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I've been watching TBFP since the Fighterpedia days, and I'm probably in the minority in liking most of the Machinima content just as much as the Sw1tcher content (though the first two years are pretty rough), and I still use Persona 4 as the gold standard for TBFP. The podcast is excellent, it feels just like sitting in on a Québécois version of my friends, down to the same Buster Wolf joke. Thread should probably be called Super Best Friendcast, since this is RGD and all.
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Rodyle posted:I think this only applies to Liam, didn't they mention in one of the recent episodes that the other three don't really speak French? My impression is that they're in Ottawa. ~Best Friends Internet Cartography~ They all live in Montreal, but Liam is the only one who grew up in a French-speaking house, iirc. You can totally live in Quebec and get by not speaking much French. Especially shut-ins like Pat. re. Giant Bomb: fair enough, I actually hadn't noticed that before. Carry on. hoobajoo fucked around with this message at 08:51 on Nov 21, 2013 |
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Al-Saqr posted:uh, what's going on here? what's this got to do with best friends? Are you James Small?
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Nov 23, 2013 20:27
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Cumshot in the Dark posted:I was introduced to these guys through their Heavy Rain playthrough. Initially I thought these guys would just be 'lol whacky youtube stars' but they've surprised me thoroughly. They actually seem to be genuinely thoughtful when breaking down why or why not certain things in games work, and they have a great sense of humor and a ton of energy that is refreshing. The fact that their knowledge and enthusiasm is genuine means they don't have to force out that energy like basically everyone else on youtube. No facecam, no rapid cuts to trim dead air, no clearly scripted jokes or "wacky" personalities, just some best friends playing games. It's a really minimalist format, which makes it easy for the commentary to shine.
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Tatum Girlparts posted:You know why I love the Super Best Friends? They had a conversation on the 'censorship' in bravely default and even though two of them were saying they disagreed with it I didn't think any of them were assholes. Yeah, just the fact that everyone is listening to everyone else is excellent in a way few arguments/debates are.
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Jan 7, 2014 23:01
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Charles Martel posted:I found the HYPEST thread in SA! You need to watch The Sadness Trilogy, it's probably their seminal work up to his point. I also love Fighterpedia, but that's how I first found them, and it is really uneven. Still, the loving Weaponlord video defines hypest poo poo.
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Jan 24, 2014 05:43
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Charles Martel posted:I never played any of the games in the Sadness Trilogy and avoided those videos due to spoilers, but I'll go ahead and watch them since god only knows when I'll have the time and patience to play them myself. You have lost nothing; there's so little gameplay, even playing it you're just sitting there watching it. TBF just push triangle for you.
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Jan 24, 2014 07:20
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Wow, Seth, you're like the nicest person I've ever heard of. That was amazing.
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Feb 24, 2014 03:51
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God that Dio Brando valentine card was amazing. Wish I had thought of that.
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Scorched Spitz posted:Seriously, how is it legal to send axes through the mail? Like, seriously? It's legal because why would it not be.
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Minorkos posted:Yeah this stuff results to a poor experience for everyone involved. One of my friends apparently had another friend of mine guide him through DKS1 in its entirety, telling him the enemy placements, item locations and strategies for beating bosses and stuff. The end result, unsurprisingly, was the player saying "Wow Dark Souls is a really easy game!" And that's just something I can't accept. There is, I think, a happy medium with how Pat handled Woolie. He gave him some helpful tips, like how to leave messages and the mechanics there, and gave him some gameplay advice, but never told him where to go or discouraged him from experimentation. One of the most obvious signs Liam isn't helping Matt honestly is that Matt keeps his shield up way more than he should, and Liam didn't point this out. It's a common new player mistake to not give themselves a breather in combat, and it kills your stamina regeneration. That, and not constantly yelling at Matt to not try to run past enemies, seems like he wasn't really being constructive. Pat was a much more fair Souls coach, while not backseat driving. Maybe 'coach' is the right word: you should never guide anyone through Souls, but coaching is hardly a bad idea, especially in the early part where learning the systems can be a painful process of trial and error, sometimes with mistakes that can't be taken back.
