Giant Bombcast 515: The Bionic Beaver

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Bitdiner

I'm just posting here so I don't get fined

Oh snap. The first shot has been fired in the war between the "Has" and Has-Nots"

Sharpen your premium memberships at prepare for battle!!!

I wanna learn about canadian computers!

And now for the Semi-Annual "What Game is Jeff Not Talking About Right Now?" Poll: Far Cry 5, Metal Gear Survive, Sea of Thieves or...Red Dead Redemption 2? I'm sure it's Far Cry 5, with MGS as a dark horse candidate.

I was going to watch this live but when Jeff said it's bedtime I went to bed.

Oh god my email made the title. Anyways, I'm honestly not sure why they destroyed the ICONs in 1994 or how many survived. But they probably just figured they were obsolete and had to make room for more modern PCs. I know soon after they were gone they were replaced by Windows machines and we were so enthralled by Encarta we mostly forgot all about the ICONs. I missed Offshore Fishing though that game was legit.

Get well son Ben, missing the full crew.

@exogen: Damn right!

I started listening to Screaming Females last night thanks to Rorie's persistent praise.

fuck, they're great. thanks for yelling about a band, @rorie!

get well soon ben too!

FWIW - I definitely care about the Steam Curator thing. I would love it if all staff jumped in to that.

Robert De Niro was Fearless Leader in the Rocky Bulwinkle film. Jason Alexander was Boris. Man never thought this podcast would start with Rocky and Bulwinkle, but I welcome it!

Yes Rorie, do tell us more about this... "World of Warcraft"..............

Jason seemed excited so I figured Monster Hunter: World?

@nodima: far cry isn’t out till the very end of March and sea of thieves is on the 20th of March, of those u listed my bet would be MGS Survive as that’s out next month.

yes, all the best to Mr. Ben "The Bionic Beaver" Pack

@jblp@hammondoftexas: I imagine it is Dragon Ball FighterZ.

A Theme Hospital game? More garfield? This bombcast speaks to my interests!

I find the Giant Bomb curator recommendations on Steam really useful; hope they keep doing that.

The only good Transformers movies are the 1986 one and the one that ended Transformers Prime.

Jan boosting dem millenial ranks, shit.

It will probably end up alright in the end, but my god some of these battle royale games are blatant in how they copy PUBG's mechanics and style. Maybe the VR one is unique enough but that, like all VR games, will be dead like the rest. I also wonder about the devs behind The Culling and how miffed they must be that their particular brand didn't take off (I actually thought that looked sort of interesting/neat but never tried it).

Jesus Christ. I wanted to know about what went on behind the scenes at Quantic Dream, but fucking hell.

And to shield himself behind those he's worked with, as if their actions outside of their collaboration have anything at all to do with him. Fuck all that noise.

So what's that program mining program rorie was talking about ?

Oh man, I totally remember Crosscountry Canada. That game did not mess around.

@soulcake: Probably nicehash but that was recently hacked so i wont recommend it.

New Theme Hospital oh my god yes

The Rorie Podcast feat. Guests

@shakeitbaby: Pretty much.

Is it my memory playing tricks on me or was Cross Country Canada played on a stream at some point?

I, for one, am quite hype for E3 now.

None of those. It's either the new Monster Hunter or Dragon Ball FIghterZ

I could have sworn Jeff played Crosscountry Canada on a show at some point. Or maybe it was Drew.

and they talked a bunch about DBFz so it's almost certainly Monster Hunter.

but Jeff really, really, doesn't like Monster Hunter... I am sure he would leave it over to basically anyone else.

Didn't Drew totally play that Cross County Canada game on a UPF a ways back?

@mupod: Here is Drew playing Cross County Canada on a UPF in 2013

https://www.giantbomb.com/videos/unprofessional-fridays-10-11-2013/2300-8067/

It’s a little baffling how confused the crew is by the excitement behind Switch ports. It’s the portability my dudes!

Yeppppp. I just don't understand why he tries to talk so fast. Every other word out of his mouth is mumbled/slurred. Oh and he's typically spouting incorrect nonsense on the half you can make out.

WeedTech

We didn't get a wave this week!

I like Rorie a lot but I do think he needs to slow down a bit. It can be tough to understand him sometimes because he trips over his own words a lot.

Man good catch. They didn't even remember playing it haha (20 minutes 5 years ago to be fair).

Cross Country Canada was the shit in grade 6.

Here it is emulated on Archive.org

https://archive.org/details/msdos_Crosscountry_Canada_1991

Jan, you've gotta give gyro controls a chance. Splatoon 2 is one of the rare cases where it works really well. It's quicker, more precise, and feels better. Once you get used to it, you'll wonder why anyone plays shooters with control sticks only.