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Breaking Brad

Breaking Brad: Super Mario Bros: The Lost Levels XI

What's broken can be mended. Sometimes. Other times it's just broken.

Can we break Brad Shoemaker's will and send him packing? We put him up against some difficult video games to find out.

Nov. 13 2020

Cast: Jeff, Brad, Ben, Jason

Posted by: Brad

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1:39:52 When Brad's soul left his body.

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LOL at the first death.. well played brad

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That thumbnail. An image that precedes an unfortunate event.

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It's Kilgores all the way down, man!

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"I'm so psyched that happened"

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Haunting Photo Taken Seconds Before Disaster

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Brad needs to get a new Game & Watch Super Mario Bros and play all the way through SMB2 there, with a camera over his shoulder.

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I love Die Hard 2, what monster doesn't like that one.

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I don't know how anyone who has used any type of voice recognition software can honestly believe your phone is picking up snippets of conversation in poor acoustic conditions and accurately serving ads based on that.

I think people just generally don't know how far reaching and ubiquitous things like Facebook tracking pixels are and don't realize how subtle browsing habits are resulting in the ads they're getting served.

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Die Hard 4 was a pretty damn good movie and reviewed very well too. There is also an R Rated cut of it to be found.

Now Die Hard 5, that's a piece of crap.

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Oh, that thumbnail.

Thaaaaaaaaaaaaaat thumbnail.

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Can you believe this game is on the Game & Watch Super Mario Bros edition that came out today?

It is!

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Man this could have been darksouls on ps5.

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Save states at 8-4 might be dishonorable, but this game doesn't deserve an honorable death.

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A Good Day to Die Hard is easily, without a doubt, no questions asked the worst Die Hard.

Die Hard with a Vengence is the secret best Die Hard.

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I have to wonder if Jason is scummy enough to keep his TV box in shot just to taunt Jeff.

And DH1 >> 3 > 4 > 2 >> 5. 5 is bad. For Ben to even think 4 is worse than 5...

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“It does seem like a Jason game.”

Not gonna lie, I thought the exact same thing about Godfall.

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This Breaking Brad series is unique in that Brad gets broken, multiple times, in each episode!

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"What? Like, you a big fan of the Fett?"

"No. I was always more of a Star Wars guy."

fuck die hard 4

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Brad, I admire your dedication.

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Tip my hat to Brad and his will to keep going. I have mentally tapped out watching this now.

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Brad can never look Vinny in the eye again.

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Are we sure Brad isn't some kind of Greek or Shakespearian tragic figure? Some religious avatar of misfortune?

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@x4n said:

And DH1 >> 3 > 4 > 2 >> 5. 5 is bad.

This is the canonical correct answer to the ranking of Die Hards question.

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If Brad isn't going to use the save state, then double the amount of streams. Or have a stream and Brad can't stop until he beats 8-4. Or stream the game every single day. Life cannot continue until he beats this game...

...Or he just uses the save state. Don't listen to chat. It will be fine. Just use the save state.

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Edited By beard_of_zeus

@benpack If you are a big DKC2 fan, you should definitely check out the Yooka-Laylee sequel, it is secretly a very good DKC game, the movement mechanics are basically taken as-is. It has some great level design and the over world itself has a lot of interesting puzzles.

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I have never seen Ben be so wrong about something. Die Hard 4 is great, and Timothy Olyphant is a fantastic bad guy in it. Now Die Hard 5 is a steaming pile of crap.

This is 100% correct:

@x4n said:

And DH1 >> 3 > 4 > 2 >> 5. 5 is bad. For Ben to even think 4 is worse than 5...

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great intro/outro

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Die Hard 4 and 5 kinda blend together for me but they're both clearly worse than 1-2-3.

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Live Free or Die Hard (unrated) > Die Harder

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I need to know more about someone pooping on the floor during the rave at anime-con

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Ben is absolutely insane for saying Die Hard 4 is worst than Die Hard 5. That fifth one is one of the worst cinema crimes ever committed.

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Good Stuff Brad. Watching this life was an experience. The next breaking brad will be numbered XXX hehe. PS! Donkey Kong Country rules Jeff, but i respect your opinion.

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geometry wars on series x :)

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Brad is so special. That ending, man.
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Is the movie Ben was talking about at the beginning "What Planet Are You From?" starring Garry Shandling?

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Brad could quit any time!

Breaking Brad: La Mulana 2 and Breaking Brad: Spelunky 2 await after all!

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Die Hard 4 is a fun action flick and a bad Die Hard movie. I haven't seen 5, but I heard it is absolute trash and on the level of most of movies Bruce Willis has starred in over the past decade.

Die Hard > Die Hard 3 >> Die Hard 2 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Die Hard 4/5

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I am really happy to see you not use save states. I think you just need to do these a bit more freuqently, you completely forgot about crouch jumps in 8-4 this week, for example. You can do it! You just need the knowledge an training not to disappear between the weeks you don't play.

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@eldredpe: The more I think about it, the more silly "advertisers are listening in" seems. It has a similar vibe to people who think vaccines have microchips in them to track you.

I'm not sure if people stop and think about what we all use the internet for, but think about it like this: Why would they need to listen to us when we literally type in every thought, want, and need into the internet daily? Including thoughts that people would never speak out loud to anyone in the first place? Why limit data to what we talk about when the things they can get off of your search history is everythiiiiiing. Social media usage, streamers you like, news channels you prefer, celebrities you follow, locations you visit or want to visit, brands you prefer, memes you look at, websites you frequent...etc, etc. If you wanted to get info on someone, would you try grabbing that info off of a conversation muffled by their pocket and surrounded by external noise being filtered through voice recognition software? Or a text string that also comes with their location, what app they're using, what type of phone they're on, how big their screen is, what Wifi network they're connected to...?

We use the internet to look up everything, and our phones and computers tell our browser a whole lot about us even when we just search one word. It's really easy to build a profile of someone out of all that data.

Anyways uh...that sucks, Brad! But it was reaaaaally funny! Lol. Great episode as always.