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Giant Bomb 18: Everything is always a surprise on some level
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Keyser Soze
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soundscream
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Its not east vs west, it's wherever Vinny is. S rank Giant Bomb duder.
RepairmanJack
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I know everyone is on a GBEAST lovefest, but sometimes I just find myself not caring at all about the conversations they have on the podcast. I'm all for the improv and the random tangents but a lot of time when they get in depth on some of the industry stuff I just sort of zone out because I mostly find it boring. The talk this past week about the DOA stuff is a prime example. They just seem to go so deep in some of the most uninteresting things sometimes. Or maybe its just the way they talk about that stuff that makes me toon out. I still love the podcast but when they get more in depth in discussion I find my self zoning out way more than not.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Hey now, I'm not about discussion-shaming anyone.
TheMrPliskin
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Huh, that in depth discussion is why I enjoy the Beastcast so much, the DOA discussion from last week was great and the youtube copyright stuff from two weeks ago was fantastic as well.
stump sock
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this can only end well.
e: oh man he wants to do a return trip too. well this oughta take a while
Keyser Soze
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Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
The only thing I don't like is when Vinny gets super loose. Like, I love it most of the time, but sometimes they draw it out too long like with the xenocross stuff.
It is going to be a 100 part series unless he changes those goals.
RepairmanJack
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Its all good to have it in there because I definitely don't think we get the same type of discussion from the West. To me it just seems like it really goes nowhere. It ends up just coming down to the point of everything is complicated. That youtube stuff is I think a great example of more discussion coming out of what could possibly be rather than the story itself. It just seems so meandering. "This could be good, but I can also see the way it could be bad...its complicated."
I'm not begrudging the discussion or anything, I just don't think its for me. Seems more like Austin thinking out loud about news stories with Vinny asking questions to gain more detail.
stump sock
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the leap in difficulty between building a ship that can land you safely on Mun or another planet and making one that can get you back home is HUGE.
and boy even based on the first 10 minutes I don't think he understands the task he's undertaken. his orbit game is solid. beyond that...
this is going to be quite a journey
e: oh good, I was worried he wasn't going to put any RCS on it. needs some stabilizers and SAS though...
e2: oh no he put the RCS on the tanks he's going to stage during ascent. sigh...
and boy even based on the first 10 minutes I don't think he understands the task he's undertaken. his orbit game is solid. beyond that...
this is going to be quite a journey
e: oh good, I was worried he wasn't going to put any RCS on it. needs some stabilizers and SAS though...
e2: oh no he put the RCS on the tanks he's going to stage during ascent. sigh...
I also prefer the west coast podcast (westcast?).
I mainly listen to the Beastcast because of Vinny and i'm pretty sure I wouldn't bother with it if he wasn't there. There are still some good moments there, of course, but I don't really know why, it just doesn't click as much with me.
I mainly listen to the Beastcast because of Vinny and i'm pretty sure I wouldn't bother with it if he wasn't there. There are still some good moments there, of course, but I don't really know why, it just doesn't click as much with me.
I noticed one at about 8 minutes.
that's life bro, it's all complicated, and for some peeps it's worth teasing out that complexity. and for other people it's not! and that's cool
TheMrPliskin
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I think the idea is supposed to be that it's basically just them thinking out loud about the news stories. Rather than just read the piece of paper and only focus the discussion on what's on the paper they instead break it down and look at the good and the bad as well as what the news could lead to. It's also true that sometimes the issues they discuss are complicated, just recently they've discussed "censorship", unions and copyright all of which are issues that you can't completely cover in a 15 minute discussion.
It's not for everyone but I really enjoy it.
stump sock
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yeah seems to be intentional. probably for the best. there's a lot of fucking waiting in this game.
also lol, that first launch went both better and worse than I thought it would
RepairmanJack
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Yeah, I completely agree with both of you. I'm not saying I wished they stopped or did it a different way, its just not for me. Its not even that I don't like it, I just lose track and completely zone out and miss most of it.
I was just giving an apposing side to the East vs West beef that will eventually tear GB apart.
Incandenza
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We live in a brave new world of edited Giant Bomb content. I can't wait for the next Jar Time with jump cuts every other sentence.
I'm just foolin
Keyser Soze
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stump sock
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also he's launching into the wrong plane for a Mun landing lol. he's going to burn a lot of fuel trying to correct that.
Just googled what's involved for getting to mun and back...
Bless you Vinny, always the eternal optimist
Bless you Vinny, always the eternal optimist
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stump sock
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let me put it this way, I've played like 200 hours of the game over 4 years or whatever, generally know what I'm doing, but return trips from even Mun are still a hell of a challenge for me.
but failures are usually more fun than successes in this game so I'm loving this
TheMrPliskin
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So how long is the Kerbal Video?
It's definitely not going to be for everyone but it's great that each podcast is different enough to warrant this discussion.
The problem imo is that they sometimes just argue for the sake of arguing and not as much because the topic is interesting to anyone. Now of course there will always be some of that in any podcast, but it just becomes to abstract sometimes because of that. The youtube conversation two weeks back was completely unnecessary and empty.
Askherserenity
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How do people even make it to the other planets!?
Only Space Engineers can play this game.
Felix Lighter
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I've watched a lot of Scott Manley. The people that know what they are doing make it seem so easy. Also, Vinny has to use the term Delta-V a lot more if he's going to get to the Mun and back.
stump sock
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most of the time the hardest part is just getting into orbit with enough fuel to do the maneuvers. after that the rest is pretty straightforward. comparatively. but the heavier your payload (i.e., a lander which can then take off again) the harder it is to break orbit.
anyway, Vinny got a lot further than I thought he would this episode. those super big solid fuel boosters weren't in the game when I was heavily into it, and those seem like a big help. thankfully he already knew about asparagus staging, without that, it would be a million part video.
stump sock
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it would have been like a 3 hour video. I'm telling you, the waiting in this game is brutal.
I'm all for some edits, they have too much filler in many videos. Sue me!
No stream, Jeff will be there.
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No stream, Jeff will be there.
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