I love how the main villain in The Adventure Zone, a podcast about dungeons and dragons is existentialism

@logicaloverdrive8197

4 жыл бұрын

No No, how a *comedy podcast* about DnD has a main villain that is existentialism

@AnUnfortunatePotato

4 жыл бұрын

Logical Overdrive no, it’s how a comedy podcast about dnd has a main villain who is existentialism, and *has a problem with existence*

@therealfinnaspring8585

3 жыл бұрын

Well everyone but Clint is a millineal right ? I think existential dread is the bane of gen y's existence for sure

"I tell you what, if we ever meet each other somewhere in infinity, you can apologize to me and tell me you were wrong." Merle's rawest line, quite possibly the rawest in TAZ, and he's apparently nude the whole time.

“I feel sad” And he kills you

@skullptures142

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah that's a mood

When Clint the janitor was introduced, I snorted water out of my nose. I'm dying.

@Dan-qy6zv

2 жыл бұрын

I am so hoping once the stolen century arc comes in the graphic novel, we see the Clint Mcelroy, The friendly annoying janitor.

@Uncle-Jay

Жыл бұрын

He shows up in other games too, haha.

Well that explains how Merle died so many times

@AnUnfortunatePotato

4 жыл бұрын

TheNightmareMan ... yeah

@AnUnfortunatePotato

4 жыл бұрын

TheNightmareMan “KISS my ass you sanctimonious bastard.”

@logicaloverdrive8197

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah... I wasn't expecting multiple deaths from what's essentially time travel shenanigans.

"I know that memory can be a problem for you sometimes" well you ended up making it worse, didn't you, Lucretia???

Damn! That last conversation with John was amazingly chilling and gave me goose bumps! I love their role-playing in the podcast

@Sco6014

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah like WTF? I almost started crying it was really messed up and Griffin was really getting into it and the silence from the other McElroy brothers really showed how serious the situation was and how much they got swept away in the narrative. Very good villain dialogue. I'm sure Griffin wrote that whole speech to go off of Merle's question which is why he kept trying to prompt it. It was really great. I'm gonna be sad once this podcast is done or when I don't get to binge watch and have to wait for the next episode

the amount of “I cast Zone of Truth”s in the intro has me really excited

"He invented Zone of Truth" Taako, like 3 episodes ago and 80 years later.

"Dormammu I've come to bargain."

"You said you would pay for my college." "And someday I will, as far as you know."

Hey now, You're The Hunger, Get your feast on, Eat Planes!

I just realized... the noise was originally from the void fish, so the noise they heard during their first midsummer festival at the bureau, when they saw the Hunger's eyes in the sky, was the noise of the void fish that got consumed. That must have been really hard to experience for the void fish at the bureau, hearing their family from their old home when they were a child now inside the thing that killed them all

@skullptures142

3 жыл бұрын

I have never considered that oh my god that makes me so sad

1:14:45 to 1:19:54 is probably the most intense part of this episode. There's just something about it that gives me this- existential-crisis vibe, and to be honest, I like it.

Griffin McElroy does NOT play when it comes to creating music that was beautiful

The whole Travis-led Rebound film is one of the funniest things in this show

"Memory can be a problem sometimes, so I will just erase it, okay?"

Thanks Merle/Clint. I really needed that speech on joy today.

1:22:10 The build up leading to the slow realization here was PRICELESS.

@raebaer8580

3 жыл бұрын

I love griffins ‘well fuck me for trying’ “okay” after Justin’s Paul Blart comment

The music before Merle tells John to "eff off" is soooooo dark. Griffin is channelling his inner Kingdom Hearts Heartless evil. Edit: For those of you wondering what song that is, it's "Final Form" at 0.75x speed from the Journey's End album

Clint, the embezzling janitor, is my favorite character in this Arc.

1:08:07 The McElroy men predict Infinity War

Magnus being a coach was so funny

timestamps 1:25 episode begins 8:00 Magnus the couch 10:40 Magnus speech 21:47 game changing meal 25:54 Merle's training 29:01 parlewith the Huger 46:46 break begins 52:05 break ends 47:57 what are you after? 1:08:15 blink 1:11:03 are you my friend? 1:23:00 art planet 1:25:30 light of creation

@purplechaos1238

2 жыл бұрын

Couch

@trouble8206

Жыл бұрын

thank you so much

Third time listening to this podcast and i get choked up still over the simplest things. Griffin really knows how to spin that flourishing yarn

Break ends 51:49

@skiesquiggles7319

5 жыл бұрын

You're doing the gods' work hon.

