Talks Machina 90: A Pirate's Life for Me

is the ninetieth episode of Talks Machina. Taliesin Jaffe and Liam O'Brien discuss with host Dani Carr.

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Quotations

 * Liam: "You can't mess with tenure."
 * Liam: "The game that Caduceus got spit out of the water pimple—I look in my spells a lot in this game and I'm thinking about what I can do a minute later so I miss things a lot and I had no idea that the character was unconscious when he got shot out. So my in character decision was 'I can do this many people and that's the new guy.' So, I mean, you must have been like 'what the fuck are you doing?'" Taliesin: "I had a ten minute moment of like really? Really? This is how I die?" Liam: "I just assumed you were going to fall down and take ten points of damage. And in the moment, they were getting spit out the top of a temple, he wouldn't have known who was conscious and who wasn't."
 * Taliesin: "The list of people he doesn't like is very short, to be fair." Dani: "Ooh, who's on his list of people he doesn't like?" Taliesin: "He's gotten some sibling issues with one of his siblings. There's some family stuff."
 * Taliesin: "We all have friends where we're like 'you're one month of getting your shit together away from being cool...We would rule this town if you'd get your shit together!'"
 * Dani: "There's embarrassing VHS tapes of all of us, let's be honest."
 * Taliesin: "There's a lot of ethical issues that pop up every day."
 * Dani: "Y'all should really talk to Matt more."
 * Liam: "I think sentiment has probably kept him alive."
 * Taliesin: "Ownership and possession is a very civilized thing."
 * Dani: "Rub that wood."
 * Taliesin: "This is problems between civilized people, which is not really his domain of morality."
 * Taliesin: "It's better now without you."
 * Taliesin: "He's aware of the friction that's going to create with Jester. He's also aware that this woman is batshit fucking crazy and unbelievably dangerous...We're already walking a very, very difficult line and yeah. That's an interesting decision he made there as opposed to-" Dani: "Happens when you think with your dick."
 * Liam: "That was creepy as fuck, that conversion. That was not 'haha, let's pull some pranks, wanna paint something?', that was 'join my cult.'"
 * Liam: "It's a real coinflip who's more dangerous, Uk'otoa or the Traveler."
 * Liam: "I could justify to myself with saying 'if this goes south on me, I will literally just bamf out of this game and maybe bring him back later or something.' But he could just disappear. He did it before, he can do it again." Taliesin:"You had another character in mind too, in the back of your head?" Liam: "I didn't at that moment but that spooked me and I do have one now if need be."
 * Liam "I’m not in a rush to tell anyone anything."