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Giant Bomb |OT 18| See you later, Air Force Gator
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I've been really hating that opening segment lately, It's worthless. It used to be fun when it is like 5 mins of them talking about their week, but now it's just inane chatter that goes on for at lease 15-20 mins. And it is holding content hostage. Jeff said a couple weeks ago, there was some hardware thing he had planned for the last segment for UPF but he "wasn't able to get to it". Instead we got I think either them going on about energy drinks for 15 minutes or Business Dave doing his top 10 that takes almost half an hour for some reason. I know it's their show and they can do what they want, but from a customer and viewer standpoint, UPF isn't worth tuning into until the 20 minute mark at least.
I just road my trike into what I thought was a shallow river and lost nearly 200kg of cargo in a spectacular display of incompetence.
After a brief adrenaline rush I tried to run after my cargo, saw a ladder somebody placed and thought, optimistically, that it would act as a dam and stop my cargo from going any further. Instead it nearly destroyed everything, and in a panic I jumped in to collect as much as I could only to be swept away myself.
It's a good game.
Between the Marvel/Star Wars threads and the embarrassing fanboyism around centrist, corporate democrats it's not great.
Still I had fun catching heat for making fun of U2 just now.
Someone in that thread really just compared Bono to Greta Thunberg. Oof, my head.
You can just imagine that guy writing that post and thinking to himself, "yep this is a smart fucking point I'm making here."
Did you hear about Bono hurting himself on stage last week? He fell over The Edge.
Is Bono liked in Ireland? There seemed to be a turn on him at some point over here.
Not all that much tbh, especially not for the lead singer of our biggest musical export.
UPF is the one bit of GB I just can't watch anymore, I liked it a lot more when it was more of a 'show and tell' for the crew and less of a 'fuck it lets sit here for 2 hours and see what happens'.
I'm sure it's better live but archived it feels like watching a room full of people who'd rather go home, I actually quite like the business Dave bits that I've seen because some work has gone into them and the rest of the team stays focused on it while it happens.
The defense of tax dodging because they're "a global brand" is a real spicy one too.
That's almost a big enough indictment of Bono that he's a rock star whose music can be described in such hopelessly naff terms.
Hearing them act so solemn about Super Mario Maker 2 is a bummer. It's not as fresh as the first game and yes, the creation tools are not as intuitive as the Wii U gamepad, but it is overall a better game than the first. The single player mode is incredibly robust with creative levels, the added features give a seemingly unlimited amount of options, and I feel that the overall quality of player levels is higher. I think because there was really no way to stream level creation it really fell on the backburner at GB, although Get On My Level was a nice compromise.
It was probably fairly easy and cheap to translate it to the US to squeeze a bit more money out of the franchise. I didn't realize this came out way before 0, but I knew there were several other VNs from S;G that explore other worldlines and were far more fanservice-y or dating sim than the original.
Nah, not against Anthem, Death Stranding or even Wolfenstein Youngblood. Dan won't let SMM2 win most disappointing.
When is this out? Like a week or so?
Just listened to The Last Wish on audio book. Am I write is that this television series picks up right after that? (in theory)
Maybe the games are skewing my perspective and this is actually representative of the what the books are all about, but this seems reeeally Game of Thrones-y to me. Big battle scenes, tons of royal political intrigue, etc. It just seems more like a story set in the Continent that Geralt happens to participate in, rather than a story about Gerry doing his thing. Maybe it's just the way they're cutting these trailers, but it comes off as Netflix wanting their own, big fantasy show and using The Witcher as the vehicle for that.
I miss the colorfulness of the games but other than that I'm tentatively excited.
Vinny just told his "don't get cocky" story again despite having told it probably less than 2 months ago. And no one seems to have remembered? Is GBEast okay?!
It's probably difficult for people who are constantly in front of a camera to keep straight what stories they've told on and off mic sometimes.
Warfare and political intrigue were always pretty important parts of the series whether you're talking about the books or the games, and it's not like they ever shied away from depicting those things screen.
As for the disconnection they're jumping around in time so they can actually flesh out Ciri and Yennefer on screen (Apparently) so there's going to be some dislocation going on I think just by the nature of that and the fact that they're adapting separate short stories.
Should I stay awake and skip work tomorrow to see a bunch of meaningless awards, terrible music acts, cringy jokes and maybe a neat trailer or two?
I think for Jeff at least, building levels was a big part of what he enjoyed about the game. IIRC he is not as into Mario games as say, Dan or Patrick to just play them for their own sake.
At lest, we did a feature out of MM2. And it's pretty good too.
You also might get to see the U.K vote to kill itself in real time if that makes it any more attractive.
I might be up all night anyway if our election results start to look interesting.
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