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The Giant Beastcast: Episode 13

We talk a lot about diners. We spend a long time on it. We also talk about Call of Duty: Black Ops III, Super Mario Maker, and Regulation D investment opportunities. But mostly it's about cheese fries and we play Life is a Highway.

The Giant Bomb East team gathers to talk about the week in video games, their lives, and basically anything that interests them. All from New York City!

Aug. 21 2015

Posted by: Vinny

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Now my friday can begin!

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Let's do this.

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Honk

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Diners... BlOps... Mario Maker... Investment Opportunities... Cheese Fries... Figs... Dark Souls... I like all these things! Time to cast the Beast!

EDIT: That ending. I love you guys.

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These are posted at 8pm Friday on the East Coast (of Australia).

Also, this is the best comment I've ever written, today, on the 13th Episode of the Giant Beastcast's comment section...

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Beastcast time!

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Bring on the Beast!

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Well, now I'm hungry.

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Does the Beastcast even have adverts? If not then what's actually the difference between this and the premium version?

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And here we go!

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Is Pizza a Sandwich?

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WOOO!

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Wow, this goes up early!

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Here we go again. :D

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Those cheesy fries look REAL GOOD.

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The earliest of giant earlycasts.

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You can totally advance the clock to get unlocks in SMM

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Podcast food talk without Dan?! YEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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@yummylee: The plan is probably to have ads, and a couple of episodes have had ads. So you gotta have a premium feed for all your episodes, even the ones that don't have any ads.

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Not in the RSS feed :'(

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The most Italian animal is of course a stallion

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No rss send help

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Americas cultural imperialism made me think that something awful happened on the 9th of November.

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Awwwwwwwwwww yyyyyeeeeeeaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!

God I love Vinny.....

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@august said:

No rss send help

Yeah, it can sometimes take a bit of time, but it has been over 90 minutes and still nothing - something must have gone wrong! Send help indeed!

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More diner talk less videogame talk please

Vinny should always have a guitar

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@quipido said:
@august said:

No rss send help

Yeah, it can sometimes take a bit of time, but it has been over 90 minutes and still nothing - something must have gone wrong! Send help indeed!

The Beastcast RSS feed often seems like it has to be manually updated by the guys when they get back into the office, this is probably one of those times. So you probably just have to give it some time.

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Hey Vinny, Alex, Austin and Jeff. It's been tested/confirmed that you can change the Wii U internal clock forward to unlock all the tools straight away. If you play 5 minutes per 'day' you can unlock each days' tools.

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Lucky number 13

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I don't know if that Nintendo guy necessarily "fucked up." I mean I guess? If he broke some intrinsic corporate rules about business disclosure then yah he made a mistake, but it doesn't seem like some colossal fuckup and certainly not something you should straight away get the axe for. Maybe a reprimand but straight up termination? Thats rough even for a big corporation - but I guess it's also pretty standard for a Japanese company.

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RSS feed should be up now.

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Alex was hyping this one up quite a bit. Let's hear it.

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@humanity said:

I don't know if that Nintendo guy necessarily "fucked up." I mean I guess? If he broke some intrinsic corporate rules about business disclosure then yah he made a mistake, but it doesn't seem like some colossal fuckup and certainly not something you should straight away get the axe for. Maybe a reprimand but straight up termination? Thats rough even for a big corporation - but I guess it's also pretty standard for a Japanese company.

It's interesting to me to see how far Sony and Nintendo are from each other now when it comes to what they allow their employees to do and say in the public, when both are old Japanese companies. Nintendo is still very much an old school Japanese company that rarely lets their employees speak freely about anything (Jared being at Nintendo is probably the reason why he's not on the Powerbombcast anymore, even if it's not game-related I'm guessing it's enough that it's hosted by a gaming site). Sony has gone into a completely different direction, with Adam sitting on the couch with drunk Lang and drunk Johnny V on GB live shows, just shooting the shit about whatever.

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The guys talk about Russ Frushtick and can't come up with an animal for his house?!?! Some friend of his...guess you guys aren't BEST friends. His house's animal is clearly a GIRAFFE. A NEW YORK GIRAFFE.

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"I was having a conversation with my mom--sorry, my wife."

We're off to a great start!

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Private loans with interest are perfectly valid in the U.S. as long as they conform to your state's usury laws. Like, here in NY, I believe the usury rate is 16%. A personal loan agreement with an interest rate higher than that is deemed invalid and thus cannot be enforced.

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Oh GAWD the singing was fucking hilarious!

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I haven't even started listening yet, but goddamnit the Beastcast can't be using pictures of breakfast food for us East coast duders first thing in the morning - just looking at it is making me so fucking hungry.

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Holy cow, this beastcast went some places!

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Edited By GabrielCantor

@alex I don't think hating Sonic fans is all that irrational. The again, I kind of hate "fandoms" in general as they tend to bring out the absolute worst in people. I think the only reason I've been able to enjoy anime again after not watching any for years is staying as far away from fandoms as humanly possibly.

Edit: Also the last couple of minutes of this Podcast are truly, truly beautiful.

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Oh look a Japanese company is treating their employees like garbage again. Shocking!

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Austin's comment about 9/11 was kind of upsetting.

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No mention of minions in the descriptions? Is it true? Will this be a minion-free Beastcast?

Edit: Alas, there are mentions of minions, though brief. You've been warned.

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@robopengy Nothing wrong with his comment at all. Sensitive much?

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"Most Italian animal?"

"The Pizza." Damn it, Vinny! LOL!

"A giant gold chain with legs..." Damn it, Vinny! LOL!

"A Yak with a pomade mustache... A bear with a shaved chest and a huge cross."

We need these things on a Giant Beast tshirt. Get on it, Internets!

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This is the best podcast.

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Food thumbnails. This podcast has finally made it.

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Jeff Bakalar is a blues lyricist master.

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The Beastcast is a force for good.