#mentopolis F for freezer

[saingirl101]

Only 10 mins in and we've already gotten a best nemeses moment between Conrad and Danny

Danny at any moment:

[ethanthedreamer]

if i had a quid for a time that someone (joshua gillespie and anastasia tension) kept a key in a block of ice in their freezer id have 2 quid which isnt much but its weird that it happened twice

[dropoutdottv]

This week on Dropout: on Monday, a new Breaking News, featuring Grant O'Brien, Katie Marovitch, Tao Yang, and Sam Reich ("Win Sam Reich's Money"); on Tuesday, a new Play It By Ear, with Jess McKenna, Zach Reino, and Zeke Nicholson ("Backwards Compatible"); on Wednesday, episode 3 of Dimension 20: Mentopolis ("F For Freezer"); and on Thursday, a new Adventuring Party talkback.

[thestalkerbunny]

If there's two things I take away from the latest Mentopolis episode of F is for Freezer; it's

A: Dan Fucks and Hunch Curio's conceptual chemistry is fantastic together they are SEXUAL CURIOSITY. That can be ship name Thank you and good night.

B: the fact a small child who needs a booster seat is the one driving a cadillac car with two grown adult men in the back.

[lesbiansybelle]

Mentopolis, F for Freezer// Spider-Man 2099 (1992) #2

[detaia]

ep 3 mentopolis highlights:

- "oh my god. we gotta get Elias to touch his balls!"

- Conrad releasing one of the eagle talons on his guilt

- Anastasia remembering her key is in her freezer from the four F's which is just referencing a different thing

- Conrad's personality shift as a hotshot driver

- the whole thing about M.Bition's speech where at first he frames it like their chance to feel good and flood the city with dopamine and all the good stuff was ruined because of Imelda. but then he says "we don't get to feel good until I say we get to feel good" where its like, oh. in the same way that ambition promises happiness from your success, it also denies you happiness in other areas of your life. you don't let yourself feel good about yourself because you're not meeting your expectations so you feel like you don't deserve it.

- the image of Foot Stuff as a kaiju wading through the fog approaching mentopolis

- Hunch Curio fucking killing it what a scene with the prize fight and the first appearance of the box of doom. plus Dan Fucks committing even more and betting his whole fortune. incredible

- the reveal of SD to be Self Doubt

- the legend of Stacy Fakename grows

- Conrad saying fuck and standing up for himself :))

- the mechanical thing that Brennan did for Dom Nuntz was really cool, I love that Trapp rolled high twice and we get to see the slow progression of Dom's sharp score going up and getting closer and closer, and Trapp spending his moxie to clutch at the last second....hell yeah

- the pressure system is really cool way to up the tension of the table as the stakes get higher in a tangible way that affects gameplay

- Ivana Popov, who is another addition to my list of fav NPCs of which there are MANY

- The Fix confronting the DA and the DA dropping all niceties and being like "how does that help us" in response to The Fix. and also calling fun facts fucking useless. and can I just say. I was so fucking offended on behalf of The Fix. It makes sense for ambition to be dismissive of whimsy and interesting things but still. fuck you. The Fix said your hair looked nice. He said you looked lovely. He's such a sweet guy who the fuck do you think you are you rat bastard fuckhead shithead cunt. M.Bition more like M.Barrassment I would hate to be seen walking down the street next to your joyless dismissive pathetic ass. get outta here. I'll kill you

- Again. So much ball talk.

- Hank discussing how The Fix is still a little on the fence in Adventuring Party and he's not like the rest of the gang which makes sense. Hyperfixation, logic, these are not so much motivations as they are a means to an end. The Fix is the how. Concepts like Conrad or Dan Fucks or Hunch Curio are the why. All this while The Fix has been working in service of M.Bition but it could change. and also I love Hank for choosing to confront the DA even though him personally would 100% not do that. he's acing this roleplay jazz

[fillingthescrapbook]

Let's Talk About: Mentopolis and F for Freezer

Okay, wow.

I'm just gonna start out with: funny episode was funny. I loved the whole bit with Anastasia Tension and Imelda Pulse. Freddie Wong and Mike Trapp doubling down on mistaking someone for the person they're looking for--although they both succeeded in their checks? Hilarious.

But Alex Song-Xia really stole this episode again. They were magnificent. Glorious. Wonderful. That whole scene where they were having a heart-to-heart with an Impulse? Wow.

