shadyspace
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Brad should host everything. It would be like there wasn't a host at all.
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Thought, Brick, thought. With a 't'. Once in the same sentence is a typo, twice in the same sentence is you being overeager.
SteveWinwood
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I just read it like tweety bird.
Cut this shit out, Ryan is a fantastic host and has been for years. He was just a little overly enthusiastic for the first 20 minutes before the images started rolling.
I long for the day where we can just discuss content like this without eventually resorting to nitpicking at the staff members.
Foliorum Viridum
Banned
Cry more. Jeff is superior.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
I'm not sure if I'm just a massive fanboy for not really finding issues some of you guys have, other than patrick being incredibly overbearing half the time.
Ryan was fine in the NK video. He moved the discussion along well, and his role as the excited host asking questions wasn't that overbearing. Don't get the cursing complaint either, considering how the bomb crew generally are. Other than brad really.
Ryan was fine in the NK video. He moved the discussion along well, and his role as the excited host asking questions wasn't that overbearing. Don't get the cursing complaint either, considering how the bomb crew generally are. Other than brad really.
I agree with your sentiment, Jeff is king. But for hosting duties I prefer Ryan's genuine excitement over Jeff's general indifference.
But.. that's arguably worse!
Wait, I see what's going on here. You two are colluding. I'm on to you both.
Speaking of which, the letter 'h':
aitch or haitch?
(Anyone siding with 'aitch' will be here-on-out judged accordingly.)
B_Rik_Schitthaus
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Brewster's Wallet
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This. Ryan is a better host, by far. It allows Jeff to be jeff, and the shows are normally slicker with Ryan involved.
Also, i see no-one has any problem with Vinny constantly interrupting as well in the first 20 or so minutes. After that his one liners and questions were good, but he was almost trying to hard. But i put that down to general sleep deprivation from the newborn
Blocked!
B_Rik_Schitthaus
Banned
All that needs to be said.
Hahaha, so we're back to this phase of the thread huh?
I'm trying to decide if I want to re-up for a year or just pay $5 after Monday.
edit: Okay while it's probably been said since the last time this has come around. No one has a problem with Vinny because he isn't a dick. Because Ryan's forte is being a dick, when he acts like an ass without any redemptive qualities (humor), he gets called out on it. Simple.
I'm trying to decide if I want to re-up for a year or just pay $5 after Monday.
edit: Okay while it's probably been said since the last time this has come around. No one has a problem with Vinny because he isn't a dick. Because Ryan's forte is being a dick, when he acts like an ass without any redemptive qualities (humor), he gets called out on it. Simple.
I don't know if I would have been able to handle 6 days in that country. Even removed from the potential danger, I just get the feeling that having the wool consistently pulled over your eyes for that long would drive me crazy.
The part that stuck out the most was the Korean War history lesson they received from the female officer. That women's job is to blatantly lie to people's face, whether she knows it or not. It's the real life equivalent of the jokes people make about Southern Civil War revisionist history. I'm honestly not sure which would be the more depressing reality, whether that women knew what she was saying was a farce and is forced to give this ridiculous presentation to a room full of foreigners that know 90% of what she's saying is false, or if she is completely ignorant, and believes her country had basically won the war, but decided to take their ball and go home.
The part that stuck out the most was the Korean War history lesson they received from the female officer. That women's job is to blatantly lie to people's face, whether she knows it or not. It's the real life equivalent of the jokes people make about Southern Civil War revisionist history. I'm honestly not sure which would be the more depressing reality, whether that women knew what she was saying was a farce and is forced to give this ridiculous presentation to a room full of foreigners that know 90% of what she's saying is false, or if she is completely ignorant, and believes her country had basically won the war, but decided to take their ball and go home.
I guarantee it's the second. I'm sure she honestly believes the US was the aggressor, and that the DPRK won the war. I'm kind of curious if she even knows that the Chinese intervened, and that if they hadn't, the DPRK would have fallen.
Yup, that's right - both her sister and another journalist were sentenced to serve in a labor camp for entering without a Visa. Underrated story.
Typographenia
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Ryan is the worst host because he got rid of the Nintendo Downloads segment in the bombcast. SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS!
I'm just kidding, I like Ryan. Except for the Nintendo Downloads thing. I will never forgive him for that one...
Felix Lighter
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I expect to see a lot of that gif in the future. Good work.
That was the general consensus to be fair, the whole Nintendo section had got really long in the tooth by that point. Although the time Jeff read the description of the massage parlor game in his 'sexy' voice was easily one of the funniest things I've heard on the podcast.
FOUND IT!
Haunted
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Best running joke of the cast, imo.
Also, goddamnit Giantbomb, fix your compression/encoding.
Was ran into the ground pretty fast, though.
ashbash159
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With The Witcher 2: Enhanced Edition Quick Look, the compression on the video was so terrible it seemed like the video was uploaded in SD and stretched to HD. It's bad. It needs fixing.
Backfoggen
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Touch the medallion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YFHIib1PS0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YFHIib1PS0
Neuromancer
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Well of course there were some weeks that weren't great but Ryan really threw the baby out with the bathwater as there were so many good bits (Saucepan Man, My Notebook, Daddy, Mommy, Sarah and Billy etc). They could have just been more selective in Jeff read out loud.
Typographenia
Member
It was only once a week, come on!
I love Jeff <3
Foliorum Viridum
Banned
I missed Dave and Alexis being added to the site. Time to watch it at last!
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Hrm, I'll be sure to check this out.
Oh wow, Lisa Ling doing the report too. That's eerie.
Derp, the alternate video I found is also blocked in Canada. Go figure.
There was a bit where Drew explained about how long a line was to see the flower exhibit and Ryan said the same thing back at him to confirm he understood it, only taking about three times as long and being extremely grating at the same time. He'd be a better host if he just shut up once in a while and stopped repeating back things.
Typographenia
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Just finished watching the N.Korea video in its entirety, and WOW.
I feel like I freaking went on vacation there now, haha. Drew, fantastic work on both documenting and communicating your experience over there. You've really given me a completely new perspective on a ton of things about the culture, people, and practices of that country.
I feel like I freaking went on vacation there now, haha. Drew, fantastic work on both documenting and communicating your experience over there. You've really given me a completely new perspective on a ton of things about the culture, people, and practices of that country.
Wasn't the issue that Nintendo changed the way copy for those games was written and that now they're basically just as boring as any other games release listing?
Yup, and also, people were whining about it every week. Saying it wasn't funny anymore, took too much time, etc.
Typographenia
Member
There is only one correct way to handle people such as that...
Launch them into the sun! BRING ME MY DEATH CATAPULT!
Haunted
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only by Ryan
And now they can even video record the podcast.
That could be an entertaining random show they do. Premium half hour taste segment? Maybe at the same time shoot the shit about something coming up?
I'd love to see that.
People say that about Patrick and he's on every week!
BlazeHedgehog
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They stopped doing taste tests because they ran out of stuff to say about them. You can only say "it tastes kind of like Sprite mixed with vitamins" so many times before it becomes repetitive.
B_Rik_Schitthaus
Banned
Normill.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
He's talking about old bombcasts, when they still do taste tests for energy drinks and horrible swedish candy.
vitaminwateryum
corporate swill
Nope. We don't get Djungelvral either, which is probably the best candy ever.
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