The Giant Beastcast: Episode 124

@sethmode: Seinfeld is one of my favorite sitcoms and I have never laughed at a joke in any Seinfeld stand-up set I've ever watched. Fine if you want to take umbrage with my choice of terminology, but I think he's a genuinely bad stand-up comedian who has done great work as a performer elsewhere.

I was going to mention Sonic Dreams. But it's actually "Sonic Dreams Collection".

@alex: No umbrage taken! I didn't find it annoying or anything, I was just struck because it seemed overly harsh for someone that I think has done a lot for modern stand-up comedy. I personally think the biggest negative for Seinfeld is that his stuff hasn't aged well as other comedians have done his shtick way, way better.

The Amazon "treasure truck" is garbage, when are they going to ship my pre-order?

That post about most time spent on a game made me sad. Checked WoW played counter for my main character due to it - 186 days and still going..

Sunshine is by far the greatest Mario game. The only ones who hate it are those who are bad at it. It's a difficult game, but isn't unfair. It's like SoulsBorne; you need to spend time working out what to do, but once you get good enough to do it, you understand it's greatness.

Viny is thinking of actual ice cream company territory wars. Not the Glasgow ones. It was detailed in an 'This American Life' podcast.

I'm so sorry a radiolab episode. Listen here. http://www.radiolab.org/story/cold-war/

Never, ever, check /played on WoW, for your own sake. And it comes from someone that stopped playing in 2009 but was already way ahead of your counter.

They can totally do a QL of Total Warhammer 2 without finishing the campaign.

Maybe I missed it but it seemed like no one said Re-Animator during the horror movie discussion to which I say, hey, man...Re-Animator.

I was excited to happen upon a treasure truck with snes classics, and then I walked up to find out you still have to reserve it on your damn phone and they were sold out, despite there being piles of them sitting on a table. What's the point of a truck if you can't just walk up and buy something? Is there a future where I walk up to a food truck and they tell me they're sold out because of online orders? Kill me now.

I'm definitely more invested in the HDMI switcher suggestion that a reasonable man should be.

that sonic quiz had me in stitches.

Looooooooooveeee the beastcast!!!!!

Edit: I love Dan and all but how could he think Winnipeg is in Toronto!? Both are cities! In different parts of the country!

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/05/31/nyregion/a-king-of-ice-cream-a-renegade-upstart-and-a-simmering-turf-war.html

New York City ice cream truck turf wars are a real thing.

@fingerprints: Still disappointed that radiolab stopped picking scientific episode subjects a few years ago, and a majority of their episodes now are just "here's a fun little anecdote that happened somewhere that had nothing to do with STEM in the slightest, let's spend the next 25 minutes interviewing every single person remotely related to this story that has nothing to do with anything."

I want more Alex Navarro Stephen A Smith impressions. Great podcast!

Stephen A. Smith is an entertaining man.

I would love a Wicker Man Film and 40's, and I DON'T mean the Nick Cage one. The original from the 70's is a legitimate classic, and would make for a great episode around this time of year. It's such a shame that the meme of the bad remake completely overshadows the original in so many peoples' minds...

If there has to be a "bit," at least do both so you can have a frame of reference.

@mems1224: thank you for that! That was great.

Every raid in Destiny can be done in under an hour. VOG would take my clan 40 minutes, Crota about 20, Kingsfall about an hour, and Vosik about an hour, although we barely played that last one.

Are the Beasties starting twitter beef with Stephen A Smith?

BLUEBERRIES!

If you go Flawless in Trials or beat a Prestige Nightfall you get an aura that lasts a week.

The highest power level in-game right now is 305, the highest you can pump up gear is 350, but you can't go up that high right now. Might get unlocked later on, might be a DLC thing, who can say.

