GWJ Conference Call Episode 687

Pokemon Sword and Shield, Revisiting Classics: Metroid Fusion and Rockband, Becoming a Gamer, Your Emails, and More!

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Cory and Amanda are joined by special guest Nicole Banks to discuss accidentally becoming a gamer.

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00:02:28 Metroid Fusion
00:10:21 Pokemon Sword & Shield
00:30:10 Rockband
00:35:50 Becoming a Gamer
01:02:13 Your Emails

I believe it's around the 39 mark when the premise of Cory's topic goes flying out the window.

Rat Boy wrote:

I believe it's around the 39 mark when the premise of Cory's topic goes flying out the window.

I thought it was earlier than that tbh.

Thanks for listening, y'all. This was a fun one for me.

Came here just to post my favorite line from this episode. Had me chuckling for a good segment of my commute. Thank you!

Turns out it got the attention of others, too. You're both close enough to right that we'll call it a draw.

Cory Banks at 38:10 Guess what, Tootles? You're a gamer!

Demiurge wrote:
Rat Boy wrote:

I believe it's around the 39 mark when the premise of Cory's topic goes flying out the window.

I thought it was earlier than that tbh. :D

gorilla wrote:

Cory Banks at 38:10 Guess what, Tootles? You're a gamer!

So I was fifty seconds off.

Awesome episode and thanks for taking my question! Btw my PAX story is pretty funny now but was embarrassing at the time.

I think one of the most epic fails from the Overwatch crew came courtesy of myself.

It was a 6v6 GWJ vs GWJ custom game on the map Busan. We were fighting for control of the second control point and it was just about overtime. I was running back as Ana, got to the point by myself ready to fight. I can’t quite remember why (probably being a cocky jerk) I wanted to wave hello to the other team, and instead ended up in a canned, unskippable emote if Ana reaching back, grabbing a beach ball and serving it. This whole sequence takes a good 5 second where you literally can’t move outside of the animation. So there I am, instead of fighting for the point, lobbing a beach ball at the other team. I was yelling at myself “Nooooo! Not the beach ball!!!!”.

We lost. And “beach ball-ing it” has become part of our lexicon. I am equal parts proud and humiliated.

jdzappa wrote:

Awesome episode and thanks for taking my question! Btw my PAX story is pretty funny now but was embarrassing at the time.

In my opinion, the developers acted like complete a-holes.

My epic fail: at a LAN party with my then friends/classmates we were playing Worms World Party. I'm fairly decent at the game, and was swinging the ninja rope like a boss. Until of course I missed my landing shot and gracefully plunged into a watery death.

The Worms network code sucked big time though. Meaning that there were 3-5 excrutiating seconds between my failure and the entire room bursting out in laughter (me included of course).