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Murder Island: Sgt. Ben Pack's Murder Island Club Band

A wretched time is guaranteed for all.

We get the team together to see if we can make it through PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds.

Sep. 11 2017

Cast: Jeff, Vinny, Alex, Ben, Dan

Posted by: Abby

In This Episode:

PUBG: Battlegrounds

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"YOU DIDN'T HAVE A WEATHERMAN NAMED STORM FIELDS!"

The NYC area had tons of great news reporter/weather reporter names like that. Storm Field, Sam Champion, etc. And then there was the guy who was just known as Mr. G because I guess his last name was hard to pronounce?

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There should be an episode where they play with Will Smith.

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Binary Domain sucks

- Dan Ryckert

And i thought his utmost heel act was on Exquisite Corps

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@estragon: To be fair, even though I am a person who absolutely loves Binary Domain, it does kind of suck.

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@meierthered: "The Battlegrounds content is getting hard to watch, not really GB's fault, everybody and their pet are streaming it, and every game related site is blabbering about the most mundane "news" from it."

Granted, but I don't go and watch every tube jerker who is streaming it. One guy in the comments wanted to go see someone really good at it (a South Korean Lady as it turns out) I understand that. But I am enjoying these streams cause of the crew. Same with Breakfast and Battlegrounds. I agree about X-com, but I may change my mind. Blue Bombing barely carries me, Steal my Sunshine I have come around on, actually.

But I am a child at heart, and pretend picking up a gun always gives me a raise. Though being one-shot killed by a crossbow, and also getting blasted right out the door with a great loadout, (and scope city), felt rather nasty.....

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"I sold that gun because I didn't know why I would need to see the radar while I'm aiming." -- Dan Ryckert

That explained a lot. Including what happens in this game

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I can understand disliking Austin Powers, although I still think they're pretty decent films.

What I cannot understand is thinking Goldmember is better than Spy Who Shagged Me. Goldmember is absolutely terrible, Spy Who Shagged Me is fantastic.

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Abby doesn't know what a fjord is.

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Stop trying to make "Bo bo bo bo bo bo bo bo bo, bo-neless buffalo, WINGS!" happen.Ben.

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The Adventures of Pete & Pete gave us ARTIE, THE STRONGEST MAN... IN THE WORLD.

Therefore, it must be treasured.

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I originally heard "Wizard Towers" on PyrionFlax's stream when the game was first released. Their reasoning (I think) was that they look like those stone buildings or structures along the wall of a castle where the top of a column is wider than the bottom (think Lego wizard tower set) but without the pointed top.

It also looks like there's a "Wizard Tower" building in Clash of Clans that looks very similar too.

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jeff "letting eggs dry out back" gerstmann

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Good work team! That last match was the real deal

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Yeah they're done with this game it seems.

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You absolutley should kill yourself if your team die almost straight away its just polite that guy did the right thing Alex punk'd his team by keeping on playing.

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@threeoct: Eerie, Indiana was the better show.

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@andyrazzer: They probably just didn't consider how long he'd be alive and out of action. I agree it would help keep things spicy, though.

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Also best pete and pete is the one where michael stipe guest stars.

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@baladec said:

I originally heard "Wizard Towers" on PyrionFlax's stream when the game was first released. Their reasoning (I think) was that they look like those stone buildings or structures along the wall of a castle where the top of a column is wider than the bottom (think Lego wizard tower set) but without the pointed top.

It also looks like there's a "Wizard Tower" building in Clash of Clans that looks very similar too.

The people I play with call them "fuck boy shacks" so seems everyone has a name.

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Looks like they're inching their way there, but the late game is gonna be a killer. They always get picked off going prone in the open with no cover. Maybe don't do that anymore!

And the best Pete & Pete ep is probably the one where the kids try to stay up for 11 nights

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Yo Abby thanks for the good 1993 representation, it's good to see.

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Coming to America absolutely holds up. John Landis used to be so damn good. I love Trading Places (thats got some corny shit, like a little Dan Akroyd blackface), but Coming to America is still really fucking good.

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Fuckboy shacks are the little shacks (usually) out in the middle of nowhere. Nobody calls wizard towers fuckboy shacks, that doesn't make any sense.

@baladec said:

I originally heard "Wizard Towers" on PyrionFlax's stream when the game was first released. Their reasoning (I think) was that they look like those stone buildings or structures along the wall of a castle where the top of a column is wider than the bottom (think Lego wizard tower set) but without the pointed top.

It also looks like there's a "Wizard Tower" building in Clash of Clans that looks very similar too.

