JDP83

The day they finally landed it. :)

I don't know what else to say except thank you and that I'm both happy for whatever comes next for the OG duders.

Over the many years I've listened to you all, each member of the Giant Bomb crew has had a profound wonderful impact on my own and countless others' lives.

I do have one super selfish request -

Some day, please find a way to get EVERYONE back together for SOMETHING. I don't care if it's Mario Party, another Donkey Kong gameshow episode, a new episode of TANG, or a book club discussion.

I just want to hear the banter and antics of Jeff G., Jeff B., Brad, Vinny, Alex, Dan, Austin, Patrick, Drew, Abby, Ben, Jason, Jan, Rory all together in some way in the future... really as often as realistically feasible.

@vinny, @alex, and @brad - I hope the world showers you with all its splendor and success and happiness you could ever want.

@noboners said:

Basically did a quick little simplification + modification to the promo screen logo shown on the Epic store / PS5 show reveal.

My favorite part was making the little "jet" triangles into little bomb-y icons.

I'd like to spend a bit more time on it, making the full background, hammering the details better on Penguin Jeff, but overall I think it was a fun little distraction. :)

I made a dumb thing for all you true JEFF fans out there.

Behold - the Beastcast email song... concert... thingie... inspired by Dan's stroke of genius about email songs from a while back and the lack of a certain other song in a recent Beastcast episode.

https://soundcloud.com/jdpoz/beastcast-email-song

...It's a short concert.

Oh and as far as monitors go, I won't recommend a specific one... but I would say look at all the sorts of features there are - IPS vs non IPS - which affects viewing angle and color, refresh rates - 59hz to 240hz, anti-tearing measures like G-Sync and Free-Sync, HDR vs standard color, size, resolution, regular 16:9 / 16:10 ratio vs super wide ratio curved monitors, etc... and decide what matters most to you and then be okay with a monitor that doesn't check all those boxes.

For me, I want high resolution (4K+), IPS, ~30", HDR, and to a lesser degree - G-Sync and higher refresh rate... so this is a good option for me. It's not cheap, but it checks off all the boxes that matter to me.

Not sure if they mentioned a link above, but I do recommend price matching and ensuring compatibility using PC Part Picker if you aren't already.

I'd also agree overall with what was said above. A 9900K is a super-beast... but probably overkill. Same with 32GB of RAM. I'd go with a single super fast 16GB stick (maybe DDR4 3400 or 3600 or 4000+ if you're crazy), if you want to "future proof" and avoid having to throw away sticks if you upgrade later, or 2x8GB super fast ones, if tossing old ones doesn't bother you. Any MB smaller than ATX (I honestly prefer EATX) is a no-go for me, just because I hate having to jam stuff in and not get enough fan controllers and PCI lanes for expand-ability.

I would disagree with "going full SSD" though. Good choice with a fast SSD for OS+application installs, but I would get a 7200RPM 4-8TB drive for storage rather than a 5400RPM drive.

Regarding "liquid cooling," if by that you mean "open-loop" liquid cooling... I'd advise against it for a first time builder... as it is PERILOUS to mess up even a tiny bit and pretty challenging to do correctly the first time - and it requires intensive maintenance tasks later on. If you mean closed loop, as in like Corsair's Hxxx series liquid coolers, those are fine. I have one on my desktop and it works great!

On the subject of power supply, in addition to concurring with the "don't cheap out" principle, I'd also add by recommending going beyond Gold spending more and grabbing either a "Platinum" rated or even higher with a "Titanium" rated power supply as it will save you a BUNDLE in electricity down the road, and ends up justifying the higher price tag... especially if you end up leaving your system on for extended periods of time.

My nomination is for Subnautica : Below Zero...

Mostly because I loved the guys original QL Unfinished on the first Subnautica:

...but also because all other quick-look-style non-GB videos out there right now seem to have a massive amount of cringe-inducing screeching by insufferable "influencers" throughout.

Film and 40s style podcast episodes of all the Dragon Ball Z movies...

...Or OG Dragon Ball...

...Or some other DBZ-inspired anime like One-Punch Man.

That's some sound science duder. :)

Agreed with the precedent point made about how Giant Bomb has done both fun movie / show nod / pop-culture refs in the past.

And though I understand anyone's hesitation to be associated with any Tim Allen project, let's not forget that he was chosen not because he's a great actor, but because he encompassed the same sort of narcissistic character Shatner was when playing Kirk in the original Star Trek.

Also, Galaxy Quest is an awesome movie and has some of my favorite other actors of all time in it - Alan Rickman, Sigourney Weaver, Tony Shaloub, and Sam Rockwell... so though this is being done in jest per the funny argument Alex had with the rest of the Beast crew on Friday, I do kind of agree with what Dan said. "AlexyQuest" would have been better. It pronounces more in-line with Alex's name, rolls off the tongue, and continues GB's history of goofy "TV show / movie + duder name" trope they've done for years.

In any case - whatever the name of this feature is - I'll definitely keep watching.

Alex and Vinny going through Mass Effect remains highly entertaining. :)