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Giant Bomb #8 | It's a Hit!
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Haunted
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Yup. Shaving without gel is totally fine except if you have really sensitive skin.
Zabant
Member
That's not really fair
It's just Jeff and Dan, two of the most Ethnocentric people I know.
Especially Dan, that dude thought bingo was a thing in all bars because the 3 he always visited (which happened to be on the same street as a retirement home) all had it.
Shit, at one point in the video Dan implied Danny was British.
as i stated on the last page. It really is a thing in a lot of minneapolis bars.
Most bars have some form of light gambling you can partake in. Pull tabs, spinning wheels, bingo.
It is everywhere in that city.
Consequence
Member
This is definitely a weekend style post but is the heel of Dan's hand kind of freaking anyone else out?
cuevas. PhD.
Member
those hands were forged in the fields of mario party. The saggy hands of a man who has wiggled too many sticks in his day
This is the most erotic gif to come out of Giant Bomb yet!
Also a brilliant reaction gif, those faces! He's like "what? Huh... Okaaaay!"
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Aww the hand is smiling!
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
It's like he's confused about the process at first, but as it goes on he starts to learn how to enjoy it.
Ventilaator
Banned
Just watched the Mario Party video.
I thought Monopoly was the most depressing pile of completely luck based, utterly unfun bullcrap that some people claim is fun somehow, but holy shit does Mario Party just completely outshine it. Nothing you do at any point matters at all, because the game will at random points just decide to fuck you over. The minigames just seem to be a measure for wearing down your will to live even more, having you spend a bunch of time for a couple of coins that can easily be taken from you at any time, or no reward at all, as was the case with bumper balls.
How this basically-a-torture-machine is allowed to exist as a funtime party game is beyond me.
Eagerly awaiting part 2, 100% because of schadenfreude.
I thought Monopoly was the most depressing pile of completely luck based, utterly unfun bullcrap that some people claim is fun somehow, but holy shit does Mario Party just completely outshine it. Nothing you do at any point matters at all, because the game will at random points just decide to fuck you over. The minigames just seem to be a measure for wearing down your will to live even more, having you spend a bunch of time for a couple of coins that can easily be taken from you at any time, or no reward at all, as was the case with bumper balls.
How this basically-a-torture-machine is allowed to exist as a funtime party game is beyond me.
Eagerly awaiting part 2, 100% because of schadenfreude.
ThreePiMatt
Member
Oh God I just got to the shoebox story. Dan Ryckert is a national treasure.
TheBaronOfNA
Banned
You guys forget that:
1) he said didn't use water
2) it actually hurt him.
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The shoebox in the microwave sounded more like some collage student being stupid and cheap that full crazy.
ThreePiMatt
Member
The closest I got to Dan's shoebox story was that in college I would use the lid of plastic Tupperware bowls as plates.
Frankly hearing his stories it makes me wonder how he made it this far without losing a limb
Yup I play bingo every Wednesday night at my local establishment. The bars dan talked about are in an area with a pretty active night life regardless of the retirement home. They're right outside of downtown.
In regards to Mario party, I always felt people were too quick to criticize the random luck shit as if it weren't all about the "game show" meta play of random luck, screwing people over, and the rest of the game being made pointless by the final round. It's never been about being the best at mini games.
Incandenza
Banned
It's like his hand has a hernia.
I'm a wizard and my feeling of weight on this celestial body feels fucked up.
stump sock
Member
My guess is just that if they're having 5 locations with 5 different relative gravities, that would have meant more development effort than knowing what a certain set of variables will do.
Like maybe they'll have tuned the speeder bike to work properly on earth but then if you move down the gravity slider, the trajectories could behave in unpredictable ways.
When you have a team that spends thousands of hours running into walls and stuff making sure that you can't just break the game with glitches, you're increasing the testing time dramatically by altering major variables like jump height and fall speed.
er, I mean, gravity boots. obviously.
ShockingAlberto
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The Mario Party video is great because there's no better encapsulation of Giant Bomb than everyone laughing while Jeff sits apart from them looking mad.
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
That Mario Party video was just amazing. Dan is the best.
bigwinnerx
Member
Realizing I did college living all wrong as at least 50% of the fights I had with my roommates revolved around loading/unloading the dishwasher. Paper plates, we'd have been golden.
Jimmyfenix
Member
Fuck Dragons - Greg "Geoff" Gerstmann
bemusedchunk
Banned
Giantbomb needs more mario party - and more of jeffs reactions.
I've resubbed to wow! Looking for like minded duders to chain run dungeons whilst leveling, or doing old raids for achievements (two away from glory of ulduar!).
Add me - and we can be internet friends. On the internet!
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I've resubbed to wow! Looking for like minded duders to chain run dungeons whilst leveling, or doing old raids for achievements (two away from glory of ulduar!).
Add me - and we can be internet friends. On the internet!
Battletag: bemusedchunk#1555
SuperSonic1305
Member
I played the minigame island recently and couldn't get past the tug of war game. Fuck those stick spinning games.
TharpDaddy
Member
That's so good. You can feel the anticipation, and Drew's little smirk knowing he's about to change everything.
Jimmyfenix
Member
That Scott Hall Story man 
Sure. I was only joking. Plus I am almost certain Jeff knows how to pronounce it but likes to troll a little.
stump sock
Member
See the Don Bradman QL for proof.
Jimmyfenix
Member
rudds said LOL
So true. It's still really not a good quality to have.
Dan was my favorite over at GI, awesome to have him at GB now. The best thing is the contrast between him and Jeff.
TheLegendOfMart
Banned
Wish they didn't hate the game so much, would have been cool to have them play the sequels every few weeks or something, really enjoyed it.
Zero-Crescent
Member
Brad's scream of torment really makes the moment. Now add an echo and repeat it with a shot from space.
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