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[avengers23]

We have Best Ofs for the Persona 4 and Deadly Premonition Endurance Runs. I wish we had a Best Of for the Chrono Trigger ER.

I also really wish someone took up the slack and continued with Best Of compilations of the Bombcast. This Year Collection ended with 2014, and it's too bad that 2015 and 2016 aren't similarly captured. I know we had talked really briefly about picking through the Bombcasts ourselves and at least trying to pick what we would want to highlight from those years, but I never saw the product.

 

[Piston Hyundai]

We have Best Ofs for the Persona 4 and Deadly Premonition Endurance Runs. I wish we had a Best Of for the Chrono Trigger ER.

Don't know how you missed it, but there already is a Best Of for that.

 

[Brakke]

Hey so i got this Roku stick thing. It has a "Giant Bomb" app but the thing is apparently crashing on launch every time. Is the app busted or is the problem maybe on my end?

 

[kai3345]

the app is busted. google on how to get the "beta" version of the giant bomb roku app and that one actually works

it's dumb

 

[Antiwhippy]

There we go.

Mayo is objectively better than tomato jam.

Checkmate.

 

[Tubobutts]

No, mayo still sucks

 

[- J - D -]

Hey so i got this Roku stick thing. It has a "Giant Bomb" app but the thing is apparently crashing on launch every time. Is the app busted or is the problem maybe on my end?

It's not you. The app sucks.

 

[oti]

But regardless my thing is, if you're not gonna have people "fight" for what they picked, just don't even bother with the event what's the point

You do know how math works, right?

 

[SunDimension24]

Hey so i got this Roku stick thing. It has a "Giant Bomb" app but the thing is apparently crashing on launch every time. Is the app busted or is the problem maybe on my end?

It is real busted and bad. There is a beta app available
https://www.giantbomb.com/forums/bug-reporting-33/roku-app-not-working-use-the-beta-version-1808125/

I ended up getting an amazon fire stick and the giant bomb enthusiast app on there is fantastic. It has the ability to watch live streams, has a search function to get older videos and allows you to continue watching videos. I hope that stuff can make it to the roku app eventually.

 

[Piston Hyundai]

they could do a GBE vs GBW splatfest

but then again, pearl could be on team GBE and they'd still win

 

[oti]

It is real busted and bad. There is a beta app available
https://www.giantbomb.com/forums/bug-reporting-33/roku-app-not-working-use-the-beta-version-1808125/

I ended up getting an amazon fire stick and the giant bomb enthusiast app on there is fantastic. It has the ability to watch live streams, has a search function to get older videos and allows you to continue watching videos. I hope that stuff can make it to the roku app eventually.

I use the enthusiast app too and in general it's great. Too bad older videos can't be played though. Chrono Trigger ER or even Kingdom Hearts 3D won't work.

Tried the Kodi app and that thing is also kinda busted. The Kodi app links the Persona ER to the Chrono Trigger ER playlist for some reason.

 

[ZanzibarBreeze]

Looking for more East content, I've begun Vinnyvania (haven't previously seen any of it). Starting from the top with the first, Shoemaker and Rorie on the couch. Good times

 

[Zebetite]

Don't know how you missed it, but there already is a Best Of for that.

its actually just a clip of ryan naming the epoch "2poch"

 

[Data West]

they could do a GBE vs GBW splatfest

but then again, pearl could be on team GBE and they'd still win

🤔

 

[Jintor]

holy shit you guys weren't lying about this wrestling quick look being INCREDIBLE

 

[Piston Hyundai]

alright this is the last one I'm plugging

🤔

ketchup has a bigger following than mayonnaise, but that didn't help it much, did it

 

[Fantastapotamus]

I cannot believe there are people who think Mayo is better than Ketchup.
It disgust me to post on the same Internet as those weirdos

 

[oti]

EZA played through Mario Sunshine as part of their 50h livestream. I might as well watch it to prepare for SMS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsGMakguSE8

I cannot believe there are people who think Mayo is better than Ketchup.
It disgust me to post on the same Internet as those weirdos

You eat Schnitzel plain. You have no say in this.

 

[Fantastapotamus]

You eat Schnitzel plain. You have no say in this.

Don't spread rumours about me

 

[Piston Hyundai]

EZA played through Mario Sunshine as part of their 50h livestream. I might as well watch it to prepare for SMS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsGMakguSE8

Ten hours to beat the game with just 59 Shines. The rest of SMS is going to be amazing.

 

[oti]

Don't spread rumours about me

You're Austrian. That's all we need to know.

 

[Liquid Shake]

alright this is the last one I'm plugging

This is the part where I jump down your throat.

Spoiler

Okay fine, you made your point well.

 

[kiguel182]

I’m late on this but clearly there’s a ton of people involved in the Splafest and Twitter is full of dumb drawings and people having fun.

Cancelling the whole thing because you can’t get perfect matchmaking if the sides are uneven is dumb.

 

[Jintor]

i really do think it's brilliant the extent to which nintendo leverages social media over these dumb contests over things that don't matter in the slightest

 

[oti]

I’m late on this but clearly there’s a ton of people involved in the Splafest and Twitter is full of dumb drawings and people having fun.

Cancelling the whole thing because you can’t get perfect matchmaking if the sides are uneven is dumb.

