Playdate: Old Music and Numismatics

Awww Yisss. I assume "Aww Yiss" is from the Beastcast. I am behind like 10 weeks on those, but I see people post it a lot so now I am doing it too.

This is surprisingly enjoyable! I would def watch more Vinny habits mixed with Alex snark.

Guitar Hero II is my favorite one!

Awesome show. A Giant Bomb Video Games Antiques Roadshow would be so friggin cool

This is great and oddly soothing. I feel like Vinny should have a jeweler's loupe for this.

Alex playing Guitar Hero is always going to make a good stream.

And coins of course. I look forward to the moment Vinny tells Alex he's been sitting on millions of dollars in rare coins.

More weird stuff like this!

Nice MBMBAM reference, @vinny!

@flasaltine said:

Nope, it's from the webcomic Hark, a Vagrant!

This is like one of those shows where they open some mystery safe. It's a nail biter even though you know you'll be left disappointed.

Really enjoying this!

This was a hobby-grade stream. :)

Props to the beastboys, always producing top #content! Big up

@yuinova: What's up you cool baby.

Ill be so disappointed if theres no TROOOOOOOGDOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!

Never clean coins kids.

Pretty neat stream.

woodworking and drums please!!!

WHAT'S UP YOU COOL BABIES

Vine is like a fine wine, he gets more and more amazing as time goes by.

vinny bites down hard on each of these coins to prove their authenticity right

I LOVED this stream! Coins are fascinating and Guitar Hero 2 was my big "Music rhythm" game back in the day. Also realizing that it is 10 years old made me feel really old. Thanks Beast Boys! <3

Watching this has made me once again regret that I lost track of that Canadian penny I pulled out of the till from the year they stopped printing them. it was a neat memento.

Why can't I embiggen the video?

Around 13:13 vinny touches the coin with his bare fingers?

@deadstar: One of the CBSi engineers on UPF said that the embiggen function has been temporarily retired, but that it will return at a later date.

@gee_rad said:

@flasaltine said:

Awww Yisss. I assume "Aww Yiss" is from the Beastcast. I am behind like 10 weeks on those, but I see people post it a lot so now I am doing it too.

Nope, it's from the webcomic Hark, a Vagrant!

Futaba said "Aw Yiss" in persona 5 and I was surprised to realize how big that has gotten. I remember it from HAV and then it started appearing in general popular lexicon eventually.

This was amazingly relaxing to listen/watch

I played the hell out of GH2, RB2 I played more because of the drums and just the extensive DLC release, but I put in easily 4 to 5 hours average a day for like 7 months into GH2, it was all I did between June 2007 and December 2007. I remember having to force myself to play through Halo 3 and COD4 so I could get back to trying to gold star all the songs.

Secret funniest songs to play is the bass line for John the Fisherman. Sadly the only way to play it solo is in the practice section but tons a fun to play. Since the game game out Free Bird has been my favorite song ever, never been topped in almost 10 years, kinda crazy now that I think about it...

EDIT: Pro tip - input the menu code to speed up the highway, also increases the timing window for HO/PO and once you adjust to the speed (at least for me) made it easier to decipher the notes because there were larger gaps between them. Elevated my gameplay and made it easier to go back to GH2 after newer games came out.

Love it when Vinny stealth-drops a McElroy reference.

Rad stream guys, nice and low key before the weekend kicks off.

I got into Guitar Hero to the point that I was one of those people that modded a PS2 so I could download people's custom versions of the game. The process to mod Guitar Hero was completely insane and it took so long to replace all of the songs

This stream's immediately got, like, early UPF vibes. I love it.

THUNDERHORSE

Cool stream! I love it when you guys get off-kilter like this.

@jibanyan said:

You mean, when UPF was last entertaining?

What is this strange Antique roadshow rhythm game they're playing?

At this rate, @jeff is going to start selling knives on UPF.

@nightriff: I guess I'm speaking in terms of how loosely this Playdate seems to be formatted; it's literally somebody showing off a coin collection while somebody else plays Guitar Hero II. That rules.

It's weird because UPF's looseness is kind of the premise of the whole thing, but it feels more... rigid now? It's still a show about the duders showing whatever they want to show, but it can feel like they're going through the motions sometimes.

(The episodes like the one with Dan playing DDR while the others try to build a computer, for example, are a nice change of pace from the usual formula.)

@jibanyan: I haven't been a fan of UPF since Vinny left. The looseness left to NY with him. Occasionally they have a good one and I check it out, but that is few and far between. For a show with "Unprofessional" in the title, it has felt like the most straight forward, most predictable show they have ever done. In a weird way, the few Professional Wednesday shows we got were more entertaining and looser than UPF the past 3 years.

A very special episode of Antiques Rockshow

Dudes! This whole thing is super fun! I'm not even done watching, and I felt compelled to comment and let you know how much I'm enjoying this.

Next up: Vinny broadcasts his first HAM radio broadcast out over the internet while Alex does a full playthrough of Thumper in VR.

This was a great stream

This is exactly what I needed after working all day!

Ughh man I had so many good times with Guitar Hero II, what a great game!!

This was one of my favorite features I've seen for a while.. such a good combination of nerdin' out.

Amazing stream you guys! And yes @vinny, coins with scalloped edges are RAD.

Totally agree. Those are cool moments. This show was really great and interesting. The East guys are really rocking it. I hope west gets some new hires soon because they need fun new content badly.

This is really good. I love Vinny's enthusiasm for curious coins and their odd histories. Alex's interjections while Guitar Heroing are dry, yet playful.

I had an odd assortment of coins when I was a child, including a 2-cent piece. As a kid, they were like pirate treasure to me. I haven't given them much thought nowadays, but they might be worth a few bucks.