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Since it feels like I defend Graduation more than anything else, I would like to float out there that both Amnesty and Graduation have suffered from trying to recreate the drastic stakes that you got midway to the end of Balance. I say that to mean that my favorite parts of Amnesty was them loving around town and solving the monster of the week, and things escalating to the point that they did was not as interesting to me. Graduation could have very easily been a story about dumb underdogs that have to butt heads with other students/teachers in order to become successful heros/villains/whatever the hell they wanted. Instead we are once again raising the stakes to the highest point possible. The stories aren't the only ones guilty of the drama creep; just about everything does it nowadays. But my favorite moments in TAZ are typically when things are chill and not in danger mode; having yet another "the world is changing!!!!" plot is tiring to me.
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BARONS CYBER SKULL posted:Travis is the kind of person the theatre kids would call a weirdo behind his back and have a separate discord from him somehow you're a shittier theater kid in all this
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Frankly the Travis chat wasn't even as bad as the two page siderail into McElroy politics
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Mar 23, 2021 22:51
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I would love Munch Squad infinitely more if he could just be a bit more selective about it. Keep the bit, whatever, but this week's was probably the wildest one since the Pizza Inn poo poo from like a month or two ago. The planet's dying, Pringles~ And yes, any bit that hurts Griffin and Justin is well worth keeping
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Mar 24, 2021 19:01
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At the end of the day Travis should have known that his streams were going to attract the occasional...non-fan? Calling them trolls, to me anyway, implies they knew/cared who Travis McElroy is. There was always going to come a day when someone decided to dink around in a way he didn't like, and the whole thing feels to me like he was blindsided by the fact that yes, he too could be trolled. Melting down about it just made things worse, as it tends to do.
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We've spent years of our lives, endlessly debating the potential devastation of a human/centaur war. Foolishly, we never stopped to consider the war that was right on out doorstep, with higher stakes than ever before. How much blood will be spilled in the chicken wars to come, I ask? When will the madness end?
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Mar 25, 2021 03:23
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Mar 25, 2021 08:20
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sigh *unrolls scroll of polygon fanfics where Patrick is clearly listed as BDG's senpai*
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Mar 25, 2021 20:38
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Justin does zone out a lot though; that ain't just a TAZ thing
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Mar 25, 2021 22:09
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It's easily one of the shittiest things to do and I wish Justin was dragged for it more often.
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Mar 25, 2021 23:13
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Yeah but we had to have a dimensional threat that everyone united against. TAZ is in love with the final fantasy final boss as a concept.
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yeah actually they will posted:i think it's more of a persona final boss concept. in that series they tend towards being wholly thematic representations too. This boss is "humanity's sloth". This boss is "turning away from truth". and so on. griffin's never been shy about being a fan of the series. That's true, and the shoe fits a bit better EDIT: Bip Roberts posted:First of all it was "mission imp hospital". secondly I really think it was travis trying to punish the listeners by pretending "this what TAZ would be like if we actually played DND" and it was by far the best episodes of graduation. I actually took it more as Travis looking back on the previous episodes and realizing there hadn't been any combat. Like, he made a comment in the beginning of that little mini-arc saying he wanted to make sure they still knew how to fight. I took him at his word, cause frankly it wouldn't surprise me if that just kinda got away from him. Shinjobi fucked around with this message at 02:52 on Mar 26, 2021 |
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Mad props to Griffin for winning the terrible joke war at the beginning of this week's episode of TAZ. He out Clint'd Clint, AND Travis.