The people I play with call them "fuck boy shacks" so seems everyone has a name.

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Dan's right. That was a terrible music video. Ugh.

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"Who does the crimes when the criminals do the crimies?" will be the title of Alan Moore's next graphic novel, "The Crimies."

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The best (only) answer to "what is a Mini-14?"

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Looks like they're inching their way there, but the late game is gonna be a killer. They always get picked off going prone in the open with no cover. Maybe don't do that anymore!

And at the bottom of a hill to boot. You're basically no less visible a target than if you just crouch, and a hell of a lot less mobile.

Also, don't run out of cover to revive people in the same spot where they just went down! I know that was a bad situation no matter what, but a little common sense goes a long way.

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Vinny at 39 minutes you found P18C auto pistol and passed it by. With extended mag close range, that thing is 25 rounds in someones face in 1.5 seconds at 1,000 rounds per minute. If you have not tried it, it is a blast for close range combat. Remember to click the fire mode though or your screwed, been there before way to many times.

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Abby doesn't know what a fjord is.

Nor do I, and I'm pretty sure I've googled it several times in my life.

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Alex killing the shirt-game yet again, sweet!

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The Refused are a good band, despite their lyrics.

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God, Big & Rich make me legitimately angry when I have to hear them. Just nothing but pandering hick bs.

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honk if you like to honk it

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WTF?!?! Coming to America always holds up!!

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Abby popped a fool in the dome with the 8x under pressure. Best game yet.

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@skamando said:

Coming to America absolutely holds up. John Landis used to be so damn good. I love Trading Places (thats got some corny shit, like a little Dan Akroyd blackface), but Coming to America is still really fucking good.

Ugh, every time I think about that train sequence in Trading Places, I get irrationally angry. An otherwise excellent movie, ruined by a scene that feels like a few pages from an entirely different script got mixed in by mistake. Because as we all know, any movie about commodities trading wouldn't be complete without one man in a shitty gorilla costume being sodomized by another man in a slightly less shitty gorilla costume.

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The whole honk bit was great. I was laughing the whole time.

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@skamando said:

Coming to America absolutely holds up. John Landis used to be so damn good. I love Trading Places (thats got some corny shit, like a little Dan Akroyd blackface), but Coming to America is still really fucking good.

Yep, it's still a funny movie.

It's so annoying to hear GB talk about any old media basically at this point. If it feels older (cause you know, it is) it "doesn't hold up" and that's all the discussion is. It's become a big pet peeve of mine because the people who do it think they are being heady when they say it or perceptive and they are saying nothing. Older movies have different pacing, we know.

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@porousshield said:

Abby doesn't know what a fjord is.

Nor do I, and I'm pretty sure I've googled it several times in my life.

They are the crinkly bits round Norway and won Slartibartfast an award. I thought it was common knowledge...

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Thank you sir. And yes the Detroit Coney is a local staple. As a Detroiter I've always preferred the Chicago Coney. The traditional coney chili isn't really all that good.

Fun fact! The "I'm a dog" song is titled "Hot Dog" and the AudioNetwork catalog describes it as "Manic blues rockabilly chase with doggy lyrics. Jazz cat interlude at 1'08."

It also includes the factoid "One popular variety of chili dog is the Coney Island hot dog, which, despite its name, originated in Detroit, not Brooklyn."

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You guys should try to have a teamleader for every game to help with faster decisions.

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You absolutley should kill yourself if your team die almost straight away its just polite that guy did the right thing Alex punk'd his team by keeping on playing.

Pretty much. The unspoken rule with my group is if it's still the first circle or earlier and someone dies, we all quit/kill ourselves.

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Man, they really shoulda called this one "MURDER 15LAND."

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@doncabesa said:
@chummy8 said:

These videos, like the Blue Bombin videos, are best listened to as podcasts than actually watching.

Maybe it's because I don't really get the appeal of PUBG. Whatever, still entertaining to listen to.

Agreed, the weekly stream content has featured 3 games I really don't like at all recently between PUBG (burnt out), Xcom 2 (no interest), and Megaman (fuck megaman). But their conversations are so interesting and funny that it's still highly enjoyable. I wish they'd finish Noctropolis.

Well if you don't like any video games I'm not sure what content would ever satisfy you. All three games are great, stop playing videogames with your pinky in the air and give them a shot.

Of course, I'm just joking, I also can't watch any PUBG content. I have 300 hours in the game and watching other people play it kinda drives me nuts. I will, however, listen to their banter while doing other stuff.

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THE '420 Booty Wizard' of TI5 fame?

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Allright, Im watching that Binary Domain quick look again !