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Mar 17, 2014 22:07
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Roach Warehouse posted:I was a big fan of these guys up until a little over a year ago, when I remember Matt said something (in a tweet, I think) I found rather vile about Anita Sarkeesian which left a bad taste in my mouth, so I took a hiatus from their content. I do remember them being critical of how Sarkeesian will use an image of a game without addressing the actual game itself or the context for the clip. Which is absolutely a thing she does and could be much better about, but I've never heard them disagree with her about her points, just the way she makes them at times. EDIT: yeah, and the whole non profit thing, but that's recent and unrelated to the actual issues of women in games.
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Mar 21, 2014 16:58
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Dexie posted:They didn't sound like they were being assholes about it. Just fatigued at getting another weapon in the mail. That's actually really understandable if it's creating legal trouble for them. Every time they get a weapon it must be like opening a chore, and they were still super nice about it and cleared that up really honestly. Canadian to the core, I guess. No laws about dragon dildos up there though.
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Mar 28, 2014 06:32
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Silentman0 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U42ur2dEVsQ Excellent find. Now there's a body pillow for the non-Liam demographic of the best friends! hoobajoo fucked around with this message at 22:37 on Apr 2, 2014 |
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Apr 2, 2014 22:34
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Dexie posted:Where exactly did the Face Off jokes start at? Cabela's African Adventures is the first one I can remember. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoNm93-Pgrw&t=600s
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AXE COP posted:That isn't actually the end of the mailbag. They mentioned at least three more videos in the podcast. Just got around to catching up on the Mailbag, and all I can say is I completely and utterly agree. I'm honestly surprised they didn't use time-warping editing to move it to the end anyway, just because that is the ULTIMATE send off to just how out of control the mailbag got. Zaibatsu just keeps it too real I guess. Also that's a $200 gag gift; in a way, that's more ridiculously baller than throwing down $500 on something they'll actually like and use. I know some people have dosh for days, but apparently the "hard times" they got Tyler through was the time his Ferrari was in the shop so he had to take his Audi on vacation instead.
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Depths posted:They're used for killing garden pests, why someone would send them that i dont know.. That's not a sentence I thought I'd ever read. It is super creeps though.
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May 12, 2014 23:33
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Rodyle posted:That's... beautiful. Well, it's normal, it's just that you've been looking at a grizzly train wreck for so long normal looks really great.
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May 13, 2014 21:54
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Rodyle posted:Oh no, not in the sense of "wow, I totally want an Xbone now," just that it's hilarious how hard they've had to back down. Oh, I gotcha. It is an exceptionally large and spectacular back down.
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May 13, 2014 22:47
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Solaris Knight posted:The Backdown is probably my favorite running gag on the Friendcast It's good, but I love "Unpatchable". Speaking of running gags, I was glad to see Kenpachi Ramasama get mentioned recently.
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May 15, 2014 00:21
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beep by grandpa posted:I really, really enjoy hearing Pat and Liam say "Zaubers". I always want to immediately email them saying "Zauber is the German word for magic" but then don't because I am afraid 100 other people already have.
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May 23, 2014 05:40
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Rodyle posted:I don't like hearing them say "Cúchulainn" but Gaelic pronunciation has never and will never make sense so I can hardly blame them. I've always said "Coo-who-lane", is that close?
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May 23, 2014 05:55
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Clip-On Fedora posted:Just listened to the podcast Man, Liam never struck me as a hard line anti-drug guy, but I guess it kind of makes sine in retrospect. He keeps his body pure and healthy with the pursuit of wild game and moe. I haven't listened yet, but I assume Pat would have the most nuanced position, since he studied psych and would understand the most about psychoactive substances and addiction.
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May 28, 2014 07:18
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I was wondering what was taking so long getting Cryme Tyme rolling, but now I see that loving intro. This is amazing, I want more of this in my life. Also, sick hip hop indeed.
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Jun 15, 2014 20:10
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Rodyle posted:I've never understood the absolute defense of Melee over Brawl anyway. I mean I can totally get why people that are way into fighting games put Street Fighter or Guilty Gear etc over Smash, for the same reason why big RPG people like me turn our nose up at Mass Effect and poo poo like that, but Smash games have always seemed basically the same but with more and more diverse rosters (Melee's mostly clones but Brawl's full of more diverse movesets for example). I like Brawl a lot as a party game, but tripping randomly to punish wavedashers disproportionately, rather than I dunno, coding out wavedashing, sucks big time. It hurts everyone, just serious players more so, and was a really bad design choice.
