i got it for my sister for her birthday and she really likes it.
Maybe not the most cost effective way to eat snacks, but what they have is apparently really delicious.
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Giant Bomb #9 | More Dan Meets The Eye
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i got it for my sister for her birthday and she really likes it.
Maybe not the most cost effective way to eat snacks, but what they have is apparently really delicious.
Zombie James
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Haha, excellent final PC video by Vinny.
I got it for my parents, and they also love it. I think the price is decent for what you get.
"Dude you should totally do it to Old Man Gertsman."
bistromathics
facing a bright new dawn
lol this is the best emails section in forever and there's still 30 min left.
"ABORT!" lol
bistromathics
facing a bright new dawn
Dr Duncan Steel
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Jeff is gonna be the guy who has a kid's baseball stuck on the top of his roof and the kid hears stories about Old Man Gerstmann and how cranky he is. Then when the kid builds up the courage to ring his doorbell and finds all the amazing old video games and pinball machines, they develop a bond together.
Then the kid asks him about what Giant Bomb is and tells him to get out.
bistromathics
facing a bright new dawn
hahaha, it's so true. man I love that this exists. that it happened to jeff...that he has a damn camera for his front porch (am I the only one that thinks it's weird?)...that the kid is so little. amazing.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Wait, did Patrick's review of dangan ronpa 2 come up yet or am I not seeing it?
Not weird if you're sick of getting your packages stolen.
SlowRevolution
Member
it sounded like he still had a long way to go when he was talking about it. I think he said he was five or six hours in.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Ah alright, he kept referring to a review which I now assume he's talking about the first one.
Based on screenshots he's been putting up on twitter, he's got a loooooooong way to go still.
SteveWinwood
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Yes the game would be broken. Completely and utterly. Instantly.
How? This genuinely perplexes me, not trying to be dismissive. How would Dota be ruined by new maps? It's a fucking video game.
Broken is probably a bit of a stretch, but any change to the map casts a long shadow over the tactics of the game. This cascades down to the abilities of the heroes, which are all balanced around a 5-player team playing on that map, and then to the items which interplay with those abilities.
Adding a bunch of maps would mean all of the heroes and items would have to be re-balanced to be playable on all of the available maps and the inevitable modes spawning from them. This would most likely lead to a mass homogenization of heroes, stripping out or neutralizing a lot of unique abilities, items, and the like.
There is an absolute ton of interplay already between the 100+ heroes, with 400+ abilities, 100+ items and one map in the game. Even a relatively small change, such as removing a cliff or gorge on the existing map, would have a major impact on any flying heroes, as an example.
A change to the size of the jungle or number of jungle creeps would have a major impact on any heroes who regularly use the jungle for gold and experience.
These are a couple of thousands of examples. The list goes on and on and on and on.
In a shooter, playing a different map changes the game less than playing a different hero changes DOTA. The variety is elsewhere.
The depth in the game doesn't come from the map. You'd be surprised how often little intricacies in the map make the difference between living and dying, and learning 2 or 3 more maps would be kind of ridiculous. The game is overly complex as is.
To give you some context, they barely changed the map in a patch today, like added some pathways through areas that were normally blocked off with trees and people are freaking the fuck out.
SteveWinwood
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literally every item and hero has been balanced on and around that one map
its what governs the radius of everything
like wards would have to be reworked blinks spawn camps all the attack ranges
its hard to appreciate if you dont understand the balance and how it was constantly built upon one thing or another over 10 years
we're talking about dota here
Haha, good point. People weren't up for chilling in the few games I've played of Dota
adamantypants
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So changing up the maps would be akin to say stretching a football field to 120 yards or making every 15 yards a down. Hell making every 8 yards a down could drastically change the game.
NumberThree
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What does the game benefit from that, though? Should they implement different maps just so people on forums don't go "Why does it only have one map?!"?
The Dear Leader
Banned
He's a video duder, behind the scenes.
Variety? I know quite a few people that log into LoL just to play ARAM and relax. Either way they're getting people to play the game, even if it isn't the main mode.
Of course this is a long term goal, since they're taking so long to finish adding all the original DOTA heroes.
The Dear Leader
Banned
Beats me, if I had a copy I would be slingin that hot banned QL all over the place, but I would like to know why it's not been reuploaded.
Disney Infinity something something and Wasteland 2 QLs are now in the schedule.
It will probably be up on Friday at the latest. That's when the game comes out in the US, anyway.
I wanted to watch it.
It will probably be up on Friday at the latest. That's when the game comes out in the US, anyway.
Yeah, I assume there's still an embargo on longer form video of the game, even though it's out in all other regions by now. Wouldn't put it past Nintendo to do that.
Reminds me of the Golden Sun embargo where they were allowed to post three minutes worth of footage in 1-minute increments. So on Happy Hour they burned up all their time by showing only the title screen for three minutes.
Fattony12000
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Wait. I streamed Hyrule Warriors for about an hour last week.
Did I do a crime?
Did I do a crime?
Nintendo Ninjas are on their way!
Yep, you crimed. Nintendo's gonna throw you in tomodachi life with gigu and throw away the key.
Nintendo still isn't sure what the internet it or how it works.
That's what's happening more and more now, but this seems like an extreme example since it's actually out in all other regions by now. Guess this could be the "It's Nintendo!" moment of the day.
Mac and cheese is great!
Hot Coldman
Banned
Liking mac and cheese is like...
when you were 6 years old, one night whilst you were sleeping, a strange man broke into your bedroom, surgically removed your tongue, and replaced it with a fleshy tongue-like appendage designed solely to send the exact wrong taste sensations to your brain
that is what happened to you
when you were 6 years old, one night whilst you were sleeping, a strange man broke into your bedroom, surgically removed your tongue, and replaced it with a fleshy tongue-like appendage designed solely to send the exact wrong taste sensations to your brain
that is what happened to you
I don't know what this is in reference to, but I'm gonna guess dan ryckert.
Fun fact: Jeff ended up marrying and having a kid with gigu in my game.
But luckily for him they're running about 10 years behind.
Fun fact: I added all the bombers to Tomodachi Life a few hours ago since I wanted more money from donations.
Not gigu, though. Trying to keep it classy over here.
Hot Coldman
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"Kraft Mac and Cheese is objectively the best food" - Dan on today's podcast
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