That said, I do wish the whole first half of the episode went by a little faster though. As Mike Trapp as Hunch Curio said, "we're currently falling off a window." I know time moves differently in Mentopolis but I really feel like we wasted a lot of time at the start. Which especially smarts because we don't get as much time with Hank Green's The Fix in the last part of the episode. Because I do believe that we've gotten the most menacing fun fact from Hank in this episode. A pelican having a stomach specifically for bones? Jiminy Crickets.

Next week looks to be very intriguing and exciting. Especially with this episode's cliffhanger.

[thisisnotthenerd]

it's time for little guys in a brain.

quick episode descriptions:

the scattered mind: the aftermath of the freeway collapse. nostalgia's diner. anastasia snooping and figuring out the head trauma. i think it's time to unlearn that lesson. at the university, hunch operates on cartoon logic. stacy fakename. intimidating someone into dying. elias is falling out of a window

f for freezer: the boxing encounter with the lads. stacy fakename. fighting dom nuntz. conrad punching the key out of ivana. hunch operating on cartoon logic once again as he takes comical hits. the fix in the da's office.

grappling with death: the ladies get to oblongata, order champagne, guide the response to the defenestration and get arrested. dan fucks gets shot the fuck up. the fix sees the figure and falls out of a window, much like elias. he then menaces a casino employee into causing the entire body to shit. the lads get fixed up by frozen steaks at hunch's office. the ladies & conrad escape the police with a paddy wagon, meet joie de vivre, crash into the mayor's office and expose him, and then prep the body to go through the window. the fix flirts with pasha n. dan fucks kills a man with handcuffs.

emergency powers: the party reunites and heads to thalamus & sons. after buying guns, imeldagoes to the switchboard to get elias moving. she bamboozles h.v. lance in the process. anastasia and dan fucks go to court to sue for emergency powers and win based on danielle's paralegal experience. the fix, hunch, and conrad go to the home of wayward interests and face down madam loathing, who keys justin. you're my best friend. dan and anastasia get wined and dined by the mafia, and anastasis chases down stacy fakename

case closed: the party converges on oblongata station once more. they're facing down the don and madam loathing, who can turn them against each other. imelda and dan flash the gangsters to wildly differing results. ivana rolls a 59 on hunch and he still comes back. elias punches his boss. dan goes down. the fix eats the key. conrad rolls a 57 [the number of heinz varieties] to bring down madam loathing. elias steals a birthday cake and runs out into the street.

[rusty-guitar-strings]

ari's thoughts on mentopolis episode 3: f for freezer

caution here there be spoilers

starting this abt 15 minutes in: conrad bb no do not turn urself in pls

also someone mentioned thinking justin might be evil so now im sus of him oops

alternate title for the episode: fuck it we ball

no one: the fix: did you know- (he is so me coded)

no character art for elias?

a key in her freezer???? wtf oh ok lmao

hanks small smile at "mr the fix" i am meltingggggg

SOMEONE TELL CONRAD ITS NOT HIS FAULT ALREADY

eagles hold on so tight they have to make an active effort to let go and we are all eagles holding onto something and we have to work to let it go and the fix is an eagle and is never gonna let go of conrad bc i decided that just now and DAMN U MR GREEN THIS IS TOO GOOD

justin needs a pipe and a deerstalker actually. dogtective

(dont smoke, kids) (almost typed that as just dont smoke kids which you should probably also not do)

awww ofc alex would remember fawn as conrad ueueueue i love,,, himb (conrad. alex's pronouns are they/them. i love them as well :>)

"they forgot me" nOOOOO

conrad is driving oh god

the drama of anastasia being estranged

very little dominance,,, massive self doubt,,, are we sure this aint MY brain

i assume ivana was there for the skate incident

elias has a TWIN SISTER omg

so elias wanted to run, not fight

i hate mr bition but ya he and the fix were prolly a thing i see the tension lmao

ok i REALLY hate mr bition he seems like an ableist piece of shit GET HIS ASS THE FIX

OH MY GOD YES BREATHING EXERCISES

god ok gonna get briefly a bit personal here so i was raised with the mindset of "you dont get to do the things you want to do until you've finished all the things you need to do" and when you have executive dysfunction its hard to do anything at all, so i never really finished the things i needed to get done on time which resulted in a lot of being yelled at and things being confiscated and such. so m bition's monologue kinda hits

you are the only thing standing in your way,,,

wait is the key talking??? the key is like the manifestation of the psychometer prolly

OH GOD IS IT WEDNESDAY YET

[d20-eotd]

Dimension 20 Episode of the Day: 8/23

Today's Episode is: Mentopolis, Episode 3, F for Freezer

Original Release Date: 8/23/2023

The Quick Synopsis: As Elias makes the decision of a lifetime, the Prefrontal P.I.s spread out across the city to find out what's going on inside and out.

