BreezyLimbo
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Oooh that ones season is pretty good. Ah to be ignorant of MGScanlon, I wish I could watch it again, all in one go. It definitely gets pretty good up to MGS4!
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Giant Bomb 18: Everything is always a surprise on some level
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Oooh that ones season is pretty good. Ah to be ignorant of MGScanlon, I wish I could watch it again, all in one go. It definitely gets pretty good up to MGS4!
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Man it is so hard for me to keep track of who's voice is who's during podcasts this big. For some reason I often mixup Vinny, Alex, and Austin's voices, even though they're totally distinct
My girlfriend says she can understand how I can keep up because she thinks they all sound the same.
Twin Tails
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That was funny
Mister Negative
Member
I had this problem with my brother my brother and me when I first started listening to it. Absolutely could not tell the difference between justin and travis, despite having listened to justin for years on the joystiq podcast.
Pretty distinctive for me; though I've been listening for a while. If this was somebodies first bombcast then jesus.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
Mhm, when Austin first joined I got confused between him and Jeff Bakalar.
OkayRene
Member
Story time…
I noticed a year ago, that Giant Bomb had slowed down the Bombcast intro music. 'They must be getting the itch to change things up over there,' I thought to myself and went on about my business. No big deal.
Fast forward a year later to tonight, I'm in the process of trying out the Bombcast in a new podcast app when I noticed something was off.
The intro song was now sped up again except now everyone is talking super fast. And with the 8-person ensemble cast, my brain was having trouble keeping up.
I pause the app convinced its broken. Return to my old podcast app when I make a very unfortunate discovery.
It turns out I must've accidentally set my Podcast app set to 0.75x speed for the last year.
Using some rough math, that means it takes me 4 hours to listen to a 3 hour Bombcast. Assuming an average of a 3 hour weekly podcast. It means I've been losing 1 hour each week, for the last year. That's about 2 days. On just the Bombcast! Things get even more depressing when you factor in the other 2-3 podcasts I listen to.
The part I can't reconcile is how I noticed the slow intro song, but not the slower speaking voices. And even further, why watching things like UPF never felt off.
I'm in a total state of shock over here now realizing I've been living my life at the wrong speed for the last year.
I noticed a year ago, that Giant Bomb had slowed down the Bombcast intro music. 'They must be getting the itch to change things up over there,' I thought to myself and went on about my business. No big deal.
Fast forward a year later to tonight, I'm in the process of trying out the Bombcast in a new podcast app when I noticed something was off.
The intro song was now sped up again except now everyone is talking super fast. And with the 8-person ensemble cast, my brain was having trouble keeping up.
I pause the app convinced its broken. Return to my old podcast app when I make a very unfortunate discovery.
It turns out I must've accidentally set my Podcast app set to 0.75x speed for the last year.
Using some rough math, that means it takes me 4 hours to listen to a 3 hour Bombcast. Assuming an average of a 3 hour weekly podcast. It means I've been losing 1 hour each week, for the last year. That's about 2 days. On just the Bombcast! Things get even more depressing when you factor in the other 2-3 podcasts I listen to.
The part I can't reconcile is how I noticed the slow intro song, but not the slower speaking voices. And even further, why watching things like UPF never felt off.
I'm in a total state of shock over here now realizing I've been living my life at the wrong speed for the last year.
Mister Negative
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Unless you sit in a dark room do nothing else while listening to the bombcast, I'd call that a plus. You got even more weekly entertainment!
N
Noray
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Gauss Rifle > Railway Rifle imo
stump sock
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hmm. +1
Mister Negative
Member
Spray and Pray is the best weapon in fallout 4. Submachine gun with exploding bullets. you literally just hipfire in the general area of a few raiders and hear them scream and watch them blow into pieces. rejuvenated my love for that game.
Piston Hyundai
Member
It is very very satisfying, yes. And I had an inventory full of fully upgraded guns of every ammo type.
I liked the exploding bullets minigun I had for the same reason. It was for when I was sick of strafing around or hiding behind things.
If I really wanted to fuck shit up, I'd bust out my "wounding" fat man indoors and destroy everyone, including myself.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
Only the best fallout games have the Railway rifle
EmCeeGramr
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fuuuuuuuuuuck :O
stump sock
Member
that would pretty much validate FO4's existence in and of itself
also I kind of feel like god doesn't like us enough for this to happen
Oh man
Liquid Shake
Member
Holy shit. Teasing that if it is not true seems like a bad idea so therefore it must be true?
cr_blah_blah
Member
It'd probably be better than Destiny.
Lightning Returns was awesome.
I say this as someone who never finished FFXIII and never even took a glance at FFXIII-2. I just ignored the main story and goofed around in this weird Dead Rising JRPG with neato combat.
The game ran like poop, though. I'm looking forward to seeing it at 60 FPS on PC.
Mister Negative
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field notes notebooks are a perfectly normal thing to instagram a picture of
the rest of his insta seems super normal
sorry guys i dont think itll happen
TheMrPliskin
Member
I can't believe.
I listen to most of my podcasts at 1.3x speed which obviously makes people speak noticeably faster, but not inhumanly so. I'm mostly unaware that I'm even listening at a faster speed. So I can see how you might not have noticed listening at a roughly similar % change in the other direction.
But I have to listen to the Bombcast at normal speed because I found that when I changed the speed, I wasn't really laughing at much of anything anymore. My guess is that it altered their comedic timing and delivery too much for it to be effective on me. Curious if listening at a slower speed affected your experience in a similar way.
Regginator
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stump sock
Member
This is cruel.
ShadowSwordmaster
Banned
Damn.
BUNTING1243
Banned
I have never wanted to believe something more
Baron_Calamity
Member
Don't think its fallout. Let me show you what optimistically Louisiana will look like after a nuclear war:
Piston Hyundai
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CambriaRising
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What's up with all the weird cuts in the Kerbal video?
santeesioux
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Going from Boston accents to Louisiana accents would be interesting.
Oh lordie lord.
Given the timing of this, I wouldn't quite be surprised if this was Fallout 4 DLC.
Though I'd love a whole new thing.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
Guys what if
Bethesda released FO4 to get the engine ready for Obsidian
You see, Bethesda is Venom Snake, and they know that Obsidian is Big Boss..
Louisiana has already survived Bobby Jindal, I doubt nuclear apocalypse would even phase them.
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