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Giant Bombcast 12/16/2014

A couple of tall, dark and handsome clowns blow into town to tell the tallest tales of comically large telephones, Jeff's history with the Dark Carnival, the latest Surge surge, the "truth" about the Wa "brothers," November hardware sales, the likely whereabouts of Charlie Nash, and... beards.

The Giant Bombcast is the world's most beloved video game podcast, and now it's available in video form.

Dec. 16 2014

Posted by: Brad

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Early!

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Oh this is exactly what I need in my life right now.

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AAAAHHHHHHHH

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HELLO! BOMBCAST!

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Yayyyy

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Whoa! This really is an early one!

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oh shit

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Dan: avid Juggalo.

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The cover image is simply magical.

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Pheonix Wright Objection!

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Excited about another bombcast. Especially after the powerbombcast stuff.

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EARLYCAST! THANKS BRAD!!!!

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I just seen the artwork for this episode and my response was simply, "Oh shit."

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Twitter is for putting up announcements for the site. That's why GB is on twitter.

Nobody should ever have a serious discussion on Twitter. The service is incredibly ill-suited for it.

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Thank you

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I should have braced before clicking this link. I was not ready for that image.

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This cover art is promising.

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No one should have a history with the Dark Carnival. No one.

Also Ryckert talking shit about cats on Twitter is clearly him just trying to develop himself further as the internet's greatest heel

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Crikey this is lovely and early. Looking forward to hearing that ad music Brad described as sounding lifted from a Spice Girls song. Always good to hear Jason on the cast too. Dude has a really pleasing voice and plenty to say.

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Yiss!

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Yes, Eurocast! It's actually Tuesday! Thank you!

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Hell yeah early Bombcast! Looking forward to the Capcom Cup talk from Jason considering he was at the event!

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R U DOWN?

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EARLY CAST!!! IT'S TUESDAY!

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Woah, that's earlier than early!

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IS THIS AN ALTERNATE UNIVERSE? I AM LEGITIMATELY FREAKED OUT RIGHT NOW BY HOW EARLY THIS BOMBCAST IS.

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It's a miracle!

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yes hello? I would like one ticket on the hype train. Destination: TUESDAY!!!!

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what is a juggalo

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Wait, the giant bombcast is early ? Is this a christmas miracle ?

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Jeff had a Juggalette

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@overbite said:

what is a juggalo

You don't wanna know.

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Why can't I download this from iTunes yet?

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wow an actual bombcast I can listen to on tuesday, thanx for this christmas miracle guys!

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Jeezy chreezy, this podcast's headline image.

I don't even.

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I think by being from Michigan I have to be somewhat excited that somebody somewhere is talking about the ICP

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I didn't understand a single word in the description... this is going to be a good one.

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Somebody get those monsters away from those horses.

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Edited By shaunk

Giant EARLYCAST

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Yeah boi!

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Oh jesus fucking christ that thumbnail....

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"I don't know what GMOs are." - Dan Ryckert

I wish I could live in a bubble like Dan and just ignore everything in the outside world and just focus on video games.

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WOOOHOOOOO BOMBCAST!!!!!

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Spoilers for MGS2 and MGS in general about 1:13 into the podcast. They give enough warning so it shouldn't be a problem, but just a heads up for people following MGScanlon for the first time.

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Listening to Brad defend Destiny by comparing it to Diablo; I don't think this is a good comparison - Diablo at least randomly generates the levels, Destiny is exactly the same right down to the enemy locations every time you play.

If they'd done random level generation it would have been a much more interesting game.

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Not listened yet, but is that a screen shot of Big Money Rustlas? I'm sad that I recognized it immediately.

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Is this the one with ALL the emails?

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@red720 said:

Listening to Brad defend Destiny by comparing it to Diablo; I don't think this is a good comparison - Diablo at least randomly generates the levels, Destiny is exactly the same right down to the enemy locations every time you play.

If they'd done random level generation it would have been a much more interesting game.

He was just comparing it to Diablo in that you run the same shit over and over again for loot and other stuff, which is fair. Of course it's not the same type of game, but that aspect is similar and is the reason why a lot of people still play Destiny.

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Thank you guys

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@amyggen: The end game grind in diablo is rifts. They are always different. You swap between tile sets constantly and at the highest difficulties you're guaranteed an upgrade. Plus the complexity of the loot itself and the customization is much greater. And can you believe the classes are actually different!

You're not farming rep or marks by doing the same things youve been doing the entire game. You're not running the exact same raid (i guess there's two now but you gotta pay money for that one) hoping to get a drop or hoping the rng cryptarch will make you a strange coin instead of some garbage piece of gear.