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  • MonwynMonwyn Apathy's a tragedy, and boredom is a crime. A little bit of everything, all of the time.Registered User regular
    Gnizmo wrote: »
    Quid wrote: »
    Sometimes I wonder if Sam stays up at night deep in thought trying to figure out how to ruin Brennan's day.

    This might be the worst thing Sam has ever done to him. It was glorious. I have to wonder how many GameChanger episodes can be summarized as "trying to get Brennan to have a stroke," at this point.

    Really it's shocking that he's kept the bit going after the I CANNOT WIN rant, it's not like that will ever be topped (although "identify this bird" might have come close.)

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  • ThawmusThawmus +Jackface Registered User regular
    I'm at the 2nd or 3rd to last episode of Crown of Candy, and I'm aware of all the complications they endured at this point but man you can really feel the energy leaving the campaign at this point. It's kinda frustrating because the first 3/4ths of it is such great shit.

    KINDA LIKE GAME OF THRONES

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  • MarathonMarathon Registered User regular
    Monwyn wrote: »
    Gnizmo wrote: »
    Quid wrote: »
    Sometimes I wonder if Sam stays up at night deep in thought trying to figure out how to ruin Brennan's day.

    This might be the worst thing Sam has ever done to him. It was glorious. I have to wonder how many GameChanger episodes can be summarized as "trying to get Brennan to have a stroke," at this point.

    Really it's shocking that he's kept the bit going after the I CANNOT WIN rant, it's not like that will ever be topped (although "identify this bird" might have come close.)

    “Identify this bird” is one of my all time favorites.

  • webguy20webguy20 I spend too much time on the Internet Registered User regular
    edited February 13
    Marathon wrote: »
    Monwyn wrote: »
    Gnizmo wrote: »
    Quid wrote: »
    Sometimes I wonder if Sam stays up at night deep in thought trying to figure out how to ruin Brennan's day.

    This might be the worst thing Sam has ever done to him. It was glorious. I have to wonder how many GameChanger episodes can be summarized as "trying to get Brennan to have a stroke," at this point.

    Really it's shocking that he's kept the bit going after the I CANNOT WIN rant, it's not like that will ever be topped (although "identify this bird" might have come close.)

    “Identify this bird” is one of my all time favorites.

    Identify this bird might be peak rage for brennan. Like other episodes have drawn it out, but on a 1-10 the bird is a 9.

    Also Ally is the perfect foil for Brennan. They get him perfectly and can either support/fuck with him at the drop of a hat. I’m always stoked when both of them are on a show together.

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  • DoodmannDoodmann Registered User regular
    Thawmus wrote: »
    I'm at the 2nd or 3rd to last episode of Crown of Candy, and I'm aware of all the complications they endured at this point but man you can really feel the energy leaving the campaign at this point. It's kinda frustrating because the first 3/4ths of it is such great shit.

    KINDA LIKE GAME OF THRONES

    I'm guessing a big part of that is that
    Brennan absolutely expecting to kill at least half the party at some point or another and them continuing to survive starts to strain the narrative arcs he had planned.

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  • Stabbity StyleStabbity Style He/Him | Warning: Mothership Reporting Kennewick, WARegistered User regular
    Thawmus wrote: »
    I'm at the 2nd or 3rd to last episode of Crown of Candy, and I'm aware of all the complications they endured at this point but man you can really feel the energy leaving the campaign at this point. It's kinda frustrating because the first 3/4ths of it is such great shit.

    KINDA LIKE GAME OF THRONES

    Maybe it hit for other people, but that whole prisoner's dilemma thing they do at the end is so fucking corny and saccharine.

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  • ThawmusThawmus +Jackface Registered User regular
    webguy20 wrote: »
    Marathon wrote: »
    Monwyn wrote: »
    Gnizmo wrote: »
    Quid wrote: »
    Sometimes I wonder if Sam stays up at night deep in thought trying to figure out how to ruin Brennan's day.

    This might be the worst thing Sam has ever done to him. It was glorious. I have to wonder how many GameChanger episodes can be summarized as "trying to get Brennan to have a stroke," at this point.

    Really it's shocking that he's kept the bit going after the I CANNOT WIN rant, it's not like that will ever be topped (although "identify this bird" might have come close.)

    “Identify this bird” is one of my all time favorites.

    Identify this bird might be peak rage for brennan. Like other episodes have drawn it out, but on a 1-10 the bird is a 9.

