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The Head of the Flight Club Receives a Curious Package

It's time for Drew to open the mail!

Jun. 26 2014

Cast: Drew

Posted by: Jeff

In This Episode:

Airplane

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@crazybagman: sorry to single that person out; there's been quite a bit of negativity and lack of faith here lately, though. i also get a distinct impression that some people think vinny leaving was avoidable and these changes are some sort of self-sabotage. i just like to stay positive and think this is the start of something new and great.

anyway i second the kudos for the amount of content they're putting out, in spite of the growing pains.

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Brad hosting the podcast one week, Jeff filming the mailbag next week. Brad and Jeff must have had a brainswap

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Oh man, Tony sold out. I bet he wears a suit to work now.

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The man crush I have on Drew is approaching dangerous levels. He's so dreamy.

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Drew's stepping up. He has a "dude" under him now!

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Where is the pontoon plane from Raiders of Lost Ark on that poster?

P.S. Also what's up with the black font in the reply box?

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That new Mac Pro is SO SMALL! I want one.

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Just got my new Mac Pro, wondered if GB would go with FCP X or something else. Would be interested to hear more about Drew and Vinny's process these days.

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@ripelivejam: For the record, I agree with you. Not a fan of those kinds of comments.

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It's kinda strange that the two most senior editors on the team (Jeff and Brad) will be the only ones who don't have a "cubicle" to themselves. But I guess that's what they're used to. I actually like @heavyplay's idea: take the opportunity with so much changeover happening to rearrange the office. It'll freshen things up a bit and solve the issue that it'd always seem strange for someone to move into Ryan's old desk spot.

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I don't think I could stand at a standing desk. How do you not lock your knees? Cause when I stand for a number of hours my knees get locked and lose circulation in my feet and I get light headed. Do you keep your knees bent all the time? What do you do with your legs?

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@drewbert There were A-10s in Courage Under Fire. Awesome poster though!

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its so lonely without vinny :(

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Press X to pick up dumbbell

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That poster list the wrong Avengers movie, it should be the 60s British Avengers TV show, not the Marvel Comic movie :P

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@megasoum: The plane in Broken arrow was a fictional bomber called the B3.

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I'm assuming that poster was made from the perspective of an enthusiast of aircraft, not films. Some of those movie choices and facts seem pretty dubious.

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Year of the plane

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When Drew was talking about moving his desk and all that stuff it took me a REALLY long time to realize that Vinny isn't just out on vacation - he's not actually coming back and Drew is left all alone in the video/editing department..and that actually really bummed me out.

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@mister_v said:

@megasoum: The plane in Broken arrow was a fictional bomber called the B3.

Oh really? Hmmm didn't know that...

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Of all the Asylum Films, I think Atlantic Rim wasn't THAT bad. It was god awful, but compared to Transmorphers, it was watchable at least. Favorite has to be Android Cop. All bad, but that one is at least decent in a B-movie sense.

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@jimbozu: I propose two streams. One with Drew playing some military training sim he shouldn't have access to. And another with Jeff sitting in the quicklook room with the lights off talking softly about wrestling or something.

Twist: That control table they can take out of the control room is with Jeff and he will sometimes push random buttons to mix things up.

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@pop: People I know with a standing desk either can move them up and down or have a second desk to sit at. The best thing to do is to change positions over the day.

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Can't wait to see who the new hires are.

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Hm... Warhammer 40k Relic.

Quick looks of games based off Talisman?

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@xbob42: I'm a part of the club, I bought the T-Shirt.

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So...I think Wing Commander might be a better title for Drew, or Air Marshal. Ooo, perhaps Chief of Air Operations.

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Let's not kid ourselves. Vinny is clearly the flightclub president.

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stand up desk! I'm making a full-L stand up desk myself. F sitting.

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The new Mac Pro is certainly faster than the older machines, but it isn't any faster than a PC. After all, Macs are all just Intel PC's that run a different OS now.

If budget is not a concern, you can build a faster PC than the Mac Pro.

