@gortonimo: Twitch etiquette? Seriously? By this argument, you would have to say that Abby had a falling out with Vinny and Alex because she was doing her own Twitch streams at the same time they were recording episodes of the Beastcast. If you weren't making this "time slot" argument in the months Abby was solo streaming while the Beastcast was still going on, why does this argument make sense now? There are only so many hours in a day, and if streaming is someone's day job, they're often going to do it at a set time.
The Nextlander guys have openly discussed things they've done at Giant Bomb on their podcast. They don't treat it like a taboo word. They treat it like a thing they did. A recent example is Twelve Minutes, which they discussed seeing (and doing the Quick Look) of. They didn't say it cryptically like, "We saw this game years ago at another place." They mentioned Giant Bomb and Quick Looks by name.
This Tripwire news is the least surprising thing ever. Look. Not every person that has opinion A will also have opinion B. Some liberals support abortion only in limited certain circumstances. Some conservatives support abortion as a fundamental right. But with a broad enough timeline and a broad enough sample of the population, you can make some reasonable assumptions about someone's other views based on certain views they express.
I remember reading interviews from Tripwire back when Red Orchestra was coming out. Interviews in which Gibson is portrayed as being so different from other developers because he wants to get the guns right. His obsession with guns was treated as a fun character quirk. And I remember thinking, well, these aren't games I want to play. People who are obsessed with modeling realistic ballistics on World War 2 guns are probably gonna have some shitty views. I don't know why anyone is surprised that this guy sucks.
As Killer Mike says, "I'm moral in my perverseness, that's why I support all of the sex workers unionizing their services."
If you had told me in 2011 that a blatantly pro-sex work podcast would be produced by Giant Bomb, I would've laughed. That's not a condemnation of 2011 Giant Bomb so much as it is an acknowledgement and appreciation of the growth and responsible use a huge platform.
Jeff misunderstands Galactiduck's motives (understandable due to the ongoing conversation and pausing/resuming of the video). In that particular answer to Fermi, Galactiduck represents an apex predator. They aren't destroying species that would otherwise destroy themselves. They are destroying species that might achieve a level of technology that could one day challenge Galactiduck hegemony. They are the Reapers from Mass Effect, the Hunters of the Dawn from the Heritage Trilogy, or the Harvesters from Independence Day. I absolutely love talking about the possible answers to the Fermi Paradox!
Great episode, very entertaining! It was a good idea to make the focus of the episode the scale of the universe!
I don't think Jeff is pretending to know stuff, but it's clear he is out of his element here. This reminds me of that Quick Look for a game with early humans, and everyone was asking if this was when all of the world's land mass was combined into Pangaea. That was wild to me. But hey, some people like learning about particular things.
Dan being worried that his atoms are going to suddenly slough off is extremely funny.
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