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Giant Bomb #14 | I'll Never Forget This!
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sure, put your popcorn on skype and let's do this
Sometimes I see people complain that GB has gotten more uptight and PC with their humor, and I typically dismiss it as GG-types mad at the SJW boogeyman. But then I went ahead and looked up the QL for de Blob 2 cause Splatoon had me thinking about it and one of the early jokes Brad says is referring to Vinny as a "Peron of Color...Blindness." It's funny, but it also seems like the kinda joke they wouldn't make these days.
Not saying it's a good or bad thing, or even necessarily a pattern, but I thought I'd mention it. Made me laugh.
Not saying it's a good or bad thing, or even necessarily a pattern, but I thought I'd mention it. Made me laugh.
Hmmmm.
Also, the site is really fucked right now. Suddenly my post count went from almost 7000 to 4800, a lot of pictures just aren't loading etc.
Heh, it's probably just them growing up some. I could see them making that specific joke today though, was pretty harmless all things considered
tryagainlater
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They probably have gotten a little PC in their humour but I don't find it totally negative personally. I mean, Vinny referred to Naoto as "It" in the Endurance Run. None of the crew would say something like that nowadays and that's definitely a good thing.
RepairmanJack
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You would think, but it ends up being pretty entertaining.
TheMrPliskin
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The front page normal to me now at the very least, I assume it's probably some backend E3 stuff.
I notice it when the embedded static.giantbomb... images in this thread won't load.
Yeah, that's what I'm guessing. The E3 hub stuff is going up on GS now, and all of that is probably going up before this weekend on GB too.
Also from the ER:
Vinny: Man, you thought battling monsters was hard... you should try getting it on with high school girls.
Jeff: Yeah.
Ryan: (in the background) TELL ME ABOUT IT!
But yeah it's probably just them growing up a bit and being a little more cognizant of what's not cool today in today's environment. Not complaining certainly.
i'll have to take your word for it because i can think of few things i feel more apathetic to than reddit
giant_frying_pan
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And in the same content series you had Ryan taking the opposite stance:
Hey. HEY. THAT'S NOT APPROPRIATE.
So I'm catching up on old bombcasts, and drew mentions at the end of one that we should check out the site because a new episode of mgscanlon is going up and I forgot I was listening to an old bombcast and got all excited ☹
TheMrPliskin
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Hearing Jeff's love for MGS4 on the bombcast this week made me really excited for the next MGScanlon.
Glitchesarecool
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three person MGSc would be great, and would help slog through those cutscenes
come to think of it (although I know it's not realistic) go ahead and 3-man everything. that brief era of 3-man quick looks was awesome
giant_frying_pan
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He doesn't. Watch the first Persona 4 Arena Quick Look EX for proof
Sleeping Lesson
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Boom!
I actually think MGS4 will be more interesting to watch than 3. I was kind of disappointed with the Snake Eater season of Metal Gear Scanlon.
Unrelated, are you as ready as I am for the rain and mild temperatures to come back to town?
CoolBatteryCharge
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Agreed. Demo Derby was always good, but three person Demo Derby is peak Demo Derby.
It wasn't that long ago that Dan made that oral sex joke.
giant_frying_pan
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I couldn't make it past act 2 of MGS 4's cut scenes when I was playing the game myself, I can easily see myself missing more than half of the episodes of the next series.
And I had no idea there was rain on the forecast again until you mentioned it. Once June hits I just assume the weather will be "AAAAAAAAAAAAGH FUCK THE SUN" until further notice.
Glitchesarecool
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Also
their comedy is just fine
their comedy is just fine
Sleeping Lesson
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Actually, yeah... the cutscenes are far too long for the feature. Some episodes will literally be 75% cutscene.
I had a moment last night where I was like "what the fuck am I going to do?" because it was 10 o'clock and my apartment was still 90 degrees. I can't afford to run my damn AC!
"Max doesn't count" was barely over a year and half ago too
SatelliteOfLove
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YES!
"but where were you when the internet couldnt input charlie tunokus name on the Persona Q name entry screen in the english version of the game"
Follow the Money.
RepairmanJack
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Their sense of humor hasn't changed, those moments are just spread out over a long time, it's not like those type of comments were happening in every video.
Love it. I'm still a believer.
I feel like Kinda Funny is what GB would be if they listened to all the stupid fan suggestions.
Greg is still cool tho.
Greg is still cool tho.
Wait, what? Is it because the name wouldn't fit or was it actually blacklisted, meaning they acknowledged it?
TheMrPliskin
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A lack of an english dub doesn't mean it won't come out in 2015, plus that game is going to come out in 2015.
The name wouldn't fit.
RepairmanJack
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I'm finally catching up on MGScanlon 3 and damn Drew is having a rough time with this one.
A few characters short if I believe - you also couldn't input some of the canon names for this same reason.
The P4 ER has a lot of jokes they may not make nowadays. Like the one about it burning when Nanako pees.
Zero-Crescent
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Yeah, for some reason, the localized Persona Q still only allows six characters per name; you can't even input most of the official names (Yu Narukami & Minato Arisato; Souji Seta and Makoto Yuki still work).
So you watched the ER but not the first episode where they type in the name they wanted the protagonist to have?
Glitchesarecool
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It's such a good fucking joke, especially because of their reactions.
nckillthegrimace
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6 per first and last name. So 12 total.
That excludes a full half of the most common names for 16 year olds in the US (just from taking a relatively random year presumably in the target audience) and nearly half of the most common surnames overall in the US. That's a hilariously small amount of characters to allow for.
edit: AND apparently it has to truncate the actual names of the characters! If that isn't some NES bullshit right there I don't know what is.
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