The Giant Beastcast: Episode 170

Summer is trash. It's objectively the worst season.

@fatalbanana: that's not what they say in the ad, though.

@mendia: and only getting worse as the planet tries to rid itself of our disease

While cool, ray-tracing is not a thing most games support. It could be a game-changer, but buying v1 of any new tech is a poorly thought-out idea. The most immediate example is VR: the 900-series was "built for VR", but the 1000-series was the series that actually did it well. Some credible sites (extremetech, tomshardware, pcgamesn) are saying to expect no more than a 20% increase in speeds, and maybe only 10%. Example: 2070 being somewhere around the 1080. Given how little information Nvidia has stated about how well it will perform over current-gen, I'd be very leery of their gains. If they were high, they'd be touting them from the room-tops, but Nvidia isn't saying anything.

Furthermore, in order to see wide-ranging adoption of ray-tracing in games, we need to see how AMD responds, since AMD handles the console-side of things. Mainstream adoption relies on them buying into this as well, because consoles sell games.

Time for a Murder Island style video series for Rainbow Six Siege.

Props to Dan for how nonchalantly he mentioned finishing Dead Cells (I presume by "finish" he means beat the final boss once). I had a real bastard of a time beating the final boss and ended up save scumming to retry him without having to run the whole castle again because I was getting sick of the game.

@danryckert I'd be interested to know what your play time was and how many runs it took.

Hoodies are awesome. You just pull one over your head and boom! Immediate modesty with minimal effort. With some accessorizing you can look adorable while out and about on the town too :3

Murder House!

@toug said:

The whole time they're roasting the jacket:

Yeh well Griffin ROCKED dat jacket.

Where the fuck did this "corn isn't healthy for you" stuff come from?

Oh man, I remember being young and loooving Drop Dead Fred, Johnny English, Happy Gilmore.

I think the funniest movie I've ever seen may be 21 Jump Street. I remember the first time seeing that and thinking it was one of the best things ever. Also shout out to Frank, that one is another of my favs.

I don’t know why Alex is so resistant to the idea of a new console generation in the next couple of years. Does he really not understand why developers would want to move on from making games for the crummy Jaguar CPUs that power every PS4 and Xbox?

He kind of sounds like those parents who were outraged that Nintendo would release a Super NES.

@abby you forgot to mention Professor Blastoff as an influence. Good one

Dan looks so much older in the jacket but I’m going to blame the studio lighting for this. Can’t wait for the payoff.

I would think the revision of the Amazon deal is partly a reaction to the closure of Best Buy's program and the lack of need to compete in that arena after successfully pushing Best Buy out and partly to keep the credit/discount in the Amazon ecosystem, so to speak, instead of issued in a form consumers can spend elsewhere. (A teensy step closer to the future of Tacoma, where even employee paychecks are issued in the form of an Amazon-owned currency.)

Living in Maine has made me hate not only winter but fall, which used to be my favorite season but which now I can see only as the harbinger of four months of two-foot snowfalls and all the parks being closed. Give me summer and our two weeks of spring any day.

Noldo obsesses over making new shiny things, blasphemes against the righteous path of Luddism, news at minquë.

Very interesting!

Vinny was kinda right about Nightcrawler being a demon as his pops is Azazel who's like an ancient demon mutant or some shit.

Tom Cruise is one of the hardest working A-list actors in the industry. The guy also does the vast majority of his own stunts and even flew his own helicopter in the latest Mission Impossible. He also obliterated his ankle during a stunt where he was jumping from rooftop to rooftop in said movie (he then proceeded to finish the scene despite his injury). That doesn't sound like an actor who, "doesn't give a shit about his acting career."

This all of this. Also besides like two areas in the game I felt like I found Cornifer within like 5 to 10 minutes of entering a new area.

I think the whole seasons thing heavily depends on where you live. For me, in Phoenix, I just love spring. The allergies are never that bad, it is nice and breezy, and the temperature is perfect. Winter here is still fucking cold even if it is still 30 degrees warmer then most places in the US. Summer is obviously shit (except for the awesome storms). Fall can be really nice as well, but the heat from summer lingers for seemingly ever.

Racket for the jacket in the photo booth! Let's go!

Bears beets battlestar galactica.

@pyide: the map system is the sole reason why I stopped playing. It's garbage. It's a shame because I like everything else about the game.

bought a premium membership because of the sale. im stoked to watch the mass alex series and hope it gets me to have urges to play through me again

While I absolutely agree with you, I think they were subjectively using the term "his acting career" in a very broad sense of like "traditional stage acting without stunts" or like "Oscar Best Actor" (even if I think the Oscars are stupid) context.