They only offer single CPU configurations (up to 12-core) and dual GPUs. (which are rebranded consumer cards, not true workstation-class ones with ECC memory)

You can build a PC with multiple 15-core CPUs and are not limited to two GPUs.

Of course, you won't find PC hardware in that class in a case anything like the size of the Mac Pro. PC parts are modular, whereas the Mac Pro's internals are custom to that machine.

But put it in a tower with decent cooling hardware (e.g. Noctua) and it will be cooler and quieter under load.

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The new Mac Pro is certainly faster than the older machines, but it isn't any faster than a PC. After all, Macs are just Intel PC's that run a different OS now.

If budget is not a concern, you can build a faster PC than the Mac Pro.

They only offer single CPU configurations (up to 12-core) and dual GPUs. (which are rebranded consumer cards, not true workstation-class ones with ECC memory)

You can build a PC with multiple 15-core CPUs and are not limited to two GPUs.

Of course, you won't find PC hardware in that class in a case anything like the size of the Mac Pro. PC parts are modular, whereas the Mac Pro's internals are custom to that machine.

But put it in a tower with decent cooling hardware (e.g. Noctua) and it will be cooler and quieter under load.

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I'm stoked to see who the new people are! I'm not stoked for inevitable hate that will come from this community before the new people can get comfortable with their positions, though. I really hope they hired a woman for the team. I know that "gaming sausage fest" has always kind of been "the thing" about GB, but I don't see how mixing it up will hurt anything.

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Tony is now a business man.

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Brad's drawers could always use more poop. Go @Jeff.

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So curious if they have the airplane from Airplane in that thing.

Seems like a gross oversight if not.

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So I always took Drew standing during the podcasts as a joke, but now I am not so sure...

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Dat Skid Row poster!!!

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What happened to the giant stack of Subway napkins????

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Over to Drew at the Standing Desk for the Standing News.

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Man we really need more inside-the-office videos!

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Wouldn't it be weird if Brad was Seth Rogen this whole time?

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@mister_v said:

@megasoum: The plane in Broken arrow was a fictional bomber called the B3.

I'd kinda want a poster like that but with all the fictional aircraft from movies - the MiG-28 from Top Gun, the MiG-31 from Firefox, the Blue Thunder and Airwolf from their respective movies/TV series with the same names and F/A-37 Talon from Stealth. Maybe some of the near-future fictional video game aircraft like the F-19 Stealth Fighter, F-29 Retaliator and Thunder Blade (which was just had a screenshot from the Blue Thunder movie on the title screen) too.

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Only surviving member of the flight club. :(

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Atlantic Rim is a real thing:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Rim_(film)

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standing desk?

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Pretty sure who Jeff's guy is. But, I'm curious who Drew's guy will be.

Also, they need to put some posters/pictures on the walls.

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You Do NOT talk about Flight Club

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@00 said:

The new Mac Pro is certainly faster than the older machines, but it isn't any faster than a PC. After all, Macs are just Intel PC's that run a different OS now.

If budget is not a concern, you can build a faster PC than the Mac Pro.

They only offer single CPU configurations (up to 12-core) and dual GPUs. (which are rebranded consumer cards, not true workstation-class ones with ECC memory)

You can build a PC with multiple 15-core CPUs and are not limited to two GPUs.

Of course, you won't find PC hardware in that class in a case anything like the size of the Mac Pro. PC parts are modular, whereas the Mac Pro's internals are custom to that machine.

But put it in a tower with decent cooling hardware (e.g. Noctua) and it will be cooler and quieter under load.

Yeah, especially considering how shoddy Apples open gl drivers are when it comes to feature parity, speed and stability, macs are objectively inferior to something like a boxx workstation for adobe editing. Of course, workflow and being comfortable accounts for a lot, but the new mac pros, while impressive engineering wise they flat out lose performance / price wise. And they run mac os x, which is a huge black mark against them as well. Finder is possibly the worst piece of software ever made and the design philosophy that has made that the worst file manager I've ever used is found all over the bits of the OS that are not unix.