Unprofessional Fridays: 02/21/2020

why did this video autostart as if i had watched it already?

@six:same freaked me out

Likewise!

This is all just something we did in the last lifetime...and what not...freaky XD.

20XX is so good. Not the most challenging roguelike, but some of the most fun I've had with one.

February breaks came about for me I think when i was in high school...so going on about 12-13 years. Basically instead of giving 2 weeks for spring break around Easter, they split the break and gave us a week during February, and then the normal week in Spring.

Rorie's beard is not doing him any favours. It's like if someone smeared rusty pubes across his jaw.

Gotta trim that shit down son, keep it neat.

Everything about that first game annoyed me and I'm not even sure why lol.

Rorie's "turn-based roguelike coming to Fig" made me laugh because roguelikes are turn-based.

@physics102: I know in New England, February vacation was like the ski trip time for many

AC is going to be like Pokemon in that the thing everyone is mad about could not matter less to me.

I'm all about Star Fetchers

Star Fetchers rules, glad to see it get out there more even if it's definitely not for everyone

When @brad retires from Giant Bomb will he grow a big beard and truly be a Video Game Graybeard?

bens giant spider hands freak me out, if he held them up to me like that I would possibly scoot back. I love the rest of you, Beautiful Big Ben, but your hands, they remind me of that typing robot guy from ghost in the shell. Also as a hat guy, rorie, I am hurt. Also also, That first game was somethun to behold while lilbaked

They got Rorie, the perfect human being on the show this week? Well I can’t pass this up!

I think I'm officially too old for games like Star Fetchers. The writing annoyed me almost instantly, and the game just seems bad. There are a lot of text heavy indie games coming out lately and none of them have the writing chops to pull it off.

Woooooow that first game looks like something I don’t want to have nothing to do with. Like a video game version of Reddit

That trainer Rorie used on Sekiro looked really neat just to see all the great animations in slow motion. Also it’s tempting me to finally get Sekiro in PC and just run through it for funsies with that on since I already beat the game on Xbox.

I admire Ben for giving Rorie some really ill informed advice on Sekiro with a lot of confidence.

That seems to be a part of Ben's job description. For example, see any video he's playing Apex Legends in.

@decoyoctopusx: And so it is written!

@cheesepaper: I like Vinny!

That's one way to ruin Sekiro I guess.

Wow! I've not listened to Constrobuz for like ten years and it's not like he's a well-known guy so that was a surprise to see his name and hear his music again.

What the fuckin fuck is this fuckin shit about not cursing? Is this something that cbs wants them to do?

I thought dipping grilled cheese in ketchup was normal. Is it a regional thing? Someone tell me I'm not crazy for dipping grilled cheese in something made for stuff to be dipped in.

Who would dip a perfectly good grilled cheese in soup? I am biased though because I come from a family of soup haters.

People jokingly call hockey 'kendo' in Finland. That Kunio-kun hockey game finally proves that the two sports are related.

Is the newsletter available on the site?

Is there an archive of the newsletter on the site?

Thanks for kicking off the community monday streams thingies. Been wanting stuff like that for a long time :)

Good UPF this week as well. Made me want to break Sekiro...

@humanity: A friend used it and I dicked around a bit.

Honestly? It definitely helps with giving you more time for the perilous moves but everything else just felt a lot harder. Sekiro is very much a rhythm game and most of the sequences are timed as such. Once you start adding delays it becomes a LOT harder to "feel" out an attack as it were.

Maybe if you play the whole game on the same speed it would work but I spent an hour or so trying to just time Genichiro at 80% whereas I can "naturally" start parrying his flurries after only two or three tries to calibrate at 100%.

"Onions are natures onions."

A profound observation by Team GB.

@gundato: that doesn’t sound surprising seeing as From games have a history of having gameplay elements weirdly timed to the framerate pacing. Maybe it’s something to get used to as you said who knows I don’t actually own Sekiro on PC although I did try it at a friends place and it was a night and day difference playing at 60 FPS compared to even the XB1X. I was already so far in the game I didn’t really want to start over on PC so I thought maybe one day when it’s on sale and some DLC comes out. Thanks for the info though!

@h2yo: Im sure likening his beard to pubes is a surefire way of getting him to dance to your tune.

20XX looks like a really fun game. Once I pull myself away from Dead Cells, I may give it a shot.

Ben's face regarding Rorie's popper predilections simply must make it into the next Best Of.

If that's how you've gotta get through Sekiro, by all means. If I got into Sekiro I'd probably take advantage of that too. I played all of Celeste at 80% speed and still struggled in some parts.

I'm getting older, slower. whocare. experience and enjoy the game however you can, whatever works best for you.

@humanity: these comments are just so eye roll-inducing man. rorie asked me before the stream started for tips. i never claimed to be a sekiro expert, i was just trying to give some advice for a fight that i did like a year ago.

I love how proud Brad seemed of "Chat Rorie" juxtaposed with everyone else's confusion as to what the joke was.

No need to roll your eyes Ben - Rorie will often give bad advice read straight from the chat which is often at odds with everything that is happening on the screen but contradictory information is just part of the tradition of GB live shows. I have not played the game since it came out either, it just seemed like using this very slow overhead strike against a really nimble enemy was a bad call, but hey Rorie made it in the end.

@humanity: Why do you care enough about whether Rorie beats a Sekiro boss on what is essentially a video podcast to make an unkind remark about one of the people on said podcast, who you presumably don't personally detest? I admit I used to get frustrated at people "playing badly" in videos, but let me share with you the epiphany that I had: you don't have to watch that part if you find it annoying, and you might even find that it isn't important enough to qualify as annoying to begin with.

Fuck yeah Monday streams!

ooh-tee-nee is probably from Tunisian Arabic for "give me" 'aatiinnii أعطني Lucas used Tunisian extras and based the Jawa look on their traditional robes.

Gotta be honest, Rorie ruins a lot of content for me.

@phushun: ???

Sorry for any time I made a comment that was shitty, GiantBomb. Thanks for pointing out how wack this is, Ben.

Why did they spend the first 30 minutes playing a game that would have been bad as a browser game in 2004?

@pnutz83: Did you miss the part about there being a child in the studio?