Hi I’m new to the wonderful world of Brennan, but the ‘crown of candy’ where is that episode that I can watch?

@@Inoyam1 it’s on dropout!

There are people leaving hateful comments towards Brennan? There are people who hate Brennan out there? Who are these people?!

@@he.said.teenjiejer thanks! Got the app!

I believe the second one is from the sound impression episode of Game changer for anyone looking for it :)

he would’ve been incredible though

his politics are generally pretty agreeable to me imo, like, his persuasion aside, i would support him

@@icymoons his politics are good but power corrupts and a corrupted brennan is too big a risk

This man really did put all his stats in charisma.

His potential political rivals should be grateful, maybe. I think we've all lost out on a powerhouse of common sense.

And when he gets called out on it Bippity-bappity-bippity-bappity (doing a jig)

The way he slowly slides out of the bit as the anger starts coming in

A true hero of our time. Luckily the crypto people are slowly evolving out of it.

this man is loved

@@arnice2570 You mean all those folks who walked away MILLIONAIRES!

Wacky shmackity doo!

I know how it is for Matt though. If you're the artist of something you're never going to think it's finished. There's always something to tweak, something you could have done just a bit better, something that makes you go "ooh" when you look at it a month later. A good work of art is never really finished. But at some point, you have to get the work out there. You have to say "I'm done" and give your baby away. You know what happens to artists who never give their baby away? The work never gets out there! They never get known! Until one day, after the end of a long life of cleaning the floors in a hospital, someone goes through your old junk and discovers this -- this THING, that you've been working on your entire life, this grand sprawling epic tale, this thing that would have made you famous, or perhaps infamous, only you only get to be famous posthumously, because you were a chicken. On the other hand maybe it was better for Henry Darger to escape before he had to answer any questions about his book "The Realms of the Unreal" because there is some wild shit in there.

@@Madcapredcap … need to get back to my second draft.

@@VeronicaWarlock Oh wow, I've touched somebody's heart. And not in the gross way this time.

@@Madcapredcap Thank you for introducing me to Henry Darger. I hadn't heard of him before. Reading his wikipedia page and his last diary entry just broke my heart.

that’s a perfectly fair point.

Brennan's the one flying this plane, all we can do is buckle up and hold on for dear life

@@Romanticoutlaw indeed, lest we crash into the mountainside and our skulls are split on the dining tray before us

Verilyyyyy~

he's always monologuing, there's just a long break between sentences sometimes.

someone suggested it under the last one and i was like. ooh i gotta fucking use it. it’s such an incredibly constructed monologue, and it doesn’t fall under his normal “chaotic” monologues like those from “yes or no” and “don’t trash talk new york”. it brings everything together, ties up so many loose knots, and the delivery is just. chef’s fucking kiss. calroy being half-ceresian and no one fully putting that together until that monologue is just so perfect.

@@he.said.teenjiejer brennan dropped a tremendous amount of lore and clues on calroy that none of the party picked up... Like the fact that calroy wasnt born in line for the lordship of muffinfield. He married into it, by marrying lady donetta cruller, also a half ceresian, who wasnt even in line for it either. If the party had gone and done some heavy insight checks, there would likely have been an entire plot line regarding the demise of lady donettas brother at the hands of calroy. And then even more threads connecting her to ceresia. Plus, brennan just casually drops that calroy is one of 8 octuplets, who were born at the same time and were separated from each other in a bris like operation... And considering calroys marriage to donetta probably included his fathers estate as a dowry of sorts, since she likely wouldn't have been allowed to marry him had it not, calroy likely murdered all of his brothers. If he hadnt he would just have been a commoner with nothing to his name. The intense lore here is insane...

The Shakespeare in flight would be great for an audition

@@sethbennett617 oh my GOD i didn’t even know about all this…

@@he.said.teenjiejer if i remember correctly he drops the octuplets hint in one of the 1st 3 episodes. Its just an offhand thing, when emily asks how cakes are born in calorum, trying to poke holes in his universe. Because it was a jokey moment, no one noted it down, and no one asked questions.

The way it slowly transitions from in-character speech to out-of-character rant is amazing.

Theres a spot in the speech where you can actually see the prospector's brain start putting the pieces together and quickly figure out its a scam, only to revert back to the good 'ol prospector we know

allegedly this is how he talks normally, and he has to stop himself from monologuing all the time.

@@romxxii I've heard that rumour as well, but I am admittedly a bit skeptical

There's absolutely a way he didn't have these ready to go -- it's called "training in improv," which he has a ton of. He studies, he practices, he works at the ability to string together a mostly-coherent sequence of patter extemporaneously. For the Crown of Candy stuff, he obviously has notes and prompts that he refers to during the speech, in order to remind himself of the beats he wants to hit, but that's standard DM stuff, and most DMs I know do something similar. For everything else, it's a skill that can be developed, and it helps that he's got a good brain for trivia and how to use language. Even in the "I cannot win" rant (which is phenomenal), you can spot a few points where he slows himself up ("Hello! A little late addition...", "What do you think that means? Icarus...", etc.), leaning on some non-specific filler that he doesn't have to actively think too hard about while prepping for the next segment of where he's going. When you know enough stuff, and you've studied how to talk good off the top of your head, and you've practiced in sink-or-swim environments (in front of live audiences, for example), you get pretty good at this stuff, as it turns out.

