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Tested.com |OT| Lean Into It If It's Racist
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slaughterking
Member
Brad is always so talkative on Tested and it's great.
slaughterking
Member
Brad talks so naturally on Tested compared to the Bombcast that it almost seems like he doesn't really care as much about videogames. Haha.
Broder Salsa
Banned
wolfmat
Confirmed Asshole
I always like hearing brad on the podcast.
Maybe he likes the change of pace? It's been pretty slow for video games lately so there hasn't been anything too interesting going on.
Maybe he likes the change of pace? It's been pretty slow for video games lately so there hasn't been anything too interesting going on.
International Space Station.
http://www.tested.com/videos/49091-if-you-havent-been-to-the-iss-youll-probably-like-this-video/
This week's video podcast is finally up if anyone is interested.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0BRpsuw0bs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0BRpsuw0bs
slaughterking
Member
Norm is such a poser.
terrdactycalsrock
Member
Have they said anything about quick looking the Nexus 7? I know that they wanted to use a retail version and wanted to test it out for a while to get a good sense of the battery life and whatnot. It just seems like its been a really long time
Gary Whitta
Member
I played around a bit with the Nexus 7 and thought it was fantastic. Highly recommended.
joeyjoejoeshabadoo
Member
The TNG talk on last podcast made me think it was a good idea to pick this up.
Got it for for ~$8 at Barnes and Noble. It was on the clearance table at 75% off.
Got it for for ~$8 at Barnes and Noble. It was on the clearance table at 75% off.
normanchan
Member
we have that deck building game at our house. have only played it once though. the images look like low-res screencaps from dvds though.
joeyjoejoeshabadoo
Member
Yeah, I read the quality of the components is suspect but for $8 I figured why not.
Combat in the game seemed pretty stupid, and there were definitely a couple times we didn't know how to resolve situations because the rules were ambiguous. It's basically Dominion, though, so at its core it's a good game. Some fun card abilities.
Gary Whitta
Member
Sounds to me like someone never played 25th Anniversary or Judgment Rites.This is the only worthwhile Star Trek game IMO.
Played the shit out of it as a kid, and I didn't even watch the series!
normanchan
Member
truth. i loved this game so much.
HamPster PamPster
Member
Okay its obvious Brad wishes he went to tested. Sheesh man why not bring some of that A-game to the bombcast this week!
Anyway, I have an amusing cord cutting anecdote. I haven't had cable in a long time and almost never turn on over the air TV. Anyway I turned on the Olympics over the weekend and my kid asks, "whats this?" I say its TV and they respond "why does it have so many commercials?"
I had to laugh considering "commercials" to the kid is basically 30 second Hulu ads. Must be amazing growing up in a world almost devoid of commercials. That said, I don't know if TV has changed in recent years or NBC is being a jerk but wow the Olympics really did have a ton of commercials. Terrible ones too, I thought people were over reacting to the Apple ads but I was wrong, they are bad
Anyway, I have an amusing cord cutting anecdote. I haven't had cable in a long time and almost never turn on over the air TV. Anyway I turned on the Olympics over the weekend and my kid asks, "whats this?" I say its TV and they respond "why does it have so many commercials?"
I had to laugh considering "commercials" to the kid is basically 30 second Hulu ads. Must be amazing growing up in a world almost devoid of commercials. That said, I don't know if TV has changed in recent years or NBC is being a jerk but wow the Olympics really did have a ton of commercials. Terrible ones too, I thought people were over reacting to the Apple ads but I was wrong, they are bad
Holy shit, if your kids have only been watching Hulu commercials, broadcast commercials must have seemed like an absolute treat.
There is a new commercial every time?! This is amazing dad! We don't have to watch the same awful minute long Cadillac commercial every ten minutes.
Having been watching a lot of Hulu lately, they have the whole series of In the Thick of It, they have at least a dozen different commercials. Or at the very least eight if we don't count the hulu commercials.
That's the best show I have seen in forever. So freaking good and I was stoked to see that they are doing a 4th season!
I think it's been a year since I cancelled Hulu plus and it was pretty much the same commercial over and over and over. That was on the Roku app and I was watching old shows, maybe it's device/content specific?
Maybe. I've only been watching stuff they've recently put up. They still need more commercials in the pool, but it's not as bad as it was a year ago.
Gary Whitta
Member
The Thick of It is basically the greatest show ever.
Yeah, I powered through it over the last week. It's flat amazing. So many great lines. Did In The Loop come first or was the show first?
Gary Whitta
Member
If that was shown on network TV, they'd have to call it Beep.
Gary Whitta
Member
Well yeah, apparently the version of The Thick of It shown on BBC America is pretty much one long bleep, what is the point?
Anatoli Bacharach
Member
I switched to a standing desk today! Have been wanting to do it ever since i saw Ana and Joey using standing desks in the old Whiskey office videos.
Haven't spent any real time with it yet, but here's the best thing so far: You can dance to the music while working. I don't know how i ever got anything done without the guaranteed constant freedom to bust out a moonwalk, and then pelvic-thrust my way back to the desk.
Anyways, i hope to hear long-term impressions on the podcast as the Tested guys continue to get used to the desks.
Haven't spent any real time with it yet, but here's the best thing so far: You can dance to the music while working. I don't know how i ever got anything done without the guaranteed constant freedom to bust out a moonwalk, and then pelvic-thrust my way back to the desk.
Anyways, i hope to hear long-term impressions on the podcast as the Tested guys continue to get used to the desks.
It's uncensored on Hulu. All the inappropriate sexual metaphors you can handle.
Cerebral Assassin
Member
Both of them are created by Armando Ianucchi.
Gotcha, thanks. That is plenty to get me re-interested in Veep!
cuevas. PhD.
Member
Hey tested, fucking CATEGORIES
I picked it up a couple weeks ago. Still haven't been able to convince anyone to play it with me.
It's a shame the site is still as lacking as it is and no ETA on either a total redesign (which is what i'm hoping for) or changes that would make it at all usable for me. I'm just using the RSS because the site so bad right now. There isn't even a damn download button for the podcast and it's been that way for months. What the heck are the 'top men' doing anyway? :/
cuevas. PhD.
Member
They've talked on the podcast how they'll go away from a site if it takes too long to load. Im in a similar situation now When I go to tested to watch something now it's not worth lookIng through a huge list of videos.
Unfortunately, this is the 'real' Tested.com: http://www.youtube.com/user/testedcom/videos
I don't have a problem with that, but without 'embiggen' there's no way to watch videos and easily switch to other tabs. So I've been going straight to youtube for vids, but still read the text content on the site.
Broder Salsa
Banned
Me too. Seriously hate the new site, don't really care that it has been rebranded to have Adam and Jamie all over that much, the real problem is how much worse the site has gotten to navigate and so many functions that are now gone. If I want to watch something from them I just go to youtube at this point, which is pretty sad and makes me completely ignore their articles.
Finally found time to start listening to last weeks. I cannot believe all the regulations you guys put up with regarding trash.
Anatoli Bacharach
Member
Sweet gif. ^
They sure love the Nexus 7. Did not expect the device to be that good.
They sure love the Nexus 7. Did not expect the device to be that good.