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[Fantastapotamus]

I'm having too much fun playing as Lucio in Overwatch.

The Pokémon from Smash is in Overwatch?

 

[Liquid Shake]

Man some of these questions for Jeff on the KF forums. Hopefully they pick good ones and don't waste having Jeff on their podcast.

You know when that goes up? Do they record this week, then upload next week?

 

[mintyice]

I just had a pizza delivered by Amazon Prime Now and the poor delivery girl dropped my pepperoni rolls on the concrete right in front of me.

Youtubers Life

 

[elfinke]

https://youtu.be/aEKYXcwck34?t=5141

Holy (loly?) shit! I really ought to finish that game.

 

[Spirit of Jazz]

Guys.

Should I get a mic for overwatch pub games?

Last night I said "We need to defend the objective guys" over my mic and we ended up winning the game so I figure it's 100% necessary.

 

[kvk1]

Holy (loly?) shit! I really ought to finish that game.

it's good man

it's good

 

[TurboButts]

The Pokémon from Smash is in Overwatch?

Yeah. He's a techno DJ now too.

 

[Salarians]

to all of you...

american girls...

 

[SomberOwl]

You know when that goes up? Do they record this week, then upload next week?

I think they recorded it sometime this week. Not sure when it goes up. I know they release their pocasts a week early for their Patreon subscribers then break it up in segments on YouTube each day the following week with the whole thing posted for everyone on Friday. So Probably next Friday if your not a Patreon backer.

 

[Data West]

The first thing I did on Overwatch was turn off all the mic stuff

 

[Myggen]

I think they recorded it sometime this week. Not sure when it goes up. I know they release their pocasts a week early for their Patreon subscribers then break it up in segments on YouTube each day the following week with the whole thing posted for everyone on Friday. So Probably next Friday if your not a Patreon backer.

This is correct.

 

[Sleeping Lesson]

Youtubers Life

My reaction video is uploading now.

Spoiler

No.

 

[kvk1]

The first thing I did on Overwatch was turn off all the mic stuff

Why?

 

[Twin Tails]

Are we all buying YouTubers Life?

 

[Piston Hyundai]

contrary to what this week's bombcast thread says, there will probably be more bombcasts

should've been "this week's bombcast thread has more style than substance"

 

[yami4ct]

Why?

As someone who doesn't group up, random people are always shitheads. I think I can count on one hand how many random matches I've played with voice chat that weren't actively made worse by it. Muting all is the first thing I do when I get a MP game.

 

[kvk1]

As someone who doesn't group up, random people are always shitheads. I think I can count on one hand how many random matches I've played with voice chat that weren't actively made worse by it. Muting all is the first thing I do when I get a MP game.

I totally get solo-queue can be hit or miss, but you can always individually mute the dickbags.

Hard muting everybody is robbing you of some really cool moments of cooperation with like-minded players, or just something as simple as a teammate hollering "watch out, X is around the corner" or something.

 

[Data West]

I don't need to hear 'Someone needs to play a healer and by someone I don't mean me' in audio form.

 

[Strax]

After the Drew sub story I'm gonna rewatch Down Periscope

 

[yami4ct]

I totally get solo-queue can be hit or miss, but you can always individually mute the dickbags.

Hard muting everybody is robbing you of some really cool moments of cooperation with like-minded players, or just something as simple as a teammate hollering "watch out, X is around the corner" or something.

Like I've said, every game I've played with the mic on has at least 1 if not more of those dickheads.

I'm way happier since muting everyone. People suck.

 

[Phediuk]

So I just watched the Mario Party 6 highlights.

Why the fuck do these games not remove minigames you've already played from the roulette? Like they actually let minigames repeat within a single session? wtf?

 

[Hindenblewp]

So I just watched the Mario Party 6 highlights.

Why the fuck do these games not remove minigames you've already played from the roulette? Like they actually let minigames repeat within a single session? wtf?

Because why would you rob someone's chance of getting to play the game where you win if you press a button no one else did more than once?

 

[Twin Tails]

eSports Jeff is great.

 

[Jintor]

In my time playing TF2 I never really had a problem with open mics, but I stuck pretty much only to aussie pub servers and I was a college-age dude so I was pretty much square in the middle of 'generic game playing person' and thus attracted zero attention (good or bad)

 

[Data West]

Also if mic was on I couldn't stop myself from saying 'Guys I know we can't get the point at all and we could really use someone to push it, but you should keep playing Widowmaker because that's REALLY helping out right now'

 

[skLaFarebear]

So I just watched the Mario Party 6 highlights.

Why the fuck do these games not remove minigames you've already played from the roulette? Like they actually let minigames repeat within a single session? wtf?

Smart game design? Get that garbage out of my parties.

 

[Salarians]

The Pokémon from Smash is in Overwatch?

You're thinking of Loosorryoh.

 

[mintyice]

Also if mic was on I couldn't stop myself from saying 'Guys I know we can't get the point at all and we could really use someone to push it, but you should keep playing Widowmaker because that's REALLY helping out right now'

I just type in chat when I die and tell people to push.

 

[Twin Tails]

I think Jeff said there is a POWERBOMBCAST this week. It was quick though.

 

[ShadowSwordmaster]

I think Jeff said there is a POWERBOMBCAST this week. It was quick though.

