what was with that new game changers episode

this was a threat

the teacher evaluations are absolutely priceless. Teacher evaluations appreciation post.

"Attractive bard teacher I can't remember her name."

Fig intimidating Riz into giving Eugenia all fives and him saying "Good at rogue stuff but the double fisting cigarettes was a bit much."

Fig making Porter and Zara share a form but giving Lucilla her own and Porter getting SO incensed about it.

"After all these years, still not sure if Porter is secretly evil, but smiting is so sick."

"Yeah yeah, stabby stabby" for Corsica Jones

"Strongly disagree that teacher prepared for class, but this is the way of dance. Dance is present. Dance is now. [...] Also, again, I'm so sorry. Please let me buy you a new shirt."

"Liar, frumpy, wrong."

it's just really funny to me to imagine Fabian actually being a great big brother honorable nemesis.

like, putting a nemesis ward on the nursery with aelwyn's help since "it won't do if they die before their eighteenth birthday, will it?" (aelwyn, deeply sarcastic: "well of course, that is exactly why I put the ward on adaine's room." fabian, too deep in denial for sarcasm: "see? you get it")

gifting them a battle sheet baby blanket since they should start preparing for their battle early on (and yes it's extra fluffy, it's for a baby stop laughing everybody)

generally trying to teach them everything he knows "so their battle to the death will be a fair one"

giving their adventuring party the same lecture on tactics that the bad kids got from his papa

hunting down chungledown bim and any other nemesis so his sibling is the only one who could get a piece of his fund (he just wants it to stay in the family, shut up)

just. fabian being an amazing big brother but also if you call him that to his face he will cut you

Not seeing enough talk about Smartypants so I’ll make my own posts. Cannot emphasize how thinly related this was to what was being discussed

Love how defensive the dimension20 crew are of their boundaries. Last week Siobhan made some error (I forget what it was) and she just told the camera that anyone who tries to give her shit about it will be blocked immediately on all social media. Murph says the Honor the Cock thing and the crew spends a good 5 minutes of Adventuring Party riffing about how random strangers shouldn't walk up and tease him about it. These people have experienced being a public figure having to weather through months or years of thousands of oh-so-hilarious people beating a stupid running joke into the ground and it shows. They know how to build the boundaries they need to fucking survive.

the brightest minds of our generation

so true demi

"I worship a nameless god of Rage"

I don't really know if I like this but I've invested too much time to not post so...

[Image Description:

Fanart of the character Buddy Dawn from the webshow Dimension 20 Fantasy High: Junior Year. On a swirling red background, Buddy has his eyes closed with the corners of his mouth ticking up in an almost smile. He is shirtless with a large sharp red star, burning red, protruding from his chest. The top spike impales his throat, where it had been slit by Kipperlilly, and the blood from his neck has trickled down the shard to drip into his hand below. Dark veins stretch across his skin. Helio has no mark on him anymore, instead his flesh and blood belongs to Ankarna.]

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Anyway.

one thing i haven't seen samuel dalton theorists mention is that they never actually caught him. by the time the players escape the greenroom and get to the game changer set, the bomb is still there, but samuel dalton is not.

they don't catch him, they don't stop him, they don't send him back in time or anything. they just kind of defuse the bomb and move on to the end of the game. he is not mentioned again.

i've seen many theories about samuel dalton being "back," but he didn't actually go anywhere, as far as we know.

he might've been here the whole time.

"common refrain, where's waldo? where is waldo? in times of war, where's waldo? people are dying in the streets, where the fuck is waldo? i'll tell you where he is. hiding on the goddamn beach somewhere. i can't find him. what kind of ally is that?"

- demi adejuyigbe, 2024

Sam what have you done to these people. You've destroyed them Sam.

Maybe the rage deal in the last episode wasn’t JUST “You live but have extreme amounts of rage.” What if they were offered their wildest dreams and the rage was a clause in like microfont bc to them the gifts of achieving their goals and living seems like a great deal especially for children. The rage pushes them to achieve a goal, the rat grinders are KIDS they arnt gonna have crazy outrageous dreams and ambition at 17 years old, I knew nothing when I was that age.

You have a crush on a girl for a couple years and want to catch her attention? Bam. Get more confidence, become buff, get noticed first the first time ever. Oisin was completely unrecognizable before but now after all this?

You hate another rogue so much you want to be better than him? Bam! Kipperlily finds the rogue teacher first AND signs up for the election assuming riz would be the one to do it bc why would Kristen Applebees want to be president? Which could be an event bigger fuel to KLCK’s fire.

You want to be a famous musician and you’re jealous of a bard in school who never goes to class but has what you don’t? Bam! Ruben copies her look and produce music when she’s on hiatus as well as getting signed by her label

Mary Anne’s is small and girly she was probably bullied and wanted to make it stop, so shes now indifferent, and strong enough to stand up for herself, she sees Gorgug on the first day of school get decked in the face jsut to grow into this strong guy and sees him as inspiration

Lucy was content with life, she loved her friends, loved her god and knew the rage wasn’t what she wanted to have to live with. The resurrection is supposed to help them feel fulfilled but she’d just be more unsatisfied with life if she took the offer. Lucy was happy with what she had, and had no further aspirations, she loved her god and 'stuck to her guns'

Buddy dawn a follower of helio, watches the chosen one of his church abandon everything, he’s sad and confused as to why she did what she did. He dies and is offered the chance to become the chosen one for an unnamed god, he’s scared, helio is missing, and if Kristin took an offer from a new god and was okay why wouldn’t he be?

The rat grinders were scared kids who needed a miracle, and one was offered CHILDREN WILL SCREAM FOR HELP UNTIL THEY ARE ARE OFFERED SANCTION, IT DOESN’T MATTER WHO THE SAVIOR IS