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Thursday Night Throwdown

Thursday Night Throwdown: 05/17/12

Five dudes, four ladies, seven circles.

It's Thursday night and it's time for you to go up against us in a weekly throwdown of decidedly humble proportions.

May. 17 2012

Posted by: Drew

In This Episode:

Diablo III

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That was a super fast turnaround

Also, first

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DIABLO 3

Edit: NO! You beat me to it! And I almost never have an opportunity to try for firsts =(

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I missed this! Nothing beats dinner w/ TNT.

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So close

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Loving how fast these are coming up now! This must be some CBSi money in action!

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dat turnaround

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Edited By cheeckoo

allready up? sweet!

I guess I know what to do during the next servers maintenance

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I only watched a few minutes of it but decided to hold off. I know it's probably silly to worry about "spoilers" for Diablo.. but still. I'll wait until I reach that act.

That is a fantastic description for this vid though.

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I fucking love this quick turn around. Thank you guys!

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These recent tnts are way better in theory than in practise.

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I think this has some promise! Managament! The more Giant Bomb in a TNT the better.

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This was fast!

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So they all have lady characters is that what this vid description is trying to tell me? They are all liars! Lady characters are for ladies only everyone knows this.

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@Draxyle said:

I only watched a few minutes of it but decided to hold off. I know it's probably silly to worry about "spoilers" for Diablo.. but still. I'll wait until I reach that act.

That is a fantastic description for this vid though.

They avoided any spoilers. The only thing they really showed was the first boss of act 1, but they skipped story stuff... and BOY does act 1 have some stuff in it.

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Edited By jacksukeru

Completely forgot what day it was and missed this. Then again, I was actually playing Diablo so that was also cool, oh hey and I finished it.

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I wish Brad wouldn't have had such a level difference compared to everyone else, but still...GB + D3 = wee! :D

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Fucking love how quick the turnaround is on getting these up since the move.

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Giantbomb needs to steal Giancarlo from Gamespot.

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@pyromagnestir said:

So they all have lady characters is that what this vid description is trying to tell me? They are all liars! Lady characters are for ladies only everyone knows this.

Oh calm down now, sir!
Oh calm down now, sir!
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For some reason Giancarlo really reminds me of Dave in this TNT.

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Wow, not only is the turnaround for these videos crazy fast, but the download of the HD version (it's my Friday commute entertainment... if it's any good) looks to have been cut in half cut in half or less. So awesome.

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@RockmanBionics: Hey! Watch it buddy. That's my face you're throwin around! I'll let it slide. This time.

Man it's startling as hell when it pops up unexpected... Is this how all the rest of you feel? If so I apologize.

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great show, lots of fun.

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New video player looking worse than ever before. Not only is it SD, but now theres actually a black border around the video. =// Any status update on this issue?

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Man, Brad has some terrible weapons for his level.

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Man brad needs to stop overthinking diablo and just kill shit

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Not into Diablo, but man, this was a fun watch! Didn't even feel like 2 hours!

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They stack Brad! They staaaaaaack!

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@FoolishChaos said:

Man brad needs to stop overthinking diablo and just kill shit

hahaha yes he does. Since he IS overthinking things, he should also stop breaking down all of his magic items and start selling them to a vendor, then buy whatever mats he needs from the auction house.

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@FoolishChaos said:

Man brad needs to stop overthinking diablo and just kill shit

That's the way he plays games though, at least when being recorded. I assume part is just his natural playstyle and part is the pressure to actually have something to talk about when thousands of people are going to be watching you play a video game. It is sometimes tedious to watch someone do something ass backwards and never actually figure it out, when the whole time you knew exactly what he should have done and it wasn't exactly rocket science either.

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Brad's a good motivational leader. It would be really interesting to see them play lol or dota 2 tnt. Dota 2 would be most likely since it'll be "new". Anyways, awesome tnt!

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This TNT was fun and I'm gonna go buy this game later tonight, if I can get my hands on a guest pass so I can see if my computer can run the damn thing. CanYouRunIt says I'm good (full bar) for both minimum and recommended, but I'm not sure if I can trust that site...

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This should of been four new characters on Hardcore, perma death, last man standing.

My moneys on Ryan.

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@PandaShake said:

Brad's a good motivational leader. It would be really interesting to see them play lol or dota 2 tnt. Dota 2 would be most likely since it'll be "new". Anyways, awesome tnt!

That would be awesome. I wonder if they'll do anything for the official DOTA 2 rollout. Doesn't seem like the crew is big on MOBA games.

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Wow, that guy with the Kangol bugs.

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That monitor that brad is sporting is HUGE!!!!

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Alexis is a midget.

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Haircuts!

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Bottomless Supply Of Hatred is my favourite Pantera album.

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@Paul_Is_Drunk: When dota 2 beta came around, they were messing with it and was excited to try running it with 5 people during a podcast. It would be really fun to watch

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The image of Brad playing the PC game with a proper PC, while everyone else is using Macbooks (seriously?) says it all.

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Hopefully this is the last Diablo 3 video until the expansion...

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@thebigJ_A said:

The image of Brad playing the PC game with a proper PC, while everyone else is using Macbooks (seriously?) says it all.

and what may that be? i play my D3 on macbook pro too.

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This TNT was a lot of fun to watch. Partly because Brad still doesn't know as much as he should at this point in the game (not so much playing it "right", just basic things like shrine buffs stacking) and partly because it's him trying to help the rest of the crew who are even worse off. Definitely the blind leading the blind, but the triumphs are that much more glorious.

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It's so hard to stop clicking! Love Will's defending of Chad at 1:18:55.

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@lockwoodx: so much disdain in this post...

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@thebigJ_A: Seems more like kind of a logistics thing. Need everyone sitting near each other on camera. With 4 PCs and a laptop for chat that's 9 outlets to power the pcs and monitors and laptop.

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@WrathOfBanja said:

Hopefully this is the last Diablo 3 video until the expansion...

Never.

24 hours Giant Bomb Diablo run for Childs Play go! :P

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@lockwoodx said:

If the 4 ladies = your 4 amazons.... you're all gay in the worst possible way. edit: it's also sad how they keep plugging this game despite the launch disaster. I'm disgusted watching them fap to this mediocrity. Also... playing PC games on macs does not sell this game to anyone with a brain.

why are you so bitter?

a) I don't even get what you're saying with the first thing

b) so because the servers are fucked on launch day because millions of people all over the world wanna start playing all at once they should ignore the game exists or say it's crap?

c) this isn't a commercial. what does playing a PC/Mac game on a macbook have to do with ANYTHING here? you want them to drag 4 huge PCs out of their office or someone elses office or even buy some just so you can look at them sitting behind huge PCs for 90minutes?

if this "disgusted" you why did you watch it?

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@lockwoodx: u mad