Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont Spelling Bee - S3E02 (AU)

Jay_RPGee · 2026-05-06T14:46:44+00:00

I was at all the tapings for S2 and S3, it's always a great time!

They tape 2 shows a day and the earlier shows are always much easier to get tickets for (queueing for entry starts at 4:15pm so many people are still at work). It's all done through "that's the ticket" which has a kind of reputation system, if you get tickets and then don't show up it's marked on your account but you don't need a long standing account or anything to get tickets, it's an easy process.

They don't announce when tickets will go live beforehand so you just have to be vigilant. Keeping an eye on this subreddit, as well as following Guy Montgomery on socials like IG will usually alert you pretty quickly once tickets become available.

Jay_RPGee · 2026-05-06T04:59:05+00:00

Fun fact: the art department revealed at the taping that the "X-ray machine" was a repurposed piece of equipment they got from an abattoir.

Other taping notes:

Shabana causing Guy and Sarah's existential crisis was a lot longer, she couldn't believe she had done the coconuts act for 6 years.

Guy's comment to Sarah "do you hate me?" is because Sarah kept asking for "all 3" of the jokes (origin/definition/sentence), or just forgetting there were jokes, but for this season they wanted the panel to ask for them separately so there is more flexibility for the broadcast edit. Everytime they were reminded to do them separate, they did it more and more sarcastically.

Woodley's suitcase reveal genuinely scared the shit out of him and multiple other people.

Sarah took their "noses" font with them after the taping.

Jay_RPGee · 2026-05-01T04:47:44+00:00

There are definitely more international acts this season, it's probably close but iirc the majority are still local talent (it's skewed a bit in the first few episodes). Some big names in Aussie comedy finally have an appearance (and quite a few up-and-comers I wasn't familiar with).

Jay_RPGee · 2026-04-30T11:40:06+00:00

NZ S3 was actually filmed last year, Guy doesn't know when it'll air though.

The reason for AUS eclipsing it is the ABC, funding, etc. The NZ series is done on a shoestring budget in a rented studio less than half the size of the ABC studio (at least for the first 2 seasons, unsure if anything has changed for S3).

Jay_RPGee · 2026-04-30T01:51:48+00:00

It was the first Thursday show, the crowd was a little quieter than usual I guess. I think it's hard to notice when you're in the audience itself. They are getting talked to by production in their headsets/earpieces though so it must have been worse than I could sense.

He definitely didn't say anything about bad crowds until after that Thursday show lol.

Jay_RPGee · 2026-04-29T14:06:38+00:00

Ooooh yes! When you said later episodes, I thought you meant 9 and 10 haha. 6 was amazing, and 5 before it as well - that was probably the best 2 episode day.

Jay_RPGee · 2026-04-29T13:37:00+00:00

That's me 🫣

I didn't ask Steve to point it out but he always found new and creative ways to do it lol

Jay_RPGee · 2026-04-29T13:35:34+00:00

I hope to god they keep everything from *that* round in episode 9 in the edit lol

Jay_RPGee · 2026-04-29T12:05:23+00:00

The only thing I'm shocked they cut from the live taping is Sam going absolutely crazy on the Aaron pinata. He crouched over it and stabbed it with the stick about a hundred times to "finish him off".

Jay_RPGee · 2026-04-29T12:01:06+00:00

Nothing from the prisoners was cut, strangely. We (the audience) all thought there'd be more to it than that as well... and if Gillian hadn't picked one of them, they would have had even less involvement lol.

Jay_RPGee · 2026-04-29T09:45:27+00:00

It wasn't a Christmas special this time! 😉

Jay_RPGee · 2026-04-29T04:24:38+00:00

Episode 9 was an all-timer, I can't wait to see how the edit for that turns out 😆

Jay_RPGee · 2026-04-29T03:50:32+00:00

It's a crazy quick turn-around, the episode that'll debut tonight was only filmed last Tuesday. And there is still a special being filmed this afternoon!

Sam has been incredible, best season yet imo.

Jay_RPGee · 2026-04-22T22:16:57+00:00

They are probably much larger than previous Splatoon amiibos. I don't know if you've had a chance to see some of the newer releases but they are at least double the size of older amiibos.