I will look out for it when I listen to it.

 

[Antiwhippy]

Who the fuck has all these time to make a ritual out of clipping nails?

Just bite them off and spit them out like the animal you are.

 

[Megasoum]

Just finished my first game as Mei... She's really fun!

 

[Strax]

I think Jeff said there is a POWERBOMBCAST this week. It was quick though.

 

[Glitchesarecool]

Who the fuck has all these time to make a ritual out of clipping nails?

Just bite them off and spit them out like the animal you are.

take them right down to the cuticle until you're nearly bleeding while you're at it. that's the only way to know you got it for sure.

 

[Twin Tails]

Dan avoids taking a dump in his own home and likes to poop in Walmarts and Targets.

 

[Ketch]

Dan avoids taking a dump in his own home and likes to poop in Walmarts and Targets.

what
the
fuck

 

[Jintor]

God, austin writes so good

his conclusion in particular

I keep coming back to that desperate phrase: “If only...” It’s a phrase that the Resistance repeats over and over: “If only we had Walker…”; “If only we had a tank…”; “If only we had more people…” Sometimes the pacifist doctor or a pragmatic collaborator chides the group for their simplistic idealism: Shouldn’t we aim for achievable progress instead of impossible utopia? Instead of “If only we had...”, shouldn’t we instead ask “Okay, what do we have and what can we do with it?” This is a debate worth having--after all, it’s a debate that both of the major American political parties have been having internally for the better part of the last year. But despite the game’s earnest tone, Homefront never leaves space for these ideas to be debated narratively or mechanically. Instead, the dissenting voices are shut down and the Hail Mary pass is reaffirmed as the only way forward.

This is how, somewhere along the way, Homefront made me realize how pernicious “If only we had...” is. What comes after that rhetorical salvo doesn’t matter so much: Whether it’s a complaint about leadership, economics, time constraints, or tactics, it’s an oratorical move that reduces a complex problem into something very simple: “If only we could get rid of those people”; “if only we had better technology;” “if only we could go back to the good old days.” It responds to dread by suggesting--demanding--an arbitrary and outlandish fix or a magical solution. This is the first ingredient necessary (though not sufficient) to begin a fascistic movement, which means that Homefront fails even as a hurrah to American Greatness. After all, to the degree that any America--fictional or real--has ever been great, it has not been because of magical solutions. It’s because of the truly difficult work of complicated and fallible people, plus a great deal of luck and timing.

At its fearful root, there’s something hopeful about “if only.” It suggests improvement is possible. And so, I find myself wanting to say my own versions of the phrase. There’s that one striking image in Homefront: The Korean airship, its curved back and sharp nose, a shark skimming a scorched city skyline, a thing of mobile death. And it’s so hard not to say: If only Homefront could do justice to that image. But ‘doing justice’ requires more than one great effort, one great image.

And so other “if only” statements start to roll in: “If only Homefront wasn’t so buggy...”; “If only it was a little more difficult...”; “If only its development wasn’t so troubled…” But there is no single, special solution to the problems that Homefront has. It is a dull game that fails to offer more than passing enjoyment, hitching and glitching all along the way. It offers a middling co-operative mode in a field filled with games trying to innovate in that space. It struggles to say anything--even something bombastic and cartoonish--about crisis, nationality, or revolution. It tries to roar America, but instead coughs out a few, unintelligible grunts.

 

[mintyice]

Dan avoids taking a dump in his own home and likes to poop in Walmarts and Targets.

wait really

 

[ShadowSwordmaster]

Dan avoids taking a dump in his own home and likes to poop in Walmarts and Targets.

We need to have a sit down with Dan on a UPF one of these days.

 

[Death Metalist]

Dan avoids taking a dump in his own home and likes to poop in Walmarts and Targets.

Sometimes, all we need are the simple things to remind us of our childhood.

 

[Twin Tails]

Woo Game Tapes this week.

 

[Hot Coldman]

Dan avoids taking a dump in his own home and likes to poop in Walmarts and Targets.

 

[Piston Hyundai]

God, austin writes so good

his conclusion in particular

here's the conclusion to my homefront review: it made me excited to get back to playing through quake 4

Woo Game Tapes this week.

shit yes

 

[santeesioux]

I'm dangerously close to blind buying the $40 Overwatch PC version.

 

[Antiwhippy]

Ok now I want someone to do a side by side video of uncharted 4 and national treasure 2.

 

[BanGy.nz]

Dan avoids taking a dump in his own home and likes to poop in Walmarts and Targets.

Why? just.. Why?

 

[Ketch]

I'm dangerously close to blind buying the $40 Overwatch PC version.

how is it blind buying if you've heard a bunch about it already?

if you like tf2 you'll like overwatch... also tf2 is free to play, so maybe that would scratch the itch and then you'd be fine?

 

[santeesioux]

how is it blind buying if you've heard a bunch about it already?

I had the live stream yesterday on in the background while doing other things and haven't seen much about it otherwise.

 

[BreezyLimbo]

I had the live stream yesterday on in the background while doing other things and haven't seen much about it otherwise.

You should get it, it's pretttttty fun. Prettttty fun.

 

[valeo]

It's fun but i'm still unsure about its legs.