Thursday Night Throwdown: 08/18/11

hooray tnt

Finally! Was beginning to fear it wouldn't come up...

I forgot it was Thursday!!

been waitin for this...

Just got back home. Perfect timing.

Awesome!

Did they find time for a lantern run during the TNT?

@bkbroiler said:

Did they find time for a lantern run during the TNT?

Yep.

Didn't succeed. Brad was devastated.

Well I was going to go to bed...

Please please PLEASE archive the SNES livestream.

People in europe have to stay up until ungodly hours to watch it live, it would kill me to miss any of it.

Pretty please?

The Lantern Run was the best of the TNT, IMO. Not that the rest was bad, but those 10 minutes in Insaly Twisted Shadow Planet were surprisingly entertaining. Too bad they were only three, not four, playing. I'm sure they would have gotten to level 9 with one more player.

@Buckfitches said:

People in europe have to stay up until ungodly hours to watch it live

*shrugs*

If they start at 11 AM there, it's 7 PM in UK, 8 PM in Western and Central Europe. I would hardly call that "ungodly hours", especially since the TNT starts at 2 PM GMT+1. They could archive it, though.

@JoeyRavn: Staying up until 4/5 in the morning to catch some members-only content just doesn't seem all that great, personally.

But the 8 hours of kinect were pretty much all archived, so I have faith in Vinny, Drew, and all the other archiving gods behind the scenes to make it happen.

The Lantern Run was the best of the TNT, IMO. Not that the rest was bad, but those 10 minutes in Insaly Twisted Shadow Planet were surprisingly entertaining. Too bad they were only three, not four, playing. I'm sure they would have gotten to level 9 with one more player.

@Buckfitches said:

People in europe have to stay up until ungodly hours to watch it live

*shrugs*

If they start at 11 AM there, it's 7 PM in UK, 8 PM in Western and Central Europe. I would hardly call that "ungodly hours", especially since the TNT starts at 2 PM GMT+1. They could archive it, though.

@Buckfitches said:

@JoeyRavn: Staying up until 4/5 in the morning to catch some members-only content just doesn't seem all that great, personally.

But the 8 hours of kinect were pretty much all archived, so I have faith in Vinny, Drew, and all the other archiving gods behind the scenes to make it happen.

This.

@Stubee: Yeah, my bad. I meant 1 AM GMT+1, not 2.

@Buckfitches: Sure. I'll try to watch them live as much as I can, but I don't mind them archiving the video at all. More power to them if they do. There's a topic about this, though. No need to talk about that in this one.

I wouldn't mind Vinny having one-sided conversations in my head.

I'm a TNT

@Buckfitches said:

Please please PLEASE archive the SNES livestream.

People in europe have to stay up until ungodly hours to watch it live, it would kill me to miss any of it.

Pretty please?

They seem to archive pretty much everything else, and I doubt this would be any different, especially considering that it starts at 2:30pm EST which is when everyone with a 9-5ish type gig in America is still in work (and a lot of people would miss it).

I was expecting the livestream to have a bit more AoE play. I feel e-jipped.

Tumescence is the quality or state of being tumescent or swollen.

I want a Will pointing fingers-gif.

That lantern run is brutal.

@CoolPup said:

@bkbroiler said:

Did they find time for a lantern run during the TNT?

Yep.

Didn't succeed. Brad was devastated.

Sorry for gettin' eaten by them monsters, guys :(

I played with a couple GB guys after the TNT and we finally did it (after about 4 or 5 tries). T'was quite thrilling! We got to about room 10 or 11 and ended up with 1.1 million points or so.

Damn! Please archive the SNES show!! I will be on holidays when it starts so won't be able to see it live. :...(

Do love the energy Jeff brings to TNT's.

Why do these get locked behind premium subscriptions?  JTV archives them as well.

@beard_of_zeus said:

@CoolPup said:

@bkbroiler said:

Did they find time for a lantern run during the TNT?

Yep.

Didn't succeed. Brad was devastated.

Sorry for gettin' eaten by them monsters, guys :(

I played with a couple GB guys after the TNT and we finally did it (after about 4 or 5 tries). T'was quite thrilling! We got to about room 10 or 11 and ended up with 1.1 million points or so.

You did good man! You did good!

Was it just me, or when the camera moved at 50:24 was that for some reason mind blowing? It suddenly added depth to the world. That whole BEHIND THE SCENES section was great, I love seeing the GB dudes just being dudes.

Sorry for letting you down yesterday, Brad. Forgot to send the gbtnt friend request. :(

@NickNotch said:

Why do these get locked behind premium subscriptions? JTV archives them as well.

Convenience feature for members. JTV sucks sometimes ... most of the time.

Why do these get locked behind premium subscriptions?  JTV archives them as well.

I was blown away by the pricing for Age of Empires Online- takes balls to ask that much for game assets. I mean adding it all together it costs more than even a new game. Wtf.

@Rufi91 said:

@beard_of_zeus said:

@CoolPup said:

@bkbroiler said:

Did they find time for a lantern run during the TNT?

Yep.

Didn't succeed. Brad was devastated.

Sorry for gettin' eaten by them monsters, guys :(

I played with a couple GB guys after the TNT and we finally did it (after about 4 or 5 tries). T'was quite thrilling! We got to about room 10 or 11 and ended up with 1.1 million points or so.

You did good man! You did good!

Awesome! I look forward to watching it. Glad you guys finally got it afterwards too.

I agree with the thoughts on the turny dpad xbox controller, I just wish it wasn't so fragile. I've broken so many of them playing fighting games...

Wow, one hell of a TNT. Strategy games are incredibly fun to watch for me - I'd love to see that a bit more frequently if you guys can manage to get about as comfortable as you are here with the game in question. Nice one!

How did Bradley get into Jeff's "I love Moday's" room? I want in! :(

Haha, this was awesome to watch... God, I wish I was able to make that SNES game night tonight, but have to leave at 5:30 cst. :(

Any body get funky ass color shit on the bottom of the video after about 15 minutes.

ProTip" Skip to 39:00 when the game finally starts

I agree with the dude who made the game - Versus looked like crap. It just looked like there was way too much to do at any given time. Really, it has the Brutal Legend problem in that respect in that you have to juggle TPS stuff, ordering units, building emplacements, and trying to think about what you need to be effective. It's just too much.

@nickb64: I do on HD videos for some reason. Thought I was the only one.

man, i hope next weeks Happy Hour is just Rorie sitting on the couch and watching puppy videos the entire time!

Im not much of a strategy player but they are a lot of fun to watch. Got some good nostalgic memories from AOE 2 too.

Have those lights always been on the posters in the background?

@Vrikk:

I don't think so, they probably were just put on.

Dude, that house just fucked that other house.

I want Vinny having a one sided conversation in my ear piece too.

Or on my car GPS.

They should do more combination TNT's like this.

Jeff's ode to rap music at 1:33:30 was the moment of the show. "BLING BLING, am I right? YEAH! I love rap music, you know?"

@Blair said:

Jeff's ode to rap music at 1:33:30 was the moment of the show. "BLING BLING, am I right? YEAH! I love rap music, you know?"

What's funny is when I first started coming here, I thought Jeff was the most serious of the bunch.

As time goes on, of course, insane might be the better choice.

@CustomOtto: I get it too. very annoying

That guy holding the enemies for Brad to laser made me smile.