Thursday Night Throwdown: 02/17/11

" @Deusx: OH NO I HAVE TO GO TO A DIFFERENT, SLIGHTLY SLOWER SITE! WAAAAAH WAAAAAH I AM WHINY AND OVER PRIVILEGED AND FEEL THAT THESE PEOPLE RUNNING A BUSINESS OWE ME SOMETHING FOR NO REASON AT ALL.  If you don't have enough money for luxury items, well, too bad.  This content is not a god given right that you deserve, and Giant Bomb is not a charity.  Get the fuck over it you whiny douche. "

" Allowing non-paid members to watch it the first time, love it, then immediately do a bait and switch forcing us to subscribe to see any more of them is kind of uncool. (And yes, I know I can watch them on shitty jtustintv. It's such a trivial, lazy thing to do anyway. Of all things for them to monetize, they decide to ask for money over content they were already doing in the first place. Blegh.) "

" @Marokai said:

" Allowing non-paid members to watch it the first time, love it, then immediately do a bait and switch forcing us to subscribe to see any more of them is kind of uncool. (And yes, I know I can watch them on shitty jtustintv. It's such a trivial, lazy thing to do anyway. Of all things for them to monetize, they decide to ask for money over content they were already doing in the first place. Blegh.) "

This is why I didn't like it. If it were like this last week, I would get over it, but it's kind of shitty that last week's was free and this one isn't. I mean, it's not a big deal, I'll just watch 'em on justin.tv, but bleh. "

I fucking love the HD archived TNTs. Wanted this to be a thing since they started.

A great perk. Keep being amazing, giant bombers

" @Deusx: OH NO I HAVE TO GO TO A DIFFERENT, SLIGHTLY SLOWER SITE! WAAAAAH WAAAAAH I AM WHINY AND OVER PRIVILEGED AND FEEL THAT THESE PEOPLE RUNNING A BUSINESS OWE ME SOMETHING FOR NO REASON AT ALL.  If you don't have enough money for luxury items, well, too bad.  This content is not a god given right that you deserve, and Giant Bomb is not a charity.  Get the fuck over it you whiny douche. "

The tears in these comments.
 
So delicious.

The Justin.tv archive version isn't bad. It's 720p and didn't take too long to download. I think if you used VLC you could actually watch it as it's downloading (assuming your download is fast enough).

" Paid members only for recorded TNTs? Lame. "

" Paid members only for recorded TNTs? Lame. "

To my dear unsubed duders, 
 
GB has explained the reason that they haven't had TNT on the site before was because of the large bandwidth expense and size of these shows. This shit be costly son. ALAS! They are still accessible by j.tv if you desire to watch them there. With that reasoning, it makes sense to make it available to paid members to have access to this stuff via the site. Anywho, if you value the content so much, why not sub? Not only are you helping the community of sites become better but you get access to some pretty rad stuff. That is all. 

" @Deusx: OH NO I HAVE TO GO TO A DIFFERENT, SLIGHTLY SLOWER SITE! WAAAAAH WAAAAAH I AM WHINY AND OVER PRIVILEGED AND FEEL THAT THESE PEOPLE RUNNING A BUSINESS OWE ME SOMETHING FOR NO REASON AT ALL.  If you don't have enough money for luxury items, well, too bad.  This content is not a god given right that you deserve, and Giant Bomb is not a charity.  Get the fuck over it you whiny douche. "

" @TheJoker138 said:

" @Deusx: OH NO I HAVE TO GO TO A DIFFERENT, SLIGHTLY SLOWER SITE! WAAAAAH WAAAAAH I AM WHINY AND OVER PRIVILEGED AND FEEL THAT THESE PEOPLE RUNNING A BUSINESS OWE ME SOMETHING FOR NO REASON AT ALL.  If you don't have enough money for luxury items, well, too bad.  This content is not a god given right that you deserve, and Giant Bomb is not a charity.  Get the fuck over it you whiny douche. "

Agreed entirely...  Suck it up, buttercup. "

Cool now I can stop watching Justine Tv completely. 

Why are people complaining about something that was never archived on the site in the first place? Subbers pay to support the bandwidth cost of hosting these massive files. Makes sense to me.
 
And there's always justin.tv. It's all in HD there, too, and free!

The DLC plans for this game are making physically sick. I think I'm going to throw up.

Someone tell me what that robot pokemon game they were talking about is please.

