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I have to shout out all three series of “Not a Drop to Drink.” That campaign is an all-time classic, up there with Critical Role S1, “Shield of Tomorrow”, and TAZ’s “Balance” arc as the best Actual Play ever made. Also, I love the cH episodes of Graham drinking the ur-coffee and Cam painting minis.

Favorite (singular) is impossible to define after years of joy. Here are some top moments: Skeal- youtu.be/rgdNoOimIxw?... How to Kill a Rock - youtu.be/-BZjRtXjs6w?... The Missionary 2 - youtu.be/l_L9QUuI0gg?...

Hot and Saucey to this day is the place I go when the darkness in my soul needs a kick in the head. It doesn't make everything better, but it gives me the push to get going in that direction.

Cropshot No. 236 The Missionary 2 - Still to this day the one two punch of Cam's "Jesus Christ!" and Andy's "Who?" floors me. I know it's coming and it still gets me.

I found the Tiny Tower and Pocket Planes shorts you made for NimbleBit when they first came out, and many years later (around 2019) I stumbled upon the original Pocket Planes short and LoadingTime video, and from there I found the channel and have been following ever since!! youtu.be/ohLKs_ovD1c

Drugs, Drugs, Drugs is my favorite sketch you ever put out. One of my vocal stims to this day is "mmm*click*throm. That's not even a real word! What, you don't think they have drugs outside of North America? You racist" Yes, the whole quote youtu.be/egmYepcUu1U

The energy in this bit was immaculate. Probably my most watched piece of LRR content. youtu.be/1aCVgSL0Og4?...

youtu.be/33grbnIjn40?...

While not the videos that brought me to Lrr, QWERPLINE is 101% the TRANSCENDANT experience that I keep rewatching/listening to over and over and over again. This unimitable radioshow has helped me through my darkest times and will keep doing so. Much love and Happy BIRTHDAY LRR!

youtu.be/q_qrdH8dAAA?... "What up fellow train humpers" runs through my head at least once a day

"stop genociding my elves, they're a distinct culture" is literally the line that got me to finally cave and play magic

i liked the part where adam broke the milk

I found LRR relatively late (it's been 10 years but still) so there's a lot of love for the older stuff which I understand. But honestly, Road Quest is the series I keep rewatching. (that was 8 years ago) ...holy fuck

I found you guys via sketches (z0mgiez via the now defunct browser add on StumbleUpon) and the spiritual successor to the sketches in the annualish CFU"T special is something I keep looking forward to

youtube.com/clip/UgkxQQz... here's the clip of that last one

Lit bits! I’ve never been able to find it, but it was a Magic Arena stream where James agreed to read literary quotes if people submitted them with bits, and it got wild.

Besides our collective Magic lexicon being forever transformed by "Mena-che" for menace and other idioms, I think Graham's cancer monologue has stuck with me the longest, from this episode of Live. Cancer fucking sucks. www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3Nq...

There are so many great sketches, but Son Of A Bitch is just phenomenal

For me it was feed dump as a whole to help laugh at the news which in hindsight was tame relatively. But if I had to pick just one it's definitely Feed Dump 223. The perfect punctuation on the state of politics and how absurd it is and always will be. youtu.be/gzeUJWSKfKw?...

You all got me back into Magic, and I had the pleasure(?) of being a part of the Homelands draft with Graham one PAX East. Desert Bus has raised more money than I can comfortably conceive of. But even more than that, you all have created and helped maintain a genuinely kind community on the internet

Ah, someone beat me to it!

How to Kill a Rock has broken through my friend group at an impressive rate. Happy 23 🥳

The video that let me find you guys. And have followed you ever since. youtu.be/GWCQ5R9YsgM

Did Graham ever get his lawnmower back? youtu.be/Q953eXosR30?...

It probably was *that* @unarmedoracle.bsky.social vs @maro254.bsky.social game

I kinda lost track of you folks after your videos stopped appearing on the Penny Arcade site. Then very early in the pandini the Oops All Spokesman Crapload dropped and I've spent the last several years trying to catch up with everything I can.

Thank you! I’m certain this has made several people very angry over the years, so I would like to let all those men know they should cry harder.

I'm very biased, but it was really special to me that I was able to post a script to a forum and get it picked up and produced into something awesome. wiki.loadingreadyrun.com/index.php/So...

Oh right, and most impactful crapshot remains forever in my heart: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocDq...

Wow. Yeah. Ok. “Which of you eggs has been messing with the gender slider” And “You may now live Mas” Remain all time greats. Learning to fold a fitted sheet on desert bus. Erica gifting the sword to Jacob.

The episode of The Panalysts where Jacob slowly and quietly loses his mind while Adam creates the most unhinged Coat of Arms every thought of by a human being.

