Quick Question with Jeff Bakalar: Ep. 03 - Don't Buy a Video Card

Bakalar's so hot right now

When is GB going to outright hire Bakalar and make him hardware reviewer?

Very good

I really like these short videos with our favorite "borrowed" bombadier! I hope he keeps making them though I also worry the frequency may burn him out on them or they run out of interesting questions outside of "what ______ are you looking forward to this year?" Either way I will enjoy them in the moment.

The 5th Element <3

I want some of that CBS Interactive money.

Let me make an argument for Shoestring fries.

They're the best for dipping, they've got the right amount of crunch, they don't have a weird shape, and they always taste better.

I'm sorry Jeff, you're wrong.

A+ t-shirt Bakalar

Some might say the steak fry is the steak of fries. Right on, JB.

@ottoman673: Agreed, Jeff is wrong. Steak fries have too much raw potato in the middle and get cold and gross way too fast. Shoestring are up there but best fries has to be waffle fries.

If it's not the curly fry, it has to be the waffle fry. No exceptions.

Jeff, is there an album/EP you have to listen as a whole whenever you hear a track from it. (Disco Before the Breakdown for me)

Recognizing the beastcast commercial music at around 2 minutes.

Personally, I prefer waffle fries... Also, do Sweet Potato fries count as their own type of fry?

@ottoman673 : Shoestring fries are the perfect fries for people that hate potatoes, half fry and half seasoning. Almost as bad as curly fries.

Nothing beats a perfectly cooked steak fry, but they can be really bad when they aren't cooked right. I'll still take my chances though.

+infinity points for saying Carl Sagan.

It seems like you probably get too many questions through Twitter, Jeff. Maybe a solution would be to make everyone use a slower method of sending you questions like letters or postcards?

Best new show on GB?

This is a really good video series. It's like the Beastcast but without all the non-Bakalar fluff.

That shirt is the most on-brand Bakalar shirt I could imagine outside of just something that says I love Hockey and From Here To Infirmary.

This is very quickly becoming one of the best features on Giant Bomb.

I, too, love a good surfboard fry. Homemade, preferably.

TBH I would be extremely cautious about buying used GPUs from this weird little Cryptocurrency era. Miners are going to be overclocking to a ridiculous degree and running those cards into the ground, unless you can be physically present while they run the benchmarks I wouldn't trust any piece of hardware to last, and even then it's dubious.

Too hot.

Thanks for answering my questions, Jeff!

Jeff is Giant Bomb East's fifth element.

Thanks for bringing Carl Sagan back. We need him now more than ever!

Sweet potato fries are obviously the superior fry in the game.

I fucking love this.

@mostlysquares: Like bringing Jesus back, there would be a loud, vocal minority that would just call him a hippie and just dismiss his views as elitist.

fallout 3 is the worst fallout jeff

cmon son

edit: redeemed himself through sagan <3 jeff

Jeff Backalar is my favorite non-Giant Bomb Giant Bomb member. Sign him up Gerstmann!

More more more!

Steak fries are gross, they are perpetually soggy. Either lean into the sog of twice fried hand-cut fries, or go for a crispier fry like a shoestring. I had no idea this topic would fire me up as much as it did. Jeff, you are wrong.

No, he's 100% right. Steak fries or nothing.

This is fantastic.

I have two Sega IR-7000's in a box in my closet right now.

pffft that infinity war response.

Just hire Bakalar all ready and you can all go to CES every year

I've saving this for posterity and laughing at Jeff when crypto currency has another bull run. Also Jeff you are wildly incorrect about the quality of curly fries.

In case you guys are wondering: Yes, I love this.

Look, everybody, I get it. You've been out in the world, you think you've got that fry experience. But the truth is about to set you free - Mr. Dee's Golden Rounds are the best French fry-ish thing on the market. The argument's done. Just go buy a bag, tear it open, sprinkle some seasoning salt inside, and toss 'em in the oven. Your belly and your very soul will thank me later. You're welcome.

Love Bakalar. Came for the questions, stayed for the tremendous Wayne's World shirt.

I need that shirt in my life.

steak fries, come on, Jeff. COME ON. You're the only person I've ever heard of that would enjoy Red Robin's bottomless steak fries basket.

These are delightful.

Also, Bakalar's eyes seem tiny.

@thebigaristotle: Red Robin's steak fries are great. Better than any noteable fast food chain fries by far.

This is great.