Game Grumps Community |OT| No Longer Accepting D-Club Applications

[The Real Abed]

I'm really glad you posted that, Beef, because I got a youtube notification about a new episode of House Party this weekend* and it wasn't there this morning when I went to go watch it. I would have thought I was losing my mind.

*Yes, I get notifications for Game Grumps and Bon Appetit. I never bothered to turn either of them off.

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I actually saw the House Party episode in my Subscriptions list on my TV app and said "I'll watch it later". Then later came and it was replaced with another Link Between Worlds episode, which was still fine, but I really wanted House Party. lol

So what exactly happened? What was the episode they posted? Was it missing audio or something?

 

[Professor Beef]

Ok so WOW, apparently Ben the editor got outed for making some...questionable posts on twitter dot com, and not people are theorizing that he's been fired as a way to explain the lack of wacky edits recently. All Arin has (apparently) said about it via a stream is that it has "been dealt with."

This is...quite a bit of news.

 

[The Real Abed]

Like what? Racist stuff? Sexist stuff? I didn't even know he had a Twitter. I really only follow the official account, Arin and Brian. As well as Kevin and Barry I guess. Oh and Suzy. Okay I guess I follow a lot of them. But not Ben.

 

[Professor Beef]

Like what? Racist stuff? Sexist stuff? I didn't even know he had a Twitter. I really only follow the official account, Arin and Brian. As well as Kevin and Barry I guess. Oh and Suzy. Okay I guess I follow a lot of them. But not Ben.

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Some "jokes" about receiving underage nudes. :|

 

[ShyMel]

Saw some of the tweets. Yikes, some of them are not even a year old.

 

[The Real Abed]

Some "jokes" about receiving underage nudes. :|

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Ah. I see he's taking some tips from ProJared. Guess it's time to brace ourselves for another editor introduction. How long before they just stop making their editors names public?

 

[Suede]

I love that House Party has been able to come back and has been even better than their last playthrough.

Also, that's disappointing to hear about the editor. Hope they can find a replacement fast.

 

[Rob]

So that's why they keep saying "whoever is editing this." I thought it was because they were shifting around editing because of the whole BSB reunion tour.

 

[Professor Beef]

So that's why they keep saying "whoever is editing this." I thought it was because they were shifting around editing because of the whole BSB reunion tour.

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Yeah, I guess it was already done. Shame that Ben has to be let go during the BSB tour, but at the same time they couldn't just let those kinds of tweets fly.

 

[The Real Abed]

Can I just say that I really hate the kearning on the text on the Monopoly board. It's horrible. Mainly with the letter T.

 

[Rob]

Can I just say that I really hate the kearning on the text on the Monopoly board. It's horrible. Mainly with the letter T.

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The Monopoly game is pretty trash. I got it on PC because, well the GGs, and it's held together by gum and band-aids.

 

[Professor Beef]

I actually played an online game of Monopoly on PS4

It was just as bad as I feared it would be

 

[TheOGB]

I'm sometimes tempted to get UNO and Monopoly and stuff when it's on sale, but then I remembered Ubisoft managed to fuck up Tetris.

 

[Professor Beef]

I'm sometimes tempted to get UNO and Monopoly and stuff when it's on sale, but then I remembered Ubisoft managed to fuck up Tetris.

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Obviously I can only speak for the PS4 version, but I haven't encountered any weird fuck-ups when playing Monopoly (aside from not being able to combine house rules, but I never use those to begin with).

 

[Professor Beef]

This episode of the 10 Minute Power Hour is so amazing:



I always wanted to do one of those but I was never able to, so it's amazing to see how cheesy these things are lmao

 

[Deleted member 3542]

That might be my favorite 10 min power hour. They should riff some old 80s/90s vids more often, even if it doesn't have them in it.

 

[The Real Abed]

This episode of the 10 Minute Power Hour is so amazing:



I always wanted to do one of those but I was never able to, so it's amazing to see how cheesy these things are lmao

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I was on Sesame Street when I was a kid.

It was a field trip so I didn't have money to buy a VHS if it was even available nor did I know I'd be able to purchase it. So I guess it's just a fading memory now.

 

[Rob]

I'm sometimes tempted to get UNO and Monopoly and stuff when it's on sale, but then I remembered Ubisoft managed to fuck up Tetris.

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UNO is pretty solid as far as that stuff goes. At less than $5 it's a pretty good buy. I've had it on PC and Switch.

I was on Sesame Street when I was a kid.

