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The Giant Beastcast: Episode 150

It's our 150-ish episode! Come join us and special guest Jeff Gerstmann as we celebrate video games such as The Division, Shadow of War, Far Cry 5, and more! We also declare the end of nostalgia, confirm that all condiments are good condiments, and reveal our secret gamertag origin stories.

The Giant Bomb East team gathers to talk about the week in video games, their lives, and basically anything that interests them. All from New York City!

Apr. 6 2018

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Oh yeh, time for the Beastie.

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One fiddy yo

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Aw yiss

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aww yiss

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Free the homie Small Map! gang gang

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MORE JEFFS

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150!?

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Hot take - All condiments are bad. If your masking your foods flavor with condiments your eating bad food.

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Hot take - All condiments are bad. If your masking your foods flavor with condiments your eating bad food.

I mean, you're not wrong, but there is a difference between masking and complementing.

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@cyrusraven: The idea of condiments is to add to the flavor not mask it. If you're drenching your food in whatever sauce then yah, whatever thats your choice, but nothing wrong with adding a bit of sauce to here and there.

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For Vinny, if you end up liking the combat mechanics in the Division, I would recommend checking out the Underground. Its a bunch of randomized dungeons with a handful of different type of objectives. I really like it for grinding for gear!

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I repeat, if you're gonna do dick pill ads, just go all the way and make it Stree Overlord.

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Congrats on the 150! And good on you to end nostalgia. It's bad!

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Hot take - All condiments are bad. If your masking your foods flavor with condiments your eating bad food.

If you don't know what condiments are for, which is adding to a flavor not masking, then yes accurate.

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I liked Small Map better before he hit it big.

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Scrooge McDuck is not old money. Hence his number one dime (the first money he earned on the way to his financial empire).

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Whats with all the mustard hate. Its the king of condiments, sometimes I eat it with a spoon out of the jar. Although I'm not a fan of american mustards, have you tried French or English mustards or has American mustard scarred you all for life?

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Hot sauce on everything.

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BEASTCASTed...

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Being a picky eater sounds exhausting. I can’t imagine not eating something because of an unexpected condiment.

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This Small Map bit is the breakout bit of 2018.

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Did Jeff eat at Primanti Bros., by any chance? That’s a restaurant chain that puts coleslaw right into their sandwiches. It’s better than I expected, but surely if you’re not into coleslaw it’s a bit of a bummer.

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"The Division, Shadow of War, Far Cry 5" Oh joy. Only the most interesting and awesome open world westa-trash.

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don't even talk to me about dick pills unless it has the giantbomb endorsement

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@hassun: I don't know man, I always remember nostalgia so fondly...

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So I decide to listen to this episode because I want to hear the joke in the ad. And boy I did not expect a dick pill ads, I imagine the company pay well but to hear the GB crew talk about dick pills non ironically will forever be weird.

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@efesell said:

Being a picky eater sounds exhausting. I can’t imagine not eating something because of an unexpected condiment.

Yeah I feel like it is something you grow out of by the time you're like 17 and you start to want to grow up and expand your horizons more, but maybe that's just me.

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Vinny and Jeff just play on each other so well

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@curiosus: I love mustard, yet your post elicited a horrified expression on my face that my girlfriend saw and wondered aloud "what did Trump do now?" You eat it with a spoon?!

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that small map segment was pure gold. Any time Vinny and Jeff do something together its such a treat <3

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I don't know how i feel about joking about Stree Overlord and then selling dick pills ? Integrity anyone ?

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@sethmode said:

@curiosus: I love mustard, yet your post elicited a horrified expression on my face that my girlfriend saw and wondered aloud "what did Trump do now?" You eat it with a spoon?!

Yeah mustard is rad as hell but this honestly sort of distressing to think about.

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I was in tears through the ad :D the only thing more perfect would have been if the actual pills were Stree Overlord

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I do not like ketchup, mustard, or mayo. However, mustard would be the most disgusting of the bunch. If you have swallowed poison, one of the ways to induce vomiting is to ingest mustard. Sounds about right.

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@syndrom said:

MORE JEFFS

I don't how many Jeffs one podcast can handle but I'm willing to find out.

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would love a premium video version of the beastcast just like bombcast has

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@wardcleaver: Well, so can coke, your finger, and salt, so...lots of stuff can make us puke. Mustard is great!

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@dan_citi said:
@efesell said:

Being a picky eater sounds exhausting. I can’t imagine not eating something because of an unexpected condiment.

Yeah I feel like it is something you grow out of by the time you're like 17 and you start to want to grow up and expand your horizons more, but maybe that's just me.

It's not that easy.

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"The Division, Shadow of War, Far Cry 5" Oh joy. Only the most interesting and awesome open world westa-trash.

What an embarrassing post.

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oh my, I hadn't considered Jeff Gerstfield being on the beastcast. Jeff, Vinny, Abby, Alex, Jeffy B, this is improv heaven. Also it has ABBY on it (Abby is so good y'all)! This has shot to the top of my must listen list!

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Hot take - All condiments are bad. If your masking your foods flavor with condiments your eating bad food.

Hotter Take. If you need to cook your food, it isn't even worth eating. If a steak doesn't taste good raw and uncooked, why are you putting up with subpar food?

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Nice that Geoff is in the anti “white sauce” camp

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@dan_citi said:
@efesell said:

Being a picky eater sounds exhausting. I can’t imagine not eating something because of an unexpected condiment.

Yeah I feel like it is something you grow out of by the time you're like 17 and you start to want to grow up and expand your horizons more, but maybe that's just me.

It's not that easy.

I'm sure that it is not and also that a lot of foods probably illicit the sort of response where you can't just be like...well eat it anyway it's fine.

But it's very difficult to hear 'Oh this has ketchup on it? gross throw it away.'

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@efesell: yeah, I hate ketchup with a passion, I don't even want it on my table because it grosses me out to look at it. But if I order a burger or something and it has ketchup on it I'm not going to throw it out or send it back because I'm an adult.

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