    Also Ally is the perfect foil for Brennan. They get him perfectly and can either support/fuck with him at the drop of a hat. I’m always stoked when both of them are on a show together.

    The best part of "Identify this bird" is that he had a heart rate monitor strapped to him, so although he's able to laugh this stuff off in the end, we know for a fact that it does actually piss him off. He wasn't just hamming it up for the camera, he was legit annoyed.

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  • ThawmusThawmus +Jackface Registered User regular
    Doodmann wrote: »
    Thawmus wrote: »
    I'm at the 2nd or 3rd to last episode of Crown of Candy, and I'm aware of all the complications they endured at this point but man you can really feel the energy leaving the campaign at this point. It's kinda frustrating because the first 3/4ths of it is such great shit.

    KINDA LIKE GAME OF THRONES

    I'm guessing a big part of that is that
    Brennan absolutely expecting to kill at least half the party at some point or another and them continuing to survive starts to strain the narrative arcs he had planned.

    There's probably some of that, but the big things I'm aware of is that:
    1. They suddenly had to move the set to a warehouse because the fire marshal came in and told them the dome was a fire hazard at the CH offices. There was a huge delay as a result, which resulted in:
    2. They started playing at 3 AM because of scheduling conflicts
    3. Siobahn got really sick towards the end and had to take breaks during shoots to go throw up.

    And I wanna say there was other stuff I'm not remembering, as well. But the last few episodes were basically a clusterfuck to produce. There were some reshoots of the end of one episode as well because a replacement character's entrance got goofed up and they wanted to redo it and that turned into another clusterfuck that seemed to also reflect onto how the players responded to that character later on. It lost some of its organic charisma as a result.

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  • MonwynMonwyn Apathy's a tragedy, and boredom is a crime. A little bit of everything, all of the time.Registered User regular
    Marathon wrote: »
    Monwyn wrote: »
    Gnizmo wrote: »
    Quid wrote: »
    Sometimes I wonder if Sam stays up at night deep in thought trying to figure out how to ruin Brennan's day.

    This might be the worst thing Sam has ever done to him. It was glorious. I have to wonder how many GameChanger episodes can be summarized as "trying to get Brennan to have a stroke," at this point.

    Really it's shocking that he's kept the bit going after the I CANNOT WIN rant, it's not like that will ever be topped (although "identify this bird" might have come close.)

    “Identify this bird” is one of my all time favorites.

    Honestly the thing that puts this over the top is Katie forgetting the word "rooster"

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  • MarathonMarathon Registered User regular
    Monwyn wrote: »
    Marathon wrote: »
    Monwyn wrote: »
    Gnizmo wrote: »
    Quid wrote: »
    Sometimes I wonder if Sam stays up at night deep in thought trying to figure out how to ruin Brennan's day.

    This might be the worst thing Sam has ever done to him. It was glorious. I have to wonder how many GameChanger episodes can be summarized as "trying to get Brennan to have a stroke," at this point.

    Really it's shocking that he's kept the bit going after the I CANNOT WIN rant, it's not like that will ever be topped (although "identify this bird" might have come close.)

    “Identify this bird” is one of my all time favorites.

    Honestly the thing that puts this over the top is Katie forgetting the word "rooster"

    You couldn’t script a better way to emphasize how easy they were going on the other contestants compared to Brennan.

  • adytumadytum The Inevitable Rise And FallRegistered User regular
    Thawmus wrote: »
    Doodmann wrote: »
    Thawmus wrote: »
    I'm at the 2nd or 3rd to last episode of Crown of Candy, and I'm aware of all the complications they endured at this point but man you can really feel the energy leaving the campaign at this point. It's kinda frustrating because the first 3/4ths of it is such great shit.

    KINDA LIKE GAME OF THRONES

    I'm guessing a big part of that is that
    Brennan absolutely expecting to kill at least half the party at some point or another and them continuing to survive starts to strain the narrative arcs he had planned.

    There's probably some of that, but the big things I'm aware of is that:
    1. They suddenly had to move the set to a warehouse because the fire marshal came in and told them the dome was a fire hazard at the CH offices. There was a huge delay as a result, which resulted in:
    2. They started playing at 3 AM because of scheduling conflicts
    3. Siobahn got really sick towards the end and had to take breaks during shoots to go throw up.

    And I wanna say there was other stuff I'm not remembering, as well. But the last few episodes were basically a clusterfuck to produce. There were some reshoots of the end of one episode as well because a replacement character's entrance got goofed up and they wanted to redo it and that turned into another clusterfuck that seemed to also reflect onto how the players responded to that character later on. It lost some of its organic charisma as a result.

