Unprofessional Fridays: 02/21/2014

The Camel did it.

Holy shit, while watching at around 1:09:28, my house phone started ringing and then Vinny yelled "somebody get the phone!" immediately after. I need to go lie down.

Pretty sure it was on a previous show, but here is the candy Rorie was eating.

I don't know a lot about wrestling... Did WWF have really muffled sound quality?

Polly, Bilar <3

Drew and his notebook in the white house around 42 minutes.

Brad. For the love of all that is good, PLEASE. STOP. STARING. AT. YOURSELF. IN. THE. MONITORS. We can all tell when you're doing it.

I am bummed they didn't let the Phantasy Star IV title screen music play a bit more; that shit is MY JAM:

Yoshinoya is the future of eSports.

I lold so hard at Matt's "asian/agents" part. Brad's reaction was hilarious.

Someone less poor than me really needs to send these guys some Percy Pig sweets from Marks & Spencer in the UK. Best gummy sweets around.

@sekou: why is this an issue for you?

I wonder if anyone can help me with this. When Brad is playing E-Swat (at around the 1:00:35 mark), Rorie says how it reminds him of Robocop, Batman etc. Jeff then says it's a lot like other games of the time like Shinobi and <blank>. I have no idea what game he says here and it's driving me crazy. Lifemeter? That's all I can hear when I play it back over and over, but that's not a game! Help, please help! :O

Origin back in their Wing Commander glory days could probably have done a pretty good job at it too. The Wing Commander series was heavily inspired by BSG '78 after all.

Playing a JFK game, this site used to be about fun not politics.

smh

@mutenmiller said:

I think Jeff wasn't referring to a game there. He said "It's like Shinobi. Lifemeter and some of that other stuff" the latter referring to how the games were similar. As in, the lifemeter in Shinobi and E-Swat were similar.

So...it's great and Nintendo's revisionist history bullshit has made people forget just how great it was?

@mutenmiller: he's saying it reminds him of shinobi but when he says "lifemeter and other stuff" he just means the stuff in eSWAT that reminds him of shinobi. He's not actually talking about some other game

I can’t stand old fmv games. No matter how funny the duders are during those, I just can‘t watch. There is something grievously wrong with me.

@joshua1prince19212: @bacongames: Thanks guys, that finally makes sense. I obviously hearing what I wanted to here - I love Shinobi style games and I thought there could have been one I'd never played, haha. Thanks, I can finally get some sleep. ;)

That GB Japan Road Trip really needs to happen this year. The whole crew. Fuck videogames.

Man. The intro music to Phantasy Star 2 brought back so many memories.

I love Matt for knowing Nomeansno and the Hanson Brothers.

Does anyone notice Brad's hatred for Matt?

This was a pretty boring episode. They should just play Gang Beasts every week.

@mutenmiller: he says it's sort of like shinobi with a life meter and some of that other stuff.

this was a good-ass UPF!! i really enjoyed the sega genesis games and that jfk game was hilarious

Screw you guys, Shinobi 3 was awesome especially with the infinite shuriken code. Say that it doesn't hold up if you want but just because Brad sucks at playing games on camera doesn't make it as lame as you say. He barely ninja ran at all and didn't double jump once. I'm sure any Shinobi game that Brad plays would look like crap. Thanks for the show this week. Some funny stuff.

"He's got space dementia!"

"Trying to reason with a Liberal is like arguing with a drunk. You endure the screeching, weather the insults, and then get to pay the bill."

"Barack Obama's petty jihad against World War II heroes is simply the nadir of politics in America."

"This is a promise. No troll jihad will ever stop me. I say what I mean and mean what I say. I am dedicated to my defense of America."

"Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin were both Nobel Peace Prize nominees."

You're right, he sounds completely reasonable.

Kind of pathetic that anytime someone is conservative or libertarian they get described as going, "super crazy". I assume they are talking about what he reported to the FBI about suspicious people on planes several weeks before 9/11, but considering he did more than our government in keeping an eye on suspicious people in airports before 9/11 I won't call him "super crazy".

SHOWER BEEEEEEEER!

Dropping a glass bottle of beer in a shower sounds like a nightmare scenario. Don't jump in fright.

I have been living in Tokyo the last 6 months so can get a beef bowl whenever I want. Not had one in a while now, watching this makes me want to go get one soon

Except his criteria for "suspicious people" was "dark-skinned, possibly middle-eastern" who "talked amongst themselves" and "didn't order food or drinks on the flights".

James Woods also claims there's a conspiracy in Hollywood to "cast heterosexual white males in the roles of villains".

@dasakamov: So, you think that stereotyping is evil? You should ask Israel while they never have problems in their airports...

@katygaga: Because it's unprofessional and vain, maybe? When you're on camera it's generally considered to be in poor taste to repeatedly check yourself out on an off-screen monitor. It's distracting to the viewer. Vinne, Jeff, Rorie and Drew are great about keeping that stuff to a minimum, Brad not so much. Just watch, now YOU won't be able to unsee it!

@sammo21: Isn't Dave a libertarian? I think they just have problems with extremist assholes.(The kind that think straight, white, Christian men are under violent attack by ethnic holidays and women.)

@dallas_raines: I don't know...Dave is a smart man, so I wouldn't doubt it :D . In the Powerbombcast the entire cast seemed to think that Kane (Glenn Jacobs) playing an evil corporate type in his current story line was appropriate given he is a libertarian in real life (Even though he is a very good public speaker and is well educated). I am not saying that they are being extermists on the podcast or something. I actually like that I don't have to hear religious or political crap on the Bombcast every two seconds (very rarely actually), like I used to on Rebel FM. I have just found that a few times Jeff, Brad, or Patrick (especially Patrick) have made snide comments about libertarians or those who leans conservative (James Woods is actually a democrat). Not a big deal, just something I noticed this time. You don't really ever hear anyone say the same for any Democrat, liberal, etc who does something similar or says something batshit crazy.

Of COURSE stereotyping is evil! Judging a whole race/culture/identity of people by a few negative examples displays a willing blindness and false, dangerous sense of self-superiority.

Also, Israel has MANY problems caused by the exclusive policies of their most recent, hardline-conservative government.

This is pretty great.

Hey Jeff, James Woods played a political extremist nutjob in White House Down.. that was about 6 months or a year ago.. are we mixing up movies with real life? I honestly know nothing about his politics tho...

No, he's crazy af in real life, now.

Sad..

I loved WCW in the 90s! That said, I was also on the Nintendo side of the fence when it came to games at the time. Therefore, as inverse Jeff, I'm wrong and so is he.

@manhattan_project said:

There are plenty of people out there saying just as reasonable things about James Woods. I could honestly care less what he has to say. What difference does it make?

Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection is really fun to platinum/s-rank. One of my few.

great.

now I need to watch BSG again. The space-chatter is spot on!

I love when Jeff says something about not needing/wanting a flight stick and Drew quickly looks into the camera like, "Fuck that guy!"

Lol, swedish candy :)
Send the guys chocolate, for some reason it's "better" in Europe.