Giant Bombcast 01/19/2016

@jeff: I didn't really hear it as a pure joke the first time, but I'll give you that one if that's how it was meant. My main issue was judging the show without being informed on it.

that dark souls email tho

people have just zero self awareness

"I always just thought that things just work the way they're supposed to."

Hoy boy.

I don't trust this "New Dan".

Ketchup and mustard on the hot dog or just ketchup. Mustard is a fine condiment but mustard only on a dog is icky.

I have just mustard on fries. But I'm Canadian...

@danryckert, you haven't gone too far with Amiibos yet, I have. There's about 60 in that box.

Where is the health warning re: the 30ish minutes of Amiibo talk?

I'm about to go into full seizures. Even Brad tried to spin the conversation toward a new topic but Dan (and even Jeff) pulled it right back toward more Amiibo talk. My brain hurts so much.

The only words to rationalize NewDan's Amiibo obsession are: Nintendo fandom.

@dougfunk15: Just like with Serial, people will stop talking about MaM soon.

I love when someone is informed on their TMNT lore.

@dougfunk15: Says more about the viewers than Dan.

Best guess is Brad was playing the Witness all weekend.

@bigevil1987: That is wild. I haven't gotten into the Amiibo craze myself but I can understand why people do - but then if you're investing so heavily why do you have them in a box and not on display? Are you just buying them for in-game stuff only?

What are Jeff and Brad talking about when they refer to "holiday 08"?

Heh ... if you manage to get Jeff himself to respond to your comment you know you fucked up ^^

@y2ken: I don't have anywhere in particular to display them at the moment, my place is small, but some day.

I've played too much Dark Souls, the coop is still some of the most memorable stuff to me.

Since this seems to have not been mentioned but when Brad says that Street Fighter V seemes to have changed the least. I want to bring light to the fact that some players that were big in the earlier SF games seem to be fitting right in with the play style that SFV is presenting and seem to be favored to win big. I know its not something many will care about but considering Brad can talk about a DOTA 2 patch as being a big deal and kinda writing off SFV as just a roster update just bothers me along with thinking it looks similar graphically to SF4 which you would literally have to be blind to think. Sorry I kinda went on a rant.

Wait so Brad says "fuck you" beacuse people like to watch true crime shows? What is wrong with him?

Brad's coors-highway-guy story is the coolest act I have ever heard anyone do.

@entireties: a holiday party that happened in 08? I don't know, just pulling it out of my ass.

Dan: "I don't actively troll people" when paying Darksouls.

While doing exactly that, frequently trolling people on purpose.

>.>

Listening to Dan go down the Amibo spiral hole is amazing, scary and sad all at the same time. Loved we got to here him actively justifying which ones to purchase.

@amyggen:

Why should people stop talking about it?, there are genuine problems with the US legal system and the more attention that is brought to it the higher the likelihood of there being some sort of change. I get annoyed when i get bombarded with waves of pop culture, but i think when something gets people talking about real issues its a little ignorant to just shrug it off as an over-saturation of pop culture nonsense.

@jeff: mustard isnt trash your tongue is trash

People will stop talking about this specific documentary, just like Serial season 1 and The Jinx isn't really much talked about anymore. People will still talk about the issues with the US legal system, but as with all true crime this specific case will disappear from the "zeitgeist" probably sooner rather than later.

@nkster: They shouldn't stop talking about it. It's incredibly important, you're right, but when the guy who runs this whole site takes a pretty callous stance against it I guess it's not surprising fans don't care either. People should be up in arms about trying to get Brendan Dassey freed, as well as what's going on with police brutality against minorities and income inequality. There's a lot of glaring, unbelievable problems happening in society met with constant apathy by a large part of the population. It's why Avery and Dassey were able to get completely railroaded and fucked over in the first place, because of that exact mentality Jeff is spouting - "I heard he was probably a shitbag anyway"

@amyggen:

sorry, your earlier comment read to me that people talking about it was somehow an annoyance, apologies if that wasn't what you meant.

@sinjunb:

I generally agree with you on pretty much everything, especially dassey.

I'm guessing that jeff had read about the fact that Avery burned a cat, which is in fact extremely shitty, but in avery's defense its probably no more shitty than Dr Dre beating the shit out of how many women in the 90s?, and dre gets almost universally a free pass on that.

Either way, the cat thing really shouldn't have a bearing on the perception of this case or be taken as a sign that he deserves to be in prison, he already served his time for that and by all accounts seems sorry. I agree that its this kind of perception that really screwed him over in 07 and 85, and having to hear jeff say what he said was shitty, especially after seeing the whole series. But again, Jeff didn't have the full context, and he spoke about what he probably had heard/read online. From that point of view and his apparent discomfort with the exploitative nature of some true-crime works (i do not think MaM is exploitative fyi) i can understand where hes coming from. I probably wouldn't call him callous, but i agree that he probably should at least watch at least the first episode before passing judgement. (episode 1 is totally free on youtube).

Oh yeah, I can see how the comment can be read that way. But that was not my intention! :)

Re: the video games making you cry and Jason's "yes, but I'm not telling"...
I don't suppose he tried to dismiss a palico in MH4U? That got to me =(

Damn. That sandwich is making my mouth water.

@tennmuerti: so Dan doing Dan things? lol

Yo, welcome to Jeff in a nutshell. He has strong opinions on things he's never tried or will ever try/watch/do. It's kind of his thing.

You guys should try the Inbox app, it does a great job of only showing you the e-mails you want to see.

I am not a bot.

@sinjunb: I'm sure many people care about these important issues...but getting upset that a podcast primarily geared towards comedy/wrestling/taco bell and occasionally video games is not adequately discussing the nuances of reported criminal and societal injustices seems like a tall order. There are far better forums to have those discussions.

@prokofjev: Welcome to giantbomb, try not to take anything here seriously.

Yoshi Beef still strong.

That's a solid looking sandwich except IT HAS MUSTARD GOD DAMMIT.

I was on a jury awhile back. It was terrifying to realize that one day my life might be in the hands of the totally moronic, apathetic "peers" who were my fellow jurors. Most people based their decisions on feelings and existing biases, not science, the evidence, or critical thinking. An uneducated populace is the bane of a just society.

Jeff's dislike of true crime stuff seemed like he was overlooking the fact that the airing of the show can be itself a step in the process of possible exoneration. For example, The Thin Blue Line cleared a wrongful conviction a year after its release, this ep. of This American Life got a corrupt judge to step down - but that was only after their publication created public pressure.

That picture for the podcast isn't that so-called double meat sandwich is it? Pathetic! Nearly any deli between Boston and New York would keel over laughing at that pathetic sandwich.

I can only hope that someone just grab an picture of a mere sandwich and that isn't the podcast sandwich in question.

@jedikv: This in general! Sure people are allowed to get upset but they should atleast understand this.

@nasar7: We've moved more and more away from juries here in Norway for that exact reason.