    Oh, so all those jokes about filming in a warehouse in West Hollywood at 3:00 AM weren’t a bit?!

  • DesyDesy She/Her YeenRegistered User regular
    edited February 13
    Marathon wrote: »
    Monwyn wrote: »
    Marathon wrote: »
    Monwyn wrote: »
    Gnizmo wrote: »
    Quid wrote: »
    Sometimes I wonder if Sam stays up at night deep in thought trying to figure out how to ruin Brennan's day.

    This might be the worst thing Sam has ever done to him. It was glorious. I have to wonder how many GameChanger episodes can be summarized as "trying to get Brennan to have a stroke," at this point.

    Really it's shocking that he's kept the bit going after the I CANNOT WIN rant, it's not like that will ever be topped (although "identify this bird" might have come close.)

    “Identify this bird” is one of my all time favorites.

    Honestly the thing that puts this over the top is Katie forgetting the word "rooster"

    You couldn’t script a better way to emphasize how easy they were going on the other contestants compared to Brennan.

    Well yeah...
    spoiler for the episode "As A Cucumber"
    entire point of that bit of the episode is that it was a test to see if Brennan could keep his heart rate low when faced with losing.

    ...He could not. Barely.

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  • ThawmusThawmus +Jackface Registered User regular
    adytum wrote: »
    Thawmus wrote: »
    Doodmann wrote: »
    Thawmus wrote: »
    I'm at the 2nd or 3rd to last episode of Crown of Candy, and I'm aware of all the complications they endured at this point but man you can really feel the energy leaving the campaign at this point. It's kinda frustrating because the first 3/4ths of it is such great shit.

    KINDA LIKE GAME OF THRONES

    I'm guessing a big part of that is that
    Brennan absolutely expecting to kill at least half the party at some point or another and them continuing to survive starts to strain the narrative arcs he had planned.

    There's probably some of that, but the big things I'm aware of is that:
    1. They suddenly had to move the set to a warehouse because the fire marshal came in and told them the dome was a fire hazard at the CH offices. There was a huge delay as a result, which resulted in:
    2. They started playing at 3 AM because of scheduling conflicts
    3. Siobahn got really sick towards the end and had to take breaks during shoots to go throw up.

    And I wanna say there was other stuff I'm not remembering, as well. But the last few episodes were basically a clusterfuck to produce. There were some reshoots of the end of one episode as well because a replacement character's entrance got goofed up and they wanted to redo it and that turned into another clusterfuck that seemed to also reflect onto how the players responded to that character later on. It lost some of its organic charisma as a result.

    Oh, so all those jokes about filming in a warehouse in West Hollywood at 3:00 AM weren’t a bit?!

    Unfortunately, no, that was real!

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  • GnizmoGnizmo Registered User regular
    destroyah87 wrote: »
    Marathon wrote: »
    Monwyn wrote: »
    Marathon wrote: »
    Monwyn wrote: »
    Gnizmo wrote: »
    Quid wrote: »
    Sometimes I wonder if Sam stays up at night deep in thought trying to figure out how to ruin Brennan's day.

    This might be the worst thing Sam has ever done to him. It was glorious. I have to wonder how many GameChanger episodes can be summarized as "trying to get Brennan to have a stroke," at this point.

    Really it's shocking that he's kept the bit going after the I CANNOT WIN rant, it's not like that will ever be topped (although "identify this bird" might have come close.)

    “Identify this bird” is one of my all time favorites.

    Honestly the thing that puts this over the top is Katie forgetting the word "rooster"

    You couldn’t script a better way to emphasize how easy they were going on the other contestants compared to Brennan.

    Well yeah...
    spoiler for the episode "As A Cucumber"
    entire point of that bit of the episode is that it was a test to see if Brennan could keep his heart rate low when faced with losing.

    ...He could not. Barely.

    I watched the behind the scenes on that one and apparently Brennan was a last minute fill in for Raph. It is why they didn't have a better lie for the heart rate monitors. That also means the bird bit was a last minute addition which goes to show just how much they know how to fuck with him.

  • MvrckMvrck Dwarven MountainhomeRegistered User regular
    edited February 13
    Gnizmo wrote: »
    destroyah87 wrote: »
    Marathon wrote: »
    Monwyn wrote: »
    Marathon wrote: »
    Monwyn wrote: »
    Gnizmo wrote: »
    Quid wrote: »
    Sometimes I wonder if Sam stays up at night deep in thought trying to figure out how to ruin Brennan's day.

