u/soul_huntre

ive never listened to this podcast, but i hear there was a cohost at the beginning from way back, are you guys fond of them

i was thinking about this today and i just think griffin would disintegrate hanging out with them

like, first of all they make a lot of racist jokes & i think if he had to be around for them he would shed a single tear

it would also be funny if travis mcelroy hung out with them, because i think he would either walk out on them and tell them their racist jokes make him SICK, or he would get weirdly offensive just to fit in with them

it's not even that hard a level i'm consistently making it to the huge barrel jump onto mister owl, but every fucking time no matter when i press the button it never works, is the jump broken or something. it isn't precise it just doesnt work ever.

edit: i am still super mad because i think the input responsiveness was annoyingly poor, but i figured it out + beat the level.

i dunno man like hes always like "OH MY GOD FUCK YOU GUYS, BE FUNNIER!!" and it's like dude if you're this mad about the tone of the podcast you're in maybe you should've picked different podcasters to be with.

its every bit with him where hes like "man this joke sucks dog shit" and its like i was enjoying it until you got so mad at it that you threw a revolver at it

I guess I don't fully understand his narrative role. I notice he sometimes comes off to me as noble, the way other characters praise him and interpret him as insightful, but it feels like his behavior is never especially moralized. I don't see him as morally grey, it feels as though he is almost portrayed as a character unrelated to morality.

For example, Ishmael discusses sort of a deep dissatisfaction in life near the beginning of the text, implying that he joins work on this boat because he is a dissatisfied wanderer with a sort of repressed desire for death, but on the boat, he looks far different. He comes off as deeply grandiose, thoughtful and he doesn't really seem aware of the dissatisfaction he mentions earlier.

I guess what I'm curious about is, do the rest of you think of Ishmael's characterization as a lack of attention that allows him to serve the purpose of a simplistic communicator of ideas, or do you think of Ishmael as an unreliable narrator, who's personal qualities are being concealed by him as a narrator? I can't tell if I'm seeking meaning where there is little to be found.

i just think it's odd is all

wouldn't that be fucked up

every episode griffin is like "grrr a female i dont like those" and then he goes "OH but i mean i LOVE GIRLS, SHOUTOUT to GIRLS"

you cannot have it both ways mr ducklemore. admit you're a misogynist and become based right wing podcasters

travis on the other hand will remain woke for forever/

it hurt my very soul being outside in the heat, so despite being off full sugar soda for a while now, i got a big pepsi and glugged it down. it is bad for my body but it made my soul feel joy.

max fun is nebulously anti capitalist

it isn't substantively oppositional to the system, but it likes the idea that it's a quazi-corporation that is only seeking out the sustainable systems it needs to live. jesse thorn is a little leprechaun who needs to feed on your money to live, will you not please hand him some fat stacks so he can game

that's the whole reason they like to pretend they're a charity, it's because they aren't a corporation. give us money voluntarily (we aren't charging a rate for our products), and then, here's the lovely part, you can enjoy your involvement.

that's the truly wet & wild thing about the max fun drive's fixation on new & upgrading donors

my brother in christ i thought you'd founded your quazi-corporation on an opposition to the capitalist myth of endless exponential growth, what possible justification do you have for demanding a lot of my american dollar bills even though i am *already a donor*

if you're making *enough*, why are you asking people for *more*.

and frankly i don't think the answer is crazy complex, it's 'cuz it's a capitalist company. the sort of like disinterest in capitalism is largely an act.

i might even go so far as to say it's actually kind of morally gross that they're asking for money that's quazi-charitable when that money *could be going* to a real charity. like if a real charity said "i'll give you a trinket if you give more" i'd be like *hell* yeah, *i* like donating to charity. there's not going to stop being homeless kids any time soon, there's not gonna stop being bad stuff any time soon. but like max fun's goal is pretty fuckin' finite. they don't have a cause, they're just entertainers who want to not die for their entertainment

you have enough money to straight up not die, the need for new upgraders is like straight up manipulation that straight up messes with real charities

straight up not cool.