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[TheExhaustedWalrus]

Really enjoyed UPF this week. Loved seeing the craziness with the Tri-Caster.

 

[razgriz417]

Really enjoyed UPF this week. Loved seeing the craziness with the Tri-Caster.

Jeff calling it "secretly the best video game" and Vinny confirming it makes me understand why Vinny loves screwing around and trying to break stuff in games now

 

[mnz]

Listening to this week's Bombcast, this is some amazing shit. I was walking outside when they started talking about the dude bangin' his car, and I just made it home before cracking up. I'm glad I wasn't on a bus or anything.

Anyone made themselves look like a crazy person laughing at a podcast in public?

I've seen a documentary about "objectophiles" before, it is some interesting stuff. Most surprising was that it's not about the sexuality as much for them, it's more of a partner thing. There was a woman who loves the Empire State Building, one married the Eiffel tower (her last name is now Eiffel) and a guy that is really into locomotives, though they had to be Diesel powered iirc.

edit: Apparently, one Swedish woman married the Berlin Wall in '79. Must have been some hard years for her since then.

 

[SlowRevolution]

breaking brad: tricaster should be a regular feature.

 

[Deleted member 22576]

Listening to the morning show, I'm super pumped for the Royal Rumble.
We've gotta have a Giantbomb victory!

 

[Alo81]

Jeff calling it "secretly the best video game" and Vinny confirming it makes me understand why Vinny loves screwing around and trying to break stuff in games now

You know I recently realized from the TitanFall quick look why I like Vinny so much.

The whole time, he was just dropping crazy ideas of "Oh man can you do this! You should be able to do this!"

One after the other and a ton of them were super creative things I had never even considered. I think that often manifests when he plays games, where he just always ends up trying stuff that no one else would have ever even thought of and it's always hilarious as a result.

Just a really creative guy and I have a huge appreciation for that.

 

[SteveWinwood]

You know I recently realized from the TitanFall quick look why I like Vinny so much.

The whole time, he was just dropping crazy ideas of "Oh man can you do this! You should be able to do this!"

One after the other and a ton of them were super creative things I had never even considered. I think that often manifests when he plays games, where he just always ends up trying stuff that no one else would have ever even thought of and it's always hilarious as a result.

Just a really creative guy and I have a huge appreciation for that.

He doesn't have the time to play it, but he'd be a god in dota.

 

[Ventilaator]

Watching Starforge made me really want a regular feature of Vinny fucking around in Garry's Mod.

 

[LackingSaint]

This seems like the first UPF ever where Vinny's segment is actually the most boring.

 

[newjeruse]

You know I recently realized from the TitanFall quick look why I like Vinny so much.

The whole time, he was just dropping crazy ideas of "Oh man can you do this! You should be able to do this!"

One after the other and a ton of them were super creative things I had never even considered. I think that often manifests when he plays games, where he just always ends up trying stuff that no one else would have ever even thought of and it's always hilarious as a result.

Just a really creative guy and I have a huge appreciation for that.

He's a born producer. He lives in his vision, not his circumstance.

 

[so1337]

He's a born producer. He lives in his vision, not his circumstance.

Boom! Put that on THE BACK OF THE BOX.

 

[Htown]

He doesn't have the time to play it, but he'd be a god in dota.

Never forget that shrapnel kill on Bounty Hunter.

 

[CambriaRising]

Good morning everybody.

EyeAssualt.jpg

Yup, its Saturday.

 

[Bsigg12]

The Tricaster board out in the studio is now mandatory for all UPF. Oh my god. I'm dying.

 

[Gandie]

What was the name of that one guy who takes podcasts from some years ago and recuts them with some commentary? Didn't he do the Bombcast at one time?

Edit: http://www.thisyearcollection.org/

Found it

 

[Mushroomer25]

This seems like the first UPF ever where Vinny's segment is actually the most boring.

His mars game last week was also fairly dull. And the "What if JFK survived" FMV game got boring after the novelty wore off. But hey, you can't knock it out of the park every week.

 

[TharpDaddy]

Jeff said they're starting the recruiting process? Awesome, now they can finally hire Jeff Green!

 

[Fattony12000]

 

[Dany]

yo, thats paid content you have on youtube for free man.

not cool, not cool

 

[randomlyrossy]

Oh wow, didn't even notice that was a link. Yeah, that's entirely not cool Fattony.

 

[RomanticHeroX]

It's just the chat, all the actual content is muted and blurred. I don't think that hurts the subscription model but, like...why?

 

[Archaix]

yo, thats paid content you have on youtube for free man.

not cool, not cool

Oh wow, didn't even notice that was a link. Yeah, that's entirely not cool Fattony.

It's no audio with the actual video mosaiced out. It's just a video for chat replay.

 

[Ken]

oh nvm

 

[randomlyrossy]

Oh, I see, should've paid more attention! Sorry Fattony, that's actually a pretty cool thing to do.

 

[Dany]

nvm, thats cool

 

[Alo81]

This is a pretty cool thing to do, thanks duder.

Just a heads up though, if you just cropped it so it was ONLY the chat, you would probably cut down on the file size a bunch and you could just add a marker at the beginning saying something like "start video now."

 

[LurkerPrime]

You know I recently realized from the TitanFall quick look why I like Vinny so much.

The whole time, he was just dropping crazy ideas of "Oh man can you do this! You should be able to do this!"

One after the other and a ton of them were super creative things I had never even considered. I think that often manifests when he plays games, where he just always ends up trying stuff that no one else would have ever even thought of and it's always hilarious as a result.

Just a really creative guy and I have a huge appreciation for that.

