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This has been covered a couple times in the comments of other posts, but I figured I’d make a post about it. Do we think that the new YT subscription is the good good brothers’ way of stepping away from Max Fun? I think it is, and here’s why.

1. If they were to leave Max Fun, the biggest concern would be a sudden loss of income. The YT Subscriptions would help to smooth the transition.

2. If they intended to stick with Max Fun, wouldn’t they just include this as a new bonus for MF members? Is there another reason to have a separate, non-MF membership that I’m missing? It almost seems like this would cause some level of bad blood, if they hadn’t already told Jesse they plan on leaving.

3. The latest MF Drive was a total bomb, which, taken with increasing skepticism from the community, sets precedent for them leaving. How many more brutal drives are they willing to go through before dropping out?

With all this in mind, I predict that the McElroys will drop out of Max Fun before next MF Drive. They may be under contract for now, but I’m not sure if that’s true. Can somebody remind me how close to the drive that other podcast dropped out?

Break into small groups and discuss.

YOU know…eughhh…the way he….talks?? the way he talks?? yeah?

I know you’re reading this. Why do you protect the boys’ fragile egos from our piercing queries?

/uj

…on the only interesting thing to come from this entire season

I’m not sure what to do with this. My GF of a year is apparently very close with her best friend’s brother, to the point that it makes me feel uncomfortable. They hang out one on one sometimes, without telling me. They hang out “all night long” and I don’t hear about it until somebody else tells me. When I show up late to a bar hang, etc, I find them sitting together every time. If my GF goes swimming at her friend’s house, he’s there too. If they all go shopping, he’s there too.

The thing is, and what has made looking up solutions to this difficult, is that I am not worried about her cheating. Truly, I am not. It’s just that this relationship triggers something in me, it makes me feel jealous and brings back feelings from a past unfaithful relationship I was in.

I don’t want to have a “no guy friends” policy. I also am realistic about the fact that small crushes are unavoidable even in committed relationships, and that the thing that really matters is trust and faithfulness.

What I don’t know how to handle are my feelings. I feel very put down - and frankly, it’s hard to hang out with her for a few days after each one of these moments (her best friend lives out of state, so she mostly only sees this friend’s brother a few times a year when her friend is in state). I don’t want to retreat from her or treat her weirdly, especially without giving her a reason. But I am also afraid that bringing this up could be something I regret. I am concerned that I’ll come across as paranoid and insecure, or overly controlling, and possibly damage our relationship needlessly.

Any advice would be incredible. I’ve found it very hard to find anything online relating to this unique situation.

Inspired (manipulated? forced?) by Weedshark’s reeducation, I did a hate-relisten to Graduation last month. It was brutal, obviously, for all the reasons people have mentioned (it was Travis’ cadence more than anything).

But when I was done I decided to jump into Ethersea. I had listened before, got about 15 episodes in. I didn’t remember why I stopped, cause I actually really enjoy the worldbuilding in this campaign. But oh my fucking god - Devo is absolutely insufferable. He is genuinely the worst player character I have ever come across in any podcast, and frankly, in any game of DnD I’ve ever played.

Shall I list the ways?

The way he min-maxed his character’s persuasion score so that he can strong-arm griffin’s story his way

The time he told Zoox to “not make everything about him” after literally doing exactly that every scene of ever episode himself

The insufferable religious trauma backstory that he inserts into every god damn moment (as someone who actually has had serious religious trauma this is especially cringy to me)

I’m writing this on the shitter at work so I need to wrap up and don’t have time to edit this, but god damn Devo is the greediest, stupidest, most emotionally bereft and self absorbed character ever to grace TAZ. Honestly I might go so far as to say he sunk the ship that was Ethersea - although even as a Clint defender I don’t really care for Zoox either, and Amber is just meh

I needed to come here and say something to someone.

I got saw all the mods pissing their pants 💀

First off, I died laughing. The fact that they even did that? Hahaha

Secondly, their whole discussion of how hard it would be to pee yourself killed me, but as a man, I don’t think it’d be that difficult to pee your pants if you really wanted to? 😂 The only times I can think of ever having trouble going was urine tests at a doctor’s office. And that might be a mind over body thing.

Am I the only guy who thinks it would be easy to do? Do other mods think it would be difficult?

I’ve never been in a situation where I needed/wanted to just pee my pants so I guess I could be wrong!

Hoping to make someone laugh at this post because I have no one to share this with atm! Have been trying to get my friends and husband to listen to the podcast for a while and no dice yet. Love the McElroy Boys and their humor haha

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME

Not to mention he let’s Travis “take another action, cause that one…” cause that one what?? Because he failed his role and now has to have a consequence for his actions?? So you have Pranklin INSTANTLY remove the consequence and then give him a free action???

This is a joke istg

This is all about today’s episode btw