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A find from ballp.it: a radio show making fun of these assholes from 50 years in the past. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xxz6_utUsZo This episode was amazing, because as with everyone else I expected it to go in a completely different direction than it did. I knew these guys were pretentious suckers, but I didn't expect them to literally be buying rocks to improve their audio quality.
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New episode, about past lives! I love episodes about hippy-crazy making the jump into the information age.
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Jun 15, 2014 05:22
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WhiteBoyShuffle posted:I had no problem with the bug episode or sissykiss. But I cringed the whole time during the gum picking part, ow ow ow. I made sounds that can only be described as 'wailing, agonized ghost' during the gum-picking segment.
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Jul 24, 2014 04:13
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Good news, everyone! A new F Plus Live is happening! (I didn't know about Ballp.it's ':you:' tag, so I was very confused for a moment)
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Jul 28, 2014 12:15
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KingKalamari posted:Didn't that Nostalgia Critic guy quit his job in the most flamboyant way possible when he was making bank off ad revenue? What happened with that? I'm assuming nothing good. There's video of it, but gently caress if I'm gonna go find it. I'm pretty sure it involved a boombox playing Also Sprach Zarathustra as he held up and danced with an 'I Quit' sign in the cafeteria. Doug Walker's probably one of the few internet critics that could ever afford to do that, though. Even if TGWTG does stop being able to pay his bills (and it doesn't look like it will) then he's clearly accrued enough cred in his field to get a job in it.
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Aug 3, 2014 02:45
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I looked through the submitted content table, just to make sure that I was right. My favorite recent flavor of Stupid Internet isn't even in there. I think it's now my duty to put together a Sovereign Citizen document. Question is where to start in looking for the stupid people. I know I want to include segments of the 140-page document by an actual judge debunking their entire platform, and I'm sure there are some good court transcripts around, but I don't know if there's just a whole bloody forum of people trading Legal Wizarding Tips.
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Aug 4, 2014 02:42
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I think Patreon's episode is sort of the odd one out of the 'Give Me Money' series, but not in a way that's unfunny. It's just a different type of funny. The other crowdfunding episodes have all been mainly about stupid people with bad ideas. They slot in with the Idea Wiki, AHHHA, and FilmProposals as people who're just laughably dumb. There's a smaller subsection of people who aren't as stupid, but make up for it by being insufferable, but it's mostly the Idiot Show. Patreon's balance is the other way around. There's some idiots, of course, but the main focus is on people with slightly more of a clue, but not enough to not be irritating. We're in the 'pretentious, self-absorbed people who don't get how the world works' corner, with NaNoWriMo, Review Rinse Repeat and Troper Tales. I personally don't like those kinds of episodes as much, mostly because these people give me douchechills, but it's not an inherently invalid angle.
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Aug 10, 2014 11:26
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They attacked my Internet Home a couple years ago, but I'm not exactly in a position to speak ill of them for it.
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Aug 11, 2014 04:49
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Stog is on fire in this episode, in his own Stog-like way.
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Aug 18, 2014 14:38
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Oh god, they're going to make me punch something. The Troper Tales episode is the only one I can't relisten to, because it's just so douchey.
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Aug 23, 2014 22:58
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Gimnbo posted:I'm pretty sure that's John (Toast). JT also pulls a convincing imitation in the waifu episode. I think everyone has a shot at Fat Voice at some point. It's also basically a Mr. Plinkett voice, so there's that.
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Sep 5, 2014 02:27
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Mokotow posted:For all the horrible things I heard so far on this podcast, it's the feet episode I can't get through. Yeah, the feet guys are somehow even more disgusting than the garbage fetishists. Probably because the content providers went in opposite directions for it. Montrith's said she tried to find the least disgusting stuff for the garbage episode, while Caroline clearly went 'feet are boring, let's compensate and find the worst feet people'.
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Sep 12, 2014 10:23
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I dunno what you guys are freaking out about, the Dorito's Sandwich (for kids!) is just fine.
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Sep 26, 2014 07:30
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alcharagia posted:Incidentally, the exchange in question was the following: Stog's books really were the best in both previous F Plus Lives. I'm still as in love with my water wife as the day we met.
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Oct 1, 2014 03:14
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Dragonatrix posted:why would you put a hood on a t-shirt?? that never looks good So it's an accurate match for the podcast's content?
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Oct 11, 2014 13:22
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watho posted:There aren't any non-great moments in that episode. I lost my poo poo during the Japanese wife who pretended to be dead every day when her husband came home and bunnybread's voices during his reading are amazing. The only difficult one is Stog's readings for the second half, because good lord was that guy terrible.
