Giant Bombcast 703: Time Juice

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Alternate episode titles were:

• American Nut
• Italian People Hate Vinny
• War On Pinball
• Pissing Himself For High Scores
• Messy With Milk
• Delivers the Facials
• Butt Shower
• Toilet Swapping (again)

What an episode that was

Yeah, this was a wild one.

All the best on the upcoming paternity leave, Jeff G!

Did I misunderstand something or did Jan imply that John Daly is dead? Because the former pro golfer is very much alive.

I accidentally was listening to the non-premium version, and I'm kind of happy I made that mistake because the dick pill ad read this week was SOMETHING else.

Not hav heard the episode yet, I’m curious as to the episode art. We had one of those Space Invader machines when my mom went through her own pinball phase in the 90’s. Beyond the Geiger knockoff art, that thing was wider than the usual table.

I don't know, there is something very preppy and suspect about people liking a toilet that shoots water up the ass. But that's just me. I'm for the blue collar worker and the city folk who wash their ass the right way, during their baths or showers. If you can afford a toilet that cleans your ass, you can afford to pay extra taxes. Eat the Rich!

Lobster was like the trash food they fed to prisoners and livestock. Then during the Civil war it turned out that cooked lobster was easy to can so it became popular canned food. And later on when tourism became more popular people who had only had canned lobster and didn't know that lobster was considered trash food in New England wanted to try fresh lobster and thus a delicacy was born.

Many delicacies have had similar stories. Fermented herring started out as a way of preserving food for the war without having to use quite as much salt as salted food (basically you use just enough salt for the good fermenting lacto-bacillus to win over the bad bacteria because they handle salinity better) and now a portion of Sweden looks forward to the Surströmmingspremiär every year

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I don't understand why the narrative around Deathloop on this site is that its a really confusing game to describe? Even from the reveal trailer it has seemed like a pretty straightforward premise, nothing that's been shown or talked about on GB has made it seem any different.

Jan is a Sonic expert! What can't he do!?

The absolute best emails segment oh my god

Smallest gun is a 2.7 mm kolibri which I leared about from forgotten weapons. I don't think it actually could hurt anyone. The biggest thing I've seen that's not actually artillery was the 20mm anti tank rifle.

I don't know what hushpuppies you guys are having. They're just fried corn meal (or dough). That's it. Cinnamon and shit? Nah, not normally.

When the hell did "immersive sim" become the term for games like Deathloop? They said it like 50 times during this. What does that even mean? It makes me think of a game like Football Manager, lol.

I saw the second Matrix movie before ever seeing the first. I was brought to the theater to see it without being asked, and they didn't know I hadn't seen the first. But I enjoyed it, regardless (or perhaps because) of not knowing anything about the first at the time. I did eventually go back and see the first, and I do think the first is better, but Reloaded still holds a special place for me. I skip all the Zion crap, especially the dance nonsense, whenever I rewatch it though. And Revolutions does just suck, period.

Absolutely appalled at the hush puppy discourse. They don’t have cinnamon (at least in the south!). They have onions and they are basically fried cornbread balls. They’re rarely sweet but sweet cornbread is of the devil.

This and quotes about it being a unique concept have been confusing me, too. It seemed like an immersive sim (akin to Dishonored) with a timeloop mechanic (similar to Outer Wilds), and that's what it is. Throw in some Hitman and rougelite elements and you've got yourself a really enjoyable stew. Unique in that it's combining a bunch of fun ideas together, but those ideas are far from original. I'm not complaining--I like it.

It seems like a lot of sites--not just Giant Bomb--are saying they're having trouble getting the concept across, but I think the marketing and the previews (GB's included) were pretty clear.

I was thinking the same thing. Eaten more than a few hushpuppies in my life and never had one with cinnamon.

While I suspect you statement is rather tongue-in-check , in Japan, many middle-class, blue-collar folks have bidets.

The idea of a bidet is cool and all but...I eat a lot of spicy food, and a lot of times even some slight splashback can hurt like a motherfucker. The idea of getting shot by a straight up jet of water sounds excruciating.

@chaosnovaxz: if there is a way to fill your bidet with milk for those times when your are expelling the spicy food then that may help? Don’t think about that too much actually…

Korea too. I live on a very rural island of like, 1600 people and other than teachers and some service and health workers, the majority of the population are blue-collar fishermen and the average person has a bidet.

