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Giant Bombcast 01/21/2014

Giant Bomb checks in this week with timely coverage of Dark Souls, Broken Age, OlliOlli, Beyond 2000, cataloguing your classics, how to kill the teens of Maniac Mansion, and the precise number of Atari 2600s a person should own.

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

Jan. 21 2014

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Water in 0 gravity: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntQ7qGilqZE

Fish in 0 gravity: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6npJwuiO8E

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The science bits are the best fucking conversations on the bombcast! Vinny's scientific curiosity is amazing.

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This is... Bombcast. Right?

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An...ime?

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Anime Dark Souls is for jerks.

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Welp, looks like Vinny paid the most attention in high school. My rage was slightly quelled when he mentioned van der Waals' forces over the cacophony of almost right (surface tension) and completely wrong (water repels water) ideas.

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That may be my favorite image they've used for the bombcast in a long time. It makes me think of the guys dressed up and cosplaying as various characters from Bleach.

Which Bleach character do you think best fits each of them?

Vinny - Tessai Tsukabishi

Tessai Tsukabishi

Drew - Kisuke Urahara

Kisuke Urahara

Patrick - Love Aikawa

Love Aikawa

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I don't know anything about Bleach, but that fighting game by Treasure is kinda great.

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Uh oh, does the art mean that this week's podcast is for jerks?

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This image can only mean great things.

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Dark Souls is the new DOTA and I'm super ok with this!

i know what you mean but when i read that sentence my eyes start bleeding?

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Anyone who skips the ads in favour of the premium podcast hates fun. I said it.

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The DS Bleach fighting games were pretty solid. Too bad just about every other game with the license (with the exception of the SRPG) is complete ass.

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Giant Bomb dot Com - your first stop for anime!

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The Pencil Fields of the Phillipines!

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There's a comic book where they use feng shui and meditation to time travel.

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Can someone timestamp any talk of Demons/Dark Souls, DOTA, League, anime, Drew's type-A hipster self betterment lifestyle activities, Vinny's parenting, Brad's e-sports news and Jeff's complaints about some weekend console update tedium so I can skip them?

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Dark Souls? Oh yeah, that hot new release Dark Souls. I can't wait to listen!

Edit: Love me some Giant Sciencecast!

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I know things are slow right now in the industry but I'm getting really sick of the pop/pseudo science talk.

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Coast to Coast AM: The Bombcast

Art Bell and George Noory don't have shit on Dr Caravella

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Can someone timestamp any talk of Demons/Dark Souls, DOTA, League, anime, Drew's type-A hipster self betterment lifestyle activities, Vinny's parenting, Brad's e-sports news and Jeff's complaints about some weekend console update tedium so I can skip them?

Listen to the first 5 minutes and then turn it off.

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You can tell a game is good if Jeff doesn't like it.

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This is my kind of science.

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I fucking adore this cover art.

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Hey everyone it's Wednesday

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That may be my favorite image they've used for the bombcast in a long time. It makes me think of the guys dressed up and cosplaying as various characters from Bleach.

Which Bleach character do you think best fits each of them?

Gerst-Rukia: The New Sailor Bubba.

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I think this is like the fourth time Jeff has mentioned how you can kill your party in Maniac Mansion on the podcast.

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The Giant Bombcast is for Jerks

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@vuud said:

I know things are slow right now in the industry but I'm getting really sick of the pop/pseudo science talk.

What if I told you, that by placing tiny classified ads....

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Water does want to stick together, its called hydrogen bonding.

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This podcast reminded me I have a Vectrex with like 20 games and the dumb screen covers that came with them out in my garage.

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you think bleach could sue?

e: king more like

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I have to say Drew has really been on point lately.

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Looks at cover for this weeks podcast . . . . ah hahaha. Takes a deep breath...nice one.

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@jonkrag said:

Water does want to stick together, its called hydrogen bonding.

Sure. I'll believe anything you say Dr. McKay

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@pepsiman said:

@ghostytrickster said:

Hell yeah that Bleach game kicks ass.

This. Treasure's Bleach games are very readily enjoyable with or without an appreciation for the source material. Just damn solid fighters all around. I'll choose to interpret the use of that box art as a sign that it was high time the masses be reminded of their magnificence.

Yup. It's too bad they didn't make any more in the series after 2nd and it turned into some kind of...weird strategy thing, I think?

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Kinda bums me out to hear Brad mention that he couldn't get them to record the Strider video because they deemed it too short to bother. Most of us are clawing at any content that might appear on the site as long as the guys are in it - it can be 5 min long whatever guys, no one really expects professional video editing.

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My GOD the pencil talk....I'm crying

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OlliOlli looks sooooo gooood.

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@humanity said:

Kinda bums me out to hear Brad mention that he couldn't get them to record the Strider video because they deemed it too short to bother. Most of us are clawing at any content that might appear on the site as long as the guys are in it - it can be 5 min long whatever guys, no one really expects professional video editing.

This

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@rachelepithet said:

Can someone timestamp any talk of Demons/Dark Souls, DOTA, League, anime, Drew's type-A hipster self betterment lifestyle activities, Vinny's parenting, Brad's e-sports news and Jeff's complaints about some weekend console update tedium so I can skip them?

Listen to the first 5 minutes and then turn it off.

BOOM

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I wish I was a small business owner in North America, so I would deserve this warm welcome.

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Jeff don't have the guts to play Dark Souls.

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Anime!

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Bleach - best shonen!

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"Hardcoreness" - Drew Scanlon 2014

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I am serious about this, I would pay an extra ten dollars on my subscription fee for a GB science podcast.