They could introduce bots or something for each team if one is vastly more popular than the other. But then you'd have similar criticism. "We lost because the bots are bad" etc.

i really do think it's brilliant the extent to which nintendo leverages social media over these dumb contests over things that don't matter in the slightest

That's one thing. What I find extremely fascinating is how Nintendo managed to monetize this. In Japan, some Splatfests were straight ads. You could chose between two different products.
That's a genius marketing tool. Pick a product, strenghten your affinity to the brand since you're having fun for a weekend "fighting" for it and the companies get to know how popular their product is amongst video gamers.

That's just amazing.

 

[Tubobutts]

They could introduce bots or something for each team if one is vastly more popular than the other. But then you'd have similar criticism. "We lost because the bots are bad" etc.

That's one thing. What I find extremely fascinating is how Nintendo managed to monetize this. In Japan, some Splatfests were straight ads. You could chose between two different products.
That's a genius marketing tool. Pick a product, strenghten your affinity to the brand since you're having fun for a weekend "fighting" for it and the companies get to know how popular their product is amongst video gamers.

That's just amazing.

No wonder Dan likes Splatoon.

 

[Jintor]

they tried a bit with decepticons v autobots but i suspect japan had way more popularity so nintendo could go to companies and be "hey familymart v 711 let's fucking do it"

(Although from memory they just had two brands of the same type of noodle produced by the same company i think)

 

[oti]

they tried a bit with decepticons v autobots but i suspect japan had way more popularity so nintendo could go to companies and be "hey familymart v 711 let's fucking do it"

(Although from memory they just had two brands of the same type of noodle produced by the same company i think)

It's supposed to be an ad. Not that great for a company to lose. It's more about boosting a brand.

Captain America vs. Iron Man would've been fun though.

 

[drabnon]

It's kind of interesting that the Splatfest has way more buzz now. A combination of Switch selling way better now and the "miiverse" posts uploading to Twitter?

I wonder if future Splatfests will generate this much discussion as well.

 

[Antiwhippy]

I mean splatoon is set in the post apocalyptic future so of course there's going to be corporate wars.

 

[Jintor]

It's kind of interesting that the Splatfest has way more buzz now. A combination of Switch selling way better now and the "miiverse" posts uploading to Twitter?

I wonder if future Splatfests will generate this much discussion as well.

yeah i mean i heard about mayo v ketchup on 3 seperate podcasts

 

[Antiwhippy]

Like when you get down to it splatoon is a pretty dark game. It's a society based around fighting, based around the narrative of us vs them, but you never really know why except you have to. You don't get to control your "colours", your core beliefs, so you only really fight for what society has assigned you to fight, which is always changing. And nintendo's online structure that makes it as hard as possible for you to team Up with your friends means that you never have true allies, and even if you do you might need to fight them too. You are always alone, unless you rise to the elite and join in on league battles.

And the one time they give you an illusion of choice, an illusion that you can fight for what you believe in, they take it away after a day, clothes at all, so nothing remains except for the memory of the illusion.

Inklings have no self.

 

[Jintor]

yeah but you're hella fresh so it's all worth it in the end

 

[drabnon]

My favorite part of the first Splatoon is the fossil you uncover of the gamer

 

[hamchan]

🤔

Wow the Friday podcast is almost up to the level of the flagship podcast. Pretty amazing.

 

[Bubble Metropolis]

I was pretty bored so I decided to throw on the latest Blue Bombing. I don't usually watch that feature, but I heard it's like a mini Beastcast.

Man, I'm only 8 minutes in and they're throwing out one whopper right after another.

The phrase "rock and roll" is only used in the US?
Onyx The Fu-Schnickens were Shaq's "band"?!

Spoiler

I admit that the degree to which these are whoppers is relative to your interest in music.

 

[Antiwhippy]

They're throwing out the perfect burger one after the other?

 

[Bubble Metropolis]

Small, chocolate-coated malted milk balls.

 

[Red UFO]

They're throwing out the perfect burger one after the other?

No, he said whoppers, not Big Mac's.

 

[oti]

Sydney vs. Melbourne Splatfest

 

[Rainmaker]

splatfest: nipple rings vs nose rings

 

[Antiwhippy]

Marina is already repping the belly button piercing.

 

[dannyglover]

Posting this again..

This one. Starts at 9:38.

Oh wow, an ad in the Ryckert-Drake story is where this came from:

Edit: Also, I forget how much John Drake is Frank Grimes to Dan Ryckert's Homer Simpson.

 

[oti]

 

[tonka]

We are all frank grimes waiting to happen

 

[Deleted member 30609]

It's kind of interesting that the Splatfest has way more buzz now. A combination of Switch selling way better now and the "miiverse" posts uploading to Twitter?

I wonder if future Splatfests will generate this much discussion as well.

i doubt it, but it's cool to see the game in the zeitgeist while it lasts

 

[Antiwhippy]

Bought slime rancher and trails of cold steel.

Who says August is where games starts slowing down?

 

[CoolBatteryCharge]

Bought slime rancher and trails of cold steel.

Who says August is where games starts slowing down?

This August is unnaturally stacked. It's crazy.

 

[Jintor]

i mean it's universally agreed this year is insane right

 

[Antiwhippy]

That's just this year really.

TBF trails of cold steel is like a 4 year old game lol. Just on PC this time.