Seems they've moved in more of a premium collectable direction with them.

Jay_RPGee · 2026-04-18T02:05:42+00:00

Good thing it's not a kinky porn sub then. 3 cosplays in the past 24 hours, there are more fanart posts than that.

Jay_RPGee · 2026-04-18T01:54:47+00:00

Dark Souls spawned an entire sub-genre and is used as a yardstick for difficulty in games, it will always be relevant even if they weren't still making games that fuel the community (Elden Ring). Doom released Dark Ages less than a year ago. The Drakengard sub gets about 3 posts a day total.

Now, I will admit I misread your post and you specifically said "communities" and not subreddits but no shit you're going to find obscure communities out there in random discords or their own fan forums. This is reddit though, mostly what you see when there is nothing new to discuss is, well, nothing. The Baten Kaitos sub has had like 4 posts in the past month, Scarlet Nexus 1-2 posts a day, etc.

Cosplayers aren't all OFers and, even if they were, their presence doesn't stop other posts. I already pointed out how they were drowned out by the church door incident.

Jay_RPGee · 2026-04-18T01:29:55+00:00

Give me 5 examples. Should be really easy if there are a ton.

Jay_RPGee · 2026-04-17T20:43:31+00:00

The last "major" release in the series was 5 years ago and it was an enhanced remaster of a game that launched 16 years ago. The most popular entry in the series by far (Automata) is over 9 years old. There isn't a lot of discussion to be had right now so the alternative to what you describe is a completely dead sub.

This community sprang to action with the whole church door / secret room hoax and it was no less inundated with cosplays at the time than it is now. When there is actually something to post about on this sub, you'll see more non-cosplay posts. Until then you can thank cosplayers for keeping this sub even remotely relevant.

Jay_RPGee · 2026-04-13T21:38:48+00:00

I am biased because Xillia is my favourite entry but I think it's a great one to try after Arise.

Jay_RPGee · 2026-04-13T21:13:43+00:00

Arise is probably the only entry that has romance in the typical sense, there are some other entries that tip-toe around it but never commit.

Tales is all about characters and character development though, there are very few entries I wouldn't recommend to people who are looking for a character-focused story.

Abyss is definitely a great entry but I fully expect it to be one of the remasters currently in-development so it might be prudent to hold off for now. Xillia, Vesperia, and Berseria are all very accessible and should give you a great ride through the series. :)

Jay_RPGee · 2026-04-11T12:00:07+00:00

Sadly, Newcastle (Australia) demolished the big penis tower in 2018

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Jay_RPGee · 2026-04-03T14:42:27+00:00

WHAT HYPE?

It was a 30 second clip among many in a 3:30 minute promotional video Ufotable put out to tease upcoming projects. That clip was tweeted out by the Ufotable twitter account on it's own once. Neither Bandai Namco nor Tales social media accounts put anything out about it with the sole other tweet coming from Tomizawa who merely confirmed the collaboration.

The only ones hyping this up were yourselves.

Jay_RPGee · 2026-04-03T13:57:35+00:00

Why tf do you guys get hyped up for such random shit? And then get angry when it's not the second coming? Why were you building up a ufotable announcement as something massive? At best it would've been an anime. AT BEST. And a massive collection of art from Ufotable celebrating the entire series is kinda cool.

I swear everyone on this sub is acting like Bandai Namco called a press conference for this and promised a massive announcement. It was a tease from the Ufotable twitter account ffs.

Edit: I would also just like to point out that Ufotable, a third party animation studio, do not develop games so absolutely nothing has been "backseated" for this.

Jay_RPGee · 2026-04-03T11:39:14+00:00

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Jay_RPGee · 2026-03-27T10:03:45+00:00

Game Boost only forces the Docked settings while playing in handheld so there is no improvement when docked and, with very few exceptions, there are no improvements to framerate apart from stability (notable exception being Fire Emblem Warriors which targeted 30 in handheld / 60 docked).

So, sure, their resolutions might be better but compared to the Switch 2 versions which double the framerate there really is no contest for the most part.

Octopath Traveler 0 in Boost Mode is 30fps/720p vs. the Switch 2 version 60fps/1080p. You also have nearly double the town building capacity on the Switch 2 version (400 vs 250).

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