Too late for the show, but The Writers' Room sketch has long been a favourite of mine youtu.be/V4vJZhsEQpM?...

This crapshot is how I found LRR in my sophomore year of college. myself and my best friends knew it by heart and would quote it constantly. "radical. but also unsafe?" came up constantly, especially in our HvZ safety meetings.

While I love watching live, I really appreciate the stream highlights, makes sharing things much easier/more accessible, but also the specific Let's Nope! Express are particularly excellent youtu.be/jhAlbMYONgc?... I still think about this moment from time to time, absolute gold

All of Roadquest, the latest garage sale contest with Olive, so many Pre-Prereleases, and too many other things to count!

For the first time, I guess youtube stopped recommending me the videos and I think I forgot to check your site and I think Youtube stopped recommending me those vids. The second time, I looked up DBFH clips after AVGN's Desert Bus episode and the same thing happened where they stopped recomending.

It was when I mentioned that “Jar Jar pulls” during a stream (via twitch chat) and it got Graham so hard he was visibly flabbergasted and Ben had to back me up about the clone wars. Personally hilarious.

Late to the party but I love all the behind the scenes moonbase moves and the vlogs. It’s really cool seeing the people behind all the content and how it all “works” If I have to pick one, the last moon base move video the build out, Ben and James setting a record for ikea run.

Watching "It's Magic" back on the Escapist website as my first introduction to LRR was a formative moment for me. I wasn't even a Magic player then!

I was actually thinking about it the other day. I use to think the first LRR content I saw was the Unskippable & Zero Punctuation crossover episodes, but I actually think I might of seen "Halo: The Future of Gaming" first when it listed in a post about EPIC 2014's anniversary at the time

Watching Checkpoint with my wife is one of the most religiously observed routines in our household. QWERPLINE, Live, Panalysts, Jackbox streams and similar events hold a similar position, as did Road Quest and the last season of Friday Nights even though the missis doesn't play Magic.

But I don't think I could be without the let's nope. Its one of our fave shows and I love seeing how it's grown and changed over the years

… works evenings! Bylaw and Order and all of the Dice Friends streams are tour de forces of comedy that let me enjoy tabletop gaming that I often can’t sit down to do. I’ve kinda grown up with LRR, and a huge part of my sense of humor (and bringing This or That’s out for trivia) is because of yall!

It’s the cold open from 123 - Face Curses

Check it @unarmedoracle.bsky.social you’re on a mug!

Tiny text, big words!

If anyone else wants to watch it: youtu.be/rWTGYCQ799I?...

Not sure why this is what's stuck with me but the Man Cooking Episode where Graham compares the Meatloaf to The Horta from Star Trek has stuck with me for years so much so that I'm going to try my best to get him to sign the card at a con sometime in the future.

Also I'm always happy to see my spider hanging out on screen. Mine's the smallest one with the mismatched eyes, I believe "Hop." 🕷️💜

It's always the small moments that stick with me. Like the moment when @wheeler.bsky.social inspired the "Tap Tap Unsleeve" button.

How To Kill A Rock plus the last version 15-minute Whale improv sketch from that one Live were really good. Plus Wheeler playing MTGO Vintage Cube w/ Graham and getting bodied turn one by a Blightsteel. And just a lot of Wheeler in general honestly

youtu.be/JOcOPa-rgqY I sent this one to my mom after she sent a text complaining about a phone tech support experience she'd had. Got a text back that she had to barely restrain herself from cackling openly at the punchline in the middle of a meeting. That may be my favorite LRR-related memory.

youtu.be/GuYwGvx5qaQ?...

I am at all times thinking about when Alex rotated out of Standard, then returned as a force ghost just to preach the gospel of JUND 'EM OUT!

One of my favorite crapshots. It’s an older reference sir but it checks out youtu.be/0hY2BFIg9Fw?...

First introduced to LRR on August 12, 2009 because my buddy introduced me to that week's sketch (Forget About It) on the Escapist. loadingreadyrun.com/videos/view/...

I still share The Club with people. Classic! www.youtube.com/watch?v=secv...

Short form or older stuff usually wins out here. But being live for this was truly transcendental WHEEEEEEEEL

Show: Road Quest Sketch: Drugs, Drugs, Drugs Stream: Prayer Warriors Crapshot: The Tech Support

they still make me laugh out loud, especially the online one with Cameron's description of a Log Flume ride featuring Barbecue Sauce instead of water and Adam and Jacob's Coat of Arms. And there's soo much more. You are doing amazing, incredibly varied work that continues to bring me so much joy!

I think it was at some point, but it's mercifully back now. A few of the earlier episodes are still gone.

Not a video, but meeting @graham.loadingreadyrun.com and @kathleen.loadingreadyrun.com the first time they came over for PAX Aus. As an Aussie LRR had always felt very far away until then. Was like meeting family (in an online parasocial kind of way).

