I wondered why TFS was up top on the list again. This isn't the first time they pulled a "We respect LGB and only BIGOTS don't like our virtue signalling!" - every year in June they change their Discord image to a rainbow one and every year at least someone complains and KaiserNeko throws a hissy fit about it. As I've probably mentioned last time I peeked into this thread, I stopped watching all their content when they stopped doing DBZA and truthfully lost interest in TFS in general when they got too poisoned with politics on Twitter. It seems the Abridged-scape has gotten even worse since then with them complaining about their own jokes and putting up disclaimers, ignoring that part of the humor of abridged series
is the irreverence.
I wouldn't want these guys to make another show together even if they decided they wanted to. If you've seen their reactions and opinions of Hellsing Abridged after finishing it a couple years later, you know they've become uncomfortably awkward, overly sensitive pricks within the last few years.
The first half of Hellsing Abridged holds up tremendously well (though not completely) and all they could do was cringe at it because it was making them uncomfortable.
I have no faith in their ability to produce anything even remotely close to halfway as good as their peak because they've all become snobby, neurotic fucks who seem bothered by everything.
Combining the fact that they've now allowed their political views to taint their product, when originally they even kept it out of their livestreams, with the fact that they prioritize 'making a legitimate VA career' over 'becoming famous and making money with fan things on the internet' I have a hard time believing they'd make any good jokes at all. If you can't make fun of anyone or anything, including the original studios involved in what you're abridging, what jokes
can you make? You can't even make jokes about x character wanting to beat up bigots or whatever, because that's 'making light of the situation'.
I'm surprised they even continued doing those Nuzlocke challenges when they were caught cheating during the Fire Red playthrough. I don't even know how the fuck anybody still trust these niggas when they failed the challenge, tried to bury the episode, pretend it didn't happen, and then act all surprised when their own audience catches them.
I don't remember them cheating in their Fire Red playthrough? I remember that they were dishonest and pretended they were using a capture card, when in fact they switched to an emulator when their game save file corrupted like halfway through the playthrough, and people caught them because they had a couple on-screen glitches + Charizard 'mysteriously' couldn't be taught the ultimate move that required full-bond with the pokemon. But I wouldn't classify that as cheating, since they just set up a duped save with the same stuff the original had. They also hacked their Soul Silver playthrough to give "Lakigr" their old Pokemon team, which inadvertently caused the AI to throw the fight, because you can't just swap out the pokemon a trainer has and expect the AI to know how to play them anymore, but I don't recall a specific cheating instance.
That said, I pretty much lost interest in their Nuzlockes once they cut out the grinding. It was arguably tedious, but I enjoyed the podcast feel that came from listening to them ramble on for 3 hours fighting mankees in the wilderness. Plus, once they started cutting the videos they leaned more on their annoying lore things and it all felt way more scripted.
Not really, but giving Gohan daddy issues for a parody worked when it did. I even didn't mind the Tien and Chiaotzu "odd couple" exaggeration even though in hindsight, given that Chiaotzu is looks like a kid and I can't find his canonical age, it makes the gay jokes extremely questionable.
Chaotsu was born in 738, he's one year younger than Goku. In non-nerd speak it means he's 23 at the start of DBZA. Tien is 29. Give or take a few months, since neither one of them have an official birth month, only year.
