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Voicemail Dump Truck Scrapin' By with Jeff and Ben

This week we take calls about the science of fighting games, sealed copies, and tell harrowing high school graduation stories.

If you think the GIant Bombcast spends too much time talking about Not Video Games, you're going to hate this thing.

Jun. 27 2018

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Time for a scrapin'

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@jeff and @benpack you guys need to give Rockstar Recovery Fruit Punch a shot. It's pretty damn close to being energy drink Hawaiian Punch

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Is there a video archive of this?

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Awww yeeaaaahhhhh

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I have the SAME dream Jeff has about school, except my dreams usually start me in a class where I'm finding out I have a huge paper due in a week. I've been out of school for 5 years and these are the only nightmares I get.

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There's a new formula for fighting game science:

If developer = Capcom

If year of release is 2016 or later

The game is a mess/boring/dead

Street Fighter V underperformed and has less active players than IV in 2015, Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite is such a disaster it lost 95% of its playerbase in 3 months and didn't even get a single appearance at Evo (support entirely dropped by Capcom too)

Ultra SF II is a $40 re-release of a $15 XBLA game from 2008 with slightly more content, 30th Anniversary Collection has horrible netcode and less features than some previous re-releases

What is happening over there??? How do you systematically destroy your fighting game division within 2 years, after SFIV and Marvel vs. Capcom 3 did so well and were played for over 6 years at Evo?

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I used to have the same dream Jeff mentioned. Somehow I forgot a project or essay and didn't graduate. The dream begins with me back in school in the hallway with no clue which classroom I'm supposed to be in. The scenario repeats itself with me failing to get to the right class on time and then it ends or I wake up at a normal time. Weird because I didn't have any problem graduating. Unlike Freshman and Sophomore year, Junior and Senior year were easy-breezy.

I'm 33 now and I haven't had that dream in at least 5 years. Hopefully this podcast doesn't change that.

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@therealseaman: Despite the bad launch, SFV is doing just fine right now.

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@hassun said:

@therealseaman: Despite the bad launch, SFV is doing just fine right now.

Fine in terms of eSports revenue but people still aren't buying the game, the netcode is still unreliable (not one patch to address it) and pros still **** on the game. Active player counts only temporarily spike up when a new balance patch or character comes out, within a month it loses most of that again. I'm sure this trend isn't just a Steam thing.

I don't blame people, it's a dull game and I rarely even watch tournaments now... during IV era, I watched every major even if it meant staying up until 7am. Even legendary match ups like Daigo vs. Infiltration don't have the same impact anymore.

I'll watch Evo but might get bored and turn it off before top 8 like last year, SFV makes me watch more Tekken than ever. I didn't like Tekken at all until SFV happened.

In Shinjuku Taito Station (South exit of the station), all 16 SFIV cabinets are regularly in use in the evenings (I go every week or 2). If SFV comes to arcades with another re-balance I'd give it a fair shot, but until then it seems plenty of people would rather play IV, myself included.

I've dumped on SFV enough in person at the arcade and on /r/Kappa so I'm going to draw a line on here and not speak about it again. SFVI please, with a different team behind it.

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It's been almost 25 years since I graduated from high school, and I had no problem graduating, but I still have the same dream as Jeff, I know I've missed most of the school year, and don't know what classes I'm supposed to be in, or where they are. I wonder what other cultures dream of if they didn't have to go through a school system, or if it's set up different than American school? Do they still dream about childhood without school? Are they as anxious as our dreams of school?

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@garnsr I wonder what school that picture's from, is it in Hawaii, or just a school with lots of people from Hawaii?

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Yo, I am very into that closing song.

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I've gone about 5 days without drinking a Red Bull, and I've gotta say, I feel better! But the original Red bull is clearly the best.

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Frame data is absolutely math. Fighting games are math.

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Hey is that closing theme royalty free? Does anyone have a soure?