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Giant Bomb Thread #4: A thread of perceived slights
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Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Heck, sometimes I would ditch the bread and just eat the meat. Wrapping it around some avocado or something.
terrdactycalsrock
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I really dislike having a bunch of stuff on my sandwiches. If Im fixing one at the house its just meat, cheese, and then I use potato chips as a condiment. If Im out somewhere else like Subway its meat, cheese, and some kind of dressing like honey mustard or sweet onion sauce
I support Jeff's lack of bullshit on a sandwich, however I would toast the bread and melt the cheese. Also I would put ketchup or steak sauce, or au jus or something if I thought it was too dry. I would be fine eating a dry sandwich though, through some jalapeno chips in that sandwich and I would call it a masterpiece.
DigitalRicket
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Actually just finished listening to an old episode of the podcast (might've been the last Arrow Pointing Down or one of the earliest Bombcast ones) but in it Jeff says he has no problem with Zombies, however, does have issues with Frankenstein and possibly the Wolfman.
His simple sandwich is a sight to be seen. You don't need condiments to make a sammy taste good: Condiments take ownership of the flavor, so you might as well just eat the condiment by itself.
I do like some mayo, but I wouldn't put mayo on that kind of meat.
However, if somebody is making the sammy for me (like Subway, for instance) I'll tell them to put everything they have in it.
Down here in Brazil, the only things I ask them not to put on a Sub are Onions and Rocket. The only sauce I use on the Sub is Mustard Sauce.
I do like some mayo, but I wouldn't put mayo on that kind of meat.
However, if somebody is making the sammy for me (like Subway, for instance) I'll tell them to put everything they have in it.
Down here in Brazil, the only things I ask them not to put on a Sub are Onions and Rocket. The only sauce I use on the Sub is Mustard Sauce.
hearsaybear
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Wut
RomanticHeroX
Member
Meat and cheese and bread is like what you would give to a prisoner. At least put some horseradish on there.
DigitalRicket
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What's up with Jeff's super simple taste in foods? He eats sandwiches without any extras, same with burgers and mostly pizza. He isn't a fan of most vegetables period, and sticks to the usual fast food joints like KFC and Taco Bell when convenient rather than cooking "real food".
It's just something I've noticed over time. My little brother is the exact same way with all his food, and would eat pepperoni pizza 4 out of 7 days if he could.
It's just something I've noticed over time. My little brother is the exact same way with all his food, and would eat pepperoni pizza 4 out of 7 days if he could.
I don't know how subway works in the US. Down here, we ask for a sub type (like a Meatball Sub, for instance. Or Teriyaki Chicken) and the lady making it asks if we want vegetables in it, for instance. Do we want Tomato, Cucumber and Onion? Do we want Lettuce, Rucula (Rugula? I don't know what you guys call it, I linked on the message earlier) and.. something else which I forget.
I tell them to put everything on it, except the Onions and the Rucula.
Ask him them.
I would eat Pepperoni Pizza everyday if I could.
I don't know how subway works in the US. Down here, we ask for a sub type (like a Meatball Sub, for instance. Or Teriyaki Chicken) and the lady making it asks if we want vegetables in it, for instance. Do we want Tomato, Cucumber and Onion? Do we want Lettuce, Rucula (Rugula? I don't know what you guys call it, I linked on the message earlier) and.. something else which I forget.
I tell them to put everything on it, except the Onions and the Rucula.
Ask him them.
I would eat Pepperoni Pizza everyday if I could.
Arugula? Still, I think some topping reservation is needed when making a sandwich. Everything works for something like a burger, but there's too much weird shit at Subway for that to work.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
I have a friend who is the same way, though I think in his case it's that he doesn't have a great sense of smell and thus has a pretty diminished sense of taste.
I don't put extra stuff in it (for instance, if I paid extra, I could put bacon, Kani and all kinds of shit. But that's extra). I mean everything as in everything that the lady asks me if I want.
I can go either way: lean sammyches or filled with condiment.
I'm eating pure bread right now, for god's sake.
DigitalRicket
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Interesting. I thought it might do with upbringing, as in parents didn't widen their children's palate's at a young enough age. I've simply noticed that Ryan always loves everything Jeff hates (with the exception of Yoshi's Island).
I don't put extra stuff in it (for instance, if I paid extra, I could put bacon, Kani and all kinds of shit. But that's extra). I mean everything as in everything that the lady asks me if I want.
I can go either way: lean sammyches or filled with condiment.
I'm eating pure bread right now, for god's sake.
Oh, here they'll ask you if you want anything in it and then you choose what you want. Usually the only thing that's preset is the meats.
I don't know how subway works in the US. Down here, we ask for a sub type (like a Meatball Sub, for instance. Or Teriyaki Chicken) and the lady making it asks if we want vegetables in it, for instance. Do we want Tomato, Cucumber and Onion? Do we want Lettuce, Rucula (Rugula? I don't know what you guys call it, I linked on the message earlier) and.. something else which I forget.
I tell them to put everything on it, except the Onions and the Rucula.
Ask him them.
I would eat Pepperoni Pizza everyday if I could.
