@kanerobot:Don't be so defensive, makes you sound like a fanboy. They said this video might still be good and they are not wrong the site talks about wrestling way more with Dan on the site. It's not so concentrated outside the power bombcast yes, but it's still way more compare to before. I can see why someone would not like how much more wrestling is on the site.
I'm putting way too much thought into this, but wrasslin' is way out in front for extraneous topics that consistently come up on GB, so understandably some people won't (and also will) love that.
Nothing else in my mind comes close. Anime, ever so slightly (and in a much more ironic fashion) than wrestling. Not even music (or rap/hip-hop majorately) or film comes up as much. I think people get a little shitty that whenever Dan is around, there is wrasslin talk. No one else has this strong an effect, and if they did, it was Austin. Dan is like a one-track-minded kid, it's Nintendo, wrestling, food shenanigans... and... not much else.
Whenever Jason is around they talk fighting games, and Brad, well... it was DOTA for a while. Drew of course is the sim/military/F1 guru. But realistically they generally have a gaming context. Wrasslin' seems to have less. Alex doesn't talk about it ceaselessly like Dan does, and he's obviously heavily invested in wrasslin'.
I'm happy to not partake in the wrasslin' stuff and that's fine for me as I can't absorb all the content GB puts out anyway so it's all good.
If the site spreads out in various directions somewhat equally thats cool. Brad with the developer chat was awesome. More of that please. Perhaps more of Jeff reviewing energy drinks/food. More Gundam reviews from Vinnie, more table top games from Drew and Rory.
Well I guess I'm the only GB user that don't really know who Kenny Omega is. Other than being a wrassler obviously.
Shame I don't really care much about wrestling since a lot of GB content constantly have references to wrestling in them.
This video might still be really good but the constant wrestling focus this website has had since Dan started has begun to slowly kill a lot of my enjoyment in GB's content. I mostly love Dan's contributions and his energy but it would be really cool if he could go through just one podcast or ql without mentioning anything wrestling related.
Sorry for the mini rant but I felt like I just needed to say something about it. It's probably cool if you are really into wrestling and all but as someone who isn't it can be pretty tiresome.
I realize I might get a lot of flack for this comment but it's how I feel about it. I might watch this video at some point, and maybe Kenny Omega is really cool, but I just can't stand any more wrestling stuff at this moment.
As a non-American (and therefore non-wrasslin' fan), I concur. That being said - I won't continue to watch this video, and that's fine. With the loss of Austin, let's hope someone with less mainstream tastes can fill his shoes a little more.
For those interested in game technical trickery, I found this website by a cool duder who reverse engineers (or examines at least) different features of different games to figure out how the smart game devs actually did the things that you see on screen. He's started doing videos instead of just articles for the examinations.
It's absolutely fascinating and shows you how much problem solving is required in programming, albeit on a more art/design-side basis.
As a non-programmer, (apart from super simple parametric architectural stuff), I love seeing behind the curtain like this. For some people that don't know what UV maps are and the like it could be a little dense at times.
As a certified, legal 100% upside-down Australian, who has kangas in the back yard, a big knife, corks on my hat, thinks Fosters is piss and has a boomerang,... let me just say that NO Australian says shrimp. We call them prawns...
I liked playing this when it was free, but godamn was this Nolan North insufferable or what? He's spoilt most recent games for me now because he's had that ubiquitous period where you couldn't get away from him combined with 90% garbage writing. Uncharted 4 seems like it may break the pattern for me. Troy seems to have more range.
Also the final puzzle (gold?) room irritated me as it was obvious it was a secret as the explosions z-buffer showed behind the wall panel. I spent ages as a red herring trying to open it up close by, and of course that didn't turn out to be the solution. Oops.
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