Chris

Yeah but you can just "hone" it, you don't have to "hone in on" it. It's already what "hone" means.

I don't even know, I've never watched him either. I just know he's kind of a professional youtube idiot?

That was one of my favorite moments as well. An excellent and true observation.

The Good Place has received its own thread:

I don't know if this is obvious to people or not, but all the Nick stuff on this episode was clipped out of the ruined robot recording from a few weeks ago

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Yeah, I fear there's too much.

Yeah but I didn’t even do that with y’all! It was Nick, and he was totally blatant about it!

It hasn't been posted as a podcast yet but it will be soon.

I think Jake has an almost violent instinctual reaction to other people trying to introduce phraseology that he perceives as being affected or foreign to the speaker. It's somewhat ironic because I think out of anyone I know, Jake is the most likely to adopt a new speech pattern or phrase that he will subconsciously spread to everyone around him.

Whoops. Yeah that makes sense. I haven't owned a car for years, and for whatever reason when I did I don't think I've ever been to a drive-through coffee shop (although I've certainly been to drive-through fast food plenty of times, where this obviously doesn't happen). On top of that I HAVE seen this kind of thing at local pizzerias and so on, in non-drive-through contexts, where it's just buying a slice for a friend who they know is coming in later, or something like that, and the friend's name is put on a blackboard. So the drive-through coffee shop thing never even occurred to me.

That’s probably mainly because I honestly just feel kind of weird speaking ill of someone who didn’t actually do me permanent harm or anything. (Well except for the month of rent money I still never got and never will.) I don’t like just dumping on someone personally from afar. I’d rather enjoy the absurdity of the situations than be petty about it if possible although obviously I don’t always succeed.

Bump! This long-delayed episode is finally out and the thread has been updated accordingly.

It is extremely quiet.

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Roast them shits up and spread em on toast

It's also, on a purely literal level, undeniable that this movie is simply longer than any other Star Wars movie, and noticeably so. Obviously length doesn't necessarily directly correlate to complexity or number of extraneous elements, but it's not totally unrelated. (Also, the first three movies were the shortest of all Star Wars movies to date, and that feels relevant.)

I thought there were flashes of excellence—visuals, performances, certainly music—but they were strung together by a LOT of very boring or in some cases utterly nonsensical plot and character motivation. It's bonkers to me that the filmmakers thought this movie needed to be almost three hours long.

DAMN that is choice. I've never heard this one, which is amazing given how many hours I've spent listening to Songsmith covers.

Ah, I see. Yeah, Olly isn't working on this game.

It’s definitely Unity! (I’m curious what made you assume it was Unreal?)

It doesn’t; but it’s pretty clear from the tone of your post that helpfulness is not your principal goal.

It’s possible, but the reason we tried so hard to get it working with Nick is for that continuity. We also gave him one of the actual mics from the studio to try and match audio as cleanly as possible. That said, it would be really fun to have old Thumbs hosts on the show from time to time so I could see us making the equipment/effort investment to hook it up if we had a good idea.

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