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Thursday Night Throwdown

Thursday Night Throwdown: 06/06/2013

Jeff takes control of Captain America as he fights the forces of evil and DRM.

It's Thursday night and it's time for you to go up against us in a weekly throwdown of decidedly humble proportions.

Jun. 6 2013

Cast: Jeff, Ryan, Matt, Patrick

Posted by: Vinny, Drew

In This Episode:

Marvel Heroes Omega

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Totally missed it. I'm ready for Jeff to fight DRM!

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Fantastic TNT for its chatter, y'all.

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I still don't know about this game. I just don't like any of the free heroes and bummed I can't at least try one of the paid heroes. Also why is gambit a fucking merchant and not a playable hero!?

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oh good now i can stop hitting f5

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Can I play as Nightcrawler?

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Is it just me or is the audio low on this video? But yay new tnt!

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I still don't know about this game. I just don't like any of the free heroes and bummed I can't at least try one of the paid heroes. Also why is gambit a fucking merchant and not a playable hero!?

I'm the opposite. Daredevil has always been my favourite and I would have paid money to unlock him. Luckily he's one of the free ones. The game is OK. Nothing special, but it's a good time waster.

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Can I play as Nightcrawler?

He's a npc at the moment.

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Glad I got to play in this TNT, also my dudes name is in that screencap! Chemtrails all day baby!

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Audio is fine for me.

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As much as I like the dual screen it kind of sucks when only 25% of the screen is used to show the game.

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Ryan gets super snippy with Rorie on these shows.

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@rjayb89: Always love it when one of the top comments gives a good idea of what to expect.

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For some reason I forgot today was TNT. Dammit

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@npfeifer: We always kiss and make up later, though.

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@rorie: Good. Keep the cams running a bit longer. Premium content.

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@rorie said:

@npfeifer: We always kiss and make up later, though.

passionately?

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@rorie: That's good. It's just uncomfortable to see on screen.

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Really great TNT. Keep it up Duders.

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I would love to watch rorie stream out some Dark Souls

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@rorie Ales are the best kind of beer! Wow, I thought I'd never hear a beer drinker refuse an ale.

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Geez what's with Ryan's attitude?

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@npfeifer said:

Ryan gets super snippy with Rorie on these shows.

Don't know if you've ever noticed or not, but Ryan is kind of a dick.

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Ales can be really hard to drink. I always prefer a lager.

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@mcghee said:

@npfeifer said:

Ryan gets super snippy with Rorie on these shows.

Don't know if you've ever noticed or not, but Ryan is kind of a dick.

Yeah, well...

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"Posted by Vinny Caravella and Drew Scanlon". Never Noticed that, do they always do this? What does it means? Did they press the "send" button together?

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@jackel2072 said:

I still don't know about this game. I just don't like any of the free heroes and bummed I can't at least try one of the paid heroes. Also why is gambit a fucking merchant and not a playable hero!?

I'm the opposite. Daredevil has always been my favourite and I would have paid money to unlock him. Luckily he's one of the free ones. The game is OK. Nothing special, but it's a good time waster.

DD is also my favorite, but i would love the Fantastic Four. only the Thing is available now, but i can't see myself spending $10-20 on extra characters. i bet if all characters where $5 and skins where $1-3 i would end up spending a lot more on the game. as of now i might finish a run as DD and be done.

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I'm beginning to like Ryan less and less lately. He doesn't bring enough to the table to have such a smart ass attitude all the time.

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@rorie I did the same thing with the daughter on 24. She was the worst. I think the only person I hate more than her on TV is dexter's piece of shit sister.

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Man, this game is PROFOUNDLY boring.

Fair warning to all, Jeff gets weirdly attached to random games and Ryan is a Marvel fanboy. I can't help but see that here their enthusiasm is coming from a severely subjective place.

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@joshwent said:

Man, this game is PROFOUNDLY boring.

Fair warning to all, Jeff gets weirdly attached to random games and Ryan is a Marvel fanboy. I can't help but see that here their enthusiasm is coming from a severely subjective place.

-shrug- I like playing it.

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@capasso said:

"Posted by Vinny Caravella and Drew Scanlon". Never Noticed that, do they always do this? What does it means? Did they press the "send" button together?

There are two keys and two buttons. It's the same for Gamebomb.ru. We are launching TNTs against each other weekly, and two lonely men must make that decision every Thursday.

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I was going to watch this live but the website went offline for maintenance 5 minutes in to the video. =/

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@joshwent: This game sucks, and Marvel is totally exactly as cheesy as DC.

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Game is amazing, way better then d3/PoE. Way more fun to play then watch, I recommend people try it. It is free after all.

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I still don't know about this game. I just don't like any of the free heroes and bummed I can't at least try one of the paid heroes. Also why is gambit a fucking merchant and not a playable hero!?

Because Gambit is terrible. However, why are Iron Fist and Psylocke NPCs? Iron Fist especially, since Luke Cage is going to be in the game... And already is in most of the cutscenes.

It don't matter, though, Squirrel Girl is coming, and that's the important thing.

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Patrick Flute GIF at the End? Can i have it?

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@sneakypickle: I think he was kinda always like that, it's just that sometimes it gets tiresome. He's also pretty weird on twitter.

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God the chat is annoying, so much spam from people trying to join his group. Can't imagine how annoying it would be playing a multiplayer game with all these people up your ass.

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@akujin said:

Patrick Flute GIF at the End? Can i have it?

Here ya go :

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@capasso said:

"Posted by Vinny Caravella and Drew Scanlon". Never Noticed that, do they always do this? What does it means? Did they press the "send" button together?

There are two keys and two buttons. It's the same for Gamebomb.ru. We are launching TNTs against each other weekly, and two lonely men must make that decision every Thursday.

We want them on that wall. We need them on that wall.

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@capasso said:

"Posted by Vinny Caravella and Drew Scanlon". Never Noticed that, do they always do this? What does it means? Did they press the "send" button together?

There are two keys and two buttons. It's the same for Gamebomb.ru. We are launching TNTs against each other weekly, and two lonely men must make that decision every Thursday.

This has me thinking of the classic nuclear launch console you see in movies. Vinny & Drew. 2 keys. 2 buttons. One decisive upload.

And wouldn't surprise me if Drew actually had one rigged up to upload TNT every week. Loving this mental image.

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Can anyone tell me if this is able to run on gaming laptops?

I played the beta a while back and it was unable to play on gaming laptops because it would default to the integrated GPU instead of the nvidia GPU. Like it was running on energy savings. There was no way to force it to the right GPU for me, resulting in a terrible looking game. A lot of people on the forums had the same problem.

Is this fixed yet?

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previously recored...codes do not work.

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I would love a good DC action RPG. I just can't get into Marvel.

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@rorie said:

@npfeifer: We always kiss and make up later, though.

As long as you hold hands, I think, we the viewers, will get over it too.

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A FORK

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My favorite TNTs are ones with a good game that's excellent background for good discussion. Very nice.

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