Chapo Trap House and the rise of the dirtbag left

The entertainment center at Virgil’s Apartment:

i’m crying laughing pic.twitter.com/efIip7hqzP

— donate to my indiegogo please (@rachelmillman) December 13, 2017

it looks like the gamecube dungeon

Funny you mention that exact thing

Hey friends, circumstances have conspired such that I find myself alone in Virgil's apartment (don't ask why), time to start the roasting and pranking..

— Will🎄Menaker (@willmenaker) December 12, 2017

Jesus Christ, how does he live like this? pic.twitter.com/CgDQ5FKInJ

— Will🎄Menaker (@willmenaker) December 12, 2017

Unrelated to any of the current #discourse, does anyone know why Brandy Jensen ghosted from Twitter?

― Simon H., Monday, December 11, 2017 2:47 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

back on twitter and mad as hell!!!!!!

— Brandy Jensen (@BrandyLJensen) December 13, 2017

As the old line goes, elections have consequences

https://www.pscp.tv/w/1ypKdNNbmBpJW

I do have to say my favorite part of last night was Virgil openly speculating what the symptoms of toxoplasmosis are in human, as Matt would surely get it from touching cat fæces(provided by Will’s newly acquired tuxedo cat, Marty)

lol the Miyamoto basement photo

What's the origin of the basement Gamecube picture?

i dont know but ive seen it for years its for sure a gaming meme

it's not even Miyamoto, it's Iwata!

RIP Iwata-san, your visage will be displayed prominently in places of honor in every GameCube dungeon across the land

the flow of conversation in this podcast feels very unnatural to me. @midnight was a terrible show that was obviously written, and this was highlighted by the question and answer format. comments in this show feel written in spite of them talking over each other. very happy to learn about gamecube dungeon, however.

unlike @midnight, the conversation is at least hilarious at times

Sometimes they reuse their own jokes from twitter, which might account for some of the written feeling.

ayyyy sam seder!
https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/episode-168-nut-neutrality-feat-sam-seder-121717

Pretty fun episode in that they spend all of it bashing alt-right dudes

lol at amber's remark about her own resemblance to wendy from mario kart

Seder got on well

I've heard him say that Chapo is the only political podcast he listens to.

They should worked in a couple of Maron jokes

"Sam Seder, who're your guys?"

Or Home Movies/Bobs Burgers questions

yeah Seder honestly came off like another cohost, it was great

Folks, the Menaker/Garland beef is flowering on Twitter and if you take amusement in this sort of thing in any way, it's beautiful.

omg yes

amber's point way back when the first GAME THEORY thread happened about Garland saying he was drinking craft beer and on iv adderall (?) has stuck with me- paraphrasing "dude you're just drunk and fucked up on drugs, don't make it sound classy"

You tiny souls. You malignant professionals.

Oh, Fast Company. Bible of Geopolitical Analysis. Two of these in Calendar 2017?

Are you ready for the data analytics? 😎https://t.co/0AyxBVN9XR

— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) December 24, 2017

Eric it goes deeper than you know. Here he is meeting with a Syrian operative and an unpatriotic wizard. pic.twitter.com/DRRUDGIwZA

— HW Wood (@hwwood) December 24, 2017

Ok I admit I did chortle at “unpatriotic wizard”

garland seems genuinely unwell tbh

This is true

He seems shitfaced and mad online. Not the best combo.

This is a lie. Amber never shares her coke. https://t.co/pQ9m2UFOBm

— Angela Nagle (@AngNagle) December 24, 2017

amber was on the most recent cum town ep yammering about doing coke with the hosts so that thread seems... at least partially plausible?

which part- amber doing coke with her roommates or never sharing hers? they all talk about doing coke a lot. nick, adam, stav, and amber. i think it's hilarious that nick is "sober" but just does a ton of coke instead. bums me out, blow is the worst drug in every way. also if you dig into that quoted tweet thread there's some really disingenuous stuff about amber "enabling" nick, as if he needs to be coerced into doing cocaine.

Street Fight posted a three year-old lost episode with Will talking about Sons of Anarchy, it's really good. I think I'd like their show a lot more if they had someone to keep them on track or keep it to one or two issues, episodes just bounce around too much.

I don't know how you guys can listen to Cumtown. I've never managed to get past a couple of minutes they're seemingly just the most awful people.

re Cumtown i didn't like it much at first but it grew on me. like i can 'get' the ironic riffing on race & jews & uh intellectual disabilities, but most of the gay "jokes" just seem dumb and unfunny, in the way a shitty 13 year old idiot yelling "fag" is dumb and unfunny. and the Adam bashing just kind of gets boring after a while. lots of times there's not even really a joke there. i saw em live last month at their "funny moms" show and it was indeed very funny. they're actually pretty good comics and managed more or less to avoid the cartoonishly ott vulgarity and bleak nihilism often exhibited on the pod.

that said it's def not for everyone and i certainly can't blame folks for absolutely loathing them/ it.

Ya we’ve already had several cum town **struggle sessions** itt. It’s just contemporary Howard Stern. I love it. Ymmv

I think I'd like their show a lot more if they had someone to keep them on track or keep it to one or two issues, episodes just bounce around too much.

yeah i can get this. Street Fight boys were fun and very much in their element the one time i saw them live, prob better than on the pod (which i actually do like and listen to fairly regularly). also Bryan is Good At Twitter.

Warning: the new holiday episode has Overwatch jokes

(Shockingly)

the holiday special was... good? it even had some rudimentary production!

LOL @ amber as meghan mccain

Adomian’s Chris Matthews is the opposite of ASMR.

omg @ "he likes movies called like Goodbye at a Distance"

loled at an earlier ep when Felix made a joke like that and Matt just gave a sad "I, I don't really like movies like that"

my fave part was everyone cracking up at matt’s line about korean pro-gaming minutiae towards the end and virgil saying ‘i wrote that’ with quiet triumph

btw matt’s no cartridge interview a while back about why he hates gaming was rly good

My nephews got sooo much Overwatch shit for Xmas; I didn’t think it was that popular with elementary school kids

just listened to Champagne Sharks CS55, about the housing/banking crash and ensuing bailout and what that has done to minority communities (including how it drove voter disenfranchisement). wow, it was just devastating. it really highlights how bullshit the whole "you can't talk about class" argument is.

I'm perfectly fine with mercilessly making fun of Garland as long as he goes after actual legit writers/journos

I see Eric Garland has been doing some deep cover investigation of my (public) LinkedIn profile pic.twitter.com/UO4leSctEi

— ryan cooper (@ryanlcooper) December 30, 2017