Quotes:

"Did you know that the urethra contains taste receptors?" ~ The Fix

Dan Fucks putting it all on one fight:

"Justin, Justin, Justin!"

[Brennan woofs]

"I can't do this, but you need to put some money down on this fight. Put it all, put my entire life savings here on our man!"

"You want me to bet everything on Hunch?"

"Stacy Fakename!"

"Not on Hunch Curio?"

"No, Hunch Curio's not here! It's Stacy Fakename!"

"Stacy Fakename, okay!"

"Put it all on it! I've got a good feeling about this one!"

[bookgeekgrrl]

My media this week (20-26 Aug 2023)

my absolute fave line in all of heartstopper, so glad they left it unaltered

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

😍 how a resurrection really feels (LiarsandThieves22) - 176K, steddie - post s4 fixit with a timeline merge - just brilliantly executed, lots of great emotional moments as well as even more laugh out loud ones. Big, big rec.

🙂 The Wedding Bait (Golden Years #1) (Adele Buck, author & narrator) - novella; cishet romance but MCs in their 50s, which was a nice change

😊 Murder at the Village Fair (Miss Underhay Mysteries #13) (Helena Dixon, author; Karen Cass, narrator) - Matt & Kitty are on a sort-of delayed honeymoon & get involved in murder in Yorkshire while visiting his aunt

😊 here there be dragons (theundiagnosable) - 66K, original hockey fic - epitome of sunshine/grumpy - POV char has extreme anxiety/anxiety-induced paranoia/anger outbursts due to fear etc - he gets better & it does end very happily but first we gotta watch him train wreck everything & suffer (to be clear, I did enjoy reading this! but it's a lot!)

🥰 Lemon Meringue Lies (Nejinee) - 111K, technically stucky modern no-powers AU but honestly such an AU that it's really more of original fic WHICH ISN'T at all bad - best friends to lovers, lots of oblivousness, pining, angst, emotional dumbassery but also a really great external setting & compelling supporting characters (who just all happen to have names/physical traits as MCU characters) [reread]

😍 if I'm gonna get back to you someday (napricot) - 46K, post Endgame fixit with "a clusterfuck of Steves" from different multiverses [reread for stucky bookclub]

😍 Golden Handcuffs (seekwill) - 70K, Good Omens human AU where they're both professors at a small Scottish university - brilliant fic, great characterizations, solid story development, absolutely loved it

💖💖 +246K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

Mandatory Fun (One-EyedBossman (desert000rose), SecretFandomStories) - MCU: stucky, 39K - Part 11 of Differently Okay Local Idiots; Bucky & Steve go suit shopping with Natasha & together navigate another bump in their road

To the Waters and the Wild (rainbow_nerds) - MCU: magical shrunkyclunks, 23K - selkie!Bucky finds Captain America frozen when he's 10 years old, but no one believes him; ~15 years later, Cap finally thaws out

To Kiss the Tender Inward of Thy Hand (circ_bamboo) - Band Sinister (KJ Charles): Ned Caulfield/George Penn, 32K - beautiful backstory of how Ned & George met

Sit (fandomfluffandfuck) - MCU: stucky, 21K, Part 1 of You Can('t) Teach An Old Dog New Tricks - modern, no powers AU - promising start to a series about older/old guard dom Steve & newbie dom Bucky

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

Game Changer - s2, e1-4; s3, e5-8; s5, e9

Make Some Noise - s2, e6

Um, Actually - s8, e11

Heartstopper - s2, e1-8

Only Murders In The Building - s3, e4

Harley Quinn - s4, e7

What We Do In The Shadows - s5, e8

D20: Mentopolis - "F For Freezer" (s1, e3)

D20: Adventuring Party - "We Are Feeling Machines That Think" (s14, e3)

Much Ado About Nothing (Wyndham Theatre 2011) {Tate/Tennant version}

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

Re: Dracula - August 20: We Shall To-night Play

Re: Dracula - August 21: Goods are Delivered

Vibe Check - A Special Conversation with Emily King

Ed Zitron's 15 Minutes In Hell - Episode 3 - Taylor Lorenz, The Washington Post

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Embracing Adventure in Fayetteville

⭐ Shedunnit Book Club - Murder-on-Sea

⭐ Switched on Pop - Wonders: "Stacy's Mom" and Adam Schlesinger

⭐ 99% Invisible #550 - Melanie Speaks

Vibe Check - Did AI Write That Song?