It was a field trip so I didn't have money to buy a VHS if it was even available nor did I know I'd be able to purchase it. So I guess it's just a fading memory now.

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I was on Wild 'N' Crazy Kids when they were doing a mall tour. I don't even know if they aired that episode or what.

 

[Inugami]

Official statement from the grumps, including commenting on their history and accepting responsibility for said history.

(Edit) and from Suzy.

 

[aerie]

Seems like quite a good statement. I'm proud of them for growing, listening, and reflecting.

 

[The Real Abed]

The Grumps have grown a lot since they started. Thankfully they were able to lose Jon early on. Jon of course keeps digging his hole. I can't believe he still has followers. I haven't watched a video by him since his "apology" video that turned out to just be an apology for not uploading rather than an apology for being a racist like we hoped. Then again Jared did the same thing. Just still uploading like nothing happened. At least I assume. I unsubscribed a while ago but I kept my subscription long enough to wait and see if he came back (On his LP channel, not his review channel) and sure enough he just one day started posting again like nothing happened.

 

[Inugami]

Yeah the grumps thread has one of jontron's posts on the issue, and it's nearly exactly what you'd expect it to be.

 

[Professor Beef]

Yeah the grumps thread has one of jontron's posts on the issue, and it's nearly exactly what you'd expect it to be.

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I saw it and was still disappointed.

 

[RetroMG]

Wow at that Grumps tweet. I saw it and kind of glossed over because at first glance it looked like pretty much what everyone else is putting out. But reading deeper - Good on them for acknowledging their past faults and aiming to be better.

As for Jontron..... Whew, Okay Jon, that's a take, I suppose. Like, if he'd left the grilling meme off, it wouldn't have been great, but it wouldn't have been terrible. But... nope. Gotta find a way to make it awful.

 

[Deleted member 3542]

It's amazing that there's still a stink of Jon around Game Grumps. Fans and people that follow them know he's pretty much persona non grata yet in any thread about them people still reference him.

 

[deimosmasque]

It's amazing that there's still a stink of Jon around Game Grumps. Fans and people that follow them know he's pretty much persona non grata yet in any thread about them people still reference him.

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While he was one of the founders of Game Grumps so it kind of makes sense. But at the Tampa Game Grumps live show a couple years back people even asked him if Jon could be on guest Grumps. It was about 8 months to a year after Jon's racist comment came out.

Aaron was pretty emphatic that Jon would not be coming on guest Grumps.

But like I said that's the problem when he was one of the founders, people always associate Game Grumps with JonTron

 

[Inugami]

It's amazing that there's still a stink of Jon around Game Grumps. Fans and people that follow them know he's pretty much persona non grata yet in any thread about them people still reference him.

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You can't bring up the problematic past of Arin or the brand in general without Jon since he's, while not the root cause, still a huge reason for that.

 

[Deleted member 3542]

While he was one of the founders of Game Grumps so it kind of makes sense.

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People can't keep brining him up and holding it over GG as a whole in every single GG Thread that comes up. People who know know, he hasn't been associated with them in forever and his relevance is as much to GameGrumps as a brand and company as Cousin Oliver is to the Brady Bunch.

You can't bring up the problematic past of Arin or the brand in general without Jon since he's, while not the root cause, still a huge reason for that.

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Sure you can. You can discuss Arin's past and how he has changed without leaning on Jon every single time. What Game Grumps was in 2012 isn't what it is now, which shows how they've well moved on past him. It's one year of Jon versus seven without him.

It's hard to say he's "still a huge reason" when he means nothing right now to Arin, as far as we know (of course). If the two are still friends and hang out, then yeah he should be shamed. But since Jon has shown his ass even more the past few years, I don't see Arin going out of his way to associate, I don't see his relevance.

 

[deimosmasque]

People can't keep brining him up and holding it over GG as a whole in every single GG Thread that comes up. People who know know, he hasn't been associated with them in forever and his relevance is as much to GameGrumps as a brand and company as Cousin Oliver is to the Brady Bunch.



Sure you can. You can discuss Arin's past and how he has changed without leaning on Jon every single time. What Game Grumps was in 2012 isn't what it is now, which shows how they've well moved on past him. It's one year of Jon versus seven without him.

It's hard to say he's "still a huge reason" when he means nothing right now to Arin, as far as we know (of course). If the two are still friends and hang out, then yeah he should be shamed. But since Jon has shown his ass even more the past few years, I don't see Arin going out of his way to associate, I don't see his relevance.

