vinny

I haven't even listened to more than 15 minutes of the episode yet and I totally and utterly knew that when this topic came up in the news, this would be the angle of the case with the Beastcast...

EDIT:

I have now listened to the segment and I'd like to apologise, I can admit when I'm wrong.

Vinnie and Alex did harp on his apology not being sincere enough, I think it was, I don't think he's genuinely anti-semetic and he was the target of a hit piece, of course he's going to be pissed people took him out of context.

That being said, the rest of what Vinnie and Alex said was mostly factual and didn't leap to idiotic conclusions like MANY MANY (MANY!) of the stupid articles about this online.

I'll take my lumps and admit I'm wrong. Honestly, I think I'm still angry (!) about the Oculus / Palmer stunt Alex pulled, I assumed he pulled another one of those, before listening.

I was wrong - carry on.

Vinny are you gonna play Nioh?

Uh, nobody should ever get in trouble for making jokes. Humor should be beyond reproach. If people get their feelings hurt, then that just means they can't take a joke. What he said wasn't that offensive. Louis CK makes antisemitic jokes for fuck's sake. And Vinny Caravella used the word "Cunt,", and it's regarded by many people to be the most offensive word in the English language. So.... as much as I respect you guys, maybe don't look too deeply on what comedy offends somebody (especially if the person is not you, which, last time I checked, none of you were Jewish.) I'm a member of the LGBTQ community. I've had my share of bullshit shade thrown my way, and my share of people that aren't LGBTQ being offended on my behalf. I have a hard time not saying, "Look, thanks for looking out for me, but I'm a grown-ass man, please shut up." It's patronizing and a little demeaning. I'm not weak, and I'm not "the little guy." I'm intelligent and I can tell the difference between genuine hatred and a joke. I know not everybody is like me, and some people could be offended, but blowing things out of proportion and giving it an offensive quality where it didn't really have one before makes it into a more offensive thing than it was originally. Don't put shit like this on a pedestal. You're keeping the words in power.

Have your own opinion of it, sure. Call it offensive. Do whatever... but do not fuck with comedy. If we can't joke about everything, we can't joke about anything. That being said, PDP deserved this because he was working with Disney. Dude should have paid attention to what he was saying. It's just basic business not to offend or take risks.

The segment on Pewdiepie was ill-informed. If you are going to accuse someone of being antisemitic, get your ducks in a row first.

Here is a much better description of the story from Ethan Klein, who is coincidentally a Jew.

Even if they don't know, they could have easily looked it up and found the results in under a minute. I did just now and saw that it's even out on Wii U, making the process of capturing game footage extremely simple and affordable . They're all professional game journalists and I find it hard to believe they don't have the time to do this bit of research. Honestly, even playing the SNES 'lost levels' version is better than a rom version (and even a bad rom version at that.)

Like @gregalor says, it does take the wind out of the sails because it's basically GB playing a wrong version of SMB2, even when we ignore the whole piracy thing. People get to see a game that plays different from the real thing (the Luigi mode makes a big difference in the real game) and I wouldn't be surprised if it actually is some kind om rom hack.

It does seem odd that they can spend I don't know how much on the new equipment and subsequently refuse to pay a few dollars for the legal version of the game which they then use to make money of it by putting it on the members part of the site.

Honestly, I love Giant Bomb, which you can clearly see as I'm a premium member and for me it's the consistently best gaming site. I love the original features like the Quick Looks, Demo Derby's and the Beastcast among others but things like this stick out like sore thumb to me.

To put it bluntly: why should we pay for this content when they clearly didn't for theirs? (the game)

@vinny: Hey Vinny, where did you hear that the game runs worse on a regular PS4? I have not run into a single framerate hiccup. Maybe it's when you're playing in VR?

I love all your content Vinny. This should really be edited better. 17 minutes of nothing happening is a really long time. I know I could scrub ahead, but that really doesn't seem like something the "end user" should worry about.

Nice, thanks!

Yeah, Pat's audio is busted.

@vinny -

Something seems wrong with the brightness level lately in Hitman and other GB East game streams as well, if I remember correctly. It seems like something in the chain is set to Limited (AKA "16-255" colors) HDMI, as opposed to Full (AKA "0-256" colors), or vice versa - so when the signal is sent in that format, it looks all washed out just like these videos lately. That or something is expecting Deep Color or HDMI Low Black Level, in a similar fashion.

I'm sure your setup is a lot more complex than I realize, but I bet that some piece of the equation needs to be set to the proper signal type or the other components need to be changed to accommodate the piece that is not able to handle the signal as it is, for whatever reason.

For example, many TVs and other equipment like HDMI receivers don't properly report what signal they need and therefore, say on the PC, the NVIDIA drivers guess wrong - so it needs to manually be set to "Limited" or "Full" to fix it in the NV Control Panel. I'd guess something like that needs to be done on some part of your streaming setup, maybe not even the PC or console itself, but another splitter or capture device maybe?