Thursday Night Throwdown: 06/21/12

I can't play BF3 precisely because I can't pick enemies out quickly enough. I miss the pre-lens flare, pre-bloom, pre-lens dust, pre-smoke, pre-waist-high grass era of shooters. Nowadays, you have to have eagle eyes and your head on a swivel just to be able to hold your own.

Thanks for screwing with Brad. :-P

Dwarf Fortress is one of the most magical things you could do a feature on. I fucking cannot wait.

Ryan's reaction to slurping OJ was amazing.

I am the guy that Mike takes out of the heli with the rocket!

Good god, the talk of sucking stuff out of keyboards was amazing. Dave had me rolling with his oj story.

Mike Horn's high-level jinking begins at 45:00

@Extreme_Popcorn said:

I don't know whether to be proud or disgusted that my name being mentioned lead to talking about Jeff licking battery acid, Dave drinking juice from a horrible keyboard and token sucking.

PROUD! It's the Giant Bomb way.

These new cameras (or whatever they're doing) make everything look so much better.

Great TNT. Because Keyboard Juice.

Stealing that MVP by 8 points was delightful. De-lightful.

so glad they have a tricaster again

Looking forward to watching this, was on Battlelog and mumble for the majority of it Always up for BF3 TNTs

One of the guys in the Giant Bomb Star Wars guild sold a $250 item in Diablo 3.

Rambo tactics!

Holy shit! Best TNT ever from 45 min onwards. Best BF3 skills i've seen, so entertaining!

You fuckers, now I'm going to by BF 3 Premium.

The triple Brad head is crazy. Edit: oh god, penta-Brad even crazier

Also, fucking hell, I kind of want to buy BF3 Premium and the Assault/Sniper unlocks now...

The whole part with playing and pausing the footage of the dude's head over brad's when he talked is what makes Giant Bomb the best site on the internet.

Thanks for doing a BF3 TNT!

Mike Horn has got mad helicopter skills. It would be a lot of fun to ride shotgun in that helicopter with him.

Oh man, the unified "YEAAAAAH!" when Mike shoots down the helicopter while on foot was hilarious.

why so short?

Jesus, Ryan sweats so much.

Nice Ma$e reference! :)

Oh man, the unified "YEAAAAAH!" when Mike shoots down the helicopter while on foot was hilarious.

Was watching it on fullscreen. At 38:05, I thought my computer broke. lol

What kind of chairs are those, they look really comfy.

Watching Mike Horn play this game is awesome and terrifying.

That keyboard juice story made me groan out loud! that is so gross.

TOKEN SUCKING!

@georgex2003 said:

I didn't know Mike Horn is asian lol

First time I've seen him in fact.

i used to play battlefield 3 but then it started crapping up first it was artifacting with giant black triangles that make the game unplayable and now it's that i keep getting disconnected from servers and can't reconnect to the server no matter how many times i try it. roflmao i lost it at everyone's reaction to the token sucking and the keyboard stories.

From token sucking and messing with Brad's head to the seizure-inducing gameplay, this was one of the most entertaining TNT's I've seen!

Yes! Dwarf Fortress! Please stick to it!

I was actually fantasizing about DF for Random PC Game, never would've thought they'd actually consider it. Someone should dig up that thread where players figured out the best ways to breed and harvest merpeople..

Also, use Dwarf Therapist.

Oh man, they're going to do a Dwarf Fortress feature?

Super pumped for all that chaos.

some of the footage during this tnt is incredible. its really easy to overlook this game, but its truly amazing.

also the part about drinking oj out of your keyboard....GROSS!!!!!!

What was the song played at the end of TNT?

@ieatpoptarts said:

What was the song played at the end of TNT?

Want to know that too. Sounds like some kind of game OST.

Have Dave describe how to play Dwarf Fortress to Ryan while Ryan is trying to play it, and have Dave look away from the screen.

GB Flight Club Dwarf Fortress endurance run!

They should get really good people to come in and play the games for every TNT while they just chill. It's way more fun to watch and to listen to!

Huh... interesting. I usually feel dizzy when I watch video of other people playing FPS. Mike, on the other hand, has nice steady aim. No swimmy. Watchable for me. High praise.

Watching 3/4 players use the same squad ability (Squad Sprint) at the start, is so incredibly noob. It's called a Squad Ability for a reason, so other members each have their own ability. Jeez!

It's ok Dave, I've done there before... I regretted it as well

That helicopter run that Horn had was fucking nuts. I only wish I could pilot a chopper like that in Battlefield.

I love how mesmerized the guys on the set were by watching him.

God dammit, now I've gone and bought Battlefield 3.

I'm glad they actually got someone good to play a first person shooter for TNT

Also this game looks fucking amazing

Golf clap for Mike Horn's chopper run.

@SpaceBoat said:

Oh man, they're going to do a Dwarf Fortress feature?

Super pumped for all that chaos.

Thanks to Dave in this TNT and on Twitter I have just purchased the how to play Dwarf Fortress book.

Oh god what have I done

The Ziba Tower thing is funny, since ziba is Persian for beautiful. It's awesome that there's a building just called "Beautiful Tower".