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Phone posted:I don't have it installed, but I can only dream of "injecting skeletons into everything" and "occasionally talked about skeleton issues related to gaming". i have it installed and let me tell you it's everything you're dreaming of and more
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Captain Invictus posted:Hahahahaha you are just so bitter and adorable It's a bad podcast now I am overplaying my distaste but it probably doesn't help that Brad was my least favorite of the original crew before he discovered DOTA
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Phone posted:I don't have it installed, but I can only dream of "injecting skeletons into everything" and "occasionally talked about skeleton issues related to gaming". Spinal from Killer Instinct is some serious skeleton objectification, how is anyone going to get bones that good? Down with skelebrushing! The Deleter fucked around with this message at 01:33 on Dec 31, 2014 |
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Zombies' Downfall posted:It's a bad podcast now Well that's just, like, your opinion, man
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Captain Invictus posted:Well that's just, like, your opinion, man Between Brad talking non-stop about DOTA and Destiny (usually dragging Jeff into Destiny chat), Dan, and the lack of Vinny, it's an opinion that's shared. I'm kind of hate-listening to it now, which tells me I should drop it from my podcast manager for awhile.
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Song For The Deaf posted:Nintendo needs to have their ovacracy toppled. We call it "Operation: Humpty's Revenge". 
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When was the last time Brad spoke at length on Dota on the podcast? I haven't caught up on the GOTY stuff, but my understanding is that he ranked it highly so I wouldn't be surprised if it came up. It's weird that people rag on him so much for it when he's blathered on about Destiny far more often while talking about how he wasn't really enjoying it. I'd much rather hear him attempt to explain Doto to the uncaring crew as opposed to the same with Destiny. At least he's passionate about Dota.Captain Invictus posted:He was the true Social Justice Warrior. But was he the Ultimate Social Justice Warrior?
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Destiny is his new Dota.
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Brad literally spends an hour arguing that Destiny should be on their top ten even though they named it one of the most disappointing games of the year. I feel like these GOTY podcasts devolve from actual discussion into a battle of who can be the most stubborn real quick.
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Brad picks one game and basically threatens others from removing it from the top 10 list, and Jeff eggs him on because he hates most genres and Nintendo in a really negative way.
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So as someone who doesn't listen to Giant Bomb, is the appeal just ironi-watching a bunch of manchildren with terrible opinions?
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icantfindaname posted:So as someone who doesn't listen to Giant Bomb, is the appeal just ironi-watching a bunch of manchildren with terrible opinions? Nope.
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icantfindaname posted:So as someone who doesn't listen to Giant Bomb, is the appeal just ironi-watching a bunch of manchildren with terrible opinions?
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Dec 31, 2014 03:50
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Listen to GFW Radio again, as it is pretty much timeless anyway.
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Jeff is a funny man that just happens to the boss of a video game show. Brad is their designated Moba guy, the rest have a pretty good variance on their tastes of genres and are willing to open up if there's a specific game of that genre, I.E. Hearthstone for card games, etc.
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What's that, you want to listen to ignorant and insipid people cover video games?!
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icantfindaname posted:So as someone who doesn't listen to Giant Bomb, is the appeal just ironi-watching a bunch of manchildren with terrible opinions? No, they're funny and its a good way to keep informed about new games and stuff.
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Why in the hell do the Idle Thumbs guys keep saying "reader" in reference to people who listen to the podcast? Is this an inside joke? I find it really annoying. Almost as annoying as "jiff," but I'm burnt out on that particular argument.
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Funkmaster General posted:Why in the hell do the Idle Thumbs guys keep saying "reader" in reference to people who listen to the podcast? Is this an inside joke? I find it really annoying. Almost as annoying as "jiff," but I'm burnt out on that particular argument.
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Dec 31, 2014 04:48
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TetsuoTW posted:That's a weird thing to get annoyed about but yeah, it's been a thing since basically always. Minor or petty thing to get annoyed about, sure. But not a weird thing. I mean, there's a word for people who listen to things already, and there's no reading involved in the process. It'd be easier to let it go if I knew there was a story behind it and it wasn't just ignorance.