    This might be the worst thing Sam has ever done to him. It was glorious. I have to wonder how many GameChanger episodes can be summarized as "trying to get Brennan to have a stroke," at this point.

    Really it's shocking that he's kept the bit going after the I CANNOT WIN rant, it's not like that will ever be topped (although "identify this bird" might have come close.)

    “Identify this bird” is one of my all time favorites.

    Honestly the thing that puts this over the top is Katie forgetting the word "rooster"

    You couldn’t script a better way to emphasize how easy they were going on the other contestants compared to Brennan.

    Well yeah...
    spoiler for the episode "As A Cucumber"
    entire point of that bit of the episode is that it was a test to see if Brennan could keep his heart rate low when faced with losing.

    ...He could not. Barely.

    I watched the behind the scenes on that one and apparently Brennan was a last minute fill in for Raph. It is why they didn't have a better lie for the heart rate monitors. That also means the bird bit was a last minute addition which goes to show just how much they know how to fuck with him.

    The best part of the bird bit is that it's scalable to his answer. Even if he got Spoonbill, or even Rosette Spoonbill, they could just ask him for the Latin name or some such that he would probably have no hope of getting.


    Edit: Also I'm just diving into Starstruck still, up to Episode 4, and this might be the most organic insanity out of the gate so far. It feels like the show is in end of season form, and it's just starting to get some of the major plot points introduced.

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  • King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    Starstruck is really a perfect run scenario like everything kind of meshed together so organically its probably my favorite season so far

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  • SniperGuySniperGuy SniperGuyGaming Registered User regular
    The latest game Changer bit where they had to do a dance was incredible.
    right before the last bit I said to my wife "you know all he has to do is sit down and he gets points, right?"
    I did not expect DANCING IS A SIN though

  • Hahnsoo1Hahnsoo1 Make Ready. We Hunt.Registered User, Moderator, Administrator admin
    edited February 15
    Fantasy High: Junior Year, Episode 6:
    The whole Ragh and Gorgug Crab King trash talk sequence had me busting a gut.
    "You're the Crab King, then I'm the fisherman!"
    "These are restricted waters, and you're gonna get fined!"
    "I'm not afraid to provide for my family!"

    Also, Murph finally getting Reliable Talent is so big.

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  • QuidQuid Definitely not a banana Registered User regular
    Is Starstruck Odyssey the one with the Red Dwarf/Sci fi looking panels in front of people?

  • MvrckMvrck Dwarven MountainhomeRegistered User regular
    Quid wrote: »
    Is Starstruck Odyssey the one with the Red Dwarf/Sci fi looking panels in front of people?

    You mean the custom skinned laptops? If so then yeah. Otherwise I'm not really sure what you're talking about, but it's the only one actually set in space as far as I know.

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  • SchadenfreudeSchadenfreude Mean Mister Mustard Registered User regular
    Brennan's DM Pod had a certain Red Dwarfishness about it in Starstruck Odyssey. Just finished it yesterday. It's great.

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  • ThawmusThawmus +Jackface Registered User regular
    Finished Crown of Candy. I was not about the mass battle stuff. I get that they needed one in there to be properly hitting all the GoT tropes but I couldn't really follow the action at all and it made what should have been a bunch of very big payoffs into duds.

    Started The Ravening War, and I'm in the 2nd episode now and am super fucking lost. I have barely any grasp of what the fuck is going on at all.

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  • QuidQuid Definitely not a banana Registered User regular
    edited February 16
    Mvrck wrote: »
    Quid wrote: »
    Is Starstruck Odyssey the one with the Red Dwarf/Sci fi looking panels in front of people?

    You mean the custom skinned laptops? If so then yeah. Otherwise I'm not really sure what you're talking about, but it's the only one actually set in space as far as I know.

    Yeah that's the one. The skins have the sort of imprinted metal with decals look.

    ---

    The end of Game Changer's episode is the perfect summary of the show.

    https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=ISpjXX6mIXc

    Unfortunately the YouTube thumbnail is a massive spoiler so I gotta post the link broken.

    Quid on
  • ZomroZomro Registered User regular
    Whoever called

    Junior Year spoiler
    The Rat Grinder fighter being an Archer fighter

    My hats off to you. Nice call.

  • MvrckMvrck Dwarven MountainhomeRegistered User regular
    Starstruck continues to be absolutely off the freaking rails.

    If you haven't caught it yet, it should be your next D20 series to watch. I cannot stress that enough.

