Giant Bomb Bomb-All

The current incarnation gave a full-throated endorsement and defense of Wal-Mart on this week's Beastcast, so, yanno.

I thought Abby was gonna come out of the mixing booth brandishing a chair.

Exactly, now you know how little I liked younger Dan. Dude went beyond frustrating and ignorant into something resembling actually loathsome.

Last email of the latest Bombcast, as an Australian, ohhhhh noooooooooooo... XD Oh god Ben your accent is so baddddddddd. (And a couple in there I dunno what the emailer was talking about).

I'm surprised and saddened that "dinky" wasn't used. As far as I can tell, it's uniquely Australian.

Vinny convincing Dan random bs is true may be my favorite thing.

JeremyK wrote:

Vinny convincing Dan random bs is true may be my favorite thing.

It's been a long time since I laughed at a GB podcast as I did during that segment. Comedy gold.

Well it finally happened. Living in the bay area I figured it was only inevitable I would run in to one of them, but I saw Ben walking outside a pinball expo today. I called out "Hi Ben!" and he just looked at me with a puzzled expression until I said, "I'm a big fan of Giant Bomb" to which he smiled, nodded, and continued on his way.

My wife was similarly puzzled as to how I knew him. Its so funny to live in this world of internet media where people are really popular while simultaneously not actually being that popular. You guys were literally the only people I could think of who would have any appreciation for it.

Vector wrote:

I'm surprised and saddened that "dinky" wasn't used. As far as I can tell, it's uniquely Australian.

Could you use that in a sentence?

Mermaidpirate wrote:
Vector wrote:

I'm surprised and saddened that "dinky" wasn't used. As far as I can tell, it's uniquely Australian.

Could you use that in a sentence?

Can you dinky me to the supermarket?

When I lived in Japan one of my coworkers was Australian. He used to say it knowing that none of the rest of us (Canadian, American, British, and Swedish) knew what it meant.

That must be a specific regional one, because I've never heard it. I might use dinky as in small, e.g. "I have a dinky little food processor I got for cheap". There's also dinky di, old slang meaning A-OK/the real deal, I don't think anyone except maybe old people way out in the country use that one earnestly.

Mermaidpirate wrote:

That must be a specific regional one, because I've never heard it. I might use dinky as in small, e.g. "I have a dinky little food processor I got for cheap". There's also dinky di, old slang meaning A-OK/the real deal, I don't think anyone except maybe old people way out in the country use that one earnestly.

My buddy does come from a farming family but google did confirm its use. I'm not sure where in Oz he's from, though.

Ah ok I asked a friend and he cleared it up. Dink, meaning take someone along on the handlebars on a bike. Maybe in some places it's dinky. It's not something I've ever done, and it's a super dangerous thing that probaby only kids talk about.

The butchering of the Birthday Paradox on this weeks beastcast is killing me.

I know it's not Giant Bomb but I'm listening to Waypoint Radio (only one to two degrees removed!) and finding myself very annoyed by Danica's verbal tick of repeating one word per sentence of whatever someone's saying when she's excited.

Honestly, it's stuff like that which really get my goat, more than the general attitude of people on any given podcast.

bnpederson wrote:

Honestly, it's stuff like that which really get my goat, more than the general attitude of people on any given podcast.

Rorie's weirdo pronunciation of "ridiculous" (as "ridickliss") is...weird. But Alex putting a needless "d" in aesthetics (dude says "aesdeadics") really grinds me every GOTY time.

bnpederson wrote:

I know it's not Giant Bomb but I'm listening to Waypoint Radio (only one to two degrees removed!) and finding myself very annoyed by Danica's verbal tick of repeating one word per sentence of whatever someone's saying when she's excited.

Honestly, it's stuff like that which really get my goat, more than the general attitude of people on any given podcast.

I have this exact same problem with her. It's like she's a hype man.

Was anyone else pretty disappointed with what they showed of Fortnite? When it was originally announced I was really hoping for a new era Left 4 Dead and got... what... Plants vs Zombies? I don't even know what that was.

imbiginjapan wrote:

Was anyone else pretty disappointed with what they showed of Fortnite? When it was originally announced I was really hoping for a new era Left 4 Dead and got... what... Plants vs Zombies? I don't even know what that was.

