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Giant Bomb #19 | Patrick Wins 2-1
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TheMrPliskin
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Well great, now I want to watch the Raid.
Looks like the LiS diner. Is it filled with underdeveloped characters too?
Witcher fans just got salty that they were only discussing certain parts of the game.
skLaFarebear
Member
Team Ryckerteers got this
Make sure you watch the Mario 64 speedrun race in an hour, instead of Klipklok and the Taco Bell General.
http://www.twitch.tv/gamesdonequick
http://www.twitch.tv/gamesdonequick
soundscream
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I have never had the balls to go in there. It looks like its always filled with salty truckers. What you can't see is the oddity of its location. On the left and right side is a highway, its basically an oasis of tarmac with nothing in front or behind it.
Maiden Voyage
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This is nerve racking.
Ha, I live 2 miles away from the diner Dans girlfriend was talking about. It is a strange looking place.
Looks like a diner I just went to in Mafia 2.
giant_frying_pan
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Austin was awesome, but I think Alex was MVP. He offered the most genuinely insightful, consistent arguments throughout. I think he elevated more of his choices more than anyone else...?
Either that or I'm still HPZD from ASMR by AXNR.
Mister Negative
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I can't believe I used to hate alex. He's great.
DOBERMAN INC
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I hope Dan won't actually have Patrick pay if he wins, It's a high price for a fun rivalry.
Twin Tails
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Premium Video
Jeff edition of build club.
Jeff edition of build club.
Alex has improved as a personality so much over the last year. I never disliked him by any means but you can really see that he's more comfortable (or at least is better at faking that he's comfortable) now. GB East has been really cool because we've had a chance to see those three grow into a unit with amazing chemistry.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
Stream that bad?
This entire sentence is gross. Congrats.
The Dear Leader
Banned
2000 people are watching Dan watching Patrick play a Mario level.
video games are dead, this is our dark dystopian future.
Sleeping Lesson
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This might actually come down to it. The pressure is going to be on once we pass that hour mark.
tryagainlater
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Alex is kinda becoming my favourite duder.
I thought the numbers would be bigger.
petethepanda
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I love that some people must be coming across this on periscope and thinking "why the fuck does this have 2k viewers"
Spirit of Jazz
Banned
I eagerly await the day that Giant Bomb becomes a 24/7 stream of Jeff playing Sakura Clicker.
Don't see why he would. These streams are by far his most popular content, same with the archives on YT. There's a reason why he's playing everything made by Jeff and Dan.
petethepanda
Member
I hate that I would watch this.
avengers23
Banned
I am glad to see Team AXNR grow like they're numbers.
Death Metalist
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2000 people are watching Dan watching Patrick play a Mario level.
Shit is like Rocky man, you can't hate it.
I would watch Jeff stare into a camera silently for hours. He's just that entertaining to me.
People who are randomly browsing periscope have probably seen far darker things.
Death Metalist
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I agree that Alex has grown a lot as a personality since Vinny moved east and Austin has been added but he is still probably the quickest to rub me the wrong way. His tendency to dominate conversations he knows little about was really frustrating during the end of the year podcasts.
So you're saying this is a Fallout 4 situation?
MassiveNights
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"Hey babe, it's saying all of the files need to be under 10mb and this says they are all over" is the new "Donkey Kong kill screen coming up"
I really enjoyed the Fallout 4 discussion in "most disappointing". Jeff bringing his trademark articulate rants, with Brad and Austin trying to defend it. Some good points were made on both sides but I think Jeff and the others on that side were right that Brad and Austin are letting Bethesda off the hook too easily.
What was discussed about Undertale? Were people expecting it to do better? (Maybe if Austin hadn't used his prepared speech for Invisible Inc.
Personally I was surprised Bloodborne didn't get anything, and especially surprised it didn't make it into the top 10 best games. I'm not gonna be salty about it, because it's a stupid thing to get upset about, but I feel it suffered a bit due to Souls fatigue (which is fair enough, I guess) in conjunction with being released so early in the year (which is a bit more lamentable). Hearing Austin dismiss it as a "pretty good" game was still a little shocking to me, especially when his main complaints were insufficient environmental variety (which I think isn't entirely unfair, but a bit exaggerated) and healing item design (come on dude -- that's a pretty damn minor complaint!
.About Jeff as a salt mine.. I must say I did find his approach and tone as they were getting closer to the top of the "Best game" list kind of disappointing. His loud and sarcastic reaction to one of the guys (I can't remember if it was Jason or Brad, or both?) wanting to place Rocket League over Mario Maker I just found.. kinda rude and obnoxious, especially when it's coming from Jeff who is so clearly the most senior, with "Top Dog" status. I got the impression that he was making it pretty clear that Mario Maker was going to be GOTY regardless of if he and Dan would be the only one placing it there, and regardless of whatever argument anyone was going to make against it or in favour of any other game. Which resulted in no one else really being bothered to try to make an impassioned argument for something else.
To be clear, I'm not saying SMM shouldn't be their GOTY. Without having played either of Mario Maker and MGS5, my impression is that Mario Maker is more worthy in general and especially as GB's GOTY. What I'm saying is just that the process of arriving at Mario Maker as #1 was kinda disappointing, especially with regards to Jeff's way of arguing it onto that spot. Maybe I'm being unfair, but it felt a bit like a one man show at that point.
Like playing half a chapter of an open world game? Nah, this is worth it.
skLaFarebear
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I really enjoyed the Fallout 4 discussion in "most disappointing". Jeff bringing his trademark articulate rants, with Brad and Austin trying to defend it. Some good points were made on both sides but I think Jeff and the others on that side were right that Brad and Austin are letting Bethesda off the hook too easily.
What was discussed about Undertale? Were people expecting it to do better? (Maybe if Austin hadn't used his prepared speech for Invisible Inc.
Kinda. People were mad Undertale kept getting bopped from everything it was nominated for while others didn't like it, and it really escalated from there at points.
So many listicles lost in the Mario Maker blackhole.
Death Metalist
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I've always enjoyed Alex, ever since the Gamespot days. Love the dude and I'm glad he has the chance now to get more out there now. His Robocop review, reviewing very bad games and Big Rigs are a classic.
MassiveNights
Banned
God damn it Patrick, you're breaking my heart
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
I've always liked Alex, I just felt that he needs people to bounce off. Scoops and the wolf was pretty great.
2000 people are watching Dan watching Patrick play a Mario level.
Dan is losing out on all that streaming revenue by using Periscope.
Twin Tails
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Dan on Periscope = more followers on Twitter = more people to sell bad shirts to.
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