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  • SniperGuySniperGuy SniperGuyGaming Registered User regular
    Junior Year has been tremendous so far. The Salsa Jump nearly killed me.

    Also the absolute ice cold chat with doggycollar littlegirl, incredible.

  • Hahnsoo1Hahnsoo1 Make Ready. We Hunt.Registered User, Moderator, Administrator admin
    edited February 25
    Good lord, the latest episode of Very Important People with Zac Oyama as the guest.
    Vic and Zac both broke multiple times during the interview. It's WAY too funny. "What's your dream job, if money wasn't an issue?" Without missing a beat "the military".

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  • BucketmanBucketman Call me SkraggRegistered User regular
    I finally subbed to Dropout and immediately binged Magic and Misfits and A Crown of Candy.
    Shows are good folks!

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  • Dark_SideDark_Side Registered User regular
    edited February 25
    Hahnsoo1 wrote: »
    Good lord, the latest episode of Very Important People with Zac Oyama as the guest.
    Vic and Zac both broke multiple times during the interview. It's WAY too funny. "What's your dream job, if money wasn't an issue?" Without missing a beat "the military".

    It's interesting watching them all start trying to find their groove with the character and then hitting it. Zac took a little bit but ended super strong. I still think Ify has been the best so far.

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  • ThawmusThawmus +Jackface Registered User regular
    Zac and Vic do very well playing off each other on Make Some Noise as well.

    And yeah that moment in spoilers was fucking gold.

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  • ThawmusThawmus +Jackface Registered User regular
    Finished The Ravening War - Solid stuff, probably my favorite season or mini-season or whatever of D20 thus far. I especially liked that the final combat was actually good and climactic. I thought I was super lost at the beginning of this series but I wasn't, it was just that mysterious.

    Watched and Finished Misfits and Magic - I thought it was just okay. Aabria was a little too abrasive and snotty at times and I didn't care for that, it made it difficult to read her intentionally abrasive and snotty NPC's quite often because I couldn't tell which character she was, half the time. I liked her a lot more as a player in The Ravening War.

    Now coming back to Fantasy High S2, and I don't know what changed between episodes but after I basically slept through the first episode or so it's suddenly more palatable, so maybe they figured out their sound or something. The first episode was basically unwatchable and I'm just trying to put the rest together via context clues as I continue with the rest of it.

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  • SchadenfreudeSchadenfreude Mean Mister Mustard Registered User regular
    I found that Fantasy High Season 2 was much more palatable with the subtitles on. Real sound issues early on at least.

    Contemplate this on the Tree of Woe
  • SchrodingerSchrodinger Registered User regular
    edited February 26
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-0Fc9ZGakY

    Dimension 20: Fantasy High Minis Auction

    https://auction.dropout.tv/

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  • MarathonMarathon Registered User regular
    It would be pretty rad to have my own corn cutie

  • Hahnsoo1Hahnsoo1 Make Ready. We Hunt.Registered User, Moderator, Administrator admin
    I really liked this latest episode of Game Changer. It was so light-hearted, and the laughter was infectious, and I love that Sam did not shy away from dunking on himself as well.

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  • FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    Sam being a good sport really makes the game

  • King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    edited February 27
    I never questioned that Ify fucked but now we have concrete proof

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  • ThawmusThawmus +Jackface Registered User regular
    I do like that they were all shocked at the numbers and kinda glossed over the fact that it's been recorded in the first place.

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  • CantideCantide Registered User regular
    This one was a rare miss for me.
    There were two reasons, I think. First, I’m very sensitive about my own privacy, and the thought of a stranger digging through my phone to get my search history, purchase history, etc made me low key stressed the entire time. Second, one of my favorite aspects of Game Changer is how they’ll take an episode’s concept and keep evolving it, pushing the premise out in new and more ridiculous ways. In Second Place, for example, they start with straightforward “how well can you do X tasks”, and then lean into the bluffing / mind game aspect of the challenge, along with taking various traditional game show setups and adapting them to fit their new structure. And that just didn’t feel like it was happening in this one.

  • Hahnsoo1Hahnsoo1 Make Ready. We Hunt.Registered User, Moderator, Administrator admin
    Fantasy High Junior Year Episode 8:
    What the eff is even happening??

    The Vulture Dimension? Brennan just had that locked and loaded, ready to go?

    Everything about the dildo robots was just absolutely absurd. And completely predictable as soon as the Thistlesprings were involved.

    But man, those dice rolls were just brutal. Absolutely brutal.

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