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Unprofessional Fridays: 04/25/2014

Peter Brown and Danny O'Dwyer share in destroying a Friday with us and the community. Such sweeties.

The end of the week is here! You made it! Let's sit back, relax, and close the week out in style with some video games.

Apr. 25 2014

Cast: Brad, Vinny, Drew, Matt, Alexis

Posted by: Vinny

173 Comments

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@rvone said:

@humanity said:

This was a really good episode, for the first time in a while I actually watched the archive from start to finish!

Danny is awesome and totally racist as always and as others have said Peter Brown is good people - he did great filling in Jeff's shoes as he's also very knowledgeable about games.

Great show guys.

He certainly seems knowledgable which is cool, but I thought he was really boring. He seems like a genuinely nice guy, I just feel that he's the antithesis of excitement.

Nice show, nevertheless.

I think he's just calm like Drew - you need some grounding I think or else it's just too wacky.

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Peter Brown is awesome, love all of his game knowledge. I love the hell out of the Saturn after getting mine last year. Pocket fighter is ace too, but I have that on the Playstation.

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Really good episode. Warmed up to Peter very quickly, would love to see him and Danny on more UPFs

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Once the saturn gets turned on this episode is gold.

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WHO THE HELL ARE THESE GUYZ WHEREZ GEOFF?

WHO THE HELL IS "GEOFF"?

;)

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@fauxical said:

Peter Brown was an amazingly good host. Fun and energetic, he was a good addition to this weeks show and I hope him and Danny continue to be regulars on UPF.

This so hard. Peter's a rad dude. Also, definitely not the antithesis of excitement. He seems super smart, laid back and lets other people do their things, but it also genuinely a funny dude. He went along with everything. Also, him playing Gang Beasts was hilarious.

Also also, "No, Shadow of the Beast, you cunt" was incredible.

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@dannyodwyer said:

WHO THE HELL ARE THESE GUYZ WHEREZ GEOFF?

TAKE YOUR SHENANIGANS ELSEWHERE SIR.

This is a classy establishment.

@brillohead said:

Thats a real person!! I thought the pic up top was drew and brad superimposed on each other. Wow.

You might say Peter Brown is the realest person.

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I wasn't sure about this "Peter Brown guy" at the start but after the titatnic/dorito segment he won me over.

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Gang Beasts is this years Windjammers

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@thesoutherndandy: Best quote Peter to Brad: "remember that moment when you asked me if i was good? " Fantastic. Now i realize he looks like the pilot from serenity/firefly.

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first thing i thought of when i saw the thumbnail: ah man i wish that was Charlie Day. It would be amazing to see Charlie Day mess around with the Giant Bomb guys

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@shimmy said:

Is it just me, or does Peter Brown look like a young Will Smith?

To be perfectly honest, when the show started, I thought that was Will Smith.

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@brillohead: Yeah he does a bit. Wash becomes a games journalist.

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Brad is such a sore loser.

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Wait...did someone say "Real Salt Lake?"

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Does anyone know the name of the song they played out the show with?

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That was beautiful.

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Boom! Titanic.
Boom! Titanic.

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Please please please have Gamespot people more often :) Some great people there.

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Wait a minute, what happened to Drewlexis?

First Drew slow dances with Brad, and now Alexis is planning Titanic viewing parties with Danny "constant too soon jokes" O'Dwyer.

It's like a whole new season of Giant Bomb.

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Danny is easily becoming one of my favorite guests!

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Someone (Vinny?) was pretty quick on the draw with the flashing "NERD"

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I remember playing that Titanic game years ago! I think I still have the disc in my closet. I've always hoped they would play it one day.

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That was so good... Forgot Jeff wasn't there for a while.

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Love when Brad goes purple from laughter. Haven't seen that since when the "What the hell is this jacket..." guy burst onto the scene at PAX. Funny stuff.

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GOD DAMN IT DANNY O'DWYER I LOVE YOU

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Man, I like this Peter Brown guy. Also, Danny.

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Peter is like thinner Will Smith (from Tested, of course).

That Irish heritage of Danny is coming out in droves when he plays the soccer game too.

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Danny was hilarious in this. Titanic jokes, drunken bar fights, even his "oh god, I love Bomberman so much!"

I've seen Peter around in random videos, and this was the first time I really got to seem him just hang out. Seems like a cool dude, too.

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This was a great and very unprofessional Friday.

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Am I the only one that thinks this new guy sounds A LOT like Drew?

Yeah that was messing me up

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Doritos of shame.

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I love Danny but other guys from GameSpot, I don't know, something's really off about them. It's like game journalism is a horrible, boring job to them and they completely forgot how to have fun.

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Man, I've missed Peter since the last time he was on a GB show. Super glad to see him back.

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@dg187 said:

I love Danny but other guys from GameSpot, I don't know, something's really off about them. It's like game journalism is a horrible, boring job to them and they completely forgot how to have fun.

Chris Watters is a pretty cool dude, and so is Peter Brown.

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@dezztroy said:

@dg187 said:

I love Danny but other guys from GameSpot, I don't know, something's really off about them. It's like game journalism is a horrible, boring job to them and they completely forgot how to have fun.

Chris Watters is a pretty cool dude, and so is Peter Brown.

Thinking Gamespot's personalities are "boring" or "don't know how to have fun" is misinterpreted. Don't forget that Gamespot's audience is NOT Giant Bomb's audience. There is some crossover, but the product offering is different because the audience segmentation is not the same.

You forget that Giant Bomb's focus on video content make for a completely different product at face value - the GB crew's personalities are built to be on camera.

The reason people here like Danny O'Dwyer or Chris Watters is because they have that on-camera experience. Not everyone at Gamespot has that kind of training or skillset, because that's not what their product offering is completely built around, and it's not necessarily what all their staff are required to have either, so give them a break.

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Do they get better about eating chips on mic? I had to turn this off less than half way through and I would really like to see more of it without having to fight the urge to smash everything in my office against the wall in a fit of rage.

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Giantbomb needs to hire another guy so Vinny can be on the entire show, things always pop off as soon as he comes out.

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Great to see Danny on here again!

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Am I the only one that thinks this new guy sounds A LOT like Drew?

No. The only way I can tell them apart is that Peter is generally louder than Drew. I have to be watching or else I sometimes get confused.

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@paul_tillich: I think it was mostly down to just getting the Doritos in the mail. Generally from what UPF shows I've seen, eating chips and snacks tends to not be a thing, unless they do a mailbag video that week which has them on it.

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I like Peter And Danny.

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Nice Pun-Adept level pun from Matt.

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Danny is awesome. Slightly drunk and lairy Danny is even better.

Also, Peter Brown is the most recent entrant in my list of Gamespot staff Giant Bomb should poach. I guess I should probably go and check out the actual Gamespot stuff.

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Pretty unexpected that it was one of the Americans who dropped that Cee-Bomb, not the salty Irishman.