That being said, I also think people forget Tom Cruise has had an INCREDIBLE acting career with movies like:

• Rain Man
• Color of Money
• Born on the Fourth of July
• Magnolia
• Interview with the Vampire
• A Few Good Men
• Jerry Maguire (sue me, I actually like this movie a lot)

I want to see the crew play Siege. I started playing just before summer, and it has become my favourite FPS of all time.

Hottest take i love abby but i can't sit idly hearing this hoodie slander ! number 1 fashion wear

dan really looks like his dad in the thumbnail

Is Abby aware that not all hoodies have zippers? I agree, zippers suck. I don't know if "most" hoodies have zippers, but it's not like it's hard to find zipperless ones. Hell, this very website has a zipperless hoodie that is quite comfortable! I get not wanting to wear hoods if one has that much hair, though. And yeah, the stomach pocket that gets stretched out sucks but I like that pocket more than I like having things in my pants pockets.

@heatdrive88: And Eyes Wide Shut! Cruise was incredible and EWS has a legitimate claim as Kubrick's best film imo. One of the best explorations of sex ever put on film. Also rules because Kubrick got Cruise to walk and not run for an entire film but that's something else entirely lol. Cruise is a super underrated dramatic actor at this point.

Also, in regards to Travolta I'm bummed no one has seen Blow Out (I would think Alex had). It is an amazing Travolta performance (probably his best) and easily my favorite Brian De Palma movie.

@bladeofcreation: Theyre good hand warmers but shit falls out of them way too easily!

Wow for a minute I thought that was Paul not Dan in that shot there.....

@heatdrive88: eh, I try not to pay much attention when they talk movies (including the Bombcast). For the most part our tastes don't match up and not everyone needs to like the same things. It's also their opinions. Blah blah blah.

I wish they wouldn't do it so much or so often, buuuut...?‍♂️

The same goes for actors/actresses.

(Battlefield Earth *was* terrible though)

I still don't understand the intense hatred Alex has for Cruise' Mummy. I really enjoyed it. Of course it wasn't the best movie out there, but it was simple fun action adventure pop flick.

Abby hasn't seen Friends? And two others said it wasn't funny? Maybe I was just on the verge of the show's demographic at the time but it's baffling to me that a 25 year old hasn't seen that show in some form. I would also say that although the show is clearly not high-brow comedy, it's very accessible and is very watchable. What's not to like?

I like autumn as well, but old autumn where it actually became cold before the end of November. Nowadays it's just Summer 2 until then.

I used to be pretty big anti-zipper on hoodies, because I thought it was uncomfortable to sit in them while zipped up, but then unzipping makes you colder. But when I became older and started becoming self-conscious about taking off pullover hoodies in public, I started to appreciate zipper hoodies. And actually unzipping to let air in or whatever (cool down a tad without just removing the hoodie) is more useful than I used to think it would be.

Of course Dan is an Ash main. How fitting.

@jstaunton: I knew some people who liked Friends back when it was on and I never got the appeal, much in the same way I never got the appeal of the Big Bang Theory or How I Met Your Mother.

@faridmon: It really wasn't even that, that movie has been universally panned and for good reason

That picture is PERFECT.

BC - Before Christ

AD - Anno Domini (Latin) - In the Year of our Lord, After the birth of Christ.

I keep hearing what a letdown that Graveyard Keeper game is, and MAN that is disappointing. I have been looking for a Stardew-like because on my 4th new game, it's FINALLY becoming a little too repetitive and boring in a not-relaxing way. Been looking for something to fill that void.

Abby your feelings on hot weather and hoodies are like Dan levels of strange to me.

Must be baked into the canadian blood o mine but oof, anything over 80 degrees and I'm dying, and cold weather is like, pick your level of comfort where hot weather is a perpetual hunt for air conditioning and gatorade. I feel wounded!

@anwar: didn't they talk about that last week already?

As someone who was definitely in Friends target demographic when it was first broadcast, I have maybe seen only bits and pieces of a few episodes. I never understood the appeal. I thought the chemistry between the actors seemed stilted. I actually like some of the things those actors did outside of Friends, like Episodes and Cougar Town. I like low-brow comedy, but I didn't think Friends was appealing on even that level.

Gotta take these stupid Abby takes in prep for GOTY.