Re: Dracula -August 23: Ominous in His Calm

ICYMI - How to Make Millions Playing Dungeons & Dragons

⭐ The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Mysterious Sinkholes of Mt Baldy

Twenty Thousand Hertz+ - The Voice Inside

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Arthurdale

Re: Dracula - August 24: Some Terrible Shock

Strong Songs - "Soul Vaccination" by Tower of Power

Dear Prudence - My Wife Goes Braless Around Our Teenage Sons. Help!

Re: Dracula - August 25: Another Bad Night

What Next: TBD - TikTok's Shady Deal with the U.S.

Into It - Did Taylor Swift Curse Scooter Braun? And Will Fyre Fest Fool Us Twyce?

Endless Thread - PARKS! Pt. 4: Death Sea

⭐ Smart Podcast, Trashy Books - 577. Killing Folks with Deanna Raybourn

Wait Wait… Don't Tell Me! - WWDTM: Mark Ronson

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

Soft Rock Ballads

'80s Soft Pop

Relaxing '80s Rock

Unreal Unearth [Hozier] {2023}

'80s Training Montage

Tower of Power

Presenting The Doobie Brothers

Presenting Steely Dan

Presenting Electric Light Orchestra

[saingirl101]

Mentopolis Episode 3 Liveblog as Gifs (SPOILERS)

THE SAGA CONTINUES. Tonight looks to be a jam packed episode but the real question is what iconic moment will Dan Fucks have vs. Conrad tonight.

Anyway as always spoilers are beneath the read more

Seeing the new game mechanic the Pressure Mechanic:

Hunch Curio's conspiracy theory about Elias putting something down his pants in advance of going into danger:

Danny at any point about Conrad:

Reading Elias' memory book and finding out the secret behind gobstopper industries:

Imelda seeing a special key in the memory and realizing its not based of her key:

Anastasia connecting this key to what was on the body of Norrell Ojicle and that its the psychometer:

Anastasia realizing that theres a central keyhole at oblongata station and its her key that can work:

Conrad continuing to try to get turned in and danny continuing to agree he should:

The Fix's emotional speech to convince conrad to stop trying to turn himself in:

Dan realizing that the other keys might belong to the flight, fight, freeze, and whatnot:

Imelda seeing anastasia's sad 'old' lady apartment:

Imelda managing make the 8 dc for the sneak check and managing to hide using trilbys and newspapers:

A. tension managing to fool the police that she hasnt seen her cousin:

Danny getting the info on the 4 Fs:

Conrad somehow getting a 28 with a natural 20 sneak:

Hunch immediately walking into the fight arena and the gang lying about hunch being a fighter:

But dan somehow salvaging the situation with a 15 slick check to sweet talk the bouncer:

finding out that the competitor called SD is self doubt:

Conrad meeting ivana popov (aka fight):

Conrad punching fight and her spitting up her key:

Brennan bringing out the box of doom after freddy tries to get justification to bet all his savings on hunch:

HUNCH BURNING ALL HIS MOXIE TO AVOID GETTING KNOCKED OUT WITH THE ROUGH MECHANIC DOM HAS AND ULTIMATELY WINNING:

Conrad remembering that he has the occulous viewfinder and showing Ivana the big guy is in danger. Ivanna's reaction:

The pressure gauge moving up again:

BUT THE FIX BRINGING IT DOWN AS HE HYPERFIXATES ON BREATHING:

THE WHITE KEY APPEARING BEFORE THE FIX and coming to slash his throat:

BRENNAN LEAVING US AT THAT FUCKING CLIFFHANGER:

Brennan every week:

[unsleepingtales]

Mentopolis Ep 3! We have life things so this is late but we press on

Freddie said the whole thing!

Just a damp damp man 😐

Once again. We need Stacy Fakename merch pls.

