Thursday Night Throwdown: 01/24/13

http://www.twitch.tv/giantbomb/b/360323125

@Ryan saying fuck the cat, while @drewbert meticulously takes it down/

I should probably buy Red Faction Guerrilla...

That room just looks sad and empty now.

I really liked this TNT. Was it the funniest ever? No. But I appreciated all the THQ discussion. Good job, guys!

@FoxMulder said:

I should probably buy Red Faction Guerrilla...

Yes, even the pc version is great. Has great controls and you can jack up the crazy physics even higher. One of few open world games where I loved doing random side missions as so many were goofy fun mini games.

FLEET FOOT SLEDGE YES PLZ

@Paindamnation said:

http://www.twitch.tv/giantbomb/b/360323125

@Ryan saying fuck the cat, while @drewbert meticulously takes it down/

Thanks Man! I missed that on the stream, I would absolutely have watched Drew take the whole thing down, color by color, post-it by post-it, to that first track on repeat.

Drew Scanlon: Zen Master

@Paindamnation said:

http://www.twitch.tv/giantbomb/b/360323125

@Ryan saying fuck the cat, while @drewbert meticulously takes it down/

18:00 - 20:00 just continue to showcase what a goddamn genius Vinny is.

RF Guerilla!

Best Mars game + best game destruction = One hell of a gaming experience!

@Trilogy said:

@MattClassic said:

@mak_wikus said:

Dang, I was hoping they would leave in the Nyan Cat takedown. I missed that :(

@hazyship said:

Shame that the removal of Nyan Cat from the studio wasn't archived.

Good news, everybody! http://www.twitch.tv/giantbomb/b/360323125

Hurray!

Edit: Oh good lord. That pre show was fucking amazing. I wish I watched it live with the chat :(

That intro is pretty crazy. Vinny is getting really good with his on the fly video effects.

Nyancat was a hackneyed and dated meme before they even moved into the current offices. When I saw that Post-It art, I could hardly believe the potentially cool idea had been squandered on a then-and-gone instantaneously irrelevant meme. If wouldn't have been ok if they had played it for irony, but it's also odd to have ever been that sincerely passionate. And to still be?

The fact that it took them this long to tear down this wall was pretty shocking to me. Only NOW moving forward will we see shows without nyancat... that blows my mind. Sheesh, it was due. I guess I can be grateful that it led to Vinny in the booth with Drew doing chores... that was pretty great.

@MeAuntieNora said:

Nyancat was a hackneyed and dated meme before they even moved into the current offices. When I saw that Post-It art, I could hardly believe the potentially cool idea had been squandered on a then-and-gone instantaneously irrelevant meme. If wouldn't have been ok if they had played it for irony, but it's also odd to have ever been that sincerely passionate. And to still be?

The fact that it took them this long to tear down this wall was pretty shocking to me. Only NOW moving forward will we see shows without nyancat... that blows my mind. Sheesh, it was due. I guess I can be grateful that it led to Vinny in the booth with Drew doing chores... that was pretty great.

I read this entire post in Alan Rickman's voice.

@MeAuntieNora said:

Nyancat was a hackneyed and dated meme before they even moved into the current offices. When I saw that Post-It art, I could hardly believe the potentially cool idea had been squandered on a then-and-gone instantaneously irrelevant meme. If wouldn't have been ok if they had played it for irony, but it's also odd to have ever been that sincerely passionate. And to still be?

The fact that it took them this long to tear down this wall was pretty shocking to me. Only NOW moving forward will we see shows without nyancat... that blows my mind. Sheesh, it was due. I guess I can be grateful that it led to Vinny in the booth with Drew doing chores... that was pretty great.

I'm deeply sorry if some gaming site on the internet not bothering to remove some decoration warrants your mind being blown.

all sugar is plant based.... high fructose CORN syrup, table sugar: made from beats most of the time, CANE sugar... synthesized sugar would be impractical for mass market products.

I really didn't realise how many games I love are from THQ. I feel bad for all the people who lost their jobs and hope it all works out. Also that Saints Row goes Fourth can still happen

What was going on with that dude in 50 cent pausing every 5 minutes... :s Don't play a game on a live stream when your going to do that! :| R.I.P THQ

@MeAuntieNora said:

Nyancat was a hackneyed and dated meme before they even moved into the current offices. When I saw that Post-It art, I could hardly believe the potentially cool idea had been squandered on a then-and-gone instantaneously irrelevant meme. If wouldn't have been ok if they had played it for irony, but it's also odd to have ever been that sincerely passionate. And to still be?

The fact that it took them this long to tear down this wall was pretty shocking to me. Only NOW moving forward will we see shows without nyancat... that blows my mind. Sheesh, it was due. I guess I can be grateful that it led to Vinny in the booth with Drew doing chores... that was pretty great.

It completely baffles me that it mattered to most people. I barely noticed the damn thing.

@FoxMulder: Ryan's all: "Shit has to go! NOW!"

Drew's more like: "Nah, free post its"

@Toug said:

YO FITTY!

GOTTA GET THAT SKULL!

.... ah memories.

I kind of want to buy a copy of that game. I enjoyed it playing it as a rental at the time of its release.

@MattClassic: @MattClassic said:

@mak_wikus said:

Dang, I was hoping they would leave in the Nyan Cat takedown. I missed that :(

@hazyship said:

Shame that the removal of Nyan Cat from the studio wasn't archived.

Good news, everybody! http://www.twitch.tv/giantbomb/b/360323125

Good on ya! I just watched it there too. I was working Thursday night.

@Velamo05 said:

yeah... I legitimately missed half of this because I FELL ASLEEP WHILE I WAS WATCHING IT. Not good...