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Mar 26, 2021 04:48
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Previa_fun posted:If "soy" is a sixer and "retard" is 30 days where on the probation spectrum does "white trash" fall, mod? gently caress off already, jesus
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Mar 30, 2021 07:51
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In these trying times, can there truly be a love zone
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Mar 30, 2021 17:00
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Welcome to sawbones where we take umbrage with stupid medical pseudo science Ah dang sorry we took umbrage with stupid medical pseudo science in the mall Wasn't on brand I guess We shall never escape the dumbest timeline
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social media exists to beat everyone down we do it to ourselves
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eke out posted:McElory + BGD Love Zone: One fan, who goes by AwuBuwu on twitter, Mods please
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Mar 31, 2021 01:35
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taco show posted:Uhh well I started listening to Dust since it’s between the Amnesty arcs and I really like the game system so far. I’ll come back to Balance after I wrap Amnesty. Just avoid all subreddits and threads and fangroups. Apparently we're just all terrible. I don't know what to do anymore. Please, continue enjoying the goofs. When they are good, they are good.
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Mar 31, 2021 07:48
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When the thread is complaining/complimenting reddit I think the whole drat thing has gone off course but pardon the gently caress out of me, keep at it everyone Behold, an act of rebellion by me: https://twitter.com/JustinMcElroy/status/1377318237789155336?s=20 This is your moment; could this be the creation of a new bit? Let's talk about woodworking.
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That owns, Syd cannot be stopped
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Elvis_Maximus posted:Just start with "Balance" which is their first campaign. After the first few episodes it moves away from the original D&D module and into entirely custom content, and then shoots off like a rocket ship from there. Did you actually listen to the episode?
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Apr 8, 2021 16:10
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Okie dokie
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Apr 8, 2021 16:26
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The 7th Guest posted:travis got a new seggie to make his brothers feel real pain Yeah it owned Doubly so because Griffin crushed the segment, proving he is on the wavelength of the segment despite his protests.
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Apr 12, 2021 19:34
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I'm all outraged out Hope they drop the ad or something.
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Apr 13, 2021 03:10
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I just wanna read crystal kingdom
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Colonel Whitey posted:I was going to post something about Brian angling to get a job making digital shorts for snl but drat, I bet that patreon money is way better. Plus his vibe doesn’t seem like it would gel with that show anyway. Working for Lorne sounds like a huge beating. Put Tara in charge of SNL digital shorts and then we're cooking again.
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Elvis_Maximus posted:Apparently the new and final adventure zone is out Thanks for these great updates Also color me shocked that we've got controversy that doesn't involve the brothers, does involve Jessie Thorn, BUT Thorn isn't the problem for once. Miracles do happen.
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With the end of Graduation I sincerely hope we can put an end to the regular "well I didn't listen but from what everyone else says it sounds like poo poo and this is how I would fix it" posts. That would be swell. Secondly, if you haven't listened to this week's Wonderful! you really should. Griffin breaks out his childhood journals and you get some real gems. Griffin liked himself a fib or three growing up.
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I think it's fair to criticize the product, but if someone is just going by what other people are saying and hasn't listened since its first three months, then what kinda criticism is being floated out there? Graduation did not take long to be the black sheep of the show, I don't think anyone's denying that. But drat there have been some solid episodes criticized by people who weren't even listening. It's maddening.
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Apr 16, 2021 19:22
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I dont know how Justin always manages to nail it, but he always manages to nail it.
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It's beautiful
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First part of munch squad was whatever, but boy that 2nd bit was....meowza
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Apr 20, 2021 18:46
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Absolute madmen
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Apr 20, 2021 23:50
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It was all worth it for the walk back of "maybe don't leave on a cliff hanger cause there's no telling if our audience wants us back." The laughter from that was purestrain stuff. Episode was good, if only as a reading on where the boys are at through the pandemic.
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Apr 21, 2021 15:45
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I will choose to not listen to a show about bad posts. I can just look at my own posts if I want to make a game out of it.
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The Besties should really just not do "best of" two parters. Their Zelda and GTA episodes felt like a colossal waste of time. They try to talk about way too many games than their episodes length can really handle, so you just get brief cliff notes opinions on some games that require more than "oh it's on the gameboy, it's fine." I would rather listen to 30 minutes of them discussing whatever the hell they've been playing and their thoughts on it. Old, new, it doesn't matter. The formats for these "best of" episodes are just bad.
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And she married the Dale-est mofo I've seen How quaint
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