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Yea she's making a joke about Grant and her 'going full Tisch' with their high drama choices and all because I'm pretty sure either she or he or both of them actually did go there. It's a deeply specific new york theater kid joke to make. But yea, Dropout rules and Mice and Murder is fantastic. I actually missed out on the Unsleeping City stuff they did last couple seasons so I've been without fresh D20 content for a bit. Speaking of, should I binge Unsleeping City? Obviously I know the cast is good and all but hearing Brennon describe the 'spirits of New York' involving 'just the actual man Andrew Lloyd Sullivan, with a big anime sword' thanks to Grant made me go 'oh yea I should watch that'.
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theCalamity posted:Wasn't it Stephen Sondheim? it was Stephen Sondheim yes, which makes the joke even better. Also same, Crown of Candy was super fun, I was sold about the time in the first episode when someone pointed out that the person giving this dramatic story about being war brothers surviving in the trenches together (and watching each other poo poo, for security) was a goddamn talking slice of cake with arms and legs.
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Yea incredibly hype for that, fun Dimension 20 take on Hogwarts, great cast, Brenan playing for once, Aabria running the show, all fantastic news. I was kinda hoping for more Crown of Candy because I was pretty sure they'd do a 'sequel' after Mice and Murder but boy was I glad to be wrong
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:New Breaking News...Poor Raph, what did he do to piss off Grant? Despite the intro to that bit I somehow did not expect a literal box of pepper. MikeJF posted:I gotta say, I enjoyed Misfits and Magic as a Harry Potter parody/sendup but then I watched the Adventuring Party behind-the-scenes chats about them and Ep3 really kinda soured me on the whole series, there's some really bad hot takes in there about what they think they're commentating on about British culture in general and not taking it with their better american violence ways and poo poo and what the narrative they were intending was. ...what?
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Jul 27, 2021 03:38
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lemonadesweetheart posted:Yeah, we both agree people from the US are thin skinned and get confused and belligerent when people aren't being fake nice at them. More so if they have never experienced cultures outside of their own. It's almost like they are brainwashed to believe they are the best at everything and can't handle anything challenging that worldview without immediately thinking of violence. we can't all be as enlightened as pedo island's noble history of 'randomly saying insulting things about strangers' partners and then whining when they get annoyed' yea.
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Jul 27, 2021 15:36
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I mean the main comment was about how 'taking the piss' is basically just brit for 'lol I'm just such an rear end in a top hat' kinda insufferable behavior done by people who don't like consequences to their actions. Like, I don't really understand your core complaint, the protagonists of the story fought against a bad system? They should have been more respectful to the fictional wizard school that was an obvious allegory for class and integration politics since episode one?
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this conversation is boring and dumb, here's something fuckin awesome https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bJfIZyEP98 Amazing cast and really fun premise. I was hoping for more Fantasy High but this is the best possible monkey paw.
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Jul 28, 2021 18:26
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lemonadesweetheart posted:Do you think I need to have seen past season 1 of fantasy high for this one. I don't want to binge it and I'm on the second episode of season 2. it seems like this will be going over what the Maidens did during their sophomore year I think so yea as long as you know what went down in 1 I didn't hear any references to 2.
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Yea I would say Brennan and Lou 'stole the show' but not out of any genuine lovely behavior like talking over others and being assholes, just kinda by the force of them being two very charismatic guys who have riffed off each other for a long time now and had the perfect combo of 'genuinely nice but kinda dumb jock eager to find a new 'team'' and Evan's whole 'genuinely wants to be friends despite being mr dark cursed one' vibe. Sam and Dream were great characters too, but yea they did wind up a bit overshadowed by the time Evan and Jammer were in full broski mode with eachother. Orion's post was pretty dead on, obviously it's kinda hard to 'blame' Brennan for being charismatic and...not doing the weird thing of being a white guy playing a black guy...but it is a bit unfortunate in a show with such a focus on the themes it had it kinda wound up the special white dude show with his three poc friends. Orion was pretty clear about it being more 'ah, that's unfortunate' than any real 'bad thing' but of course because it was a topic about race in nerd spaces I'm not surprised he pulled it after waves of 'SO WOW BRENNAN WAS THE BAD GUY FOR BEING WHITE HUH????' and poo poo.
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lemonadesweetheart posted:They just added a dimenion20 animated series. It's only episode 1 so far and 2 minutes but i'm still laughing. glad to see DeepBlueInk doing it, their MBMBAM animations are great
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new D20 is so good. All D20 is good poo poo but boy is the original crew just so good together again. All these characters are great and this setting is fantastic. Absolute best line to me was Emily's chipper 'Devastating, that means I've failed my directive!' when Zac was grumbling about selling out the crew to get away.
