The Patreon Podcast - Episode 9 - New Year, Same Me

Hi Dan, this may get buried given how old this episode is now but I just wanted to say a huge thank you. I've only joined your patreon recently and started making my way through the podcast backlog but something about your rambling tangents and daft humour has really scratched an itch in my adhd brain, not to mention making my continued isolation feel that little bit less lonely. All this to say I shall definitely be bumping up my pledge, it's the least I can do when you've unknowingly brightened my days :)

Kaden Bryant

Ross Noble and Doctor Who, excellent, still trying to collect all the classic DVDs

Matthew

You should publish your book through unbound I would back it.

Will there be a toys video on the new lego diner at some point? It's kinda... Weird. Off in a way, was curious about your thoughts.

Miranda Walker

Best named robot in robot wars?

Edward Hagreen

Is there an RSS feed for the podcast?

I like GoT 👀

Matthew Sinclair

Aw mummy on the orient express is the best episode of series 8 imo

Taylor Page

Thoughts on King Of Bots if you've seen it? Chinese robot wars, featuring teams from robotwars, battle bots and even robo challenge who made the new house robots with their stunning looking Spectre.

Daniel Marshall

Just saw the 2500th video, jfc that was great. Well done on that

This is all our fault

Diarmaid Ó Braonáin

Player of games is the best book of all time although wasp factory is like a close second

If you like lovely liberal future you really should read the Ian M. Banks culture novels. They are eerily similar to the far future federation you describe. Player of games is a really great thinky novel about interacting with a space empire that's a nice short intro to the universe, Consider Philebas is sort of the Abraham's equivalent with lots of big cool set pieces exploding that's a slightly easier read and finally Surface Detail is a great longer novel that experiments with the idea of enforced VR afterlifes (Like San Junipero from black mirror but a little more grimy) .

New supporter here. Always wanted to get an answer to this (Cue you skipping this one!). Do you have a favorite lego piece?

Sir Uncle Ned

F*CK YOU DAN!! You got me addicted to Ross Noble

Have you had a chance to check out Voez on Switch? I recommended it during a livestream, but basically it's like Elite Beat Agents for the Nintendo Switch, and just plays so smoothly! I'm currently about a...third through the game (there are 160 songs, on 3 different difficulty settings), and simply can't recommend it enough!

Isla Edmond

That smile from jodie was so perfect and childish and I loved it. I think Chibnall is using a writers room so it should be better i hope. Oh yeah and that Irish name you couldnt say is roughly "Nee-sha oh fwee-il"... You know, in case they don't come along to correct you

Diarmaid Ó Braonáin

Finally caught up with these podcasts, I've started to take you to bed with me to help unwind! I'm so glad people like you, Ashens, Big Clive, Tom Scott etc can exist to balance certain moronic others. P.S Loved the EDF stream yesterday, I've always played as Fencer but this ludicrous use of a helicopter and turrets might change me <a href="https://youtu.be/XLgk_FPg74Y" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/XLgk_FPg74Y</a>

Stretch

People like game of thrones for the plot, characters and world. The twist and turns only enhances the lack of plot armour that's all. It's not a good example of bad grimdark for the sake of it.

Mark Fletch

I was not gonna bother watching Star Trek Discovery, but after hearing your description of it, i think i will, sounds pretty good :D.

I neeeeeeed these star trek ships please please please do a toys vid!!!

Chloe McNamara-Bates

Any tips on writing believable dialogue? I tend to be quite good at story-lines and concepts, but my dialogue usually sound unnatural and awkward. What's your process?

Stan Gaskell

Dan, what are your thoughts on Victor Borge? His 'inflationary language' bit is twoderful. Fivegive me if you've talked about him befive.

Harry Cochrane

Hi Dan, recently watched your old IRL Rubik's cube video and have since learned to solve mine. Did you ever learn, or do the algorithms still confuse you?

Well Read Nomad

After watching the DW Christmas Special I asked my sister who was going to play 14

Domenic

I find it kinda amusing that one of the best received episodes of Discovery so far ("Magic to make the Sanest Man Go Mad", and also, I hate Discovery episode titles so much) is the one that's most like classic Star Trek. Basically, the crew wind up in a 30 minute time loop that they have to try break, except it's mostly not from the perspective of the one guy who's aware they're in a time loop. It's a pretty decent episode, if you ignore the fact that it absolutely destroyed the character of Harry Mudd. Apparently there's a new episode out now. I'm very confused, because Netflix kept saying "coming Monday!" since more than a week ago, and then at one point, said "Coming January 23rd!" which is not a Monday but I assume they mean Monday US time anyway.

Christopher Kennard

The Empress of Mars is worth watching for a laugh. It's genuinely sickeningly awful in every way. It looks like shit, the writing is shit, the concept is shit and the acting is abhorrent. It's the only one I couldn't force myself all the way through. I normally love Mark Gatiss though, so disappointed.

