thatpinguino

I finished the gold stake this weekend with the checkered deck (oops all flushes). Once you get to the higher stakes you basically need to get a very good joker early in your run or you lose. The deck barely matters outside of being able to reliably hit some hand you can get planets for. It's all about getting a joker or two with a high + multiplier and then a joker or two with a high multiplication multiplier.

The constellation joker is broken. Put that in the far right slot and buy every planet you see and your multiplier will be absurd.

@turboshawn I'll grab the open time slot from 5-8PM tomorrow. I can stream some Signalis.

Country music is less a genre than it is a series of cultural affects and gatekeeping.

@sparky_buzzsaw: Yes. I've heard him do it.

This album was a fun throwback. I honestly could have gone for more ska, but I enjoyed the album throughout. I wasn't sure going in if this was the Goldfinger album with 99 Red Balloons, a Rocket Power Movie classic, or the one with Superman. I was pleasantly surprised that Goldfinger had a bit more range than those two songs implied.

Guess who's back, back again? The Giant Bomb Community Endurance Run is back! Tell a friend!

This year the Community Endurance Run is going to kick off on April the 28th and run through Sunday April 30th.

Several awesome members of the Giantbomb community are going to be streaming a wide variety of video games and video game-like things on Explosiveruns.com in order to raise money for charity!

For the 13th GBCER, we're back to supporting Pencils of Promise. This year we're going for a big milestone: $17,500. A Pencils of Promise classroom costs approximately $10,000 and I think we are in position to raise that and more this year. For the price of seventeen and a half copies of Garou: Mark of the Wolves we can build a classroom for kids who need one!

Here's our donation link

We are going to have a number of different events, prizes, and donation incentives running all weekend so be sure to mark the GBCER on your calendar and get ready for the fun and the funding. This year we're also happy to announce that we have a single team page AND individual donation pages! That means that if you want to donate for a specific person's donation incentives, prizes, or you just want to shout out one person in particular, you easily can!

Go here to watch the event!

If you would like to participate in the Community Endurance Run, PM me and I’ll get you in on the action. Get #GBCERXIII trending! Get hype!

There will be ongoing updates every week leading up to the event so keep checking in!

Schedule (All times are in EST):

Friday:

5PM - 8AM:

@ybbaaabby will be playing games with friends! What they'll play, no one knows!

7PM - 5AM:

@personz will be playing Trine 4 and random co-op games with friends!

7PM - 10PM:

@thatpinguino will be playing XIII going on XXX! XIII games with XIII in them for the XXX minutes each in honor of the XIIIth GBCER!

9PM - 3AM:

@zombiepie will be playing Eastern Mind. As a donation incentive, if they reach $1,000 before the end of their stream, they will also stream the equally weird Gadget: Invention, Travel & Adventure!

Saturday:

2AM - 7AM:

@boron_ben will be playing a Saturn and PS3 medley!

9AM - 9AM:

For Trash Squad's fourth Endurance Run, they are going to work through the evolution of edgy games, starting with the radical 90s to the dark, gritty 00s!

10AM - 3PM:

@borgmaster will be playing Unlimited SaGa to prove that @jeffrud was a big, whiny baby when he complained about Unlimited SaGa a few years ago.

10AM - 8PM:

@riostarwind will be playing The Legend Of Zelda: Minish Cap and Hi Fi Rush!

10AM - 10PM:

@meatsofevil will be playing co-op Project Zomboid! Zomboid server details and password given during stream, all are welcome to jump in and play!

12AM - 12PM:

Final Fantasy V 4 x 4 Job Fiesta! @thatpinguino, @zombiepie, @arbitrarywater, and @personz will be running 4 4 Job Fiestas at the same time! On 4 different versions of the game! On the same stream! @thatpinguino will be playing the PS1 version of FFV. @arbitrarywater will be playing the pixel remaster. @personz will be playing the GBA version. And, of course, @zombiepie will be playing the mobile phone version, the worst of all versions. We will be drafting jobs so no two jobs will be repeated between the runners! Who will get the furthest the fastest!? Whose game will crash first? Will the stream setup break in stupendous fashion? Tune in to find out!

8PM - 12AM:

@zandravandra will be playing something! Her streams are always a delight so tune in!

Sunday:

1AM - 11AM:

@personz will be playing Half Minute Mero and the Resident Evil 2 Remake!

10AM - 8PM:

@riostarwind will be playing Anodyne and some Beat Em Ups!

12PM - 4PM:

@nickieroonie is beating Metroid Dread on dread difficulty with his hands!

2PM - 5PM:

@thatpinguino will be wrapping up XIII going on XXX!

4PM - 10PM:

@zombiepie rounds things off with a vapid, abysmal, ugly-ass video game. Hey, it's for the kids! Gothos can be best described as an FMV adventure game that looks like a high school stage production with some of the worst costume and set designs you will ever see in a commercially released video game.

8PM - 10PM:

@rorie will be doing something! Probably co-op games!

Prizes (Please leave a comment with your donation stating which prize you would like your donation to go towards and your GB username so we can contact you if you win):

Coming Soon

Donation Incentives:

4 x 4 Job Fiesta

Donate to name Bartz! Donations to each runner will allow you to name the main character if FFV!

ZP's Streams

If ZP hits $1000 raised before the end of his Eastern Mind stream, he will also stream Gadget: Invention, Travel & Adventure!

If ZP raises $2000 before the end of his Gothos stream, he will stream Spaceship Warlock!

I've been in unisex bathrooms. They're nice because there are nothing but stalls, people tend to flush, and there are way fewer slurs carved into the walls.

The issue with an idea like that is there actually is a middleman: Patreon or whatever funding platform you use. For a consortium like that to make sense each of the "staff" would need to make close to what they make now, including the health benefits and other benefits that come from working for Fandom. So you would end up asking a bunch of people with their own discrete audiences and proven funding to risk that by combining into one group that is larger than GB has ever been. That seems like the math just won't work out for all involved. And that doesn't even get to how they would need to split the funds and who would administer the corporation. I think it would just be a risky logistical nightmare for not a lot of gain.

@cornfed40: I honestly didn't know about Atomic Hearts until this week, but I'm sure as hell not going to play that game. I'm more surprised that it got a slot on game pass than anything. A ton of people are going to play it because it was included in their paid service. I would support a boycott of that game if the developer's ties to the Russian government prove to be true, and I'd likely support a boycott even if the connections remain murky.