"Asian men are shorter on average". And you fail because most normies know at least one Asian who isn't short and they dismiss you as a racist. If you say the average male height in China is 5'7", the average male height in Japan is 5'7" and the average male height in South Korea is also 5'7", then you might be more successful.
Pure kino, really interesting and high energy. It's interesting to look at how Christians interpret the bible. Christianity in the west would have probably fared a lot better if it stuck to showing the beauty and intricacy of the written word rather than sermons on how to <insert political sperging>.
The boys mentioned it briefly but it bears repeating: the narrator sounds like a woman. Maybe a pooner. Between all the screaming and bizarre hysterics all throughout—it sounds less like a lifelong sailor who's seen his fair share of crazy storms and more like the cop from Patch Lane who suddenly became a sailor one day. It wouldn't even change the story all that much. Frankly, his actions all throughout the narrative would end up making a hell of a lot more sense.
The problem is they are always being too nice.
It helped cover up Hunter's audio torture and for that I'm grateful.
They need to really workshop it. Red Thread was always rough mainly because they do niche topics so most of the other hosts can't contribute much information, and their topics frequently pretty dark so the guests can't contribute though making quips and jokes either. So most episodes have an awkward energy to it.
It's a shame because I was a early days Official Podcast fan so I really want it to be successful but I honestly think adding in new members is gonna be difficult since those guys have been at it for 8 years now.
The no sleep rules really didn't mesh well with this setting. Further, having the characters basically break the fourth wall (e.g., acknowledge the commenters telling them it's a ghost ship) was particularly atrocious. The dialogue writing was poor in general with some particular stinkers that stick out to me. I don't mind some cheese but this story veers more so into soy, self-aware, "millenial writing" than the sort of earnest kitsch that was present in I Dared My Best Friend to Ruin My Life or Jeff the Killer. Overall, unenjoyable story - which is a shame because I like the setting.
I'm rather tolerant of goofy VA, but doing the British accent OOC did cross my threshold - coupled with the length made for a rather grating experience (I suppose it befits such a shoddy story).
I saw that. I wonder if any of the issue was lag (it's hard playing on Australian servers), or if they should consider spotting Wendi some research time on the subject when it's going to be Australian politics or one of the less-known US coups.
They need to lean into the latter. There are plenty of other podcasts that do true crime better, meanwhile I want a podcast that covers wacky conspiracy highjinks, cryptids, and kooky individuals.
Hunter's bits are hit and miss, but at least he is trying. Compared to Wendi's other cohosts, I prefer that over Jackson/Charlie/Oompa that are just sit there.
I wouldn’t mind it at all if it were a shitty half hour long short story, especially one actually featuring British characters, but for hours on a decent story, when he’s just doing it to be silly is just too grating for me.
Absolutely fucking agree. Pretending "Everything is fine" while BOTH of you sound dead inside lets me know you have some harsh things to say. Just say it already.
It’s a hair’s breadth above straight up shit - so much so that they even started to lay into the writing cliches (shiver up my spine, the chills, the screaming, etc.) near the end - which is saying something given that they tend to completely glaze viewer stories (if they were more frank they’d be even harsher, but I digress).
100% agree, and even with this rather subpar bit there were nonetheless some good payoffs (the initial reveal that the story wasn’t even British, the excitement whenever anything British fortuitously happened to appear to “Justify” Hunter’s initial beliefs, etc.)
While I agree, I can also see why they don't want to be too harsh (as deserved as the criticism is, this story went downhill hard).
Fair point, but at the very least do not pretend all is sunshine and rainbows while you are dead inside.
Sadly it didn't become as funny bad as Deepwoods did for me, but it had almost the same progression. Even had the main character shirking responsibility.
The way I'd look at it is Meat is a story teller, his animations reflect that, and Wendigoon is well versed in many stories, so I would definitely be happy to have them critique/review my work, there's a learning potential in there that every author/story teller should be grabbing for each and every chance they get to better hone their abilities to make intriguing works.