@AnUnfortunatePotato

4 жыл бұрын

You’re doing Pan’s work hon*

@notinspectorgadget

3 жыл бұрын

Top Lad

@bananawolf2304

3 жыл бұрын

Thanky

@aldenstarks3438

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks i didnt need it but i want to get this near top comment

Honestly this episode very much made me think and gave me chills. I came here from You Will Call Us Ascendant animatics. Gosh this podcast gives me chills.

23:22 is the part i always come back to

Honest to god this episode made me cry thinking about the mortality of life. So thanks griffin I’m extremely depressed now 👍

You know...hearing John at the end... in a way, it kinda resonated with me. Since I was about 9, I've had those kinds of thoughts. I'd go to church, hear them speak of the glories of heaven, and eternity with God and while it sounded great, I'd find myself lying awake at night, my young brain trying to grasp the concept of eternity. You're happy... but there's no escape. No change. Eventually, the happiness would fade, turning into boredom, and eventually... madness. These kinds of thoughts kept me up at night... almost drove me into insanity on the spot. But eventually, I started to move past that dread. I'll admit, it wasn't easy, and I still fight that existential horror, but I've learned to combat it... create, and learn, not simply stagnate. It's an uphill battle, but it's what keeps me going. I guess what I'm saying is... John... GET ON MY LEVEL, YOU FUCKING SCRUB!!

@notinspectorgadget

Жыл бұрын

"...I don't think i want to hang out with you anymore Tabula Rasa."

@nightwalker9875

Жыл бұрын

@@notinspectorgadget Tabula Rasa frowns and says “huh… I feel sad” and he kills you

@bobsaget3841

Жыл бұрын

Well and don't take this the wrong way but lots of people have these exact same thoughts. I know this cause myself and many of my friends have had the same train of thought. If you are being serious the thing is, the nature of heaven is eternal joy and love. It never gets boring, it never gets old, it's new every day. That's what heaven is, it transcends our experience of fleeting joy. It is an elevated existence that will never experience a state of being where there is no bliss, that is the very nature of heaven and anything else is no longer that. Imagine being able to explore a universe the size of the one we are in to experience new world and things beyond imagination. Then when you have experienced it all there is another universe and it is all new again. You remember and experience what you have seen and at the same time you experience the joy of discovery forever. That's what heaven is, to me at least. But exesential thought often is just a kind of circle jerk like you are the only person to every wonder about eternity and have their very being be shaken to the core by trying to grasp the concept. The whole reason the concept has persisted is because all people cannot comprehend it. The existence of eternity depends on us being unable to conceptualize what infinity is. Wandering about that doesn't make you special. It makes you human.

Damn he got Ratatouille'd huh

@AnUnfortunatePotato

4 жыл бұрын

Skullptures yo nicee pfp

@skullptures142

4 жыл бұрын

@@AnUnfortunatePotato thanks, I made it myself

You'd think hearing Griffin talk about how beautiful a composition he made would get annoying, *but then you hear it.*

"Okay, get your shirt off."

The cycle revealed at the end seems so beautiful. A world so obsessed with music that the kingdoms are named after musical terms and their idea of success being that their song is played to everyone almost made me cry

Magnus is having his Road To El Dorado episode 😂

@luise3334

2 жыл бұрын

LMAO YOU’RE RIGHT

I HAD THIS LESSON IN PHYSICS TWO WAVES CAN EXIST IN THE SAME EXACT SPOT AT THE SAME TIME YA DINGUS

i like merle a lot :'''I

@nicestpancake

4 жыл бұрын

Magnus best boi, Merle best daddio, Twins best siblins, Cap'nport best friend, Lucretia best writer, Barry best boyfriend. Iss just how it is.

A mildly eloquent piñata... Beautiful, absolutely beautiful.

Choosing to find joy in anything really just sums up Merle wonderfully Edit: sort of unrelated, but the ending of this episode REALLY reminded me of Johan and made me emotional :(

So did takko have a fantasy fajita?