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Nov 5, 2014 11:39
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X-Ray Pecs posted:They said in the MRA episode that they don't want another one and people shouldn't send them docs for it, because the material is so horrible and disturbing. I think the ruling is that it can't just be MRAs and misogyny, there has to be more to it, and there has to be enough of that 'more' to be funny. PUAs get a tentative pass because even if they are misogynist as gently caress, they couch it in terrible dating advice and seduction techniques, which is funny by itself. As another example, take Gamergate. Misogynist to its core, but it's something more than that. It's also a bunch of stupid, deluded people who have an idea of what they want and how to get it, but haven't realized that both of those ideas are wrong and bad. I honestly think it's possible to compile a document on Gamergate, but it'd be a hard job to get material that isn't more infuriating than funny.
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Nov 24, 2014 08:13
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Tatum Girlparts posted:I'm just surprised there's a worse version of Epic Rap Battles of History that exists. I mentioned it on Ballp.it, but ERB is a pretty low hurdle to jump. Its simplicity should be an advantage for this, though; you'd at least learn the basics of rap, and the structure is rudimentary enough that you can plug in your own lines fairly easily. But for being such massive consumers of media, these guys are utter poo poo at actually watching it. They can't even grasp the basics of the structure, their references are really weak, they can't get the voices of incredibly simple characters right... Their viewing is so passive and unengaged that they can't even learn the simplest things about what they watch. I wish I could say this was news, but while this is certainly much more blatant, this was something Homestuck taught me. At its height, there were a lot of 'fanworks' made by people who'd never read the comic, but you couldn't tell them apart from work done by actual readers because both groups failed to get any of the characters right.
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Dec 22, 2014 00:44
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Hello Meow posted:She was at the start of the Awful Games block, iirc, so it was kind of fitting. Is the Awful Games block up for re-watch anywhere? I can never get live Twitch to work, and I wanted to see it anyway. It'd be even better with Occasional Portaxx.
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Jan 11, 2015 01:01
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Nyarai posted:Don't you mean Public Enemy Number One Hundred and One-y One? That's my absolute favorite moment in the whole podcast, just for that beat as everyone else just takes a moment to register it.
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Jan 13, 2015 21:51
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Djeser posted:In a podcast that's mostly just a recording of a Skype call, those sorts of effects are pretty good and unexpected. I can remember that one, some joke about John Toast going really in depth on some nerdy subject and they just faded out on him, the simulcast French/English thing with Acier and Isfahan(?) they did once, and Adam Bozarth doing an amazing sound effect for being a were-balloon in the fetish list episode. The best part of thee simulcast gag ws that you could hear people laughing and making jokes about the French version, too.
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Jan 15, 2015 04:16
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If I had an impractically large amount of money, I'd probably just start throwing it at someone like Patrick82 just to see what would happen. Maybe that happened, he's just some rich weirdo's pet project.
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Jan 19, 2015 06:35
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Get Innocuous! posted:He should give some of that money to Bboy360 so he can make that movie rife with gamerscore-driven conflict. This is completely unrelated, but whenever I hear a stupid person with an idea like that, I always find myself wondering 'is this, devoid of the guy coming up with it, a bad idea'? Usually the answer is 'yes', but sometimes you can see a pretty good idea in there if you feel it out. I would totally watch Cheevos: The Movie if it were a stoner comedy. Maybe like, a Seth Rogen movie at its most expensive, but lowbrow comedy with complete putz characters nonetheless.
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Jan 19, 2015 07:23
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RyokoTK posted:They've taken many, many shots at Bitcoins, so it's kind of weird that they haven't actually done an episode on it yet. Maybe no one's made a good doc about it. They've wanted to do a Bitcoin episode for years, I remember stumbling across a post on their Steam group where Lemon talked about the difficulties back in the early days of Bitcoin. There's a lot to cover, it moves very quickly, and at least in the early days Bitcoin sites had a habit of deleting posts after a short period of time. So it's hard to really nail down the material for a Bitcoin episode.
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X-Ray Pecs posted:Rob The Parrot is good, but my favorite "ask the Internet" episode is BlurtIt. How do I increase my panic size? I'm convinced that BlurtIt is the stupidest community they've ever looked at, because it's a failure of logic that leads them to be there in the first place. With the other 'shout a stupid question into the aether' websites, I can at least understand how they get there. Is It Normal and Is It Legal have clear mission statements, enough that I can see you getting there by a Google search. Legal and eHelp also have a semblance of authority in Judge and Rob, so I can see you going 'yeah, I'm gonna get a good answer from this one'. Even Yahoo Answers at least has momentum going for it, so if you're stupid enough to think this is the best way to answer your question, there's enough people there that also think that to guarantee a response. There is no reason for you to be on BlurtIt. Not only do you have to look harder to get there, but they're worse at answering questions, and have absolutely zero way to even seem like they know what they're talking about. If you are on BlurtIt, you have already failed to answer your question. And quite evidently, judging by the content of their posts, they are not proving this assertion wrong. Cleretic fucked around with this message at 00:13 on Jan 28, 2015 |
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In seriousness, a Gamergate episode would run into exactly the same problems as MRA episodes, regardless of whether or not they are. Most of the content wouldn't be 'funny' so much as 'infuriating', so at best you'd be left with a collection of especially strange statements with ethics in video game journalism being the only thing that connects them, and even then only vaguely.
