Unprofessional Fridays: 01/18/13

@sekou said:

Here's a fun drinking game: take a shot every time Brad checks himself out on a monitor during a taping.

It's amazing to me that Brad can still be so self-conscious and awkward on camera, when he has literally been on camera thousands of times at this point.

Like getting up in front of a crowd the first time, or the first 20 times, I get - but after a while, you'd think it would just feel natural.

I really enjoyed Castlevania but I didn't care for the DLC when I picked it up. Maybe I will give it another try sometime soon.

@Jertje said:

You can't buy beer in movie theaters in the US? Wait what?

Yeah, that's weird. There are multiple theaters here in DFW that let you do that. Hell, at one, you can buy a bucket of longnecks and bring 'em in. It's mostly the artier theaters, but, shit. The Studio Movie Grills will bring you goddamn hamburger and a beer while you're watching the movie, if that's what you want.

well those .PDF's sure make my notes look like i just picked up a piece of caulk and scaled on a wall somewhere

I can't exude in words how stoked I am that Andy Bauman is working with Giantbomb! I've tried to follow his work ever since he started producing the No BS Podcast!

Love seeing blue moon's being drank in Cali. Blue Moon is everywhere in Chicago.

Castlevania: Lords of Shadow is not bad.

@Jertje: Not true. Alamo Drafthouse in Texas.

I love this new feature, GB. Thanks

@Ghost_Cat said:

Does anyone know what was that game they were talking about with the emulated computer, and people have been programming for that emulated computer?

0x10c, Notch's post-Minecraft project. You can find the site for it over here.

This sort of feature can bring out the best in GB.

That was rather unprofessional.

Fuck the haters, Lords of Shadow is a good game.

Now I'm not a Patrick hater, but his try hard hate for LoS is just annoying. He's literally like a little kid trashing something just to fit in with the big boys. Cheers to Vinny, the game really isn't half as tragic as most would have you believe.

I'm sure Drew had always only perfects grades in school and college

Castlevania Lords of Shadow was a great game.

Jeff's goatee is getting to meth-head levels. Dude, shave!

@shodan2020: I remember it being ok on PSOne as well.

Anyone know what Vinny and Brad were referring to in this week's I Love Mondays? Said something about cutting something out so HR wouldn't find out. I watched this live and don't remember anything too offensive, at least, not more than normal.

I would also like to chime in with:

"Lords of Shadow is great and its haters can burn in hell."

In case comment count has anything to do with a measure of how good something is, more of this please.

@FMinus said:

Still don't know why people are on the hate wagon for Windows 8. Aside the new "start menu" it's an improved Windows 7 in all aspects. The "start menu" needs some getting used to, but all in all, I think it's much better as the old one, the only thing that might be annoying with it is the fact that it takes the whole screen, but I have two monitors so it's pretty fine. I don't care for most apps in that menu, except weather, skydrive & mail.

Everything runs just like on 7, no problems at all, boots up faster and seems just as stable as 7.

It's no new Vista, it's different, fresh, but no Vista. As for the price, Microsoft said there's gonna be a "sale" from launch until the end of January 2013, and then the standard pricing will kick in, so there's no need to act surprised. That said, I think Windows for it's normal price is sill way to expensive, I bought 8 f or 29,50EUR, and I think I could swallow 60EUR or even 100EUR, but certainly not 200EUR+, not when they bring a new OS out every 2-3 years.

And really the sales of 8 are not slacking, they're on par with 7.

Adoption rates for W8 are even lower than fucking Vista, much less Win7.

Michael Jordan never actually played for the White Sox. He only ever played for their minor league affiliates.

@GenghisJohn said:

Just popping in to say that Jordan was not a terrible baseball player. To say he was horrid was a bit of an overstatement. Yeah he hit .202 in AA but it was his first time seeing pitching since high school, he had 31 steals and a couple of homers. When the season ended he was really starting to play well. If you want to know more about MJ playing baseball check out his 30 for 30 episode on Netflix. Patrick saying he was awful was talking out of his ass.

Yeah, thought I'd echo this. Patrick was way off base with his comments, properly ill informed. Plus a lot of Jordan's motivation for doing it all stemmed from the murder of his father as opposed to some massive ego trip.,

To provide a bit more detail, the Jordan baseball documentary is called Jordan Rides the Bus, and you can see the whole thing for free Patrick, you really should watch it, especially as a Chicago lad.

"Because you are bad at this game, Brad." Jeff is the best. I also love his response to Patrick's suggestion that Brad use throwing knives. Basically saying asking Brad to try to control even more things in the game will end badly.

Oh my god, I totally played that Power Rangers game at a friends house a many years ago.

Patrick likes his alcohol...

I agree with Brad. The N64 and early playstation era of 3D games are really hard to get back to. I often play old 2D SNES and PC games. Aside from gameplay standards, most games still hold up very well.

Look at Chrono Trigger, still playable today.

Why can't I scrub ANY of the versions?

"Why did he jump off the thing, I was pushing straight up"

Because Assassins Creed games are total shit. I love the idea behind them but the first time I run up a wall instead of through a doorway I turn that shit off.

Man why does the CBS player suck so much dick?

I have no problem watching full HD content off of youtube for like quicklooks, but everytime there's subscriber content I can only watch on low or high at best. Plus changing resolutions mid-stream forces me to reload the page, and I can't go back to the point I wanted to be until I load the entire video all over again sequentially.

HTML 5 won't even start.

The video player is so terrible. Please fix it Dave!

its funny to hear Brad talk about spoilers. He is the worst about spoilers. He won't let anyone else on the podcast talk about a game that is over a year old (despite 90 days being the stated limit of the podcast), yet he chomps at the bit to spoil stuff about new games, like him begging to spoil parts of DMC in last weeks podcast.

Brad is kinda bad at Brotherhood... but then I obsessed about the AC games. Makes for a good laugh though^^

Jesus, Brad is terrible at Brotherhood. Or maybe it's stage fright.

Drew is a crazy person, and I love him for it

Jesus, Brad is really bad at Brotherhood. Not that was surprising. Still, immensely entertaining.

Mystical Ninja was the best N64 game I ever played. I bought it from Blockbuster when I got tired of renting it.

Fuck Jeff. Are there any critically acclaimed games from the yesteryears that you don't shit all over?

God I fucking hate this player. It fucking crashed and whenever I try to seek to where I was, it just crashes again.  

@Fistoh said:

God I fucking hate this player. It fucking crashed and whenever I try to seek to where I was, it just crashes again.

Me, too. I pause it for 40 seconds, come back, and it starts over again. Sigh.

@aquacadet said:

"Why did he jump off the thing, I was pushing straight up"

Because Assassins Creed games are total shit. I love the idea behind them but the first time I run up a wall instead of through a doorway I turn that shit off.

Drew is INSANE.

@MasterVerhoffin: fuck. yes. I started live streaming that game recently actually

I created and fully edited that Lightspeed Rescue wiki page because as a kid I played all three versions. Making it was super easy and done almost entirely by memory. It was hilarious listening to @jeff read from it.

I loved Lords Of Shadows. To be fair I don't like Symphony.

So is this the first UF?

"Put out all the fires!"

That part is so funny.

I'm a subscriber now....Whooow. I finally came to the conclusion that I need to subscribe after watching every content there is on youtube. These guys do such an amazing job. Now, I can't decide which videos to watch first, at a time when I should be studying brains for my finals... Cheers

@pinner458: I think so, I can't find an earlier one. And the comments seem to indicate as such.