#idc if this makes me the grinch or whatever

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Fuck it, at this point I'm joining the war on Christmas because tell me why I walked into a store and all of their Christmas decorations were out... it's OCTOBER 5TH LET IT BE OCTOBER my god Halloween is still over 3 weeks away and you've already broken out the mistletoe??

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I'd planned to liveblog the Always Sunny Podcast live show and afterparty but I got too caught up in it. I do have some notes I scrawled on a sheet of paper here and some shitty phone recordings because screenrecording was making my ancient laptop lag like crazy, but I'm quite drunk and very sleepy, so I'll write them up later. If I can be bothered later. Probably not lbr.

I believe the videos are gonna be up for the next 7 days to rewatch as many times as we'd like? (Hey future self go figure that out.)

For now, quick thoughts before my brain shuts down:

Outfits: 9/10. Docking a point for Glenn buttoning up his shirt in the afterparty. Rude. Should've popped that shirt off.

Music, harmonizing and jamming: 100/10 VIBES. Shout-out to Charlie and Glenn singing Christmas tunes together and Charlie's musical improvisations on the piano with Glenn on guitar.

British royalty talk: -3/10. Rob, I do like you, but given my background, I personally do not care to hear about how the king is cool or whatever. Idc if you talk about meeting them, but sucking up to them is dumb and you need friends who aren't posh types like Humphrey (no offence to him, I'm sure he's nice).

Glenn as the grinch, being grumpy as shit, munching on cheese and crackers furiously after drinking a Rob manhattan and just giving 0 fucks about Christmas happiness: 11/10 MOOD!

Best host contest: blasphemy/10. Picking Meg is cheating and I adore Charlie, but no. Why was little Glenn on #3? Poor chap.

Gifts: 10/10 thoughtful <3

Lingerie talk: 8/10. Not long enough. Could be gayer.

RCG improv scenes: A++/10. They just got better as they did more. The stupid key chain sounds had me dying.

Serious conversations in the afterparty about S16 writing, Megan's happy experiences at Sunny vs other shows, doing RCG rewrites and the creative process disagreements between Rob and Charlie while Glenn is mostly quiet and tired or sometimes mediating: 17*/10 friendship. Also, Charlie is right that 4:3 and Standard Definition is The Sunny Look.

Chat, voting website and audience interactions: flop disaster/10. Why didn't they try to set up a normal poll instead of a page on a website that was definitely going to crash?! Anyone under 28 could've told them the chat was going to be impossible to read and full of spam without a proper moderator, but even our Meg is old and doesn't really know this stuff lol.

*arguably 19 because they started working on the home movies in 2003 with the first ones shot in November.

It was a slow start and they were clearly tired from being in the writer's room all day, but after the first half an hour, the boys slowly came back to life and stayed on for an extra 45 minutes, which I appreciated, having paid all that money to watch them.

It was like a 3x duration unedited edition of the podcast with some extra segments and I did have fun, but tbh it didn't have to be a livestream except for the few moments they actually interacted with the chat. The whole point of a livestream is the audience participation and even they seemed disappointed they couldn't hear us or really be able to read the chat?

I don't think the Moment interface is that great either. They could've just gone live on youtube or twitch and hidden the stream after a few days for the same effect and given away the leftover money from superchats and donations. They'd probably raise less money that way, but it would actually take advantage of the format. Fingers crossed their next livestream goes a lot smoother. And hire moderators please!

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Ok so random rant time, youtube villain playlists and anger playlists suck fuckin ass bruh

There is such a lack of variety song wise that i can legit predict at least 3 songs on title alone. If i click on a decent thumbnail and hear FUCKING MICHAEL BUBLÉ CROONING OVER THAT FUCKING CHORD AT THE VERY BEGINNING IM GONNA PUNCTURE BOTH MY EARDRUMS WITH A PENCIL- Also hayloft (1 and 2), wolf in sheep’s clothing, can you feel my heart, my ordinary life, obey, brutal, mad hatter, blood//water etc.

Like i really like some of the songs and artists (mother mother, grandson, Melanie martinez, etc.) listed but they are played TOO MUCH

i listen to SYNTH WAVE PLAYLISTS WITH MORE MUSICAL VARIETY THAN THIS, its bs

And then the titles, god help me

“Your the villain everyone loves” “your the hero waltzing with the villain” “your the hero that falls from grace”

This is all the same fuckin vibe with the same fuckin songs and its CRINGE AS F U C K dude

Its all played completely straight and serious and it hurts me physically, like you are not a super cool manipulative villain, you are not a badass, and the fact that the playlist exists means you aren’t special/unique either, cuz either ur listening along with the 3 million other people or you made it like the 500,000 people. And all the songs are the same ANYWAY!!

Kinnie and POV shit is weird too, yall aint safe

i am NOT watching the sunset with glup shitto rn and the songs don’t even give that vibe (cuz they all the same), the title alone cant make me visualize it sorry

And as far as kinning goes, idc for it myself and i find the concept kinda stupid BUT i can kinda see where it comes from character wise and im not gonna make fun unless A. You throw the first stone or B. Your bein an asshole, and both of those requirements apply to a broad variety of things in life

I just gotta say my ordinary life, seven nation army, and mother mother as a whole can’t apply to EVERY CHARACTER IN EXISTANCE I SWEAR TO GOD-

Also if you make a playlist and i cant listen to more than 3 songs im not listening to ur playlist, im too lazy to search up the 2 songs i like up on youtube individually and ur playlist is already in my history from clicking on it out of my early curiosity upon discovering playlists existed as single videos.

Tbh tho im probably equally as cringe if not more

But you see

I can be a goofy silly little self aware boy who is funny and acknowledges their cringe

and simultaneously thinks about how lyrics and song meanings apply to character and doesn’t post the same song arrangement as a playlist for the umpteenth time-

Anyway yeah, ik i seem really mad bout it and i kinda am but at the end of the day its my opinion and if you’ve read this far and disagree i am proud of you, ur entitled to whatever u believe in the subject. I’ve i was looking to change someone’s mind this would be much more constructive and id prolly give some alternative music or methods or smthn but im not looking to do that, this is pure expression and anger babyyyyy

ALSO NOT ALL PLAYLISTS ARE BAD AND IM NOT SAYING TO NOT LISTEN TO THEM, if i was this rant would be completely hypocritical (takes one to know one)

Anyway my kins are the grinch and joe mama, im gonna go listen to gremlincore and synthwave like the degenerate i am