I love the wonkaness of Gobstopper Industries

IT MOVES

The heart being the Boston to the brain’s New York is interesting

Phrenology lmao

I slap him. I kiss him.

Hunch keeping so much stuff in his pants is such a Choice

I really think it’s a phone buzzing and not a sexy thing because Elias is so convinced he doesn’t deserve pleasure that I don’t he would do that

If not ___, ___? is such a great sequence I’m gonna rewatch that several times probably

Turn yourself in to who???

Every part of the brain can notice conscience but pleasure. Sometimes the dice do really cool things.

The Fix being vaguely southern always cracks me up

Conrad not wanting to say fucks aw

He’s the only one who can DRIVE

Bro WHAT

Hank why

Ooh yay psychometer info

This thing could alter thoughts. Ok.

Evillll

I love lengthy lore drops. I love them so much.

That wave is designed to create impulses maybe?

The editing is simultaneously really cool and gonna give me a headache

This thing erases color from the mind? Does it erase memory?

This boiling down to ‘has the government been corrupted by external capitalist forces or was the already corrupt government merely enabled by this capitalist presence’ is incredibly interesting

Cool! Very convenient!

OH the reflexive switchboard yay

F for freezer!

Hunch why do you wanna see Anastasia’s apartment

Trapp is so great I don’t think I’ve appreciated him enough

I think killing the conscience will probably not save the life of someone who has been thrown out of a window

Hank what

“It’s about what happens when you’re the next age” I’m gonna cry?

What

Babe what

(a ballad of balls on tracks)

Oooh does the Fucks family also have keys

(everyone getting a kick out of the foot fetish joke)

Hank jostling Freddie because he’s so delighted <3

Splitting the partyyyyyy

fLiGhT 😉

Uncle Hunch and Uncle Fucks 🥲

Dome!

So many hats!

Imelda Pulse supportive cousin of the year <3

The cops. Great.

Something that ladies wear … …

Imelda Pulse coat rack of the year <3

Oh nooo

She’s just sooo estranged from her faaaamily she doesn’t know her cousiiiins

The commitment Siobhan has keeping her arms like that for the whole scene

The Police 😐

Incredible sneak skills

Threw a robe over her trench coat I’m dead

Yeah a newspaperwoman would have to get pretty good at lying lol

Iconic trio

Why is he the only one who can drive 😭

He really just lives to make people uncomfortable

Oooh d20 explosion

Why does he drive like that

BRENNAN WHY IS THAT YOUR DEFAULT ROCK

Put that tongue back in your mouth SIR.

(group trying to hold back laughter to keep it tense…)

(and failing)

The word fight is losing all meaning

I was gonna say Gilear energy but he’s honestly more confident than Gilear.

Self doubt is so strong and dominance is so weak.

I feel like dominance being weak is a trick tho. It feels too simple.

Also. Self Doubt isn’t even a pun of any kind his name is just straight up his job.

I just was busy.

Why is fight russian

Conrad is so sassy today

IVANA POPOV

What

The fuck just happened

The poor Fakename family

Box of Doom!!

The one thing that always bugs me is the box is never level and I don’t know if that affects how the die rolls

What a power

YEAH BABY

How are the fakenames even a family. What concept are they.

Dice are cool

One of those inflatable clowns that are weighted at the bottom so they bounce up whenever you hit them

(the crowd goes wild for Stacy Fakename)

I love character feats!

Flight was in control when Elias got hurt. Interesting.

I love how Hunch just has cartoon logic

I also forget that I’m playing and not just watching a story sometimes

You like my facts right?

FACT ALERT

PELICAN FACT ALERT

Oh god

Hank leaning into being intimidating is so good to watch

Man. Okay.

Oh that’s so cool. Focusing on breathing lowers the pressure. That’s so good.

What are you close to achieving

That’s SO fucked up

What

Who are you

What

Is this fucking adderall or something

Probably the psychometer. But it would be an interesting take for it to be meds lol.

BRENNAN.

[dimension20quotes]

Mentopolis Quotes

Episode 1 - The Big Guy

Episode 2 - The Scattered Mind

Episode 3 - F for Freezer

Episode 4 - Grappling with Death

Episode 5 - Emergency Powers

Episode 6 - Case Closed

[dndumb]

And I’m sorry but if that’s not the most Freddie Wong character choice EVER I truly don’t know what is

Only 10 mins in and we've already gotten a best nemeses moment between Conrad and Danny

Danny at any moment: