What Do You Like Doing While Listening to the Bombcast? Vote now for Science!
Always at work. Nothing like laughing at Vinny's comments on Peter's balls to make me look even more insane than usual.
I kind of forgot to add "while cooking". We'll just lump that in with the housework vote. True story: i cut my thumb one time while cutting raw chicken and listening to the Bombcast.
@JoeyRavn: the last thread i could find on this topic was from a while back and never in a poll format.
A, it just has to be something low impact, with little need for sound. Minecraft, Puzzle Quest, or Super Meat Boy are my recent choices.
@jasondaplock: the Weekend Confirmed podcast is my "substitute". They joke around a lot but they take on more serious topics when it comes to gaming.
I listen while I'm falling asleep, or during a long drive. I can't stand British Radio. I would listen to Classic.FM but the ads drive me fucking insane, and Radio 1 is full of fucking morons talking about inane nonsense. And the music they play is complete balls, unless Zane or Annie Mac is on.
In the car. I don't understand why somebody would play a game and listen to something intellectually stimulating at the same time. Our brains suck at split-attention.
EDIT:I should elaborate on that so that I don't sound like a hypocrite. For me the important part of playing a game is taking in the experience. We can't process the podcast AND analyze the game experience at the same time. Once you've been driving for a while, it's pretty much using all of the parts of your brain that a podcast doesn't, and vice-versa. I'm sure it's a little distracting, but it doesn't clash nearly as much as a video game does.
I listen to the bombcast while playing games that I don't have to concentrate especially hard on or are not super story heavy. That, and occasionally while working out. Because thinking about video games while at the athletics club is better than the alternative of looking at the mobs of old invalids/meatheads that usually populate it.
I play WoW, or more recently... Terraria. I love listening to podcasts or having videos on in the background while playing games, but it's gotta be low-impact story-wise. If I tried playing Mass Effect 2 while listening to a podcast, I'd miss a lot on both ends.
@nintendoeats: I tried listening while in my second playthrough of Alpha Protocol. Guess which one i turned off first.
@Luck3ySe7en: Uh...I love Alpha Protocol AND the Bombcast, so I don't know where you're going with that.
I'm a returning member so it's been an awfully long time since I listened a bombcast but I remember often just walking around in a shopping mall and thinking I should switch my music to more entertaining stuff and downloading the newest bombcast on my phone for some listening.
I usually listen while lying in bed before going to sleep. I listen until their voices become annoying, which means it's time to fall asleep.
I mostly trophy hunt, so A. I figure if I'm doing two unproductive things, it balances to make my time worthwhile.
But if there's cleaning to be done, I do that. Not too often though.
Nothing, its very hard for me to pay attention to what they are saying when I'm doing something else.
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