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Jun 17, 2014 19:46
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AXE COP posted:When I saw Barkley was Pat/Liam I was like "nooooooo" then it turned out to be one of their best LP's. It was really great, but nothing will ever beat the Sadness Trilogy of David Cage games in my mind. I'm still talking about the underwater Chinese ghost base.
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Jun 18, 2014 18:52
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It's weird how I used to love the bad game videos and LPs and would be bored by them playing good games, but now I've found myself loving RE4 and being pretty bored with Sword of the Berserk. I feel like their hope - game - re sign commentary has really leveled up. I still love and need Cryme Tyme, though.
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Jun 27, 2014 01:23
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TheRealestMatt posted:No, none of them do. I don't believe any of them even visit SA. Adding to their already rich veneer of lameness. To be fair, just mentioning half the awful anime Liam likes can be a bannable offense in ADTRW. Might be for the best.
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Jun 27, 2014 17:56
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TheRealestMatt posted:Thanks everyone! If you have any questions or comments about how bad/dumb I am, feel free! Once the RE4 playthrough is done, will you do a DMC 1 playthrough as an excuse to keep talking about RE4? Because you should.
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Jun 27, 2014 18:24
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:so what exactly makes the box set of this japanese cartoon so expensive? Collusion in the industry in Japan to make all blu-rays ungodly expensive and with few episodes a piece.
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roach cum puddle posted:I didn't ask if he was an addict, I asked if he takes amphetamines or if it was just a joke they madke. In hindsight "tweaker" is a derogatory term and it added a weird vibe to my post of trying to fingerpoint a Drug Addict out which I apologize for, but they made a Pat & Crack joke in a podcast I was listening to today that simply just made me wonder what the truth was behind it. Honestly I was hoping he takes amphetamines because I like amphetamines a lot and I like Pat a lot. Pat endorsing crack is a long-running gag, I'm 99% sure he doesn't actually smoke crack or do drugs besides alcohol. In related news, Matt doesn't actually stalk Emma Stone, Woolie doesn't actually like Naruto, and Liam isn't actually 12.
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roach cum puddle posted:See, I don't know what any of those Woolie things mean, making me realize there's a lot more to this zaibatsu conglomerate. Has anyone ever made a spergy-wiki-type place that has the origins of podcast jokes/trivia? If only there were some engine that would power Internet searches to give you relevant results. Alas, there is not.
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Jul 1, 2014 21:48
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TheRealestMatt posted:Hahah! Glad you like it! There's gonna be a bunch of different animated intros from our talented friends, with lots of fun songs! Woah, video-specific intros for a theme month? Zaibatsu making it rain up in here!
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Jul 2, 2014 07:09
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Charles Martel posted:Then that would be on virtually every single game that isn't Dark Souls. Or Persona, more accurately.
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Jul 2, 2014 18:25
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Or X:Men Children of the Atom, for that matter.
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gently caress trophy 2k14 posted:Don't watch the shield immediately after the wire. I dropped it after the pilot and didn't pick it back up for another few months because it seemed so unrealistic and hokey compared to the wire. Also every other show ever. Except maybe the West Wing.
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Beef Waifu posted:Please play it with Pat on a separate episode, I would love to see you guys play that loving thing, there is so much to hear other people say about it and it is always funny. Gotta save it for future Scrublords.
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FutonForensic posted:I also recommend the Brave & the Bold Batman series, if only to see the only cool version of Aquaman. Yo, listen to this guy, he knows what is up. Though there was Crazy Hobo Aquaman, when he had a harpoon for a hand and a huge beard and could summon undead zombie sea creatures. That was pretty loving sweet.
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Hey Matt, does it make a difference to the Zaibatsu where I watch your videos? Like, do you guys get more ad revenue from the SBFP site or YouTube, or does it make no difference?
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gently caress trophy 2k14 posted:The real reason the crime time videos are spaced so far apart is because the intro is too hype, isn't it? I thought it was so Woolie could be nursed back to health.
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