@avantegardener: Fuck that made me spit my drink

We get it, Dan....you (and Jeff) don't like simulation wrestling games, but that doesn't mean they're bad. In fact...gameplay-wise 2K18 looks to be the best there's ever been realistically speaking (even if they still have a long way to go as far as tag team AI is concerned), and while I would love another arcade approach be it All Stars or Capcom suddenly getting the itch to revive Slam Masters (please revive Slam Masters), I'm not gonna knock 2K for the efforts and improvements they've made with the last four entries in the Smackdown series. Remember Nitro? Backstage Assault? The Acclaim titles? Those were bad wrestling games. It's like there's no grey area with you guys, it has to fit your strict vision of what wrestling should be and if not....it sucks.

Tragic Sonic and Sonic Pleasures killed me. I couldn't stop laughing for a minute. At my age it can kill you.

I'm with Alex, when I can walk into a store and buy something then I'll consider it - the Amazon Treasure Truck does not seem like a fun, cool, thing. If I have to jump through hoops to buy a product, I'll pass, it's not worth it.

@donaldb: 100% but you still need to give the bad camera to those haters. it IS bad but i still love the game.

half life 2 being jeff's most played game is like a beautiful poem

TAke a look, y'all:

And Vinny is actually right, the Players Association for the NFL is kinda a joke. NBA has guaranteed contracts

Don't throw trash in the street, Bakalar. Spend 30 seconds of effort and put it in a can.

I watched Jerry Seinfeld's stand-up earlier this year. It was pretty decent, I laughed a lot (as did the rest of the crowd).

It was funny when Alex moved from crediting Larry David for everything good on Seinfeld to mocking the final episode which Larry came up with and defends to this day as being "clever".

I live outside of Phoenix, it's likely I will never see an Amazon Treasure Truck in my life, but I'm real glad they apparently cut down on the amount of pre-orders available to regular people so they could put stock on a truck to sell to the people lucky enough to live or work in the Manhattan area

Jeff seemed a little ornery in this one!

Alex, thank you so much for finally being a person that pronounces Ninja Gaiden as "guy-den" and not incorrectly as "gay-den".... Drives me crazy sometimes

Oooohh, boy.... feeling overwhelmed by Cuphead's difficulty while still in world 1 is not a good sign.

There's a noticeable difficulty spike as you enter each new world. By the time you get to the final boss, the mechanics of the world 1 bosses seem almost friendly by comparison.

I wouldn't be surprised if Vinny, Alex, and Jeff have moved on to something else this time next week. Cuphead is definitely not for everyone.

If you guys absolutely want to see it through, my suggestion is to play co-op. With its infinite revives, its much easier.

What made me lose respect for Stephen A. Smith was him suggesting that women were at fault for provoking domestic violence. Then there are other incidents of his sexist commentary like telling Ayesha Curry -Stephen Curry's wife- to be pretty and quiet. He was comparing her to Lebron James wife as in to not complain about the officiating and let her husband do his job. There is the sycophant interview with Floyd Mayweather.

There is a quote by former Chief Justice of the U.S Supreme Court by Earl Warren that goes, "I always turn to the sports page first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures. Watching two guys yelling about sports everyday is not fun to watch. I feel that sports journalism is reaching an all-time lows.

A WHOLE WEEK.




Destiny's such a joke.

Dan's response to Stardew Valley on the Switch was great. Just a low grumble. Also, I haven't put that game down since it came out several days ago. It's so good! Since I heard it was coming to Switch I refused to buy it on anything else and I have 0 regrets. I'm flying to Chicago tomorrow and can't wait to play the whole time.

@xeirus: those events happen weekly why should it be longer than that.

A temporary visual effect for a perfect run is a joke.
Temporary rewards are always lame.

But grind until you die of old age I guess.

Almost caught up! I have to say, @vinny is the only parent "I know" that doesn't make having kids sound like hell on earth. I love when he tells his dad stories. I'm happy he was able to get Max a SNES Classic.

Right there with you about The Blob, @alex! I was pumped to hear you mention it, since it seems like nobody ever does. Now if people would just remember Killer Klowns from Outerspace!