Line #22 LetsPlay/LetsRambleWithRae


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:The most beautiful trio of ladies ever to play video games (From left to right: Taylor, Rae, and Peyton). [[VerbalTic Yes.]]]]
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4	->'''Taylor:''' [[StraightMan Hello! My name is Taylor.]]
5	->'''Rae:''' [[LovableCoward And I am Rae!]]
6	->'''Peyton:''' [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} And I am Player One]], lord of [[VideoGame/LegacyOfKain Kain's]] every passing action! [[VerbalTic Yes.]]
7	->'''Taylor:''' And that's Peyton, [[ComedicSociopathy expressing her tyranny]] over the controller.
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9	-->--Character intro from [[http://youtu.be/fMf-dXogSJ0 Let's Ramble With Rae: Legacy of Kain: Defiance, Part 2]]
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11	Sometime between creating the ''WebVideo/MyLittlePonyTheMentallyAdvancedSeries'' and dealing with [[Website/YouTube Content ID]], master chief Greg Hoffman (a.k.a., [[https://www.youtube.com/user/FiMFlamFilosophy FiMFlamFilosophy]]) took the voice of his version of [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicRainbowDash Rainbow Dash]], and crowned her [[VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas Queen of the Mojave Desert]]. This act planted the seed that would grow into the ''Let's Ramble With Rae'' series.
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13	Unlike other [[LetsPlay Let's Plays]] that run between 30 minutes to an hour, if not longer, each ''Let's Ramble'' episode lasts around 15 minutes or less. ''Let's Ramble'' also uploads one new episode for each current playthrough about once a week barring scheduling conflicts. The brevity and frequency of new episodes is due to how busy Hoffman & Co. are with other projects, as well as how much effort it takes to make a ''Let's Ramble'' to start; for comparison, Hoffman's latest let's play -- for ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' -- has no voice acting and scripting, allowing him to put out a 20-minute video every day.
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15	Since the series began in [[TheNewTens May of 2013]], Rae and her two friends, Taylor and Peyton (all three of whom are simians), have tackled (in order of first episode):
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17	* ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' -- The longest ''Let's Ramble'' to date, with 88 episodes made between May 2013 and March 2015.
18	* ''VideoGame/PonyFantasyVI''
19	* ''VisualNovel/LongLiveTheQueen''
20	* ''Soul Reaver 2''
21	* ''VideoGame/MechWarrior 4: Vengeance''
22	* ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKain: Defiance''
23	* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'' -- The first to feature someone other than Rae in a solo playthrough, with Peyton playing the role of a Khajiit named Kaybe.
24	* ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry''
25	* ''VideoGame/{{Starbound}}''
26	* ''VideoGame/CitiesSkylines'' -- Labeled as "Radio Skyline" instead of a ''Let's Ramble''
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28	Towards the end of the ''Defiance'' series (which concluded after ''Skyrim''), the series was put on [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRX4ezSYTMQrrfzDoWcuscw its own Youtube channel]]. Said channel also includes two other series: "Greg in your Ear" (featuring Greg as himself while playing ''M.A.S.S. Builder''), and "Slick Sam Sells You" (has ended, but featured an [[HonestJohnsDealership Honest John-type salesman]] promoting video games).
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30	!! This show provides examples of:
31	* AmbiguousGender: Initially invoked until it was decided they would be women.
32	* AuthorTract: As with the ''Mentally Advanced Series'', the ''Let's Ramble'' episodes deal with topical and long-standing subjects that come to Hoffman's mind.
33	* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Taylor, Rae, and Peyton, respectively.
34	* CatchPhrase: Whether by herself or with Peyton and Taylor, Rae will usually end an episode with a variant of the following:
35	-->'''Rae:''' Here looks like a good place to stop for now. Thanks for playing with me/us, everybody! ''[cue music]''
36	* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Peyton, who carries over her [[ComedicSociopathy outlandish, sociopathic behavior]] -- [[WhatTheHellIsThatAccent and accent]] -- from ''MAS'''s Pinkie Pie. [[VerbalTic Yes.]]
37	* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Rae does this in her ''Long Live The Queen'' Let's Play when [[spoiler:Elodie sees her father with Sirin]].
38	-->'''Rae:''' Oh my God, [[spoiler:our dad is talking to some kind of tarted up, blonde, purple bathrobe wearing, feather in her hair, ''blonde girl!'']]\
39	'''Taylor:''' You said "blonde" twice.\
40	'''Rae:''' I'm not sure if you noticed, but that girl is ''really'' blonde.
41	* DirtyCoward: Peyton accuses Rae of being this in part four of the ''VisualNovel/LongLiveTheQueen'' ramble, citing the latter's ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' (at that point) 30-episode playthrough as evidence.
42	* FreudianTrio: Taylor (Superego), Rae (Ego), Peyton (Id).
43	* LetsPlay: The original series consists of video game footage combined with...well, the ramblings of Rae and friends.
44	* NoodleIncident: Peyton did something to make a supermarket airplane ride have to install a metal detector and not allow liquids that are too big; it also involved children, but they got popsicles in the end.
45	--> '''Peyton:''' They are just jealous that I seized more than a quarter's worth of entertainment from their machine.
46	* NoSenseOfDirection: According to Peyton, Rae sometimes gets lost on the way to the kitchen.
47	* OneNationUnderCopyright: Oligopolmart in ''VideoGame/MechWarrior 4''
48	* {{Pun}}: Taylor in their ''Legacy of Kain: Defiance'' ramble while discussing Kain's attack moves.
49	-->'''Rae:''' Oh my goodness. So that was the mighty power of the balance emblem. It made some guys fall down!\
50	'''Taylor:''' Rae, Rae... it made them ''lose their balance''.
51	* RedOniBlueOni: From hottest to coolest: Peyton, Rae, Taylor.
52	* SpinOff: Of ''WebVideo/MyLittlePonyTheMentallyAdvancedSeries''.
53	* TalkingIsAFreeAction: Parodied in their ''Soul Reaver: 2'' Let's Play, where Peyton (as Kain) is interrupted mid-monologue as [[spoiler:the pillars turn corrupt]].
54	-->'''Kain:''' Curses! Kain missed his cue!
55	* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Taylor reveals in Part 1 of ''Long Live the Queen'' how Peyton handles raccoons:
56	--> '''Taylor:''' That's like leaving a landmine to keep raccoons from getting into your trash. ''[{{Beat}}]'' Peyton.
57	--> '''Peyton:''' The raccoons are no match for my superior tools.
58	* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Wherever Peyton and/or her relatives in Monkey World came from, they speak English in a hybrid Russian/Latin American accent. [[VerbalTic Yes.]]
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Context LetsPlay / LetsRambleWithRae