Even if it wasn't so unhealthy I wouldn't eat pizza all the time otherwise my taste buds would get used to it and it becomes boring. Although the Dominos near me are pretty good at their job, great tasting pizza despite being a massive chain, the Supreme has bacon on it but it doesn't overpower the rest of the toppings. Subway is also good despite being a massive chain, Meatball and Teriyaki are my favourites. A pastry shop's here too but they're quite expensive.
That said, I hate vegetables with a passion, and only begrudgingly eat them because I need their healthiness.
terrdactycalsrock
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He and your brother probably has really sensitive taste buds. Well not sensitive, thats not the right way to put it. They just have more taste buds which makes them more sensitive to a large amount of taste.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
You know watching the YI bonbastica I can totally see why jeff would hate it. It seems to come from the same place of deliberate cutesiness as the wah wahs in nsmb.
SteveWinwood
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I'm glad Brad is starting to "get" dota.
He's in the poisonous part right now. Where you just start reading wikis to understand different systems.
Right after that though it gets way more fun because you know 90% of the stuff and then you're just playing with the exceptions (which there are too many of).
Just start randoming Brad and don't stop until you know every hero by heart and can rattle off way too much about them. Fastest way to learn.
Also looking at Brad Miur's matches, he plays all random a bunch. Best mode.
He's in the poisonous part right now. Where you just start reading wikis to understand different systems.
Right after that though it gets way more fun because you know 90% of the stuff and then you're just playing with the exceptions (which there are too many of).
Just start randoming Brad and don't stop until you know every hero by heart and can rattle off way too much about them. Fastest way to learn.
Also looking at Brad Miur's matches, he plays all random a bunch. Best mode.
I'm totally the same way.
mattiewheels
And then the LORD David Bowie saith to his Son, Jonny Depp: 'Go, and spread my image amongst the cosmos. For every living thing is in anguish and only the LIGHT shall give them reprieve.'
I can't eat a sandwich unless I panini press it, so I'm not the right guy to judge Jeff's sandwiches.
Oh god dammit my Panini press.
I've been in a low carb diet for the past year and I totally forgot I had a Panini Press.
God fucking dammit that thing is good.
Perhaps the aesthetics, but not the gameplay. NSMB didn't make up for its wah wahs with new and interesting gameplay mechanics.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Oh yeah, definitely, but a lot of his complaints and hate have been about the aesthetics.
Fried Food
Banned
I disagree, there is real skill and care on display in YI. The wah wahs are just some dude hitting a button while composing the sound track.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
I'm not arguing about the execution, more about the general saccharine cutesiness that both aesthetics share.
We knew that already brah
You can also hit the bubble with an egg to make it drop down lower.
Chance Hale
Member
I like to do that and put some tabasco or horseradish on the meat.
RaySpencer
Member
The website is fucked for me. None of the new videos show up in the 'latest' feed, the last one there is UPF, I can go to the front page and see the rest, but it doesnt update in their video tab...
...anyone else have this issue? Anyway for me to fix it? haha.
...anyone else have this issue? Anyway for me to fix it? haha.
Mushroomer25
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I proudly stand by Jeff in the condiment-free lifestyle. They're excessive, unnecessary, and just cover up the ingredients you wanted to enjoy in the first place.
That being said, I don't even enjoy cold-cut sandwiches in the first place, so maybe this isn't my fight.
That being said, I don't even enjoy cold-cut sandwiches in the first place, so maybe this isn't my fight.
RaySpencer
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Hmm, your right. The Iceland video is in Events too.
I want everything in the Latest tab though!! Stupid site!!!
DAAAVVVVVVVEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!
I don't really think it's the aesthetic that bothers him.
Not to speak for him, but when he says, "The game isn't a good platformer," I tend to agree with him. At least insofar as it's not the kind of platformer I enjoy.
I tend to like my platformers to be a simple left -> right linear affair. Maybe linear isn't the right word, since I like the early Sonic games, which have lots of different paths, but perhaps direct and quick is a better way to describe it.
Yoshi's Island is a more methodically-paced game, with paths that go kind of all over the place, and while there is a set quick critical path through each level, it's not laid out as deliberately as the path in something like SMW. The design of the game encourages the player to explore the space of the level, rather than providing a straightforward twitch challenge obstacle course.
There are genres in which I do enjoy spending time exploring a level, but doing so in platformers has just never done it for me.
I'm not saying that those design choices in YI are necessarily bad, but I can definitely stand by Jeff in saying that I don't find them personally enjoyable.
TheLegendOfMart
Banned
Engineers wear yellow shirts...
Heavy's Sandvich
Member
Jeff can't even feed himself and we're meant to trust him on games.
OK.
OK.
...that's the joke?
He's color blind so maybe he always saw the Star Trek engineers with green shirts.
Ace Harding
Member
I think Jeff would be the first to admit his taste in food never developed past the age of nine.
EmCeeGramr
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Jeff is right on food. Excessive condiments and ingredients just cover up the stuff you came to that specific foodstuff for in the first place.
It makes up for him being so incredibly wrong on games always and forever.
It makes up for him being so incredibly wrong on games always and forever.
jakonovski
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There's clear demand for an Encyclopedia Foodtastica.
He's colorblind you JERK!
Jeff really enjoyed the first NSMB game.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Eh, I was more specifically talking about the wah wahs, which he clearly has seething hatred for.
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