This might be a situation where assumption leads to disappointment. It was never a co-op FPS. It's always been this building/surviving/traps type of game they've just been fine tuning it...for a very long time.

Department of new business sounds strong. Should really turn this company around.

Needing something to watch while I did stupid free to play stuff, I put on a kingdom hearts playthrough with Ben and Brad (it's fine). Ben mentioned something about a surgery?

So I googled.

I should have posted that when I heard him mention open heart surgery on a UPF a while back.

One of my family's closest friends had marfan as well. Looked a lot like Ben. I'm really glad that Ben has it monitored now because the later life stuff can be very scary (detached retinas, heart problems, limb amputation, etc.).

Brad mentioned coming up with a term for games in which the player shows up at a location that has been abandoned or depopulated due to some tragic event and then has to explore it and figure out what happened. I propose "shockvania".

Vector wrote:

I should have posted that when I heard him mention open heart surgery on a UPF a while back.

One of my family's closest friends had marfan as well. Looked a lot like Ben. I'm really glad that Ben has it monitored now because the later life stuff can be very scary (detached retinas, heart problems, limb amputation, etc.).

As someone who was checked out as a possible edge case of Marfan syndrome (that then went reading possible complications of it before all the test results had come back) due to meeting several of the criteria, a family history of heart issues, and a fun experience with a spontaneous pneumothorax, or in layman's terms a random unprompted lung collapse at 3am while I was sleeping (Super fun way to wake up y'all) , sympathies to that dude cause man it can suuuuuuck.

Thin_J wrote:
Vector wrote:

I should have posted that when I heard him mention open heart surgery on a UPF a while back.

One of my family's closest friends had marfan as well. Looked a lot like Ben. I'm really glad that Ben has it monitored now because the later life stuff can be very scary (detached retinas, heart problems, limb amputation, etc.).

As someone who was checked out as a possible edge case of Marfan syndrome (that then went reading possible complications of it before all the test results had come back) due to meeting several of the criteria, a family history of heart issues, and a fun experience with a spontaneous pneumothorax, or in layman's terms a random unprompted lung collapse at 3am while I was sleeping (Super fun way to wake up y'all) , sympathies to that dude cause man it can suuuuuuck.

Unfortunately our friend passed away on a motorcycle accident the day after his doctor gave him a clean bill of health. He was expected to live until 40 due to all of the health problems and made it to 45. It sounds like Ben has been managing his health a lot better and is aware of the complications.

Now I feel bad calling Ben my least favorite GB personality. But he is. He so is.

Chaz wrote:

Now I feel bad calling Ben my least favorite GB personality. But he is. He so is.

There's a podcast specifically for you.

The Exquisite Corps is my new favorite thing. So good. I hope that, a la The Run, they apply this to other games in the future as well--lots of good possibilities.

Re Episode 1 (not the prologue):

Spoiler:

I'm torn about whether they should make a second Abby. It is sad she died so quickly and needlessly! But it will be slightly less hilarious when main crewmembers die if they feel free to make an Abby Mark 2.

Watch the Murder Island 3000 about 1:08:00 in and with everyone talking about what look they find, Dan gets and SKS, then comes across a VSS and says NOTHING to the rest of his team and proceeds to take both. He makes me crazy. And he already has a chicken dinner!!! WHAT!!!! lol

Spoiler:

Ok I feel better. Dan proceeded to die without ever getting off a shot and in the best way. He ran up to try and grab a buggy and run away without getting Jeff up. What a tool.

Yeah, the Slime Rancher: Quick Look has convinced me beyond a shadow of a doubt that Ben is valuable get for GB.

I think this is the first QL I've seen with him in the pilot's seat and he handles it with a confident ease and quick wit. Looks like he's fitting in just fine.

On a side note, that QL totally sold me a copy of the game, LOL.

RooneyFan wrote:

Watch the Murder Island 3000 about 1:08:00 in and with everyone talking about what look they find, Dan gets and SKS, then comes across a VSS and says NOTHING to the rest of his team and proceeds to take both. He makes me crazy. And he already has a chicken dinner!!! WHAT!!!! lol

Spoiler:

Ok I feel better. Dan proceeded to die without ever getting off a shot and in the best way. He ran up to try and grab a buggy and run away without getting Jeff up. What a tool.

Huh, Dan acting like a selfish ass, go figure.