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[froodle]

whelp, this episode of tanis actually had some fucking content for a change, so that was nice.

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[diello.livejournal.com]

That's.............................................................................. weird (am I doing it right, Nick? Is that pause between a word and an "ominous" word long enough? I can make it longer).
But seriously, I have stockholm syndrome for Tanis - I hate it, but I can't chance missing something actually happening. But god, the "actoring" (I don't know if Actoring is a well-known phrase - means the acting is passable for its medium, but it's still painfully obvious that they're just reading a script - everyone else got better from S1 to 2, but Nick needs to emote a LOT more).
I wish they'd bring back Black Tapes. It has the same problem, but at least the story goes somewhere every episode.

[froodle]

i logged in, saw that line and promptly pissed myself laughing for like five minutes. DEAD ON.

....ominous?
....yeah... ominous....
why..... ominous, though?
(minute long pause)
NOW A THREE MINUTE ADVERT FOR EITHER SOCKS OR SECOND HAND EMBARRASSMENT, I CANT EVEN WITH THOSE ADVERTS ITS 2017 STOP WITH THE SOCKS
(minute long pause)
the question... that has haunted me... what is tanis?
me: *starts crying and screaming "what is my life?!" at the sky*

this is the first time ive heard the word actoring but omg YES that is the perfect description. i cry with relief when cameron ellis shows up because even tho he rarely answers a question fully, hes he only one who actually finishes his sentences before ive died from old age, gone through the reincarnation cycle and returned to my current age all over again

did you give rabbits a try? oh my god its everything annoying about tanis turned up to eleven. i had to stop episode three without finishing it because i thought i was gonna rage-choke myself with my headset. it was an hour of NOTHING!

[diello.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad I'm not the only one who makes fun of the pauses!

I used to be all about the MK scenes til they became OBVIOUSLY formulaic. Like, they don't even switch the formulas anymore. It's just

"I talked to MK"
[MK dialog of information and waiting/baiting on Nick to figure something out]
"could you send me that?"
[MK either says something akin to "already did" or "really?"
and then he either gives her something else to check on, or they farewell and Skype-out-sound.

I didn't check out Rabbits yet, and if it's THAT awful, I'll probably skip it.
........but out of curiosity, I've gotta check it out. I wanna see just how shit-tastic it is XD

[froodle]

i think the highlight of rabbits was the pimp they did for tanis and also stamps.com where the narrator was like "you can send fanmail to your favourite podcast declaring whether youre team geoff or team mk"

like, one, im not going to be sending POSTAL MAIL to a podcast, and two, geoff has been missing since the end of season two and given how slow to non existent plot development is, we wont see him again before the heat death of the entire universe, which will occur during A MASSIVE MID SENTENCE PAUSE, NIC, GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER, NIC, ALSO ALL KNOWN MATTER IS BURNING AROUND US I DONT NEED SOCKS, SHHHHHH.

i dont even know why they do it, other than to artificially pad the run time, but plenty of great podcasts run about 25 minutes and do just fine without the extra length. heck, tales of thattown is usually ten to fifteen and its GREAT.

[diello.livejournal.com]

This is the best rant about a podcast ever!
I have no idea why they draw out each episode so much, either. Every time I start an episode, I see how long it is and roll my eyes. Then halfway through the second half, I see how much longer I have til the end and roll my eyes into a straight-up backflip out the window.

[diello.livejournal.com]

Ominous Pause: The drinking Game.
Where we all die of alcohol poisoning before they talk about socks for three minutes.

[froodle]

"Chug while they pause for commercial"
Entire listening audience: *liver failure*