The Patreon Podcast - Episode 40 - Sick/Comment/Q&A

I was genuinely interested to see your response to this. As to your previous comment on the other podcast, I think I must be a centrist - instead of following the policies of one party, don't choose one and take each issue as it's own, weigh the different arguments and come to a decision. As for your dislike of Dan, I can definitely see where you're coming from, and maybe I'm just too much of a coward to create arguments, but I tend to just accept people for who they are and be cool with it. If Dan wants to hate Tories, whatever. I think I like listening to his personality because it's something totally different from my own. And in the end, we're all just trying to get through life, nobody has a fucking clue what's going on and we each deal with our problems in different ways.

Rowan Mackenzie

I've never understood the "you never reply to my comments" complaint on twitter, he has 235,000 followers you can't possibly expect him to respond to everyone. Also I never knew that the Need for Speed Most Wanted video was "sponsored", just goes to show that disclosing it in the description is useless :P

Narmatonia

1918*

You complain about British politics a lot, come move to Australia, problem solved!

Kaleb Bowen

I realise I've left more than my fair share of comments on this one, but I now have an actual question: given that you're not a huge fan of the X-Com format, are you still excited for Tactical Breach Wizards due to the sheer Tom Francis-ness of it all?

Tom Chaney

CFS buggered my immune system too! Sending love and spoons to you both :)

On the money topic, if you ever get an indication from my comments that I'm getting a decent, regular income and I haven't upped my pledge; remind me, because it won't be because I don't want to, it will 100% be sheer absent mindedness. I know an individual pledge isn't usually all that much, but you've more than earned it

Tom Chaney

Well I've never heard of vaccination via fence post before. Can't help but feel it might be a little fiddly to find a vein

Tom Chaney

I used to consider myself broadly central on most issues, when I was a small child who had absolutely no idea what the subjects of disagreement were and assumed that pretty much everyone had pretty much everyone else's best interests at heart, and then a little later I started picking up opinions on the big issues, but stayed indecisive on things like what music people like. Then I came to realise that firmly knowing what I like brings me greater happiness, so whatever you like to listen to; excellent! Folks being happy is wonderful, but I know I love the music of Lily Allen. I took a position and it made my life better. I also came to accept that I can't write a vaguely serious comment without it dissolving into incoherent rambling

Tom Chaney

Dan: I'm the subject of this podcast, so I'm going to respond. Maybe you'll read it, maybe you won't. My comment _was_ deleted the first time it was posted. As mentioned in the repost, I still had a window open that showed the comment. Either you, or someone you direct, deleted it. It's not unreasonable for me to accuse you of deleting it, whether yourself or by proxy, especially when you do tend to crow about how you mute people left and right on Twitter. As for the rest of your response, you just did your best to to re-frame what I said or pick it apart and remove context in order to feel you trounced me. Beyond telling you that every assumption you made about who and what I am was incorrect, there's no point in trying to respond; you'd just do the same again. You win; enjoy the pedestal. I think this was simply a case where "Don't meet your heroes," was indeed true. You were good fun at a distance, but the more I got to know you, the more I realized that, behind your content, you're just another angry, provincial, narrow-minded person on the internet. Hardly condemning, really... just makes you normal... but it's not the kind of attitude I want to reward with my support.

Felice Enellen

Are you reading "The Writer's Tale" or "The Writer's Tale: the final chapter"? The original book is beautiful hard cover with script excerpts and everything. The second is paperback and doesn't have the scripts but has some stuff about the specials.

Siani Marsh

And any attempt to fix that is shot down before the proposal's ink has dried, because it's not an American company doing the work, and heaven forbid something isn't All-American!

Bjorn van Rijszen

You make very little from Youtube directly, but I think most of the money that you earn on Patreon is due to your Youtube videos. Don't get too disheartened - it's terrible that Youtube barely pays you directly for your videos, but you do earn a decent amount from them indirectly

Septimus ii

I just gotta share that when I was a baby, some family friends (basically but not actually godparents) were looking after me for a couple of nights. This is out in rural NSW, Australia, so they had maybe 7 mid-large sized dogs. They had me in their bed that night, though I was notorious for crawling around, and the dogs were known for over-enthusiastically nuzzling at the end of the bed. This resulted in my crawling to the end of the bed, over Nick's feet, being mistaken for their great dane, and being promptly and sharply kicked from the bed. (I was eventually rescued). Dogs cause bed abuse.