" To my dear unsubed duders,  GB has explained the reason that they haven't had TNT on the site before was because of the large bandwidth expense and size of these shows. This shit be costly son. ALAS! They are still accessible by j.tv if you desire to watch them there. With that reasoning, it makes sense to make it available to paid members to have access to this stuff via the site. Anywho, if you value the content so much, why not sub? Not only are you helping the community of sites become better but you get access to some pretty rad stuff. That is all.  "

" @Blair:@Blair said:

" @TheJoker138 said:

" @Deusx: OH NO I HAVE TO GO TO A DIFFERENT, SLIGHTLY SLOWER SITE! WAAAAAH WAAAAAH I AM WHINY AND OVER PRIVILEGED AND FEEL THAT THESE PEOPLE RUNNING A BUSINESS OWE ME SOMETHING FOR NO REASON AT ALL.  If you don't have enough money for luxury items, well, too bad.  This content is not a god given right that you deserve, and Giant Bomb is not a charity.  Get the fuck over it you whiny douche. "

Agreed entirely...  Suck it up, buttercup. "

Amen brother. "

Farwell comments section I'm adblocking you into oblivion, what a goddamn shithow.

" weird, could have sworn I saw it live on thursday and im not a suber. Is it only the archived version thats sub only? "

Progressive does not work on this video, only streaming

"Jeff what are you thinking?"  
.  .  . 
"Let's play some Virtua Fighter." 
 
LOL

" @core1065 said:

" @Blair:@Blair said:

" @TheJoker138 said:

" @Deusx: OH NO I HAVE TO GO TO A DIFFERENT, SLIGHTLY SLOWER SITE! WAAAAAH WAAAAAH I AM WHINY AND OVER PRIVILEGED AND FEEL THAT THESE PEOPLE RUNNING A BUSINESS OWE ME SOMETHING FOR NO REASON AT ALL.  If you don't have enough money for luxury items, well, too bad.  This content is not a god given right that you deserve, and Giant Bomb is not a charity.  Get the fuck over it you whiny douche. "

Agreed entirely...  Suck it up, buttercup. "

Amen brother. "

Hell yeah.  It amazes me more people just don't subscribe to keep the content they enjoy coming.  50 bucks a year, please.  I just filled up my gas tank and that alone was 35 dollars.  And I do that TWICE a week.   "

This is fair enough

Do you see any adverts?- NO. Then support these guys you cheapos

I don't much mind this stuff being paid.  Seems fair.   I was just caught off guard because Vinny posted last weeks for the general public.

Awesome!
This is why I paid for a membership. More bang for my buck!

Thankful for these being now posted on the site.  
 
Why are you upset about this being a paid membership feature only? It can be easily found on Justin.TV.  Plus as a paid member I feel it's a totally fair thing for Whiskey Media to do. Not like they are totally stopping you from watching the Justin.TV archived one. 

Does anyone think this would be playable without a fightstick? I played SSF4 without one and it seemed fine for me

Thank god these are in HD now. You are the king giantbomb!

I have no desire to play either Starcraft or MvC, but if they made the cross over like the one mentioned here, I'd be totally on broad.

This is shit. Fucking complete shit. 
 
@prencher: Not everyone has money to pay for a subscription on a website.

I don't like playing fighting games, but I love watching the Giant Bomb cast play fighting games.

Thank god there are free ways of watching this :)

" This is shit. Fucking complete shit. 
 
@prencher: Not everyone has money to pay for a subscription on a website. "

Imagine living in the UK, where you have to pay a TV license just to watch regular-ass TV. With that in mind, Giant Bomb subscriptions are a steal; better content and more of what I'm interested in.

Best Trend Of 2011 So Far: Letting us download TNT.
 
Justin.tv is a bag of shit on my pc, so being able to download TNT is just one more reason why my membership is permanent.

Jeff played good he won a lot of his matches. That's gotta be a first for TNT.

Uh, excuse-me Giant Bomb? If I watched this live I didn't have to pay, but to watch it back at another time I do? I'm in the UK and so watching it live isn't the easiest option. I'm not really cool with that, to be honest. Either make it exclusive to subscribers (I wouldn't mind that!) or make it available for everyone. Don't make it half-and-half.

 I shall just sit in the corner and patiently wait for paypal support

" Uh, excuse-me Giant Bomb? If I watched this live I didn't have to pay, but to watch it back at another time I do? I'm in the UK and so watching it live isn't the easiest option. I'm not really cool with that, to be honest. Either make it exclusive to subscribers (I wouldn't mind that!) or make it available for everyone. Don't make it half-and-half. "