It's not bougie, it's just plain more clean.

I finished Lost in Random in less than a week which for me takes quite a remarkable game. I loved it, my favourite game so far this year. Really interesting, new feeling mechanics. My only gripes are some battles can go on for a really long time due to the random nature of your cards, and the first boss fight was incredibly difficult but once I was past it nothing else really caused me any trouble again.

naa its not a rich thing so much as a most ppl at least in the US don't usually have one or hadn't heard of them. i went to germany when i was with my ex-husband ( army) and they were in most public places we went to and the house we rented had that a toliet and a urinal in the house's upstairs bathroom (plus stand up shower) why they needed a urinal was kinda baffling but i assume its a water usage thing. at the time i was like jeff's wife and wanted nothing to do with it , but the last house my family and i rented before now was 2k a month ( pretty common if not cheap for the number of bedrooms in this area of NH) and the downstairs had a bidet in it ,...well anyway after getting a stomach bug from hell needless to say my ass was so raw from wiping i gave in and tried it .. needless to say that thing is the best . i'm with danny idk why you Need one if you wipe properly but frankly in such times i can understand why bakalar would like his. .. still if a random rental in middle of nowhere NH can have it i wouldn't say its a rich person's thing.

No Co op in Tales = no sale. Biggest let down.

i wanted to play this game for a while. it looked very cool and seemed like a tonne of fun to play. i usually watch Lirik stream a couple of hours of any game before i consider buying them. From what i saw it looked like an aimless rogue like., repeating the same shit over and over, trying to tell a story that didnt have one. I get that might be the point. just seamed like a cheap way to pad content. The main protagonist tried to be funny but wasnt and Julianna seemed like an awful bitch for no good reason. Unfortunately i saw some of the end game and was even more disappointed. This worked out in the end because it saved me spending $125 on a game I wasnt sure was going to hit the mark in the first place.

I am apparently visiting movie theaters incorrectly.

I think in some countries, people are prioritizing a clean ass over nice cars, fancy houses, etc.

Besides, I think the rich have people who wipe/clean their asses for them. Not too much need for a bidet.

re: Jan's comment wondering why Wolverine hasn't been in Fortnite. Well, he has, for almost an entire year at this point! And hilariously, Fortnite doesn't have health regen, so you can play as Wolverine without natural health regen.

@unreal999: Not going to speak of the quality of Arise itself (since I haven't played nor have I looked too closely at promotional material), but as a formerly very committed Tales fan... I don't think the co-op aspect was ever a selling point of the series? I mean sure it's fun, speaking from experience of playing Abyss with my brother, but those games are never really geared towards anything but single player, with co-op battles just thrown in as a cheeky bonus.

Not THOSE trees ;)

Great episode. I don't know why but I was loling a lot. Thanks for the good times. @dannyodwyer welcome to the U.S. You can now start calling it "merica'. I think a Derringer is the small type of gun you are looking for.

The Matrix Reloaded was always great, you mothertruckers

Canadians! Go vote as well!

Also where's the new 8-4 Play?

I order 1 taco all the time from Taco Bell.

My introduction to video games was when I was around 10 years old. My mother and I were leaving our apartment when the guy who lived next door came out and asked if I had a video game console. We went over and he gave me a SNES and about 10 games and a Super Scope, didn't ask for anything but my mom gave him $20.

I wasn't paying attention at this point because I was 10 and I just got a free SNES, but apparently he told my mom that he was moving and needed to get rid of all his stuff because he was on the wrong side of the mountains for the apocalypse.

Man, that sounds like one fancy bidet Jeff got going on there!

This episode was wild :)

World Flipper gets harder as you progress and unlock new content/modes. Once you hit a certain difficulty you can't reasonably auto unless you vastly overpower what you're fighting.

I wish genre labels would just go away. "Immersive sim" is one of the least helpful of all of these things. Roguelike/lite, Souls-like, Metroidvania, ect. . Just a bunch of short-hand that only works if you have any knowledge of these games or some conversation a bunch of game critics had years ago so they wouldn't have to write so much to describe the game they're playing.

A better vocabulary needs to established that's concise and inclusive - as if you're talking to someone that has never played a video game before. The alternative is just to forego that nonsense altogether and just think of a way to describe something without shorthand.