Also, how bizarre is it to know that people have grown up with you, and that youve had an actual impact on how people developed? I for one feel like I've grown up with you.

Stan Gaskell

Do you still/ever watch fan videos?

Stan Gaskell

boy that guy was a twat.

Scott

I get so much pressure from relatives to learn how to drive but i total agree that the near future will mean knowing how to drive will be obsolete

D&D Lemur

I disagree with your opinion on anti-vaxxers... we should use a trebuchet instead of a catapult as it is the superior siege weapon. (Edit: please don’t delete this comment just because you may be a catapult fan boy) /s

Conner

I'm not sure where my comment to your comment went... But in reply to what you said, I do not believe that 100% renewable is at all feasible due to it's intermittency issues.

Mike Jones

Over the past few years we've learned the difference between the social and economic right wing, also with history I don't remember dates either, I only know 1945(end of WW2), 1919(end of WW1), and 1066 because Hastings insurance ad had 1066 at the end of their phone number Also have you seen how stacked the Royal Rumble and Takeover Phoenix cards are

Shawn Lindsay

Thank you for this Dan, I was having a crap mental health day but this has pulled me through it ♥

These comments are really thought-provoking and I don’t want to be that guy-but I’ve never been this high in the list before. Dan, please please PLEASE do a full playthrough of Stunt Island!

WC the Comedian

I had 4 driving lessons because they were a 17th birthday present, I’m 22 in a couple of months and I have never needed to drive, I moved to Edinburgh from a tiny village in the home county’s, Edinburgh officially has the best busses in Europe why would I drive

DapperCyborg

Dan you are definitely on your to be the next Billy Connolly at least with the ability of going of on a tangent and then come back to your point only to get distracted again. Keep it up we will need you in the coming months as we all eaten by the Tories.

If my two cent are worth anything, I think the Green Party are right about nuclear. The time it would take to authorise and build and staff the hundreds of nuclear plants required to power the UK or thousands to power the US wouldn’t be enough to effectively counter climate change. These plants would have to be built faster then we’ve ever built nuclear power stations before, on a greater scale then ever before, not to mention convincing millions upon millions of people to allow nuclear plants to be built near there homes, and from personal experience I know hell haft no fury like a NIMBY protest. Also as mentioned in the previous comment above the amount of waste we’d be leaving with future generations would be on a massive scale. Just thought I’d say my piece (peace? I don’t know which version is meant to go with that phrase). P.s. please keep calling out racists and Nazis, your one of the few big people on YouTube/twitch to do it and if even one person changes there mind and becomes better then it’s an effort well spent.

lilith

I mean, I usually agree with you, but the nuclear power thing is pretty complicated. Like, for power now, we are dooming so many future generations to dealing with this waste that we're just storing somewhere without knowing the first thing about how to deal with it. This is a really good video about how we're communicating to future generations about the stuff we've buried: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-r1L32zUB8" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-r1L32zUB8</a>

Emma Jacob

You talked in one bit about anti-Semitism in the labour party, and I don't know if this is the same thing but I read an article today about how people are labelling criticisms of Israel as anti-Semitism in order to silence talk about the violations of the human rights of Palestinians by Israel. <a href="https://newmatilda.com/2019/01/15/redefining-free-speech-opposing-israel-not-anti-semitism/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://newmatilda.com/2019/01/15/redefining-free-speech-opposing-israel-not-anti-semitism/</a>

Jaxom

My new goal after getting my Psych degree is to psycho analyse the characters in your book

the quickest way to take the train across America from New York to Los Angeles is by taking a train to Chicago and then to LA and it takes... 67 hours and 20 minutes. also our trains are always late so expect it to be around 70 hours or more looool

mychemicalbromance

3 small games? Like a 3 free games friday sort of vibe? Those were great, id love more of those.

Collin Regalia

a quick review of 3 indie games in one video? seems like I've heard of this before...

mychemicalbromance