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Wanderer posted:When I heard about this, I went to go check out some of the original Starstruck comics, and from there migrated over to see what else Elaine Lee has written. hey what the gently caress she wrote Vamps? That was 100% a part of my weird kid nerd phase!
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MikeJF posted:I can't help but feel like there was a deal involved for True Facts #2 where Grant got to have revenge that just got used yea I'm assuming when he pitched that he prefaced it with 'hey remember when you had me recreate my dad walking in on me trying to suck my own dick? Cool, well I know where we can get some sterile piss'
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Jan 24, 2022 18:30
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Gaz-L posted:Yes but also lol at Rekha doing a gag about being tricked into being the only real player again. I loved her starting by instantly jumping to "AND NOW SOMEONE'S COMING OUT TO gently caress US TILL WE CRY", she has the best energy.
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I think Starstruck is my favorite D20 already. They all have such fun dynamics together, I wasn't expecting to love Barry and Gunnie's Casino trip so much but it started off gold with the double failed simple check to find literally any place in a massive space station to reasonably expect to buy kitchen gear ending up with 'oh yea, Barry fully thinks you can get kitchen gear in the casino' 'yea they've got a buffet, right???' and just got better.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:The looks of dread were Brennan once again just instantly flowing with the madness as well. "Do it faster, more bricks are coming."
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Gaz-L posted:I agree with Sam, Grant could've learned a few more phrases in Italian. Like even if he's just doing 'where is the library' type phrases it would've made the bit even funnier. absolutely not, Grant literally only being able to say 'excuse me' in character as he inserts himself into things was gold. Also the Game Changer this week is another Race to the Bottom and it's another banger.
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Xand_Man posted:I lost it when Grant and Lily's bidding war to make out with Sam's dog swung below 0 "Get your poo poo together! Pretend you don't want to kiss the dog!!!" was such a great line
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Feb 12, 2022 19:27
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Megazver posted:I am, like, 0% surprised it's a series now. That poo poo was instant comedy gold. Yea I'm insanely hype for that, perfect formula for chaos and fun and as much as The Noise Boys are great it'll be fun to get some fresh folks in too. Also generally glad to hear Dropout seems to be doing well, they got turbofucked so it's nice to see they managed to at least get into more stable ground.
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lemonadesweetheart posted:How were they turbofucked? I'm relatively new to all of this so I don't know much of the history behind it. Dropout is pretty cheap for what you get and I can't see how they could be making much off it. Unless I've forgotten and gotten them confused with the many other places in similar situations I think College Humor was one of those sites that got scammed by the Facebook push to 'pivot to video' (the tl;dr for that is basically Facebook MASSIVELY juiced their numbers to make video content seem super appealing, so tons of places went all in on videos, leading to a lot of places winding up with people they can't pay when it was clear there wasn't nearly enough profit in the 'pivot' to justify it). CH also owned Dorkly which they shuddered pretty suddenly, and it was clear CH proper was next, Sam worked a deal out to basically buy CH (and Dropout) from them to keep it from shuddering but he had to let most everyone go (I think hilariously Brennan was the only actual creative staff left because of D20?) and run on a skeleton crew just to keep uploads of previously recorded stuff going for a good while.
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I love that for Breaking News they've figured out Brenan will never actually break, so they're just making him have a bad time
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seaborgium posted:I think really that one is Katie. I don't think she ever broke, to the point they brought her on to gently caress with the others just to get them to break. I kind of wish they would bring her back more often, just to see her deadpan. true Brenan does tend to snowball if you can get him laughing once so I guess it's more 'I love that they (probably just Grant) figured the best way to deal with anyone hard to break is to just make them have a bad time' like getting Sam to drink...well, something that may or may not have been piss.
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Not Operator posted:Bloodkeep is one of my favourites specifically because its her first game. Not really having any experience, Rehka makes some big loving moves during that season. She just says poo poo, things a regular tabletop player wouldn't, and Brennan has to roll with it. yea Rehka's 'I have a loose idea of what this is and I've got enough comedy background to know how a group dynamic like this works anyway' energy is simply delightful in Bloodkeep. She never tries to 'main character' it or causes unfun problems but boy does she just go for it sometimes and it's great.