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Funkmaster General posted:Minor or petty thing to get annoyed about, sure. But not a weird thing. I mean, there's a word for people who listen to things already, and there's no reading involved in the process. It'd be easier to let it go if I knew there was a story behind it and it wasn't just ignorance. I'm pretty sure it's because Idle Thumbs used to be a website where people would read articles too.
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Funkmaster General posted:Why in the hell do the Idle Thumbs guys keep saying "reader" in reference to people who listen to the podcast? Is this an inside joke? I find it really annoying. Almost as annoying as "jiff," but I'm burnt out on that particular argument. Idle Thumbs started in 2004 as a gaming web site with articles. The podcast started in 2008. I suppose "reader" is a holdover, made anachronistic by the podcast taking over.
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Phone posted:I don't have it installed, but I can only dream of "injecting skeletons into everything" and "occasionally talked about skeleton issues related to gaming".
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Funkmaster General posted:Minor or petty thing to get annoyed about, sure. But not a weird thing. I mean, there's a word for people who listen to things already, and there's no reading involved in the process. It'd be easier to let it go if I knew there was a story behind it and it wasn't just ignorance.
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Here's a good point: no one cares.
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People still say things like "tune in" and "don't touch that dial" in reference to television when those are old old radio terms. Getting mad at that is the most pedantic thing.
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This may surprise you, but TVs used to have dials and still do have tuners.
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TetsuoTW posted:No it's just ignorance, four (presumably) college-educated grown adults don't know the word "listener". Willfull ignorance is still ignorance, and possibly worse. In any case I didn't mean to start some sort of thing over it, it was just bugging me as it seemed like the sort of thing there was a joke behind. Seems like there isn't, so, yeah, that bugs me. A lot of things about the thumbs cast bugs me, but the same could be said of all the other podcasts I listen to, really. On a more positive note, I laughed pretty hard at the skate or die theme "remix." I'm considering isolating the "die die die die die" and making it my outgoing voicemail message. That message is heard mostly by my boss and father, though, so... maybe not. E: al-azad posted:Getting mad at that is the most pedantic thing. I'm not mad. Sorry my post riled you up, though? Funkmaster General fucked around with this message at 05:58 on Dec 31, 2014 |
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Funkmaster General posted:Willfull ignorance is still ignorance, and possibly worse. quote:On a more positive note, I laughed pretty hard at the skate or die theme "remix."
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TetsuoTW posted:It's irony. They're being ironic. And not in the "that's why I can say 'friend of the family'" sense, in the actual sense of the word. They know that listener is a word, and is the correct word. It's a joke. I don't remember when they started doing that, possibly right from the start, but IIRC it was basically just someone called "listener mail" "reader mail" by accident and everyone thought it was funny so it became a thing. I was hoping/assuming it was a joke, but I didn't have any context for it and everyone seemed to be implying there was nothing to it, or that it made perfect sense simply because they used to write text. So, yeah.
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Wait, remix? The original does the die die die die die thing, did I miss something?
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mango sentinel posted:Wait, remix? The original does the die die die die die thing, did I miss something? He stretched that segment out to a comical length.
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mango sentinel posted:Wait, remix? The original does the die die die die die thing, did I miss something? Funkmaster General posted:I was hoping/assuming it was a joke, but I didn't have any context for it and everyone seemed to be implying there was nothing to it, or that it made perfect sense simply because they used to write text. So, yeah. sub supau fucked around with this message at 06:09 on Dec 31, 2014 |
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pseudorandom name posted:This may surprise you, but TVs used to have dials and still do have tuners. It's still an archaic term that has no meaning in a digital world but it's still used. I'm not talking about anyone in particular, just saying that stressing out over someone's vernacular is really dumb. A few years ago people wouldn't shut up about "literally" being used figuratively when it was literally used in that context for decades.
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Zombies' Downfall posted:Wasn't there a YCS-era goon with a Yoshi fetish? Did he get banned? I need to know which side of #gamergate he's on. Yeah, I vaguely recall the name but don't know if I could spell it from memory, Djynn? Dyinn? Flyssa. Permabanned. I'm gonna go with "the wrong side".
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