Stan Gaskell

With ABBA being my favourite artist I lost my shit when you started "singing" Gimme Gimme Gimme. Speaking of which, are you familiar with the musical Chess? Produced by Benny and Björn from ABBA along with Tim Rice, if you haven't seen any of it I seriously recommend it. There is a concert version from 2008 on YouTube featuring Josh Groban, Idina Menzel and Adam Pascal if you're interested.

Do you think the HTC vive upgrade will be worth it?

ben seviour

What do u think of Capaldis' speech prior to his regeneration?

Brad

Are you ever going to do another Permadeath series? Maybe FarCry3 again? Maybe release it all at once ?

Dan why not when you are happy to realise the book add a special patreon section of "you want to help me publish my book so help with $X " I know it may be somewhat pointless but then people can do more then just help you out but do for help for something specific

James G. Jones

I do enjoy Star Trek (TOS AND TNG) if it happens to be on, but because I'm so used to more conventional pacing, I have a hard time choosing to sit down and watch it when there are other options available. Discovery, though it's far from conventional Star Trek is just a bit easier for me to keep up with, I really like some of the characters and ideas it uses (love me a good time loop story). I'm aware this may not be the best place to post this. I just wanted to get it off my chest somewhere.

Tom Chaney

You should take a look at discovery again, episode 10 and they've switched to a parallel universe where the humans are the bad guys and basically space racists.

Dan, have you watched any of The Orville yet now that it's playing in the UK?

Josh Ikin

I agree about Game of Thrones, that's why I only read the books, they're better in pretty much every way

Narmatonia

I'd advise going back to watch Knock Knock and Oxygen, I've heard quite a few folks (not just me) say they're among the best of the series. Mummy On The Orient Express has some decent elements going for it too

Tom Chaney

Payday 2 VR! Got me back into VR and I'm quite excited to play it again. Never got into Payday as an FPS, just didn't enjoy it, but having to duck around and crouch under things to hide is fantastic fun

Andyface

It works fine with 3 and is best is 4 players actually. You are correct though. 2 players isn't the best.

YourJelly

This is the best thing to come from Clara's shit scene <a href="https://youtu.be/Gwc1Un-9OWU" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/Gwc1Un-9OWU</a>

Omari Antony

I believe he claimed that he uploaded it without monetization enabled, then (someone at) YouTube monetized it briefly without being asked to, and then he noticed and de-monetized it. It's anybody's guess whether or not this is true. I'm not inclined to give such a douchebag the benefit of the doubt. I will say, though, that the video apology he made covered the bases pretty well, in terms of what you should say for a proper apology. I gather an earlier tweet was more of a failure, but I saw the video and I think it was well done. Again, though, it's anyone's guess as to whether he actually felt bad and actually meant the apology, or just did a good job of acting the script he was given by some very pissed-off managers. All in all, it would be nice if he just disappeared. His content... isn't content. He's bad for... everything. Good riddance if so.

Felice Enellen

You should really give The Orville a watch. Despite it being a parody, it's definitely the best Star Trek around at the moment. Now, I detest everything I've seen with Seth MacFarlane, until The Orville. It's got the bright future feel of classic Star Trek, just ignore the humour (especially in the first episode)...

Agrajag

I feel like Capaldi's final speech was him speaking to his next self about how they should be because he had forgotten

Shawn Lindsay

Ross Nobel! Noble? Whatever. Hilarious.

Patrick Jackson

hi dan, quick bordgame recommendation of Tokaido, we got it for christmas​​ and ​i only think it will only be pay​ed during christma​s or birthdays as those are the only times we have 5 people arrou​n​d, says it can be played with 2 but it dosnt ​look like it will work as well

Tvgold

I thought the whole suicide video was demonetized by Logan himself from the very start?

Skylos

he does. he's said he's written many scripts for star trek and dr. who, but he will never release them until he actually gets the rights to make the actual episodes

CMS creations

If you listen carefully, you can hear the mating call of a herd of Jesus'.

Dan: By the way, you rattled off your idea for a pilot episode of a Star Trek series and some of us encouraged you to Make It Happen. Have you given that any thought? Like, even just as a fan film, or even just a script for a fan film. I really feel like you're the sort of person who _should_ be writing Trek storylines. Either scripts or books.

Felice Enellen

That would be so great having dan read it :o maybe have ahens read the parts he write and such

Dan, question; will there be an audio book version when the book is done?

Wow, Dan, thanks for the heads-up on The Peanuts Movie. You're right, the visuals are surprisingly faithful, considering they're 3D-ish. I adored Peanuts as a kid, probably read every collection there was at the time. I think I'll watch it after I finish the podcast. :)

Felice Enellen

The only way I can make Discovery in anyway enjoyable is that I consider it good science fiction but terrible Star Trek.

Thomas Reeves