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Feb 2, 2015 14:16
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I know it's probalby not the best, but I still have a fondness for Misanthropologist. That's just clever wordplay, that is.
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Feb 6, 2015 08:00
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Gimnbo posted:The episode you're thinking of is Just Rage. The majority of that guy's information comes from a single, poorly-written Cracked article from the not-long-before-LHC period. I recognized the strange matter explanation.
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Feb 10, 2015 01:07
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TetsuoTW posted:Until any of these other forums have someone choose to keep a rotting arm so they can shoot up or have a moderator recommend LSD as a way to get off heroin, TCC will remain the undisputed champion. I wonder how well a TCC doc would go. I'm sure you'd get a lot of material, but I'm not sure if it'd all be pleasant reading.
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It's basically the F Plus equivalent of 'Good news, everyone!' like that.
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Mar 6, 2015 13:16
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X-Ray Pecs posted:is this the same episode as "WHY AM I SUDDENLY PUNCHING MY WALL"? No, but I'm pretty sure every fifth episode has someone doing a Jack Chick impression. Now I want to do an experiment where an episode with Jack Chick in it has him replaced entirely with other people doing impressions of him.
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Mar 12, 2015 13:59
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The Chairman posted:Weirdly I thought the John Kitchin episode was a dud, and the cuddle stuff was extremely my poo poo I'm actually feeling the same, but the John Kitchin episode might fare better on a re-listen. It's the type of crazy that's really hard to get a hold on; I was just too baffled to laugh at it for the longest time, it's just an impenetrable wall of Crazy Old Man. I know there's funny in there, but I couldn't grab onto it enough to laugh at it. Cuddle parties are pretty accessible for someone who's got a good grasp on the particular kind of weirdness that spawns both it and a lot of Tumblr's ideas about sex.
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Mar 16, 2015 04:40
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X-Ray Pecs posted:So this happened the other day: Lemon confirmed on ballp.it that it is, indeed, The Wrongest Words. I'm pretty happy to hear that.
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Mar 30, 2015 13:19
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Sham bam bamina! posted:Either way, Night Vale's going to win regardless. From reading it, it's not a contest. They're putting together a selection tool, a way to search for new podcasts. So if you want to listen to an informative science podcast you can just go to this tool, look at what people put forward, and which episode people suggested from that series. It's a cool idea, and especially a good one for podcasts, since they're even more decentralized than other formats.
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Apr 3, 2015 06:24
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dijon du jour posted:This is probably the last thing in this episode to be concerned about but good lord this game sounds just loving awful to play. Almost every monster they read about has a bullshit instant death move that they pull out essentially at random. Actually, I thought those parts of the episode were the best. This isn't just lovely porn, it's lovely porn in a way-too-extensive gameplay series, and those brief parts where they take the game parts as seriously as a Final Fantasy wiki or something would just makes it all the more hilarious.
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Apr 30, 2015 01:11
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Endorph posted:it is annoying to see them constantly fail to understand tumblr's site design, though. what even gave them the impression that you read from the bottom? The posts are ordered reverse-chronologically, but none of the rest is, and some blogs have different formats because gently caress you, that's why.
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May 7, 2015 06:55
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Plague of Hats posted:Was it the crappypasta.txt episode where they read it all "straight" and the end of the episode is Lemon and Boots talking about how they don't care if it's fake as long as it reads well? No, that was episode 99, with the fanfictions about volcanoes and waterfalls. The creepypasta episode did include them treating Doom: Repercussions of Evil completely straight, though.
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I'm not familiar with Sylvia Plath, but apparently her writing sounds just like Tumblr, so it's not surprising that I couldn't tell where the poetry began and ended.
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May 13, 2015 00:59
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weekly font posted:I've been working my way through the show from the beginning and good lord the fetish episode about socks and burping almost made me die from asphyxiation. Even by transformation fetish standards, Choose your own Change is so loving weird.
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Therion posted:This makes you think about how many of the F Plus subjects listened to the episodes about them (outside of obvious attention whores like bronies and Tumblrites). Does Big Daddy Rhino know of the F List episode? Apparently Dozerfleet has added one of the readers to a list of some kind. When City of Heroes was shutting down, Jo Kitty contacted me to say they found and liked the episode they were in.
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