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  • Seinfeld treated comedy like math.

    A joke can be perfected, whittled down to a perfect and easily repeated core. And once you have enough of those, you can just juggle them.

    He didnt hang out and get high and drunk with the other comics, he went home and studied the Tonight Show.

    I think his greatest weakness is that he can’t read a room very well. That isn’t a skill he prioritized.

    Also rehearsing a joke to death the way Seinfeld does makes it seem like you’re listening to something memorized rather than spontaneous.

    I saw him live a few years ago. He wasn’t my favorite but I’m glad I went.


  • Seinfeld is now using the Uno reverse card on those comments explaining to Tom Papa, “If you’re Lindsey Vonn, if you’re a champion skier, you can put the gates anywhere you want on the mountain. She’s going to make the gate. That’s comedy. Whatever the culture is, we make the gate. You don’t make the gate, you’re out of the game. The game is, where is the gate? How do I make the gate and get down the hill the way I want to?”

    This doesn’t read as a cop out to me. He is acknowledging that he has trouble hitting certain audiences because things have changed, and now realized he needs to change to meet the game and appeal to the more modern audiences.

    And that makes perfect sense. Seinfeld’s comedy is already a part of our cultural DNA. He needs to evolve to remain relevant.








  • Yuuuup.

    Fiend warlock player did not like learning how I used his minor backstory. (He actually loved it.)

    He knew he needed to save a tree. He didn’t know he was the one to burn it, nor that he did so because it was a source of power to his mother, who was a night hag.

    So much fun.

    He saved the tree and even managed to change his Patron, but is too scared to confront his mother again.





  • D&D 5e game:I have two planets orbiting each other.

    1200 years ago it was just a moon, then somehow the moon fell and almost ended the world.

    But the next day there was a moon again.

    Really it’s another version of the same world from a parallel timeline. The act of summoning it led the powers that be to seal the system in a bubble plane to keep the chaos from spreading.

    The wizard who did it fell in love with himself from another timeline. The BBEG is two liches who are each other’s phylactery. If both cannot be defeated before the first revives, there is no way to stop them.

    Such a tragic story, to do that much for love and then only be vulnerable when you’re near your love.

    Their name is Zeitounessian, and I have a party on each world trying to stop him.

    Neither party has yet determined that there are two of him.