"Ligotto" This is gonna end REAL BAD.

John is a better villain than the movie Doctor Strange's main villain. It's pretty funny how a villain talking about why IMMORTALITY is bad is more convincing than a villain talking about why DEATH is bad. Not dissing Marvel movies, but Doctor Strange's main villain was kinda dumb.

Well I guess this is where all of the deaths came from in the main plot...

"But also because my fist is just really sticky right now because of all of this oatmeal I just ate! I have a very hands on approach." Griffin, how the F do you eat oatmeal???

so....magnus kinda invented jugger in a parallel universe. i love it

The Hunger reminds me a lot of the Borg

@AnUnfortunatePotato

4 жыл бұрын

Patricia Bristow-Johnson “So, you don’t want to join us, and you forgot your orb thing? *CRUNCH*

"Lucinda! What do you think?" "Not her name." Just what I expect from the cleric who doesnt heal or buff.

Well, damn. That got real very quickly!

This is it, this is the one.

John is basically the Ellemist (Ellimist? I forget the spelling) from the end of Animorphs.

@nyranna_

4 жыл бұрын

Wasn’t the ellemist really helpful though? He protected a lot of hork bajir (is that how you spell it I don’t remember) Then again I never finished the series since there are like 100 books

1:22:54 We need Paul Blart 3

10:17 Coach Magnus!!

John reminds me of the Smiling God. But I am only on year 3 of Nightvale, so maybe that will change.

Also, my question is, did Griffin come up with the Zone of Truth name twist simply because Merle used it so often? Or was it planned before that became a running joke? Does anyone know if he's ever answered that?

@graciejohnson4567

4 жыл бұрын

Griffin is a pretty roll-with-the-punches type dm, like throughout the whole series he’s been that way, so it’s highly likely he didn’t exactly plan it.

@Arrakiz666

4 жыл бұрын

Griffin didn't have the end of the campaign or even most of the big twists planned until the Crystal Kingdom.

@goten3268

3 жыл бұрын

Did you think Griffen had this whole team of forgetting explorers when the cast said that davenport is a pokemon?

I think it’s so important for younger folks to have an older influence… just seeing how these wonderful boys turned out bc of Clint McElroy is just :’) choose joy folks

I once performed this monologue in college and I completely forgot about it until just now. A bold move considering I was supposed to be doing a comedy monologue. (I forgot it was supposed to be comedy and I showed up with pure existentialism)

1:19:05 This is for anyone that’s from the Ranboo animatic :)

Do you think Merrill ever told John he didn't actually have to kill him? Like John only killed him cuz he didn't know there was another option?

ZONE OF TRUTH...yes

"Win kids, or I'll make sure you all die." Best motivational speech ever.

I’ve been saying existing is terrible my whole life...my name might not be John but maybe I’m part of “dissatisfaction”

did john hear the song and just go "wait what the fuck was that."

"Which kills you both in this space." Uh.....I feel like...this should've been brought up.

@caspiangyarados9279

8 ай бұрын

"...which kills you, both in this pocket dimension, and in the real world..." grammar, basically. not that it kills both parties in the Parlay, but it kills the person that casts Parlay in both the pocket dimension and in the real world.

@Dan-qy6zv

8 ай бұрын

Oooooh. OK that makes sense.

1:18:36 Personal bookmark =>

Cool congrats on being in a San Diego comic con

“I feel sad” that was a guy punch :/

57:00 Bookmark

52:00

1:00:24 bookmark :)

Merle and John remind me of Hob Gadling and Dream, and Antonius Bloch and Death.

59:00

and I really thought about skipping this arc...

51:49

I KNOW this ends with the hunger coming to consume the planet most of this campaign took place on but I'm still like no, Merle, you were making progress!! You could have changed him!!!

1:13:25

i’d love to see paul blart 3

I was kinda sad when he hurt John's feelings

1:22:01 Travis is the fucking best.

I’m sorry to have to keep commenting this but please please enable or add captions!

@siksara

Жыл бұрын

this isn't actually their channel, so i don't know if this channel will do anything :/ but! there are pretty good transcriptions of taz, if that helps at all!

Merle

1:22:13

0:05

1:25:40 chopin ❤️❤️

"Dormamu, I've come to bargain"

1:19:45