the only critique I have of TAZ is that Griffin is too in love with his stories/his own writing
honestly the first episode needle-scratch moment when Justin announces his character's name is taco spelled T A A KO was what hooked me
and the music
then for a long time i lived for Garfield the Deals Wizard and FANT AS Y COST CO
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 12 August 2017 03:28 (six years ago) link
Justin: I am a wizard. My name is T-A-A-K-OTrav: "Tayko?"Griffin: Ta...Justin: (quietly) Pronounced "taco"Griffin: ARE YOU NAMING YOUR GODDAMN WIZARD "TACO"?Justin: *laughter*
srsly, of every hilarious moment in TAZ , this is the rosetta stone
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 12 August 2017 03:35 (six years ago) link
Car Boys, Touch the Skyrim, etc (not so much Let's Go to Hell) were great but it fucking sucks that Nick Robinson turned out to be a shitty person. I hope Polygon can at least pick up CoolGames Inc with a new cohost, but I have doubts.
― You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Saturday, 12 August 2017 21:47 (six years ago) link
what happened with Nick?
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 12 August 2017 22:15 (six years ago) link
outed as a twitter creep who harassed industry women in DMs (incl trying to convince an 18yo to meet him for sex), posted a bad apology and got roasted for not addressing the actual issue, was dropped by polygon
― qualx, Saturday, 12 August 2017 22:59 (six years ago) link
yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesh
O_o
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 13 August 2017 00:41 (six years ago) link
There's a good discussion of the situation here: https://waypoint.vice.com/en_us/article/43xkmb/we-discuss-nick-robinson-harassment-and-power-dynamics-on-waypoint-radio
― one way street, Sunday, 13 August 2017 01:46 (six years ago) link
Love TAZ, though do not enjoy Lup the way everyone else seems to.
TAZ shines because it's always been griffin and his asshole family playing an overly complicated game they don't try to hard to understand and by the third arc it had become Something Special in spite of that
^^^
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Monday, 14 August 2017 01:42 (six years ago) link
yeah idc abt Lup
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 14 August 2017 01:46 (six years ago) link
There are a bunch of great NPCs, and Lup is up there with the best of them imo. She's also a fan favourite because a) double sassy elf magic = double the fun, b) having a canonically trans character cements the moves towards inclusiveness that they'd been making, and c) FUCK YOU, GREG GRIMALDIS.
I'd heard about the Nick Robinson thing and knew there was a Polygon/McElroy bros connection, but I didn't realise he co-hosted Touch the Skyrim and CGI. Oof.
― emil.y, Monday, 14 August 2017 16:06 (six years ago) link
The inclusiveness stuff is great, it's just she feels a little overengineered to be awesome and lived by all, rather than actually being very interesting
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Tuesday, 15 August 2017 00:18 (six years ago) link
LOVED by all, fuck
yay there's a mcelroy thread on here finally! i LOVE them, also consume a lot of their stuff, and will come back to this thread when i have time to read and think abt it
― flippy bard (Will M.), Tuesday, 15 August 2017 23:30 (six years ago) link
also it is kind of amazing how they all had kids within a few years of each other. Old Clint is the uber-grandad!
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 15 August 2017 23:37 (six years ago) link
Such wholesome family boys.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 16 August 2017 00:14 (six years ago) link
this was posted on reddit ages ago, it's a great profile of Clint, and some very moving stuff about the boys' mom & the effect of her passing
http://www.huntingtonquarterly.com/articles/issue73/mcelroy.php
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 August 2017 02:38 (six years ago) link
important content from tonight's Brooklyn MBMBAM show :D
Shrimp Heaven Now by @Lin_Manuel feat. @MBMBaM 🦐🦐🦐 pic.twitter.com/Okftc5P23Y— ashley hufford (@ashleyhufford) September 9, 2017
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 9 September 2017 02:27 (six years ago) link
I've been meaning to bump this thread asking what people thought of the finale? Oddly the actual last episode didn't make me anywhere near as emotional as the penultimate one and The The Adventure Zone Zone roundup did - or perhaps not oddly, as the actual process of tying up loose ends just isn't going to be as emotionally charged, because there's a bit too much business to be taken care of. I still loved it, though - I'm basically very uncritical of anything Adventure Zone related because it became so important to me so quickly and it turns out that I'm a big old sap.
Since then I've been listening to a fair amount of MBMBaM, which isn't as good but does make me crack up *a lot*. I also tried a couple of episodes of Bunker Buddies, which is totally my wheelhouse content-wise but it didn't quite grab me. I'm going to try a few more, though.
― emil.y, Saturday, 9 September 2017 15:13 (six years ago) link
i am still 2 episode away from the finale - loving the story though, esp now that they are back to regular D&D - stolen century was great but i def like it when the boys have more to do
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 9 September 2017 16:13 (six years ago) link
and yeah, MBMBaM is basically just a pure chucklefest <3
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 9 September 2017 16:14 (six years ago) link
Finale was enjoyable, but also had the extremely long-drawn-out post-climax scenes that are more fun for the participants than the listeners (see end of 3rd LotR film, etc)
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Sunday, 10 September 2017 03:18 (six years ago) link
what those were the best parts
― qualx, Sunday, 10 September 2017 03:32 (six years ago) link
they've been on this campaign for 3 years they can have like 20 minutes of closure
Just stopped by to say holy shit I love TAZ and I don't know how I missed this thread until now.
― jjjusten, Sunday, 10 September 2017 04:16 (six years ago) link
i think TAZ is definitely the best thing they've created together
and like, to do that as a family is pretty fkn cool.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 10 September 2017 05:02 (six years ago) link
I know, the closure was fine, i was listening at 1am and desperate for it to finish so i could sleep, i am a grinch
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Sunday, 10 September 2017 10:10 (six years ago) link
<3
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 10 September 2017 14:41 (six years ago) link
singularity has now been reached.
No Zone of Truth necessary - we're gonna miss these boys pic.twitter.com/K44kjllrln— Arby's (@Arbys) September 12, 2017
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 12 September 2017 17:30 (six years ago) link
i blame the mcelroys for creating people like this https://t.co/C68ORfjLgC— cheetah lupone (@zrok_) October 20, 2020
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 20 October 2020 16:46 (three years ago) link
that guy is lame & terrible at metaphors - not the mcelroys fault
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 16:53 (three years ago) link
A hectoring dude with bad politics on Tik-Tok is the fault of the McElroys? I don't even get the comparison.
I'm definitely off the train a little, just tired of the whole family promo machine, but a few of the main projects still bring some much-needed laughs.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 20 October 2020 16:57 (three years ago) link
yeah same
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 17:29 (three years ago) link