Aydin Paladin

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**Aydin Paladin**, or Aydin for short, is recurring guest on EFAP who first appeared on EFAP 54. She is known for being a fabled Longwoman in her videos as well as being the first of many women to fall asleep during an EFAP. She often contributes psychological fun facts and bonds with MauLer over a shared love of *Buffy the Vampire Slayer*.

## History

### Long Introductions

> “Aydin constantly reads psychology studies and EFAP's what put her to sleep” - Red Holster
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MauLer caught Aydin's analysis of Quinton's video on Contrapoints in his recommended, and invited her on to EFAP 54 to take a look at Quinton's video asking if *The Last Jedi* was really as bad as people said it was with Rags and Jay, unaware of the fact that Aydin and Rags had actually already known each other for a year prior, and played a Pathfinder campaign together. After some small talk about how YouTube has begun editing people's thumbnails without the creators being able to see the changes, MauLer asked Aydin The *Star Wars* Question, to which Aydin answered that she thought the Evil Rey seen in the trailers was bullshit.

The first topic of the night was the responses to Nostalgia Critic's *The Wall* review, to which Aydin commented that it was cringe but only *as* cringe as every other Nostalgia Critic video. Rags agreed that the review was cringe but felt that people were using the fact that it was cringe to write it off entirely rather than explain why it was cringe, which Aydin explained as a result of group psychology since people only have so much brainpower to dedicate to their lives, and so if something is universally deemed cringe it is easier to simply write it off as cringe rather than go into deep thought as to why. Fennah, who animated a segment of the review, joined the call to give some insight into its creation. After Fennah's departure and a look at some memes, MauLer asked Aydin if she was familiar with Bigideas, which she of course was, as he was one of the greats, even if he was more involved in philosophy than psychology. She was similarly familiar with the works of Freudian. Aydin then bore witness to MauLer and Rags' dramatic reading of an uncovered conversation between Freudian and Bigideas on the Trap Question.

With several people in the chat pressing Q for Quinton, it became time to finally watch Quinton's video. Aydin mentioned that she initially started watching Quinton when she stopped watching *Doctor Who*, because his *Doctor Who* reviews were good - Jay concurred. They also discussed the timeline of events surrounding Quinton's unlisting of his Contrapoints video. Quinton's *Last Jedi* video began with him stating that criticisms people had about the story, characters, and its connection to other films were just fan stuff, and outside of that it's not actually bad, and he can't see why anyone would think it is. It was brought up that Quinton had expressed that Palpatine being brought back for Episode IX weakens the ending of *Return of the Jedi*, even though that's just fan stuff. Aydin went on to elaborate that people who hate something are usually the ones who initially loved it the most, as they were the ones who were invested enough to care about it in the first place, and somebody who didn't care about it wouldn't be upset at it. She mentioned how she loved the *Game of Thrones* books and as a result hated what the show did to them, and so was cathartic when Season 8 was bad because it meant people got to share in her suffering, to which Rags responded “That's kinda fucked up but alright.” Aydin likened Quinton claiming that people didn't care about things in the movies that many people did, indeed, care about to innoculation. Quinton praised the film for casting an Asian actor in a lead role, then mentioned how he knew bringing it up as something exceptional defeats the point, prompting the question of why he even brought it up. Aydin brought up that there was some truth to the idea that seeing a group in a piece of media can lead to positive perceptions in that group, as seen when people who were shown episodes of *Will and Grace* expressed more positive attitudes towards gay people, but to treat it as some grand accomplishment is condescending and racist in its own way.

Also discussed on the stream was the time Quinton said the *Star Wars* sequels are only sequels if you interpret them as such, which caused her brain to shut down. Aydin also brought up Quinton blocking her for mocking his Contrapoints video, leading to talk of Quinton trying to be a Breadtuber and then of him having previously tried to be a skeptic tuber, and what exactly a skeptic even is (and if Rags or Aydin even count). Also discussed were Aydin's hatred of the JJ Abrams *Star Trek* movies, the Absorbaloff episode of Doctor Who, and most importantly MauLer and Aydin's shared love of *Buffy the Vampire Slayer*. During a meme break where the gang looked at Batman-Shrek-Sonic pregnancy fanart and discussed Loompaland Lore, Aydin fell asleep on stream, thus making this EFAP the first ever ENAP. Aydin awoke to find the stream had been going on for 9 hours, and then discussed discrimination against the Welsh, leading to MauLer praising the objective coolness of the Welsh flag and its triumph over the English, leading to Aydin witnessing MauLer's bafflement at discovery of the Isle of Man flag. After over four minutes of laughing at the Isle of Man flag, Aydin participated in a debate about parenthesis, then MauLer had to end the stream and start a new one to cover superchats because they were at risk of hitting the time cap for streaming.

#### EFAP 55

Fresh off the heels of EFAP 54, Aydin rejoined MauLer, Rags, and Jay for EFAP 55, the superchat stream. MauLer and Aydin talked about the potential *Buffy* reboot, of which the only known fact is they intend to make Buffy black. MauLer brought up how even Anita Sarkeesian said that making her black in a reboot is dumb because there are already black Slayers in the Buffy universe and they could be given their own stories. MauLer and Aydin both further agreed that having a male Slayer would be a no-go for them as well because in Buffy only women can be Slayers.

Aydin once again fell asleep on stream, and the sound of her sleeping served as background noise as the gang looked at memes. Jay left, prompting the comment that Aydin outlived, or rather outslept, Jay. She awoke once again and was immediately asked her thoughts on adoption and whether people who drink egirl bathwater deserve to get herpes, the latter to which she answered that they do deserve it, but not in a moral sense, just in the sense that it follows logically. it was agreed upon that Me High Cheek Sent Me High and Bigideas would be better equipped to handle the question. Aydin also told the story of how MundaneMatt tried to pal around with her a year prior, before he and Jeff Holiday tried to get her labeled a Holocaust denier and deplatformed. After 7 hours of superchat catchup, and 18 hours of streaming total, the adventure finally came to an end, with Aydin playing them off on ukulele. So much time had passed since the start of the stream that Aydin had to correct herself saying she was moving to the UK in 4 days to 3 days.

## Trivia

* Aydin once had a guest lecturer in Tolkien Studies, who had a scroll (EFAP 54)
* Aydin speaks Vulcan
* Aydin emailed the guy who did the study saying the dislike of The Last Jedi was fueled by racists and got no response, then the study went down (EFAP 54)
* Aydin considers *Spider-Man Homecoming* to be a great Blue Beetle movie (EFAP 54)
* Aydin says she was a professor (EFAP 54)
* Rags disapproves of Aydin's dog-eating, as shown by his sign that says so (EFAPs 54 & 55)
* A person deserves leprosy if they work with patients that are lepers. not because it would be morally just, but because you statistically you get leprosy when working with lepers.
* She is a smoker and eats weed
* She likes *Buffy*
* Aydin plays ukulele and speaks japanese
* Don't ask her questions if you don't want a serious answer with statistics
* Aydin was not a speaker at MethCon (EFAP 55)

## Quotes

* “The people who actually ate the Tide Pods were... troglodytes okay” - EFAP 54
* “Damn, EFAP has a guest that speaks woman?” - chat member, EFAP 54
* “Yeah he's unstable, he needs help” - on Dan Harmon, EFAP 54
* “Aydin what're your thoughts on adoption?”
“... good?” - MauLer and Aydin, EFAP 55
* “If you drink someone's bath water, do you deserve to get herpes?”
”Ugh, yes.” - Rags and Aydin, EFAP 55
* “*Burnt sausage*” - EFAP 55
* “Where are my space lesbians?” - EFAP 55