Brad never left. Brad was never there.UuuuuuUUUuuuuuuuUUUUUuuUUuh!

@FoxMulder said:

I love how a simple taking down of post-it notes can showcase two completley different personalities and approaches to taking down said post-its!

@drewbert was probably all like "these are perfectly good post-its, we can reuse these!" and @Ryan was all "FUCK YOU NYAN CAT DIEEEE!!!!!!"

I really gotta stop stalling picking up Metro. :|

@LegendaryChopChop said:

@MeAuntieNora said:

Nyancat was a hackneyed and dated meme before they even moved into the current offices. When I saw that Post-It art, I could hardly believe the potentially cool idea had been squandered on a then-and-gone instantaneously irrelevant meme. If wouldn't have been ok if they had played it for irony, but it's also odd to have ever been that sincerely passionate. And to still be?

The fact that it took them this long to tear down this wall was pretty shocking to me. Only NOW moving forward will we see shows without nyancat... that blows my mind. Sheesh, it was due. I guess I can be grateful that it led to Vinny in the booth with Drew doing chores... that was pretty great.

It completely baffles me that it mattered to most people. I barely noticed the damn thing.

It's reeeeeeeeeeally important to some people that a bunch of strangers on the internet know they hated something first.

@Blimble: That was the revelation I had watching this TNT. I thought I only had an odd few games from THQ. When I turned around from my laptop, away from TNT for a minute, to count how many THQ games I had on my shelf, I realized it was more than a handful. Then there's that strange feeling that began to sink-in, that I largely did care about THQ and their games, but didn't give it much thought.

@Ponyexpress: @Krelle said:

@packs217 said:

@relyt55 said:

I missed this weeks TNT to hang with my kids but my goodness I've been noticing a bunch of hate for the site lately. Everyone is always complaining about SOMETHING. Looks like IGN rejects and the Internet as a whole has come to annoy this great site. What a shame. Anyway, keep up the great work Bombcrew! Y'all ate running the best gaming site in my opinion and the amount of work that has been done this month is awesome. Tons of content.

+1

Yep.

Seconded!

We all know what should go behind the set now that we have rid ourselves of the fucking Nyan Cat - either a Sneakers movie poster or that old Trading Places picture they had in the original office.

@Draxyle said:

Great show, I really aught to get down to playing some of the humble bundle games sometime. My first and only experience with THQ has been Saints Row 3 so far.

And the takedown of Nyan-cat was as tragic as it was amazing. Have to feel sorry for the guy who probably spent days making it, but I think putting up with that thing for roughly half a year is plenty. Nyan-cat will live on in the video archives.

@relyt55 said:

I missed this weeks TNT to hang with my kids but my goodness I've been noticing a bunch of hate for the site lately. Everyone is always complaining about SOMETHING. Looks like IGN rejects and the Internet as a whole has come to annoy this great site. What a shame. Anyway, keep up the great work Bombcrew! Y'all ate running the best gaming site in my opinion and the amount of work that has been done this month is awesome. Tons of content.

The curse of a site becoming a lot more popular, which Giantbomb is from what I understand; you'll get a lot more folks with a lot more opinions for better and mostly for worse.

I suppose that makes a very good point. More popularity can only be a good thing, it just means we have to put up with more people, both good AND bad.

I loved THQ. I played the hell out of the Saint Row games and so many of the WWF/WWE and Spongebob games with my brothers (some not as bad as you would think). Fun memories.

THQ, DUECES!

...I never knew Nyan Cat was postet notes. Are... They gonna put it back up?

Farewell THQ! You will be missed.

Also, just for the record, Keith David's character WAS in Saint's Row 2, but he was a secret. You follow some clues here and there and eventually find out that he's laying low as a janitor at the local museum. You fight along side him in a big shoot-out with Ultor and then decide weather or not to put a bullet in his head... Just had to clear that up.

Man "In da Club" is over 10 years old. Now I feel old.

Not a single Relic game was played! I am disappoint. Also, el-oh-el at people who get so goddamn bitter over old Internet memes. If Nyan Cat has someone managed to get under your skin to that degree, you are probably lurking in the wrong corners of the Internet too much.

http://www.amazon.com/THQ-Mega-Pack-Download/dp/B00B1GFKCA

19 THQ Titles for $25 , Sale ends tomorrow

Have to agree with Scoops on this one...those other OS Card books were boring.

lol.... Red Faction "everyone play with ur hammers!"

Then Brad runs around electrocuting people that are only using hammers.

Why did they take down nyan cat?

@MattClassic said:

@mak_wikus said:

Dang, I was hoping they would leave in the Nyan Cat takedown. I missed that :(

@hazyship said:

Shame that the removal of Nyan Cat from the studio wasn't archived.

Good news, everybody! http://www.twitch.tv/giantbomb/b/360323125

You sir are a patron saint!

Now I got a itch for Red Faction Guerrilla that needs scratching.

OMG. They were called Toy Headquarters?!

I'm like three times as upset now.

@Zaxex: Word to this.

Who's going bankrupt next, Santa's Workshop?

@MeatSim: Yeah, I had to install RF:G last night, after watching TNT.

This made me want to buy Red Faction Guerilla on Steam for 20.

Oh man, gotta love some Red Faction. I need to keep playing through that game, but fuck GFWL

Also need to find a copy of Blood on the Sand. 'Cause Tony fucking Yayo, right?

The hologram is Billy from Billy and Mandy, right?

Tried coconut water the other day based on Giant Bomb's recommendation. Is there a "good" brand that I need to try, like, is there a hard line of "No, that brand is shit" or something? Because Man did I dislike that coconut water.

Bunch of random games. It was nice.