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Giant Bombcast 01/14/2014

The health experts at Giant Bomb finally wade into the flu vaccine debate, then we discuss the deeper nuances of Action Biker for the Commodore 64, some of this Dota 2 business, and end up talking about Ryu's magical/not-magical abilities some more.

The Giant Bombcast is the world's most beloved video game podcast, and now it's available in video form.

Jan. 14 2014

Posted by: Jeff

In This Episode:

Action Biker

Gaikai

Dota 2

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Time sure "Flu" by listening to this week's Bombcast!

...

(walks away, puts gun in mouth, pulls trigger)

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Its time to blow this bomb up

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Hadokens: Fireballs are Magic.

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Here's the match talked about in the podcast: http://dotabuff.com/matches/466655562

Match ID: 466655562

I think I made a tactical error by not base racing at the end. Gonna have to watch the replay later and measure it out.

(P.S. It looks like I had no items at the end, but that's cause I dropped 3x Divine Rapiers.)

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Back to skipping through Dota conversations. Ugh.

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In the Bay Area alone, a 23 year old and a 48 year old, both previously healthy, got the flu and died this month.

Get your goddamn flu shot Vinny! (and everyone else!)

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Ceci n'est pas un premier commentaire.

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"Michael Myers" has been a custom game type... "staple" in Call of Duty for a while (at least since CoD4), so I'm guessing that that is why they added a Michael Myers thing.

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I just discovered that there was a premium version of the podcast. I think the ads are great, though. So eff this version in the nicest way possible. :)

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Is it just me, or are the United States the only country where you ever hear this "flu shot" talk?

I never hear about this "controversy" anywhere else other than US news/entertainment outlets, and don't even remember ever taking one (I might have when I was a kid though, unsure).

I remember I had a few friends that took a flu shot when the swine flu was a big deal, but that was about it.

Americans can be weird.

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Squirt.

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Back to skipping through Dota conversations. Ugh.

I'm sure they're going to run the next 3+ hours podcast by you first to make sure it only contains stuff you personally like...

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Dota 2 > Life

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Vinny pretending to care about DOTA is hilarious!

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The faculty I study at developed the most deadly flu strain ever known to man.

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Anybody else now interested in seeing a medical drama with Vinny in the lead? Doctor Vinny's got medicine for ya!

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I had shingles when I worked as a bus boy. I was 18. They say Shingles can be caused by stress. Hey. Everyone. Don't be a bus boy.

Still have a gross scar behind my right ear from it. Lucky I didn't get it on my face like a lot of people.

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You know what that means?

Brads Sick

A.ready lol'd

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Man Flu is worse than child birth, believe!

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I am ok with these advertisements. They are very funny

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Huh? What? Whats going on?
Fuck, I passed out around 40 minutes when Brad was talking gibberish and missed the rest of the podcast.

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Wegman's Freezer Section only store in Antartica

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Listening to you guys talk about food while eating a steak with pita, cocktail pickle/onion/olive/pepper skewer and salad.

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how many bombcasts do i inject to defeat flu

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I had to stop the podcast on this screen a couple times and when I came back and clicked play the time stamp would continue properly but the podcast would start from the previous 5-10 minutes. Has anyone else come across this issue before?

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"It ends with Zebras!"

I love you, Drew.

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I had shingles instead of chickenpox as a kid. Answers that question!

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Hey on Drew's Brad Weird Science Question, Drew was looking for the answer of Convection.

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Stamps.com never had it soo goood.

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I know how you could archive your Dota 2 games with voice chat, Brad. It's called The Daily Dota.

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Street Fighter guys are not Wizards they are Monks.

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Dude jeff taste test go please this has to be filmed

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My god, Jeff blind burger taste test - gotta happen this Friday.

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I took 3 semesters of woodworking in high school and loved it. Did pretty well in the first two classes. In the third class I designed my own project in CAD and made it out of oak. Turned out like crap, go figure. I've thought about trying to get back into woodworking since then but it seems really expensive.

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The idea that chicken and turkey aren't "meat" or that "meat" in the title of a food implies beef is fucking crazy, and I'm an American-ass American who has lived in America all his life.

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More debates about meat balls lol

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Why is there an extra hour tacked onto the end?

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Wait...what..?

I paused the podcast and resumed, and it went back like, an hour 'cause it capped at 3 hours..

D:

Edit: Nevermind, I fixed it by refreshing and skipping ahead to where I was. Also, I'm pretty sure I could do that whole fast food challenge thing myself.

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For Jeff: "the Ushe" was the way that Saints Row 4 spelled that term, if I remember it correctly. I think it was in one of the last missions where you have to craft that key for Kenzie.

For Brad: Sheetz is pretty cool. Central Pennsylvania was a hotbed for it, and Wawa, the southeast PA/Philly convenience store chain has been using it now, too.

Also: McDonald's needs to bring back the Cheddar Melt. Forget the McRib.

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To answer Drew's question about cold radiating.

"Within a body that exchanges no energy or matter with its surroundings, temperature tends to become spatially uniform as time passes. When a path permeable only to heat is open between two bodies, energy always transfers spontaneously as heat from a hotter body to a colder one. The transfer rate depends on the thermal conductivity of the path or boundary between them. Between two bodies with the same temperature, no heat flows. These bodies are said to be in thermal equilibrium."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperature

Temperature is just a measurement of energy so to say that something is cold is a subjective observation or relative to what you're comparing it to. Hope that clears it up some.

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All joking aside, I really hope none of you are impressionable enough to take medical advice from this video game podcast.

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Wizard, sorcerer, whatever, if Ryu is not a god, but he studies supernatural shit like throwing fireballs, that's magic.

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No one's more excited than Jeff when he bashes on a game that people liked.

It's getting kinda tiring, to be honest.

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These ads may be one of the greatest things to happen the podcast, keep it up guys!

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"It's an endothermic reaction"

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If I saw Jeff walking down the street I would be confident that that man can identify burgers.

In regards to "meat" though. If I hear the generic term "meat" I usually think of a conglomerate which is mixed with different animals. However, I do default to cow meat first before I consider other animal meat.

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Popeyes (spicy) chicken is actually edible. KFC is straight up garbage. What the fuck is Jeff talking about??