I agree. I think Vinny's a fantastic Quick Look wingman, he seems to put a lot of effort into making videos that are both informative and entertaining. Content like Kinect game or multiplayer quick looks practically require Vinny, if only for the things he'll try to break. I hope he keeps up the good job.

I'm not saying that Vinny should be in every quick look or anything, rather that he'd make one heck of a QA tester.

 

[chubigans]

I saw that Jeff was playing Infamous so I took a look at his activity feed to see what trophies he's earned so far and...came across this awesome activity:

YES

 

[Megasoum]

I saw that Jeff was playing Infamous so I took a look at his activity feed to see what trophies he's earned so far and...came across this awesome activity:

YES

Hahahaha This is great. I wonder is Cigs is aware of what happened in the last 2 weeks?

 

[Typographenia]

This is getting too surreal, now.

 

[RomanticHeroX]

The internet is real dumb.

 

[bsej87]

Guess some of that hiring is for a house band. Cigs will do way better at leading the house band than Fred Armisen,

 

[Fattony12000]

yo, thats paid content you have on youtube for free man.

not cool, not cool

Oh wow, didn't even notice that was a link. Yeah, that's entirely not cool Fattony.

It's just the chat, all the actual content is muted and blurred. I don't think that hurts the subscription model but, like...why?

It's no audio with the actual video mosaiced out. It's just a video for chat replay.

oh nvm

Oh, I see, should've paid more attention! Sorry Fattony, that's actually a pretty cool thing to do.

nvm, thats cool

This is a pretty cool thing to do, thanks duder.

Just a heads up though, if you just cropped it so it was ONLY the chat, you would probably cut down on the file size a bunch and you could just add a marker at the beginning saying something like "start video now."

 

[Ventilaator]

It's funny because the same exact "What the shit, Fattony!? Oh nevermind it's just the chat." thing has happened several times by now.

 

[Will M]

I saw that Jeff was playing Infamous so I took a look at his activity feed to see what trophies he's earned so far and...came across this awesome activity:

YES

Cigs66 will be flown in to play live at Giant Bomb's PAX panel.
My source:

Spoiler

I really hope this happens.

 

[Jintor]

Cigs66 will be flown in to play live at Giant Bomb's PAX panel.
My source:

Spoiler

I really hope this happens.

you jest.

but that would be so fucking awesome.

harmonix, i know you guys have prank budget. make it happen.

 

[symphonask]

Regarding Dark Souls 2, I just want to let Brad/Vinny know that it turns out the Adaptability stat is actually pretty useless even though a lot of people recommended it them (including me in this thread). Yes, FROM replaced a useless stat in DS1 (resistance) with another useless stat. Time to respec and put all those ADP points into something useful (like equip load).

So adaptability isn't that good.

Conclusion

Going from base adaptability to 99 gives you 2 I frames.(DWGR would give you about 7 more frames than fast roll) The thing people should be worried about is equipment burden and getting a farther faster roll. I honestly do not know the sweet spot for equipment burden/poise/distance yet. But its only a matter of time. From what I can tell agility does not determine how fast you move its all determined by equipment burden.

IMO adaptability is the new resistance stat. Sure you get some poise but so does armor and rings.

e: not that it's conclusive or anything, but yeah, time to respec all the adp points into int for my hexer without feeling guilty~

 

[demidar]

Regarding Dark Souls 2, I just want to let Brad/Vinny know that it turns out the Adaptability stat is actually pretty useless even though a lot of people recommended it them (including me in this thread). Yes, FROM replaced a useless stat in DS1 (resistance) with another useless stat. Time to respec and put all those ADP points into something useful (like equip load).

Using only one point of view to draw your conclusions from seems like folly.

 

[symphonask]

Using only one point of view to draw your conclusions from seems like folly.

You're right, of course. But in my limited playthrough, I've dumped some points into it and barely noticed any difference. Needs more testing, which should be easy considering anyone can respec now.

 

[alr1ght]

Yeah, but it helps poise immensely. If you like to tank, it's extremely useful.

 

[Fried Food]

You're right, of course. But in my limited playthrough, I've dumped some points into it and barely noticed any difference. Needs more testing, which should be easy considering anyone can respec now.

none of the stats really do anything if you only put a few points. they work on levels of 10

 

[newjeruse]

I checked out Cigs66 trophies yesterday and he was a huge MAG guy, so he's cool in my book.

 

[Deleted member 22576]

I checked out Cigs66 trophies yesterday and he was a huge MAG guy, so he's cool in my book.

Oh my god, of course he is. Zipper's games had a certain demographic that he is most definitely a part of.

 

[BanGy.nz]

Patricks talk at Critical Proximity is really great.

I hope whenever Giantbomb are in a position to hire someone new they take a cue from Patricks speech.

 

[Chuck]

Yeah, but it helps poise immensely. If you like to tank, it's extremely useful.

dat giants ring

 

[LurkerPrime]

So Vinny can transform into Drew now. I think he already figured out how to transform into Ryan some time ago - there was a gif of some sort.

Who's next in line to be Vinterpretated? My bet's on sleepy Brad.

 

[derFeef]

The internet is real dumb.

Or really clever.

 

[CambriaRising]

Any word on if the "Saved Position" feature is coming back for videos?

 

[Poyunch]

"Max doesn't count though."

Still good.

 

[BUNTING1243]

Patrick's Critical Proximity talk is pretty interesting, but I really want to see him put this belief into practice with Giant Bomb's freelancers/new hires.

Spoiler

Also I just discredit anyone who dislikes Bioshock Infinite