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Pre-Eedom Stream: 07/03/2014

Before freedom reigns Contra must be played. I believe that is in our Constitution. Pretty sure.

Jul. 3 2014

Cast: Vinny, Alex

Posted by: Vinny

In This Episode:

Contra

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Edited By nightriff

Oh what is this?

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Contra ER completed. Add it to the list!

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GB E 4 LYFE.

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All of my love, ohhh all of my love to you GB!

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It's happening!

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i feel free

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FREEEEEDO--er...PRE-EEEEEEEEDOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!

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Oh good lord, it seems like I'm not getting anything accomplished today.

So my vacation is off to a great start!

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Oh look its the retron.

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Giant Beast giving us freedom!!

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The beast has awoken!

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This was great. MORE!

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I've been freed.

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Something about the image… are you guys adding scanlines or any effects to simulate a CRT?

edit… I should add, I'm not complaining. It looks nice, just different from what I'm used to.

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Something to watch while I make progress in RE4 Pro.

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Awesome. GB East is off to a swell start

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Ahh, a dose of the the Vindawg really does calm the shakes.

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So why did Vinny move? Where did he move to?

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@john1912 said:

So why did Vinny move? Where did he move to?

Too expensive to raise a kid in San Francisco or something like that. Also, New York.

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so freeing.

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@john1912 said:

So why did Vinny move? Where did he move to?

Too expensive to raise a kid in San Francisco or something like that. Also, New York.

Cool, I havent listened to a podcast in forever :-/ was bugging me not knowing!

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Is Giant Bomb New York just a small apartment?

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Maybe it's nostalgia, but I'm enjoying the bootleg nature of Giant Bomb New York. So far it always seems like Vinny and Alex are putting things together with tape and shoestrings. It's pretty great, haha.

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And lo, Vincent Caravella and Alexander Navarro signed the decree which gave all people FREEDOM.

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Edited By joynt
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Fuck, I played the DS Contra OBSESSIVELY. Was able to beat it on a single credit on normal and did all the challenges. Hard was ridiculous though.

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Oh wait this is a Vinny and Alex video. I thought it was the archive of the stream SF office did this afternoon...

SURPRISE HYPE AND GOODNESS APPEARS ON THE EASTERN HORIZON. o___o

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Pure American teamwork.

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@sarumarine said:

Maybe it's nostalgia, but I'm enjoying the bootleg nature of Giant Bomb New York. So far it always seems like Vinny and Alex are putting things together with tape and shoestrings. It's pretty great, haha.

Yeah, comparing it to when it was just Jeff and Ryan in a Sausilito Basement seems weirdly apt.

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WHOA WHEN THE FUCK WAS THIS STREAMED?

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Wow, Giant Beast is such a hilariously slipshod presentation. I LOVE IT!

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Freedom achieved so that one and all may shoot in the mouth. Life is not worth living if shooting in the mouth is totally off the table and not at least up for negotiation.

ᕦ(° Д°)ᕤ

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Awesome!!

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couldn't have ended any better! thanks, guys.

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Oh that ending had me laughing, great job guys. keep it up

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Man, with the speed of these uploads of live streams, I keep thinking that Giant Bomb might be the Jimmy John's of videogame websites.

Freaky fast video uploads!

Also this comment is brought to you by Jimmy Johns!

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preedom ain't pree

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Something about the image… are you guys adding scanlines or any effects to simulate a CRT?

edit… I should add, I'm not complaining. It looks nice, just different from what I'm used to.

25 seconds in they bring up the Retron 5 window and scanlines are turned on :D

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Love your setup guys! Looking forward to some good times. Only request is if you can make your camera window bigger so we can see you better. Kinda like on UPF.

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Probotector!

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@tikicobra: I think Vinny said it's their temp studio.

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@gaspower said:

Man, with the speed of these uploads of live streams, I keep thinking that Giant Bomb might be the Jimmy John's of videogame websites.

Freaky fast video uploads!

Also this comment is brought to you by Jimmy Johns!

Oh man, I'm hungry for Jimmy Johns now...

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Contra is one of the best games of all time. Fight me.

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hurray for freedom

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Contra is one of the best games of all time. Fight me.

While contra is a very very good game (might go so far as to say a classic). If you can die though the game to finish it, it empirically can not be one of the best of all time.

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I got all of the achievements in the XBLA version of Contra, which isn't quiiiite the same game as this, though the levels are similar. Loved learning that game. Of course nothing I learned to 1CC it applies to the NES version.

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While there is no doubting that the spread gun is the best gun, if you had an auto-fire controller, you could turn the laser into a lightsaber and that shit was rad when you were 7.

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That ending. Man.

And lo, Vincent Caravella and Alexander Navarro signed the decree which gave all people FREEDOM.

His name is actually Alexis Alexander Navarro.