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ANOTHER SCORCHER posted:I don't think Lou shot himself in the foot with that statement. The argument to vote for Brennan is that he was clearly the best player, had dominated the challenges, found all the immunity idols, formed an early strong alliance, and never needed to lie or deceive. Lou's first argument was basically just pleading not to let Brennan win again, but when he revealed that he had masterminded voting off Katie that negated Brennan's argument that he was the best player. Yea. Lou's argument was that he was actually the best player because the whole point of the game is to survive and outlast the others. Brennan was great at playing the alliance game and finding idols but Lou was easily the better Survivor player by getting Katie off and managing to keep that hidden until the end. For all the funny 'this is MLK's dream, they can't vote for the straight white guy' jokes he genuinely was just playing the game better by letting Brennan take the heat as the most obvious target (yet the guy nobody could actually hurt, so his alliance with him stayed perfectly safe). Dude killed it, Survivor style.
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Brennan: can name countless bird facts and probably recite most of Lord of the Rings from memory Also Brennan: 'who's famous...uh...The Smothers Brothers? That's two people!' Just so deeply on brand
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yea obviously the whole OG D20 crew are some A+ D&D nerds but boy is Emily just an endless source of 'I want to do something weird, not to steal the spotlight or get attention or whatever, but because I genuinely think this will be either entertaining for my friends, useful for the story, or both'.
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Just watched Dirty Laundry and it owns. Grant is really living his best life as a wisecracking bartender and the CH staff is wild enough to make this premise incredibly entertaining. "If someone's used to the gas...going out...and it stays in...that may send them to the hospital." "This is a sexy show, guys"
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yea Luis is very fun and has been in an RPG that Brennan was in before, A+ cast and cool trailer.
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Coffin Run loving rules, every character is gold and Jasmine is a delight to see GM. Also as usual Zac is the master of perfect joke delivery, the 'how many have you horses have you not eaten', 'NOT eaten? Oh my...' exchange was perfect.
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Everyone shut up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFyHiykk2U4 new D20 trailer, poo poo looks amazing. "Nothing can be more this season than us clapping for a gift we don't understand."
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timp posted:I guess I missed this during the announcement, so for anyone else who also missed it: oh gently caress I missed that, now I'm even more hype. The Good Society owns and I love how it's 100% viable to either be a 100% straight laced 'we're doing Jane Austin, the role playing game' or, well *gestures at what Dungeons and Daddies did that involved seducing and betraying a chef named Wario and time travel* So this is a perfect system for D20 poo poo, just enough roleplay encouragement to go 'hey, you guys should actually interact and do things in character' while not punishing you for Pulling An Emily and just going buck wild mid session with a harebrained idea.
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Brennan was on one of my favorite youtube channels to make Starstruck's double death commando. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6fbMe-ai8A
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MikeJF posted:Given how successful this has been I wouldn't be surprised if from now on every season is followed by an auction for that season shortly thereafter. I hope they do honestly. If I remember right Umm Actualy's auction did well too, seems like this is a good method to raise some money for good causes and keeping the lights on while keeping the sub cost reasonable.
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I've been rewatching Crown of Candy while I wait for the new D20 and man would I love a new campaign for this. The group really hits the whole 'this is game of thrones poo poo, but it's also inherently silly because you're candy people fighting steaks'.
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Magitek posted:I love Lou a little more every time he appears on a screen "Oscar you're not supposed to be earnest, you're supposed to do a weird bit where you hurt yourself!" This group dynamic is so perfect, honestly, she genuinely runs down why they're a good group there and in episode 1 it's super clear she was 100% right.
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lemonadesweetheart posted:Aabria is great, she's pretty loosey goosey at times but it fits. The dynamic duo for this one is going to be Emily and Lou I think. Their entrance alone was loving fantastic. It's an amazing cast but yea Lou and Emily rolling up in maximum chaos mode was so great. "LET ME BE CLEAR, OSTRICH CHARIOT PULLED BY DOVES." "And are you both in one?" "OF COURSE NOT! TWO OSTRICH CHARIOTS!"
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:Here's a clip for anyone on the fence. love one comment summing Lou up as 'not just 'yes and' but 'YES ABSOLUTELY AND FURTHERMORE'. There's no bad or weak part of D20 but I think Lou may genuinely be one of the strongest players just for that energy, the man can dunk on his own with the best of them but it takes extra talent to alley-oop so well too
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Goons Are Great posted:Started watching the new d20 season and the entrance of Emily and Lou on a living ostrich that is a carriage pulled by 27 doves is an imagine I will never forget and want to see in real life immediately excuse you it was TWO ostrich carriages pulled by 27 doves each. Their grandfather invented birds, they're not sharing a ride!
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