.
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Dec 14, 2013 23:54
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Man, what kind of serial-killer poo poo is that? Does it make any more sense in context?
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Dec 29, 2013 16:47
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I wanted to stop into AGDQ myself next weekend, but apparently it's like 80 bucks just to sit in. That, combined with the gas and Metro costs (I'd be coming in to DC from the south and AGDQ is up in Bethesda), knocked it out of my price range. Anyway, regarding the latest episode, I'd forgotten how it hits that sweet spot between consistently absurd yet sane enough to at least follow. Many grins for me while listening.
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Jan 6, 2014 06:55
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Pretty much anything where we read either a story or a script gets a lot of listening time from me. The sock-transformation episode, the Transformers fan-script, and the Resident Evil/CSI/Star Wars & Robotnik script episodes are probably my most-played.
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Jan 27, 2014 21:36
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Someone's going through the ballpit forums mining posts of mine and then putting them on Tumblr so they have something to not like together with their Tumblr friends. Opinion and snark apparently work great until you get around to something someone doesn't like, then you're a monster. It's mostly stuff where I'm not completely sensitive to the Tumblr line on trans folks and asexuals. Some of those posts were me speaking genuinely from ignorance, wanting to know more, which I never tried to hide even in the posts themselves, others were more jokey but of course in completely poor taste to Tumblr standards. So yeah! Inter-site drama. Lap it up.
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Nah, I can tell this poo poo is coming from a more personal place. Someone doesn't like me specifically, because it's just my posts, removed from any context.
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I'm not scheduled to read tonight! This is pretty great news for me.
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Feb 1, 2014 14:54
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The debate episode is great because there are obviously folks participating in it who don't even understand the premise of their own debate. "Which Is Better: Star Wars or Stargate" was actually "Which Would Win in a Fight," for example. That was also the actual premise behind "Which Is Better: Pokemon or Digimon."
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Feb 2, 2014 14:33
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The sock-transformation story is a perfect example of how you can make something bizarre and unsettling become entertaining with the right bit of commentary and shared detachment. I could never ever listen to that story without all those guys riffing it, and yet with them it's part of one of my most-listened-to episodes.
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If you have blood-pressure medication, be sure to take it before listening.
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A Meat posted:edit: now that I've listened to the episode, how do some of these people actually get access to the internet and post this? I've seen homeless (or at least homeless-looking and smelling) people at the library before, using the computers. That could be how.
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I spoke to this a little bit in the episode comments already, but I'll speak to it here too. It's hard to articulate what makes someone cringe over the material, true, but here's what I came up with after giving it a think: These tryhard gimmick nerd weddings exploit the social contract. A wedding is an event that people take off work for. It's an event people will fly hundreds of miles to attend. It's an event that generally reflects poorly on someone who turns down the invitation for non-essential reasons. Perhaps it's done so subconsciously, but these people picked up on the fact that a wedding provides not only a captive audience, but a captive audience expected to show an outward appearance of enjoying themselves and approving of the proceedings. Top it off with an event that's all about them, and you have a geeky fringe-appeal party legitimized by the broader social acceptance of the wedding part of it. A couple of the ones read about in the episode hardly seemed like weddings at all, like the wedding part was an afterthought to all the poo poo they actually wanted to do. The Harry Potter/ren-fair one illustrated this particularly well. So now you have an event where 58-year-old Aunt Miriam is wearing a top hat with gears glued on it and drinking from a Mega Man E-tank mug while Uncle Bill is passed a microphone and feels pressure to talk about how awesome the bride and groom are even though the officiant already did so for a half hour at the ceremony (while dressed as Chris Redfield). It feels less like a wedding at that point and more like a micro-convention that two people successfully guilted their friends and family into populating.
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You guys like Q&A episodes, right? Well, even if you don't, here's more of it.
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