I still declare that I've just installed Linux on this microwave thanks to Installation Anxiety.

Beejdrops are always fun, especially when the sketch is already pretty funny/surreal to begin with before it hits! Like a chicken finger wound up in your order of fries! youtu.be/wPc7oXdZ8kU

Road quest

Also shout outs to @mollylewis.wtf for the first episode of s2 of panalysts where the "shaved side, hair side" intro lives rent free in my head (and also caused me to get my own undercut ((also shoutouts to @kathleen.loadingreadyrun.com and @seabats.bsky.social for inspiring my hair decisions)) )

Spring! 13 years later, my younger brother and I still use chucklenut & bimp when we catch up youtu.be/nkkjKkGCI3Q?...

lots of good little gags, i still occasionally sing the little ditty from the start, and paul's indignant 'what about my bagels?' had a homestar level effect on my speech patterns youtu.be/FXTGJ97Dgcg?...

Road Quest holds a special place in my heart, it's some damn good TV.

youtu.be/NNImdyU453U?... *lights cigarette* I was there Gandalf... I was there 1000 years ago, when a young @graham.loadingreadyrun.com decided that his need for creative videos meant pranking the internet with a fake nut shot, and the internet falling for it.

There are a thousand, but I'll go with something a little further down the list. Sidewalk Slam was such a fun podcast even though I hadn't cared about wrestling since I was a kid. The first and only Wrestlemania I watched from start to finish live was the direct result of the podcast.

It was either that, How to Talk Like a Pirate, or the lesser household gods that was my LRR gateway drug. The exact order blurs with...20 years in between, good lord.

Ben, you mentioned recently that your role as a host on streams stops you from being the funny guy sometimes. Know you're a really great host. Your energy is a beam of sunshine. I can't imagine having to remember all those boardgame rules. We'll done!

I also want to give a shout-out to Kathleen's D&D campaigns. You write the best bureaucracy shenanigans and your gift for writing jerks is unmatched (complimentary).

I found your stuff by being sent "Fun with microwaves" by email from someone lost to time. I love the sketch "The Couch"-featuring James Turner. It's the first time I remember thinking, whoa -not just silly goofs.

There are literally too many moments, laughs, and gaffs to count, so I'll shoutout one of my favourite crapshots (which is suddenly zeitgeist-adjacent!) Happy LRR day! youtu.be/3eAcrnBjczM?...

Got this signed like 2 weeks later in Chicago and it makes me smile every time.

The entire evolution of the Creepy Doll, now sadly mostly lost to the Escapist binfire. The CHustle where you're all trapped in the basement with them is an all timer

The bonkers Watch+Play house tour: youtu.be/YQZSewJ1J5E?... I will occasionally go back and rewatch it (as I did recently) when I'm not feeling well and need Alex and Graham to lift my spirits.

The stream where Matt called cinnamon buns spicy, Adam shooting people all stream are also amazing.

CheckPoint's "Today!" intro is deeply embedded in my mind, and I think it subconsciously caused me to start outlining my anime crew's shows with a "TONIGHT!" message.

Road Quest 100% is my favorite but everything you guys do is gold.

cam's pocket bacon deserves a mention

And of course more than anything, your North 100/Canadian Highlander content entertained me for years before touching the format and continues to inspire and motivate a robust CanLander community in my city with weeklies at multiple gamestores most every night of the week!

Still so strange to me that I have the same birthday as my favorite internet comedy troupe. And yes that is a perfectly normal thing to have a favorite one of.

Man, there are so many good ones. I’ve watched Road Quest so many times YouTube defaults to it 😂 and then there’s Commodore Hustle (my favorites being “Overwatched” and “Cleanse”) and CFUT is so funny I made all my friends watch it. I also love the Loading Times for moving moonbases.

Y'all have dramatically impacted my vocabulary and manner of speech.

Honestly, I think Magic the Gathering as a game peaked in the Unstable preprerelease with MaRo and Wedge, bringing Shahrazad from a shelf in the background into a game. Best not-in-game moment: when Graham untapped in season 9 of Friday Nights after his recovery, it filled me with gratitude and joy.

Being sick a whole week and binging everything LRR. Seeing old stuff and wondering who those people are I don't see anymore. Learning about Bill. But also learning how his memory is kept alive. That was an interesting rollercoaster of emotions while I was sick.

Bros Clubbing Bros has stuck with me almost permanently

There's so much, but my highlights are: - The CFUT New Year's Countdown has so many great moments I can't just pick one. - Heather beating Grimm in the Archipelago stream. - The Spokesman Also, my brother and I regularly quote "The machine" and "It not perfect system" from different Crapshots

The word “elphantocoglambton” is tattooed on my brain. I think Paul cane up with it.