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I bailed on the DBZ cast. I haven't watched it, and it's impossible to follow that way. It does kind of make me want to watch the show, but I haven't found a source.

Buy it on amazon, there are no other ways to do it.

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Even doing that, there's no way I'm watching that much dragon balls.

hbi2k wrote:

All Systems Goku continues to be the best. This week, the boys unknowingly recreate the age-old fandom debate vis-à-vis Chi-Chi, with Jeff taking the position that she is the worst and needs to get on board with her husband's world-saving antics, and Dan, displaying a surprising amount of sympathy, correctly infers that she wound up married to Goku as a young and naive woman with no idea of what that would mean for her future life and prospects in real-world terms.

It occurred to me (not having seen any DBZ in nigh onto 2 decades) that Chi-Chi is, in some ways, a prototype for many of the conscientious wife characters of the anti-hero era that the Bad Fans got so ugly about...except DBZ considers Chi Chi someone to ridicule.

Liking All Systems Goku, the fighters thing, the sims thing, and Alex or Abby installments of Exquisite Corps. I hope Ben and Abby return to the dating games--it's nice to get a survey of games I wouldn't have seen otherwise. Dan seems to think "I play an old game I am predisposed to like" is a great hook, but not for me.

SpacePPoliceman wrote:

Liking All Systems Goku, the fighters thing, the sims thing, and Alex or Abby installments of Exquisite Corps. I hope Ben and Abby return to the dating games--it's nice to get a survey of games I wouldn't have seen otherwise. Dan seems to think "I play an old game I am predisposed to like" is a great hook, but not for me.

I feel like a bit of it is the whole team realizing Dan works in either a group setting where he can be managed or by himself where he can go off and those who like that watch it.

Dan's at his most infuriating to people who don't like Dan when he's Dan-ing it up and there's no way to stop him. Exquisite Corps is a fantastic/terrible example of that, 13 Deadly sims is an example of Dan being there but not being in control, so it's okay.

SpacePPoliceman wrote:

It occurred to me (not having seen any DBZ in nigh onto 2 decades) that Chi-Chi is, in some ways, a prototype for many of the conscientious wife characters of the anti-hero era that the Bad Fans got so ugly about...except DBZ considers Chi Chi someone to ridicule.

Dan compares her to Skyler White, and it's not a terrible comparison.

Chi-Chi is a LOT more sympathetic when you've seen Dragon Ball. At that point, it's less the character that's ridiculed and more the conventions of the sort of fairy tales her character archetype comes from.

She's the standard princess-as-reward, except that this story keeps going after the happily-ever-after. It's low-key not pretty.

I've never watched Dragon Ball Z but that podcast is fun. I especially like that I don't know, and don't care, if they're bullsh*tting.

I watched it in 1996 or whenever it first aired on Cartoon Network. This is a fun way to revisit without having to axtually dedicate any real time to it.

The recut version of the show has actually moved along pretty well, at least as far as the podcast has covered. I'm having second thoughts once they actually get to Namek, though.

I started catching back up on the Exquisite Corps the past couple of days and just watched Dan's first episode after the holidays. I'd seen comments about Dan doing something frustrating, but I still spent like the first 10-15 minutes screaming at my screen WHAT ARE YOU DOING? It is so frustrating when they make such obvious, glaring mistakes like with the power station or the soldier dismissals. I wonder if it'd be better if they did this live? I wish they'd put these things out more frequently just so we can get to what feels like their inevitable failure sooner.

It's like Abby wanting to stop some mind control in the following episode, only to fire on a different Sectoid, seemingly on purpose.

I changed my mind, I got some Dragon Balls and I'm watching them, and this is some pretty great anime bullsh*t.

Now that Dan's decided he likes this, how do we get him to stream Asura's Wrath? It's exactly this kind of stuff, and would be hilarious.

Chaz wrote:

I changed my mind, I got some Dragon Balls and I'm watching them, and this is some pretty great anime bullsh*t.

Now that Dan's decided he likes this, how do we get him to stream Asura's Wrath? It's exactly this kind of stuff, and would be hilarious.

I don't know but that game needs added to back-compat post-haste.

Dan freaking out on twitter about the Ginyu Force is pretty much exactly what I expected.

That ridiculous sh*t is so him.

Also:

Give that one some time to build up. Laughed till it hurt toward the end.

mother of god.

Inspired by watching a big chunk of Exquisite Corps, I decided to reinstall XCOM Enemy Unknown, which I'd put about 25 hours into back in 2012 but faded off on. Does anyone know what DLC/expansions/whatever else they're playing with on Exquisite Corps? I think they're using Enemy Within. Anything else? Not sure I'll spring for the expansion, but maybe if I can find it cheaply enough somewhere...or maybe I'll just pick up XCOM 2 next time it's on sale...

They're using all the standard DLC plus Enemy Within. Though they failed out of both DLC chains, I think.

mrlogical wrote:

Inspired by watching a big chunk of Exquisite Corps, I decided to reinstall XCOM Enemy Unknown, which I'd put about 25 hours into back in 2012 but faded off on. Does anyone know what DLC/expansions/whatever else they're playing with on Exquisite Corps? I think they're using Enemy Within. Anything else? Not sure I'll spring for the expansion, but maybe if I can find it cheaply enough somewhere...or maybe I'll just pick up XCOM 2 next time it's on sale...

I ended up doing this, put the game down to easy, and didn't use the expansions or DLC. Basically breezed through the game and finally finished it.

Yeah, I started thinking I should go pick up Enemy Within, but then watched Abby's episode from last week and decided that, much as I'd like to mess around with mechs and genetic modifications, I'll have a much better chance of completing the game if I stick with the vanilla mode.

mrlogical wrote:

Inspired by watching a big chunk of Exquisite Corps, I decided to reinstall XCOM Enemy Unknown, which I'd put about 25 hours into back in 2012 but faded off on. Does anyone know what DLC/expansions/whatever else they're playing with on Exquisite Corps? I think they're using Enemy Within. Anything else? Not sure I'll spring for the expansion, but maybe if I can find it cheaply enough somewhere...

It's $10 on iOS.

The mechs actually make the game a whole lot easier. I don't quite understand how their play is putting people off the DLC so much. They make the game easier, not harder.

LarryC wrote:

The mechs actually make the game a whole lot easier. I don't quite understand how their play is putting people off the DLC so much. They make the game easier, not harder.

More moving parts? I assume every DLC pack means more to manage, and that's more difficult.

So bold. So true.

Pure gold.

I'm not worried about the mechs or the gene mods making the game harder, rather, it's seeing the EXALT missions and base invasion stuff that are making me think, much as I'd like those additions, I'm not sure I want to deal with the extra trouble. Also, just the idea that adding more content means more stuff I need to complete to reach the end of the game.

Found out that I agree with Dan on something. That the Skellig section of Witcher 3 is slow and ponderous and overlong. I found it the weakest part of the game.

Brilliant.

I could have happily listened to Jeff and Samantha Kalman just chatter about things for another couple hours.

I worried I'd have to wait until Tuesday to get any Billy Mitchell reactions, but happily they have devoted a large chunk of UPF to getting higher Donkey Kong scores than Mitchell's records.