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 Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2019 10:32 pm
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Rulez
Your job here is to convince me to try something! It can be a book, show, comic book series, a musical artist, an actual artist, or any sort of medium!
You can't use the actual source to convince me! If its a comic, you can lift comic pages - if its a song, you can't use sound clips or video clips or gifs. Use your words!
You can use a thing I already like, but you're still got to be convincing - I may use outside judging if its something I've seen, read, or heard.
You can only win one of these, and one meme SoA from this event, which means you have 4 chances to win this one!
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Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2019 10:43 am
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Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2019 11:28 am
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Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2019 11:51 am
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Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2019 12:23 pm
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Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2019 1:35 pm
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Mind Blown!
Username: NovaCracker
Medium: YouTuber/YouTube Channel
Title: LGR
Convince me: LGR began as a channel named Lazy Game Reviews as one guy's project reviewing his retro console collection or.. Something. At least as far as my video-spelunking says.
LGR reviews retro games for the PC - from the early 80's into the early 2000's, as well as hardware, peripherals, and more. LGR covers a lot more than games in retro computing -- looking into old hardware? LGR digs in with stories and fact about how a computer came to be, or he'll tell you the story of how Fallout came into existence -- then go into the history of soundcards. He has many series on one channel as well -- LGRThrifts is his continuing adventures in collecting by hitting thrift stores, loaded with wonderfully dry wit and lightheartedness. LGR is a wonderful host as well -- Episode 2 is especially fun when you see him light up considerably from his deadpan snark. Curious about gaming or computing companies? Dig right into LGR Techtales. He talks about all of the esoteric, anomalous stuff you can hope for, including a two-part series on AOL.
LGR offers educational videos too -- curious about the history of Maxis? Well here's a sensible Maxis fanboyto talk toyouuntil your ears fall off. Maybe you prefer the delights of the history of copy protection? PC and Arcade is covered. Don't like PC games? Well he's done at least 1 PS1 game story. LGR also does LGRPlays, espoecially of girly games like Barbie and the Sims.
Ah, the Sims, you can't talk about LGR without talking about his Sims Reviews. He's done a retrospective, Let's Plays of the Sims 1 and a little Sims 2, Reviewed every Expansion and Stuff pack for The Sims 3, and now The Sims 4. And if you love the Sims LGHR ius EXCELLENT for reviewing materual you wonder at. Yes, spoilers hit, but he tries to note what people like and admits personal opinion. Wondering if a game's good? Asking me? I'll defer you the link to a video. Don't want my opinion? Take his anyhow. LGR seems rough, however he is fair and tries to be unbiased. Then he makes all sorts of fart jokes. It's great and yes you want to watch.
You see LGR has a sense of class. Even in the LGR Oddware series covering weird peripherals he's classy, althiough one item even he questions. Very muych. And then takes in direct sunlight I can not emphasise how snarky and smart this is.
Should you watch LGR? It's up to you -- while his media is often old, crusty, and all over, he'll reliably upload 1-2 videos a week full of information, fun, and levity for old hard and software, and, on many occassions, with a twisted smile and a strong John st. John impression as her snarks like Duke Nukem.
It's a worthy try, and can be found on YouTube as LGR. Unless you find his other channel, LGRfoods but then you get a whole new beast.
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Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2019 4:33 pm
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Mind Blown!
Username: Zaikt
Medium: Podcast
Title: The Adventure Zone
Convince me:
If you're a fan of DnD, this is already probably up your alley--but even if you aren't, TAZ is something spectacular anyway. It starts off like your average DnD campaign, but then goes completely off the rails with an incredible story, excellent characters, and genuinely hilarious commentary that continues throughout the entire series.
To sum it up, three idiots go to a cave, find some goblins, and next thing they know, they're saving the world from the unspeakable, hunting down magical artifacts of apocalyptic power, and going on dates at one of those combination winery/pottery painting places. If that sounds kinda vague, that's because I can't tell you any of the really cool stuff that happens after that first cave without spoiling it. :c that is the last thing i want to do.
Griffin is an amazing DM, and the amount of thought he's put into the world he's built up for the campaign is apparent from moment the party begins going off the rails. His players are his brothers, Travis and Justin, and his dad, Clint; the fact that they all know each other so well means that they work really well as a team (most of the time) and they're able to play off each other absolutely effortlessly. TAZ is equal parts funny and an impressive amount of character building all in one, and the arcs that each character goes through are well thought-out, well played, and everybody is given the same level of detail and care to make sure that these characters get to shine how they deserve.
There's multiple 'chapters,' so to speak, each covering something different. As the arcs progress, Griffin even goes so far as to throw out the traditional DnD system entirely, bringing in his own homemade game format to better suit that specific arc--I can't even begin to imagine the amount of time he must have sunk into the campaign, but it really, really shows. TAZ is a labor of love, and it's easy to get hooked on it.
also this podcast has legitimately made me cry before. that is not a thing that happens often.
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Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2019 5:29 pm
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Mind Blown!
Username: Ars Naberius
Medium: Podcast
Title: Sawbones
Convince me: If you happen to like informative-yet-funny podcasts then this will probably become one of your favorites! Sawbones features Dr. Sydney McElroy and her husband Justin McElroy as they traverse the weird and wild history of medicine. The podcast has been running for years now, but you don't need to start at episode one to get started - I'd recommend picking something that sounds interesting and rolling with it.Some topics include: A woman who gave birth to rabbits, Pliny the elder, snake oil salesmen from hundreds of years ago to today, health trends, earwax, medical astrology, murder, just about every disease under the sun, the history of medical video games, plague doctors - you name it, they've got it.
Justin tends to play the funnyman to Sydney's straight man, but the two are honestly both hilarious - when it was first recommended to me I was worried I'd be overwhelmed by all of the potential medical jargon, but it does a great job making everything easy to understand! They also care deeply about making sure they're sticking to the facts, so there's no need to worry about huge inaccuracies. It's just really good all around!
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Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2019 11:55 am
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Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2019 8:47 pm
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Mind Blown!
Username: Andranis
Medium: Webcomic
Title: Vattu
Convince me: Vattu is a story from the Overside comic world created by the artest, Evan Dahm, that has been going for a few years now - At present, it has 996 pages of backlog, from the birth of the main character, Vattu, to the comic's present, interspersed with the side-stories of a few other characters, including backstory for the Emperor of Sahta, the empire that's taken control of the lands Vattu is from. As with any of the Overside comics, there are multiple species, such as Fluters(Like Vattu), Sahtans(Like the Emperor), Surrins, and Grish. Each is distinct, with their own cultures and ways of speaking, and their own look. Really, all of Overside is like that, with each race looking different and some quite accurately named, like the frogmen, the machine men, and the Horned. It's a large world, and it's well worth jumping into!
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Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2019 9:13 pm
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Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2019 9:18 pm
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Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2019 7:52 am
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Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2019 7:01 pm
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