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I LOVED Enslaved and had literally no idea this game existed until now. Good Quick Look. Thanks Brad and Jason.

With her reckless Shine betting and YOLO style charging ahead, I get the feeling that Abby will get everyone killed pretty quickly. Dan will keep HIMSELF alive at least.

As someone with very little interest in wrestling, this looks infinitely more fun and interesting than something like Fire Pro or Take Two's offering.

@jensonb: That song has always been my favorite part of the entire game, so yes. It's always been there.

@ulquiokani: I think in some cases, you just have to pick your battles in a way. With the world I mean. Yeah, you could spend a lot of time researching the ethical backgrounds of every company and choose where to spend your money accordingly. Or you could shop at the places that have what you want at a price you deem fair. What a lot of people apparently see as willful ignorance is probably more just a stance of efficient utilitarianism. It doesn't benefit Dan's (for example) life greatly to shop somewhere less convenient and more expensive other than to feel better. Is that selfish? Who is to say, really. What some people need to understand is that other people have very different world views. And different doesn't necessarily mean wrong. I'm sure it would shock a lot of folks here to know that we share this community with people of every political affiliation, religion, and philosophy imaginable. I don't think anything Dan said was wrong, even if I disagreed with him. He explained his position pretty succinctly. Applying mine or anyone else's set of ideologies to Dan and then criticizing him for not conforming is just a bad look on them more than him.

This was a great podcast. I'll say that right up top. But I gotta say I'm really growing wary of this podcast turning into "Set Karl Pilkington Dan Ryckert up to say something silly and then laugh to each other with a smug superiority". Dan is a man with...opinions. And sometimes they're pretty out there! But that's ok.

Walmart as a company is not great. But as a place to shop it's great! That's why he shops there and doesn't work there. Not everybody has to have the same level of consumer ethics, you know? Unless we're making everything we use, we're all supporting some bad shit. Walmart is more obvious about it, but in the end it's all the same thing. Anyway that's just an example. I'm seeing this a lot in every podcast.

Edit: Ok after reading some more comments, I'm gonna say that everyone has a way stronger opinion on Walmart then I thought.

It's a complicated issue. Walmart is a bad place to work. So....don't work there. But some people really need the work. Well, some people really need to shop there. Demonizing people who shop there is not the solution.

MacGruber is a fine movie. But if Abby agrees with Dan that it's the BEST COMEDY EVER MADE, she needs to turn in her Comedian Card ASAP.

This was a great video. Ben and Rorie's snapping back and forth and Jeff automatic "Hell no" response to Hearthstone being highlights.

Also Jason should be on Arcade Cam for the whole show. It's awesome.

That this game exists at all is surprising to me. Why, after making completely unique games in different genres, would McMillen decide to just make a less charming retread of Meat Boy?

The Brad/Ben/Jeff dynamic is really good in this video. I can see Ben is finding his spot at GBWest and the chemistry is great.

The Destiny games are weird to me. On a technical level it's so impressive. It's polished and well crafted and expensive looking. And yet I can't help but think that it all feels so fucking bland. It's overproduced mediocrity. A bombastic, flashy slog full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. The character and enemy designs look like rejects from Halo and Mass Effect.

And yet a part of me really wants to like these games. I just don't know why Destiny feels like some Bungie Lite side project when it could be the most epic, ambitious thing in gaming.