@@RhombusObstacle Oh, I completely agree with you. It may sound odd, but I actually wrote this comment with a hefty background in improv, just not as much of the technical knowledge he has in literature and similar areas. I just love seeing him with that feeling of "I've been waiting to use this, now to madlibs it up and slot it in here and it'll sound fucking hilarious and awesome", having experienced it to lesser degrees myself

Improv Faux-Shakespeare is something they teach in Improv school, at least.

he’s taught me so many words

@@he.said.teenjiejer I'm so tempted to memorize the game changer monologue for personal use

@@sofiakaye702 it would be so worth it

lmaoooo iconic

My two crowning achievements in acting were both with the same teacher/director. This comment was way too long with context, but I got an A for a monologue from Othello, which I had been in (in a different role) my Freshman year in high school (six years prior) which that same professor had directed after she warned me that she'd be grading me extra harshly, as a result. She told me it was the most frightening Iago she had seen in a long time. And then she gave me extra credit for performing a monologue from The Breakfast Club, despite normally not allowing monologues from movies we'd seen (she also let me sub in for a scene from Pulp Fiction, but I'd never seen it, at the time, so...). She didn't even throw a shoe at me once the entire day! Edit a week later: for the record, the shoe thing isn't a joke, she was almost as good at throwing her shoes as my mom, _and my mom is Mexican._ For additional context, this is the same woman who roasted me during Senior Goodbyes a couple years previously for an incident that happened _my freshman year,_ in my _very first_ production, ever. The woman holds grudges, is what I'm saying. So getting such high praise, _in front of an entire class of people,_ felt like winning a goddamned Oscar. Or Tony, as I guess would be more appropriate.

Holy shiz

that was the best part lol

Y'know, EXU Calamity and Court of Fey And Flowers were literally filmed at the same time, according to Aabria. So she and Brennan were taking turns dm'ing for each other during that time.

@@3ndlessL00p gotta be one hell of a mood change when Brennan went from "errrr I am a proper goblin!" To "you're trying to atone me, and I didn't do anything wrong."

These are the boxes he looked behind to find What Noise A Fox Make.

It is a glorious tradition!

you won’t enjoy acoc any less, it might be fun to try and spot the red flags, even

@@he.said.teenjiejer I love doing that when rewatching/replaying things. If something is well written its so rewarding to catch little moments that hint at a character's true intentions, hidden right under everyone's noses.

@@GOgg13s ugh it’s the BEST

If you havent watched it yet just know that this scene sets up an even better scenario in a later episode

Acoc is so good even with that spoiler bit

bippity bappity

I do believe that was the joke

@@D-structman they cut it "incorrectly" in a previous video and got lots of shit for it then (including from me). So I'm just appreciating the "correction"

indeed, indeed

@@randomnamegbji I’m pretty sure the reason they were confused is that you put a full stop at the end. In online spaces that is often a way to indicate an abrupt or flat tone

i can only WISH i was at his level

Episode 1 of Dimension 20's A Court of Fey & Flowers has hit DropOut, Aabria is the DM and she looks incredible

@@sixofone8663 god her makeup is always SO ON POINT

i still have NO idea what happened there but we’ll go with that

it’s extremely meaningless out of context. let’s just say that in context, it’s utterly heartbreaking, and an incredibly well-written monologue. it had to be in here.

One of these days, Matt Mercer will bring out his approximation of the Silmarillion, I just know it. Might be in seventy years, but it'll happen.

Tolkien is the Spider Georg of worldbuilders though, he's not exactly representative!

Instead of reading it or watching the senior class do it, watch some professionals do it. It blew my mind that it was not just understandable, but actually good, and I'm a fan now after HATING it in high school.

i totally should have but i’m such a pushover

In the DM roundtable he said that since their homegame was meant to be a one-shot at first he started with one city and as it turned into a campaign and the party started exploring he spread out the world of exandria

@@rmoenmjea To be a little bit more precise; I believe that they even started in the town of Stillben. Tal played some dragonborn character, just cause he wanted a character that he didn't really have to think about and could be silly with, as he and Matt were the most familiar with TTRPGs at the time. Pretty soon after it became a relatively regular game, he dropped that character in favor of a more serious character, Percy.

Then Amathar got mad

it’s so good

"GOD-"

it is so worth it.

@@he.said.teenjiejer Yeah, it's more a matter of being able to afford another streaming service, really, at this point. I almost got it just to see the extended Oreo vid. But between the extended vids, this, and dimension 20, it's an attractive prospect.

please god not again… (jk, it just wasn’t in the clip i found on youtube lol)

god yeah that’s so true… brennan villain compilation is a solid idea for the future

If you haven’t watched LA By Night, you should check it out

it’s truly incredible, i highly encourage you to check it out

Happy birthday! 🥳

@@Wretchrot aw thank you!

oh yay! happy birthday!

@@he.said.teenjiejer thanks for the birthday wishes and great video!

i just screen recorded a video where they did lol

oh my goodness how selfless, i’m honored

good ole brennan

i’m almost positive this is genuine (forgive me if it is and i’m doubting you, it’s very early for me), in which case, you’re welcome i think?

@@he.said.teenjiejer yes! Absolutely genuine! I haven't watched it yet but I plan on it soon.

@@Jamiedunford74 it’s so incredibly heartbreaking, i wish you luck

i’ve heard it was actually the other way around!

appreciate it! i’ll be posting something new soon

i don’t believe it’s in the original, but it’s in the one i found on youtube

oh goodness, thank you lol