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No I agree with you I'm just saying I get why people bring it up is hard to escape who your co-founder is.

When I bought my eight years of Game Grumps pen this year I was kind of hoping it would be called 7 years of Game Grumps and they would just delete Jon stuff from the channnel and his history forever. Pretend the first year didn't even happen.

People should absolutely acknowledge the growth that Arin has made over the past eight years and before that. Dude has legit gotten better. And has apologized for his actions multiple times over the years.

I'm still not going to fault anyone for wanting to remind him how he and John were and how he used to be. Nor will I Falls anyone for not wanting to believe them same way I wouldn't do it for people who still don't believe James Gunn.

Especially considering what's going on now.

I personally thought that the statements were great but I can understand why for some people that doesn't make it enough.

 

[Trelova]

mannnnnn these Monopoly episodes were so friggin great. absolute nailbiters after it got to Dan vs Amandine, so much more fun than "Dan takes Arin behind the woodshed for a dozen turns" like the last ones were. they should keep playing with house rules, this auction rule is great

 

[deimosmasque]

mannnnnn these Monopoly episodes were so friggin great. absolute nailbiters after it got to Dan vs Amandine, so much more fun than "Dan taken Arin behind the woodshed for a dozen turns" like the last ones were. they should keep playing with house rules, this auction rule is great

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I just watching Monopoly episodes to see how many times that can make Bro sound sexual.

 

[Rob]

Oh yeah. The Monopoly episodes were a good change of pace. I'd like to see them do some of the other house rules. Speed dice is some weird shit.

 

[Professor Beef]

Hard AI truly playing the long con with those rolls. Missed all the important properties lol

 

[Professor Beef]

Cross-posting from the GG statement thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/gamegrumps/comments/gxisqv/game_grumps_are_removing_classic_episodes_that/

It feels like I'm looking into a bizarre alternate reality since people are upset that they are deleting/privatizing older episodes with problematic content. I've even spotted some people calling Arin "sanctimonious." Like, what the fuck?

 

[ShyMel]

Animal Crossing: City Folk Part 2

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I cannot speak for the other removed episodes but I am honestly still shocked they kept this episode up for so long.

 

[Suede]

I was not expecting the Star Trek Power Hour to be so funny. That's amazing Dan still has that.

 

[TheOGB]

Captain, I'm picking up a Klingon wessel!

 

[Inugami]

That D club call back in today's episode of house party... So good.

 

[Big Al]

Have to say I gained some extra respect for Arin for asking about the statement on twitter and then taking the criticism well and making a good statement

 

[Rob]

Yeah Arins been handling this whole thing very well. He was pretty active on Twitter when shit started going down and getting feedback on how to make things better and actually doing it.

 

[AliceAmber]

Really proud of the boys for removing problematic episodes especially. I heard one of the racist jokes in a compilation recently and yeeesh.

 

[Suede]

I was happy when Arin gave a shoutout to us Scottish folk on the 1st Rocket League ep, but then he went on to say that's what the Isle of Man flag is representing, haha, oh, Arin.

 

[Trelova]

watching them play and get so excited in Rocket is so contagious, having a blast with it

 

[Deleted member 50374]

Then again Jared did the same thing. Just still uploading like nothing happened. At least I assume. I unsubscribed a while ago but I kept my subscription long enough to wait and see if he came back (On his LP channel, not his review channel) and sure enough he just one day started posting again like nothing happened.

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Oh, that disgusting human being is still around. Ugh.

 

[Inugami]

Today's sonic heroes was an enjoyable one, it really felt more podcasty than normal which isn't a bad thing at least so far.

 

[Suede]

The volume on Sonic Heroes sounds really low to me.

 

[Professor Beef]

The volume didn't sound low to me, unless you were referring to the in-game volume.

Also watching Sonic Heroes again had me remember just how slippery your characters are, like wow.

 

[DJGolfClap]

I'm watching them play Ocarina of Time again for the thousandth time and I LOVE IT but every time Arin says skulltula pronounced "Skull-tull-uh" I die a little inside

 

[The Real Abed]

I'm watching them play Ocarina of Time again for the thousandth time and I LOVE IT but every time Arin says skulltula pronounced "Skull-tull-uh" I die a little inside

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How do you say it? Skull-too-la is how I say it.

 

[Professor Beef]

I say "skull-tull-uh" but I imagine it's supposed to be like how you say tarantula, so "skull-chu-luh"